This Week in the States

For the Week of July 14, 2025

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  • In session or committee meetings: Blue
  • Upcoming or in special session: Red
  • Adjourned or in recess: Grey 

Also meeting: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, PUERTO RICO, GUAM, NORTH MARIANA ISLANDS and UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS. 

 

STATE AND LOCAL HIGHLIGHTS 

 

STATE LEGISLATURES MEETING THIS WEEK:

 

CALIFORNIA

The Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee will meet on July 15 to discuss SB 682, which prohibits a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale a cleaning product, cookware, dental floss, juvenile product, food packaging, or ski wax, as provided, that contains intentionally added PFAS except for previously used products and as otherwise preempted by federal law.

Contact: Stephanie Obieroma

 

The Assembly Judiciary Committee will meet on July 15 to discuss SB 69, which requires the Attorney General to establish and maintain a program to build internal expertise in AI, including its applications, risks, regulatory implications, and civil rights impacts. 

Contact: Seth Johnson 

 

The Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee will meet on July 16 to discuss measures including the following:

  • SB 503, which requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information and the Department of Technology to establish an advisory board on the use of artificial intelligence in health care services.
    Contact: Seth Johnson 
  • SB 833, which requires operators that deploy AI that could materially impact critical infrastructure safety, security, or operations to establish a human oversight mechanism to monitor operations and approve any action proposed by the AI system before it is made.
    Contact: Seth Johnson 
  • SB 53, which enacts the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act to ensure the safety of a foundation model developed by a large developer, requiring the large developer to write, implement, and publish a safety and security protocol on its website.
    Contact: Seth Johnson 

 

The Assembly Insurance Committee will meet on July 16 to discuss SB 770, which removes a requirement regarding the installation and use of an electric vehicle charging station placed in a common area that the owner is required to provide a certificate of insurance that names the association as an additional insured party.

Contact: Maxwell Klein

 

On July 25, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will consider an item pertaining to clarifying and strengthening the enforcement process for price gouging during a state of emergency. The Board will also consider an item pertaining to advancing the resilience of the film and television industry in the county.

Contact: Stephanie Rojo

 

MASSACHUSETTS

The Joint Committee on Financial Services will meet on July 15 to discuss HB 1210, which provides that every patient or resident of a medical facility shall have the right to be informed if the information they are receiving either verbally or in writing has been generated by artificial intelligence.

Contact: Seth Johnson 

 

MICHIGAN

On July 15, the Detroit City Council will receive a supplemental report on a study on the feasibility of implementing a tax on short-term rentals. The Council will also request a memorandum on the analysis of the fiscal impact of the “Big Beautiful Bill” on Detroit in the upcoming fiscal years.

Contact: Stephanie Rojo

 

WASHINGTON

On July 16, the Seattle Select Budget Committee will consider placing a ballot measure on the November 2025 election to restructure its Business & Occupation (B&O) tax. If approved, B&O tax rates would increase on most business activities while raising the exemption threshold from $100,000 to $2 million and introducing a new $2 million standard deduction. The business license tax would also be adjusted to align with the new structure. Funds would support food access, gender-based violence services, small business aid, emergency shelters, homelessness prevention, and worker protections, while also helping offset federal funding cuts. 

Contact: Stephanie Rojo