Connecticut 2023 2023 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB01103 Comm Sub / Bill

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General Assembly  Substitute Bill No. 1103  
January Session, 2023 
 
 
 
 
 
AN ACT CONCERNING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AUTOMATED 
DECISION-MAKING AND PERSONAL DATA PRIVACY.  
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
 
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2023) (a) As used in this section: 1 
(1) "Artificial Intelligence Officer" means the employee designated 2 
pursuant to subsection (b) of this section; 3 
(2) "Automated decision support system" means any automated 4 
decision system that provides material information for the purpose of 5 
informing a conclusion, decision or judgment made by an individual 6 
on behalf of a state agency; 7 
(3) "Automated decision system" means any machine-based system 8 
or application, including, but not limited to, any such system or 9 
application that is derived from machine learning, statistics or other 10 
data processing or artificial intelligence techniques, that is developed, 11 
procured or utilized to make, inform or materially support a critical 12 
decision made by a state agency, but does not include passive 13 
computing infrastructure; 14 
(4) "Automated final decision system" means any automated 15 
decision system that makes a final conclusion, decision or judgment on 16 
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acting on behalf of the state agency; 18 
(5) "Automated system" means any automated decision support 19 
system, automated decision system or automated final decision 20 
system; 21 
(6) "Automated systems procedures" means the procedures 22 
developed and adopted pursuant to this section; 23 
(7) "Connecticut Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board" means the 24 
board established in section 2 of this act; 25 
(8) "Critical decision" means any decision or judgment that has any 26 
legal, material or similarly significant effect on an individual's life 27 
concerning access to, or the cost, terms or availability of, (A) education 28 
and vocational training, including, but not limited to, assessment, 29 
accreditation or certification, (B) employment, worker management or 30 
self-employment, (C) essential utilities such as electricity, heat, water, 31 
Internet or telecommunications access or transportation, (D) family 32 
planning services, including, but not limited to, adoption services or 33 
reproductive services, (E) financial services, including, but not limited 34 
to, any financial service provided by a mortgage company, (F) services 35 
from a creditor or mortgage broker, (G) health care, including, but not 36 
limited to, mental health care, dental care or vision care, (H) housing 37 
or lodging, including, but not limited to, any rental, short-term 38 
housing or lodging, (I) legal services, including, but not limited to, 39 
private mediation or arbitration, (J) government benefits, or (K) public 40 
services; 41 
(9) "Passive computing infrastructure" means any intermediary 42 
technology, including, but not limited to, web hosting, domain 43 
registration, networking, caching, data storage or cybersecurity 44 
technology, that does not influence or determine the outcome of a 45 
decision, make or aid in making a decision, inform policy 46 
implementation or collect data or observations;  47 
(10) "State agency" means any department, board, commission, 48  Substitute Bill No. 1103 
 
 
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council, institution, office, constituent unit of the state system of higher 49 
education, technical education and career school or other agency in the 50 
executive, legislative or judicial branch of state government; and 51 
(11) "Trade secret" has the same meaning as provided in section 35-52 
51 of the general statutes. 53 
(b) Not later than October 1, 2023, the Secretary of the Office of 54 
Policy and Management shall designate an employee of the Office of 55 
Policy and Management to serve as the Artificial Intelligence Officer. 56 
Such employee shall have: (1) Extensive knowledge concerning 57 
automated systems and artificial intelligence analysis, governance, 58 
principles, practices, technology, terminology and trends; and (2) 59 
experience in administration, planning, policy development, project 60 
management and service coordination. 61 
(c) The Artificial Intelligence Officer shall be responsible for 62 
performing said officer's duties as set forth in this section. The 63 
Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management may contract with a 64 
third party, if said secretary deems it necessary, to assist the Artificial 65 
Intelligence Officer in performing said officer's duties under this 66 
section. 67 
(d) Not later than December 31, 2023, and every two years 68 
thereafter, the Artificial Intelligence Officer shall, in consultation with 69 
the state agency data officers and state agency heads, develop and 70 
adopt automated systems procedures for use by state agencies in 71 
developing, procuring and utilizing automated systems for critical 72 
decisions. In developing such automated systems procedures, the 73 
Artificial Intelligence Officer shall consider imposing the following 74 
safeguards, where appropriate, to mitigate risk: (1) Requiring state 75 
agencies to develop, procure and utilize automated systems in a 76 
manner that is consistent with national and international standards; (2) 77 
ensuring that state agencies develop, procure and utilize automated 78 
systems in a manner that is consistent with state and federal laws, 79 
including, but not limited to, state and federal laws prohibiting 80  Substitute Bill No. 1103 
 
