Senate Committee on Institutions conducts straw vote to pursue replacing S.71 with S.93 after bill comparison

The Senate Committee on Institutions on March 13 conducted a straw vote to pursue a strike‑all amendment replacing S.71 with S.93 after Rick Seibel, of the Office of Legislative Counsel, summarized the substantive differences between the two data‑privacy bills.

Seibel told the committee the bills are "probably 90% the same. But that 10% is, pretty important," and walked members through differences in applicability thresholds, exemptions, consumer rights, data‑protection assessments and enforcement provisions.

The differences Seibel highlighted include applicability thresholds (S.71 applies to controllers processing personal data of more than 25,000 consumers or more than 12,500 consumers if 25% or more of gross revenue is derived from personal data, while S.93 raises those thresholds to 100,000 and 25,000, respectively); S.71 phases down its…