Bill Text: MO HB286 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits employers from asking current or prospective employees to provide specified information to gain access to a social networking website where such employees maintain an account or profile
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-17 - Referred: Workforce Development and Workplace Safety(H) [HB286 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2013-HB286-Introduced.html
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES FUNDERBURK (Sponsor), KORMAN AND PACE (Co-sponsors).
0743L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 285, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to an employer's request for account information from a social networking website.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 285, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 285.605, to read as follows:
285.605. 1. It shall be unlawful for any employer to ask any current or prospective employee to provide any username, password, or other related account information in order to gain access to a social networking website where such current or prospective employee maintains an account or profile.
2. (1) For the purposes of this section, "social networking website" means an internet-based service that allows individuals to:
(a) Construct a public or semipublic profile within a bounded system, created by the service;
(b) Create a list of other users with whom they share a connection within the system; and
(c) View and navigate their list of connections and those made by others within the system.
(2) "Social networking website" shall not include electronic mail.
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