SB3042 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB094 18899 RSP 54343 b

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB3042

Introduced 1/20/2006, by Sen. Frank C. Watson - David Luechtefeld - Dave Syverson - Peter J. Roskam

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

New Act

Creates the Confidential Information Disposal Act. Provides that each State agency must shred, destroy, or otherwise render unintelligible any paper, memo, document, report, personal computer, floppy disk, CD, or other device containing confidential information prior to disposing of those items. Defines "State agency" and confidential information.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Confidential Information Disposal Act.

Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:

"State agency" means any officer, board, commission or agency created by the Constitution, whether in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch; any officer, department, board, commission, agency, institution, authority, university, body politic or corporate of the State; any administrative unit or corporate outgrowth of the State government which is created by or pursuant to statute, other than units of local government and their officers, school districts and boards of election commissioners; or any administrative unit or corporate outgrowth of the above or as may be created by executive order of the Governor.

"Confidential information" means information that is privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure by law.

Section 10. Disposal of confidential information. Each State agency must shred, destroy, or otherwise render unintelligible any paper, memo, document, report, personal computer, floppy disk, CD, or other device containing confidential information prior to disposing of those items.