Protecting Rights Online To Ensure Consumers' Trust (PROTECT) of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-633
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-01-30
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance

Health information and medical records

Marketing and advertising

Right of privacy
Latest action: action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-01-30
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Protecting Rights Online To Ensure Consumers' Trust (PROTECT) of 2015</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to prohibit the federal government from sharing an individual's personally identifiable information, including health information collected through a health insurance exchange, with a non-governmental entity for marketing purposes, including for the marketing of health insurance coverage.</p> Personally identifiable information includes an individual's name, social security number, date and place of birth, or biometric, medical, educational, financial, or employment records.

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 633 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 information obtained through the Federally Facilitated Marketplace for marketing, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Rights Online To Ensure Consumers’ Trust (PROTECT) of 2015 . 2. Prohibiting sharing of personally identifiable information obtained through the Federally facilitated marketplace under the ACA for marketing (a) In general The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is amended by inserting after section 1313 ( 42 U.S.C. 18033 ) the following new section: 1314. Prohibiting sharing of personally identifiable information obtained through Federally facilitated marketplace for marketing (a) In general The Secretary or any other official of the Federal government shall not permit any personally identifiable information that is prohibited from disclosure under section 552a of title 5, United States Code, including any individually identifiable health information (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. (b) Personally identifiable information defined The terms personally identifiable information mean any information about an individual elicited, collected, 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 information that is linked or linkable to an individual, such as medical, educational, financial, and employment information . . (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.