Policies / Policy record
HB 420 — Genetic testing coverage and cancer imaging
Georgia · Georgia · DIED / SESSION ENDED
Purpose
Proposed requiring certain health benefit policies to cover genetic testing for an inherited mutation and cancer imaging under specified conditions.
Official summary
Official Georgia House calendar and journal records describe the genetic-testing coverage proposal, committee action, and recommitment to the Insurance Committee. This tracker preserves it as an unsuccessful historical proposal rather than implying enactment.
ALS and gene-carrier relevance
This record addresses genetic information, genetic testing, or insurance coverage. The official source controls the exact legal scope.
Policy scope and insurance types
- Policy scope
- Predictive genetic testing, Health insurance, Research
- Genetic policy scope
- Not stated
- Insurance types affected
- Health
- Policy type
- Bill
- Record type
- Historical Failed Bill
- Time status
- Historical
- Verification
- Verified
- Discovered from
- Official Legislature
- Status detail
- Not stated
- Companion bills
- Not stated
- Derived from bill
- Not stated
- Codified as
- Not stated
Jurisdiction and session
- Jurisdiction
- Georgia · Georgia
- Session
- 2025–2026
- Topics
- genetic testing, health insurance, genetic privacy, Other ALS-related policy
- Bill / act number
- HB 420
- Introduced
- 02-19-2025
- Last action
- 02-25-2025
- Passed House / Assembly
- Not stated
- Passed Senate
- Not stated
- Governor action
- Not stated
- Approved / enacted
- Not stated
- Effective
- Not stated
- Vetoed
- Not stated
Sponsors, cosponsors, and committees
Sponsors
- Rep. Darlene Taylor
- Rep. Lee Hawkins
- Rep. Sharon Cooper Dempsey
- Rep. Bethany M. Mathiak
- Rep. Bethany Stinson
Cosponsors
No verified names recorded in this policy snapshot.
Committees
- Georgia House Insurance Committee
Legislative support and votes
Vote history
No verified names recorded in this policy snapshot.
Verified organization support
No verified organization support recorded in this policy snapshot.
Verified opposition
No verified organization opposition recorded in this policy snapshot.
Historical timeline
Introduced and referred to the Insurance Committee according to the official House calendar.
Insurance Committee action recorded as do pass by substitute.
Withdrawn from the General Calendar and recommitted to Insurance.
2025–2026 session ended without an enactment recorded in this tracker.
Official text and source links
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Last verified: 09-30-2026
Last verified source: Open verification source ↗
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