Current Status Of State Privacy Legislation – A WilmerHale Update

Since our February 20, 2019 report on privacy bills moving through state legislatures around the country, four new bills modeled on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have been introduced—in Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas—and many of the previously described bills have moved further along in the legislative process. Washington's Privacy Act, which previously seemed likely to be the first state enactment to follow in the CCPA's wake, failed to make it out of the state house before the end of the legislative session.

Three new bills—one in Illinois addressing the handling of geolocation information; one in Louisiana that would prohibit online service providers from disclosing consumers' personal information without their express consent; and one in Nevada that would require online service providers to give consumers the opportunity to opt out of the sale of their personal information—have also begun to move forward. More