| State | Bill number | Requires disclosure | Requires removal or deactivation | Prohibits linking RFID data to personal information | Prohibits use | Other |
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| California | S.B. 682 09/09/05 Legislature adjourned 05/16/05 Passed Senate
08/17/05 Placed on Comm. on Appropriations suspense file. | Yes, disclosure of device, reader locations, shield devices and reason for reading. Annual updates also
required. | | Yes | In four kinds of mass-distributed identification documents issued by the government: drivers’ licenses, K-12 student IDs, government health and benefit cards, and public library cards. This timeout for RFID in these four kinds of mass-distributed IDs is for only three years. Permits the use of RFID in government-issued IDs. However, in some cases the IDs must meet certain security and privacy requirements. In most cases, the documents cannot remotely transmit information other than a unique personal identifier number (though exceptions are made for use by the corrections system and emergency services, etc.). | Criminalizes remotely reading the document without the owner's knowledge. |
| California | S.B. 768 09/09/05 Legislature adjourned 05/31/05 Passed Senate
09/08/05 Placed on inactive file on request of Assembly Member. | Yes, disclosure of device, reader locations, shield devices and reason for reading. Annual updates also
required. | | Yes | In four kinds of mass-distributed identification documents issued by the government: drivers’ licenses, K-12 student IDs, government health and benefit cards, and public library cards. This timeout for RFID in these four kinds of mass-distributed IDs is for only three years. Permits the use of RFID in government-issued IDs. However, in some cases the IDs must meet certain security and privacy requirements. In most cases, the documents cannot remotely transmit information other than a unique personal identifier number (though exceptions are made for use by the corrections system and emergency services, etc.). | Criminalizes remotely reading the document without the owner's knowledge. |
| Illinois | H.B. 4088 | | | | | Provides that a hospital must use a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag in connection with each surgery performed at the hospital. The tag must identify (i) the patient and the surgeon, (ii) the date and type of surgery, and (iii) the body part to be operated on. |
| Maryland | H.B. 354 04/11/05 Legislature adjourned | | | | | Creates a task force to study the use of RFID by retailers and manufacturers. |
| Massachusetts | H.B. 1447
S.B. 181
01/26/05 H Referred to the committee on Consumer Protection; Senate concurred | Yes | Yes | | | Attorney general to promulgate regulations |
| Missouri | S.B. 128 05/26/05 Legislature adjourned | Yes | | | | |
| Missouri | S.B. 638 2006 Regular Session | Yes | | | | |
| Nevada | A.B. 264 06/07/05 Legislature adjourned | Yes | | | | |
| New Hampshire | H.B. 203
02/03/05
Retained in Commerce Committee | Yes | | | | |
| New Mexico | H.B. 215 03/19/05 Legislature adjourned | Yes | Yes | Yes | | |
| Rhode Island | H.B. 5929 07/15/05
Vetoed by Governor | | | | By state or municipal agencies for tracking the movement or identity of an employee, student or client as a condition of obtaining a benefit or services. | |
| South Dakota | H.B. 1114 03/22/05 Legislature adjourned | | | | In humans (no person may require RFID implantation) | |
| South Dakota | H.B. 1136 03/22/05 Legislature adjourned | | Yes | | Of personal information obtained via RFID without permission | |
| Tennessee | H.B. 300
S.B. 699 05/28/05 Legislature adjourned | Yes | | | | |
| Texas | H.B. 2953 05/30/05 Legislature adjourned | | | | For mandatory tracking or identification of public school students. | |
| Texas | H.B. 2 (1st Called Session) 07/20/05 Special Session adjourned 06/28/05 Passed House
06/30/05 Passed Senate | | | | For mandatory tracking or identification of public school students. | |
| Utah | H.B. 185
03/11/05
Signed by Governor | | | | | Clarifies that computer crimes laws apply to wireless networks. Exempts from the Computer Crimes Act certain collections of information through the use of RFID-type technology. |
| Virginia | H.B. 1304 02/27/05 Legislature adjourned | | | | | Requires public bodies to conduct a privacy impact analysis when authorizing or prohibiting the use of invasive technologies, such as RFID |
| Wisconsin | A.B. 290
| | | | | Prohibits requiring an individual to undergo the implanting of a microchip |