2019 Senate Bill 611 ↩

House Roll Call 520: Passed

To revise a law that prohibits public libraries from disclosing without the patron’s permission that an individual has been a patron, or the material a patron has borrowed or requested, unless a court has ordered it after offering the library a hearing on the order. The bill would make an exception allowing a library to turn over delinquent book returns and late fees to a collection agency, to disclose records to another library or a library cooperative for interlibrary loan purposes if needed, and to police if related to criminal activity that occurred at the library. It would also revise the lawsuit judgments of $250 authorized by current law for violations, by making the library liable for this not a specific employee, unless the employee knowingly and improperly released the records.