[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2286 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2286

   To prohibit the disclosure of certain genetic information to the 
          People's Republic of China, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 24, 2025

Mr. Burchett (for himself, Mrs. Luna, and Mr. Davidson) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit the disclosure of certain genetic information to the 
          People's Republic of China, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``American Genetic Privacy Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN GENETIC INFORMATION TO 
              PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

    (a) Prohibitions.--
            (1) Sales.--No individual or entity may sell or offer for 
        sale covered information, including aggregated covered 
        information--
                    (A) to the People's Republic of China; or
                    (B) to any entity under the influence, control, or 
                ownership of the People's Republic of China.
            (2) Disclosures by commercial dna testing services.--No 
        commercial DNA testing service may disclose, in any manner, 
        covered information, including aggregated covered information--
                    (A) to the People's Republic of China; or
                    (B) to any entity under the influence, control, or 
                ownership of the People's Republic of China.
    (b) Enforcement by Federal Trade Commission.--
            (1) Unfair or deceptive acts or practices.--A violation of 
        this section shall be treated as a violation of a regulation 
        under section 18(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Trade Commission Act 
        (15 U.S.C. 57a(a)(1)(B)) regarding unfair or deceptive acts or 
        practices.
            (2) Powers of commission.--The Federal Trade Commission 
        shall enforce this section in the same manner, by the same 
        means, and with the same jurisdiction, powers, and duties as 
        though all applicable terms and provisions of the Federal Trade 
        Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.) were incorporated into 
        and made part of this section. Any person who violates this 
        section shall be subject to the penalties and entitled to the 
        privileges and immunities provided in the Federal Trade 
        Commission Act.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Commercial dna testing service.--The term ``commercial 
        DNA testing service'' means a person that provides genealogical 
        or ancestry-related information based on an individual's DNA.
            (2) Covered information.--The term ``covered information'' 
        means the genetic information of an individual that was 
        originally acquired from such individual through the use, by 
        such individual, of a commercial DNA testing service.
            (3) Genetic information.--The term ``genetic information'' 
        means, with respect to any individual, information about such 
        individual's genetic tests.
            (4) Genetic test.--The term ``genetic test'' has the 
        meaning given such term by section 201 of the Genetic 
        Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-233; 
        42 U.S.C. 2000ff).
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