Maine
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State Laws Database: 0 records
NHGRI database archive: 21 records
Status: 12 enacted or approved; 0 proposed or pending
Most common mapped topics: Privacy (10) · Health Insurance Nondiscrimination (6) · Employment Nondiscrimination (4)
Records in Maine
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| Jurisdiction | Law or policy | Topics | Status | Summary |
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| Maine | 2021 State Bills Maine 2021 LD 1085NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | In the absence of a medical diagnosis of a disease, disorder or syndrome related to genetic information, a health insurer, life insurer or long-term care insurer may not cancel, limit or deny coverage or establish differentials in premium rates based on such genetic information. A health insurer, life insurer or long-term care insurer may not request, require, purchase or otherwise solicit genetic information; use genetic test results; or consider an individual's decisions or actions relating to genetic testing in any manner for any insurance purpose. 6/10/2021 Reports Read. On motion by Senator Sanborn of Cumberland the Majority Ought Not to Pass. Report accepted. In concurrence. Placed in Legislative Files. Died. |
| Maine | 2021 State Bills Maine 2021 LD 1655NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Establishes annual registration of data brokers. Requires data brokers to develop, implement and maintain a comprehensive information security program to protect personally identifiable information. Personally identifiable information includes genetic identifiers. Ought Not to Pass Pursuant To Joint Rule 310, Jun 2, 2021. |
| Maine | 2021 State Bills Maine 2021 LD 1714NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Establishes consumer rights with respect to personal information collected by a business. Personal information includes biometric information. Biometric information is defined to include deoxyribonucleic acid. Died Between Houses, Jun 2, 2021. |
| Maine | 2021 State Bills Maine 2021 LD 29NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Enacted | Conforms the Maine Apprenticeship Program to the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. Requires a posting of statement that the apprentice will be accorded equal opportunity in all phases of apprenticeship employment and training, without discrimination because of various factors, including genetic information. 6/8/21 Signed by the Governor. Effective 90 days after adjournment (March 30, 2021). |
| Maine | 2019 State Bills Maine 2019 LD 1NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Enacted | This bill amends current health_insurance_nondiscrimination law by deleting provisions pertaining to pre-existing condition exclusions, including those pertaining to genetic information. The amendments prohibit pre-existing condition exclusions entirely to ensure that consumer protections provided under the Affordable Care Act are codified in state law. 3/19/2019 Signed by the Governor. |
| Maine | 2019 State Bills Maine 2019 LD 1314NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Enacted | Prohibits insurers from requesting, requiring, purchasing or using information obtained from a direct-to-consumer genetic test without consent of the individual tested. Types of insurance covered under the law would include life, credit life, disability, long-term care, accidental injury, specified disease, hospital indemnity or credit accident insurance or an annuity. June 5, 2019 Signed by the Governor. Effective 90 days after adjournment on 6/19/19. |
| Maine | 2019 State Bills Maine 2019 LD 1790NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Enacted | Protects the personal information, including genetic information, pertaining to state employees. Signed by the Governor on June 20, 2019. |
| Maine | 2017 State Bills Maine 2017 LD 1279NHGRI archive2017 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | In amended version, prohibits pre-existing condition exclusions in individual health plans but removes text referring to genetic information. Allows restricted enrollment in individual health plans during open enrollment periods and special enrollment periods in a manner consistent with federal law. Died. |
| Maine | 2017 State Bills Maine 2017 LD 1340NHGRI archive2017 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Other Topics, Privacy | Died | No member, officer, employee or agent of a municipal housing authority may knowingly divulge or disclose personnel information declared confidential with some specified exceptions. Personal information, including genetic information, is considered confidential. Died. |
| Maine | 2017 State Bills Maine 2017 LD 1452NHGRI archive2017 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | The department of education, a school administrative unit or a state agency may not collect, store, transmit or process the certain information, including DNA, from a student without the written consent of a parent or guardian of a student or an eligible student unless otherwise required or authorized by statute or rule. Died. |
| Maine | 2017 State Bills Maine 2017 LD 146NHGRI archive2017 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Clarifies that certain personal information of municipal employees is confidential and a record or portion of a record containing that information in the possession of a municipal government is not a public record. Personal information includes genetic information. Died. |
