HITRUST® Supports Texas Legislation on Privacy

16 May by Vitaliy Dadalyan

HITRUST® Supports Texas Legislation on Privacy

Texas House of Representatives Passes House Bill 4390

FRISCO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HITRUST, a leading data protection standards development and certification organization, supports legislation that would create a council to study privacy laws and how privacy practices for Texas businesses could be strengthened through potential legislation.

Representative Giovanni Capriglione’s (Southlake) House Bill 4390, passed by the Texas House unanimously on May 7, 2019 and would create the Texas Privacy Protection Advisory Council. The Council would study and evaluate Texas laws and other privacy laws in order to make recommendations to the Texas Legislature on privacy provisions to consider during the 2021 session. The Council would include representatives from the Texas House, Texas Senate, and industry stakeholders.

HITRUST applauds Rep. Capriglione’s concept of a public-private council to review and make recommendations in this important policy area. Consumer awareness of data protection issues continue to attract scrutiny and Texas businesses must acknowledge and respond to consumer concerns. Ensuring that policy experts and representatives of the businesses who would need to implement any changes work together will allow Texas to address data protection and privacy in an effective, efficient, and practical manner.

“Texas is known as a leader in data privacy and innovation,” said Anne Kimbol, HITRUST’s Chief Privacy Officer. “We fully support our government partners leveraging the expertise of the private sector to drive privacy and security best practices and further protect Texans with meaningful legislation such as HB 4390.”

HITRUST is the standard in privacy and security certifications and has unique insight into the privacy practices and challenges facing businesses across industries. As an independent party, HITRUST brings value to public policy discussions, such as HB 4390, and similar legislation in other States.

House Bill 4390 is currently in the Texas Senate.

About HITRUST®

Since it was founded in 2007, HITRUST has championed programs that safeguard sensitive information and manage information risk for global organizations across all industries and throughout the third-party supply chain. In collaboration with privacy, information security and risk management leaders from the public and private sectors, HITRUST develops, maintains and provides broad access to its widely adopted common risk and compliance management frameworks, related assessment and assurance methodologies.

HITRUST understands the challenges of assembling and maintaining the many and varied programs needed to manage information risk and compliance. The HITRUST Approach provides organizations a comprehensive information risk management and compliance program to provide an integrated approach that ensures all programs are aligned, maintained and comprehensive to support an organization’s information risk management and compliance objectives.

For more information, visit www.hitrustalliance.net.

Contacts

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