 
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discrimination and addressing privacy, civil rights and civil liberties; 81 
(3) ensuring that no automated system disproportionately and 82 
unlawfully impacts any individual or group of individuals on the basis 83 
of any actual or perceived differentiating characteristic, including, but 84 
not limited to, age, genetic information, color, ethnicity, race, creed, 85 
religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender identity or expression, 86 
sexual orientation, marital status, familial status, pregnancy, veteran 87 
status, disability or lawful source of income; (4) ensuring that any 88 
benefits that a state agency gains by utilizing an automated system 89 
outweigh any risks inherent in utilizing the automated system; (5) 90 
ensuring that each automated system is applied and utilized in a 91 
manner that is consistent with the use cases for which such automated 92 
system was trained in order to ensure accuracy, reliability and efficacy; 93 
(6) ensuring that each automated system is safe, secure and resilient, 94 
including, but not limited to, in circumstances in which such 95 
automated system is confronted with any systematic vulnerability, 96 
adversarial manipulation or other malicious exploitation; (7) ensuring 97 
that the operations of, and outcomes generated by, an automated 98 
system are sufficiently understandable by subject matter experts and 99 
users; (8) ensuring that individual roles and responsibilities are clearly 100 
defined, understood and appropriately assigned in a manner that is 101 
consistent with the purpose for which each use of an automated 102 
system is intended; (9) ensuring that the development, procurement 103 
and utilization of an automated system is, and the inputs and outputs 104 
for applications of an automated system are, documented and 105 
traceable; (10) ensuring that the design, development, procurement 106 
and monitoring of an automated system is, and intended purposes of 107 
an automated system are, appropriately transparent to the public 108 
under uniform protocols and public access requirements concerning 109 
releases and posting of appropriate information by each state agency 110 
utilizing the automated system; (11) ensuring that data inputs utilized 111 
by each automated system are appropriately transparent under the 112 
Freedom of Information Act, as defined in section 1-200 of the general 113 
statutes; and (12) ensuring that each state agency that utilizes an 114 
automated system (A) examines the automated system, at least once 115  Substitute Bill No. 1103 
 
 
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every two years, to ensure compliance with such automated systems 116 
procedures, (B) supersedes, disengages and deactivates any 117 
application of the automated system that demonstrates performance 118 
that is, or outcomes that are, inconsistent with such automated systems 119 
procedures or any other provision of this section, (C) is appropriately 120 
transparent in disclosing any information that is relevant to such state 121 
agency's use of the automated system, (D) implements safeguards to 122 
ensure that the automated system is properly applied, utilized and 123 
functioning, and (E) provides appropriate training to all personnel 124 
responsible for developing, procuring or utilizing the automated 125 
system. 126 
(e) No state agency shall develop, procure or utilize any automated 127 
system on or after January 1, 2024, unless such automated system 128 
satisfies the requirements established in the automated systems 129 
procedures. 130 
(f) Not later than November 1, 2023, and every two years thereafter, 131 
the Artificial Intelligence Officer shall submit a preliminary draft of the 132 
automated systems procedures to the Connecticut Artificial 133 
Intelligence Advisory Board. The Connecticut Artificial Intelligence 134 
Advisory Board shall hold a public hearing on such draft automated 135 
systems procedures, and submit any suggested revisions to the 136 
Artificial Intelligence Officer, not later than thirty days after said board 137 
receives such draft automated systems procedures. 138 
(g) After the public hearing held pursuant to subsection (f) of this 139 
section and, if applicable, receiving any recommended revisions from 140 
the Connecticut Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board, the Artificial 141 
Intelligence Officer shall finalize the automated systems procedures 142 
and submit such final automated systems procedures to said board. 143 
The Artificial Intelligence Officer shall send a copy of the final 144 
automated systems procedures to all state agency data officers, and the 145 
Office of Policy and Management shall post such final automated 146 
systems procedures on said office's Internet web site.  147  Substitute Bill No. 1103 
 
