Bill Text: IL SB3319 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Biometric Information Privacy Act. Defines "private entity" to mean any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, or other group, however organized that employs more than 5 individuals. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [SB3319 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3319-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3319 Introduced 2/7/2024, by Sen. Laura M. Murphy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
740 ILCS 14/10
Amends the Biometric Information Privacy Act. Defines "private entity" to mean any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, or other group, however organized that employs more than 5 individuals. Effective immediately.
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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.
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 stored for health care

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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.
"Private entity" means any individual, partnership,
corporation, limited liability company, association, or other
group, however organized that employs more than 5 individuals.
A private entity does not include a State or local government
agency. A private entity does not include any court of

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Illinois, a clerk of the court, or a judge or justice thereof.
"Written release" means informed written consent or, in
the context of employment, a release executed by an employee
as a condition of employment.
(Source: P.A. 95-994, eff. 10-3-08.)