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Committee moves to seek conference on H.639 after disagreement over enforcement and cure period
Summary
Legislative counsel explained Senate amendments to H.639 (genetic testing/privacy) that replace 'biometric data' with 'biological samples' and add a 60‑day cure period under the Vermont Consumer Protection Act; the committee moved to not concur with the Senate and request a committee conference to resolve the changes.
The Vermont House Committee on Commerce & Economic Development on May 8 reviewed Senate amendments to H.639, the bill governing genetic data privacy, and moved to decline concurrence and ask for a committee conference to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions.
Legislative counsel Rick Sagel told the committee the Senate made two changes to the House bill: a largely technical substitution in the data‑security section — replacing the term “biometric data” with “biological samples” to align the language with the bill’s focus — and a substantive amendment in the enforcement section that creates a 60‑day cure period for violations under the…
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