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House File 234

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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  669.25  COMPUTER PROCESSING (YEAR
  1  2 2000) LIABILITY LIMITED.
  1  3    The state is not liable for a claim for a loss from a
  1  4 failure or malfunction occurring before December 31, 2005,
  1  5 which is caused directly or indirectly by the failure of
  1  6 computer software or a device containing a computer processor
  1  7 to accurately or properly recognize, calculate, display, sort,
  1  8 or otherwise process dates or times, if the failure or
  1  9 malfunction causing the loss was unforeseeable or if the
  1 10 failure or malfunction causing the loss was foreseeable but
  1 11 the plan or design, or both, for identifying and preventing
  1 12 the failure or malfunction was prepared in substantial
  1 13 compliance with generally accepted computer and information
  1 14 system design standards in effect at the time of the
  1 15 preparation of the plan or design.
  1 16    Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  670.14  COMPUTER PROCESSING (YEAR
  1 17 2000) LIABILITY LIMITED.
  1 18    A municipality is not liable for a claim for a loss from a
  1 19 failure or malfunction occurring before December 31, 2005,
  1 20 which is caused directly or indirectly by the failure of
  1 21 computer software or a device containing a computer processor
  1 22 to accurately or properly recognize, calculate, display, sort,
  1 23 or otherwise process dates or times, if the failure or
  1 24 malfunction causing the loss was unforeseeable or if the
  1 25 failure or malfunction causing the loss was foreseeable but
  1 26 the plan or design, or both, for identifying and preventing
  1 27 the failure or malfunction was prepared in substantial
  1 28 compliance with generally accepted computer and information
  1 29 system design standards in effect at the time of the
  1 30 preparation of the plan or design.  
  1 31                           EXPLANATION
  1 32    This bill limits the liability of the state and political
  1 33 subdivisions of the state with respect to the failure of
  1 34 computer software or a device containing a computer processor
  1 35 to accurately or properly recognize, calculate, display, sort,
  2  1 or otherwise process dates or times.  The limitation of
  2  2 liability applies if the failure or malfunction causing the
  2  3 loss was unforeseeable or if the failure or malfunction
  2  4 causing the loss was foreseeable but the plan or design, or
  2  5 both, for identifying and preventing the failure or
  2  6 malfunction was prepared in substantial compliance with
  2  7 generally accepted computer and information system design
  2  8 standards in effect at the time the plan or design was
  2  9 prepared.  
  2 10 LSB 1083HH 78
  2 11 mj/jw/5
     

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