A pre-filed bill in the Alabama House would prevent an employer from requiring any employee to be implanted with a microchip.
Microchips are defined by the proposed legislation as a “device subcutaneously implanted in an individual that is passively or actively capable of transmitting personal information to another device using radio frequency [RFID] technology.”
The legislation would not include devices used in the diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, or prevention of a health condition that “only transmits information necessary to carry out the diagnosis, monitoring, treatment or prevention of that health condition.”
Microchips were approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2004 for implantation in humans after being used for years in animals and pets….