2024 Regular Session - Day 40 - HB 45, Rep. John Hodgson

Mr Speaker House Bill 45 establishes privacy protections for the public from the rapidly evolving means of electronic surveillance and tracking this bipartisan bill was reviewed positively this summer in a joint committee and it's widely supported by the public because nobody really likes being spied on tracked or having their personal data stolen there are several Provisions in the bill to address technology issues uh the first is unauthorized drone surveillance either by private citizens or the government uh drones would not be allowed to view or film any that a person could not see standing in a lawful place at ground level this is similar to a Florida law second is a coerced human microchip implantation that would be prohibited by employers or government agencies this is modeled by an arkans after an Arkansas law and 10 other states third is artificial intelligence deep fake dissemination where a electronic representation of events that never occurred is put forth as something that is uh true and it's undetectable by the human eye this is modeled after a Minnesota law and a proposed US law but um unauthorized deep fake dissemination intended to harm a person would become a felony also License Plate Reader data cannot be uh stored for over 30 days or sold with certain law enforcement and insurance exceptions and finally unauthorized micr tracking devices cannot be placed on a person or their gear Mr Speaker this bill doesn't cost anything because it costs nothing to not spy on people I move passage for House Bill 45