| Maine | 2017 State Bills Maine 2017 LD 1476NHGRI archive2017 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Coverage | Died | As introduced, a health plan must provide coverage for risk assessment for a BRCA gene mutation and genetic counseling or testing, if necessary. Died. |
| Maine | 2015 State Bills Maine 2015 LD 1251NHGRI archive2015 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Prohibits the collection, entry into an education database or maintenance of DNA by as education records by the department of education or school administrative unit. Died. |
| Maine | 2009 State Bills Maine 2009 LD 1180NHGRI archive2009 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Research | Enacted | This bill prohibits carriers of hospital, health or dental insurance from discriminating based on genetic information, refusal to submit to a genetic test or to make available the results of a genetic test, or on the basis that an individual or dependent received a genetic test or genetic counseling. A carrier may request but not require a genetic test pursuant to the Common Rule, or equivalent federal regulations and any applicable state or local laws, rules or regulations for the protection of human subjects in research and in compliance with specified conditions. Other provisions limit the ability of carriers to request, require or purchase a genetic information for certain purposes. Signed by the Governor and Public Law as of June 3, 2009. |
| Maine | State StatuteMaine: 5 MRSA 7070NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Privacy | Statute | Personal information, including genetic information, pertaining to state employees is confidential and not open to public inspection. An employee may examine records containing personal information when permitted or required by law. |
| Maine | State StatuteMaine: MRS 22 1711CNHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Privacy, Research | Statute | An individual's health care information, including information about individual cells or their components or genetic information, is confidential. Authorization is required to disclose this information other than to the individual by the health care practitioner or facility with some exceptions. The definition of health care information excludes information that protects the anonymity of the individual by means of encryption or encoding of individual identifiers or information pertaining to or derived from federally sponsored, authorized or regulated research governed by 21 Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 50 and 56 and 45 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 46, to the extent that such information is used in a manner that protects the identification of individuals. |
| Maine | State StatuteMaine: MRS 24A 2159-C and 24A 6981NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination, Research | Statute | A carrier that issues individual or group hospital, health or dental insurance and the Dirigo Health Self-administered Plan may not discriminate against an individual or eligible dependent on the basis of genetic information, the refusal to submit to a genetic test, refusal to make available the results of a genetic test, or based on the receipt of a genetic test or genetic counseling. A carrier may request, but not require, that an individual undergo a genetic test if the request is made pursuant to research that complies with the Common Rule and other specified criteria are met. Life, credit life, disability, long-term care, accidental injury, specified disease, hospital indemnity or credit accident insurers or an annuity may not (1) discriminate unfairly, which includes the use of genetic test results in a manner that is not reasonably related to anticipated claims experience, or (2) request, require, purchase or use information obtained from a direct-to-consumer genetic test without consent of the individual tested. |
| Maine | State StatuteMaine: MRS 24A 2204NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Privacy | Statute | The Insurance Information and privacy Protection Act defines health care information to include information about individual cells or their components or genetic information. |
| Maine | State StatuteMaine: MRS 24A 2850 and 24A 2850-CNHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Statute | An individual, group and blanket medical insurance contract subject to chapters 33 and 35 of Title 24A (with some exceptions) may not impose pre-existing condition exclusions based on genetic information in the absence of a diagnosis. Group medical insurance contracts subject to chapter 35 of Title 24A (with some exceptions) may not establish rules for eligibility of an individual to enroll or require an individual to pay a premium or contribution that is greater than that for a similarly situated individual, based on genetic information. |
| Maine | State StatuteMaine: MRS 26 3205NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Statute | Conforms the Maine Apprenticeship Program to the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. Requires a posting of statement that the apprentice will be accorded equal opportunity in all phases of apprenticeship employment and training, without discrimination because of various factors, including genetic information. |