{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases/fitzgerald-flood-introduce-bill-safeguard-insurance-data-privacy", "Fitzgerald, Flood Introduce Bill to Safeguard Insurance Data Privacy", "2023-09-18", "2023", "2023-09", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Scott Fitzgerald", "F000471", "fitzgerald.house.gov", "fitzgerald", "https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05) and Congressman Mike Flood (NE-01) introduced the Insurance Data Protection Act to rein in the Treasury Department\u2019s Federal Insurance Office (FIO) by eliminating its subpoena authority and limiting how the office collects data from state insurance regulators.\n\nFor about 150 years, state insurance regulators and respective laws have regulated insurance companies. The FIO, which was created under Dodd-Frank, has grown increasingly aggressive in collecting data from insurance companies, most recently issuing a proposed data collection to assess \u201cclimate-related financial risk.\u201d The proposal fails to consider the burden of collecting vast amounts of data, lacks a clear purpose or benefit, and did not take the time to coordinate with state regulators as required under Dodd-Frank.\n\n\u201cThe FIO\u2019s proposal requiring insurers to submit insurance underwriting data to assess climate risk is just the latest attempt by Biden\u2019s bureaucrats to push their out-of-touch climate and social agenda,\u201d said Rep. Fitzgerald. \u201cThe Insurance Data Protection Act is an important step in protecting consumer data and reducing costly regulatory burdens. This legislation will repeal the coercive subpoena and enforcement powers of the FIO and implement additional data privacy safeguards so the public can rest-assured that their data is not being mishandled.\u201d\n\n\u201cThank you to Rep. Fitzgerald for his leadership on the Insurance Data Protection Act, a bill I\u2019m proud to support. This legislation will help protect the role of states in serving as the primary regulator of private insurance companies while also protecting job creators from being forced to surrender information about their business operations for the purpose of appeasing climate activists,\u201d said Rep. Flood.\n\nThis bill has been endorsed by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC), American Property & Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA), Association for Independent Agents (Big I), and National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA)\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:37:48Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases/fitzgerald-flood-introduce-bill-safeguard-insurance-data-privacy"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7074337229132652, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}