 
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(h) Not later than December 31, 2024, and every two years 148 
thereafter, each state agency shall: (1) Conduct an inventory of the 149 
automated systems that are in use by such state agency, which 150 
inventory shall be in a form prescribed by the Artificial Intelligence 151 
Officer; and (2) submit such inventory to said officer and the 152 
Connecticut Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board. The Office of Policy 153 
and Management shall make each such inventory available to the 154 
public on said office's Internet web site. 155 
(i) The Artificial Intelligence Officer shall be subject to the Freedom 156 
of Information Act, as defined in section 1-200 of the general statutes. 157 
(j) No provision of this section shall be construed to: (1) Require 158 
disclosure of any trade secret; (2) abrogate any work product 159 
protection; or (3) restrict the Artificial Intelligence Officer's or any state 160 
agency's ability to (A) conduct any internal research to develop, 161 
improve or repair any product, service or technology, (B) prevent, 162 
detect, protect against or respond to, or investigate, report or prosecute 163 
any person responsible for, any security incident, identity theft, fraud, 164 
harassment, malicious or deceptive activity or illegal activity, or (C) 165 
preserve the integrity or security of any system. 166 
Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2023) (a) As used in this section: 167 
(1) "Automated system" has the same meaning as provided in 168 
section 1 of this act; 169 
(2) "State agency" has the same meaning as provided in section 1 of 170 
this act; and 171 
(3) "Trade secret" has the same meaning as provided in section 35-51 172 
of the general statutes. 173 
(b) There is established the Connecticut Artificial Intelligence 174 
Advisory Board, which shall be part of the Legislative Department. 175 
(c) The board shall consist of the following members: (1) Two 176  Substitute Bill No. 1103 
 
 
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appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives; (2) two 177 
appointed by the president pro tempore of the Senate; (3) two 178 
appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives; (4) 179 
two appointed by the minority leader of the Senate; (5) the House 180 
chairperson of the joint standing committee of the General Assembly 181 
having cognizance of matters relating to consumer protection, or one 182 
appointed by such chairperson; and (6) the Senate chairperson of the 183 
joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance 184 
of matters relating to consumer protection, or one appointed by such 185 
chairperson. All appointed members shall have professional 186 
experience or academic qualifications in matters pertaining to 187 
automated systems, artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence 188 
governance and accountability or other related fields. Additional 189 
nonvoting ex-officio members shall include the following officials, or 190 
their designees: The Commissioner of Administrative Services, the 191 
Chief Data Officer, the executive director of the Freedom of 192 
Information Commission, the executive director of the Commission on 193 
Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity, the Attorney 194 
General, the Chief Court Administrator, the Treasurer and the 195 
Comptroller. The speaker of the House of Representatives and the 196 
president pro tempore of the Senate shall each select a co-chair of the 197 
board from among the members of the board. 198 
(d) All initial appointments to the board shall be made not later than 199 
September 1, 2023. The terms of the appointed members shall be 200 
coterminous with the terms of the appointing authority for each 201 
member. Any vacancy shall be filled by the appointing authority. Any 202 
vacancy occurring other than by expiration of a term shall be filled for 203 
the balance of the unexpired term. A member of the board may serve 204 
more than one term. The co-chairs shall jointly schedule the first 205 
meeting of the board, which shall be held not later than October 1, 206 
2023. 207 
(e) The administrative staff of the joint standing committee of the 208 
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protection shall serve as administrative staff of the board. 210 
(f) The board shall have the following powers and duties: (1) To 211 
advise state agencies concerning artificial intelligence and automated 212 
systems policy, including, but not limited to, best practices for the use 213 
of artificial intelligence and automated systems; (2) to perform the 214 
duties set forth in subsections (f) and (g) of section 1 of this act; (3) to 215 
issue reports and recommendations to the General Assembly in 216 
accordance with section 11-4a of the general statutes; (4) upon the 217 
request of at least two members of the board, to request that any state 218 
agency data officer or state agency head appear before the board to 219 
answer questions; (5) to request from any state agency such assistance 220 
and data as necessary and available to carry out the purposes of this 221 
section; (6) to make recommendations to the legislative leaders 222 
concerning artificial intelligence and automated systems policy; and (7) 223 
to establish bylaws to govern the board's procedures. 224 
(g) The board shall meet at least twice a year and may meet at such 225 
other times as deemed necessary by the co-chairs of the board jointly 226 
or by a majority of the members of the board. 227 
(h) The board shall be subject to the Freedom of Information Act, as 228 
defined in section 1-200 of the general statutes. 229 
(i) No provision of this section shall be construed to: (1) Require 230 
disclosure of any trade secret; (2) abrogate any work product 231 
protection; or (3) restrict the board's or any state agency's ability to (A) 232 
conduct any internal research to develop, improve or repair any 233 
product, service or technology, (B) prevent, detect, protect against or 234 
respond to, or investigate, report or prosecute any person responsible 235 
for, any security incident, identity theft, fraud, harassment, malicious 236 
or deceptive activity or illegal activity, or (C) preserve the integrity or 237 
security of any system. 238 
Sec. 3. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2023) (a) As used in this section: 239 
(1) "Artificial Intelligence Implementation Officer" means the 240  Substitute Bill No. 1103 
 
