[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5610 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5610

  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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                    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

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                                 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.

    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 ``Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 
2014''.

SEC. 2. 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''.
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