The newest Iowa Senator George St. George announced that he is holding a press conference to discuss his new bill coming out in January. The bill will make sharing your Netflix account password a criminal offense with the harshest consequence of serving jail time.
The bill has made recent headlines due to criticism that jail time for sharing a password is too harsh. Senator George often relates paying for the subscription service back to other types of subscriptions and bills people pay for such as mail service or water. Iowa will be the second state to pass a bill regarding the sharing of Netflix passwords following in Tennessee’s footsteps.
Michael Conner from the Federal Communications Commission will also be joining the Senator at the press conference. Conner has been supportive of the bill since its beginning and will be speaking about how this bill directly connects to the FCC’s mission.
The press conference will be taking place at the Iowa State Capitol building in Des Moines, Iowa. The conference starts at noon and there will be time for comments and questions directly after the conference.