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Senate Bill 1213 |
Senate Author: Kolkhorst |
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Effective: 9-1-15 |
House Sponsor: Oliveira |
Senate Bill 1213 amends the Business & Commerce Code to make it a Class A misdemeanor to reidentify or attempt to reidentify personal identifying information about an individual who is the subject of deidentified information released by a state agency or a hospital that is maintained or operated by the state or to knowingly disclose or release information that was reidentified in violation of this prohibition. The bill makes a person who commits such a violation liable to the individual who is the subject of the information for statutory damages and liable to the state for a civil penalty. The bill provides for a person to whom deidentified information subject to the bill's provisions is released, sold, transferred, or disclosed to be given written notification that the information is deidentified information.