Maryland just became the first state in the country to ban surveillance pricing in food retail. House Bill 895 stops grocery stores and delivery apps from using algorithms or personal data to charge different shoppers different prices for the same gallon of milk—House 100-31, Senate 41-1, signed by Governor Wes Moore on April 28. It happened in the same week the Department of Homeland Security quietly shut down the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, the last independent watchdog over ICE.

In the same seven days, New York’s Senate moved Senate Bill 1422 to let residents sue companies that scan their face or fingerprints without consent, Vermont passed House Bill 814 putting brain signals under the same legal protection as a fingerprint, Vermont also moved House Bill 211 creating a one-button portal to wipe every data broker’s file on you, Minnesota’s Tim Walz signed House File 1606 making Minnesota the first state to ban AI nudification apps (Senate 65-0), and New Jersey extended Daniel’s Law to victim advocates and forensic nurses. Connecticut’s Ned Lamont signed House Bill 5003 lifting workplace-assault pay for teachers and nurses to 100% of wages. Louisiana, New York, Alaska, Ohio, and Georgia moved healthcare bills filling federal vacuums. Tennessee passed House Bill 7002 unlocking mid-decade redistricting; South Carolina filed its own.

Five different invasions, five different states, one shared answer: it’s your face, your file, your price, your brain, your image—and the courthouse is open.

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Bills in this episode:

• Maryland surveillance-pricing ban (HB895)
• New York biometric privacy act (S1422)
• Vermont data-broker deletion portal (H211)
• Vermont neurological rights act (H814)
• Minnesota nudification-app ban (HF1606)
• New Jersey Daniel’s Law expansion (S1291)
• Tennessee mid-decade redistricting (HB7002)
• South Carolina congressional redistricting (HB5683)
• Connecticut workplace-assault pay (HB5003)
• Louisiana mental-health crisis coverage (HB909)
• New York mental-health parity (S8426)
• Georgia medical-cannabis expansion (SB220)
• Alaska nurse staffing ratios (SB283)
• Ohio insulin cost cap (SB227)
• Alaska paid family leave (HB193)
• Virginia cosmetics chemical ban (HB122)
• South Carolina Pinckney Hate Crimes Act (HB3039)
• Minnesota fetal-personhood amendment (HF5084)
• Rhode Island baby-bond trust (HB7797)
• Rhode Island child-care copay (HB7462)
• Michigan single-stair housing reform (HB5571)
• Ohio drink-testing bar safety (SB348)

Florida just redrew its congressional map four years ahead of the next census, flipping its delegation from 20-to-8 Republican to a projected 24-to-4—and three lawsuits were filed within hours of the bill's passage. Two days later, the Wall Street Journal reported the White House is pressuring Southern Republican leaders to redraw their maps mid-decade too. Within 48 hours, twenty-five South Carolina Republicans introduced a bill to do exactly that.

In the same seven days, Connecticut passed the most comprehensive state AI law in the country (Senate Bill 5, 32-4 / 131-17), Iowa became the first state to put hard rules on AI chatbots talking to children (Senate File 2417, 48-0 / 95-0), New York moved to let residents sue companies that scan their faces without consent (Senate Bill 1422), and California advanced a bill to cut the license-plate-reader pipe to ICE (Senate Bill 1013). We also cover North Carolina's $319M Medicaid rescue (House Bill 696), Louisiana's pharmacy benefit manager reform (House Bill 1236), New Jersey's reproductive-care shield (Senate Bill 2260), Georgia's statewide tow database (Senate Bill 569, 45-5 / 160-0), the Senate's fifth war powers vote on Iran (47-50), and the EPA rescinding the 2009 endangerment finding.

Two state-level projects, running at the same time. The cartographers are redrawing the maps. The coders are writing the rulebook.

