Internet and Electronic Mail
2001 Enactments
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Internet Privacy
Arizona
H.B. 2043
Requires that Internet web sites established by the state must include
a privacy statement and give notice as to how information gathered by the
site will be collected and used.
Arkansas
H.B. 2403
Requires state agencies to develop written policies regarding the use
of the Internet, including responsibilities of each agency's employees
relating to the efficient and responsible use of the Internet and establishing
penalties for violation of the policy.
Delaware
H.B. 35Requires any employer who monitors any telephone calls, emails,
or Internet access of or by employees to give notice of such monitoring
activities to the employees prior to doing so or at the time of hiring.
Maine
LD 1681
Requires state and local governments to include notice of their information
practices on their Web sites, including what information is being collected
via the publicly accessible site on the Internet, how it will be used,
how to access and correct information and what security measures are taken
by the governments to prevent improper use of that information. Creates
a commission to create a comprehensive information practices law governing
collection and management of personal information by governmental entities.
Maryland
H.B. 14
Establishes an Electronic Transaction Education, Advocacy, and Mediation
Unit in the Office of the Attorney General to protect the privacy of individuals'
personal information and to protect the public from unlawful conduct or
practices in electronic transactions.
Montana
H.B. 281
Requires government Web sites to provide notice of their information
practices. Prohibits the collection of personally identifiable information
unless users are provided an opportunity to prohibit the disclosure and
use of the information.
New
Hampshire H.B. 142
Establishes a committee to study encryption or other methods to ensure
protection of privacy by state agencies that have access to personal information
such as social security numbers, information relating to health, and other
personal information.
New
Hampshire S.B. 123
Establishes a committee to study how information regarding private
individuals is obtained, maintained, and employed by the division of children,
youth and families.
New York A.B.
2358
Requires state agencies to adopt a privacy policy and requires notice
before agencies may collect or disclose personal information concerning
users.
Texas
H.B. 2589,
Requires state Web sites to include a link to the state privacy policy.
Requires policies protecting the personal information of users and specifies
terms under which a person may use, copy from, or link to a state Web site.
Provides that e-mail addresses provided to governmental bodies are to be
kept confidential unless an individual consents to its release.
Virginia
S.B. 1394
Establishes the crime of computer invasion of privacy as the use of
a computer or network to intentionally examine without authority the employement,
financial or personal information of another person.
Children and the Internet
Arizona
H.B. 2289
Prohibits transmitting and sending items that are harmful to minors
over the Internet.
Arkansas
H.B. 1003
Requires public schools and public libraries to install Internet filters
or otherwise limit Internet access to material that is harmful to minors.
Also requires public libraries to adopt a written Internet policy.
Arkansas
S.B. 717
Requires public schools to adopt a written policy and a system to prevent
computer users from accessing material harmful to minors. Requires libraries
to adopt a written policy that establishes a system to prevent minors from
accessing harmful materials on public access computers.
Arkansas
S.B. 975
Relates to computer crimes against children, including child pornography,
exploitation of children, and distribution of materials depicting sexually
explicit conduct involving a child. Prohibits falsifying information contained
in the header, subject line, routing instructions, or concerning the sender
or point of origin of any electronic mail message.
Florida
S.B. 144
Prohibits transmissions of child pornography and material harmful to
minors by electronic device or equipment. Amends the Computer Pornography
and Child Exploitation Act of 1986 to clarify penalties.
Maine
LD 125
Amends current law, regarding the crime of possession of sexually explicit
materials involving minors, to expressly criminalize possession of sexually
explicit materials that have come into a person's possession by way of
the Internet.
Minnesota
S.B. 969
Enhances penalties for dissemination and possession of pornographic
work involving minors.
New
Jersey A.B. 2397
Expands existing law to include concerning luring or enticing a child
via electronic means.
New
Mexico H.B. 17
Makes it a criminal offense for a person to possess a visual or print
medium that depicts a sexual act involving a child.
North
Dakota S.B. 2035
Creates the offense of the luring of minors by computer.
Oklahoma
H.B. 1266
Increases penalties for facilitating or soliciting sexual conduct with
a minor by using a computer; states that certain conduct shall not constitute
a defense.
Oklahoma
S.B. 46
Expands current law relating to materials harmful to minors to include
computer software or video games. Increases penalties.
Rhode
Island S.B. 962
Makes it illegal to produce, deliver, reproduce or possess any book,
magazine, periodical, film, videotape, computer disk, computer file or
any other material that contains an image of child pornography.
Rhode
Island H.B. 3891, Signed by governor 7/20/01Requires computer technicians
to report child pornography. Expands harassment and stalking provisions
to include electronic communications. Expands provisions relating to obscenity,
disseminating harmful materials to minors, and other related provisions
to include dissemination by digital electronic file.
