If the governor signs the bill, which is likely, it wouldn't be the first time one of the nation's smallest states in both size and population has taken on big business. Vermont in 2007 passed a law to restrict prescription "data mining" by companies that track doctors' prescribing habits and sell the information to drug companies, but the U.S. Supreme Court shot it down in 2011. The food industry so far has failed to block a Vermont law to require labeling of genetically modified food that is set to take effect July 1.
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