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Bills in this episode:

• Florida congressional redistricting (HB1)
• South Carolina congressional redistricting (HB5683)
• John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR14)
• Connecticut comprehensive AI law (SB5)
• Iowa AI chatbots and minors (SF2417)
• New York biometric privacy act (S1422)
• California license-plate scan data limits (SB1013)
• North Carolina Medicaid funding (HB696)
• Louisiana pharmacy benefit manager reimbursements (HB1236)
• New Jersey reproductive and gender-affirming care protections (S2260)
• New York paid sick leave for domestic workers (S4515)
• Massachusetts zero-emission heavy-duty truck excise cap (S2694)
• Rhode Island salaried-manager overtime threshold (S2166)
• Homeland Security continuing appropriations / ICE funding (HR7147)

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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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)

The Senate killed an Iran war powers resolution for the fifth time, voted 50-49 to revoke a 20-year mineral ban next to America's most-visited wilderness, and considered a $200 billion war supplemental. Meanwhile 18 statehouses kept moving: Maine banned medical debt liens (LD 2129), Virginia became the first Southern state with paid family leave (HB 1207), Tennessee passed frontier-AI safety 94-0 (HB 1898), Alabama gave residents the right to opt out of AI profiling (HB 351), and Virginia voters rewrote their own congressional map by 51.5%-48.5%. Two rulebooks got rewritten this week. Washington argues over the elections one. The states are writing both.

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Bills in this episode:

• Maine medical-debt lien ban (LD2129)
• Parents Decide Act (HR8250)
• STOP ICE Intimidation Act (HR7743)
• Virginia congressional redistricting map (HB29)
• Virginia joins National Popular Vote compact (HB965)
• Virginia rejoins ERIC (SB57)
• Nebraska foreign-money ballot-measure ban (LB1075)
• Oklahoma voter-ID constitutional amendment (SJR47)
• Maryland nursing-home inspections (HB945)
• New York scalp-cooling insurance coverage (A430)
• California licenses for internationally trained doctors (AB2386)
• Virginia paid family and medical leave (HB1207)
• Tennessee frontier-AI safety bill (HB1898)
• Alabama AI-profiling opt-out (HB351)
• New Jersey ends nuclear-plant ban (S3870)
• Massachusetts cannabis commission overhaul (H5350)
• Oklahoma Strong Readers literacy act (SB1778)
• Minnesota nursing-home happy hour (SF2511)

Congress came one vote short of reining in the president's war powers on Iran. H. Con. Res. 40 failed 213-214. In the same seven days, six state laws passed that were first in the nation: New Mexico universal child care; Oregon letting users sue AI chatbot makers; Nebraska farm data privacy, Washington banning AI insurance denials and banning 3D-printed ghost-gun blueprints; and Virginia joining the National Popular Vote compact. We also cover Virginia's pharmacy benefit manager reform (S.B. 669), the Maryland Vax Act severing from the CDC (H.B. 637), and Kentucky's new eating disorder coverage mandate (H.B. 169). The federal grid blew out. The 50 state generators picked up the load.

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Bills in this episode:

• House Iran War Powers Resolution (HConRes40)
• PEACE Act (S4278)
• FISA Section 702 extension (HR8035)
• New Mexico universal child care (SB241)
• Oregon AI chatbot liability (SB1546)
• Nebraska farm data privacy (LB525)
• Washington AI insurance-denial ban (SB5395)
• Washington ghost-gun blueprint ban (HB2320)
• Virginia National Popular Vote Compact (SB322)
• Virginia pharmacy benefit manager reform (SB669)
• Virginia Right to Contraception Act (HB6)
• Maryland Vax Act (HB637)
• Kentucky eating-disorder coverage (HB169)
• Tennessee AI mental-health impersonation ban (SB1580)
• Illinois AI critical-harm liability (SB3444)
• Iowa child care worker assistance (HF2514)
• Wisconsin first-time homebuyer gap loan (AB454)
• Wisconsin PFAS cleanup funding (AB131)
• Illinois rental junk-fee ban (HB3564)
• Indiana zoning preemption / duplex-by-default (HB1001)
• South Carolina income tax restructuring (H4216)
• Kentucky smart-TV data privacy (HB692)
• Endangered Species Act rollback (HR1897)