Keypoint: Last week, the Colorado legislature passed an amendment to the state’s data privacy law, the Texas legislature passed a bill regulating app stores, and there were developments with bills in Connecticut, Maine, New York and South Carolina.
Below is the eighteenth weekly update on the status of proposed state privacy legislation in 2025. As always, the contents provided below are time-sensitive and subject to change.
Table of Contents
- What’s New
- AI Bills
- Bill Tracker Chart
1. What’s New
The Colorado legislature passed SB 276 prior to closing on May 7. The bill amends the Colorado Privacy Act’s (CPA) definition of sensitive data to include precise geolocation data. It also amends the CPA to provide that a controller cannot sell a consumer’s sensitive data without first obtaining consent.
In Connecticut, Senator Maroney filed an updated version of the Connecticut privacy law amendments (SB 1356). The bill could be voted out of the Senate as early as next week.
In Maine, the Judiciary committee held a hearing on the three consumer data privacy bills introduced in the state – LD 1224, LD 1088, and LD 1822. Maine has one again emerged as a hotbed for competing priorities with the committee received testimony from numerous interested parties.
In biometric privacy bill developments, New York‘s S1422 passed out of the Senate Consumer Protection committee and was referred to the Internet and Technology committee.
Turning to kid’s privacy bills, the South Carolina Social Media Regulation Act (H3431) unanimously passed the Senate on May 6. The bill was sent back to the House for concurrence in the Senate amendments. However, the bill failed to pass the House prior to the legislature closing on May 8. Meanwhile, the Texas legislature passed SB 2420 (app store verification).
Finally, in data broker developments, a hearing in the Texas House Trade, Workforce, and Economic Development committee was held on SB 1343 and SB 2121 on May 7. The bills, which previously passed the Senate, were left pending in committee.
2. AI Bills
Our latest edition of Byte Back AI is now available to subscribers. Subscriptions start as low as $50/month. In this edition, we provide:
- Updates on new laws enacted in Arizona, Oklahoma, Montana, and Tennessee, bills passing out of the legislatures in Colorado, Arizona, and South Carolina, and bills crossing chambers in Rhode Island, Texas and South Carolina.
- A rundown of what happened with the Colorado AI Act last week prior to the Colorado legislature closing for the year.
- Our special feature the week – a summary of Montana’s Right to Compute Act.
- Our “three things to know this week.”
- An updated state AI bill tracker chart.
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3. Bill Tracker Chart
For more information on all of the privacy bills introduced to date, including links to the bills, bill status, last action, and hearing dates, please see our bill tracker chart.