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Maryland Bans Surveillance Pricing While SCOTUS Guts the Voting Rights Act
Two floors moved this week. The federal floor came down. The state floors went up.
Maryland became the first state in America to ban surveillance pricing—the practice of using your personal data to charge you a different price than the shopper next to you. Governor Wes Moore signed HB 895 with a 100-31 House vote and a 41-1 Senate vote. Washington banned noncompetes statewide after the FTC walked away. Hawaii moved to let insurers sue fossil fuel companies for climate-disaster payouts. Maine became one of the first states to bar AI from acting as a therapist. Vermont became the second state to let people sue officials in state court for constitutional rights violations.
Meanwhile in Washington, the Supreme Court ruled 6-to-3 to gut Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act — the federal floor under every state's redistricting process for sixty years. Justice Kagan, in dissent, called Section 2 "all but a dead letter." The House reauthorized FISA Section 702 surveillance 235-191 without a warrant requirement. The 60-day War Powers Act clock on the Iranconflict expired May 1 with no Senate vote. The Senate revoked the Boundary Waters mineral ban 50-49 via the Congressional Review Act.
Plus: Mississippi's unanimous rare-disease task force, New Jersey's preeclampsia screening mandate, Alabama's rural-hospital antitrust waiver (103-0, 34-0), the Pennsylvania House's 124-77 vote on a model data-center zoning ordinance, Iowa's 90-0 vote to write play-based learning into state law, and Connecticut's 142-2 vote to drop the social-work licensing exam.
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The Tenth is produced with AI-generated hosts working from human-edited, fact-checked briefings; every bill, vote, and quote is real and sourced.
Bills in this episode:
- Maryland surveillance-pricing ban (HB895)
- Washington noncompete ban (HB1155)
- Hawaii climate-disaster insurance lawsuits (SB1166)
- Maine AI-therapist ban (LD2082)
- Vermont sue-officials constitutional-rights law (H849)
- Boundary Waters mineral-ban repeal (HJRes140)
- PROTECT Kids Act (HR2616)
- Mississippi Rare Disease Task Force (SB2474)
- New Jersey preeclampsia-screening requirement (A2188)
- Alabama rural-hospital antitrust waiver (HB605)
- California ICE-in-hospitals restriction (SB915)
- Pennsylvania data-center zoning model ordinance (HB2151)
- Iowa play-based learning mandate (HF2652)
- Connecticut social-work licensing-exam repeal (HB5166)
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By AmendmentTwo floors moved this week. The federal floor came down. The state floors went up.
Maryland became the first state in America to ban surveillance pricing—the practice of using your personal data to charge you a different price than the shopper next to you. Governor Wes Moore signed HB 895 with a 100-31 House vote and a 41-1 Senate vote. Washington banned noncompetes statewide after the FTC walked away. Hawaii moved to let insurers sue fossil fuel companies for climate-disaster payouts. Maine became one of the first states to bar AI from acting as a therapist. Vermont became the second state to let people sue officials in state court for constitutional rights violations.
Meanwhile in Washington, the Supreme Court ruled 6-to-3 to gut Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act — the federal floor under every state's redistricting process for sixty years. Justice Kagan, in dissent, called Section 2 "all but a dead letter." The House reauthorized FISA Section 702 surveillance 235-191 without a warrant requirement. The 60-day War Powers Act clock on the Iranconflict expired May 1 with no Senate vote. The Senate revoked the Boundary Waters mineral ban 50-49 via the Congressional Review Act.
Plus: Mississippi's unanimous rare-disease task force, New Jersey's preeclampsia screening mandate, Alabama's rural-hospital antitrust waiver (103-0, 34-0), the Pennsylvania House's 124-77 vote on a model data-center zoning ordinance, Iowa's 90-0 vote to write play-based learning into state law, and Connecticut's 142-2 vote to drop the social-work licensing exam.
Follow every bill at amendment.app.
The Tenth is produced with AI-generated hosts working from human-edited, fact-checked briefings; every bill, vote, and quote is real and sourced.
Bills in this episode:
- Maryland surveillance-pricing ban (HB895)
- Washington noncompete ban (HB1155)
- Hawaii climate-disaster insurance lawsuits (SB1166)
- Maine AI-therapist ban (LD2082)
- Vermont sue-officials constitutional-rights law (H849)
- Boundary Waters mineral-ban repeal (HJRes140)
- PROTECT Kids Act (HR2616)
- Mississippi Rare Disease Task Force (SB2474)
- New Jersey preeclampsia-screening requirement (A2188)
- Alabama rural-hospital antitrust waiver (HB605)
- California ICE-in-hospitals restriction (SB915)
- Pennsylvania data-center zoning model ordinance (HB2151)
- Iowa play-based learning mandate (HF2652)
- Connecticut social-work licensing-exam repeal (HB5166)