TechNet’s 50-state program is unparalleled in size and experience among tech industry trade associations. In 2022, our state team engaged on 634 bills in 44 states and achieved a 92 percent success rate. The team consists of seven regional Executive Directors and one Deputy Executive Director based in the tech hubs of Austin, Boston, Denver, Chicago, Harrisburg, Olympia, and Sacramento. The team is managed by our Vice President of State Policy and Government Relations and supported by a State Policy Coordinator and contract lobbyists in several 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 data privacy, content moderation, online marketplaces, gig economy, digital repair, autonomous vehicles, taxation, anti-discrimination initiatives, broadband expansion, education funding, and clean 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

Many policymakers and interest groups introduce and sponsor legislation targeted at consumer privacy and an individual’s rights with respect to…


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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and the algorithms that often support artificial intelligence have generated policymaker interest.  We acknowledge…


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Education and Workforce Development

With global economic leadership at stake, education and workforce development are more critical than ever.  TechNet supports policies that help…


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Energy and Environment

TechNet supports policies that are technology-neutral and that foster and promote innovation in clean energy supply and demand for a…


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Financial Technology (Fintech)

TechNet promotes the banking and financial technology (fintech) sectors by removing regulatory barriers to financial access and literacy, economic growth,…


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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. …


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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,…


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Autonomous Vehicles

The development and deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) offers the potential to increase equity by providing mobility-as-a-service and enable tremendous…


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Procurement

TechNet seeks to promote and support innovation, transparency, competition, cost effectiveness, and technology neutrality in technology procurement processes.  As states…


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Taxation

TechNet supports tax policies that promote innovation and foster an economic climate that enables companies to compete, thrive, invest, and…


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Smart Infrastructure

In the near future, our infrastructure will blend traditional physical infrastructure (transportation and transit systems, buildings, pipes, power grids, concrete, and…


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