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Michigan
Genetic test; informed consent
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As of 28 August 2026.
What it requires
- Obtain a test subject's written, informed consent before a physician orders a presymptomatic or predictive genetic test in Michigan.
- Do not rely on this section to cover a direct-to-consumer genetic-testing company's privacy practices; no Michigan statute reaches that activity.
What this law does
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A physician, or an individual to whom the physician has delegated authority to perform a selected act, task, or function, may not order a presymptomatic or predictive genetic test without first obtaining the test subject's written, informed consent.
This is a health-care informed-consent requirement binding a physician's ordering conduct, not a consumer-facing data-privacy or data-processing statute, and it does not reach a direct-to-consumer genetic-testing company; no Michigan statute regulates such a company's privacy practices. The precise commencement date, tied to the expiration of 6 months after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, was not independently established.
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Read the law
official Michigan Compiled Laws text, Public Health Code, Michigan Legislature
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