[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5746 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5746

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit wellness programs 
      from sharing personally identifiable information related to 
        individuals' use of or prescriptions for contraceptives.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 13, 2016

 Ms. DelBene (for herself, Ms. Slaughter, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Speier, 
   Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mrs. Capps, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Ms. 
  Edwards, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. 
Cicilline, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Gallego, Ms. McCollum, Mr. 
 McGovern, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Murphy of Florida, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Swalwell 
of California, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Moore, Mr. Keating, Miss Rice of New 
 York, Mr. Hastings, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Takano, 
Mr. Honda, Mr. Heck of Washington, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Danny K. Davis of 
 Illinois, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Loretta Sanchez of 
 California, Ms. Norton, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Higgins, Mr. 
 Farr, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Welch, 
 Mr. Lewis, Mr. Meeks, Ms. Linda T. Sanchez of California, Mr. Ryan of 
Ohio, and Mr. Engel) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit wellness programs 
      from sharing personally identifiable information related to 
        individuals' use of or prescriptions for contraceptives.

    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 ``Birth Control Privacy Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING WELLNESS PROGRAMS FROM SHARING PERSONALLY 
              IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION RELATED TO INDIVIDUALS' USE OF 
              OR PRESCRIPTIONS FOR CONTRACEPTIVES.

    (a) In General.--Section 2705(j)(1) of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C.300gg-4(j)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subparagraph:
                    ``(D) Privacy of individuals' use of or 
                prescriptions for contraceptives.--Such wellness 
                program shall violate this subsection if the plan or 
                issuer involved shares personally identifiable 
                information of an individual with an employer, either 
                directly or indirectly, related to the individual's use 
                of or prescriptions for contraceptives.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to plan years beginning on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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