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2015 SESSION

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SB 1189 Electronic communication service or remote computing service; obtaining records.

Introduced by: Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)

Obtaining records concerning electronic communication service or remote computing service; authentication of contents of communications. Provides that, in obtaining contents of electronic communications, a provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service may verify the authenticity of those records by providing an affidavit from the custodian of those records, or from a person to whom such custodian reports, certifying in good faith that they are true and complete and prepared in the regular course of business. When so authenticated they are admissible in evidence as a business record exemption to the hearsay rule.  The good faith provision will also apply to the existing provision on verifying the authenticity of written reports or records obtained from a provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service.

FULL TEXT

• 01/13/15  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15102300D  pdf | impact statement
• 02/09/15  Senate: Committee substitute printed 15104937D-S1  pdf | impact statement

HISTORY

• 01/13/15  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15102300D
• 01/13/15  Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
• 01/19/15  Senate: Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (11-Y 0-N)
• 01/19/15  Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice
• 02/09/15  Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 0-N)
• 02/09/15  Senate: Committee substitute printed 15104937D-S1
• 02/10/15  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 02/10/15  Senate: Read second time
• 02/10/15  Senate: Reading of substitute waived
• 02/10/15  Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 15104937D-S1
• 02/10/15  Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1189S1
• 02/10/15  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 02/10/15  Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
• 02/12/15  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/12/15  House: Read first time
• 02/12/15  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 02/12/15  House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
• 02/18/15  House: Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (4-Y 6-N)
• 02/24/15  House: Left in Courts of Justice