Genetic Nondiscrimination in Health Insurance and Employment Act
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Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer, employment agency, labor organization, or training program to discriminate because of protected genetic information, including making it unlawful to request, require, collect, or purchase such information.
Allows an employer to request, require, collect, or purchase such information: (1) where used for genetic monitoring of biological effects of workplace toxic substances; or (2) with consent of the employee, if results are received only by the employee.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 107-286.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 318: A bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment.. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-318/
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