New Jersey could add two exemptions to the state’s comprehensive privacy law. The Assembly voted 77-0 on Thursday to approve AB-5017, sending it to the Senate.
The proposed Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA) passed the Senate on a 30-1 vote Friday.
California appropriators greenlit a plethora of privacy bills at Friday meetings. Assembly and Senate panels ticked through a laundry list of “suspense file” bills, including on age assurance, automated decisions, reproductive health, workplace surveillance and revisions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). The approved bills could get floor votes next.
While a California bill on AI in the workplace “aims to protect workers, employers have expressed concerns about how it might affect business efficiency and innovation,” JacksonLewis attorneys Joseph Lazzarotti and Sierra Vierra blogged Wednesday.
The Oregon Senate voted 27-0 on Thursday for a bill that would add location and child data restrictions to the state’s comprehensive privacy law. Senators amended the bill last week (see 2505160040), so HB-2008 must return to the House for concurrence before it can pass the legislature.
A Nevada genetic privacy bill responds to the 23andMe bankruptcy and Trump administration misinformation about people with autism, Nevada Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D) said Thursday. Yeager urged passage of his AB-589 at a livestreamed Assembly Government Affairs Committee hearing.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) should veto a bill requiring app stores to verify users’ ages, the president of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) wrote in a Tuesday letter to the governor.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) signed a bill requiring social media platforms to verify ages and not allow those younger than 18 to have accounts unless their parents give consent, the governor’s office said Tuesday.
Nearing a House floor vote, Vermont’s age-appropriate design code bill still looks “generally defensible” in court, said a Vermont attorney general office staffer at a House Commerce hearing Wednesday morning. Later that day, after amending S-69 with a longer implementation period, the committee voted 10-0 to advance the measure to the House floor.
The Oregon legislature approved an automotive privacy bill Thursday, while another possible change to the state’s comprehensive privacy bill edged closer to the finish line.