Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1446
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Hurt, Robert [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2015-03-18
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: 2015-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-03-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2015</b></p> <p>Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that 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 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1446 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 18, 2015 Mr. Hurt of Virginia (for himself and Mr. Peterson ) 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 2015 . 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 .