Laboratory Genetic Sequencing Software from Foreign Countries of Concern

Added by SB 768 (ch. 2025-96), this subsection bars the Department of Health from allowing its public-health laboratories under s. 381.0202 to use genetic-sequencing software produced by China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, the Maduro regime in Venezuela, or Syria, or by their state-owned enterprises or domestic companies. It is Florida's main 2025 genetic-data change. It covers state laboratory services, not private consumer genetic-testing companies, and does not amend s. 760.40.