Bill Text: IL SR0142 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Urges the United States government to address the issue of credit card data security breaches and to focus on increased accountability and higher security regarding credit card data used at retailers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-04-23 - Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Tabled Pursuant to Rule 5-4(a) [SR0142 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SR0142-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Urges the United States government to address the issue of credit card data security breaches and to focus on increased accountability and higher security regarding credit card data used at retailers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-04-23 - Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Tabled Pursuant to Rule 5-4(a) [SR0142 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SR0142-Introduced.html
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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, In late 2013, Target experienced a security data | ||||||
| 3 | breach that affected as many as 40 million people who used | ||||||
| 4 | their credit or debit cards at the retailer; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, In 2014, credit card data security breaches were | ||||||
| 6 | reported by retailers including, but not limited to: Neiman | ||||||
| 7 | Marcus, Sally Beauty, Michaels, P.F. Chang's China Bistro, | ||||||
| 8 | Albertson's and Supervalu, UPS, Dairy Queen, Goodwill | ||||||
| 9 | Industries, Home Depot, Jimmy John's, Kmart, Staples, and Bebe; | ||||||
| 10 | and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, On February 5, 2015, Anthem Inc., a health | ||||||
| 12 | insurer, announced that it experienced a cyber-data breach on | ||||||
| 13 | its database of 80 million records containing personal | ||||||
| 14 | information such as names, birth dates, addresses, and Social | ||||||
| 15 | Security numbers; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, On January 27, 2015, United States Representative | ||||||
| 17 | Gus Bilarikis of Florida stated in the United States House | ||||||
| 18 | Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade that a need | ||||||
| 19 | exists to ensure that merchants are appropriately protecting | ||||||
| 20 | consumers; and
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| 21 | WHEREAS, The Credit Union National Association has created | ||||||
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| 1 | a national action alert regarding data breaches, including a | ||||||
| 2 | website, StoptheDataBreaches.com; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, The Credit Union National Association urges | ||||||
| 4 | citizens to make their government officials and | ||||||
| 5 | representatives aware of the problem of data breaches; | ||||||
| 6 | therefore, be it
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| 7 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 8 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge the federal | ||||||
| 9 | government of the United States of America to address the issue | ||||||
| 10 | of data security breaches; and be it further
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| 11 | RESOLVED, That we urge the United States government to | ||||||
| 12 | focus on increased accountability and higher security | ||||||
| 13 | regarding both credit data used at retailers and personal | ||||||
| 14 | information data kept by any organization; and be it further
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| 15 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
| 16 | presented to the members of the Illinois congressional | ||||||
| 17 | delegation.
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