Also meeting: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, PUERTO RICO, GUAM, NORTH MARIANA ISLANDS and UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS.
STATE AND LOCAL HIGHLIGHTS
STATE AND LOCAL LEGISLATURES MEETING THIS WEEK:
CALIFORNIA
The Assembly Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on July 1 regarding SB 1418. This measure requires every city, county, or city and county to adopt an ordinance that creates an expedited, streamlined permitting process for hydrogen-fueling stations.
Contact: Maxwell Klein
The Assembly Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on July 1 regarding the following:
- SB 707: This measure would require the manufacturers of covered plastic materials to reduce and recycle the relevant materials and ensure that all materials determined to be covered by the state are recyclable or compostable by January 1, 2032.
Contact: Stephanie Obieroma
- SB 1231: This measure would enact a stewardship program known as the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024, which would require a producer of apparel, or textile articles, to form and join a producer responsibility organization (PRO).
Contact: Stephanie Obieroma
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on July 2 regarding the following:
- AB 2037: This measure authorizes a county sealer to test and verify as correct the accuracy of any electric vehicle charger operated by a public agency located in the county in which the sealer has jurisdiction. This measure would also exempt an electric vehicle charger from testing and verification by a county sealer if it is owned by a local publicly owned electric utility, and if certain requirements are met.
Contact: Maxwell Klein
- AB 2355: This measure requires a committee that creates, originally publishes, or originally distributes a qualified political advertisement to include in the advertisement a specified disclosure that the advertisement was generated or substantially altered using artificial intelligence.
Contact: Alex Aceto
- AB 2515: This measure prohibits any person from manufacturing, distributing, selling, or offering for sale in the state any menstrual products that contain regulated PFAS.
Contact: Toni McMillian
- SB 942: This measure establishes the California AI Transparency Act, which requires a covered provider to create and make freely available an AI detection tool that meets certain criteria, including that the AI detection tool is publicly accessible on the covered provider’s internet website and its mobile application, as applicable.
Contact: Alex Aceto
- SB 1047: This measure establishes the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act to require that a developer, before initially training a covered model comply with various requirements, including implementing the capability to promptly enact a full shutdown, and implement a written and separate safety and security protocol, as specified.
Contact: Alex Aceto
The Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee will hold a hearing on July 2 regarding the following:
- SB 892: This measure requires the Department of Technology to develop and adopt regulations to create an artificial intelligence (AI) risk management standard, as specified. To develop those regulations, the measure authorizes the department to apply principles and industry standards addressed in specified publications regarding AI risk management. The measure requires the AI risk management standard to include, among other things, a detailed risk assessment procedure for procuring automated decision systems (ADS), that analyzes specified characteristics of the ADS, methods for appropriate risk controls, and adverse incident monitoring procedures.
Contact: Alex Aceto
- SB 893: This measure requires the Government Operations Agency, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, the California Privacy Protection Agency, and the Department of Technology to collaborate to establish the California Artificial Intelligence Research Hub in the Government Operations Agency.
Contact: Alex Aceto
- SB 1288: This measure requires the Superintendent to convene a working group, composed as provided, for specific purposes related to artificial intelligence in public schools. The measure requires, among other things, the working group to develop, on or before January 1, 2026, guidance for local educational agencies and charter schools on the safe use of artificial intelligence in education, and to, on or before July 1, 2026, develop a model policy for local educational agencies and charter schools regarding the safe and effective use of artificial intelligence in ways that benefit, and do not negatively impact, pupils and educators.
Contact: Alex Aceto
The Senate Health Committee will hold a hearing on July 3 regarding AB 347. The measure states on or before July 1, 2026, a manufacturer of a covered product must register with the Department of Toxic Substances Control, and provide to the Department all of the following in the manner prescribed by the Department in regulation: (1) the name and a description of each covered product it manufactures, (2) the applicable registration fee and (3) certification and analytical test results demonstrating that the covered products that it manufactures comply with the applicable covered PFAS restrictions.
Contact: Stephanie Obieroma
The Senate Environmental Quality Committee will hold a hearing on July 3 regarding AB 2236. This measure, beginning January 1, 2026, revises the single-use carryout bag exception to include a bag provided to a customer before the customer reaches the point of sale, that is designed to protect a purchased item from damaging or contaminating other purchased items in a checkout bag, or to contain an unwrapped food item. This measure prohibits a store from offering a reusable bag at the point of sale and requires reusable bags to be available at another point.
Contact: Stephanie Obieroma
FLORIDA
The Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners will meet on July 2 to consider a resolution directing the county mayor to create a plan implementing a program to provide notice to the public regarding the receipt by the county of an application for the installation of a small wireless facility, also referred to as 5g equipment, via the county website or other online platform, and create an online platform that would make available to the public, at a minimum, information regarding applications received by the county for the installation of small wireless facilities, the status of such applications, any comments provided by the county on such application, and any other information pertinent to the application.
Contact: Stephanie Rojo
TENNESSEE
The Nashville Metropolitan Council will meet on July 2 to consider an ordinance amending the Metropolitan Code, and Zoning Regulations to amend the conditions for adaptive residential developments located in non-residential zoning districts where residential uses are permitted with conditions.
Contact: Stephanie Rojo
WISCONSIN
The Madison Common Council will meet on July 2 to consider approving the city's Large Item Collection and Electronic Waste Recycling Policy. The Council will also consider amending the Madison General Ordinances to update the city’s large item collection and electronic waste recycling ordinances, and to update the bond schedule accordingly.
Contact: Stephanie Rojo
The Madison Common Council will meet on July 2 to consider a request for information, studies, and plans regarding authorizing a local sales tax.
Contact: Stephanie Rojo
WYOMING
The Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Technology will meet on July 1 and 2 to consider draft legislation on enabling legislation, depository institutions, and data privacy, as well as receive a presentation regarding revising state cybersecurity law. On July 1, the committee will review existing cybersecurity statutes and legislation regarding deepfakes and AI liability in other states, and discuss draft legislation on blockchain and emerging technology. On July 2, the committee will receive an update on Stable Tokens, discuss an outreach initiative for Special Purpose Depository Institutions, and discuss draft legislation for data privacy for government entities, the Defense of State Banking and amending state laws relating to Special Purpose Depository Institutions
Contact: Matt Wallack
INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING AND POLICY HIGHLIGHTS
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GROUPS
There are no groups events this week.
