A reintroduced Connecticut AI bill aims to build on the state’s 2022 comprehensive privacy law, state Sen. James Maroney (D), the privacy law’s author, said in an interview. Maroney’s second attempt at establishing AI requirements will be a priority bill for majority Democrats in the Connecticut Senate next year, Maroney, Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney and Majority Leader Bob Duff said in a joint announcement last month.
A comprehensive New York bill to regulate AI surfaced ahead of the state’s legislative session that opens Wednesday. The Assembly referred A-768 by Assemblymember Alex Bores (D) to the Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee.
Businesses must make incremental changes to comply with five state privacy laws effective this month, privacy experts said in interviews. Comprehensive laws took effect Jan. 1 in Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska and New Hampshire. A New Jersey law becomes effective Jan. 15, with that state’s attorney general office’s consumer affairs division soon expected to open a rulemaking.
Vermont and Washington state will soon introduce comprehensive privacy bills, while Connecticut will have a bill that would add data minimization rules and make other changes to its 2022 law, legislators told Privacy Daily ahead of sessions starting this month. Also, legislators in Oklahoma and South Carolina prefiled bills last month for the 2025 legislative sessions. Additional privacy bills are expected this year in several other states, said privacy lawyers and consumer advocates in other interviews.