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MI to Weigh Ban on Stock Buybacks for Companies Receiving Tax Breaks Michigan Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D) introduced a bill ( SB 783 ) that would prohibit publicly traded companies receiving economic incentives...
VA House Passes Paid Sick Leave Bill Virginia’s House of Delegates approved a bill ( HB 5 ) that would expand the state’s current paid sick leave law, which applies only to a small segment...
VA Lawmakers Okay Prescription Drug Affordability Board Virginia lawmakers have passed legislation ( SB 271 / HB 483 ) that would create a prescription drug affordability board to review drug prices...
Geolocation data has become a new frontier in privacy protection. This year, Virginia could join Maryland and Oregon as the first states to prohibit the sale of information that provides the precise...
Insurance Bill Raises Concerns in FL A fast-moving bill ( SB 1028 ) in Florida, sponsored by Sen. Joe Gruters (R), chairman of the Senate’s Banking and Insurance Committee, would require Citizens...
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Tech industry groups including the Business Software Alliance, the Consumer Technology Association and the Chamber of Progress are stepping up their lobbying efforts in opposition to a slew of California bills aimed at regulating artificial intelligence as lawmakers in the state return from their summer recess. The industry appears to be faring well this year, with only about 120 of the over 1,000 AI-related bills introduced having been enacted. (PLURIBUS NEWS)
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request from tech industry group NetChoice to temporarily block enforcement of a Mississippi law (HB 1126) requiring minors to obtain their parents’ consent before creating a social media account. Justice Brett Kavanaugh issued a brief unsigned order stating that while he concurred with the court’s denial of NetChoice’s application for interim relief because the group had not sufficiently demonstrated that the balance of harms and equities favors it at this time,” the group had in his view “demonstrated that it is likely to succeed on the merits—namely, that enforcement of the Mississippi law would likely violate its members’ First Amendment rights.” (SCOTUS BLOG)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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