Consumer Protection
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Department of Commerce - Complaint Portal and Annual Report [SB-496]
Requiring the Department of Commerce to create and maintain a complaint portal for reporting when a governmental unit takes longer than 60 days to process an application for a license, form, certificate, certification, permit, or registration for a business or nonprofit organization; and requiring the Department, by September 15, 2025, and each September 15 thereafter, to submit an annual report to certain committees of the General Assembly on the complaints filed through the portal.
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Gettr Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases - Prospective Tenant Criminal History Records Check (Maryland Fair Chance Housing Act) [SB-514]
Prohibiting a landlord from requiring or requesting from a prospective tenant certain information relating to criminal history and prohibiting a landlord from considering certain information when evaluating the prospective tenant; permitting a landlord to consider certain criminal history information prior to extending a conditional offer to a prospective tenant and requiring the landlord to consider certain information provided by a prospective tenant relating to a criminal history records check; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Insurance - Utilization Review - Exemption for Participation in Value-Based Care Arrangements [HB-659]
Prohibiting certain carriers from imposing a prior authorization, step therapy, or quantity limit requirement on eligible providers for health care services that are included in a two-sided incentive arrangement.
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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 47, relative to lighters. [HB-343]
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.
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Utah 2025 General Session
Product Liability Amendments [SB-160]
Product Liability Amendments
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the regulation of earned wage access services; providing an administrative penalty. [HB-2043]
Relating to the regulation of earned wage access services; providing an administrative penalty.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Financial Exploitation of Vulnerable and Senior Adults [HB-604]
Prohibiting a person who is a caregiver to or a family member or household member of an individual from knowingly and willfully obtaining the property of the individual with the intent to deprive the individual of the individual's property if the individual is a vulnerable adult or an individual of at least 68 years of age and the person knows or reasonably should know the individual is a vulnerable adult of at least 68 years of age; and providing certain penalties for a violation of the Act.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Insurance - Adverse Decisions - Notices, Reporting, and Examinations [SB-474]
Requiring that certain adverse decision and grievance decision notices include certain information in a certain manner; requiring certain carriers, if the number of adverse decisions issued by the carrier for a type of service has grown by more than 10% in the immediately preceding calendar year or 25% in the immediately preceding 3 calendar years, to provide certain information to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner; and authorizing the Commissioner to use certain adverse decision information as the basis of a certain examination.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Insurance - Genetic Testing and Cancer Imaging - Required Coverage and Prohibited Cost-Sharing [SB-476]
Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for genetic testing for certain individuals who may have an increased risk of developing cancer and follow-up evidence-based cancer imaging for individuals with an increased risk of developing cancer; and prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a copayment, coinsurance, or deductible requirement on the coverage.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Insurance - Utilization Review - Exemption for Participation in Value-Based Care Arrangements [SB-475]
Prohibiting certain carriers from imposing a prior authorization, step therapy, or quantity limit requirement on eligible providers for health care services that are included in a two-sided incentive arrangement.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Statute of Limitations - Prosecution or Enforcement of Local Consumer Protection Codes [HB-591]
Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for the prosecution or suit for enforcement of local consumer protection codes for which equitable relief, a fine, or a penalty is provided.
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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 9; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 56, relative to consumer protection. [HB-316]
As introduced, reduces, from $100 billion to $50 billion, the amount of assets held by a state or national bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, credit union, industrial loan and thrift, or mortgage lender that are necessary to fall within the definition of a financial institution for purposes of the application of certain consumer protections. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 56.
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Montana 2025 Regular Session
Regulate sales of certain products containing PFAs [HB-290]
Regulate sales of certain products containing PFAs
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Utah 2025 General Session
Recovery Residence Services Amendments [HB-296]
Recovery Residence Services Amendments
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Utah 2025 General Session
Nonpublic Personal Information Amendments [SB-150]
Nonpublic Personal Information Amendments
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Arizona Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)
Litigation; financing; consumer protection; enforcement [SB-1215]
Litigation; financing; consumer protection; enforcement
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Empowering New Energy Resources and Green Initiatives Toward a Zero-Emission (ENERGIZE) Maryland Act [SB-434]
Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standard; altering the contents of and approval criteria for an application for an offshore wind project; establishing a process for the Public Service Commission to review and approve an application for a proposed nuclear energy generation project; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Financial Exploitation of Vulnerable and Senior Adults [SB-466]
Prohibiting a person who is a caregiver to or a family member or household member of an individual from knowingly and willfully exerting unauthorized control over and obtaining the property of the individual with intent to deprive the individual of the individual's property under certain circumstances; providing penalties for a violation of the Act; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Empowering New Energy Resources and Green Initiatives Toward a Zero-Emission (ENERGIZE) Maryland Act [HB-505]
Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standard; altering the contents of and approval criteria for an application for an offshore wind project; establishing a process for the Public Service Commission to review and approve an application for a proposed nuclear energy generation project; etc.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Labeling. [HB-918]
Establishes labeling requirements for certain premoistened nonwoven disposable wipes. Requires certain manufacturers of covered products to submit for approval, their "DO NOT FLUSH" label notices and symbols to the United States Environmental Protection Agency by 1/1 2026. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)