North Carolina Pornography Age Verification Enforcement Act

House Bill 534 would enact the “Pornography Age Verification Enforcement Act” or PAVE Act. It would require commercial entities that publish or distribute “material harmful to minors” on internet websites to verify that a person seeking to access the material is 18 by requiring the person to comply with a commercial age verification system that verifies using government-issued identification or public or private transactional data.

West Virginia SB 637

Prohibits banks from denying any person a financial service the financial institution offers except to the extent justified by such person’s documented failure to meet quantitative, impartial risk-based financial standards established in advance by the financial institution.