House Bill 1901 Summary

• Prohibits employers from requiring, requesting, suggesting, or causing current or prospective employees to disclose usernames and passwords for personal social media accounts.

• Prohibits employers from asking employees to add supervisors to social media contacts or change privacy settings on personal social media accounts.

• Employers cannot discharge, discipline, penalize, or refuse to hire employees for exercising rights under this act.

• Allows employers to view publicly available information about employees on the internet without restriction.

• Creates exception permitting employers to request social media account credentials during formal investigations of alleged employee violations of law or company policy, with credentials limited to investigation purposes only.