Sec. 109. Protection of human genetic information
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall ensure that no person may collect, store, analyze, disseminate, or otherwise make use of, or benefit from, any human genetic information collected as a result of diagnostic and serologic testing for COVID–19, for any incidental use, or any reason other than such diagnostic or serologic testing, except with the express, written, informed consent of the individual being tested. Any person who violates subsection
(a)shall be subject to a civil monetary penalty of not more than $100 for each such violation. In this section— the term genetic information has the meaning given such term in section 160.103 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulations); and the term incidental means any action taken by any person, directly or indirectly, to obtain genetic information from an individual, for any purpose, other than the purpose specifically authorized by the living individual from whom the specimen has its biological origin or another designated individual if the individual is a minor or is incapacitated, or if the individual is deceased, the individual’s next of kin.