Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008

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United States federal statute anti-discrimination law

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 is a U.S. federal law that prohibits discrimination in health insurance and employment based on individuals’ genetic information.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 canonical	3
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States federal statute ⓘ anti-discrimination law ⓘ
abbreviation	GINA ⓘ
administeredBy	United States Department of Health and Human Services ⓘ surface form: Department of Health and Human Services United States Department of Labor ⓘ surface form: Department of Labor United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ surface form: Department of the Treasury Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ⓘ
appliesTo	employers with 15 or more employees ⓘ
codifiedIn	26 U.S.C. § 9802 ⓘ 29 U.S.C. § 1182 ⓘ 42 U.S.C. § 2000ff et seq. ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ
defines	family medical history ⓘ genetic information ⓘ genetic test ⓘ
doesNotCover	disability insurance underwriting ⓘ life insurance underwriting ⓘ long-term care insurance underwriting ⓘ
effectiveDate	2009-11-21 ⓘ
enactedBy	United States Congress ⓘ
hasPart	Title I ⓘ Title II ⓘ
jurisdiction	federal ⓘ
primaryTopic	genetic information nondiscrimination ⓘ
prohibits	discrimination based on genetic information in employment ⓘ discrimination based on genetic information in health insurance ⓘ use of genetic information in compensation decisions ⓘ use of genetic information in determining health insurance eligibility ⓘ use of genetic information in firing decisions ⓘ use of genetic information in hiring decisions ⓘ use of genetic information in job assignments ⓘ use of genetic information in promotions ⓘ use of genetic information in setting health insurance premiums ⓘ
protects	employees ⓘ health insurance beneficiaries ⓘ health insurance plan participants ⓘ job applicants ⓘ
purpose	to encourage individuals to take genetic tests without fear of discrimination ⓘ to protect privacy of genetic information ⓘ
regulates	employers ⓘ employment agencies ⓘ group health plans ⓘ health insurance issuers ⓘ joint labor-management training programs ⓘ labor organizations ⓘ
shortName	GINA ⓘ
signedBy	George W. Bush ⓘ
signedOn	2008-05-21 ⓘ
subjectOf	United States Code ⓘ
title	Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 self-link ⓘ
yearOfEnactment	2008 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008
Description of subject: The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 is a U.S. federal law that prohibits discrimination in health insurance and employment based on individuals’ genetic information.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission → enforces → Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 ⓘ

Louise Slaughter → workedOn → Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 ⓘ

this entity surface form: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 → title → Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 self-link ⓘ

Office of Federal Operations → legalBasis → Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 ⓘ