Virginia
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State Laws Database: 0 records
NHGRI database archive: 23 records
Status: 9 enacted or approved; 0 proposed or pending
Most common mapped topics: Employment Nondiscrimination (8) · Health Insurance Nondiscrimination (7) · Privacy (5)
Records in Virginia
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| Jurisdiction | Law or policy | Topics | Status | Summary |
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| Virginia | 2021 State Bills Virginia 2021 HB 2307NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Enacted | Establishes a framework for controlling and processing personal data in the Commonwealth. Applies to all persons that conduct business in the Commonwealth and either (i) control or process personal data of at least 100,000 consumers or (ii) derive over 50 percent of gross revenue from the sale of personal data and control or process personal data of at least 25,000 consumers. Outlines responsibilities and privacy protection standards for data controllers and processors. Grants consumer rights to access, correct, delete, obtain a copy of personal data, and to opt out of the processing of personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising. Sensitive data, a form of personal data, is defined to include the processing of genetic or biometric data. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2023. Carried over to 2021 Special Session 1. Governor approved 3/2/21. |
| Virginia | 2021 State Bills Virginia 2021 SB 1392NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Enacted | Establishes a framework for controlling and processing personal data in the Commonwealth. Applies to all persons that conduct business in the Commonwealth and either (i) control or process personal data of at least 100,000 consumers or (ii) derive over 50 percent of gross revenue from the sale of personal data and control or process personal data of at least 25,000 consumers. Outlines responsibilities and privacy protection standards for data controllers and processors. Grants consumer rights to access, correct, delete, obtain a copy of personal data, and to opt out of the processing of personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising. Sensitive data, a form of personal data, is defined to include the processing of genetic or biometric data. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2023. Carried over to 2021 Special Session 1. Governor approved 3/2/21. |
| Virginia | 2020 State Bills Virginia 2020 HB 1252NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Enacted | Prohibits a sponsor of a registered apprenticeship program from discriminating against an apprentice or applicant for apprenticeship on the basis of various factors, including genetic information. 4/22/20 House: Enacted, Chapter 1228. Effective 7/1/20. |
| Virginia | 2020 State Bills Virginia 2020 HB 473NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Gives consumers the right to access their data and determine if it has been sold to a data broker. Requires a controller, defined in the bill as a person that, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data, to facilitate requests to exercise consumer rights regarding access, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability, objection, and profiling. The measure also (i) requires transparent processing of personal data through a privacy notice, (ii) requires controllers to disclose if they process personal data for direct marketing or sell it to data brokers, and (iii) requires controllers to conduct a risk assessment of each of their processing activities involving personal data and an additional risk assessment any time there is a change in processing that materially increases the risk to consumers. The measure applies to any legal entity that conducts business in the Commonwealth or produces products or services that are intentionally targeted to residents of the Commonwealth and that (a) controls or processes personal data of not fewer than 100,000 consumers or (b) derives over 50 percent of gross revenue from the sale of personal data and processes or controls personal data of not fewer than 25,000 customers. Sensitive data includes genetic or biometric data. Died. |
| Virginia | 2020 State Bills Virginia 2020 HB 553NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Requires the legislative branch of the Commonwealth to develop a policy on workplace harassment. Workplace harassment is defined as any unwelcome verbal, written, or physical conduct that either denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward a person on the basis of various factors, including genetics. Died. |
| Virginia | 2019 State Bills Virginia 2019 HB 2083NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Requires each legislative branch agency to adopt and implement the Commonwealth Workplace Harassment Policy established by the Department of Human Resource Management. Workplace harassment is defined to include harassment based on genetic information. Died. |
| Virginia | 2019 State Bills Virginia 2019 HB 2603NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Prohibits discrimination in apprenticeships based on various factors, including genetic information. Died. |
| Virginia | 2018 State Bills Virginia 2018 HB 1053NHGRI archive2018 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Establishes policies to prevent workplace harassment in the legislative branch. Workplace harassment is defined as unwelcome verbal, written, or physical conduct that either denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward a person on the basis of certain characteristics, including genetics, that (i) has the purpose or effect of creating an environment that a reasonable person would consider intimidating, hostile, or abusive; (ii) has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an employee's work performance; or (iii) affects an employee's employment opportunities or compensation. Died. |
