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1998 SESSION

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SB 153 Trade and commerce; digital signatures.

Introduced by: Patricia S. Ticer | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Trade and commerce; digital signatures. Repeals the second enactment of Chapter 917 of the 1997 Acts of Assembly, which provided that the Council on Information Management (CIM) adopt final regulations on the use of digital signatures by September 1, 1998. The bill: (i) strikes CIM's authority to promulgate regulations to implement state agencies' and localities' use of digital signatures in favor of setting out criteria in the bill; (ii) changes the term "digital" to "electronic" to encompass signatures created by any electronic method; (iii) makes other necessary definitional changes; (iv) sets out criteria that a trier of fact must assess to determine the evidentiary weight to be given a particular electronic signature; and (v) sets out criteria that state agencies and localities must follow to use electronic signatures (which are the same criteria that a trier of fact must assess). The bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Technology and Science.


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