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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 2031 Facial recognition technology; authorization of use by local law-enforcement agencies, etc.
Introduced by: Lashrecse D. Aird | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Facial recognition technology; authorization of use by local law-enforcement agencies and campus police departments at public institutions of higher education. Provides that no local law-enforcement agency or campus police department shall purchase or deploy facial recognition technology, defined in the bill, unless such purchase or deployment is expressly authorized by statute. The bill prohibits a local law-enforcement agency or campus police department at a public institution of higher education currently using facial recognition technology from continuing to use such technology without such authorization after July 1, 2021.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101718D pdf
- 01/20/21 House: Printed as engrossed 21101718D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/22/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2031ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/07/21 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB2031ER2) pdf
- 04/07/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments adopted
- Senate amendments
- Senate amendments engrossed
- Governor's recommendation
HISTORY
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101718D
- 01/12/21 House: Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation
- 01/18/21 House: Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/19/21 House: Read first time
- 01/20/21 House: Read second time
- 01/20/21 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 01/20/21 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB2031E
- 01/20/21 House: Printed as engrossed 21101718D-E
- 01/21/21 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/21/21 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/21/21 House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 01/21/21 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 01/21/21 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (100-Y 0-N)
- 01/22/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/22/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/21 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (12-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/21 Senate: Read third time
- 02/15/21 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/15/21 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/15/21 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/16/21 Senate: Read third time
- 02/16/21 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/16/21 Senate: Amendments by Senator McDougle agreed to
- 02/16/21 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/16/21 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/18/21 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/21 House: VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/21 House: Enrolled
- 02/22/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2031ER)
- 02/22/21 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/24/21 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/25/21 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
- 02/25/21 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 03/31/21 House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 04/07/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 04/07/21 House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (99-Y 1-N)
- 04/07/21 House: VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 1-N)
- 04/07/21 Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- 04/07/21 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/07/21 House: Reenrolled
- 04/07/21 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB2031ER2)
- 04/07/21 House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/07/21 Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/07/21 House: Enacted, Chapter 537 (effective 7/1/21)
- 04/07/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537)