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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...
Meta, Snap and X are lobbying in favor of a bill in South Dakota (SB 180) that would require app stores to verify the age of users instead of social media platforms. The development sets up a potential battle with Apple and Google, the former of which helped kill similar legislation in Louisiana last year. (PLURIBUS NEWS, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Virginia’s Democrat-controlled legislature approved a first-of-its-kind bill (SB 854) that would limit minors’ use of social media to an hour a day per service or app, unless their parents give consent for more or less time. The measure now goes to Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) for approval. (REALRADIO804, RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Virginia’s General Assembly also passed a bill (HB 2094) that would require developers of artificial intelligence for automated decision-making in employment, finance, healthcare and other sectors to “use a reasonable duty of care to protect consumers from any known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination.” If signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), Virginia would become the second state, after Colorado, to approve such anti-discrimination restrictions. (BLOOMBERG, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
A bill (LB 229) to classify drivers for companies like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash as independent contractors instead of employees advanced in Nebraska’s Legislature, despite a filibuster from labor-supporting lawmakers. Freshman Sen. Bob Hallstrom (R), who introduced the measure at the request of ride-share and food delivery companies, said it clarifies that the status quo is how such businesses should be run, allowing drivers to work when they want. (NEBRASKA EXAMINER)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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