Bill Text: IL SB2301 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends the Personal Information Protection Act. Provides that, after a breach of security of a State agency that collects personal information concerning a State resident, the agency must, in addition to notifying the resident of the breach, offer free credit monitoring to the affected residents for one calendar year. Provides that the credit monitoring may be provided by the agency, by another State agency, or by a third party provider. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB2301 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB2301-Introduced.html


101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB2301

Introduced 11/12/2019, by Sen. Dan McConchie

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
815 ILCS 530/12

Amends the Personal Information Protection Act. Provides that, after a breach of security of a State agency that collects personal information concerning a State resident, the agency must, in addition to notifying the resident of the breach, offer free credit monitoring to the affected residents for one calendar year. Provides that the credit monitoring may be provided by the agency, by another State agency, or by a third party provider. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning business.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Personal Information Protection Act is
5amended by changing Section 12 as follows:
6 (815 ILCS 530/12)
7 Sec. 12. Notice of breach; State agency.
8 (a) Any State agency that collects personal information
9concerning an Illinois resident shall notify the resident at no
10charge that there has been a breach of the security of the
11system data or written material following discovery or
12notification of the breach. The disclosure notification shall
13be made in the most expedient time possible and without
14unreasonable delay, consistent with any measures necessary to
15determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable
16integrity, security, and confidentiality of the data system.
17The disclosure notification to an Illinois resident shall
18include, but need not be limited to information as follows:
19 (1) With respect to personal information defined in
20 Section 5 in paragraph (1) of the definition of "personal
21 information":
22 (i) the toll-free numbers and addresses for
23 consumer reporting agencies;

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1 (ii) the toll-free number, address, and website
2 address for the Federal Trade Commission; and
3 (iii) a statement that the individual can obtain
4 information from these sources about fraud alerts and
5 security freezes.
6 (2) With respect to personal information as defined in
7 Section 5 in paragraph (2) of the definition of "personal
8 information", notice may be provided in electronic or other
9 form directing the Illinois resident whose personal
10 information has been breached to promptly change his or her
11 user name or password and security question or answer, as
12 applicable, or to take other steps appropriate to protect
13 all online accounts for which the resident uses the same
14 user name or email address and password or security
15 question and answer.
16 The notification shall not, however, include information
17concerning the number of Illinois residents affected by the
18breach.
19 (a-5) The notification to an Illinois resident required by
20subsection (a) of this Section may be delayed if an appropriate
21law enforcement agency determines that notification will
22interfere with a criminal investigation and provides the State
23agency with a written request for the delay. However, the State
24agency must notify the Illinois resident as soon as
25notification will no longer interfere with the investigation.
26 (b) For purposes of this Section, notice to residents may

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1be provided by one of the following methods:
2 (1) written notice;
3 (2) electronic notice, if the notice provided is
4 consistent with the provisions regarding electronic
5 records and signatures for notices legally required to be
6 in writing as set forth in Section 7001 of Title 15 of the
7 United States Code; or
8 (3) substitute notice, if the State agency
9 demonstrates that the cost of providing notice would exceed
10 $250,000 or that the affected class of subject persons to
11 be notified exceeds 500,000, or the State agency does not
12 have sufficient contact information. Substitute notice
13 shall consist of all of the following: (i) email notice if
14 the State agency has an email address for the subject
15 persons; (ii) conspicuous posting of the notice on the
16 State agency's web site page if the State agency maintains
17 one; and (iii) notification to major statewide media.
18 (c) Notwithstanding subsection (b), a State agency that
19maintains its own notification procedures as part of an
20information security policy for the treatment of personal
21information and is otherwise consistent with the timing
22requirements of this Act shall be deemed in compliance with the
23notification requirements of this Section if the State agency
24notifies subject persons in accordance with its policies in the
25event of a breach of the security of the system data or written
26material.

