US State Privacy Legislation Tracker 2024

by iapp

View Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Bills by clicking the link below.

Please note: This tracker only includes bills intended to be comprehensive approaches to governing the use of personal information. If a bill does not appear on the tracker, it does not qualify due to its scope, coverage, rights or purpose. Industry-specific, information-specific and narrowly scoped bills, e.g., data security bills, are not included.

View chart here: https://iapp.org/media/pdf/resource_center/State_Comp_Privacy_Law_Chart.pdf

Legalization of marijuana expected to have little impact on workplace

by Casey Fabris - The Roanoke Times

As July 1 nears, employers in Virginia are evaluating what the commonwealth’s legalization of marijuana for recreational use means for the workplace.

Experts say the change in the law doesn’t require major adjustments from employers, but it might prompt some to change common policies and practices, such as drug testing.

Read more: https://roanoke.com/business/local/legalization-of-marijuana-expected-to-have-little-impact-on-workplace/article_389ad3b2-d534-11eb-a3f5-5f4bf7fc52ff.html

Pending legislation would curtail criminal background checks for renters

by Colleen O’Dea - NJ Spotlight News

New Jersey lawmakers and social-justice advocates launched a push Tuesday for legislation to help the formerly incarcerated rent an apartment by curtailing the ability of landlords to deny housing to some people based on their criminal histories.

The Fair Chance Housing Act, embodied in S-250 and A-1919, is an effort to “ban the box” that asks whether a person has been convicted of a crime on housing-rental applications. The bills would still allow a landlord to ultimately deny renting to someone with a criminal record based on certain criteria and if the landlord has a “substantial, legitimate and nondiscriminatory interest” in doing so. But failure to follow the law would subject a landlord to penalties.

Read more: https://www.njspotlight.com/2021/04/nj-legislation-criminal-background-checks-renters-application-discrimination-fines-for-landlords/

Canada: New Federal Privacy Legislation is Moving Through the Legislative Process

by Rhonda Levy and Monty Verlint - Littler - JD Supra

On November 17, 2020, Canada’s federal Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry introduced Bill C-11, An Act to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act and the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act and to make consequential and related amendments to other Act (Bill C-11) for consideration in the House of Commons. The short title of Bill C-11 is the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2000, and its aim is to reform federal private sector privacy legislation.

Read more: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/canada-new-federal-privacy-legislation-5598325/

Booker, Johnson’s “Ban the Box” Bill Passes House

Press Release from booker.senate.gov 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bill authored by U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) to give formerly incarcerated individuals a better chance to find employment passed the U.S. House of Representatives today as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It will now be considered by the full Senate.

Read more: https://www.booker.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1031

Alderman wants to 'ban the box' about criminal history from all job applications in St. Louis

by Sara Machi - KSDK

ST. LOUIS — John Collins-Muhammad said he personally knows people who benefitted when St. Louis banned questions about prior criminal history from city job applications.

"I know a bunch of people that have benefited from this," Collins Muhammad, Ward 21 Alderman said. "I want to see everybody benefit from this."

He is now proposing to "ban the box," prohibiting all employers from using the questions on initial job applications.

"So many times we see it, when you mark that box, that's it for you, go try somewhere else," he said.

Read more: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/alderman-ban-box-prior-criminal-history/63-307edc1e-f03a-4ec3-852f-a663fc1c782b

Mayors, Police Chiefs Send Letter to Senate Leaders Urging Background Check Legislation

by U.S. Conference of Mayors - PRNewswire

Today, on behalf of the nation's mayors and the police chiefs of major cities across America, the Presidents of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Major Cities Chiefs Association sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) calling on them to consider needed legislation that would establish a stronger system of background checks covering all firearms purchases.

"Our communities cannot afford to wait any longer for the federal government to address the epidemic of gun violence. We know that bipartisan, sensible gun safety legislation will make our cities safer without compromising gun owners' rights. That is why we are calling upon Majority Leader McConnell and Minority Leader Schumer to consider legislation that would ensure all firearms purchases go through our background check system," said U.S. Conference of Mayors President Bryan Barnett, Mayor of Rochester Hills (MI).

Read more: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mayors-police-chiefs-send-letter-to-senate-leaders-urging-background-check-legislation-300946295.html