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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...
WASHINGTON Gov. Jay Inslee (D) signs SB 5172, a bill that will ensure farm laborers in the Evergreen State receive overtime pay. The law will be phased in, granting the additional pay for workers who put in more than 55 hours of work by 2022; 48 hours in 2023; and for anything over 40 hours by 2024 (ASSOCIATED PRESS). OKLAHOMA Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signs SB 706, a bill that allows personal delivery devices to operate on sidewalks, crosswalks or any street in a municipality. The law goes into effect in November (STATE NET, OKLAHOMAN [OKLAHOMA CITY]).
FLORIDA Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signs SB 1954 and SB 2514, which together dedicate hundreds of million of dollars to state flooding infrastructure projects. The measures are intended to help mitigate sea rise caused by climate change (STATE NET, TAMPA BAY TIMES).
WASHINGTON Gov. Jay Inslee (D) signs HB 1236, a bill that requires landlords to show a valid reason for ending a tenant’s lease. Under the law, landlords can end leases for reasons like failure to pay rent, unlawful activity and nuisance issues, or when a landlord intends to sell or move into a rental (STATE NET, OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING).
NEW YORK CITY Mayor Bill de Blasio signs Int. No 888-A, a measure that creates a retirement savings program for private sector employers that do not offer a retirement plan and have five or more employees. The default employee contribution rate will be 5 percent. Employees will be able to opt out at any time or adjust their contribution up or down to the annual IRA maximum. Monies saved will be portable, allowing employees to continue to contribute or roll over their accounts into other retirement savings plans when they switch jobs. The mayor also signs Int. NO-901-A, which creates a retirement savings board to administer it (STATE NET).
-- By RICH EHISEN
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