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US State Privacy Legislation Tracker

This tool tracks comprehensive US state privacy bills to help our members stay informed of the changing state privacy landscape. The tracker only includes bills intended to be comprehensive approaches to governing the use of personal information.


Last Updated: 18 November 2024


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State-level momentum for comprehensive privacy bills is at an all-time high. The IAPP Westin Research Center actively tracks the proposed and enacted comprehensive privacy bills from across the U.S. to help our members stay informed of the changing state privacy landscape. This information is compiled into a chart, map and a directory with information specific to states with enacted laws. The IAPP additionally hosts a US State Privacy topic page, which regularly updates with the latest state privacy news and resources, and a US State AI Governance Legislation Tracker, which tracks US state cross-sectoral laws with direct application to the use of AI systems in the private sector.

If you are aware of a comprehensive bill absent from the tracker, please share it with us at research@iapp.org.

For more information on the IAPP's stance concerning which state privacy laws are considered comprehensive, view the text in the below dropdown.

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State privacy law chart

Comprehensive consumer privacy bills

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This chart tracks U.S. state comprehensive consumer privacy bills across the legislative process, identifying and mapping out fourteen provisions that commonly appear in comprehensive privacy laws. If a bill includes a provision, an "X" is placed in the corresponding column. The provisions are broken into two categories — consumer rights and business obligations — and are described more fully in the chart. Although many of the proposed bills will fail to become law, comparing the key provisions helps break down how privacy is developing in the U.S.

The chart only includes bills intended to be comprehensive approaches to governing the use of personal information. If a bill does not appear on the chart, it does not qualify due to its scope, coverage or rights. Industry-specific, information-specific and narrowly scoped bills, e.g., data security bills, are not included. The IAPP additionally published an article providing further details on the scope of bills included in this tracker.

Previous versions of this chart are available for 2018-19, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.


State privacy law map

This map tracks the status of statutes and bills that are enacted or in the legislative process.

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State privacy law report

This report is limited to comprehensive U.S. state privacy laws enacted as of June 2024.

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The US State Comprehensive Privacy Laws Report analyzes the scope, applicability, exemptions, consumer rights, business obligations, rulemaking activities, enforcement duties and key definitions for comprehensive state privacy laws. The report sketches the contours of the nationwide portrait of privacy regulation that has emerged, while highlighting the idiosyncrasies of each state law that constitutes the U.S. privacy regime patchwork. Overall, this report aims to keep privacy professionals informed about all the comprehensive privacy bills that have become law, the rights they offer to consumers and the obligations they require from regulated entities.

This report does not update as frequently as the map, chart and state law directory, and it only includes enacted state comprehensive privacy laws as of the last update.


State privacy law directory and key dates

This section contains information specific to each state with enacted privacy laws, including links to legislation and key dates. Please note that particular dates and deadlines should always be verified.

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