Posts Tagged: Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection

How a Ticketmaster bill apparently went off the rails

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by BRIAN JOSEPH posted 06.18.2024

Lawmakers from D.C. to California are calling for tighter regulations on event ticket-selling giant Ticketmaster. But efforts to do so in California have into finger pointing and recriminations that leave those potential reforms in limbo.

After years of trying, a Right to Repair proposal proceeds in the legislature

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by BY BRIAN JOSEPH posted 06.19.2023

The latest Right to Repair proposal, Senate Bill 244, by Sen. Susan Eggman, (D-Stockton), has made it out of its house of origin, riding the momentum of similar bills that were approved this year in New York, Colorado and Minnesota.