l9n/ Mississippi

2024 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2777

Cybersecurity incident liability; provide limitation on liability for certain entities that adopt cybersecurity standards.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Technology Committee on March 5, 2024. The 2024 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT A COUNTY OR MUNICIPALITY AND ANY OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THE STATE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE IN CONNECTION WITH A CYBERSECURITY INCIDENT IF THE ENTITY ADOPTS CERTAIN CYBERSECURITY STANDARDS; TO PROVIDE A REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION AGAINST LIABILITY FOR COMMERCIAL ENTITIES THAT ARE IN SUBSTANTIAL COMPLIANCE WITH THIS ACT BY ADOPTING A CYBERSECURITY PROGRAM THAT SUBSTANTIALLY ALIGNS WITH CERTAIN SPECIFIED CYBERSECURITY STANDARDS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

1 co-sponsor

Tyler McCaughn

Its course

February 19 to March 5, 2024, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action2 actions on 2 days

In the SenateFeb 19 to Mar 5 · stopped15 days

TechnologyFeb 19 to Mar 5 · stopped15 days

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.

In the Senate Feb 19 – Mar 5

  1. Referred to the Senate committees on Technology and on Judiciary, Division A
  2. Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published