House Sponsors: LANG. Short description: STATE AGENCY WEB SITE ACT Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Creates the State Agency Web Site Act. Provides that State agency Web sites may not use permanent cookies or any other invasive tracking programs that monitor and track Web site viewing habits; however, a State agengy Web site may use transactional cookies that facilitate business transactions. Creates the Internet Privacy Task Force and specifies its membership. Provides that the Task Force shall explore the technical and procedural changes that are needed in the State's computing environment to ensure that visits to State Web sites remain private, identify the threats to privacy from browsers, search engines, Web servers, Internet service providers, and State agencies and make recommendations as needed, and, if needed, devise procedures for creating or installing computer programs on State host computers that will disable cookies and other invasive programs. Provides that the Task Force shall submit reports to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31 of each year. Last action on Bill: SESSION SINE DIE Last action date: JAN-07-2003 Location: House Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 0 SENATE - 0 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status