HOUSE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 859, 898, 1055, PRINTER'S NO. 1410
1272
No. 712 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY WONDERLING, C. WILLIAMS, CORMAN, RAFFERTY,
WOZNIAK, GORDNER, PILEGGI, KITCHEN, EARLL, VANCE, ERICKSON,
M. WHITE, LEMMOND, FERLO, O'PAKE, RHOADES, BOSCOLA,
GREENLEAF, BROWNE, THOMPSON, STACK, LOGAN, FONTANA, ORIE AND
PICCOLA, JUNE 3, 2005
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
DECEMBER 6, 2005
AN ACT
1 Providing for the notification of residents whose personal
2 information data was or may have been disclosed due to a
3 security system breach; and imposing penalties.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Short title.
7 This act shall be known and may be cited as the Breach of
8 Personal Information Notification Act.
9 Section 2. Definitions.
10 The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
11 have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
12 context clearly indicates otherwise:
13 "Breach of the security of the system." The unauthorized
14 access and acquisition of computerized data that MATERIALLY <--
15 compromises the security or confidentiality of personal
1 information maintained by the entity as part of a database of
2 personal information regarding multiple individuals and that
3 causes or the entity reasonably believes has caused or will
4 cause loss or injury to any resident of this Commonwealth. Good
5 faith acquisition of personal information by an employee or
6 agent of the entity for the purposes of the entity is not a
7 breach of the security of the system if the personal information
8 is not used for a purpose other than the lawful purpose of the
9 entity and is not subject to further unauthorized disclosure.
10 "Business." A sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation,
11 association or other group, however organized and whether or not
12 organized to operate at a profit, including a financial
13 institution organized, chartered or holding a license or
14 authorization certificate under the laws of this Commonwealth,
15 any other state, the United States or any other country, or the
16 parent or the subsidiary of a financial institution. The term
17 includes an entity that destroys records.
18 "Encryption." The use of an algorithmic process to transform
19 data into a form in which there is a low probability of
20 assigning meaning without use of a confidential process or key.
21 "Entity." A State agency, a political subdivision of the
22 Commonwealth or an individual or a business doing business in
23 this Commonwealth.
24 "Individual." A natural person.
25 "Notice." May be provided by one ANY of the following <--
26 methods of notification:
27 (1) Written or telephonic notice to the last known home <--
28 address or telephone number for the individual. <--
29 (2) TELEPHONIC NOTICE IF THE CUSTOMER CAN BE REASONABLY <--
30 EXPECTED TO RECEIVE IT AND THE NOTICE IS GIVEN IN A CLEAR AND
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1 CONSPICUOUS MANNER, DESCRIBES THE INCIDENT IN GENERAL TERMS
2 AND VERIFIES PERSONAL INFORMATION BUT DOES NOT REQUIRE THE
3 CUSTOMER TO PROVIDE PERSONAL INFORMATION AND THE CUSTOMER IS
4 PROVIDED WITH A TELEPHONE NUMBER TO CALL OR INTERNET WEBSITE
5 TO VISIT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR ASSISTANCE.
6 (2) Electronic <--
7 (3) E-MAIL notice, if a prior business relationship <--
8 exists and the person or entity has a valid electronic mail <--
9 E-MAIL address for the individual. <--
10 (3) (4) (i) Substitute notice, if the entity <--
11 demonstrates one of the following:
12 (A) The cost of providing notice would exceed
13 $250,000 $100,000. <--
14 (B) The affected class of subject persons to be
15 notified exceeds 500,000 175,000. <--
16 (C) The entity does not have sufficient contact
17 information.
18 (ii) Substitute notice shall consist of all of the
19 following:
20 (A) E-mail notice when the entity has an e-mail
21 address for the subject persons.
22 (B) Conspicuous posting of the notice on the
23 entity's Internet website, if the entity maintains
24 one.
25 (C) Notification to major Statewide media.
26 "Personal information."
27 (1) An individual's first name or first initial and last
28 name in combination with and linked to any one or more of the
29 following data elements, when the name and data elements are <--
30 not encrypted or redacted:
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1 (i) Social Security number.
2 (ii) Driver's license number or a State
3 identification card number issued in lieu of a driver's
4 license.
5 (iii) Financial account number, credit or debit card
6 number, in combination with any required security code,
7 access code or password that would permit access to an
8 individual's financial account.
9 (2) The term does not include publicly available
10 information that is lawfully made available to the general
11 public from Federal, State or local government records.
12 "Records." Any material, regardless of the physical form, on
13 which information is recorded or preserved by any means,
14 including in written or spoken words, graphically depicted,
15 printed or electromagnetically transmitted. The term does not
16 include publicly available directories containing information an
17 individual has voluntarily consented to have publicly
18 disseminated or listed, such as name, address or telephone
19 number.
20 "Redact." The term includes, but is not limited to,
21 alteration or truncation such that no more than the last four
22 digits of a Social Security number, driver's license number,
23 State identification card number or account number is accessible
24 as part of the data.
25 "State agency." Any agency, board, commission, authority or
26 department of the Commonwealth and the General Assembly.
