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Legislative News from Lobbyit - Keith Nelson / NCISS Legislative Committee

Current Legislative News and Updates
Data Privacy -- Background as the Federal Debate Takes Shape
The call for a federal approach comes on the heels of California's passage of California Consumer Protection Act
(CCPA) - an internet data privacy bill modeled largely upon the European Union's (EU) General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR), which standardizes the laws for protecting consumer data in all 28 EU-member countries.
Commerce Committee Hearings
Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy - U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation hearing 09/26/2018 attended by Lobbyit for NCISS - please read the full report for detailed coverage.
Note in particular the panel's emphasis on crafting a federal regulatory framework.

What does this mean for our professions? Please read the full report at https://conta.cc/2yvS9l6
The NCISS mission is legislative advocacy and represents you in Washington DC with the assistance of NCISS very
competent lobbying firm, Lobbyit. Lobbyit is located just a couple of blocks from the Capitol and Senate and House of
Representatives, so they can react quickly if needed. Keith Nelson, who works closely with NCISS representatives, has
been instrumental in arranging meetings with various committee leaders on issues that impact private investigator and
security professionals. Lobbyit also helps NCISS with grassroots advocacy and has worked together to assist individual
state associations as they address legislative challenges in their states. It has been a great partnership, benefitting
every individual and association member of NCISS.

How Congress Works
The legislative branch of our government, Congress, is a bi-cameral body of both the Senate and the House of
Representatives.

The legislative branch is the joint power and responsibility of the House and the Senate to appropriate funds and make
law by agreement of both. The House and the Senate must pass bills with the same language to send to the President
to sign into law. These are in each Congressional session, typically divided into two sessions, one each year, although
an emergency may require a third session.

-- contributed by Francie Koehler, Legislative Chair – Investigations / Past President

State Legislative Awareness Monitoring (SLAM)
Lobbyit has set up NCISS's "state-level" tracking and continues to identify hundreds of bills in currently active states.
Members may view bills impacting private investigators, private patrol operators or security guards in your state, by
going to the Advocacy Hub and State Legislation at www.nciss.org/legislation .

Members can search alphabetically by state or click on a specific state on the United States map provided at the top of
the page.

If you know of a bill in your state that we need to become aware of, suggestions for legislative and regulatory keywords
to track activities at the state and federal levels, please contact any NCISS Officer or Director
- www.nciss.org/officers-directors.