Consumer Protection
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Data Brokers - Registry and Gross Income Tax (Building Information Guardrails Data Act of 2025) [SB-904]
[Data Privacy ]
[Taxes ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
Establishing the Privacy Protection and Enforcement Unit within the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General; establishing a data broker registry; requiring certain data brokers to register each year with the Comptroller; and imposing a tax on the gross income of certain data brokers for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2026.
Sponsored by: Sen. James C. Rosapepe
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. (budget And Taxation) on 02/05/2025
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Gettr Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Consumer Protection - Third-Party Litigation Financing [SB-985]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Finance ]
Prohibiting certain litigation financiers from engaging in certain conduct with respect to litigation financing transactions and certain litigation financing contracts; requiring that the litigation financing contracts contain certain disclosures and be executed in a certain manner; requiring a certain disclosure of a litigation financing contract in certain civil actions; and imposing a fiduciary duty on litigation financiers in certain class actions.
Sponsored by: Sen. Alonzo T. Washington
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Veterans Benefits Matters – Claim Servicers – Prohibitions and Requirements [SB-928]
[Veterans ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Establishing prohibitions and requirements regarding compensation for certain services related to veterans benefits matters; prohibiting a person that is not V.A. accredited from making certain guarantees; providing for the enforcement of the Act under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act; and repealing certain advertising and disclosure requirements for veterans benefits services and veterans benefits appeals services.
Sponsored by: Sen. William C. Smith
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Consumer Protection - High-Risk Artificial Intelligence - Developer and Deployer Requirements [SB-936]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Data Privacy ]
Requiring a certain developer of, and a certain deployer who uses, a certain high-risk artificial intelligence system to use reasonable care to protect consumers from known and reasonably foreseeable risks of certain algorithmic discrimination in a certain high-risk artificial intelligence system; regulating the use of high-risk artificial intelligence systems by establishing certain requirements for disclosures, impact assessments, and other consumer protection provisions; authorizing the Attorney General to enforce the Act; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Sara Norris Love
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Manufacturers and Dealers - Prices Listed on Dealer Websites [SB-834]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Providing that a manufacturer, distributor, or factory branch may not take an adverse action against a dealer for disclosing on its website that the advertised price of a vehicle is the manufacturer's minimum allowable advertised price and that the dealer may offer a lower price for the vehicle.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff D. Waldstreicher
Second Reading Passed on 04/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Insurance and Family Planning Services – Consumer Protections – Updates [SB-940]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Updating references to federal law related to family planning services, grandfathered plans, explanation of benefits, summaries of benefits and coverage, medical loss ratios, catastrophic plans, annual limits for cost sharing, prescription drugs, and rescissions; providing that the Maryland Insurance Commissioner and the Commission on Civil Rights have concurrent jurisdiction to enforce certain provisions of law related to discrimination in health insurance; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Antonio Hayes
Hearing 2/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 47, Chapter 18, relative to debt resolution services. [HB-743]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Finance ]
As enacted, enacts the "Debt Resolution Services Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kelly Keisling
Effective Date(s) 07/01/2025, 01/01/2026 on 04/28/2025
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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 9 and Title 47, relative to consumer protection. [HB-668]
[Consumer Protection ]
As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45 days, the amount of time a person who purchases, subscribes to, or receives products, services, or membership in an organization by negotiating an unsolicited negotiable instrument has from the date of the first statement or bill for the purchase, subscription, service, product, or membership to cancel the services, subscription, or membership, or return the product. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 47.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bud Hulsey
Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/c Banking And Consumer Affairs Subcommittee Of Commerce Committee on 03/12/2025
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North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act [HB-38]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Finance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Hugh Blackwell
Ref To Com On Rules And Operations Of The Senate on 04/30/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Consumer Protection - Credit Reporting - Medical Debt (Fair Medical Debt Reporting Act) [HB-1020]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Healthcare ]
[Data Privacy ]
Prohibiting a consumer reporting agency from furnishing any consumer report containing certain adverse information relating to a consumer's medical debt, or any collection action against a consumer for medical debt, or maintain a file on a consumer related to medical debt or collections; prohibiting a person from using medical debt information from a consumer report for certain purposes; prohibiting a health care facility, a health care practitioner, or an ambulance service from disclosing medical debt to a consumer reporting agency; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Julie Palakovich Carr
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 121 on 04/22/2025
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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 47, Chapter 18, relative to consumer data. [SB-663]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
As introduced, authorizes a consumer to designate an authorized agent who may opt the consumer out of the processing of the consumer’s personal data; requires a controller to comply with an opt-out request from an authorized agent if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
Sponsored by: Sen. Heidi Campbell
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Commerce And Labor Committee on 02/12/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the regulation of residential solar retail transactions; requiring an occupational registration; authorizing fees; providing civil and administrative penalties. [SB-1036]
[Energy ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Construction ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Safety ]
Relating to the regulation of residential solar retail transactions; requiring an occupational registration; authorizing fees; providing civil and administrative penalties.
