Bill Text - HB1482 (2020)

Relative to notification of security breaches.


Revision: Dec. 3, 2019, 10:20 a.m.

HB 1482 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2635

05/10

 

HOUSE BILL 1482

 

AN ACT relative to notification of security breaches.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Williams, Hills. 4

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that following the initial notice of a security breach, further information regarding the breach may be withheld pending a criminal investigation.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2635

05/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to notification of security breaches.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Notice of Security Breach.  RSA 359-C:20, II is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:

II.  After providing initial notice of a security breach pursuant to paragraph I, additional information regarding the breach may be withheld if a law enforcement agency, or national or homeland security agency, determines that disclosure will impede a criminal investigation or jeopardize national or homeland security.  Such information shall be provided upon completion of the investigation or determination that disclosure no longer presents a threat to national or homeland security.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.