E2SHB 2637: Safeguarding personal information entrusted to agencies that is of no legitimate concern to the public.

What this bill does

Expands the types of personal information exempt under the Public Records Act to include information maintained by an agency which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity such as a person's age, residential addresses, a person's place of birth, a person's location or precise geolocation data or GPS coordinates, government-issued identifiers, and consumer utility data.

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Floor votes

• House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 16, 2026
  52 yea · 45 nay · 1 not voting

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