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1999 SESSION
HB 2706 Compliance with Year 2000 date change.
Introduced by: Joe T. May | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED:
Claims against the Commonwealth. Provides that no cause of action shall be permitted which is based on any claim arising from the failure of a computer, software program, database, network, information system, firmware or any other device, whether operated by on behalf of the Commonwealth or one of its agencies, to interpret, produce, calculate, generate, or account for a date which is compatible with the “Year 2000” date change.
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:
Compliance by regulants with Year 2000 date change. Requires all the Commonwealth’s regulants to ensure that date-sensitive information systems under their control involving public health, safety, or welfare concerns are capable of accommodating the smooth transition of all electronically or mechanically dependent systems to operate fully at the date change to Year 2000. The bill contains a sunset clause of July 1, 2001.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Compliance by regulants with Year 2000 date change. Requires all the Commonwealth’s regulants to ensure that date-sensitive information systems under their control involving public health, safety, or welfare concerns are capable of accommodating the smooth transition of all electronically or mechanically dependent systems to operate fully at the date change to Year 2000.