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Committee advances Senate File 20 with technical amendments to state data-retention rules
Summary
The Select Water Committee voted to advance Senate File 20, a measure that sets rules for how government-held personal data is collected, stored and deleted; members approved several technical edits and divided a proposed amendment, and the committee agreed to send the bill to the floor.
At a meeting of the Select Water Committee, members voted to advance Senate File 20 as amended, a bill that defines how personal data collected by government entities is collected, retained, transferred and how objections are handled.
The proposal would add data-management requirements for government subdivisions alongside the Public Records Act. A local official who spoke to the committee said modernization — including structured digital workflows, access controls and written retention policies — makes compliance achievable for communities that have invested in modernization, but warned smaller towns with legacy systems could face costs. "We spent…
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