113 HR 5610 IH: Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2014 U.S. House of Representatives 2014-09-18 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

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.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2014.

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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.