Bill Text: IL SB3319 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Biometric Information Privacy Act. Defines "private entity" to mean any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, or other group, however organized that employs more than 5 individuals. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-07 - Referred to Assignments [SB3319 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB3319-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Biometric Information Privacy Act is | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
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6 | (740 ILCS 14/10) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act: | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | "Biometric identifier" means a retina or iris scan, | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | fingerprint, voiceprint, or scan of hand or face geometry. | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | Biometric identifiers do not include writing samples, written | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | signatures, photographs, human biological samples used for | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | valid scientific testing or screening, demographic data, | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | tattoo descriptions, or physical descriptions such as height, | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | weight, hair color, or eye color. Biometric identifiers do not | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | include donated organs, tissues, or parts as defined in the | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | Illinois Anatomical Gift Act or blood or serum stored on | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | behalf of recipients or potential recipients of living or | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | cadaveric transplants and obtained or stored by a federally | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | designated organ procurement agency. Biometric identifiers do | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | not include biological materials regulated under the Genetic | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | Information Privacy Act. Biometric identifiers do not include | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | information captured from a patient in a health care setting | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | or information collected, used, or stored for health care |
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1 | treatment, payment, or operations under the federal Health | ||||||
2 | Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. | ||||||
3 | Biometric identifiers do not include an X-ray, roentgen | ||||||
4 | process, computed tomography, MRI, PET scan, mammography, or | ||||||
5 | other image or film of the human anatomy used to diagnose, | ||||||
6 | prognose, or treat an illness or other medical condition or to | ||||||
7 | further validate scientific testing or screening. | ||||||
8 | "Biometric information" means any information, regardless | ||||||
9 | of how it is captured, converted, stored, or shared, based on | ||||||
10 | an individual's biometric identifier used to identify an | ||||||
11 | individual. Biometric information does not include information | ||||||
12 | derived from items or procedures excluded under the definition | ||||||
13 | of biometric identifiers. | ||||||
14 | "Confidential and sensitive information" means personal | ||||||
15 | information that can be used to uniquely identify an | ||||||
16 | individual or an individual's account or property. Examples of | ||||||
17 | confidential and sensitive information include, but are not | ||||||
18 | limited to, a genetic marker, genetic testing information, a | ||||||
19 | unique identifier number to locate an account or property, an | ||||||
20 | account number, a PIN number, a pass code, a driver's license | ||||||
21 | number, or a social security number. | ||||||
22 | "Private entity" means any individual, partnership, | ||||||
23 | corporation, limited liability company, association, or other | ||||||
24 | group, however organized that employs more than 5 individuals . | ||||||
25 | A private entity does not include a State or local government | ||||||
26 | agency. A private entity does not include any court of |
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1 | Illinois, a clerk of the court, or a judge or justice thereof. | ||||||
2 | "Written release" means informed written consent or, in | ||||||
3 | the context of employment, a release executed by an employee | ||||||
4 | as a condition of employment. | ||||||
5 | (Source: P.A. 95-994, eff. 10-3-08.)
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