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Wave of Chatbot Bills Coming Next Year State lawmakers are preparing to introduce a wave of measures in 2026 aimed at regulating AI chatbots, following the lead of California and New York, which enacted...
OH Seeks to Loosen Hourly Work Restrictions for Minors Ohio lawmakers took action this month to extend the hours minors can work in the state. On Nov. 7 they passed a bill ( SB 50 ) that would allow...
A relatively new type of government board took unprecedented action in Colorado last month when it placed an upper limit on the price of an arthritis and autoimmune disease medication. The state’s...
STATE NET® THOUGHT LEADERSHIP SERIES How Historical Adoption Rates Hold the Key to Forecasting Future Regulatory Action Just as state legislatures vary in their bill passage rates, some state agencies...
Judge Strikes Down Part of MD Digital Ad Tax Law A federal judge struck down a provision of Maryland’s first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax law that prohibited online companies from notifying...
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California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signed AB 325, making it a violation of the state’s antitrust law, the Cartwright Act, “to use or distribute a common pricing algorithm as part of a contract, combination in the form of a trust, or conspiracy to restrain trade or commerce.” California is one of eight states that joined a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit last year alleging real estate software and analytics company RealPage sold software to landlords allowing them to use a shared algorithm to set prices. (REGISTER, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Lawmakers in four states have introduced measures this year aimed at designating artificial intelligence systems as “nonsentient. The most recent is Ohio’s HB 469, introduced last month, which would bar AI systems from being “granted the status of person or any form of legal personhood” or being “considered to possess consciousness, self-awareness, or similar traits of living beings. (PLURIBUS NEWS, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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