CALIFORNIA
The Assembly Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on April 8 regarding AB 2678. This measure proposes to extend existing state law that allows qualified alternative fuel, plug-in electric, and hybrid vehicles to use high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes regardless of occupancy. Electric vehicles may be issued decals or other identifiers and must display an identifier to use HOV lanes.
Contact: Maxwell Klein
The Senate Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on April 9 regarding SB 934. This measure requires the California Transportation Commission and State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to convene an interagency Zero-Emissions Freight Central Delivery Team (Team) for statewide emissions freight infrastructure planning and implementation.
Contact: Maxwell Klein
The Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee will hold a hearing on April 9 regarding AB 2761. This measure enacts the Reducing Toxics in Packaging Act, which prohibits, beginning January 1, 2026, a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, or distributing in the state plastic packaging that contains regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS or polyvinyl chloride (PVC), inclusive of polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC). This measure excludes prohibition packaging for certain medical, drug, and federally regulated products.
Contact: Stephanie Obieroma
The Assembly Health Committee will hold a hearing on April 9 regarding AB 3030. This measure requires an entity, including a health facility, clinic, physician’s office, or office of a group practice that uses a generative artificial intelligence tool to generate responses for health care providers to communicate with patients to ensure that those communications include both (1) a disclaimer that indicates to the patient that communication was generated by artificial intelligence and (2) clear instructions for the patient to access direct communications with a health care provider.
Contact: Alex Aceto
The Assembly Committee on Business and Professions will hold a hearing on April 9 regarding AB 1902. This measure requires pharmacy dispensers to provide translated directions for use in the languages the Pharmacy Board has made available. Dispensers are not required to provide translated directions for use beyond the required language.
Contact: Matthew Lidz
The Senate Governmental Organization Committee will hold a hearing on April 9 regarding SB 893. This measure requires the Government Operations Agency, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, and the Department of Technology to collaborate to establish the California Artificial Intelligence Research Hub in the Government Operations Agency. The Hub is required to serve as a centralized entity to facilitate collaboration between government agencies, academic institutions, and private sector partners to advance artificial intelligence research and development that seeks to harness the technology’s full potential for public benefit while safeguarding privacy, advancing security, and addressing risks and potential harms to society.
Contact: Alex Aceto
The Assembly Appropriations Committee will hold a hearing on April 10 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.
Contact: Stephanie Obieroma
The Assembly Elections Committee will hold a hearing on April 10 regarding AB 2355. This measure requires a person, committee, or other entity that creates, originally publishes, or originally distributes a qualified political advertisement to include in the advertisement a specified disclosure that the advertisement was generated, in whole or in part, using artificial intelligence.
Contact: Alex Aceto
The Palm Springs City Council will meet on April 11 to consider an ordinance amending Municipal Code Regulatory Measures to remove a signage requirement outlining regulations of Transportation Network Companies (TNC) such as Lyft and Uber at the Palm Springs International Airport.
Contact: Stephanie Rojo
COLORADO
The Senate State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on April 10 regarding HB 1147. This measure creates regulations regarding the use of deepfakes produced using generative artificial intelligence in communication about candidates for elective office. The measure establishes penalties for the distribution of a communication that includes a deepfake related to a candidate for elective office.
Contact: Alex Aceto
ILLINOIS
The Chicago Committee on Housing and Real Estate will meet on April 10 to consider an amendment to the Municipal Code regarding veteran preference for residential housing purchasers or renters under the Affordability Requirements Ordinance.
Contact: Stephanie Rojo
LOUISIANA
The House Appropriations Committee will hold a hearing on April 8 regarding HB 616. This measure requires the Department of Insurance (department) to implement a process for actuarial reviews of healthcare legislation that may impose a new health benefit coverage mandate on health benefit plans or reduce or eliminate coverage mandated under health benefit plans.
Contact: Olivia O'Donnell
The House Civil Law and Procedure Committee will hold a hearing on April 8 regarding HB 742. This measure establishes immunity from civil and criminal liability for in vitro fertilization service providers, including physicians, hospitals, in vitro fertilization clinics, or their agents.
Contact: Erin Fitzpatrick
MINNESOTA
The House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing on April 8 regarding HF 4392. This measure prohibits an employer, on or after August 1, 2026, from hiring a new employee with a disability, or, on or after August 1, 2028, paying an employee with a disability at a wage less than the applicable minimum wage, regardless of whether the employer has a special certificate from the United State Department of Labor.
Contact: Robbie Adhikari
The House Labor and Industry Finance and Policy Committee will hold a hearing on April 11 regarding HF 3439. This measure amends the State Building Code to require electric vehicle charging infrastructure in all new residential buildings that provide on-site parking facilities.
Contact: Maxwell Klein
NEW YORK
The Assembly Codes Committee will hold a hearing on April 9 regarding AB 1010. This measure prohibits tampering or obstructing with the expiration date on a label for over-the-counter drugs and cosmetic products.
Contact: Matthew Lidz
The Albany Common Council will meet on April 10 to introduce an ordinance amending the Unified Sustainable Development Ordinance concerning commercial food preparation. The amendments will clarify certain ambiguities as to how commissary kitchens, ghost kitchens, cloud kitchens, catering, and other businesses primarily engaged in the commercial preparation of food should be classified and regulated.
Contact: Stephanie Rojo
OHIO
The House Government Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on April 9 regarding HB 367. This measure prohibits a person, without the written consent of the depicted individual, from doing either of the following:
(1) Prepare, produce, or develop any malicious deep fake recording of an individual's voice, image, or likeness to distribute to, exhibit to, or exchange with others;
(2) Offer to distribute, exhibit, or exchange with others a malicious deepfake recording.
Contact: Alex Aceto
The Senate Health Committee will hold a hearing on April 10 regarding SB 95. This measure requires the state board of pharmacy to regulate remote dispensing pharmacies. A remote dispensing pharmacy may operate only by using a telepharmacy system that meets standards established by this measure.
Contact: Matthew Lidz
OREGON
The Portland City Council will meet on April 10 to receive communication regarding artificial intelligence processes in democracy.
Contact: Stephanie Rojo
RHODE ISLAND
The House Committee on Finance will hold a hearing on April 10 regarding HB 7859. The measure establishes additional regulations and mandates governmental bodies to replace all gasoline-powered vehicles with zero-emission vehicles at the end of their service life and procure the zero-emission vehicles for any of their new fleet vehicles.
Contact: Maxwell Klein
The House Corporations Committee will hold a hearing on April 11 regarding HB 7720. This measure bans PBMs from reimbursing pharmacies or pharmacists for a prescription drug or service in an amount less than the national average drug acquisition cost for the drug or service, plus a dispensing fee equal to Medicaid's.
Contact: Matthew Lidz
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on April 11 regarding SB 2888. This measure requires companies that develop or deploy high-risk AI systems to conduct impact assessments and adopt risk management programs, would apply to both developers and deployers of AI systems and would require obligations of these different types of companies based on their role in the AI ecosystem.
Contact: Alex Aceto
VERMONT
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee will hold a hearing on April 10 regarding HB 233. This measure requires pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to obtain licensure from the Department of Financial Regulation. This measure establishes a framework for regulating PBMs and restricts certain activities that PBMs may perform, such as limiting direct solicitation to consumers. This measure also requires the Agency of Human Services to select a wholesale drug distributor through a competitive bidding process to be the sole source to distribute prescription drugs to pharmacies for dispensing to Medicaid beneficiaries.
Contact: Matthew Lidz
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