Proposed State AI Law Update: April 20, 2026
Nebraska (chatbot) and Maine (health) enacted laws last week, while more than a dozen bills advanced in other states....By: Troutman Pepper Locke
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Nebraska (chatbot) and Maine (health) enacted laws last week, while more than a dozen bills advanced in other states....By: Troutman Pepper Locke
The 2026 regular session of the Mississippi Legislature ended last month, and with a special session called by the governor for this month now cancelled, a legislative recap is in...
In its 2026 session, the Maryland General Assembly passed several significant pieces of legislation that, if enacted, will impact private employers in Maryland, including one that...
A Maryland law titled the Franchise Reform Act has advanced through both chambers of the state’s legislature. The bill, one of a few moving through capitols across the country, wou...
Read ArticleNow that everyone has had a chance to breathe with the 2026 legislative session out of the way, here's a look at the outcome of 80 bills and measures considered this ye...
New State Laws Land Blows Against Shared Governance, Tenure Ryan Quinn Thu, 04/30/2026 - 03:00 AM Many legislatures have wrapped up their regular session...
Bills advanced last week in Connecticut, Colorado, and California while Florida lawmakers will return for a special session this week and consider an AI Bill of Rights....By: Trout...
State and local legislatures were active throughout the first quarter of 2026 in passing employment laws and ordinances concerning topics such as youth employment, workplace electr...
Recent Developments In March 2026, the Texas Attorney General issued a press release and proposed rules to implement and enforce SB 17, providing our first substantive insight into...
The 2026 General Assembly session adjourned sine die (meaning with no appointed day for resumption) on Saturday, March 14th, 2026. This was the 407th session of the Virginia Genera...
Colorado’s legislature passed an age attestation bill while Michigan’s Senate passed a Kid’s Code Act. Below is the sixteenth update on the status of proposed state privacy legisl...
The Hawaiʻi State Legislature has finalized passage of a broad package of health-related measures, with bills from the House Committee on Health and the Senate Committee on Health...
Connecticut’s Senate passed a bill to amend the state’s consumer data privacy law and create a new data broker registration law while bills advanced in California, Colorado, Delawa...
As readers know, I rarely blog more than once a week, but it does happen from time to time. This week is a really good week for me to blog twice because the Georgia legislature jus...
Legal obligations for employers typically concern topics like paid sick leave, antidiscrimination protection, and pay equity, but each year legislation also addresses niche or emer...
Colorado S.B. 26-164 (Dead) We are hearing from reliable sources on the ground that S.B. 26-164 is no longer advancing and is effectively considered dead for this session. While di...
Just two months into New Jersey’s 2026 legislative session, state lawmakers are advancing a slate of bills that could have significant implications for employers, including several...
Highlights On Feb. 10, 2026, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 25 (SB 25) into law, making California the third — and by far the largest — state to adopt a br...
Earlier this month, Virginia (HB 665), Kentucky (SB 189) and Wisconsin (Act 226) enacted new laws regulating virtual currency kiosks, collectively imposing licensing, disclosure, t...
California legislators are advancing the proposed Private Equity Sunshine Act (SB 1319) amending the California Public Records Act to require expanded disclosure by California publ...
Whether enacted individually or collectively, these measures would introduce new limits on association authority, create a state-level complaint process, and restrict HOA’s ability...
On April 20, 2026, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara submitted the final rulemaking package for the Intervenor and Administrative Hearing Bureau (AHB) Fairness and Acc...
As the Illinois General Assembly draws closer to concluding its 2026 spring legislative session, there are a number of outstanding bills likely to be considered that would have a s...
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