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House enacts Alabama Personal Data Protection Act; exempts regulated health, financial records
Summary
The House adopted the Alabama Personal Data Protection Act (HB 283), introducing consumer rights over personal data and setting state-level obligations for controllers and processors while carving out federally regulated categories such as HIPAA-covered health records and GLBA-regulated financial data.
The Alabama House passed House Bill 283 on April 22, adopting a substitute that establishes a state-level personal data protection framework for consumers, including rights to access, correct, delete and opt out of certain data processing.
Sponsor Representative Jeremy Shaw said, “Right now, federal government doesn't recognize our rights over our data. So 19 other states have had to pass a law like this.” The floor substitute largely tracks other state privacy statutes: it applies to controllers that process data for more than 50,000 consumers or that derive 25% of gross…
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