| Virginia | 2015 State Bills Virginia 2015 HB 1669NHGRI archive2015 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | This bill regulates the collection and maintenance of personally identifiable information, including DNA, by education agencies. Died. |
| Virginia | 2010 State Bills Virginia 2010 HB 455NHGRI archive2010 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | This bill amends the state employment genetic nondiscrimination law by adding the Commonwealth or any of its agencies, institutions, or political subdivisions, or any public body to the list of entities covered under the law. Measure failed. |
| Virginia | 2009 State Bills Virginia 2009 SB 976NHGRI archive2009 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | This bill prohibits the treatment of genetic information as a preexisting condition in basic health insurance plans in the absence of a diagnosis of the condition related to such information. Measure failed. |
| Virginia | 2008 State Bills Virginia 2008 HB 593NHGRI archive2008 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | This bill prohibits the establishment of rules for eligibility or continued eligibility based on a health status-related factor, including genetic information, in Virginia share health insurance policies. This bill also prohibits pre-existing condition exclusions in these policies based on genetic information in the absence of a diagnosis of a condition related to such information. Measure failed. |
| Virginia | 2008 State Bills Virginia 2008 SB 578NHGRI archive2008 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | This bill prohibits the establishment of rules for eligibility or continued eligibility based on a health status-related factor, including genetic information, in Virginia share health insurance policies. This bill also prohibits pre-existing condition exclusions in these policies based on genetic information in the absence of a diagnosis of a condition related to such information. Measure failed. |
| Virginia | 2007 State Bills Virginia 2007 HB 2120NHGRI archive2007 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | This bill prohibits the treatment of genetic information as a preexisting condition in the Small Employer Health Insurance Exchange in the absence of a diagnosis of the condition related to such information. Measure failed. |
| Virginia | 2007 State Bills Virginia 2007 HB 2121NHGRI archive2007 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | This bill prohibits the treatment of genetic information as a preexisting condition in the Small Employer Health Insurance Exchange in the absence of a diagnosis of the condition related to such information. Measure failed. |
| Virginia | State StatuteVirginia: Code of Va. 32.1-162.16.NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Research | Statute | Requires informed consent to conduct human research. Requires institutions or agencies conducting or proposing to conduct or authorize human research to establish a human research review committee. |
| Virginia | State StatuteVirginia: Code of Va. 38.2-508.4 and 38.2-613NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Privacy | Statute | A person proposing to issue, re-issue, or renew accident and sickness insurance, excluding disability income insurance, issued by any insurer providing hospital, medical and surgical or major medical coverage on an expense incurred basis, a corporation providing a health services plan, or an HMO providing a health care plan may not on the basis of any genetic information or a request for genetic services (1) terminate, restrict, limit, or otherwise apply conditions to coverage of an individual 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) require inclusion of a rider that excludes coverage for certain benefits and services, (6) establish differentials in premium rates for coverage, or (7) disclose any genetic information about an individual or his/her family member collected or received in connection with any insurance transaction unless the disclosure is made with the written authorization of the individual. |
| Virginia | State StatuteVirginia: Code of Va. 38.2-3431NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Statute | In the statutes pertaining to group health plans, health status-related factors are defined to include genetic information, and pre-existing condition exclusion may not be based on genetic information in the absence of a diagnosis. |
| Virginia | State StatuteVirginia: Code of Va. 40.1-120.1NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Statute | Prohibits a sponsor of a registered apprenticeship program from discriminating against an apprentice or applicant for apprenticeship on the basis of various factors, including genetic information. |
| Virginia | State StatuteVirginia: Code of Va. 40.1-28.7:1NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Statute | An employer may not request, require, solicit or administer a genetic test as a condition of employment or refuse to hire, fail to promote, discharge or otherwise adversely affect any terms or conditions of employment of any employee or prospective employee solely on the basis of a genetic characteristic or the results of a genetic test, regardless of how the employer obtained such information or results. An employee may bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction over an employer who took adverse action against the employee. |