 
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employee designated pursuant to subsection (b) of this section; 241 
(2) "Automated system" has the same meaning as provided in 242 
section 1 of this act; 243 
(3) "Automated systems procedures" has the same meaning as 244 
provided in section 1 of this act; 245 
(4) "State agency" has the same meaning as provided in section 1 of 246 
this act; and 247 
(5) "Trade secret" has the same meaning as provided in section 35-51 248 
of the general statutes. 249 
(b) Not later than October 1, 2023, the Commissioner of 250 
Administrative Services shall designate an employee of the 251 
Department of Administrative Services to serve as the Artificial 252 
Intelligence Implementation Officer. Such employee shall have: (1) 253 
Extensive knowledge concerning automated systems and artificial 254 
intelligence analysis, governance, principles, practices, technology, 255 
terminology and trends; and (2) experience in administration, 256 
planning, policy development, project management and service 257 
coordination. 258 
(c) The Artificial Intelligence Implementation Officer shall be 259 
responsible for performing said officer's duties under this section and 260 
section 4 of this act. The Commissioner of Administrative Services may 261 
contract with a third party, if the commissioner deems it necessary, to 262 
assist the Artificial Intelligence Implementation Officer in performing 263 
said officer's duties under this section and section 4 of this act. 264 
(d) Any state agency that intends to develop, procure or utilize any 265 
automated system on or after January 1, 2024, shall provide to the 266 
Artificial Intelligence Implementation Officer, in a form and manner 267 
prescribed by said officer, at least sixty days' advance written notice 268 
disclosing that such state agency intends to develop, procure or utilize 269 
such automated system. 270  Substitute Bill No. 1103 
 
