A comprehensive privacy bill cleared the Oklahoma House Government Modernization and Technology Committee on an 8-0 vote Wednesday, despite the bill's sponsor admitting more work is needed.
An Arkansas comprehensive privacy bill nearly died Tuesday evening due to many state senators not voting for or against the measure on the floor.
Several Massachusetts lawmakers supported passing privacy legislation Wednesday. However, at a lengthy livestreamed hearing, members of the legislature’s Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology said little about how they might coalesce around a plethora of comprehensive and narrower privacy bills that came up for discussion.
A Democrat and a Republican testified together at a hearing Tuesday in support of an opt-in bill meant to enhance New Hampshire’s comprehensive privacy law. The state’s Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony on HB-195, which passed the House on a bipartisan basis March 26 despite industry arguments that supplementing the state’s comprehensive privacy law is unnecessary (see 2503270021). The committee also considered a House-passed government privacy bill (HB-522).
House Commerce Committee Republicans will begin meeting in person with offices and stakeholders on drafting comprehensive privacy legislation, a committee staffer told us Monday.
Consumer Reports and Electronic Privacy Information Center updated its model comprehensive privacy bill for states, EPIC said Thursday.
A possible Arkansas comprehensive privacy bill would now take effect July 1, 2026, if enacted, according to an amendment adopted Wednesday. The Senate Transportation Committee recommended that SB-258 pass with the changes.
With the Georgia General Assembly session ending Friday, the state’s comprehensive privacy bill looks unlikely to pass the legislature this year.
Montana Sen. Daniel Zolnikov (R) is “very confident” Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) will sign his neural data privacy bill into law, the state senator told us after SB-163 passed the legislature Thursday. Montana senators voted 49-1 for the legislation, which adds neurotechnology data to the state’s Genetic Information Privacy Act and modifies the same law to allow people to volunteer for medical studies.
NEW YORK CITY -- State lawmakers are following up on their comprehensive privacy laws with AI legislation that seeks to regulate consequential decisions, said AI and privacy legal experts at a Perrin Conferences event Wednesday at the New York City Bar Association. Amid general federal inaction, state lawmakers have proposed hundreds of AI bills on a plethora of subjects related to the growing technology, they noted.