Montana senators overwhelmingly supported privacy bills aimed at education and government on Tuesday, sending them to the House. The Senate previously passed bills regulating neural privacy (see 2501290004) and revising Montana’s comprehensive privacy law (see 2502240069).
Maryland lawmakers will narrow definitions in a data broker tax proposal so the bill targets hundreds, not thousands, of businesses, Sen. Katie Hester (D) said Wednesday (see 2502250042).
Stick with the New Hampshire privacy law that took effect Jan. 1, industry lobbyists urged during a state House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. The committee heard testimony on HB-195, which sponsor Rep. Bob Lynn (R) described as a supplement to the comprehensive New Hampshire Data Privacy Act (NHDPA). It’s “a very reasonable bill" that had bipartisan support last year, he said.
A possible Georgia data privacy law moved closer to reality as the Senate voted 53-2 on a bipartisan basis Monday to pass SB-111. The bill by Sen. John Albers (R) will go to the House next.
A Maryland Democrat and state retailers rallied for a bill that would remove teeth from data minimization rules in the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA) during a livestreamed hearing Tuesday. But consumer groups lambasted HB-1365, as they did shortly after it was introduced last month (see 2502100032), arguing that it would gut the privacy law that takes effect Oct. 1.
After a contentious hearing last week on a New Mexico comprehensive privacy bill, the sponsor presented an amended version of the legislation to the House Commerce Committee at a Monday meeting. The panel cleared the bill 9-0.
Washington state bills requiring privacy and AI transparency are apparently dead after missing a Friday cutoff to clear fiscal committees in the legislature. However, child privacy bills in the House and Senate cleared their respective fiscal committees in time.
Senate Republicans expect a straightforward path to confirming FTC nominee Mark Meador, which would allow the commission’s Republican majority to act on two privacy rulemakings.
Vermont Rep. Monique Priestley (D) criticized a comprehensive privacy bill introduced Thursday in the state Senate. Sen. Thomas Chittenden (D) introduced S-93 on the same day that the Senate Institutions Committee started walking through the Senate version (S-71) of Priestley’s previously introduced H-208, which also seeks a broad data privacy law (see 2502130013).
A Vermont Senate panel narrowed the scope of a kids code bill at a livestreamed meeting Thursday. The Institutions Committee then split 3-2 to clear S-69, with Republicans casting the no votes.