An Act To Prohibit the Sharing of Personal Information by State Agencies
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 0619
Committee: Judiciary
Sponsors: GUERIN, VALENTINO, CROCKETT, ESPLING, GRAHAM, MONAGHAN-DERRIG, MORIARTY, PEAVEY HASKELL, VILLA
Amends: 1 MRSA §541, 1 MRSA §542, 1 MRSA §543

Legislative Document 
No. 619 
H.P. 438 
House of Representatives, February 21, 2013 
An Act To Prohibit the Sharing of Personal Information by State 
Agencies 
Reference to the Committee on Judiciary suggested and ordered printed. 
MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Presented by Representative GUERIN of Glenburn. 
Cosponsored by Senator VALENTINO of York and 
Representatives: CROCKETT of Bethel, DeCHANT of Bath, ESPLING of New Gloucester, 
GRAHAM of North Yarmouth, MONAGHAN-DERRIG of Cape Elizabeth, MORIARTY of 
Cumberland, PEAVEY HASKELL of Milford, VILLA of Harrison. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  1 MRSA §541, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 321, Pt. B, §1, is 
amended to read: 
1.  Personal information.  "Personal information" means information about a natural 
person that readily identifies that specific person.  "Personal information" includes, but is 
not limited to: 
A.  Home address; 
B.  Home telephone number; 
C.  Home facsimile number; 
D.  Personal e-mail address; 
E.  Personal cellular telephone number; and 
F.  Personal pager number. 
Sec. 2.  1 MRSA §542, first ¶, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 321, Pt. B, §1, is 
amended to read: 
Each public entity that has a publicly accessible site on the Internet associated with it 
shall develop a policy regarding its practices relating to personal information consistent 
with the requirements of section 543 and shall post notice of those practices on its 
publicly accessible site on the Internet.  The policy must include: 
Sec. 3.  1 MRSA §543 is enacted to read: 
§543.  Sharing of personal information 
1.  Indication of confidentiality.  A public entity that collects or receives an 
individual's personal information shall allow the individual to indicate that the 
individual's personal information is confidential and not to be disclosed without the 
individual's consent. 
2.  Confidential information.  If an individual indicates that the individual's personal 
information provided by the individual is confidential as provided in subsection 1, that 
information is confidential and may not be disclosed without the individual's consent. 
3.  Exception.  Personal information designated confidential under this section is not 
confidential to the employees of the public entity for use for the purposes collected or 
received. 
Sec. 4.  Maine Revised Statutes headnote amended; revision clause.  In the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 1, chapter 14-A, in the chapter headnote, the words "notice 
of information practices" are amended to read "information practices" and the Revisor of 
Statutes shall implement this revision when updating, publishing or republishing the 
statutes. 
SUMMARY 
This bill requires all public entities to treat an individual's personal information as 
confidential if requested by the individual.  "Personal information" includes but is not 
limited to the home address, home telephone number, home facsimile number, personal 
e-mail address, personal cellular telephone number and personal pager number of an 
individual.