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State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-third Legislature

First Regular Session

2017

 

 

HOUSE BILL 2451

 

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 18‑522, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to government anti‑identification procedures.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 18-522, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE18-522.  Anti-identification procedures; passwords; data encryption

A.  A governmental agency shall develop and establish commercially reasonable procedures to ensure that entity identifying information or personal identifying information that is collected or obtained by the governmental agency is secure and cannot be accessed, viewed or acquired unless authorized by law.  Nothing in This article shall be construed to does not restrict, diminish or otherwise affect the provisions of title 39.

B.  The department of administration shall ensure that all state computers, and the department of education shall ensure that all school computers, use industry‑standard systems for verifying the following:

1.  That passwords are strong and regularly updated.

2.  That both entity identifying information and personal identifying information are secured against compromise and, if possible, encrypted. END_STATUTE