The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing next week on several technology policy bills, including a newly unveiled comprehensive data privacy bill and kids online safety bills, the committee announced late Tuesday.

Wednesday’s hearing will include discussions of the American Privacy Rights Act, which was released Sunday by committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.).

The bill would set in place regulations around how companies collect and use Americans’ data, and it would preempt state laws that have been enacted in recent years in lieu of federal guidelines.

The hearing will also consider discussions of an update to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). House versions of the bipartisan bills, which advanced out of the Senate Commerce Committee in July, were introduced Tuesday led by Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.).

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