The Florida Senate

HB 493: Social Media Accounts Privacy

GENERAL BILL by Hart ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Valdes

Social Media Accounts Privacy; Prohibits employer from requesting or requiring access to social media account of employee or prospective employee; prohibits employer from taking retaliatory personnel action against employee or failing or refusing to hire prospective employee as result of employee's refusal to allow access to his or her social media account; provides for civil action; requires that civil action be brought within specified timeframe; provides for fees & costs.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  1/22/2019	House	• Filed
  1/30/2019	House	• Referred to Workforce Development and Tourism Subcommittee; Civil Justice Subcommittee; Commerce Committee -HJ 62
  3/5/2019	House	• Introduced -HJ 62
  5/3/2019	House	• Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration • Died in Workforce Development and Tourism Subcommittee

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• HB 493, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 1/22/2019 at 1:11 PM

  Bill Text:	PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  S 1468	Personal Online Accounts	Farmer	Compare	Last Action: 5/3/2019 S Died in Judiciary

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  448.077		Page 1 (pdf)

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