Sponsored by: Sen. Judith Zaffirini
See Remarks For Effective Date on 06/20/2025
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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 47, Chapter 18, relative to consumer data. [HB-630]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
As introduced, authorizes a consumer to designate an authorized agent who may opt the consumer out of the processing of the consumer’s personal data; requires a controller to comply with an opt-out request from an authorized agent if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Ray Clemmons
Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/c Banking And Consumer Affairs Subcommittee Of Commerce Committee on 03/12/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Benefit Plans - Calculation of Cost-Sharing Contribution - Requirements [SB-773]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to include certain discounts, financial assistance payments, product vouchers, and other out-of-pocket expenses made by or on behalf of an insured or enrollee when calculating certain cost-sharing contributions for certain prescription drugs; providing that a violation of the Act is considered a violation of the Consumer Protection Act; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen S Hershey
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 692 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Insurance - Cancellation and Nonrenewal of Coverage - Required Notice [HB-936]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Small Business ]
Requiring that a carrier provide notice by certain electronic means, in addition to written notice, of cancellation or nonrenewal of a small group market health benefit plan and include information regarding additional health benefit coverage options in the notice; and applying the Act to all policies, contracts, and health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed in the State on or after January 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 744 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Condominiums and Homeowners Associations - Elections, Financial Statements, and Enforcement [SB-758]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Establishing certain requirements for elections of the governing body of a condominium or homeowners association; requiring that the governing body of a condominium accommodate unit owner organizing activities relating to the governance of the condominium; prohibiting unit owners and lot owners from being charged for examining certain records of the condominium or homeowners association in a certain manner; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl C. Kagan
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 512 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Health - Phenibut Consumer Protection Act (JT Alvey Phenibut Consumer Protection Act) [HB-996]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring a retailer that prepares, distributes, sells, or exposes for sale a phenibut product to disclose the factual basis on which any representations regarding the phenibut product are made; establishing prohibitions related to the preparation, distribution, and sale of phenibut products, including prohibitions related to the sale of phenibut to individuals under the age of 21 years and the marketing of phenibut to minors; establishing certain penalties for violations of the Act; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 704 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Consumer Protection - Workgroup on Artificial Intelligence Implementation [HB-956]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
Establishing the Workgroup on Artificial Intelligence Implementation; requiring the Workgroup to monitor and make recommendations related to the regulation of artificial intelligence, consumer protection, current private sector use of artificial intelligence, enforcement authority for the Office of the Attorney General's Office of Consumer Protection, and impact in the determination of government benefits; and requiring the Workgroup to make its recommendations to certain committees of the General Assembly by July 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. C.T. Wilson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 105 on 04/22/2025
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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 47, relative to consumer protection. [SB-529]
[Consumer Protection ]
As enacted, revises one of the definitions of a "nonprofit organization" for purposes of the Tennessee Information Protection Act to mean a public utility organized or regulated, instead of only organized, under the laws of this state. - Amends TCA Title 47.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Stevens
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 201 on 04/28/2025
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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 47, relative to lighters. [SB-512]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
As enacted, prohibits persons from selling, offering for sale, or offering a free sample of counterfeit lighters and unsafe lighters. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 47.
Sponsored by: Sen. Paul E. Bailey
Effective Date(s) 07/1/2025 on 03/21/2025