An act to amend the Human Rights Act of 1977 to prohibit employment discrimination based on genetic information; to prohibit an employer, employment agency, or labor organization from requesting or requiring a genetic test of, or administering a genetic test to, an employee or applicant for employment or membership; to prohibit an employer, employment agency, or labor organization from seeking to obtain, obtaining, or using genetic information of an employee or applicant for employment; to provide an exemption that allows the use of genetic testing or information with the written and informed consent of the employee or applicant for employment to determine the existence of a bona fide occupational qualification, investigate a workers' compensation or disability compensation claim, or determine an employee's susceptibility or exposure to potentially toxic substances in the workplace; to prohibit health benefit plans and health insurers from using genetic information as a condition of eligibility or in setting
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District of Columbia. Laws, statutes, etc.
Bibliographic Citation
Washington, D.C.: Council of the District of Columbia, 2005. 4 p. [Online]. Accessed: http://www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us/images/00001/20041217111559.pdf [9 March 2007]
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http://hdl.handle.net/10822/506450Date
2005-01-03Collections
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