Federal
In response to a lack of Federal legislation on Artificial Intelligence, senators introduced a bipartisan bill on June 11, 2024, the Promoting Responsible Evaluation and Procurement to Advance Readiness for Enterprise-wide Deployment for Artificial Intelligence Act (“PREPARED for AI Act”). Among other things, PREPARED for AI would provide a risk mitigation framework that would guide the adoption of A.I. tools into the government sphere.
States are not waiting on federal legislation however. Many have introduced and/or passed their own legislation to address issues like privacy, intellectual property, consumer protections, and security.
A federal court on June 20, 2024 ruled the Health and Human Services Department lacks the authority under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to prohibit providers from using third-party web tracking technologies on their websites in certain situations. The judge argued that HHS was attempting to expand the protections of HIPAA to cover personal information that is not health related.
On June 6, 2024, the US Supreme Court decided Becerra v. San Carlos Apache Tribe and Becerra v. Northern ArapahoTribe (Nos. 23-250 and 23-253), holding that the Indian Health Service (IHS) must reimburse Native nations, bands, and tribes that run their own healthcare systems for costs associated with program income from Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers. This could provide billions of dollars in reimbursement of costs to support tribal healthcare programs.”
Illinois
The Illinois Library Association recently posted a summary of recent important library legislative news. You can see their update here.