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1 (d) If a State agency is required to notify more than 1,000
2persons of a breach of security pursuant to this Section, the
3State agency shall also notify, without unreasonable delay, all
4consumer reporting agencies that compile and maintain files on
5consumers on a nationwide basis, as defined by 15 U.S.C.
6Section 1681a(p), of the timing, distribution, and content of
7the notices. Nothing in this subsection (d) shall be construed
8to require the State agency to provide to the consumer
9reporting agency the names or other personal identifying
10information of breach notice recipients.
11 (e) Notice to Attorney General. Any State agency that
12suffers a single breach of the security of the data concerning
13the personal information of more than 250 Illinois residents
14shall provide notice to the Attorney General of the breach,
15including:
16 (A) The types of personal information compromised in
17 the breach.
18 (B) The number of Illinois residents affected by such
19 incident at the time of notification.
20 (C) Any steps the State agency has taken or plans to
21 take relating to notification of the breach to consumers.
22 (D) The date and timeframe of the breach, if known at
23 the time notification is provided.
24 Such notification must be made within 45 days of the State
25agency's discovery of the security breach or when the State
26agency provides any notice to consumers required by this

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1Section, whichever is sooner, unless the State agency has good
2cause for reasonable delay to determine the scope of the breach
3and restore the integrity, security, and confidentiality of the
4data system, or when law enforcement requests in writing to
5withhold disclosure of some or all of the information required
6in the notification under this Section. If the date or
7timeframe of the breach is unknown at the time the notice is
8sent to the Attorney General, the State agency shall send the
9Attorney General the date or timeframe of the breach as soon as
10possible.
11 (f) In addition to the report required by Section 25 of
12this Act, if the State agency that suffers a breach determines
13the identity of the actor who perpetrated the breach, then the
14State agency shall report this information, within 5 days after
15the determination, to the General Assembly, provided that such
16report would not jeopardize the security of Illinois residents
17or compromise a security investigation.
18 (g) A State agency directly responsible to the Governor
19that has been subject to or has reason to believe it has been
20subject to a single breach of the security of the data
21concerning the personal information of more than 250 Illinois
22residents or an instance of aggravated computer tampering, as
23defined in Section 17-53 of the Criminal Code of 2012, shall
24notify the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer of
25the Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology and the
26Attorney General regarding the breach or instance of aggravated

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1computer tampering. The notification shall be made without
2delay, but no later than 72 hours following the discovery of
3the incident.
4 Upon receiving notification of such incident, the Chief
5Information Security Officer shall without delay take
6necessary and reasonable actions to:
7 (i) assess the incident to determine the potential
8 impact on the overall confidentiality, security, and
9 availability of State of Illinois data and information
10 systems;
11 (ii) ensure the security incident is contained to
12 minimize additional impact and risk to the State;
13 (iii) identify the root cause of the incident;
14 (iv) provide recommendations to the impacted State
15 agency to assist with eradicating the threat and removing
16 and mitigating any vulnerabilities to reduce the risk of
17 further compromise; and
18 (v) assist the impacted State agency in any necessary
19 recovery efforts to ensure effective return to a state of
20 normal operations.
21 The Department of Innovation and Technology may agree to
22submit the reports required in subsections (e) and (f) of this
23Section and in Section 25 in lieu of the impacted agency.
24 (h) Upon receiving notification from a State agency of a
25breach of personal information or from the Department of
26Innovation and Technology in lieu of the impacted agency, the

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1Attorney General may publish the name of the State agency that
2suffered the breach, the types of personal information
3compromised in the breach, and the date range of the breach.
4 (i) In addition to the notification requirements under
5subsection (a) of this Act, a State agency must offer, at no
6charge to the resident, credit monitoring for one calendar year
7to residents of the State whose personal information may have
8been made vulnerable by a breach in security. The credit
9monitoring may be provided by the agency, another State agency,
10or by a third party.
11(Source: P.A. 99-503, eff. 1-1-17; 100-412, eff. 8-25-17.)
12 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
13becoming law.
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