SPONSOR: Hicks
This bill creates the "Fourth Amendment Rights Protection Act". The bill prohibits the state or any agencies, political subdivisions, districts, and employees of these entities from providing a federal agency with any information or assistance in the collection of a person's electronic data or metadata unless there is informed consent, a proper warrant, or a recognized legal exception to the warrant requirement in a particular instance. The Attorney General is authorized to enforce this bill.
The bill contains an emergency clause.
This bill is the same as HB 296 (2019).
Statutes affected: