Vermont
Explore the Vermont records currently included in this collection. Coverage is not complete.
State Laws Database: 0 records
NHGRI database archive: 15 records
Status: 7 enacted or approved; 1 proposed or pending
Most common mapped topics: Privacy (7) · Health Insurance Nondiscrimination (4) · Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination (4)
Records in Vermont
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| Jurisdiction | Law or policy | Topics | Status | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | 2021 State Bills Vermont 2021 H233NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Other Topics, Privacy | Died | Protects consumer privacy by requiring that a business that collects genetic data from a Vermont consumer to provide ancestry or similar information protects the data and keeps it confidential. Carries over to 2022. |
| Vermont | 2021 State Bills Vermont 2021 H287NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Other Topics | Enacted | Prohibits a large health care facility shall not discriminate on the basis of genetic information in its provision of financial assistance or in the implementation of its financial assistance policy. Carries over to 2022. |
| Vermont | 2021 State Bills Vermont 2021 S21NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Other Topics, Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Prohibits discrimination based on an individual�s genetic information in relation to employment, labor relations, insurance coverage, and the provision of social and medical services. 1/13/2021 Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs. Carries over to 2022. |
| Vermont | 2020 State Bills Vermont 2020 H625NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Coverage | Died | Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for chromosomal microarray analysis. Died. |
| Vermont | 2020 State Bills Vermont 2020 H894NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Prohibits the state sale of personally identifiable information, including genetic information. Died. |
| Vermont | 2020 State Bills Vermont 2020 S197NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Other Topics, Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Prohibits discrimination based on an individual�s genetic information in relation to employment, labor relations, insurance coverage, and the provision of social and medical services. In some areas such as employment and insurance existing genetic nondiscrimination law are amended. Died. |
| Vermont | 2019 State Bills Vermont 2019 H370NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Proposes to identify a DNA sample and the results of a DNA analysis performed on the sample as the exclusive property of the person sampled or analyzed and to provide criminal and civil penalties for unlawful DNA collection, analysis, retention, or disclosure. Died. |
| Vermont | 2019 State Bills Vermont 2019 S110NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Enacted | Requires (1) the State Court Administrator for the Judicial Branch; (2)the Director of Information Technology for the Legislative Branch; and (3) the Chief Data Officer within the Agency of Digital Services and the Chief Records Officer within the Office of the Secretary of State for the Executive Branch to conduct a data privacy inventory for their respective branches of government. The inventory must address the collection and management of personally identifiable information, including genetic information. Requires a report to the legislature on or before January 15, 2021. Signed by the Governor on March 5, 2020. |
| Vermont | 2011 State Bills Vermont 2011 H368NHGRI archive2011 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | This bill creates personal property rights to genetic information. The bill also prohibits disclosure of genetic information without informed written consent. Measure failed. |
| Vermont | State StatuteVermont: VSA 18 9331 et seq.NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Privacy, Research | Statute | A person may not be required to undergo genetic testing with some exceptions. Genetic testing may not be performed on any individual or any bodily materials be released for purposes of genetic testing without prior written authorization and informed consent except for (1) medical research where the identity of the subject is unknown, (2) if the research is conducted with anonymized medical information, where individual identifiers are encrypted or encoded, and the identity of the individual is not disclosed, or (3) if the identity of the individual is known, where standards of protection are equal to those contained in regulations promulgated by the federal Office for Protection from research Risk (OPRR). |
| Vermont | State StatuteVermont: VSA 18 9331 et seq.NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Statute | A policy of insurance may not be underwritten or conditioned on a requirement to undergo genetic testing or the results of genetic testing. Civil and criminal penalties are set forth for violations. |
| Vermont | State StatuteVermont: VSA 18 9331 et seq.NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Statute | Employers or labor organizations may not use information about genetic testing, genetic counseling, or genetic disease for purposes specified. Civil and criminal penalties are set forth for violations. |
| Vermont | State StatuteVermont: VSA 8 4724NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Statute | It is an unfair method of competition or unfair and deceptive act or practice to (1) make or permit any unfair discrimination against any individual by conditioning insurance rates, the provision or renewal of insurance coverage, or other conditions of insurance based on the results of genetic testing where there is not a relationship between the information and the cost of the insurance risk that the insurer would assume by insuring the proposed insured or (2) to violate the Title 18 � 9334. |
| Vermont | State StatuteVermont: VSA 9 2430 et seq.NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Privacy | Statute | Requires (1) the State Court Administrator for the Judicial Branch; (2)the Director of Information Technology for the Legislative Branch; and (3) the Chief Data Officer within the Agency of Digital Services and the Chief Records Officer within the Office of the Secretary of State for the Executive Branch to conduct a data privacy inventory for their respective branches of government. The inventory must address the collection and management of personally identifiable information, including genetic information. Requires a report to the legislature on or before January 15, 2021. |
| Vermont | Vermont SB 74NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Neonatal sequencing | Introduced | An act relating to incremental implementation of Green Mountain Care. |