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FTC, 17 States File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Amazon The long-expected antitrust action against Amazon finally came last week with the filing of a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western...
NC Budget Would Preempt Local Government Minimum Wage Rates The state budget ( HB 259 ) approved largely along party lines this month in North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature includes...
Medicaid Expansion Coming to NC in December North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) announced last week that the state will launch Medicaid expansion on Dec. 1, which will leave just 10 states that haven’t...
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress enacted the Families First Coronavirus Response Act , which among other things required state Medicaid programs to keep people continuously enrolled...
Biden Administration Seeks to Exclude Medical Debt from Credit Scores The Biden administration announced plans to develop new rules that would prevent unpaid medical bills from counting towards consumers’...
The European Union’s Parliament approved the AI Act, which could become the first comprehensive regulations for the artificial intelligence industry in the West. Among other things, the act would require generative AI systems like ChatGPT to undergo a review before being commercially released and ban real-time facial recognition. The act has a long way to go before becoming law, with the next step being obtaining approval from EU institutions, including the EU’s 27 member states. (CNBC)
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill (HB 5174) allocating $1.4 billion for microchip research and manufacturing initiatives to attract the industry to the state. Samsung and Texas Instruments have already committed to building new facilities there. (PLURIBUS NEWS, TEXAS TRIBUNE, STATE NET)
Democrats in the U.S. House selected Rep. Lou Correa (D-CA) as the new ranking member of the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform and Antitrust. Correa opposed a package of bills targeting large tech companies last session. The subcommittee’s previous ranking Democrat, Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), was a lead supporter of that legislation. (LAW360)
–Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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