State Lawmakers Not Reluctant to Regulate Tech in 2024: All 46 states that held legislative periods this 12 months enacted measures regulating know-how, 238 measures in all, a 163% improve from 2023, based on a brand new report from New York College’s Middle for Social Media and Politics and Middle on Tech Coverage.
Virtually half of the brand new legal guidelines—107 in 41 states—take care of synthetic intelligence, together with a first-in-the-nation complete measure in Colorado (SB 24). One other 48 legal guidelines concern youngsters’s on-line security.
The report additionally famous that 89% of the legal guidelines had been enacted in trifecta states the place the legislature and governor’s workplace are held by a single occasion. California alone enacted 26 new tech legal guidelines. (PURIBUS NEWS, CENTER ON TECH POLICY, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Social Media Warning Label Invoice Launched in CA: California Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D) launched a invoice (AB 56) that might require social media websites to routinely show a warning label stating: “The Surgeon Normal has suggested that there are ample indicators that social media can have a profound threat of hurt to the psychological well being and well-being of kids and adolescents.” The measure is sponsored by California Lawyer Normal Rob Bonta (D). (SACRAMENTO BEE)
Bitcoin Reserve Invoice Prefiled in TX: Texas Rep. Giovanni Capriglione (R) prefiled a invoice (HB 1598) for subsequent 12 months’s session that would supply for the institution of a strategic bitcoin reserve within the state. The measure would permit the state to simply accept taxes, charges and donations in bitcoin that it will maintain for at least 5 years.
In November Pennsylvania Reps. Mike Cabell (R) and Aaron Kaufer (R) launched HB 2664, offering for the institution of a bitcoin reserve in that state by permitting the state treasurer to take a position as much as 10% of the Normal Fund, Wet Day Fund and State Funding Fund in bitcoin and crypto exchange-traded merchandise or ETPs. (CNBC, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
