2025 bills / H.B. 418
H.B. 418 Data Sharing Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill would require social media companies to build data interfaces that let users and other services share their social media data with each other. It would also expand consumers' rights over their social media data and let the Division of Consumer Protection make rules and enforce them, with civil penalties for violations.
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Official description
- defines terms
- establishes legislative findings about social media data control and competition
- amends consumer data rights related to social media data
- requires social media companies to implement data interoperability interfaces
- establishes requirements for data sharing between social media services
- grants rulemaking and enforcement authority to the Division of Consumer Protection
- provides for civil penalties
- includes a severability provision
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 418 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 418 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 9 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 64 yes, 1 no, 10 absentFinal House vote · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 7 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 20 yes, 5 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how
- 73 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how