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Committee approves amendment to require local governments to adopt cyber liability best practices; AG-funded grant removed
Summary
The Ways and Means Committee amended and passed Senate Bill 472 to change local-government cybersecurity guidance from optional to mandatory and to remove language that would have created an Attorney General–funded grant program to help localities pay cyber claims.
The Ways and Means Committee on Oct. 27 approved an amended version of Senate Bill 472 that would require local governments to implement uniform best practices for cyber liability and removed a proposal to create an Attorney General–funded grant program to help pay cyber claim costs.
The bill’s sponsor, Representative Layman, told the committee that SB 472 “is a product of an issue we've currently been dealing with on the AI task scribe, cybersecurity.” He said the bill converts an earlier “may” provision in state law to a “shall,” adding: “They shall implement best practices around their cyber liability.”
The change to a mandatory requirement is the bill’s first part, Layman said,…
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