SB16-141 Summary

• Prohibits retail merchants from reading, collecting, decoding, or storing machine-readable information from driver's licenses, minor driver's licenses, commercial driver's licenses, or identification cards issued by Colorado's Department of Revenue after a sale is completed.

• Exempts peace officers, state agencies, local government agencies acting within official duties, and businesses required to do so by state or federal law.

• Allows businesses to read only a customer's name, address, and date of birth from machine-readable portions when preventing fraud during returns, refunds, or exchanges if using a fraud prevention service company or system.

• Classifies violations as Class 1 misdemeanors with each document scanned constituting a separate offense, and as deceptive trade practices enforceable by the state attorney general or district attorneys.

• Takes effect July 1, 2016, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.