Bill Text: IL HB2984 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Biometric Information Privacy Act. Defines "biometric identifier" to include neural data. Defines "neural data" as information that is generated by the measurement of activity of an individual's central or peripheral nervous system, and that is not inferred from non-neural information.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2984 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB2984-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB2984 Introduced , by Rep. Anne Stava-Murray SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
740 ILCS 14/10
Amends the Biometric Information Privacy Act. Defines "biometric identifier" to include neural data. Defines "neural data" as information that is generated by the measurement of activity of an individual's central or peripheral nervous system, and that is not inferred from non-neural information.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning civil law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Biometric Information Privacy Act is
amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
(740 ILCS 14/10)
Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:
"Biometric identifier" means a retina or iris scan,
fingerprint, voiceprint, or scan of hand or face geometry, or
neural data. Biometric identifiers do not include writing
samples, written signatures, photographs, human biological
samples used for valid scientific testing or screening,
demographic data, tattoo descriptions, or physical
descriptions such as height, weight, hair color, or eye color.
Biometric identifiers do not include donated organs, tissues,
or parts as defined in the Illinois Anatomical Gift Act or
blood or serum stored on behalf of recipients or potential
recipients of living or cadaveric transplants and obtained or
stored by a federally designated organ procurement agency.
Biometric identifiers do not include biological materials
regulated under the Genetic Information Privacy Act. Biometric
identifiers do not include information captured from a patient
in a health care setting or information collected, used, or

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stored for health care treatment, payment, or operations under
the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act of 1996. Biometric identifiers do not include an X-ray,
roentgen process, computed tomography, MRI, PET scan,
mammography, or other image or film of the human anatomy used
to diagnose, prognose, or treat an illness or other medical
condition or to further validate scientific testing or
screening.
"Biometric information" means any information, regardless
of how it is captured, converted, stored, or shared, based on
an individual's biometric identifier used to identify an
individual. Biometric information does not include information
derived from items or procedures excluded under the definition
of biometric identifiers.
"Confidential and sensitive information" means personal
information that can be used to uniquely identify an
individual or an individual's account or property. Examples of
confidential and sensitive information include, but are not
limited to, a genetic marker, genetic testing information, a
unique identifier number to locate an account or property, an
account number, a PIN number, a pass code, a driver's license
number, or a social security number.
"Electronic signature" means an electronic sound, symbol,
or process attached to or logically associated with a record
and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the
record.

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"Neural data" means information that is generated by the
measurement of activity of an individual's central or
peripheral nervous system, and that is not inferred from
non-neural information.
"Private entity" means any individual, partnership,
corporation, limited liability company, association, or other
group, however organized. A private entity does not include a
State or local government agency. A private entity does not
include any court of Illinois, a clerk of the court, or a judge
or justice thereof.
"Written release" means informed written consent,
electronic signature, or, in the context of employment, a
release executed by an employee as a condition of employment.
(Source: P.A. 103-769, eff. 8-2-24.)