Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On March 6 and 15, 2023, both chambers of the Iowa Legislature unanimously voted to approve Senate File 262, which could make Iowa the sixth U.S. state to enact comprehensive privacy legislation. The bill is most similar to Utah’s comprehensive privacy law. Senate File 262 would apply to [Read More…]
AP reports: Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed a bill Friday night prohibiting abortion pills in the state and also allowed a separate measure restricting abortion to become law without his signature. The pills are already banned in 13 states with blanket bans on all forms of abortion, and 15 states [Read More…]
Lydia O’Connor reports: A South Carolina lawmaker is defending a bill he authored that could result in the death penalty for people who have abortions, even as onetime co-sponsors of the legislation back away from it. The proposal from Republican state Rep. Rob Harris seeks to amend South Carolina’s criminal code so that [Read More…]
Jarred Burk and Alex Rosa-Figueroa report: Therapists and counselors are pushing back against a new Oklahoma law requiring them to share some patient information with a state database. The state’s Health Information Exchange was created last year and requires health care providers to enter certain patient information into a database. [Read More…]