US State Privacy Legislation Tracker

Additional Insights

• US State Comprehensive Privacy Laws Report

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.

This tracker only includes bills intended to be comprehensive approaches to governing the use of personal information. If a bill does not appear, 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 published an article outlining its current stance concerning which state privacy laws are considered comprehensive. The IAPP may adjust this position in the future in light of new information, bills, stakeholders or member feedback.

If you are aware of a comprehensive bill absent from the tracker, please share it with us at research@iapp.org. The IAPP additionally hosts a US State AI Governance Legislation Tracker, which focuses on cross-sectoral state AI governance bills that apply to private sector organizations, and a US Federal Privacy Legislation Tracker, which informs of developments within the federal privacy landscape.

The state privacy law 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 map tracks the status of statutes and bills that are enacted or in the legislative process.