Kentucky tweaked its comprehensive privacy law to flesh out an exemption for data subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Gov. Andy Beshear (D) signed the amendment (HB-473) to the 2024 privacy law Saturday after it passed the legislature unanimously (see 2503130017).
The Massachusetts Senate will try to reach consensus on comprehensive privacy legislation this spring, two state senators told us. Privacy Daily has counted eight comprehensive privacy bills so far in the Massachusetts legislature, with four apiece in the House and the Senate.
As the Vermont Senate Institutions Committee cleared a comprehensive privacy bill (S-71) in a 5-0 vote Friday, Chair Wendy Harrison (D) reminded colleagues that the legislature is in the “middle of the process.” A day earlier, the panel replaced the legislation's language with that of an industry-favored bill (S-93), which consumer privacy advocates have called weak (see 2503130053).
Washington state senators voted 36-12 Wednesday for a kids privacy bill (SB-5708).
A healthcare tweak to Kentucky’s comprehensive privacy law passed the legislature. Gov. Andy Beshear (D) will consider the bill next.
In an apparent win for industry, the Vermont Senate Institutions Committee voted 5-0 Thursday to replace the text of a comprehensive privacy bill (S-71) with that of S-93. S-93, which the Vermont Chamber of Commerce and other business groups preferred, lacks a private right of action and is much like Connecticut's privacy law.
Vermont Republicans objected to an age-appropriate design code bill (S-69) on the Senate floor Wednesday. State senators voted 25-5 to amend the bill as previously recommended by the Institutions Committee, and then voted by voice to move the bill to a third reading. That action procedurally sets up a final vote, expected Thursday.
Nobody at a hearing Tuesday opposed forcing data brokers, when registering in Texas, to include a link to the broker's website that instructs consumers about exercising their data privacy rights under the state’s comprehensive privacy law.
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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.