Libbie Canter, Elizabeth Brim, and Natalie Maas of Covington and Burling write:
Since the beginning of 2025, there have been a flurry of bills introduced at the state and federal level related to genetic privacy, which follows a similar trend over the past several years. These bills have focused on a range of issues, including general genetic privacy, national security implications of “foreign adversaries” accessing genetic information, the privacy practices of direct-to-consumer (“DTC”) genetic testing companies, and the transfer of genetic data as part of bankruptcy proceedings, among others. We summarize a subset of such bills moving through state and federal legislatures below.
Read about Montana SB 163, Texas HB 130, and Florida SB 768 at Inside Privacy.