New Hampshire HB 1589: establishing a veterans treatment court

Bill Text

HB 1589-FN - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION

 26-2907

 06/09

HOUSE BILL 1589-FN

AN ACT establishing the digital choice act.

SPONSORS: Rep. Litchfield, Rock. 32; Rep. Thibault, Merr. 25; Rep. Granger, Straf. 2; Rep. Moffett, Merr. 4

COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs

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ANALYSIS

 This bill establishes the digital choice act, which requires social media companies to provide users with access to their personal data and enable data sharing across platforms through open protocols and user-controlled interoperability interfaces.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

 Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

 Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

 26-2907

 06/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT establishing the digital choice act.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 1 Short title. This subdivision shall be known as "The Digital Choice Act." 

 2 New Subdivision; Digital Choice. Amend RSA 358-A by inserting after section 13 the following new subdivision: 

Digital Choice

 358-A:14 Definitions. As used in this subdivision: 

 I. “Open protocol” means a publicly available technical standard that: 

 (a) Enables interoperability and data exchange between social media services through a shared data layer; 

 (b) Is free from: 

 (1) Licensing fees; and 

 (2) Patent restrictions; and 

 (c) Governs how social media services communicate and exchange data with each other. 

 II. “Personal data” means any information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual, including social graphs. 

 III.(a) “Social graph” means data that represents a person's connections and interactions within a social media service. 

 (b) "Social graph" includes: 

 (1) Content generated by the person; 

 (2) The person’s social connections with other users and entities; 

 (3) The person's responses to other users’ and entities’ content, including comments, reactions, mentions, reposts, shares, and other engagements; 

 (4) The person’s public profile; and 

 (5) Metadata associated with items in subparagraphs (1) through (4) of this paragraph. 

 (6) Relational references sufficient to maintain the associations among data elements described in subparagraphs (1) through (4) of this paragraph. 

 (c) “Social graph” does not include other users’ and entities’ content and responses that have been designated private by those users and entities, including private messages. 

 IV. “Social media company” means an entity that owns or operates a social media service. 

 V.(a) “Social media service” means a public website or application that: 

 (1) Displays content that is primarily generated by account holders and not by the social media company; 

 (2) Permits an individual to register as an account holder and create a profile that is made visible to the general public or a set of other users defined by the account holder; 

 (3) Connects account holders to allow users to interact socially with each other within the website or application; and 

 (4) Allows account holders to post content viewable by other users. 

 (b) “Social media service” does not include: 

 (1) Email; 

 (2) Cloud storage; or

 (3) Document viewing, sharing, or collaboration services. 

 VI. “User” means an individual who is a resident of this state who accesses or uses a social media service. 

 358-A:15 Legislative Findings. The following is hereby found and declared: 

 I. An individual has a right to control and move the individual's own personal data, including social interactions online; 

 II. Companies have demonstrated a pattern of restricting the interoperability of content, preventing users from easily sharing posts and interactions across different platforms. 

 III. The state should ensure that individuals have the right to access a complete personal data record from social media platforms. 

 358-A:16 Data Rights. 

 I. ?A user shall have the right to: 

 (a) Delete personal data held by the social media company that was provided by, or obtained about, the user;?and 

 (b) Obtain a copy of the user’s personal data processed by the social media company, in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows the user to transmit the data to another user without hindrance, where the processing is carried out by automated means, provided such user shall not be required to reveal any trade secret. 

 II. ?A user may exercise right