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General Law Committee raises bills for public hearing; drafts SB4 and SB5 and reserves SB105
Summary
The General Law Committee moved a series of procedural actions: it raised items 1–6 for hearing, voted to draft items 7 and 8 (Senate Bill 4 on consumer data/privacy and Senate Bill 5 on online safety/AI workforce measures), and reserved SB 105 for a subject-matter public hearing scheduled for Feb. 18. Motions passed by voice vote.
The General Law Committee met in a procedural session and voted to move multiple measures toward public hearings, including drafting two caucus-priority bills described by Sen. Maroney as focusing on consumer data privacy and online safety.
Sen. Maroney, who summarized the caucus priorities during the meeting, said, "Senate bill 4 will contain a number of consumer issues, but looking at updating our consumer data privacy, to put some restrictions on how facial recognition is used, looking at labeling around dynamic pricing, which is something that had been done in New York state, and looking at, the potentially looking at putting restrictions around how, data is shared from license plate readers."…
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