South Carolina
Explore the South Carolina records currently included in this collection. Coverage is not complete.
State Laws Database: 0 records
NHGRI database archive: 11 records
Status: 5 enacted or approved; 3 proposed or pending
Most common mapped topics: Privacy (8) · Health Insurance Nondiscrimination (5) · Research (2)
Records in South Carolina
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| Jurisdiction | Law or policy | Topics | Status | Summary |
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| South Carolina | 2021 State Bills South Carolina 2021 HB 3063NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Pending | Enacts the South Carolina Biometric Data privacy Act. Provides certain requirements for a business that collets a consumer's biometric information. Allows consumers to: (1) request the deletion of collected biometric information; and (2) prohibit the sale of biometric information. Prohibits a business from discriminating against a consumer who opts out of the the sale of biometric information. Biometric information includes DNA. Carries over to 2022. |
| South Carolina | 2021 State Bills South Carolina 2021 HB 4555NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Pending | Enacts the Parental Bill of Rights. Establishes certain rights of parents, including the right to consent in writing before any record of a child's blood or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is created, stored, or shared, except as required by general law or authorized pursuant to a court order. Carries over to 2022. |
| South Carolina | 2021 State Bills South Carolina 2021 SB 900NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Pending | Enacts the Parental Bill of Rights. Establishes certain rights of parents, including the right to consent in writing before any record of a child's blood or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is created, stored, or shared, except as required by general law or authorized pursuant to a court order. Carries over to 2022. |
| South Carolina | 2020 State Bills South Carolina 2020 SB 4812NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Sets forth requirements for the collection and use of consumer biometric information by businesses. Biometric information is defined to include an individual's DNA. Died. |
| South Carolina | 2012 State Bills South Carolina 2012 SB 1266NHGRI archive2012 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Coverage | Died | Existing law requires individual and group health insurers to cover mammograms. This bill requires that Coverage for mammograms required in subsection (A)(1) must include benefits for comprehensive ultrasound screening of an entire breast or breasts if a mammogram demonstrates heterogeneous or dense breast tissue based on: (a) the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System established by the American College of Radiology; or (b) if a woman is believed to be at increased risk for breast cancer due to family history or prior personal history of breast cancer, positive genetic testing or other indications as determined by a woman's physician or advanced practice registered nurse. Died. |
| South Carolina | 2010 State Bills South Carolina 2010 HB 4298NHGRI archive2010 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Privacy, Research | Died | This bill amends existing statute sections and creates new statute sections pertaining to health_insurance_nondiscrimination, genetic privacy, research issues and enforcement of these provisions. Measure failed. |
| South Carolina | 2010 State Bills South Carolina 2010 SB 1224NHGRI archive2010 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Privacy, Research | Enacted | This bill amends existing statute sections and creates new statute sections pertaining to health_insurance_nondiscrimination, genetic privacy, research issues and enforcement of these provisions. Signed by the Governor on June 7, 2010. |
| South Carolina | State StatuteSouth Carolina: SCCL 38-41-45, 38-71-670, 38-71-840, 38-71-860 and…NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Statute | Group health insurers may not establish rules for eligibility or continued eligibility based on a health status-related factor, including genetic information or impose a pre-existing condition exclusion based on genetic information. The sections of the statutes pertaining to Individual health insurance and multiple employer self-insured health plans define health status-related factor to include genetic information. Genetic information may not be treated as a pre-existing condition in the absence of a diagnosis within the South Carolina health insurance pool. |
| South Carolina | State StatuteSouth Carolina: SCCL 38-93 et seq.NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Privacy | Statute | Health insurers offering individual health plans may not cancel, deny, adjust premiums or rates or impose pre-existing conditions exclusions based on the genetic information of an individual or family member or based on a request for genetic services. Health insurers offering group health plans may not adjust premiums or contributions based on genetic information. Health insurers may not request or require genetic information or require an individual to undergo a genetic test. The law also prohibits disclosure of genetic information without informed written consent, with some exceptions such as for law enforcement purposes or as allowable under state and federal statutes. It is required to obtain informed consent prior to performing a genetic test, with some exceptions such as for diagnosis or treatment of an individual if performed by a clinical laboratory that has received a specimen referral from the individual's treating physician or another clinical laboratory. Penalties for violations of the law are established and are intended to be in addition to those set forth under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, Public Law 110-233. |
| South Carolina | State StatuteSouth Carolina: SCCL 38-93-10 et seq.NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Privacy | Statute | An accident and health insurer providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense incurred basis, providing a corporate health services plan, or providing a health care plan for health care services by a health maintenance organization may not (1) terminate, restrict, limit, or otherwise apply conditions to coverage or restrict the sale to an individual, (2) cancel or refuse to renew the coverage of an individual, (3) exclude an individual from coverage, (4) impose a waiting period, (5) impose a pre-existing condition exclusion; (6) require inclusion of a rider that excludes coverage for certain benefits and services, or (7) adjust premium contribution amounts or establish differential in premium rates for coverage based on genetic information or a request for genetic services. Additional provisions address consent to disclose genetic information and consent to perform genetic testing. An aggrieved individual may bring civil action. he penalties and enforcement provisions of subsections (A) and (B) are in addition to penalties and enforcement provisions of federal law, including those set forth in the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008. |
| South Carolina | State StatuteSouth Carolina: SCCL 44-37-30NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Use of Residual Newborn Screening Specimens | Statute | Residual newborn screening blood samples may be released for purposes of confidential, anonymous scientific study unless the newborn screening program is otherwise directed. The release of a blood sample must conform with departmental regulations. At the time of testing or at any time after that, the parent or legal guardian of the child from whom a blood sample was obtained, or the child when eighteen years of age or older, may direct the department to: (1) return a blood sample in its entirety and any test results not less than two years after the date of testing; (2) destroy a blood sample in not less than two years after the date of the testing; or (3) store a blood sample but not release the blood sample for confidential, anonymous scientific study. A blood sample released for confidential, anonymous study must not contain identifiable information. If scientific study identifies genetic information that may benefit the child, the department may notify confidentially the parent or legal guardian, or the child if eighteen years of age or older, of this information. |