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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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Minnesota enacted a first-in-the-nation provision (HB 2 a/SB 6 a) requiring social media platforms to display mental health warning labels each time users access the platforms. Warning label legislation is also under consideration in California and New York. (CBS17, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
The New York Legislature passed first-of-its-kind legislation (SB 6953) regulating so-called frontier artificial intelligence models. If signed into law the measure would require developers of AI models costing more than $100 million to train to implement safety and security protocols “to prevent unreasonable risk of critical harm,” which it defines as death or serious injury of more than 100 people or at least $1 billion in damages. (PLURIBUS NEWS, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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