S 3097
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Requires companies that handle health information outside HIPAA to meet federal privacy, security, and breach notification standards, and gives individuals rights to access, correct, delete, and move their health data.
Official title: Health Information Privacy Reform Act
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Senate
Introduced
04-NOV-2025
Referred
04-NOV-2025
Approved by committee
30-JUL-2026
Reported
04-AUG-2026
On the calendar
04-AUG-2026
- Directs HHS, in consultation with the Federal Trade Commission, to issue privacy, security, and breach notification regulations for health information outside HIPAA within 18 months of enactment.
- Limits collection and retention of health information to what is reasonably necessary and bars sale or transfer to government entities except under a warrant, subpoena, or court order.
- Gives individuals rights to receive a privacy notice, access, amend, port, and delete their health information, with deletion required within 30 days of a request, and requires written authorization for any sale, licensing, transfer, or marketing.
- Sets national de-identification standards, prohibits re-identifying de-identified data, and directs HHS to issue guidance on the minimum necessary standard for training artificial intelligence models.
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