Relating to the security of certain personal identifying information submitted to or retained by a state agency.

Contracts

• Data Vendor Agreements: Immediately review contracts with lead-generation or background check vendors. If their deliverables rely on "publicly available state records" for contact info, they can no longer fulfill the contract. Invoke force majeure or renegotiate terms if they cannot provide alternative, consensually sourced data.
• Employment Agreements: For businesses that employ licensed professionals (e.g., hospitals, brokerages, HVAC firms), amend employment contracts to require employees to sign the state's "Consent to Release" form. This ensures the employer can verify licensure status and receive agency notices regarding the employee.

Hiring/Training

• Credentialing Teams: Retrain staff to stop using home addresses or phone numbers as primary identifiers for license verification. Verification must now rely strictly on License Numbers, NPI numbers, or business addresses.
• Recruitment/Marketing: Marketing teams must cease "scraping" state agency websites for leads. Campaigns based on these lists will fail as email and phone fields will now be blank or redacted.

Reporting & Record-Keeping

• Consent Management: If you manage a fleet of licensed professionals, you must track which employees have submitted their consent forms to the state.
• Database Hygiene: Update your internal databases to distinguish between "Business" and "Personal" contact information. The state will only release data explicitly designated as "Business."

Fees & Costs

• Direct Costs: No new state fees.
• Indirect Costs: Expect increased costs for recruitment and lead generation, as free/cheap public data is replaced by more expensive, privately sourced opt-in data.