Texas recently enacted a comprehensive consumer state data privacy law, the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (the Act), following multiple other states.
The U.S. Supreme Court has announced its arguments (PDF) for the fall term, including the case that brings the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s constitutionality to the court for the second time in recent years.
Thank you for the invitation to join you in commemorating 55 years since the Fair Housing Act became law.1 Along with the Voting Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act was an essential step in making good on the promise of the Civil Rights Act, and of the vision of Dr. Martin Luther King, to build a fair and equal society.
Attorney General Jason Miyares is signing on in support of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The lawsuit calls into question the funding model, which finances regulation of industries with money that comes from the industries that are regulated.
Bureau staff will provide information to help financial institutions determine whether they are covered financial institutions for purposes of the small business lending rule. This will include how to determine if transactions are covered credit transactions and whether businesses are small businesses.
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