SB58 Alabama 2024 Session

Updated Jan 14, 2026

Senate Bill

In Committee

Current Status

Regular Session 2024

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Arthur Orr Senator
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2024
Title: DNA; prohibit taking and disclosure without express consent
Description: Existing law does not provide general privacy protections for an individual's DNA.
This bill would make it a crime, with exceptions including criminal investigation and certain legal proceedings, to collect, analyze, or transfer an individual's DNA without the individual's express consent. The bill would require notice to an individual of results of a genetic test undergone by the individual when applying for employment, a loan, credit, an educational opportunity, and certain types of insurance.
This bill would also prohibit health, life, and long-term care insurers from using the results of an individual's DNA analysis to make coverage and premium decisions, and authorize the Commissioner of Insurance to enforce the prohibition.
Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exemptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or SB58 INTRODUCED provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the section. However, this bill does not require approval of a local government entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the section.
Subjects: Discrimination & Civil Protections