 
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(e) Not later than ninety days after the Artificial Intelligence 271 
Implementation Officer receives any notice submitted pursuant to 272 
subsection (d) of this section, said officer may review such notice, and 273 
any available documentation concerning the operation of the 274 
automated system that is the subject of such notice and any related 275 
safeguards, to determine whether developing, procuring or utilizing 276 
such automated system would satisfy the requirements established in 277 
the automated systems procedures. If the Artificial Intelligence 278 
Implementation Officer does not make any determination during such 279 
ninety-day period, the state agency that submitted such notice may 280 
develop, procure or utilize such automated system. 281 
(f) On and after July 1, 2025, the Artificial Intelligence 282 
Implementation Officer: 283 
(1) May, in said officer's discretion, periodically reevaluate any 284 
automated system that is developed, procured or utilized by any state 285 
agency to ensure that such automated system satisfies the 286 
requirements established in the automated systems procedures; 287 
(2) Shall, at least biennially, reevaluate any automated system that is 288 
developed, procured or utilized by any state agency if said officer, in 289 
said officer's discretion, determines that such automated system poses 290 
any significant risk; and 291 
(3) May take any action not set forth in subdivision (1) or (2) of this 292 
subsection that said officer, in said officer's discretion, may deem 293 
appropriate to carry out the purposes of this subsection. 294 
(g) If the Artificial Intelligence Implementation Officer determines 295 
that any automated system that is developed, procured or utilized by 296 
any state agency does not satisfy the requirements established in the 297 
automated systems procedures, said officer shall direct such state 298 
agency to immediately cease development, procurement or utilization 299 
of such automated system. 300 
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subject to the Freedom of Information Act, as defined in section 1-200 302 
of the general statutes. 303 
(i) No provision of this section shall be construed to: (1) Require 304 
disclosure of any trade secret; (2) abrogate any work product 305 
protection; or (3) restrict the Artificial Intelligence Implementation 306 
Officer's or any state agency's ability to (A) conduct any internal 307 
research to develop, improve or repair any product, service or 308 
technology, (B) prevent, detect, protect against or respond to, or 309 
investigate, report or prosecute any person responsible for, any 310 
security incident, identity theft, fraud, harassment, malicious or 311 
deceptive activity or illegal activity, or (C) preserve the integrity or 312 
security of any system. 313 
Sec. 4. (Effective July 1, 2023) (a) As used in this section: 314 
(1) "Artificial Intelligence Implementation Officer" has the same 315 
meaning as provided in section 3 of this act; 316 
(2) "Automated decision support system" has the same meaning as 317 
provided in section 1 of this act; 318 
(3) "Automated final decision system" has the same meaning as 319 
provided in section 1 of this act; 320 
(4) "Automated system" has the same meaning as provided in 321 
section 1 of this act; 322 
(5) "Critical decision" has the same meaning as provided in section 1 323 
of this act; 324 
(6) "State agency" has the same meaning as provided in section 1 of 325 
this act; and 326 
(7) "Trade secret" has the same meaning as provided in section 35-51 327 
of the general statutes. 328 
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Implementation Officer shall inventory all automated systems that are 330 
in use by state agencies for critical decisions. Such inventory shall 331 
include the following information for each such automated system: 332 
(1) The name of such automated system and the vendor, if any, that 333 
provided such automated system; and 334 
(2) A description of the general capabilities of such automated 335 
system, including, but not limited to: 336 
(A) Any reasonably foreseeable capability of such automated system 337 
that is outside of any state agency's intended use of such automated 338 
system; 339 
(B) Whether such automated system was used, or may be used, to 340 
independently make, inform or materially support a conclusion, 341 
decision or judgment and the resulting impact on residents of this 342 
state; 343 
(C) Each type of data input that was used by such automated 344 
system, how such inputted data was collected, generated or processed 345 
and the type or types of data such automated system generated or is 346 
reasonably likely to generate; 347 
(D) Whether such automated system (i) discriminated against any 348 
individual or group of individuals in violation of state or federal law, 349 
or (ii) disproportionately and unlawfully impacted any individual or 350 
group of individuals on the basis of any actual or perceived 351 
differentiating characteristic, including, but not limited to, age, genetic 352 
information, color, ethnicity, race, creed, religion, national origin, 353 
ancestry, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital 354 
status, familial status, pregnancy, veteran status, disability or lawful 355 
source of income; 356 
(E) A description of the purpose and intended use of such 357 
automated system, including, but not limited to, (i) which decision or 358 
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materially support, (ii) whether such automated system is an 360 
automated final decision system or automated decision support 361 
system, and (iii) the benefit or benefits such automated system was 362 
purported to confer and any data or research necessary to determine 363 
whether such automated system conferred such purported benefit or 364 
benefits; and 365 
(F) How the data used or generated by such automated system was 366 
processed and stored, whether the state agency or agencies that 367 
developed, procured or utilized such automated system intend to 368 
share access to such automated system or data with any other person, 369 
the name of such person and why such state agency or agencies intend 370 
to share such access or data with such person. 371 
(c) The Artificial Intelligence Implementation Officer shall, as part of 372 
the inventory performed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, 373 
determine whether any automated system included in such inventory: 374 
(1) Infringed any legal right of any resident of this state; and 375 
(2) Was publicly disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act, as 376 
defined in section 1-200 of the general statutes, in an appropriately 377 
transparent manner. 378 
(d) No provision of this section shall be construed to: (1) Require 379 
disclosure of any trade secret; (2) abrogate any work product 380 
protection; or (3) restrict the Artificial Intelligence Implementation 381 
Officer's or any state agency's ability to (A) conduct any internal 382 
research to develop, improve or repair any product, service or 383 
technology, (B) prevent, detect, protect against or respond to, or 384 
investigate, report or prosecute any person responsible for, any 385 
security incident, identity theft, fraud, harassment, malicious or 386 
deceptive activity or illegal activity, or (C) preserve the integrity or 387 
security of any system. 388 
(e) Not later than December 31, 2024, the Artificial Intelligence 389 
Implementation Officer shall prepare and submit a report, in 390  Substitute Bill No. 1103 
 
