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TX to Consider Sweeping AI Bill in 2025 Texas Rep. Giovanni Capriglione (R) released draft legislation for the state’s 2025 session that would provide for comprehensive regulation of artificial...
Minimum Wage Measures on Ballot in Multiple States Measures aimed at increasing the minimum wage are on the ballot in six states this year. Voters in Alaska and Missouri will consider raising their minimum...
IL’s New ‘Swipe’ Fee Law Faces Legal Challenge The Illinois Bankers Association and other organizations filed a federal lawsuit to block a new Illinois law limiting banks from charging...
There’s a potential new front opening in the ongoing battle between states and the tech industry over minors’ access to social media, and it comes courtesy of Facebook and Instagram parent...
Battle of Tech Titans Brewing over Age-Gating In response to efforts in multiple states, including Arkansas, California and Texas, to require social media platforms to verify the age of users and obtain...
At least four states have banned or severely restricted the use of smart phones in schools in the current legislative biennium. Florida became the first state to do so last year, and Indiana and Ohio passed bans this year. Meanwhile, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) issued an executive order this month requiring the state’s department of education to set guidelines for making schools cell phone-free, and boards of education in Alabama and South Carolina are working on similar rules. (PLURIBUS NEWS)
Elon Musk announced that he will be moving the headquarters of SpaceX and X from California to Texas in response to a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) last week (AB 1955). In a post on X, Musk said the law, which prohibits school districts from requiring parental notification of a student’s change of gender identification, was “the final straw,” coming after a string of other laws “attacking both families and companies.” (CNBC, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has been called to testify before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security. U.S. Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), chairman of that committee, and U.S. Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), chairman of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, said the company’s faulty software update that caused millions of Microsoft Windows devices to crash this month offers a “warning about the national security risks associated with network dependency.” (CNBC)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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