[These are proposed amendments to MD state bill hb1627.  The bill died in
committee though.]

[1st page missing; will try to get it.]

"In this title, "Communications company" means any person that owns,
controls, operates, or manages any company that provides information or
entertainment electronically to a household, including a cable or community
antenna television system.

	Subtitle 2. Prohibited Acts; Penalties

13A-201.

 	A communications company may not:

	(1) install and use any equipment which would allow the
communications company to visually observer or listen to what is occurring
in the household of an individual subscriber withough the knowledge of and
without written permission from the subscriber;

	(2) provide any person, except an agent or employee of the
communications company, with a list containing the name of a subscriber
unless the communications company notifies the subscriber that the
subscriber's name will be disclosed and the subscriber does not object to
the disclosure; or

	(2) install or maintain a home-protection scanning device in a
dwelling as part of a communication service withough the express written
consent of the occupant or owner.

13A-202.

	(A) A communications company that violates any provision of this
subtitle is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine
not exceeding $10,000 for each violation.

	(B) A communications company that violates any provision of this
subtitle is liable to he person aggrieved by the violation for any damages
sustained as a result of the violation.

13A-203.

	Nothing in this subtitle is intended to restrict or enlarge upon
the right of any person to seek damages now permitted by law.

	Subtitle 2. Short title

13A-301.

	This title may be cited as the Communications Consumer Privacy Act".

on pages 2 through 17, strike in their entirety the lines beginning with
line 21 on page 2 through line 38 on page 17, inclusive; and on page 17,
in line 39, strike "3." and substitute "2."