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CA to Cap Health Care Providers’ Annual Price Increases at 3% California’s Health Care Affordability Board voted to limit annual price increases from doctors, hospitals and health insurers...
VT Retailers Fight Data Privacy Bill Orvis and other online retailers based in Vermont are mounting an effort to scale back comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation ( HB 121 ) that has been passed...
Even as states are falling behind on their greenhouse gas emissions goals , that topic remains a top priority in legislatures across the country. Numerous bills have been introduced this year that would...
States Loosening Occupational Licensing Laws In an effort to boost their workforces, states are advancing legislation to loosen their occupational licensing laws. For example, the Louisiana House passed...
ME House Passes Restrictive Data Privacy Bill Maine’s House narrowly approved a bill ( LD 1977 ) that would impose restrictions on the digital information that companies can collect. Businesses...
IL Lawmakers Approve Bill Lifting Moratorium on Nuclear Power Plants: The Illinois General Assembly passed legislation (HB 2437) that, as amended, will lift a nearly four-decades-old moratorium on new nuclear power plants, opening the door for cutting-edge small, modular reactors and potentially allowing the state to meets its goal of using only carbon-free electricity by 2045. Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) was expected to sign the measure, after indicating that it had addressed concerns that had led him to veto a bill in August that would have lifted the moratorium (ASSOCIATED PRESS, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES)
AL Lawmakers to Consider Restricting Underage Access to Porn Sites: Alabama Rep. Ben Robbins (R) plans to introduce a bill next year that would require pornographic websites to verify users are at least 18 years old before granting them access to their content. The bill, which hasn’t been prefiled yet, would also require providers of such online content to register with the state. Louisiana, Texas, and Utah have enacted similar laws, but they’ve been blocked by lawsuits filed by the Free Speech Coalition, a trade association representing the adult entertainment industry. (YELLOWHAMMER NEWS)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK