3 takeaways on the new federal data privacy proposal after its first public showcase

Fierce Healthcare April 19, 2024
Emma Beavins

At the House Energy and Commerce’s data privacy hearing April 17, lawmakers discussed for the first time Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ discussion draft of a new federal data privacy bill, the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), since its reveal last week.

The legislation is a slight departure from the committee’s last piece of data privacy legislation, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA), which was passed out of committee almost unanimously in 2022 but never made it to the House floor. The differences between the pieces of legislation did not go unnoticed, especially by the committee’s ranking democrat, Frank Pallone, of New Jersey.

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