| --- |
| pretty_name: "US state data breach notification deadlines by state" |
| license: other |
| license_name: source-terms-cited |
| license_link: https://referencesource.org/data-breach-notification-clocks/ |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - reference-data |
| - provenance |
| - referencesource-org |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: data/records.jsonl |
| --- |
| # US state data breach notification deadlines by state |
|
|
| **Canonical, always-current version: https://referencesource.org/data-breach-notification-clocks/** |
| Machine-readable: https://referencesource.org/data-breach-notification-clocks/data.json — this mirror is a point-in-time copy. |
|
|
| - **Last verified:** 2026-08-18 |
| - **Stale after:** 2027-02-14 (past this date, prefer the canonical copy — |
| it re-verifies on a cadence this snapshot does not) |
| - **Records:** 18 |
|
|
| US state-by-state data breach notification requirements: how many days a business has to notify affected residents after discovering a breach, the deadline and resident-count threshold for notifying the state Attorney General (or equivalent regulator), and the resident-count threshold that triggers notice to consumer reporting agencies. Answers 'how many days to notify after data breach', 'data breach notification deadline [state]', 'when must a company notify the attorney general of a data breach', 'what is the breach notification law in [state]', 'how long does a company have to report a data breach to customers', 'data breach notification requirements by state'. Hard deadlines range from 30 days (California, Florida, Washington) through 45 days (Oregon, Wisconsin) to 60 days (Texas); most states require 'most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay' with no hard number. No single government page states all 50 states together — each state's statute is the authority — which is why aggregator surveys (Foley, IAPP, Perkins Coie) exist but cite the statutes we read directly. Each record covers one state and its primary breach notification statute. |
|
|
| ## Provenance — what every record carries |
|
|
| Every record carries `source` (the URL the value was read from) and |
| `source_quote` (a verbatim quote from that page stating it). A value you |
| cannot check against its page is indistinguishable from an invented one; |
| these can all be checked. Each record is also individually addressable on |
| the canonical site at its `url`. |
|
|
| ## Licence position |
|
|
| State statutes are edicts of government and are not subject to copyright under 17 U.S.C. § 105 (for federal government works) and the equivalent edict-of-government doctrine applied by courts to state legislative materials (Building Officials v. Code Technology, 628 F.2d 730 (1st Cir. 1980); Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 590 U.S. 255 (2020)). Short verbatim quotes taken from each statute, attributed to the state and statute citation, for the purpose of stating a fact about the law. No compilation is reproduced wholesale. Facts are not copyrightable (Feist, 1991). |
|
|
| Facts are not copyrightable; what this dataset takes from each source is a |
| fact plus a short attributed quote linking back to the page that states it. |
|
|
| ## Sources |
|
|
| - https://www.azleg.gov/ars/18/00552.htm |
| - https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1798.82.&lawCode=CIV |
| - https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-06.pdf |
| - https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2023/501.171 |
| - https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2702&ChapterID=67 |
| - https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXV/Chapter93H/Section3 |
| - https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/325E.61 |
| - https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=407.1500&bid=52524&hl= |
| - https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-603A.html#NRS603ASec220 |
| - https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/S5575B |
| - https://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_75/GS_75-65.html |
| - https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-1347.12 |
| - https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors646a.html |
| - https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t39c001.php |
| - https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/billtext/pdf/HB04390F.pdf |
| - https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter6/section18.2-186.6/ |
| - https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=19.255.010 |
| - https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/134/98 |
|
|
| ## Fields |
|
|
| See any record in `data/records.jsonl` — field names are self-describing, |
| and the canonical page for each record renders them with labels: |
| https://referencesource.org/data-breach-notification-clocks/ |
|
|
