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Committee approves technical fixes to Kentucky's consumer data privacy law
Summary
House Bill 473, a cleanup to last session's House Bill 15, was presented as technical and industry-alignment changes and was reported favorably out of committee. Sponsor Rep. Josh Branscomb said the amendments align Kentucky's law with language used in other states and address concerns from medical tech and small telephone providers.
Representative Josh Branscomb introduced House Bill 473 to the Outstanding Committee on Small Business and Information Technology as a cleanup to last session's consumer data privacy law, House Bill 15. Branscomb said the prior bill was a bipartisan measure that passed "92 to 0" and that HB 473 makes "very minor cleanup and wording" changes and adds language from the medical tech industry and small telephone providers to better align Kentucky's law with other states.
A motion to advance the bill was made (motion by Representative King; second by Representative Whitten). The committee called the roll and the chair announced, "House bill 4 73 passes with favorable expression and same should on the house floor." The transcript records members saying "yes" during the roll call but does not supply a numerical tally.
Sponsor comments characterized the bill as narrowly scoped technical corrections that do not change the core consumer data privacy framework enacted last session. The bill now advances to the full House for further consideration.
