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Senate panel advances cleanup to 2023 cyber response board, shifts vote seat to Insurance Department
Summary
Lawmakers approved a cleanup bill that modifies the state'created cyber response board established in 2023, authorizing parties targeted by cyberattacks to use their own vendor and correcting a drafting error that allocated a board vote incorrectly.
Senator Kim Hammer, District 16, presented a cleanup bill to refine the cyber response board established in 2023. Chris Velines, director at the Association of Arkansas Counties, told the committee the program functions similarly to the Fidelity Bond Board and helps cities, counties and K‑12 districts pay for and respond to cyberattacks.
Velines said experience with the board since 2023 showed a need for…
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