Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark (D) pressed her case for including a private right of action (PRA) in a proposed comprehensive state privacy law (S-71) at a Senate Institutions Committee hearing livestreamed Tuesday. However, a Republican committee member and the Vermont Chamber of Commerce pushed back against allowing individuals to sue. The Chamber witnesses urged lawmakers to instead pass a rival bill (S-93) to more closely align Vermont with privacy laws in other New England states.
Utah could soon add a right to correct inaccurate information to its comprehensive privacy law. The Utah legislature Thursday passed HB-418, which would also require social media data portability and interoperability (see 2502280057).
Lead sponsors of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) haven't had substantive discussions about reintroducing the bill in the House, Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., told us in a recent interview.
West Virginia should have a comprehensive privacy law just like the one in Virginia, state Rep. Daniel Linville (R) said at a House Energy Committee hearing Thursday.
The Kentucky Senate Economic Development Committee unanimously supported a healthcare tweak to its comprehensive privacy law Thursday. Rep. Joshua Branscum (R) described his bill HB-473 as doing “minor cleanup” at the livestreamed hearing.
Expect the Trump administration’s FTC to take a less aggressive approach to privacy enforcement than the prior administration, a former FTC enforcer said at a BBB National Programs webinar Thursday. Meanwhile, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has focused on enforcement claims related to geolocation data, said Tyler Bridegan, who heads that state’s privacy enforcement unit.
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.