 
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accordance with section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint 391 
standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of 392 
matters relating to consumer protection. Such report shall contain the 393 
inventory prepared pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. 394 
Sec. 5. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2023) Notwithstanding any provision 395 
of the general statutes, no state contracting agency shall enter into any 396 
contract with a business on or after July 1, 2023, unless such contract 397 
contains a provision requiring the business to comply with all 398 
applicable provisions of sections 42-515 to 42-525, inclusive, of the 399 
general statutes. For the purposes of this section, "business", "contract" 400 
and "state contracting agency" have the same meanings as provided in 401 
section 4e-1 of the general statutes. 402 
Sec. 6. Subsection (a) of section 42-517 of the general statutes is 403 
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 404 
1, 2023): 405 
(a) The provisions of sections 42-515 to 42-525, inclusive, do not 406 
apply to any: (1) Body, authority, board, bureau, commission, district 407 
or agency of this state or of any political subdivision of this state; (2) 408 
nonprofit organization; (3) institution of higher education; (4) national 409 
securities association that is registered under 15 USC 78o-3 of the 410 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time; (5) 411 
financial institution or data subject to Title V of the Gramm-Leach-412 
Bliley Act, 15 USC 6801 et seq.; [or] (6) covered entity or business 413 
associate, as defined in 45 CFR 160.103; or (7) air carrier, as defined in 414 
49 USC 40102, as amended from time to time, and regulated under the 415 
Federal Aviation Act of 1958, 49 USC 40101 et seq., and the Airline 416 
Deregulation Act, 49 USC 41713, as said acts may be amended from 417 
time to time. 418 
Sec. 7. Subsection (a) of section 42-520 of the general statutes is 419 
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 420 
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(a) A controller shall: (1) Limit the collection of personal data to 422 
what is adequate, relevant and reasonably necessary in relation to the 423 
purposes for which such data is processed, as disclosed to the 424 
consumer; (2) except as otherwise provided in sections 42-515 to 42-425 
525, inclusive, not process personal data for purposes that are neither 426 
reasonably necessary to, nor compatible with, the disclosed purposes 427 
for which such personal data is processed, as disclosed to the 428 
consumer, unless the controller obtains the consumer's consent; (3) 429 
establish, implement and maintain reasonable administrative, technical 430 
and physical data security practices to protect the confidentiality, 431 
integrity and accessibility of personal data appropriate to the volume 432 
and nature of the personal data at issue; (4) not process sensitive data 433 
concerning a consumer without obtaining the consumer's consent, or, 434 
in the case of the processing of sensitive data concerning a known 435 
child, without processing such data in accordance with COPPA; (5) not 436 
process personal data in violation of the laws of this state and federal 437 
laws that prohibit unlawful discrimination against consumers; (6) 438 
provide an effective mechanism for a consumer to revoke the 439 
consumer's consent under this section that is at least as easy as the 440 
mechanism by which the consumer provided the consumer's consent 441 
and, upon revocation of such consent, cease to process the data as soon 442 
as practicable, but not later than fifteen days after the receipt of such 443 
request; and (7) not process the personal data of a consumer for 444 
purposes of targeted advertising, or sell the consumer's personal data 445 
without the consumer's consent, under circumstances where a 446 
controller has actual knowledge, [and] or wilfully disregards, that the 447 
consumer is at least thirteen years of age but younger than sixteen 448 
years of age. A controller shall not discriminate against a consumer for 449 
exercising any of the consumer rights contained in sections 42-515 to 450 
42-525, inclusive, including denying goods or services, charging 451 
different prices or rates for goods or services or providing a different 452 
level of quality of goods or services to the consumer. 453 
Sec. 8. (Effective from passage) (a) There is established a task force to 454 
study artificial intelligence. The task force shall (1) develop, and make 455  Substitute Bill No. 1103 
 
