12/10/09 Responding to an American Heart Association letter signed by 250 organizations including GPPC, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently affirmed the administration's support for strong GINA regulations related to wellness programs.

2/09 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking implementing the employment-related provisions of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). The Center's law and policy director, Susannah Baruch, provided invited testimony at a public meeting about the proposed regulations. GPPC and the Council for Responsible Genetics also submitted comments to the EEOC on the proposed regulations.

On October 10, 2008, the U.S. Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services put out a Request for Information (RFI) to obtain public comment on the health insurance provisions of GINA.  At that time, the Center crafted an extensive analysis and model comments.  After reviewing all submitted comments, on February 20, 2009, the Center submitted additional comments responding to some of the issued raised by other stakeholders.  The federal agencies have not yet issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.