Sponsor
Ro Khanna
Representative · D-CA
Representative · D-CA
The bill increases privacy and safety protections for designated congressional figures by enabling removal of sensitive information and restricting data-broker sales, but it creates compliance costs, concentrates sensitive lists that pose security risks, and leaves open transparency and exemption disputes.
Protected persons (Members of Congress, designated congressional employees, former Members, and their household members) can request removal of covered personal information from public agency records and online postings, reducing their exposure to doxxing, stalking, and physical harm.
Protected persons' covered information cannot be knowingly sold or licensed by data brokers, limiting commercial dissemination of sensitive personal data.
Affected individuals (protected persons) gain enforceable remedies — private suits and state attorney-general enforcement — allowing injunctions or declaratory relief to stop or prevent unlawful disclosures.
Taxpayers, government contractors, and online platforms may face increased compliance costs as agencies and websites implement removal and delisting requirements, with those costs likely passed on to users or taxpayers.
Protected persons and agencies could face heightened security risks if centralized lists of protected individuals shared with agencies, data brokers, or businesses are mishandled or breached, creating concentrated targets.
Protected persons and the public may encounter ambiguous boundaries for exemptions for news reporting and public‑interest speech, producing litigation and inconsistent application about what qualifies as public concern.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Protects specified personal identifying information of Members of Congress, their households, designated staff, and former Members in public records and defines data brokers, with narrow election‑filing exclusions.
Official title: To improve the safety and security of Members of Congress, immediate family members of Members of Congress, and congressional staff, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 22, 2026 by Ro Khanna · Last progress July 22, 2026
Creates rules to protect certain personal identifying information about Members of Congress, their households, designated congressional employees, and former Members when that information appears in public records. It lists categories of covered personal data (home addresses, phone numbers, personal emails, SSNs, precise geolocation, children’s school information, vehicle identifiers, bank/account numbers, commute routes, etc.), defines who counts as an "at‑risk individual," and defines "data broker." The text also carves out exclusions for information required to be reported to the FEC or otherwise required by federal or state law for candidates' filings. Assigns joint congressional officers (Sergeants at Arms together with specified House/Senate administrative officers) as responsible officials for implementing the protections. The bill text supplied cuts off before completing the definition of "covered information" and before describing enforcement, procedures, or remedies.