Health and Location Data Protection Act of 2024

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 10540 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 10540 To prohibit data brokers from selling and transferring certain sensitive data. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 19, 2024 Ms. Scanlon (for herself, Ms. Jayapal, Ms. Velazquez, and Mr. Espaillat) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To prohibit data brokers from selling and transferring certain sensitive data. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Health and Location Data Protection Act of 2024''. SEC. 2. UNFAIR AND DECEPTIVE ACTS AND PRACTICES RELATING TO HEALTH AND LOCATION DATA. (a) In General.--It shall be unlawful for a data broker to sell, resell, license, trade, transfer, share, or otherwise provide or make available any of the following forms of data, whether declared or inferred, of an individual: (1) Location data. (2) Health data. (3) Other categories of data identified by the Commission that address or reveal a category of data described in paragraphs (1) and (2). (b) Exceptions.-- (1) Actions that are hipaa-compliant.-- (A) In general.--Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit any action taken with respect to the health information of an individual by a data broker acting in its capacity as a business associate or covered entity, that is permissible under the Federal regulations concerning standards for privacy of individually identifiable health information promulgated under section 264(c) of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. 1320d-2 note). (B) Application of terms.--In paragraph (1), the terms ``business ass