State lawmakers approved a new budget late Friday, on the last day of the 2021 session, without a single dissenting vote. And this was no ordinary budget. The package, totaling about $7.3 billion includes about $600 million in federal American Rescue Plan and coronavirus relief money which is going to a handful of key areas. Lawmakers prioritized a new focus on construction of new affordable housing, high-speed internet deployment, clean water,.
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Keypoint: Although weakened from its original version, the Oklahoma bill would (if enacted) provide substantial privacy rights to Oklahoma residents and, in some respects, provide more privacy protections than found in the CCPA.
On March 4, 2021, the Oklahoma House of Representatives passed the Oklahoma Computer Data Privacy Act by a vote of 85-11 with 5 excused. The bill, which is perhaps best described as a heavily-modified version of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), will now move to the Oklahoma Senate.
The Oklahoma bill was the subject of extensive reporting last month after a prior version of the bill, which included a private right of action, passed unanimously through the House Technology Committee. However, the private right of action was deleted in a significantly modified version of the bill that was introduced earlier this week.
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The recently introduced Oklahoma Computer Data Privacy Act (OCDPA) is one of the nation s first opt-in proposed data privacy laws. The law would require businesses to obtain consent before collecting and selling consumer personal information and create a private right of action with potentially steep statutory damages.
To whom would it apply?
The OCDPA would apply to businesses that:
Do business in Oklahoma;
Collect consumers personal information or have that information collected on their behalf;
Alone or in conjunction with others, determine the purpose for and means of processing consumers personal information; and