SB426 HFAT Capito 3-6

Casto 3264

Delegate Capito moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. Senate Bill No. 426 -- “A Bill to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §5A-6B-4a, relating to regulating, restricting, or banning high-risk technology platforms, services, applications, programs, or products on government networks, devices, and systems; adding legislative findings related to national security threats and threats to critical state government networks and infrastructure, including election systems, posed by untrustworthy and high-risk platforms, services, applications, programs, or products; authorizing the Chief Information Security Officer to identify high-risk platforms, services, applications, programs, and products and to develop statewide standards regulating their use on government networks, devices, and systems; requiring certain government entities to adopt and enforce those standards; recommending the legislative and judicial branches to adopt and enforce those standards; authorizing the promulgation of legislative and emergency rules to facilitate the purpose of this section; and requiring the Chief Information Security Officer provide an annual report on threats posed by untrustworthy and high-risk platforms, services, applications, programs, or products, and the actions required to mitigate those threats to the Joint Interim Committee on Government Operations.

Adopted

Rejected