Consumer Affairs
Alaska 34th Legislature
Omnibus Insurance Bill [SB-132]
[Insurance ]
An Act relating to insurance; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Effective Date(s) Of Law See Chapter on 06/25/2025
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New Jersey 2024-2025 Regular Session
Prohibits sweepstakes model of wagering; establishes new penalties for unlawful gambling operations and practices; directs Division of Consumer Affairs and Division of Gaming Enforcement to enforce penalties. [AB-5447]
[Gaming ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Crime ]
Prohibits sweepstakes model of wagering; establishes new penalties for unlawful gambling operations and practices; directs Division of Consumer Affairs and Division of Gaming Enforcement to enforce penalties.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shirley Turner
Passed By The Assembly (69-10-1) on 06/30/2025
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New Jersey 2024-2025 Regular Session
Prohibits self-service storage facilities from charging certain punitive fees to consumers paying with vouchers under certain circumstances. [AB-5406]
[Consumer Protection ]
Prohibits self-service storage facilities from charging certain punitive fees to consumers paying with vouchers under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Verlina Reynolds-Jackson
Introduced, Referred To Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee on 03/06/2025
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New Jersey 2024-2025 Regular Session
Requires cancellation option for any subscription service and establishes certain standards pertaining to use of negative option features. [AB-5395]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
Requires cancellation option for any subscription service and establishes certain standards pertaining to use of negative option features.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Karabinchak
Senate Amendment (voice) (ruiz) on 06/30/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Digital Product Repair [SB-111]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Small Business ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Trade ]
An Act relating to the diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of products that use digital electronics to operate; adding an unlawful act to the Alaska Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Sen. Forrest Dunbar
Cra Rpt Cs 2nr 2dp Same Title on 04/09/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Tax Exemption: Small Business [HB-113]
[Taxes ]
[Small Business ]
An Act relating to a tax exemption for qualified small businesses; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Rep.
L&c Rpt Cs(l&c) New Title 4dp 3am on 03/10/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to online protections for minors. [HB-12]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; prohibit a minor under 14 years old from contracting with a social media platform to become an account holder; require social media platforms to terminate any account held by an account holder younger than 14 years old; prohibit minors who are 14 or 15 years old from contracting with a social media platform to become an account holder without parental consent; require social media platforms to terminate the account of any minor under 15 years old if requested by a parent or the minor account
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Sponsored by: Rep. Matt Lockett
Taken From Small Business & Information Technology (h) on 03/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the protection of veterans' benefits. [HB-736]
[Veterans ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Military ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 40 to limit the compensation for advising or assisting with veterans' benefits; prohibit persons seeking compensation for advising, assisting, or consulting on a veterans' benefits matter from utilizing international call or data centers, directly or aggressively soliciting business, gaining access to personal medical, financial, or benefits log-in or password information, charging late fees, and utilizing a doctor with whom they have an employment or business relationship; limit the fee for representation; provide
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Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew Koch
Taken From Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 03/05/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hospital price transparency. [SB-243]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define terms; require hospitals to disclose prices for certain items and services provided by hospitals; require hospitals to provide descriptions of different services and standard charges of those services; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations, monitor each facility's compliance, and provide administrative penalties; prohibit collective action of debt for noncompliant facilities.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
To Health Services (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the protection of veterans' benefits. [SB-198]
[Veterans ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 40 to impose restrictions on persons seeking to receive compensation for advising or assisting with veterans' benefits claims; provide that attorneys and law firms seeking to receive compensation shall be governed by 38 C.F.R. sec.14.636.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
2nd Reading, To Rules on 02/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to property rights to the use of an individual's image. [SB-7]
[Data Privacy ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to define terms; establish that every individual has property rights to images of his or her unclothed body; establish how those property rights may be transferred or terminated; provide for liability, enforcement, and damages resulting from a violation of those property rights.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Received In House on 03/06/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to trade practices. [HB-548]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Insurance ]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Construction ]
[Trade ]
[Property Tax ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to define “prohibited advertisement” and “solicit”; prohibit a person from soliciting residential property owners with a prohibited advertisement, offering value in exchange for inspecting residential property owner's roof, offering value in exchange for making an insurance claim for damage to the residential property owner's roof, and providing an agreement authorizing repairs to a residential property owner's roof pursuant to a property insurance claim without providing a good-faith estimate of itemized
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the towing and storage of motor vehicles. [HB-493]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Insurance ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 281.630 to establish a towing and storage facility certificate and require applicants for a towing and storage facility certificate to file a rate sheet with the application and renewal for the certificate; amend KRS 281.631 to set a fee of $10 for motor carrier plates for tow trucks; amend KRS 281.928 to require an entity requesting a vehicle in a storage facility to be held pending a civil or criminal investigation to notify the owner, lienholder, and insurer of a vehicle with 24 hours of a hold being initiated or released; amend KRS
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Pollock
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 152) on 04/01/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to consumer data privacy. [HB-473]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 367.3613 to exempt information collected by a health care provider that maintains protected health information in accordance with HIPAA and information included in a limited data set as described in 45 C.F.R. sec.164.514(e); amend KRS 367.3621 to make a technical change to include a data protection impact assessment of processing of personal data for the purposes of profiling where the profiling presents a foreseeable risk of an unlawful disparate impact on consumers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela Stevenson
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 13) on 03/15/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to kratom products. [HB-481]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 217.2202 to eliminate the prohibition on kratom extracts and kratom products that contain greater than two percent 7-hydroxymitragynine; amend KRS 217.2203 to establish that products that contain greater than two percent 7-hydroxymitragynine shall comply with labeling requirements for kratom products but shall not be labeled or marketed as a kratom product; amend KRS 217.2205 to establish that that products that contain greater than two percent 7-hydroxymitragynine shall be subject to administrative regulations promulgated by the Department
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Health Services (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to retail installment contracts. [SB-145]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Finance ]
Amend KRS 190.100 to authorize holders of retail installment contracts that utilize installment periods that are under 28 days to have a shorter waiting period prior to charging a delinquency and collection fee.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 55) on 03/24/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Org. Retail Theft/fund;mktplace Sales Tax [HB-97]
[Crime ]
[Taxes ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
An Act relating to theft; relating to organized retail theft; relating to property crimes; relating to aggravating factors at sentencing; establishing a statewide marketplace facilitator sales tax; and establishing the organized retail theft fund in the general fund.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Fields
Jud Rpt Cs(jud) New Title 4dp 1nr on 05/02/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Marijuana: Tax/registration; Income Tax [HB-94]
[Cannabis ]
[Taxes ]
[Small Business ]
An Act relating to the registration of marijuana establishments; relating to a tax exemption for qualified small businesses; relating to marijuana taxes; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Tomaszewski
Read The First Time - Referrals on 02/12/2025
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New Jersey 2024-2025 Regular Session
Limits general application of certain consumer contracts. [AB-5322]
[Consumer Protection ]
Limits general application of certain consumer contracts.
Sponsored by: Rep. Gregory McGuckin
Substituted By S3928 on 05/22/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Marijuana: Tax/retail Stores/registration [HB-91]
[Cannabis ]
[Taxes ]
[Small Business ]
[Public Health ]
An Act relating to the lawful operation of retail marijuana stores; relating to marijuana cultivation; relating to the registration of marijuana establishments; relating to marijuana taxes; relating to the duties of the Department of Revenue; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ashley Carrick
Sta Rpt Cs(sta) 4dp 2nr 1am on 03/12/2025