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CT Senate Passes Sweeping Consumer Protection Bill The Connecticut Senate passed an expansive consumer protection bill ( SB 5 ). Among other things, the measure would require service providers such as...
Social Media Warning Label Legislation Catching on in States Although Congress hasn’t responded to former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s call last June to take up legislation requiring...
OR Lawmakers Pass Age Discrimination Bill Oregon’s legislature passed a bill ( HB 3187 ) that would prohibit an employer from requesting an applicant’s age, date of birth or date of graduation...
WI Assembly Passes Multiple Healthcare Bills Wisconsin’s Assembly passed multiple healthcare-related bills with broad bipartisan support. One ( AB 43 ) would allow pharmacists to prescribe birth...
A nightmare may be coming to life for social media companies in Minnesota. There, Democrats in the state Legislature have embraced a pioneering bill, SB 3197 , which seeks to levy the nation’s...
Indiana’s Senate passed a bill (SB 11) that would prohibit social media companies from allowing those under the age of 16 from accessing their platforms without parental consent. A provision that would have allowed parents or guardians to sue for violations was stripped from the measure in committee. But the bill would still allow the state’s attorney general to initiate civil investigations of potential violations, which could result in penalties of up to $250,000. (INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE)
A bill (HB 2664 [2024]) introduced in Pennsylvania in November that would have authorized the state’s treasurer and public pension funds to invest in bitcoin failed to make it out of committee before the legislative session ended. But the measure’s sponsor, Rep. Mike Cabell (R), said the proposal was likely to be reintroduced by a colleague this year. And the bitcoin advocacy group Satoshi Action said it expected legislation based on its model bill to be introduced in at least 10 other states. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
North Dakota’s House Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a bill (HB 1386) that would prohibit artificial intelligence-generated content depicting child sex abuse. The number of reports of such content in the state has tripled since 2020. (FARGO FORUM)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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