Privacy Task Force: State Law Resources and Legislation

Allows the users to identify relevant laws in data privacy across multiple state jurisdictions.

Forecast ’25: Legislative priorities for 2025 include balancing AI’s risks and rewards, protecting consumer privacy and expanding broadband access.

The mission of the NCSL Cybersecurity Task Force is to engage members in policy discussions, educate members and extend networking opportunities to legislative leaders on cybersecurity and privacy issues through a series of well-defined programs, webinars on key definitions and critical cyber policy issues as well as supporting private-public networks. The task force began with an initial timeframe of two years focusing on cybersecurity issues and was renewed and has expanded its focus to include privacy issues.

tates are considering wide-ranging measures focused on different types of information governments and commercial entities collect. States continue to consider legislation related to comprehensive consumer privacy, children’s online privacy, genetic information, data broker regulation, and privacy legislation that involves the collection of data from consumers by commercial entities. Forty-nine states and the District of Columbia introduced or considered at over 800 consumer privacy bills in 2025 and over 30 states enacted at least 100 new laws.

Site that contains a number of different legislative trackers related to privacy and cybersecurity issues on the Federal level.

Tracking privacy legislation at the state level.