A Washington state kids privacy bill needs more work but should advance, House Consumer Protection Committee Chair Amy Walen (D) said Friday. The panel voted 9-6 to clear HB-1834 at a livestreamed executive session.
More states are considering measures that protect the privacy of reproductive health data in the wake of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, privacy experts said in recent interviews.
The Washington Senate Business Committee cleared a kids privacy bill (SB-5708) in a voice vote Thursday, despite Republican dissent.
A bipartisan group of 18 California state legislators told the California Privacy Protection Agency that the organization lacks authority to regulate AI and should scale back proposed automated decision-making technology (ADMT) rules. The legislators wrote to the CPPA board Wednesday, which was the CPPA’s deadline for written comments on draft rules for ADMT and other issues. A coalition of business groups and trade associations condemned the draft rules in a separate letter that day.
Industry can’t figure out a constitutional way to word a kids’ privacy bill, a TechNet official said at a Washington state legislative hearing Tuesday.
The Oklahoma House Children Committee voted 6-0 to approve a bill setting privacy rules for kids at a hearing Wednesday.
The Montana Senate could soon vote on a bill broadening how many businesses are covered by the state's comprehensive privacy law. Meanwhile, in Kentucky, a House panel advanced a bill tweaking healthcare exemptions in that state's data privacy law.
Vermont Sen. Wendy Harrison (D) aims to protect kids’ data privacy with a state age-appropriate design code bill (S-69), she said during a webcast hearing Tuesday. However, even before hearing from witnesses, Sen. Russ Ingalls (R) said he didn’t think he could support the bill. “I’m really nervous for businesses,” he said.
The Alabama House Commerce Committee will weigh a comprehensive privacy bill at a hearing next Wednesday, according to a committee agenda. Rep. Mike Shaw (R) on Thursday introduced HB-283, which would be exclusively enforced by the state attorney general.
A private right of action survived a Washington House panel vote on a comprehensive privacy bill Friday. The state's House Technology Committee voted 7-4 on partisan lines to advance an amended HB-1671, with Republicans supplying the nays.