General Assembly Committee Bill No. 629
January Session, 2015 LCO No. 5031
*05031SB00629GL_*
Referred to Committee on GENERAL LAW
Introduced by:
(GL)
General Assembly
Committee Bill No. 629
January Session, 2015
LCO No. 5031
*05031SB00629GL_*
Referred to Committee on GENERAL LAW
Introduced by:
(GL)
AN ACT REQUIRING KILL SWITCHES FOR SMARTPHONES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2016) (a) As used in this section, "smartphone" means a cellular radio telephone or other mobile voice communications handset device that includes all of the following features: (1) A mobile operating system, (2) the capability to utilize mobile software applications, access and browse the Internet, utilize text messaging, utilize digital voice service and send and receive electronic mail, (3) wireless network connectivity, and (4) the capability of operating on a long-term evolution network or on any successor wireless data network communication standard.
(b) Each new model of a smartphone offered for retail sale in this state on and after July 1, 2016, shall include software or hardware, or a combination of both, that once initiated and successfully communicated by an authorized user, render inoperable, the essential features of the smartphone to an unauthorized user.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2016 New section
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
July 1, 2016
New section
Statement of Purpose:
To protect consumers who lose or have their smartphones stolen.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.
Co-Sponsors:
SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.
S.B. 629