Here are the technology-related bills to watch for the week of February 2, 2015:
HB 1920 - An Act relating to the use, acceptance, and removal of barriers to the use and acceptance of electronic signatures
https://app.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1920&year=2015
HB 1639 - An Act relating to technology-enhanced government surveillance
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Dear Washingtonians,
I want to update you on new legislation, recently signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee, that takes an important step in creating a unified approach to cybersecurity in state government.
Senate Bill 5432 establishes the state Office of Cybersecurity (OCS) as the state's lead organization in combatting cyber threats and creates a clear mandate for the…
Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's Hacktober campaign!
Thousands of state employees took part in WaTech's fourth annual Hacktober campaign, organized by the state Office of Cybersecurity (OCS). This year's campaign included a new online quiz, an improved cybersecurity escape room, a "careless cube" (outside the escape room) and a series of presentations all aimed at…
DOR's exploration of interactive data visualization continues. The latest is this cool tax explorer that helps a citizen or company explore tax rates across the country and how ours compare.
Here's the DOR page: link
Here's the visualization itself:
The Secretary of State publishes a searchable database of all the corporations in Washington with their UBI, registered agent, profit/nonprofit status etc. Very cool. They also offer a downloadable flat file in either XML or tab-separated format. It's a big file though -- about a gigabyte.
Here's what a sample set of the database looks like in data.wa.gov:
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