Bill > H171

This bill aims to protect the privacy of individuals and organizations by addressing the handling of hard drives in leased office equipment. The key provisions are: 1. It defines important terms such as "hard drive", "lessee", "lessor", and "office equipment" to establish the scope of the bill. 2. For leased office equipment in the private sector, the lessor must allow the lessee to purchase and keep the hard drives at the end of the lease, with the lessor able to charge the lessee for the cost of replacing the hard drives. 3. For leased office equipment in the public sector, the lessor must also allow the lessee to purchase and keep the hard drives at the end of the lease, with the lessee responsible for either safely storing the information on the hard drives or destroying the hard drives. The overall purpose of this bill is to ensure that sensitive information stored on hard drives in leased office equipment is properly handled and not left vulnerable when the lease ends.

Labor and Employment

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H171