Wisconsin
Explore the Wisconsin records currently included in this collection. Coverage is not complete.
State Laws Database: 0 records
NHGRI database archive: 21 records
Status: 4 enacted or approved; 0 proposed or pending
Most common mapped topics: Employment Nondiscrimination (12) · Health Insurance Nondiscrimination (5) · Privacy (4)
Records in Wisconsin
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| Jurisdiction | Law or policy | Topics | Status | Summary |
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| Wisconsin | 2020 State Bills Wisconsin 2020 AB 870NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Requires controllers of consumers' personal data to provide a consumer with copies of the consumer's personal data processed by the controller. Personal data includes genetic information. 4/1/2020 Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. |
| Wisconsin | 2020 State Bills Wisconsin 2020 AB 871NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Sets forth requirements regarding the deletion of consumer personal data, including genetic data, by controllers. 4/1/2020 Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. |
| Wisconsin | 2020 State Bills Wisconsin 2020 AB 872NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Establishes requirements on controllers that process consumers' personal data, including genetic data. 4/1/2020 Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. |
| Wisconsin | 2020 State Bills Wisconsin 2020 SB 851NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Establishes requirements for businesses related to personal information such as biometric information collected about consumers. Biometric information is defined to include DNA. 4/1/2020 Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. |
| Wisconsin | 2019 State Bills Wisconsin 2019 AB 396NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Allows the Department of Workforce Development or an individual who is alleged or was found to have been discriminated against or subjected to unfair honesty or genetic testing to bring an action in circuit court in addition to or in lieu of filing an administrative complaint, with some exceptions. 4/1/2020 Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. |
| Wisconsin | 2019 State Bills Wisconsin 2019 SB 28NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | In selecting patients with whom to enter into a direct primary care agreement, a health care provider may not discriminate on the basis of genetic information. 4/1/2020 Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. |
| Wisconsin | 2019 State Bills Wisconsin 2019 SB 366NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Allows the Department of Workforce Development or an individual who is alleged or was found to have been discriminated against or subjected to unfair honesty or genetic testing to bring an action in circuit court in addition to or in lieu of filing an administrative complaint, with some exceptions. 4/1/2020 Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. |
| Wisconsin | 2017 State Bills Wisconsin 2017 AB 212NHGRI archive2017 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Addresses actions in circuit court alleging discrimination in employment, unfair honesty testing, or unfair genetic testing. 3/28/2018 Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. |
| Wisconsin | 2017 State Bills Wisconsin 2017 AB 363NHGRI archive2017 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Amends health insurance law pertaining to pre-existing conditions. Insurers may not treat genetic information as a pre-existing condition. Provision stating "without a diagnosis of a condition related to the information" is stricken. 3/28/2018 Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. |
| Wisconsin | 2017 State Bills Wisconsin 2017 SB 140NHGRI archive2017 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Addresses actions in circuit court alleging discrimination in employment, unfair honesty testing, or unfair genetic testing. 3/28/2018 Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. |
| Wisconsin | 2017 State Bills Wisconsin 2017 SB 265NHGRI archive2017 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Amends health insurance law pertaining to pre-existing conditions. Insurers may not treat genetic information as a pre-existing condition. Provision stating "without a diagnosis of a condition related to the information" is stricken. 3/28/2018 Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. |
| Wisconsin | 2016 State Bills Wisconsin 2016 AB 570NHGRI archive2016 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Authorizes the circuit court to order a person who engages in discrimination in employment, unfair honesty testing, or unfair genetic testing to pay compensatory and punitive damage. 4/13/2016 Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. |
| Wisconsin | 2015 State Bills Wisconsin 2015 SB 145NHGRI archive2015 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Authorizes the circuit court to order a person who engages in discrimination in employment, unfair honesty testing, or unfair genetic testing to pay compensatory and punitive damages. 4/13/2016 Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. |
| Wisconsin | 2013 State Bills Wisconsin 2013 AB 269NHGRI archive2013 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Permits the Department of Workforce Development (DWD) or a person who has been discriminated against or subjected to unfair honesty or genetic testing to bring an action in circuit court to recover compensatory and punitive damages caused by the act of discrimination or unfair honesty or genetic testing after the completion of all administrative proceedings before DWD and the Labor and Industry Review Commission concerning the violation. Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. |
| Wisconsin | 2013 State Bills Wisconsin 2013 SB 143NHGRI archive2013 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Permits the Department of Workforce Development (DWD) or a person who has been discriminated against or subjected to unfair honesty or genetic testing to bring an action in circuit court to recover compensatory and punitive damages caused by the act of discrimination or unfair honesty or genetic testing after the completion of all administrative proceedings before DWD and the Labor and Industry Review Commission concerning the violation. Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. |
| Wisconsin | 2011 State Bills Wisconsin 2011 AB 289NHGRI archive2011 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | This bill would eliminate the compensatory and punitives damages for acts of employment discrmination or unfair honesty or genetic testing. Measure failed. |
| Wisconsin | 2011 State Bills Wisconsin 2011 SB 202NHGRI archive2011 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Enacted | This bill would eliminate the compensatory and punitives damages for acts of employment discrmination or unfair honesty or genetic testing. Signed by the Governor April 6, 2012. |
| Wisconsin | 2009 State Bills Wisconsin 2009 AB 31NHGRI archive2009 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | This bill allows a person discriminated against or the department of workforce development under the state fair employment practices law to bring an action in circuit court. Measure failed. |
| Wisconsin | 2009 State Bills Wisconsin 2009 AB 75NHGRI archive2009 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Enacted | This bill amends statute section 631.89 (2) (bm) related to requesting or requiring genetic information from health care providers by amending the definition of covered providers to include providers as defined in section 146.81 (a) to (p). Report approved by the Governor with partial veto June 26, 2009 (section pertaining to genetic testing unaffected by partial veto) |
| Wisconsin | State StatuteWisconsin: WSA 111.31 et seq. , 942.07NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Statute | An employer, labor organization or employment or licensing agency may not (1) solicit, require or administer a genetic test to any person as a condition of employment, labor organization membership or licensure or affect the terms, conditions or privileges of employment, labor organization membership or licensure; (2) terminate the employment, labor organization membership or licensure of any person who obtains a genetic test; or (3) require or administer a genetic test without the prior written and informed consent of the employee, labor organization member or licensee, or of the prospective employee, labor organization member or licensee, who is the subject of the test. No person may disclose to an employer, labor organization, employment agency or licensing agency that an employee, labor organization member or licensee, or a prospective employee, labor organization member or licensee, has taken a genetic test, and no person may disclose the results of such a test to an employer, labor organization, employment agency or licensing agency without the prior written and informed consent of the subject of the test. |