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Pennsylvania Senate panel

approved a measure Wednesday that would prohibit someone from forcing an individual to have an identification chip implanted under their skin.

The panel amended the proposal to give parents the authority to have an ID chip implanted in their child. A ban on forcing convicts to have a chip implanted under their skin was also added.

The measure by state Rep. Babette Josephs

, D-Philadelphia, was approved without opposition by the state House last June. The bill now heads to the Senate floor.