Bills › 90th General Assembly
HSB 613
Topics:Business & economyTechnology & privacy
Same legislation: SSB 3106
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 24, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 24, 2024
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill requires texting software providers to ensure certain encryption and notification features when persons send or receive text messages. telephone numbers capable of sending or receiving a text message. The bill requires a texting software provider to ensure that text message data is encrypted and sent over a network that supports the encryption, that media sent in the text message is sent and received in its original quality without degradation, and that a text message sender or receiver receives real-time notifications that a person is typing a message or whether a sent message has been read, if the user has enabled such functions on the wireless device.
Read the full explanation
The bill authorizes the Iowa utilities board and the attorney general to seek an injunction against a software provider that is not encrypting text messages. A violation of the bill subjects the texting software provider to a civil penalty of $10 for each device with which a violation occurs. The bill takes effect upon enactment.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
House subcommittee
Named January 24, 2024. On January 30, 2024 it recommended indefinite postponement. Vote Total: 3-0.
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Iowa Code it changes
Creates§476.95C
Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works
Lobbying
1 for · 5 against · 5 undecided · Who →
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