HR 3437 IH: Protecting Insurance Company Data
This bill aims to protect insurance companies’ data from being collected directly by federal regulators.
Short Title
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Insurance Data Pro-tection Act’’.
Repeal of Subpoena and Enforcement Authority
Section 313(e) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking paragraph (6).
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 nonpublic-ly 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’’;
- (3) in subparagraph (D), by inserting ‘‘including the exceptions under that section,’’ after ‘‘United States Code’’.
Limitation on Subpoenas by 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))’’.
Confidentiality by Financial Regulators
Treatment of Data Collected From Insurance Companies
(a) In General.
- (1) IN GENERAL. — The Financial Stability Act of 2010 (12 U.S.C. 5311 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
- ‘‘Subtitle D—Treatment of Data Collected From Insurance Companies”.
(b) ADVANCE COORDINATION.
- (1) IN GENERAL. — 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.
(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 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;
- (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.
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