Bill Text: MO HB1020 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits employers from requiring current or prospective employees to provide specified information to gain access to the employee's account or profile on a social networking website

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-17 - Referred: Workforce Development and Workplace Safety(H) [HB1020 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2013-HB1020-Introduced.html

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FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1020

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE MCCANN BEATTY.

1960L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 285, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to employer's request for account information from a social networking website.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 285, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 285.603, to read as follows:

            285.603. 1. (1) It shall be unlawful for any employer to request or require any employee or prospective employee to provide any password or other related account information in order to gain access to the employee's or prospective employee's account or profile on a social networking website or to demand access in any manner to an employee's or prospective employee's account or profile on a social networking website.

            (2) Nothing in this subsection shall limit an employer's right to:

            (a) Promulgate and maintain lawful workplace policies governing the use of the employer's electronic equipment, including policies regarding internet use, social networking site use, and electronic mail use; and

            (b) Monitor usage of the employer's electronic equipment and the employer's electronic mail without requesting or requiring any employee or prospective employee to provide any password or other related account information in order to gain access to the employee's or prospective employee's account or profile on a social networking website.

            (3) Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit an employer from obtaining about a prospective employee or an employee information that is in the public domain or that is otherwise obtained in compliance with this section.

            2. For purposes of this section, "social networking website" means an internet-based service that allows individuals to:

            (1) Construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, created by the service;

            (2) Create a list of other users with whom they share a connection within the system; and

            (3) View and navigate their list of connections and those made by others within the system.

 

"Social networking website" shall not include electronic mail.

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