Calif. Legislature Passes Mapping, Repair Bills

The California legislature passed broadband mapping, privacy and right-to-repair bills Wednesday. The Assembly voted 74-0 to concur with Senate changes to AB-286 on adjusting state broadband mapping requirements. And it voted 65-12 to concur with the Senate on AB-1194, which would say businesses aren’t required to comply with government requests for emergency access to personal information on abortion and contraception. The Senate voted 39-0 to concur with the Assembly on SB-244 to give consumers a right to repair electronics. The Assembly advanced two other bills to the Senate for concurrence. Members voted 52-14 for SB-362 to allow consumers to delete data collected on them by brokers and 80-0 for SB-387, an industry-backed bill to let the state lease public land at submarket rates for broadband deployment.