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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="20-1901" title_number="20" title_name="Miscellaneous Health Provisions" subtitle_number="19" subtitle_name="Subcutaneous Implanting of Identification Device">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Identification device” means an item, an application, or a product that is passively or actively capable of transmitting personal information, including devices using radio frequency technology.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Identification device” does not include an item, an application, or a product that is used in the diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, or prevention of a health condition.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Personal information” includes the following data elements to the extent that the data elements are used alone or in conjunction with other information used to identify an individual:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>First or last name;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Address;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Telephone number;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>E–mail, Internet Protocol, or website address;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Date of birth;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Driver’s license number or identification card number;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Bank, credit card, or other financial account number;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>Any unique personal identifier contained or encoded on a health insurance, health benefit, or benefit card or record issued in conjunction with a government–supported aid program;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>Religion;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>Ethnicity or nationality;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>Photograph;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>Fingerprint or other biometric identifier;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="13">
      <text>Social Security number; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="14">
      <text>Any other unique personal identifier.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Require, coerce, or compel” includes the use of physical violence, threat, intimidation, retaliation, the conditioning of any private or public benefit, including employment, promotion, or other employment benefit, and any other means to cause a reasonable individual of ordinary susceptibilities to acquiesce when the individual otherwise would not.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Subcutaneous” means existing, performed, or introduced under or on the skin.</text>
  </level>
</section>
