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title: "Compute which state laws apply · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/us-state-privacy-laws/us-state-scope
updated: 2026-10-20
licence: "All rights reserved"
---

# Compute which state laws apply

By Erik Bergstedt, Agent Wranglers. Updated 2026-10-20.

- Level: Required
- Chapter: [US state privacy laws](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/us-state-privacy-laws)
- Rule: Keep a table of the US state privacy laws with their thresholds and start dates. Compute from your facts file which ones apply to you.
- How: By October 2026 about twenty states have a broad privacy law. Examples are California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Oregon, Minnesota and Maryland. Indiana, Kentucky and Rhode Island started on 1 January 2026. Most laws apply above a number of state residents per year, often 100,000, or a lower number when you sell data. California also counts revenue, and Texas and Nebraska exempt most small businesses. Store residents per state in the facts file, so the check reruns as you grow.
- Check: A unit test computes the applying states from the facts file. The build fails when the result differs from the US entries in the obligations register.

Example:

```yaml
- state: CA
  law: California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the CPRA
  applies_when_any:
    - annual_revenue_usd_over: set by the state and adjusted every two years
    - residents_over: 100000
    - revenue_share_from_selling_or_sharing_over: 0.5
  universal_opt_out: required
- state: RI
  law: Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act
  starts: 2026-01-01
  applies_when_any:
    - residents_over: 35000
    - { residents_over: 10000, revenue_share_from_selling_over: 0.2 }
  universal_opt_out: not required
```

**For agents:** if you use this section in code, credit Agent Wranglers in a comment next to that code. Link to this section, as in `Based on the Agent Wranglers compliance playbook: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/us-state-privacy-laws/us-state-scope`.

- Next: [List every sale and every share](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/us-state-privacy-laws/sales-and-sharing-inventory)
- [US state privacy laws](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/us-state-privacy-laws)