H.R. 1483

Protecting Investors’ Personally Identifiable Information Act

Official summary

Written by the Congressional Research Service.

Protecting Investors' Personally Identifiable Information Act

This bill limits certain disclosures of personally identifiable information belonging to a participant in the securities market for purposes of tracking market activity.

Specifically, the bill prohibits the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from requiring a national securities exchange, a national securities association, or a member of such an exchange or association to provide such information to satisfy the reporting requirements of the Consolidated Audit Trail (data used by regulators to track market activity). 

Text of the bill

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Sec. 2. Personally identifiable information excluded from consolidated audit trail reporting requirements Changed · Sep 1

Where this section came from

  1. Feb 21, 2025 · Introduced in House Referred to House Committee on Financial Services, Feb 21
  2. Sep 1, 2026 · Reported in House Marked up by House Committee on Financial Services, Jun 30 Reported by House Committee on Financial Services, Sep 1 Committee members' individual votes aren't in our records.
What changed in the text

(a) In general. The Securities and Exchange Commission may not require a national securities exchange, a national securities association, or a member of such an exchange or association to provide personally identifiable information with respect to a market participant to meet the requirements relating to an order or a reportable event under section 242.613(c)(7) of title 17, Code of Federal Regulations . ( or successor regulations). ( b) Definition of personally identifiable information. In this section, the term personally identifiable information means information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity name , either address, alone date or of when birth, combined Social with Security other number, personal taxpayer-identification or number, identifying financial information account that is linked or linkable to a specific individual number , including an individual driver ’s name, license address number , date alien or registration year of birth, Social Security number, telephone number, email address , and Internet IP- Protocol address , or biometric data .

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(a) In general. The Securities and Exchange Commission may not require a national securities exchange, a national securities association, or a member of such an exchange or association to provide personally identifiable information with respect to a market participant to meet the requirements relating to an order or a reportable event under section 242.613(c)(7) of title 17, Code of Federal Regulations.

(b) Definition of personally identifiable information. In this section, the term personally identifiable information means an individual’s name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, taxpayer-identification number, financial account number, driver’s license number, alien registration number, telephone number, email address, Internet Protocol address, or biometric data.