Indiana Senate Bill 360 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-01-09 - First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requires a person who sells a cellular telephone or provides wireless telephone service to inform a subscriber how to deactivate the device's GPS tracking function. Specifies that the failure to provide this information is a deceptive act that may be enforced by the attorney general. Makes it a Class A misdemeanor to track another person by GPS unless: (1) the person obtains a warrant; (2) the tracking is done in the normal course of business by a service provider; (3) the tracking is performed by the federal government under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; (4) the person consents to the tracking; (5) a parent has consented to the tracking of the parent's child; (6) the ability to track a specific person is offered to the general public; (7) the tracking is done by a law enforcement officer or emergency services provider to respond to a request for assistance by the person, or under circumstances in which the person's life or safety is threatened; or (8) the tracking is of a person who has stolen an item containing the GPS device.

Cell phone GPS tracking.

Sen. Richard Young [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-01-09		First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
2012-01-09		Authored by Senator R. Young

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2012&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=SB&docno=0360
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/IN/IN0360.1.html