 
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recommendations concerning adoption of, an artificial intelligence bill 456 
of rights based on the "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights" published by 457 
the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and (2) 458 
study the feasibility of establishing, and make recommendations 459 
concerning the establishment of, a department of artificial intelligence 460 
enablement to assist state agencies and municipalities with ethically 461 
implementing artificial intelligence technologies. 462 
(b) The task force shall consist of the following members: 463 
(1) Two appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives; 464 
(2) Two appointed by the president pro tempore of the Senate; 465 
(3) One appointed by the majority leader of the House of 466 
Representatives; 467 
(4) One appointed by the majority leader of the Senate; 468 
(5) One appointed by the minority leader of the House of 469 
Representatives; 470 
(6) One appointed by the minority leader of the Senate; 471 
(7) The Commissioner of Administrative Services, or the 472 
commissioner's designee; and 473 
(8) Two appointed by the Governor. 474 
(c) Any member of the task force appointed under subdivision (1), 475 
(2), (3), (4), (5) or (6) of subsection (b) of this section may be a member 476 
of the General Assembly. 477 
(d) All initial appointments to the task force shall be made not later 478 
than thirty days after the effective date of this section. Any vacancy 479 
shall be filled by the appointing authority. 480 
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pro tempore of the Senate shall select the chairpersons of the task force 482 
from among the members of the task force. Such chairpersons shall 483 
schedule the first meeting of the task force, which shall be held not 484 
later than sixty days after the effective date of this section. 485 
(f) The administrative staff of the joint standing committee of the 486 
General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to consumer 487 
protection shall serve as administrative staff of the task force. 488 
(g) Not later than January 1, 2024, the task force shall submit a 489 
report on its findings and recommendations to the joint standing 490 
committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters 491 
relating to consumer protection, in accordance with the provisions of 492 
section 11-4a of the general statutes. The task force shall terminate on 493 
the date that it submits such report or January 1, 2024, whichever is 494 
later. 495 
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following 
sections: 
 
Section 1 July 1, 2023 New section 
Sec. 2 July 1, 2023 New section 
Sec. 3 July 1, 2023 New section 
Sec. 4 July 1, 2023 New section 
Sec. 5 July 1, 2023 New section 
Sec. 6 July 1, 2023 42-517(a) 
Sec. 7 July 1, 2023 42-520(a) 
Sec. 8 from passage New section 
 
Statement of Legislative Commissioners:   
In Section 1(c), "said secretary" was substituted for "the commissioner" 
for accuracy; in Section 1(d)(3), "disproportionately and unlawfully" 
was substituted for "unlawfully and disproportionately" for internal 
consistency; Section 1(d)(10) was redrafted for clarity; in Section 2(f)(3), 
"to the General Assembly" was added after "recommendations" for 
clarity; in Section 2(f)(4), "that" was added after "request" for clarity; in 
Section 2(g), "jointly" was moved from after "as" to after "board" for 
clarity; and in Section 8(a)(2), "to ethically implement" was changed to 
"with ethically implementing" for clarity.  Substitute Bill No. 1103 
 
 
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GL Joint Favorable Subst.