l9n/ Connecticut

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 1356

AN ACT CONCERNING DATA PRIVACY, ONLINE MONITORING, SOCIAL MEDIA, DATA BROKERS AND CONNECTED VEHICLE SERVICES.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives on May 16, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To (1) amend various laws concerning (A) consumer data privacy and online monitoring by (i) defining and redefining various terms, (ii) modifying the applicability threshold for controllers and processors, (iii) modifying the entity-level and data-level exemptions, and (iv) imposing additional requirements regarding disclosures and sales of personal data, sensitive data and consumer health data, (B) social media by (i) redefining "social media platform", and (ii) prohibiting a social media platform from requiring a parent to establish an account to submit certain requests concerning a minor, and (C) youth data privacy and online monitoring by (i) defining "know", (ii) eliminating a rebuttable presumption, and (iii) modifying the scope of permissible controller conduct, and (2) provide for the registration and regulation of data brokers.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

1 co-sponsor

Joan V. Hartley

Its course

February 20 to May 16, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action26 actions on 15 days

In the SenateFeb 20 to May 1483 days

General Law CommitteeFeb 20 to Mar 2129 days

Judiciary CommitteeApr 23 to Apr 252 days

Appropriations CommitteeMay 1 to May 54 days

In the House of RepresentativesMay 14 to May 16 · stopped2 days

Votes

Yeas to nays, as the General Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • Senate floor amendmentAdopted

    Adopted May 14

  • Senate floor amendmentRejected

    Rejected May 14

Text

Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

In the Senate Feb 20 – May 14

  1. Introduced and sent to General Law Committee
  2. Heard in General Law Committee
  3. General Law Committee recommended a substitute for it
  4. Sent to Judiciary Committee
  5. Judiciary Committee recommended it
  6. Sent to Appropriations Committee
  7. Appropriations Committee recommended it
  8. The Senate adopted Senate Amendment A
  9. The Senate rejected Senate Amendment B
  10. Passed the Senate with Senate Amendment A

In the House of Representatives May 16

  1. Arrived in the House of Representatives
All 26 actions, as published