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Legislative Update

Electronic reporting of valuable metal purchases

February 22, 2019 Filed Under: Civil

The Senate Judiciary Committee heard Sen. Head’s SB 196 on electronic reporting of valuable metal purchases.  The bill does the following:

  • makes a metals business immune from civil liability arising from the disclosure of information concerning valuable metal purchases if the information is disclosed through a computer system breach and the breach is caused by a person other than, and without the knowledge or consent of, the metals business
  • makes it a Class A misdemeanor for a metals business to knowingly or intentionally fail to comply with record keeping or reporting requirements
  • makes it a Class A misdemeanor for a person to recklessly sell or attempt to sell stolen valuable metal to a metals business.

The committee amended the bill to remove the criminal provisions. Representatives from the scrap metal industry testified in support of the bill.  The amended bill passed 8-0.
Read the bill at http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2019/bills/senate/196

Filed Under: Civil Tagged With: immunity

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