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CA AB70

Bill

Status

Engrossed

4/13/2009

Primary Sponsor

Chris Norby

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Origin

State Assembly

2009-2010 Session

AI Summary

  • Requests the University of California and California State University to refrain from making unsolicited requests to enrolled or prospective students for DNA samples for genetic testing purposes.

  • Defines "unsolicited request" as transmittal of materials designed to collect DNA to any person without prior express invitation or permission.

  • Requires UC and CSU to submit quarterly reports to the Controller, Governor, and Legislature detailing expenditures from legal judgments or settlements related to violations of informed consent requirements for unsolicited DNA sample requests, with the first report due January 1, 2011.

  • Directs the Controller to revert amounts equal to reported expenditures back to the General Fund from unencumbered moneys previously appropriated to UC and CSU.

  • Provision sunsets and is repealed on January 1, 2015; takes effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Legislative Description

Public postsecondary education: genetic testing.

Last Action

In committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage.

8/11/2010

Committee Referrals

Education8/5/2010
Rules4/13/2009
Appropriations3/19/2009
Education2/5/2009

Full Bill Text

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