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CT Senate Passes Sweeping Consumer Protection Bill The Connecticut Senate passed an expansive consumer protection bill ( SB 5 ). Among other things, the measure would require service providers such as...
Social Media Warning Label Legislation Catching on in States Although Congress hasn’t responded to former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s call last June to take up legislation requiring...
OR Lawmakers Pass Age Discrimination Bill Oregon’s legislature passed a bill ( HB 3187 ) that would prohibit an employer from requesting an applicant’s age, date of birth or date of graduation...
WI Assembly Passes Multiple Healthcare Bills Wisconsin’s Assembly passed multiple healthcare-related bills with broad bipartisan support. One ( AB 43 ) would allow pharmacists to prescribe birth...
A nightmare may be coming to life for social media companies in Minnesota. There, Democrats in the state Legislature have embraced a pioneering bill, SB 3197 , which seeks to levy the nation’s...
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signs SB 817, a bill that bans discrimination in schools based on hairstyles historically associated with race, ethnicity, or hair texture braids, locks and twists.
Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee (D) signs HB 5105b, which extends the pandemic-induced law that allows restaurants to sell limited amounts of liquor with take-out food orders through March 1, 2022.
Rhode Island Gov. McKee also signs HB 5346, which bars third-party food delivery services from listing a restaurant without the business’ consent.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signs SB 1465, which requires banking institutions that maintain checking accounts to paychecks in the order they are received. The law will allow a bank to decline paying a check for a greater amount than the balance in the account, but require it to honor any smaller checks that can be paid with the existing account balance.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signs HB 709, which requires the state to conduct public information campaigns to help educate immigrants of their rights under the U.S. Constitution and Prairie State laws.
--Compiled by RICH EHISEN
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