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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
HOUSE BILL 2468 By: Lowe (Dick)
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to professions and occupations;
ensuring confidentiality of information relating to
the alarm and locksmith industry ; requiring custodian
to protect certain information; providing for notice
if confidential information is compromised;
prohibiting certain information from third parties;
providing for disciplinary action and civil
penalties; providing for codification; an d providing
an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1800.19 of Title 59, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. A licensee or public entity shall ensure the confidentiality
of information obtained from a client and shall not disclose,
release to any third-party entities, or distribute information
relating to the alarm industry or locksmith industry ,
notwithstanding emergency responders for dispatching purposes.
Information shall not be shared with, stored , or distributed by any
third party.
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B. Any person who is the custodian of confidential information
shall exercise due diligence on an ongoing basis to protect the
security of the confidential information including, but not limited
to, maintaining current technology to prevent unauthorized access to
computers, computer systems, software and computer networks;
maintaining adequate safeguards to ensure that confidential
information is only distributed to authorized individuals; and
conducting employee training in information security measures.
C. A person having custody of confidential information shall
notify a person if the person's confidential information has been
accessed by an unauthorized person or if there has been a breach of
the custodian's security measures which may have compromised the
security of the person 's confidential information.
D. Personal or busin ess information shall not be accessed by,
sold to or used by any third party without the written authorization
that specifically calls out such conformation of understanding of
that person or business.
E. Any person, licensee, public entity or third party licensee
that fails to comply with the requirements of this section shall be
deemed to be engaged in professional misconduct and is subject to
disciplinary action and civil penalties.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
58-1-5675 LRB 01/14/21