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PA Enacts Crypto Transmitter Licensing Requirements Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) signed legislation requiring cryptocurrency and other virtual monetary transmitters to be licensed by the state...
MO Lawmakers Repeal Voter-Approved Paid Sick Leave Law Eight months after Missouri voters approved Proposition A, mandating paid sick leave and a $13.75 minimum wage, Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) signed legislation...
ME Makes it Easier to Cancel Subscriptions Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed a bill ( SB 650 a ) last month intended to make it easier for Mainers to cancel subscriptions, from gym memberships to mobile...
CT to Seek Federal Approval to Make Generic GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) signed legislation ( HB 7192 ) allowing the state to seek to hire a generic drug-manufacturer to make...
With Congress punting on artificial intelligence regulation during budget negotiations this year, states remain key watchdogs of the technology as it continues to be embraced throughout American society...
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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed a trio of bills aimed at addressing the state’s insurance crisis, with insurers failing and fleeing the market and rates skyrocketing, as in other states at high risk of extreme weather due to climate change.
HB 611 will phase out the state’s “three-year rule,” preventing insurers from dropping or raising the deductibles of policyholders who have been customers for three years or more. Now insurers will be able to drop 5% of their longtime customers each year, and the three-year rule won’t apply to customers who buy policies after August.
SB 323 will allow homeowners insurers more time to pay claims and give them a “cure period” for resolving issues with policyholders.
SB 295 will let insurers increase rates without obtaining prior approval from the Insurance Department. (ADVOCATE, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Vermont lawmakers passed legislation (HB 659) regulating cryptocurrency kiosks, or “Bitcoin ATMs,” allowing users to easily purchase digital currencies with cash or a debit card. Among other things, the measure would limit user transactions to $1,000 per day, cap fees for such transactions at 3%, and impose a one-year moratorium on the installation of new machines in the state. A spokesperson for Gov. Phil Scott (R) said he hadn’t seen the final version of the bill, but the state’s Department of Financial Regulation had “been comfortable” with the legislation. (VTDIGGER)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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