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[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Wow, that's a lot more complicated than I would have expected!

This happens a lot in the USA, because of how much autonomy the states have. A lot of decisions are left up to individual states, and some states end up doing strange things and add all sorts of exceptions to their laws. Even basic things like sick leave aren't federally mandated (and only 19 or so out of the 50 states have mandated paid sick leave).

Sometimes it can be a good thing though... For example, California has the strictest privacy laws in the country (CCPA and CPRA, similar to GDPR in Europe), and Illinois has very strict laws on usage of biometrics (like fingerprints and facial recognition). Those would have been extremely hard to approve nationwide. Things that go well in one state often end up rolling out to other states too.