Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5610
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Hurt, Robert [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2014-09-18
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care

Government information and archives

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

Health information and medical records

Internet and video services

Internet, web applications, social media

Right of privacy
Latest action: action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-09-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2014 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure individuals who enter personal information on a health exchange website can remove their information from the website if they decide not to apply for health care coverage.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5610 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 18, 2014 Mr. Hurt (for himself and Mr. Barrow of Georgia ) 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 provide privacy protections that enable certain individuals to remove their profiles from the healthcare.gov website, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2014 . 2. Enabling certain individuals to remove their profiles from the healthcare.gov website Section 1311(c)(5) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( 42 U.S.C. 18031(c)(5) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking at the end and ; (2) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C); and (3) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following new subparagraph: (B) ensure that such Internet portal, whether the healthcare.gov website or a successor website, enables an individual who enters personal information on such website for purposes of enrolling for health care coverage to remove such information from such website if such individual decides not to apply for such enrollment; and .