GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

SESSION LAW 2000-71

SENATE BILL 1260

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PUBLIC RECORDS LAW TO PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF ELECTRONIC RECORDS WITHIN THE STATE'S COMPUTER SYSTEMS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 132-6.1(c) reads as rewritten:

"(c)      Nothing in this section shall require a public agency to create a computer database that the public agency has not otherwise created or is not otherwise required to be created. Nothing in this section requires a public agency to disclose its software security, including passwords. security features of its electronic data processing systems, information technology systems, telecommunications networks, or electronic security systems, including hardware or software security, passwords, or security standards, procedures, processes, configurations, software, and codes."

Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of June, 2000.

s/   Marc Basnight

President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/   James B. Black

Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/   James B. Hunt, Jr.

Governor

Approved 10:03 p.m. this 30th day of June, 2000