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BILL · 2007–08 SESSION

HB 1763: Financial information

Protecting financial information and means of identification stored on portable electronic data storage devices.

Summary

  • Amends the identity crimes statute to impose civil liability under the Consumer Protection Act on persons, associations, partnerships, corporations, or organizations whose employees remove a portable electronic data storage device with unencrypted personal information from the premises of the business or organization, and where the information is then wrongfully accessed and used to commit an identity crime

From the House Bill Analysis 2007 (HB 1763), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 26, 2007
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Brendan Williams (D-22)
Introduced
January 26, 2007 in the House
Last action
January 14, 2008

AN ACT Relating to protecting financial information and means of identification stored on portable electronic data storage devices;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Brendan Williams (D-22)

3 co-sponsors (3 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Jeff Morris D-40Jim Moeller D-49Geoff Simpson D-47

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. First reading, referred to Judiciary.

HB 1763 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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