SF 2211 – Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators, Juveniles
SF 2259 – Personal Information Security Breaches
HF 159 – Meth Precursors Added to Controlled Substances List
HF 2132 – Gideon Fellowship Program in the State Public Defender Office
HF 2278 – Restricting Disclosure of Certain Rider Data by Regional Transit Districts
FLOOR ACTION:
SF 2211 relates to the determination of whether someone fits the criteria of a sexually violent predator for civil commitment purposes. The bill permits the use of juvenile delinquency adjudications for sexually violent offenses when determining whether someone should be civilly committed as a sexually violent predator. In addition, the bill allows the Department of Human Services 60 days (rather than 30 days) to develop a plan for a person who has been ordered to be released from civil commitment as a sexually violent predator. The Senate concurred with a clarifying, technical amendment from the House. [3/26: 48-0 (Ernst, Houser absent)]
SF 2259 relates to breaches of personal information. Under current law, when an entity owns or leases consumer personal data and there is a security breach, the entity is required to notify the consumers whose data has been compromised. This bill amends the definition of “breach of security” to include personal information transferred from a computer to any medium, including paper. The definition of “personal information” is amended to include encrypted or redacted personal information if the keys to unencrypt, unredact or otherwise read the data elements have also been obtained. In addition, the Senate concurred with a House amendment that requires a person who owns or licenses computerized data that includes consumers’ personal information that has been subject to a breach, to notify the Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General’s Office within five business days rather than three business days after giving notice of the breach of security to any consumer if the breach impacts more than 500 people. The bill adds expiration dates of credit cards and debit cards combined with the credit or debit card number to the list of information included in “personal information” subject to a breach of security notification requirements. [3/26: 48-0 (Ernst, Houser absent)]
HF 159 adds four chemicals (sodium hydroxide, ammonia nitrate, ammonia sulfate, and light or medium petroleum distillate) to the current list of chemicals that cannot be possessed with the intent to manufacture a controlled substance. These substances are commonly used in manufacturing “one pot” methamphetamine. [3/24: 45-0 (Greiner, Houser, Kapucian, Segebart, Zumbach absent)]
HF 2132 establishes a Gideon Fellowship Program in the Office of the State Public Defender. The State Public Defender is authorized to hire up to four lawyers for a term of up to two years. Each hire must be a licensed lawyer admitted to practice law in Iowa prior to commencement of the fellowship. [3/24: 45-0 (Greiner, Houser, Kapucian, Segebart, Zumbach absent)]
HF 2278 relates to specific customer data and customer transaction history of those who use a regional transit system. Specific information concerning applicants, users and customers of a regional transit system that is collected through the Internet or a fare collections system is considered private data under the bill and is not subject to disclosure except under certain, specified circumstances. For example, aggregate data may be disclosed and personal data may be disclosed pursuant to a warrant. The bill comes from the Des Moines Area Rapid Transit System, which is going to a “swipe card” system. The card allows the collection of data regarding individual ridership patterns, for example. DART wants to ensure that personal data about its riders cannot be accessed by the public. [3/24: 45-0 (Greiner, Houser, Kapucian, Segebart, Zumbach absent)]