S. 1544

111 S1544 IS: Insurance Data Protection Act
 U.S. Senate
 2025-04-30
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 II  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  S. 1544  IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES   April 30, 2025   Mrs. Britt  (for herself,  Mr. Scott of South Carolina ,  Mr. Rounds ,  Mr. Crapo ,  Mr. Tillis ,  Mr. Kennedy ,  Mr. Hagerty ,  Ms. Lummis ,  Mr. Ricketts ,  Mr. Banks , and  Mr. Cramer ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs    A BILL
To prohibit the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury and other financial regulators from collecting data directly from an insurance company.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Insurance Data Protection Act  .
2.
Repeal of subpoena and enforcement authority
Section 313(e) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking paragraph (6).
3.
Confidentiality by Federal Insurance Office
Section 313(e)(5) of title 31, United States Code, is amended—
(1)
in subparagraph (A), by inserting after  Office  the following:  , or the sharing of any nonpublicly available data and information with or by the Office among any other Federal agency, any State insurance regulator (or any agent of such a regulator), or any other entity, ;
(2)
in subparagraph (C)(ii), by inserting  any privilege described in subparagraph (A) or  after  including ; and
(3)
in subparagraph (D), by inserting  including the exceptions under that section,  after  United States Code, .
4.
Limitation on subpoenas by the Office of Financial Research
Section 153(f)(1) of the Financial Stability Act of 2010 ( 12 U.S.C. 5343(f)(1) ) is amended, in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting after  financial company  the following:  (other than an insurance company, as defined in section 201(a)) .
5.
Confidentiality by financial regulators
(a)
In general
The Financial Stability Act of 2010 ( 12 U.S.C. 5311 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following:
D
Treatment of data collected from insurance companies
181.
Treatment of data collected from insurance companies by financial regulators
(a)
Definitions
In this section:
(1)
Covered entity
The term  covered entity  means a nonbank financial company that is an insurance company.
(2)
Financial regulator
The term  financial regulator  means the Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Council, the Federal banking agencies, and the Office of Financial Research.
(3)
Insurance company
The term  insurance company  has the meaning given the term in section 201(a).
(b)
Advance coordination
(1)
In general
(A)
Pre-collection
Before collecting any data or information pursuant to this title or title II from a covered entity, a financial regulator shall coordinate with each relevant Federal agency, State insurance regulator, and other Federal or State regulatory agency, and with any publicly available source, to determine if the data or information to be collected is available from, and may be obtained in a timely manner by, that agency, regulator, or regulatory agency, individually or collectively, or that publicly available source.
(B)
Determinations
(i)
Information available
If a financial regulator, under subparagraph (A), determines that the data or information described in that subparagraph is available, and may be obtained in a timely manner, from an agency, regulator, regulatory agency, or source described in that subparagraph, the financial regulator shall obtain the data or information from that agency, regulator, regulatory agency, or source.
(ii)
Information unavailable
If a financial regulator, under subparagraph (A) determines that the data or information described in that subparagraph is not available, the financial regulatory may collect that data or information from the applicable covered entity only if the financial regulator complies with the requirements of subchapter I of  chapter 35  of title 44, United States Code (commonly referred to as the  ‘Paperwork Reduction Act ’), in collecting that data or information.
(2)
Authority to provide information
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the purposes of paragraph (1), each relevant Federal agency and State insurance regulator or other Federal or State regulatory agency may provide to a financial regulator data or information described in that paragraph.
(c)
Confidentiality
(1)
Retention of privilege
The sharing by a covered entity of any nonpublicly available data or information with a financial regulator under this title or title II shall not constitute a waiver of, or otherwise affect, any privilege arising under Federal or State law (including the rules of any Federal or State court) to which the data or information is otherwise subject.
(2)
Continued application of prior confidentiality agreements
Any requirement under Federal or State law to the extent otherwise applicable, or any requirement pursuant to a written agreement in effect between the original source of any nonpublicly available data or information and the source of that data or information to a financial regulator, regarding the privacy or confidentiality of any data or information in the possession of the source to a financial regulator, shall continue to apply to that data or information after the data or information has been provided under this section to the financial regulator.
(3)
Information-sharing agreement
Any data or information obtained by a financial regulator may be made available to State insurance regulators, individually or collectively, through an information-sharing agreement that—
(A)
shall comply with applicable Federal law; and
(B)
shall not constitute a waiver of, or otherwise affect, any privilege under Federal or State law (including any privilege described in paragraph (1) and the rules of any Federal or State court) to which the data or information is otherwise subject.
(4)
Agency disclosure requirements
Section 552 of title 5, United States Code, including the exceptions under that section, shall apply to any data or information submitted to a financial regulator by a covered entity under this section.
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(b)
Technical amendment
The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ( Public Law 111–203 ) is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 176 the following:
Subtitle D—Treatment of data collected from insurance companies
Sec. 181. Treatment of data collected from insurance companies by financial regulators.
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