Legislation that would amend the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act passed the House unanimously Friday with a 99-0 vote, and now returns to the Senate with amendments. SB-297, sponsored by Sen. Daniel Zolnikov (R), would add child protections, halve the comprehensive privacy law’s 60-day right to cure, slash the legislation’s applicability thresholds and tighten exemptions (see 2502130054). Previously, the Senate unanimously passed updates to the law as well (see 2502240069).
Three amendments to a bill that would ban tech companies from collecting, retaining and disclosing minors' data, except in a few outlined situations, passed by a voice vote in the Arkansas House Aging, Children and Youth & Legislative Affairs Committee Monday. Rep. Zack Gramlich (R), one of the bill's sponsors, said the amendments served to clarify language and definitions in the bill.
A proposed expansion of Connecticut’s comprehensive privacy law “will make it difficult for companies to use consumer data responsibly to grow their business,” Connecticut business association CBIA warned Friday.
An Arkansas comprehensive privacy bill (SB-258) failed again to get enough votes to pass the Senate on Thursday.
FTC Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya on Friday asked a federal court to expedite their reinstatement at the agency, arguing the law is clear that their firings were illegal.
Comprehensive privacy laws in Texas and Kentucky are viewed as “betting favorites” to serve as potential models for a federal privacy law, Texas’ Privacy Enforcement Director Tyler Bridegan said Thursday.
A comprehensive privacy bill cleared the Oklahoma House Government Modernization and Technology Committee on an 8-0 vote Wednesday, despite the bill's sponsor admitting more work is needed.
An Arkansas comprehensive privacy bill nearly died Tuesday evening due to many state senators not voting for or against the measure on the floor.
Several Massachusetts lawmakers supported passing privacy legislation Wednesday. However, at a lengthy livestreamed hearing, members of the legislature’s Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology said little about how they might coalesce around a plethora of comprehensive and narrower privacy bills that came up for discussion.
A Democrat and a Republican testified together at a hearing Tuesday in support of an opt-in bill meant to enhance New Hampshire’s comprehensive privacy law. The state’s Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony on HB-195, which passed the House on a bipartisan basis March 26 despite industry arguments that supplementing the state’s comprehensive privacy law is unnecessary (see 2503270021). The committee also considered a House-passed government privacy bill (HB-522).