Tennessee
S.B. 294
Relates to sexual exploitation of children; redefines "material" to
include any text or image on computer hard drive, computer disks, or other
medium designed to store information for later retrieval.
Tennessee
S.B. 550
Expands existing law concerning harassment to include electronic communication,
electronic mail or Internet services. Expands provisions relating to child
pornography to include text or images stored on a computer hard drive,
a computer disk of any type, or any other medium designed to store information
for later retrieval.
Utah
H.B. 131
Establishes policy and reporting requirements for local library boards
and school boards that provide Internet and online access by minors in
public libraries or schools so as to prevent minor's access to obscene
materials.
Utah
H.B. 373
Requires the Pornography Complaints Ombudsman to establish a program
to combat Internet pornography and to assist parents in protecting their
children from Internet pornography.
Vermont
S.B. 9
Clarifies existing law concerning the dissemination of indecent material
to minors to provide that when dissemination of indecent material occurs
outside the presence of a minor, a person cannot be charged with a crime
without having actual knowledge that the recipient is a minor.
Wisconsin
A.B. 60
Expands categories of representations in the prohibition against making,
possessing, distributing, or exhibiting nudity to include visual representations
or data that represents a visual image.
Electronic Mail
Arkansas S.B. 975
Prohibits falsifying information contained in the header, subject line,
routing instructions, or concerning the sender or point of origin of any
electronic mail message.
Montana
H.B. 112
Expands current laws concerning documents to include electronic mail.
Provides that electronic mail used for the transaction of official business
is a public record, and includes the unlawful interception of electronic
mail as a violation of the law on privacy in communications. Creates a
criminal offense of violating privacy in communications for sending threatening
or harassing electronic mail.
New
Jersey A.R. 146
Memorializes Congress to enact legislation prohibiting unauthorized
use of an Internet service provider's e-mail system to send unsolicited
commercial e-mail.
Virginia
S.B. 1322
Clarifies that separately contacting the membership of a public body
for the purpose of ascertaining a member's position with respect to the
transaction of public business, whether such contact is done in person,
by telephone or by electronic communication is not prohibited, provided
the contact is done on a basis that does not constitute a meeting as defined
by FOIA. The bill also clarifies that any electronic communication generated
by the separate contacts is still a "public record" under FOIA.
Wisconsin
S.B. 55
Requires unsolicited e-mail messages that contain obscene or sexually
explicit materials to include the words "ADULT ADVERTISEMENT" in the subject
line of the message.
Miscellaneous
Alabama H.J.R. 217
Creates the Digital Divide Coalition Study Committee.
California
S.B. 412
Prohibits "political cyberfraud," which includes the intent to deny
a person access to a political Web site, deny a person the opportunity
to register a domain name for a political Web site, or cause a person reasonably
to believe that a political Web site has been posted by a person other
than the person who posted the Web site.
Florida
S.B. 1672
Creates the Digital Divide Council in the State Technology Office;
specifies membership, authorizes the council to facilitate the design and
implementation of programs aimed at reducing the digital divide.
Hawaii
S.B. 1276
Prohibits"cybersquatting"-- the registration as domain names of well-known
trademarks by nontrademark holders who then try to sell the names back
to the trademark owners.
Idaho H.B. 377
Provides income tax credits for installing broadband communications
equipment and investing in counties with high unemployment or low personal
income.
Indiana
H.B. 1100
Allows the legislative council to enter into a contract to provide
video or audio coverage, or both, over the Internet or another broadcast
medium of sessions of the general assembly and other legislative activities
authorized by the legislative council. Regulates the reuse of video or
audio coverage of the general assembly for commercial purposes.
Kansas
H.B. 2035
Creates a new state agency, KAN-ED, to contract for the creation, operation,
and maintenance of a broadband technology-based network to which schools,
libraries, and hospitals may connect for broadband Internet access and
Intranet access for distance learning.
Maine
LD 1632
Mandates a study to determine the physical condition of the information
technology infrastructure in the state, in particular in rural areas, and
to report its recommendations, together with any necessary implementing
legislation.
Massachusetts
S.B. 1820
Requires the text of Senate bills to be posted on the Senate Web site,
provides for access to electronic mail for all Senators, and requires live
web casting of all formal sessions of the Senate during which the general
appropriation bill is considered.
Nebraska
L.B. 827
Provides funding to counties and municipalities to deliver broadband
Internet service, with particular emphasis on remote areas or areas of
sparse population.
Nevada
S.B. 50
Provides that a trade secret misappropriated and posted on the web
remains a trade secret, and allows a court to issue an order or injunction
requiring its immediate removal from the Internet. 
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