Law note · Michigan
Genetic test; informed consent
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 this pass.
What it asks of an app
- 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.
When LexLint raises it
Declared activities: high_risk_decisions
Primary source: official Michigan Compiled Laws text, Public Health Code, Michigan Legislature