TechNet’s 50-state program is unparalleled in size and experience among tech industry trade associations. In 2024, our state team engaged on 775 bills in 45 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C., and our policy position prevailed 87 percent of the time. The team consists of eight regional Executive Directors and one Deputy Executive Director based in the tech hubs of Austin, Boston, Denver, Chicago, Harrisburg, Olympia, Sacramento, and Tallahassee. The team is managed by our Senior Vice President of State Policy and Government Relations and supported by a State Policy Coordinator and contract lobbyists in numerous high-priority states. Executive Directors host regular regional Public Policy Committee meetings to discuss advocacy strategy and provide legislative updates to our members, which are supplemented by email updates on key legislation. Areas of priority engagement include artificial intelligence, data privacy, content moderation, online marketplaces, gig economy, digital repair, autonomous vehicles, taxation, education, and energy.
TechNet encourages state leaders to adopt smart, adaptive, and long-range strategies that foster innovation, enhance global competitiveness, promote job growth and retention, build highly skilled workforces, create the energy and transportation systems of the future, invest in information technology, and provide improved services to constituents with successful, consumer-oriented models. Click here for policies that policymakers should embrace to create thriving, tech-forward states that are stronger and more prosperous.
To learn more about TechNet’s state policy positions, please review our State Policy Principles:
Privacy and Security
Consumers expect, and should expect, to trust the tech sector to protect their data. One of TechNet’s top priorities is…
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and the algorithms that often support artificial intelligence have generated policymaker interest. We acknowledge…
Education and Workforce Development
With global economic leadership at stake, education and workforce development are more critical than ever. TechNet supports policies that help…
Energy and Environment
TechNet supports policies that are technology-neutral and that foster and promote innovation in clean energy supply and demand for a…
Financial Technology (Fintech)
TechNet promotes the banking and financial technology (fintech) sectors by removing regulatory barriers to financial access and literacy, economic growth,…
Diversity, Inclusion, and Racial Justice
The technology industry is committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of our country and our customers. …
New Technologies and Future of Work
State legislatures, local jurisdictions, and courts across the country have reacted in different manners to the rise of new technologies…
Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous Vehicles Autonomous vehicles (AVs) enable tremendous societal benefits by improving road safety, increasing access to transportation for all, enhancing…
Procurement
TechNet seeks to promote and support innovation, transparency, competition, cost effectiveness, and technology neutrality in technology procurement processes. As states…
Taxation
TechNet supports tax policies that promote innovation and foster an economic climate that enables companies to compete, thrive, invest, and…
Smart Infrastructure
In the near future, our infrastructure will blend traditional physical infrastructure (transportation and transit systems, buildings, pipes, power grids, concrete, and…
