Nevada Legislature Passes Consumer Health Data Privacy Bill

On June 5, the Nevada state legislature passed an amended version of Senate Bill 370 ("SB 370"), a bill imposing new requirements on the collection, use, and sale of consumer health data. The bill has been delivered to Governor Joe Lombardo's desk for signature. If signed, it would go into effect on March 31, 2024 and would be the third law this year that creates special processing requirements for health data.

SB 370 imposes requirements pertaining to the collection, use, and sale of consumer health data. It would generally prohibit the collection and sharing of consumer health data without the relevant consumer's affirmative, voluntary consent (with separate consents required for collection and sharing, respectively), and would similarly prohibit the sale of consumer health data without the consumer's written authorization. In these respects, SB 370 echoes the Washington My Health My Data Act and Connecticut's SB 3 — two recently enacted state laws that impose