# 119-hr-8413: SECURE Data Act 119-hr-8413, SECURE Data Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Joyce, John [R-PA-13] (R-PA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-21). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8413 - As of: 2026-09-21 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: 119-hr-8413 - Congress: 119 - Title: SECURE Data Act - Status: introduced - Introduced: 2026-04-21 - Sponsor: Rep. Joyce, John [R-PA-13] (R-PA) - Cosponsors: 10 - Policy area: Commerce - Touches household money: yes - Last recorded action: 2026-09-21 ## Summary **Establishes a federal privacy baseline** that gives people clear rights over their personal data and creates rules for companies and data brokers. It pairs consumer rights with security standards and a public data‑broker registry. ## Cosponsors (10) - Rep. Fry, Russell [R-SC-7] (R-SC), 2026-04-21T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Kean, Thomas H. [R-NJ-7] (R-NJ), 2026-04-21T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Obernolte, Jay [R-CA-23] (R-CA), 2026-04-21T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Langworthy, Nicholas A. [R-NY-23] (R-NY), 2026-04-21T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Goldman, Craig A. [R-TX-12] (R-TX), 2026-04-21T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9] (R-VA), 2026-04-21T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Balderson, Troy [R-OH-12] (R-OH), 2026-04-21T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Fedorchak, Julie [R-ND-At Large] (R-ND), 2026-04-21T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Dunn, Neal P. [R-FL-2] (R-FL), 2026-07-21T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Lee, Laurel M. [R-FL-15] (R-FL), 2026-08-10T00:00:00.000Z ## Provisions PRIA read - New consumer privacy rights and notices: benefit, high. If enacted, you would get new rights to confirm and access your personal data, correct inaccuracies, delete data, and get portable digital copies when technically feasible. You would be able to opt out of targeted advertising, sale of personal data, and profiling used for legally or similarly signi… - Stronger rules for sensitive and teen data: benefit, high. If enacted, the bill would treat race, religion, health, sexual orientation, immigration status, genetic or biometric identifiers, precise location, and data collected from children or teens as sensitive. Controllers generally would need a consumer's consent before processing sensitive data. Child… - Data brokers must register and disclose: benefit, high. If enacted, a company that collects data about people who are not its customers and that gets at least 50% of revenue from selling personal data would be a 'data broker.' Data brokers would have to publicly say they are brokers and explain how consumers can use privacy rights. They would have to re… - Business duties, processors, and data rules: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would define controllers as the parties that decide why and how data is used and processors as those acting for controllers. Processors would have to follow controller instructions, help with security and rights requests, and meet minimum contract terms like deletion and confid… - Limits on automated profiling and bias: benefit, medium. If enacted, companies that use fully automated profiling for decisions with legal or similarly significant effects would have to disclose that fact before the decision and provide an opt out. 'Profiling' means a decision made with no human review. The bill would also bar processing that violates fe… - Enforcement, state preemption, and cure: mixed, high. If enacted, violations would be enforced by the Federal Trade Commission using its usual powers, but the FTC could not enforce the bill's civil‑rights processing prohibition and must transmit those complaints to the appropriate agencies. State attorneys general could sue for residents but generally… - Who the bill covers and timing: mixed, high. If enacted, the bill would cover companies that do business with U.S. residents or that process or sell U.S. residents' personal data and that meet one of two tests. Test one: they process data about more than 200,000 people a year and have at least $25,000,000 in annual revenue (that revenue level… - International data flows and opt-out study: mixed, medium. If enacted, the Secretary would advise the President and federal agencies on cross‑border personal data flows and could enter agreements with foreign governments that must be sent to two congressional committees within 60 days. The Secretary would also issue a public report within 3 years on the fe… ## Related bills - 119-hr-703: Main Street Tax Certainty Act - 119-hr-425: Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act - 119-hr-1628: 761st Tank Battalion Congressional Gold Medal Act - 119-hr-452: Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act - 119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act - 119-hr-3699: Energy Choice Act ## Sources - [119-hr-8413 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8413) ## Related - [119-hr-703: Main Street Tax Certainty Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-703) - [119-hr-425: Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-425) - [119-hr-1628: 761st Tank Battalion Congressional Gold Medal Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1628) - [119-hr-452: Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-452) - [119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage A…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-842) - [119-hr-3699: Energy Choice Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3699) - [All bills in Congress](https://policyrisk.com/legislation) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8413 (as of 2026-09-21).