House Study Bill 122 - Introduced HOUSE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES BILL BY CHAIRPERSON MILLER) A BILL FOR An Act to exclude tests not intended to evaluate the risk 1 of developing a disease from the restrictions on genetic 2 testing contained in the Iowa criminal code. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1731YC (2) 84 je/rj

H.F. _____ Section 1. Section 729.6, subsection 1, paragraph e, Code 1 2011, is amended to read as follows: 2 e. “Genetic testing” means the same as genetic test as 3 defined in 29 U.S.C. § 1191b(d)(7). “Genetic testing” does not 4 mean routine physical measurement, a routine chemical, blood, 5 or urine analysis, a biopsy, an autopsy, or clinical specimen 6 obtained solely for the purpose of conducting an immediate 7 clinical or diagnostic test to detect an existing disease, 8 illness, impairment, or disorder, or a test for drugs or for 9 human immunodeficiency virus infections , or a test that is not 10 intended to evaluate the risk that the subject of the test will 11 develop a disease . 12 EXPLANATION 13 Current law excludes routine chemical, blood, or urine 14 analyses; tests for drugs; tests for human immunodeficiency 15 virus; and certain other procedures from the restrictions on 16 genetic testing contained in the Iowa criminal code. This bill 17 adds tests not intended to evaluate the risk of developing a 18 disease to those exclusions. 19 -1- LSB 1731YC (2) 84 je/rj 1/ 1