Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Monitor – April 30, 2026

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State Attorneys General Monitor analyzes regulatory actions by state AGs and other state administrative agencies throughout the nation. Contributors to this newsletter and related blog include attorneys experienced in regulatory enforcement, litigation, and compliance. Also visit our State Attorneys General Monitor microsite.

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Regulatory Oversight Podcast Update

AI State Regulatory Frontiers: How Existing Laws Regulate AI

By Ashley L. Taylor, Jr.

In this episode of Regulatory Oversight, host Ashley Taylor continues his multipart series on artificial intelligence (AI) with returning guests Gurkan Ay and Andrew Coles of Resolution Economics. Together, they move beyond headlines and hypotheticals to focus on how AI is being regulated today — and what companies should be doing now to manage risk.

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Single-State AG News

Virginia Becomes Third State to Ban Sale of Consumers’ Precise Geolocation Data

By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team and Roshni Patel

On April 13, 2026, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed SB338 into law, amending Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) to prohibit controllers of personal data from selling consumers’ precise geolocation data. This ban, which takes effect on July 1, 2026, makes Virginia the third state in recent years to prohibit the sale of such data and reflects a trend that is likely to continue. Somewhat surprisingly, Virginia was the second state, behind California, to enact a comprehensive consumer privacy law and is continuing within that vein with this early expansion of privacy rights.

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DC Announces Live Nation Will Pay $9.9M for Alleged Deceptive Ticket Pricing Practices

By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team

On April 20, 2026, Attorney General (AG) Brian Schwalb announced that Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, will pay $9.9 million to resolve allegations of deceptive ticket pricing and hidden fees affecting District of Columbia consumers. The settlement provides millions in refunds to D.C. ticket buyers and requires Live Nation to maintain reforms that ensure upfront disclosure of full ticket prices.

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AG of the Week

Jonathan Skrmetti, Tennessee

Jonathan Skrmetti was appointed attorney general (AG) of Tennessee by the Tennessee Supreme Court on August 10, 2022, and was sworn in for an eight-year term on September 1, 2022. Before his appointment, he served as chief counsel to Governor Bill Lee and as chief deputy AG under AG Herbert Slatery, following several years in private practice.

Earlier, Skrmetti was an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee and an Honors Program trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Skrmetti has also served as a law clerk for Judge Steven M. Colloton on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and taught cyberlaw as an adjunct professor at the University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.

Skrmetti holds undergraduate degrees from both the University of Oxford and George Washington University. He then graduated from Harvard Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.

He lives in Franklin, TN, with his wife and four children.

Tennessee AG in the News:

• The Tennessee AG’s office is alerting consumers to fraudulent websites that pose as legitimate classic car and heavy equipment dealers, using sophisticated sites, unusually low prices, responsive communication, videos, and fake business licenses to appear credible, but ultimately stealing victims’ money because the advertised vehicles and equipment do not actually exist.

• The Tennessee AG’s Office Division of Consumer Affairs announced the top 10 consumer complaint categories for 2025 and reported that, through its free voluntary mediation program handling 9,938 formal complaints last year, it helped Tennessee consumers recover more than $3.6 million related to personal and household purchases.

Upcoming AG Events

• May: RAGA | ERC Retreat | Sea Island, GA  
• May: NAAG | Spring Consumer Protection Conference | Kansas City, MO 
• May: DAGA | Policy Conference | Milwaukee, WI

For more on upcoming AG Events, click here.

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