Cybersecurity in Agriculture Act of 2025
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Would have required social media platforms to decrypt end-to-end encrypted messages under a warrant and let parents view all messages on a minor's account.
Would have allowed the state CFO and certain public funds to invest in Bitcoin.
Would have required certain generative AI developers to embed provenance data in AI content and offer provenance readers.
Regulates data centers with a load of 100 megawatts or more by setting utility service and clean energy tariff rules, imposing a $2 million to $5 million peak demand fee, requiring preapplication review of large water appropriations, and revising data center sales tax exemptions.
Requires online services likely to be accessed by minors to meet a minimum duty of care, set high-privacy defaults for minors and avoid design features that drive compulsive use.
Requires businesses that use AI chatbots or similar technology in consumer transactions to clearly disclose that the consumer is not dealing with a human.
Would create a comprehensive Personal Data Privacy Act governing how businesses collect and process consumer personal data.
Regulates virtual currency kiosks to protect consumers from fraud, enacted as an emergency measure.
Would have criminalized and created a private right of action for using responsive generative AI communication to encourage or solicit certain harmful acts by a child.
Requires covered online platforms to set up a process to remove altered sexual depictions, including deepfakes, within 48 hours of a valid request from the depicted person.
Expands the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to cover digitally created, manipulated or altered images such as deepfakes.
Establishes a duty of care for online platforms that enter into contracts with minors.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Extends the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act to motor vehicle manufacturers and their affiliates that control or process personal data obtained from a consumer's use of a vehicle, regardless of volume thresholds.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Amends Executive Orders 13694 and 14144 to narrow and revise earlier federal cybersecurity directives.
Amends the Privacy Act 1988 to require a Children's Online Privacy Code, add transparency duties for automated decisions, create a statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy and a criminal offence for doxxing.
Would have set rules for denials of prior authorization requests and barred health insurers from relying solely on AI or automated systems to make adverse determinations.
Would require health insurers to disclose and oversee their use of AI in coverage and claims decisions.
Would have restricted processing of children's personal data by online services and required social media platforms to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for minors.
Would have required artificial intelligence companies to register with and be regulated by the Bureau of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General.
Establishes a Data Sharing and Governance Working Group in the Office of Enterprise Technology Services and requires a report to the Legislature.
Creates civil and criminal remedies for the nonconsensual disclosure of AI-generated or digitally altered intimate depictions of identifiable people.
Requires covered online services likely to be used by minors to exercise reasonable care in design, limit data collection and use of minors' data, and set protective default settings.
Revises terminology for materials depicting minors in sexual conduct and prohibits possessing or distributing obscene material depicting a purported child, reaching computer-generated images.
Would have barred landlords from using algorithmic software that coordinates rental pricing across properties in the same market.
Makes it a crime to generate, solicit, or maliciously promote an altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person without consent and expands offenses for lewd images of minors.
Would have prohibited social media platforms from allowing Texas residents younger than 18 to hold accounts.
Would have restricted censorship of or interference with digital expression on social media platforms and email services.
Would have amended the applicability section of the SCOPE Act (Business and Commerce Code Chapter 509) governing protection of minors from harmful material on digital services.
Would have regulated virtual currency kiosks, with administrative penalties.
Would have increased criminal penalties for unlawful production or distribution of certain sexually explicit deepfake media.
Would have required public school policies and programs on the production or distribution of intimate visual material, including deepfakes, by students.
Would have regulated access and communications settings for minors' accounts on digital services.
Limits the amount of electricity that may be provided to data centers on a certain commercial or industrial site, enacted as an emergency measure.
Creates offenses for creating, possessing or distributing AI-generated or computer-generated sexual abuse material depicting minors.
Makes it a crime to create or distribute a morphed image that sexually depicts an identifiable minor.
Would have required disclosures on certain automated (bot) posts on social media platforms, with civil penalties.
House subcommittee hearing on federal AI regulation, held during debate over a proposed moratorium on state AI laws.
Would have created property rights in a person's digital replica of voice and visual likeness, with private causes of action for unauthorized use.
Requires insurers, pharmacy benefit managers and private review agents that use AI or algorithms in utilization review to use them in a manner that meets set standards.
Criminalizes publishing nonconsensual intimate images, including AI generated deepfakes, and requires covered platforms to remove them within 48 hours of a valid request.
Regulates digital financial asset (cryptocurrency) transaction kiosks and sets penalties.
Creates civil and criminal actions for people whose intimate digital depictions, including AI deepfakes, are intentionally disclosed without consent.
A Senate bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Would have set rules for interconnecting and operating large electric loads such as data centers on the ERCOT grid.
Would have regulated high-risk AI systems used in consequential decisions and created other AI provisions; it passed the Senate but not the House.