Online account privacy bill dies in committee

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A proposal to ban employers and schools from demanding access to personal online accounts has been scrapped.

The House had approved the measure. But Rep. Ted James, D-Baton Rouge, ran into concerns in the Senate that he said Wednesday can’t be worked out before the session ends June 6. The bill, which passed the House 87-0, was voluntarily deferred without a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee.