New Mexico
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State Laws Database: 0 records
NHGRI database archive: 13 records
Status: 5 enacted or approved; 0 proposed or pending
Most common mapped topics: Employment Nondiscrimination (5) · Health Insurance Nondiscrimination (5) · Privacy (5)
Records in New Mexico
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| Jurisdiction | Law or policy | Topics | Status | Summary |
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| New Mexico | 2021 State Bills New Mexico 2021 SB 408NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Other Topics, Privacy | Died | Establishes that every person, whether a minor or an adult, has the right of bodily integrity and the freedom to assert that right. A person may not be discriminated agains or denied public accommodation, housing accommodation, employment, government services or any other services offered to the general public or otherwise penalized for the assertion of the right of bodily integrity, including the right not to provide samples of bodily fluids, bodily tissue or genetic material. Died. |
| New Mexico | 2019 State Bills New Mexico 2019 HB 141NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Prohibits the disclosure of sensitive personal information by a state agency employee acquired by virtue of the employee's position with a state agency to anyone outside the state agency except under specified circumstances. Died. |
| New Mexico | 2019 State Bills New Mexico 2019 HB 436NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Enacted | Aligns health insurance law with federal law. Prohibits a group health benefits plan or a health insurance issuer that offers group health_insurance_coverage in connection with a group health benefits plan from adjusting premiums or contribution amounts for the group covered under the plan on the basis of genetic information. April 4, 2019 Signed by Governor - Chapter 259. Effective June 5, 2019. |
| New Mexico | 2019 State Bills New Mexico 2019 SB 24NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Creates the Workplace Harassment Prevention and Education Section of the Human Rights Bureau. The section is responsible for enforcing unlawful workplace harassment policies, including those that pertain to harassment based on genetic information. Died. |
| New Mexico | 2015 State Bills New Mexico 2015 HB 369NHGRI archive2015 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Enacted | This bill amends the Genetic Information privacy Act by adding an exemption for clinical laboratories with regard to consent requirements. A laboratory conducting an analysis or test of a specific individual per a written order from a health care practitioner or the health care practitioner's agent, including by electronic transmission, may obtain, retain, transmit, or use an individual's DNA, genetic information, or test results without the individual's written and informed consent. Signed by the Governor 4/10/2015. |
| New Mexico | 2013 State Bills New Mexico 2013 HB 168NHGRI archive2013 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Prohibits pre-existing condition exclusions in qualified health plans in the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange Act. Genetic information is not included as a preexisting condition for the purposes of limiting or excluding benefits in the absence of a diagnosis of the condition related to the genetic information. (Provision related to genetic information is in Committee Substitute version) Died. |
| New Mexico | 2013 State Bills New Mexico 2013 HB 366NHGRI archive2013 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Coverage | Died | An individual or group health insurance policy, health care plan or certificate of health insurance that is delivered or issued for delivery in New Mexico must provide certain benefits that have, in effect, a rating of "A" or "B" in the current recommendations of the United States preventive services task force, for various services, including genetic counseling and evaluation for breast cancer BRCA-gene testing for women whose family histories are associated with an increased risk for deleterious mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes. Died in Committee. |
| New Mexico | 2013 State Bills New Mexico 2013 SB 445NHGRI archive2013 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Privacy | Died | Enacts the Uniform Protection of Genetic Information in Employment Act. The bill also amends the Genetic Information privacy Act. Died in Consumer and Public Affairs Committee. |
| New Mexico | 2012 State Bills New Mexico 2012 SB 290NHGRI archive2012 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | This bill removes language in several sections of the statutes related to health insurance, which state that genetic information is not a health status factor. Measure failed. |
| New Mexico | 2011 State Bills New Mexico 2011 SB 205NHGRI archive2011 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | This bill enacts the Uniform Protection of Genetic Information in Employment Act on employee access to genetic information, confidentiality and retention of genetic information and disclosure of genetic information. Measure failed. |
| New Mexico | State StatuteNew Mexico: NMSA 24-21-1 et seq.NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination, Privacy, Research | Statute | The statutes contain provisions on the acquisition, collection, retention, transmission or use of genetic information. Consent requirements provide an exemption (1) if DNA, genetic information or results of genetic analysis are not identified with the person or person's family members or (2) for the purpose of medical or scientific research and education (including retention of gene products, genetic information or genetic analysis if the identity of the person or person's family members is not disclosed.) Discrimination by an insurer against a person or his/her family member based on genetic analysis, genetic information or genetic propensity is prohibited. Life, disability income or long-term care insurance are exempt if use is based on sound actuarial principles or related to actual or reasonably anticipated experience. Upon request a persons genetic information or samples must be promptly destroyed with some exceptions, including if retention is authorized under a research protocol approved by an institution review board pursuant to federal law. It is unlawful for a person to use genetic information in employment or recruiting. A person whose rights under the provisions of the Genetic Information privacy Act have been violated may bring a civil action for damages or other relief. |
| New Mexico | State StatuteNew Mexico: NMSA 52-3-32.1NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Other Topics | Statute | If a firefighter is diagnosed with breast cancer after five years of employment, and if it is diagnosed before the age of forty without a breast cancer 1 or breast cancer 2 genetic predisposition to breast cancer, the disease is presumed to be proximately caused by employment as a firefighter. |
| New Mexico | State StatuteNew Mexico: NMSA 59A-23C-5.1, 59A-23C-7.1, 59A-23E-2, 59A-23E-11, …NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Statute | A health benefit plan that is offered by a carrier or an approved health plan offered to a small employer and plans subject to the Health Insurance Portability Act may not impose a pre-existing condition exclusion based on genetic information in the absence of a diagnosis. A group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group health_insurance_coverage may not establish rules for eligibility or continued eligibility based a health status-related factor, including genetic information. A group health benefits plan or a health insurance issuer that offers group health_insurance_coverage in connection with a group health benefits plan from adjusting premiums or contribution amounts for the group covered under the plan on the basis of genetic information. Under the Small Group Rate and Renewability Act, provisions allowing a carrier to use health status in establishing the amount an employer may be charged for coverage under a group health plan exclude genetic information from the definition of health status. |