The bill prohibits an employer from requiring an employee or applicant for employment to disclose a user name, password, or other means for accessing a personal account or service through an electronic communications device. This does not include access to nonpersonal accounts or services that provide access to the employer's internal computer or information systems. The bill also prohibits an employer from discharging, disciplining, penalizing, or refusing to hire an employee or applicant who does not provide access to personal accounts or services.
The bill clarifies that an employer may investigate an employee to ensure compliance with securities or financial law or for suspected unauthorized downloading of proprietary information based on the receipt of information about these activities.
Year
2013
Current status
- 03/20/2013 - Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended to Appropriations
- 04/17/2013 - Senate Second Reading Passed With Amendments
- 04/22/2013 - House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- 05/01/2013 - Signed by the President of the Senate
- 03/06/2013 - Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology
- 05/11/2013 - Governor Action - Signed
- 02/12/2013 - House Committee on Business, Labor, Economic, & Workforce Development Refer Amended to Appropriations
