HB 4658 Summary

• Amends Michigan Consumer Protection Act to prohibit businesses from scanning the machine-readable zone of state-issued identification documents except for specific authorized purposes.

• Authorized scanning purposes include: verifying authenticity or identity during non-cash transactions/returns, age verification for age-restricted goods, fraud prevention during returns, compliance with state/federal law, check services processing, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act transactions.

• Prohibits retention of scanned identification information except for the authorized purposes listed above, and bans selling or disseminating such information to third parties for marketing, advertising, or promotional purposes.

• Any waiver of these scanning and data retention restrictions is declared void and contrary to public policy.

• Effective 90 days after enactment.