Mississippi House Bill 1268 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on February 23 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-02-23 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Create The "fiduciary Access To Digital Assets And Digital Accounts Act"; To Create Definitions; To Provide That This Act Applies To A Grant Of Authority To A Fiduciary Over A Digital Account Or A Digital Asset; To Provide That Digital Assets And Digital Accounts Of An Employer Regularly Used By An Employee In The Usual Course Of Business Are Not Subject To The Provisions Of This Act; To List The Duties And Limitations Of A Person That Electronically Stores Digital Assets Or Digital Accounts Of An Account Holder Or Otherwise Has Control Over Digital Assets Or Digital Accounts Of The Account Holder; To Provide That A Fiduciary May Exercise Control Over Any And All Rights In Digital Assets And Digital Accounts Of An Account Holder, To The Extent Authorized By State Law, Federal Law, Regulations Or Any End User License Agreement; To Provide That A Fiduciary's Authority Over Digital Assets Or Digital Accounts Of An Account Holder Shall Be The Same As The Account Holder; To Amend Sections 87-3-7, 81-5-34, 87-3-109 And 91-8-303, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform To This Act; And For Related Purposes.

Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets and Digital Accounts Act; create.

Rep. John Lamar [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-23	House	Died In Committee
2016-02-08	House	Referred To Judiciary A

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2016/pdf/history/HB/HB1268.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2016/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1268IN.htm