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Chatbot Bills Near Passage in CA A pair of bills aimed at protecting minors from harm by chatbots are nearing passage in California. Of the two, tech groups favor SB 243 , which would allow citizens...
NM Gov Calls Special Session to Bolster Safety Net New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) announced a special session in October to bolster safety net programs in response to the federal spending...
Political “debanking,” the practice of banks restricting or closing customers’ accounts for political or religious reasons, has once again become a hot topic , thanks to President Donald...
CO Lawmakers Tweak Last Year’s First-In-Nation AI Law In a special session that began last week, Colorado Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez (D) introduced legislation ( SB 4 a ) that would...
States Seek Ways to Replace Expiring Federal Health Subsidies Policymakers in California, Colorado, Maryland and other states are considering ways to backfill pandemic-era federal health insurance subsidies...
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Victims of the Los Angeles wildfires in January have filed a pair of lawsuits claiming USAA, a Texas-based insurer that serves members of the military, and two insurers affiliated with AAA underestimated the replacement cost of their homes for years, leaving them without enough coverage to rebuild their homes. The plaintiffs accuse the insurers of fraud and negligence, among other things, and seek damages as well as reform of the insurers’ practices. (INSURANCE JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES)
North Carolina’s legislature passed a bill that would create a five-member board of appointees to manage the state’s $127 billion in pension funds (HB 506), and the state’s House passed a measure that would allow that board to invest up to 5% of those funds in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin (HB 92). The first measure now goes to Gov. Josh Stein (D), while the second awaits action by the Rules and Operations of the Senate Committee. (NC NEWSLINE, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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