State Comprehensive Privacy Law Update – April 8, 2024

The opening weeks of spring have seen comprehensive privacy law proposals continue to progress in state legislatures across the country. Since our last update, the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act(HB 15) received a House concurrence and was signed by Governor Andy Beshear, thus becoming the nation's fifteenth state comprehensive privacy law. Meanwhile, Maryland seems poised to follow with the nation's sixteenth comprehensive privacy law, with the Maryland legislature passing SB 541 and sending that bill to the governor for signature. Finally, the Vermont House passed H. 121 — a proposal that notably contains a private right of action — while bills in Maine and Minnesota continue to move forward in the committee process. Notably, while we continue to see existing proposals progress through the legislative process, we have not identified any new legislative proposals to report since our last update, demonstrating a potential deceleration of legislative activity