Cyberbullying. Employer social media password requests. Crowdfunding. Those were some of the hot tech topics that the Hawai‘i State Legislature grappled with this session. (See my post on Internet related legislative proposals in the 2013 session). The bills addressing those topics didn’t pass, however. In fact, none of the bills listed in my chart of Internet Related Legislative Proposals survived. The closest to passing, perhaps, were two bills prohibiting employer requests to employees to disclose their personal social media account information, but the bills got stuck in committee.
That’s not to say that the 2013 session was completely devoid of tech. I’ve prepared a chart of all the bills related to electronic, digital, and information technology that the Hawai‘i State Legislature passed this session. (Many thanks to the Legislative Reference Bureau for providing the summaries that are incorporated into the chart). Governor Neil Abercrombie has already signed some of the bills into law. Others are pending a decision from the Governor. To summarize, the legislature this year addressed:
- Adoption of the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act
- Portable electronics insurance
- Clarification of relationship between Uniform Commercial Code Article 4A and Electronic Fund Transfer Act
- Licensing requirements for telemedicine practitioners employed by the U.S. Department of Defense
- Duties of the State Chief Information Officer
- Electronic posting of reports of Department of Health inspection of state licensed care facilities
- Availability of State open data
- Approval of broadband related permits
- Electronic prescriptions
- Tax credits for film and digital media industry
- Ban on use of mobile electronic devices while operating a motor vehicle
For summaries of all the bills that passed this session, read the full LRB report. For even more information visit the Legislature’s website for the full text of bills, committee reports, and testimony. I’ll update the chart after the Governor’s veto deadline has passed, so check back in a while.
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