27 Section 3. Disclosure of computerized data NOTIFICATION OF <--
28 BREACH.
29 (a) General rule.--An entity, or a vendor on behalf of <--
30 another entity, that maintains, stores, manages, owns or
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1 licenses THAT MAINTAINS, STORES OR MANAGES computerized data <--
2 that includes personal information shall disclose PROVIDE NOTICE <--
3 OF any breach of the security of the system following discovery
4 or notification of the breach of the security of the system to <--
5 any resident of this Commonwealth whose unencrypted and
6 unredacted personal information was or is reasonably believed to
7 have been accessed and acquired by an unauthorized person.
8 Except as provided in section 5 4 or in order to take any <--
9 measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and to
10 restore the reasonable integrity of the data system, the
11 disclosure NOTICE shall be made without unreasonable delay. FOR <--
12 THE PURPOSE OF THIS SECTION, A RESIDENT OF THIS COMMONWEALTH MAY
13 BE DETERMINED TO BE AN INDIVIDUAL WHOSE PRINCIPAL MAILING
14 ADDRESS, AS REFLECTED IN THE COMPUTERIZED DATA WHICH IS
15 MAINTAINED, STORED OR MANAGED BY THE ENTITY, IS IN THIS
16 COMMONWEALTH.
17 (b) Encrypted information.--An entity must disclose PROVIDE <--
18 NOTICE OF the breach if encrypted information is accessed and
19 acquired in an unencrypted form, if the security breach is
20 linked to a breach of the security of the encryption or if the
21 security breach involves a person with access to the encryption
22 key.
23 (C) VENDOR NOTIFICATION.--A VENDOR THAT MAINTAINS, STORES OR <--
24 MANAGES COMPUTERIZED DATA ON BEHALF OF ANOTHER ENTITY SHALL
25 PROVIDE NOTICE OF ANY BREACH OF THE SECURITY SYSTEM FOLLOWING
26 DISCOVERY BY THE VENDOR TO THE ENTITY ON WHOSE BEHALF THE VENDOR
27 MAINTAINS, STORES OR MANAGES THE DATA. THE ENTITY SHALL BE
28 RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING THE DETERMINATIONS AND DISCHARGING ANY
29 REMAINING DUTIES UNDER THIS ACT.
30 Section 4. Disclosure of maintained computerized data. <--
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1 An entity that maintains computerized data that includes
2 personal information that the entity does not own or license
3 shall notify the owner or licensee of the information of any
4 breach of the security of the data immediately following
5 discovery, if the personal information was or is reasonably
6 believed to have been accessed and acquired by an unauthorized
7 person.
8 Section 5 4. Exceptions. <--
9 The notification required by this act may be delayed if a law
10 enforcement agency determines and advises the entity in writing
11 specifically referencing this section that the notification will
12 impede a criminal or civil investigation. The notification
13 required by this act shall be made after the law enforcement
14 agency determines that it will not compromise the investigation
15 or national or homeland security.
16 Section 6 5. Notification of consumer reporting agencies. <--
17 When an entity provides notification under this act to more
18 than 1,000 persons at one time, the entity shall also notify,
19 without unreasonable delay, all consumer reporting agencies that
20 compile and maintain files on consumers on a nationwide basis,
21 as defined in section 603 of the Fair Credit Reporting Act
22 (Public Law 91-508, 15 U.S.C. § 1681a), of the timing,
23 distribution and number of notices.
24 Section 7 6. Preemption. <--
25 This act deals with subject matter that is of Statewide
26 concern, and it is the intent of the General Assembly that this
27 act shall supersede and preempt all rules, regulations, codes,
28 statutes or ordinances of all cities, counties, municipalities
29 and other local agencies within this Commonwealth regarding the
30 matters expressly set forth in this act.
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1 Section 8 7. Notice exemption. <--
2 (a) Information privacy or security policy.--An entity that
3 maintains its own notification procedures as part of an
4 information privacy or security policy for the treatment of
5 personal information and is consistent with the notice
6 requirements of this act shall be deemed to be in compliance
7 with the notification requirements of this act if it notifies
8 subject persons in accordance with its policies in the event of
9 a breach of security of the system.
10 (b) Compliance with Federal requirements.--
11 (1) A financial institution that complies with the
12 notification requirements prescribed by the Federal
13 Interagency Guidance on Response Programs for Unauthorized
14 Access to Customer Information and Customer Notice is deemed
15 to be in compliance with this act.
16 (2) An entity that complies with the notification
17 requirements or procedures pursuant to the rules,
18 regulations, procedures or guidelines established by the
19 entity's primary or functional Federal regulator shall be in
20 compliance with this act.
21 Section 9 8. Civil relief. <--
22 A willful and knowing violation of this act shall be deemed <--
23 to be an unfair or deceptive act or practice in violation of the
24 act of December 17, 1968 (P.L.1224, No.387), known as the Unfair
25 Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law. The Office of
26 Attorney General shall have exclusive authority to bring an
27 action under the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection
28 Law for a violation of this act.
29 Section 10 29. Applicability. <--
30 This act shall apply to the discovery or notification of a
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1 breach in the security of personal information data that occurs
2 on or after the effective date of this section.
3 Section 11 30. Effective date. <--
4 This act shall take effect in 60 180 days. <--
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