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Federal law bars medical providers from sharing health data without a patient’s consent but doesn’t prevent digital tech companies from tracking menstrual cycles or an individual’s location and selling it to data brokers. Whether that should change has become another political fault line in a nation where most Republican-controlled states have restricted abortion — including 14 with bans in place at every stage of pregnancy — and most Democratic ones have soug...

Some states and federal regulators were already moving to keep reproductive health information private when a U.S. senator reported cellphone location data being used to send millions of anti-abortion ads

Bills addressing the issue have been introduced in several states this year, including Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, South Carolina and Vermont.

Some state governments and federal regulators were already moving to keep individuals' reproductive health information private when a U.S. senator's report last week offered a new jolt, describing how cellphone location data was used to send millions of anti-abortion ads to people who visited Planned Parenthood offices.

A report from Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden offered a new jolt to the efforts, showing how cellphone location data was used to send anti-abortion ads.

State governments across the U.S. are adopting or considering laws that would block the sale of personal health data or information about who visits sensitive sites such as sexual health facilities.

The Virginia Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor on Feb. 9 carried over for a year a bill that could place siting approval of large-scale solar farm operations away from localities and into the purview of the State Corporation Commission.

Area legislators got together Saturday morning for a mid-session update to bring their supporters up to speed on what they are working on in the General Assembly.

Dozens of pieces of gun-related legislation that advocates say will bolster public safety are winding their way through Virginia’s Democratic-controlled General Assembly

Virginia lawmakers are looking to raise the minimum wage to $13.50 starting in 2025 and $15.00 in 2026.