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MN SF2940

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/24/2025

Primary Sponsor

Bonnie Westlin

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Origin

Senate

94th Legislature 2025-2026

AI Summary

  • Adds "health data" as a new category of sensitive data under the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act, including information about health conditions, treatments, medications, biometric data, genetic information, and geolocation data indicating healthcare-seeking behavior

  • Requires separate consumer consent for processing sensitive data and for sharing sensitive data with third parties, with consent requests that must disclose specific data categories, purposes, recipient categories, and withdrawal procedures

  • Prohibits selling consumer sensitive data without a valid written authorization that includes specific disclosure requirements, expires after one year, and cannot be combined with other documents or conditioned on goods/services

  • Bans geofencing around healthcare facilities when used to identify, track, or collect health data from consumers, or to send health-related notifications or advertisements

  • Removes the small business exemption from the Consumer Data Privacy Act, effective July 31, 2025, with postsecondary institutions given until July 31, 2029 to comply

Legislative Description

Minnesota Data Privacy Act modification to make consumer health data a form of sensitive data provision and sensitive data additional protections addition provision

Last Action

Author added Latz

2/26/2026

Committee Referrals

Commerce and Consumer Protection3/24/2025

Full Bill Text

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