Oregon will add location and child data restrictions to its comprehensive privacy law. Gov. Tina Kotek (D) signed HB-2008 on Tuesday, days after signing another amendment that added automotive rules to the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act.
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Oklahoma legislators wrapped their regular session Friday without agreeing on a comprehensive privacy bill (SB-546). The Senate unanimously passed the bill on March 26, and it cleared a House committee on April 9, but got no further (see 2504250058). Sponsor Sen. Brent Howard (R) and co-sponsor Rep. Josh West (R) didn’t comment Monday. No state has passed a comprehensive privacy law in 2025, though such bills remain pending in multiple states, including Maine, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
New Jersey draft rules for implementing the state’s comprehensive privacy law appeared Monday in the New Jersey Register, as expected (see 2505280058). Comments are due Aug. 1, said the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs document (57 N.J.R. 1101(a)).
Vermont Rep. Monique Priestley (D) posted a new version of her comprehensive privacy bill Friday. However, the legislature doesn’t plan to advance it until next year, following summer talks (see 2505280021).
One of Maine’s two competing comprehensive privacy bills failed to clear the Joint Judiciary Committee during a work session Friday while the other bill was passed as amended.
The Oregon House could soon vote on a Senate-passed bill that would create a new crime for unlawfully disclosing private data. The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted 6-1 to advance SB-1121, which would add a right to cure to the state’s comprehensive privacy law for public broadcasters.
Vermont’s comprehensive privacy bill won’t pass the legislature in 2025, the second year in a row that sweeping legislation by Rep. Monique Priestley (D) has failed to become law. At a livestreamed House Commerce Committee meeting Wednesday, Priestley said legislators “ran out of time” to finish the bill this session, particularly with more pressing housing and education measure before the legislature. However, to tee up summer talks about privacy, Priestley said she plans to post an amendment restoring the Senate bill to the original House version, with some changes.
Long-awaited draft rules to implement New Jersey's comprehensive privacy law surfaced Wednesday. Comments are due Aug. 1, said the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs document, which is expected to be published in the New Jersey Register on Monday.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday signed a law requiring app stores to verify users’ ages (see 2505210015). SB-2420 mandates that app stores obtain parental consent before a minor can download an app.