File Code: Private Sector Labor and Industry
- Sponsored By:
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Senator Forehand
- Entitled:
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Employment Discrimination - Genetic Testing and Genetic Information
Prohibiting an employer, employment agency, labor organization, or
joint labor-management committee from discriminating against an
employee or applicant for employment on the basis of the employee's
genetic information or genetic characteristics; prohibiting an
employer, employment agency, labor organization, or joint
labor-management committee from requesting or requiring a genetic test
of, or administering a genetic test to, an employee or applicant for
employment; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/4
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/9
- Hearing 3/1 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/14
- Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
House Action
- No Action
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- DISCRIMINATION -see also- SEX DISCRIMINATION
- GENETICS
- PRIVACY
- UNIONS
- WORK, LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT -see also- COL BARG; HOLIDAY; etc
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Article - 49B Human Relations Commission
- (
15 ,
16 ,
16A
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
