SmartTranscript of House Commerce - 2025-03-27 - 1:30PM

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[Chair Michael Marcotte]: Good afternoon, everyone. This is the Vermont House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development. It is Thursday, March twenty seventh twenty twenty five at one thirty six in the afternoon. So we're here to continue our discussions on three forty two. We have our legislative council Rick Segal with us. So Rick, if you could walk us through [Rick Segal]: the latest version. Sure. And do you all have copies? Do I need to share my screen as well? [Chair Michael Marcotte]: Or Yeah. I think you can share your screen. Alright. [Rick Segal]: It is three point one. It is three point one. It is three point one. So Rick Segal, office of Legislative Council. You should have draft three point one on your screen or on this screen. I'm gonna scroll down to the first change, which is on page page seven. So we are in the, subsection b, the nondisclosure of protected information, subdivision three, the the notice sent by the AG. I'm sorry, in other words, the notice the AG must create for cover people to use to send to data brokers. So we're adding a new sub subdivision, under subdivision b where you must include a disclaimer, so the person is aware that this may complicate certain business transactions. And we're adding a new subdivision, II, that the cease and disclosure of a covered person's protected information may not result in the covered person's protected information being totally removed from the Internet. So they're aware that, yeah, it could still be posted by other publicly Other companies that aren't data brokers. That look good? Okay. So I, subsection c, is called attorney general enforcement, to not confuse what's happening here in subsection c, Just the name change. Subdivision C is new. And this subdivision, requires the attorney general to create a form on its website where a cover person or an authorized agent of the cover person is able to provide notice to the AG that more than fifteen days have passed since the cover person or their agent submitted notice to a data broker pursuant to the notice statute, and that the data broker continues to disclose or has redisclosed the covered person's protected information. This form shall require at minimum that the covered person provide the name of the data broker and the covered person and at least one element of the covered person's protected information. This could be address. It could be phone number. Other elements of Already? Already. What was your house? What is that for? This house. Oh, from house. Alright. Well, that means it's a real phone. Yeah. Yeah. So do we have that needs two minutes. Two minutes? I can finish this up. So that's the first edition that the AG produces the Swarm, and that was to address really the AG being aware that, hey, we're getting a bunch of these data brokers that are not this not ceasing to disclose the protected information. It is optional. The covered person, obviously, we can't make them submit a notice to the AG that they have not been that their information has not been ceasing disclosed. But this hopefully would provide an AG avenue to kind of understand the number of violations. [Chair Michael Marcotte]: Any questions about [Rick Segal]: that? And the other change is just down in the study. It's ADS that consults with AOA, the secretary of state, and the office of the attorney general, and with other state agencies as requested by the agency. So I received language from John, with ADS, and his language had AOA as the leader of the study, but my understanding was you wanted ADS. [Chair Michael Marcotte]: Well, it doesn't sound like AOA had much interest in that. [Rick Segal]: So a o ADS would be the study. I did adopt a few of their changes. They added the word considerations to impacts on the study. And then there was the request to add the word resource to look at the fiscal and resource impact on public agencies. And then d and e are new. The degree to which risk can be mitigated through state or local policy and determining which statutes, regulations, and administrative policies requiring amending require amending in order to accomplish the goal of public agencies being able to cease disclosure of protected information of covered persons. And four has been added to give them leeway to look into other things related to that study. Rick? [Chair Michael Marcotte]: Mister chairman has a question? Let's hold that because we gotta get to the floor and Okay. Vote, and then we can both take that after.
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