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House Business Committee sends bill updating personally identifiable information rules to the floor
Summary
The House Business Committee voted to send Senate Bill 1066, as amended, to the House floor with a due-pass recommendation. The bill updates definitions of personally identifiable information, adds an encryption definition and requires entities responsible for breaches to provide at least 12 months of credit monitoring.
The House Business Committee on March 17 voted to send Senate Bill 1066, as amended, to the House floor with a due-pass recommendation after a brief hearing and committee discussion.
Senator Ben Toews, R.-District 4, told the committee the bill "is pretty simple. It's really updating the personally identifiable information definitions within code." He said the measure also "provides accountability for those who collect and store personally identifiable information" and was amended in the Senate to address industry concerns.
The bill would update the statutory definitions of personally identifiable information to explicitly include items such as…
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