I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 633 
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to prohibit the 
sharing of personally identifiable information obtained through the Feder-
ally Facilitated Marketplace for marketing, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 30, 2015 
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
to prohibit the sharing of personally identifiable informa-
tion obtained through the Federally Facilitated Market-
place for marketing, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Rights On-
line To Ensure Consumers’ Trust (PROTECT) of 2015’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITING SHARING OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFI-
ABLE INFORMATION OBTAINED THROUGH 
THE 
FEDERALLY 
FACILITATED 
MARKET-
PLACE UNDER THE ACA FOR MARKETING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Patient Protection and Af-
fordable Care Act is amended by inserting after section 
1313 (42 U.S.C. 18033) the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 1314. PROHIBITING SHARING OF PERSONALLY IDEN-
TIFIABLE 
INFORMATION 
OBTAINED 
THROUGH FEDERALLY FACILITATED MAR-
KETPLACE FOR MARKETING. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary or any other offi-
cial of the Federal government shall not permit any per-
sonally identifiable information that is prohibited from 
disclosure under section 552a of title 5, United States 
Code, including any individually identifiable health infor-
mation (as defined for purposes of the HIPAA privacy 
regulations, as defined in section 1180(b)(3) of the Social 
Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 1320d–9(b)(3))) collected through 
the Federally Facilitated Marketplace (FFM) established 
under this title, including any such information collected 
through the website healthcare.gov or any similar website, 
to be shared with any non-governmental entity for any 
type of marketing for commercial purposes, including for 
the marketing of health insurance coverage offered 
through any Exchange established under this title. 
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‘‘(b) PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION DE-
FINED.—The terms ‘personally identifiable information’ 
mean any information about an individual elicited, col-
lected, stored, or maintained by an agency, including— 
(A) any information that can be used to distinguish or 
trace the identity of an individual, such as a name, a social 
security number, a date and place of birth, a mother’s 
maiden name, or biometric records; and (B) any other in-
formation that is linked or linkable to an individual, such 
as medical, educational, financial, and employment infor-
mation .’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
of such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating 
to section 1313 the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 1314. Prohibiting sharing of individually identifiable information obtained 
through the Federally facilitated marketplace for marketing.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall apply to any sharing of information 
occurring after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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