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 of developing a disease from the restrictions on genetic testing contained in the Iowa criminal code.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

   Section 1.  Section 729.6, subsection 1, paragraph e, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   e.  “Genetic testing” means the same as genetic test as defined in 29 U.S.C. § 1191b(d)(7).“Genetic testing” does not mean routine physical measurement, a routine chemical, blood, or urine analysis, a biopsy, an autopsy, or clinical specimen obtained solely for the purpose of conducting an immediate clinical or diagnostic test to detect an existing disease, illness, impairment, or disorder,or a test for drugs or for human immunodeficiency virus infections, or a test that is not intended to evaluate the risk that the subject of the test will develop a disease.
EXPLANATION
   Current law excludes routine chemical, blood, or urine analyses; tests for drugs; tests for human immunodeficiency virus; and certain other procedures from the restrictions on genetic testing contained in the Iowa criminal code. This bill adds tests not intended to evaluate the risk of developing a disease to those exclusions.