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Wave of AI Bills to Continue Next Year As of early September, more than 30 states had passed artificial intelligence-related bills or resolutions this year, according to the National Conference of State...
MI Addresses Multiple Healthcare Issues Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed over half a dozen bills dealing with healthcare and family support. The measures include SB 790 and SB 791 , allowing home help...
In recent years, the boardroom has become a new front in the culture wars alongside a cacophony of three-letter acronyms. DEI, ESG and CSR. These buzzwords—short for diversity, equity and inclusion;...
Statehouse Shift Ahead for Earned Wage Access? In recent years earned wage access apps, which allow workers to obtain access to their earnings before they receive their paychecks, have exploded in popularity...
SD to Consider App- and Device-Based Age Verification Legislation in 2025 The South Dakota Legislature’s Study Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Regulation of Internet Access by Minors voted...
Tech trade association NetChoice has become the chief litigator for the industry. In the last few years the organization has filed 10 lawsuits aimed at blocking new state laws relating mostly to social media and children’s online safety, and it has won temporary injunctions in nine cases, most recently in Utah, where a federal judge blocked implementation of SB 194 on the grounds that it likely violates the First Amendment.
More lawsuits could also be on the way, with the group having set up a litigation center for tech lawsuits in March 2023 and currently eyeing newly enacted laws in Florida (HB 3) and New York (SB 7694 and SB 7695). (PLURIBUS NEWS, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
A bipartisan group of 42 state attorneys general sent a letter to congressional leaders calling on them to pass legislation requiring social media platforms to display a warning from the surgeon general that they may be harmful to youth, as proposed by Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. “Young people are facing a mental health crisis, which is fueled in large part by social media,” the letter stated. (HILL)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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