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States Passing Laws to Aid Small Pharmacies States including Colorado ( HB 1094 ), Georgia ( HB 196 ), Indiana ( SB 140 ), Iowa ( SB 383 ) and Montana (HB 740) have passed laws this year setting minimum...
Child labor may evoke Dickensian images of young children in dirty, oversized clothes laboring in dusty, dangerous workshops. But this year legislators in Florida considered a bill ( SB 918 ) that would...
MN Enacts Nation’s First Social Media Warning Label Requirement Minnesota enacted a first-in-the-nation provision ( HB 2 a / SB 6 a ) requiring social media platforms to display mental health warning...
CA to Investigate State Farm over LA Wildfire Claims California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara (D) announced a “market conduct examination” of State Farm over consumer complaints about...
OR Enacts Nation’s Strongest Corporate Health Care Law Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) signed a bill ( SB 951 ) imposing the toughest regulations on private and corporate control of medical practices...
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California’s Assembly passed a bill (SB 362) that would let consumers request the deletion of data collected on them by third-party brokers with the click of a button, much like the way the Do-Not-Call Registry works. The Delete Act now returns to the Senate—where it was passed on a 32-8 vote in May—for a concurrence vote, after being amended in the Assembly. (PLURIBUS NEWS, STATE NET)
A U.S. District Court judge in California granted tech industry group NetChoice’s motion to temporarily block the state’s first-in-the-nation children’s data privacy law from taking effect next year. U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman said the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, requiring tech companies to implement default privacy settings for minor users, likely violates the First Amendment. (PLURIBUS NEWS)
The Pennsylvania Senate’s Communications and Technology Committee unanimously voted to advance legislation (SB 22) that would prohibit social media platforms from “intentionally, knowingly, recklessly or negligently causing or encouraging” those under the age of 16 to access content that could be harmful to their physical or mental health. The measure would also bar data-mining involving users under 18 and require parental consent for a minor to create a social media account. (PENNSYLVANIA CAPITAL-STAR, STATE NET)
The Department of Homeland Security released a 107-page report aimed at guiding Congress and federal agencies in streamlining cyber reporting requirements. The report states there are currently 45 reporting requirements administered by 22 federal agencies, covering everything from national security to consumer protection, with seven more requirements expected and another five under consideration. (BLOOMBERG)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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