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MI to Weigh Ban on Stock Buybacks for Companies Receiving Tax Breaks Michigan Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D) introduced a bill ( SB 783 ) that would prohibit publicly traded companies receiving economic incentives...
VA House Passes Paid Sick Leave Bill Virginia’s House of Delegates approved a bill ( HB 5 ) that would expand the state’s current paid sick leave law, which applies only to a small segment...
VA Lawmakers Okay Prescription Drug Affordability Board Virginia lawmakers have passed legislation ( SB 271 / HB 483 ) that would create a prescription drug affordability board to review drug prices...
Geolocation data has become a new frontier in privacy protection. This year, Virginia could join Maryland and Oregon as the first states to prohibit the sale of information that provides the precise...
Insurance Bill Raises Concerns in FL A fast-moving bill ( SB 1028 ) in Florida, sponsored by Sen. Joe Gruters (R), chairman of the Senate’s Banking and Insurance Committee, would require Citizens...
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Arkansas’ General Assembly passed a bill (HB 1977) requiring employers in the state to allow their workers to opt-out of getting vaccinated for COVID-19. The measure failed to draw the two-thirds majority vote in the Senate required to approve its emergency clause, which would have made the measure effective immediately. Ordinarily, that would have meant it wouldn’t take effect until 90 days after the legislative session’s adjournment. But lawmakers employed a procedural move that will allow them to take another vote on the effective date of the bill. (ASSOCIATED PRESS, STATE NET)
A federal jury ordered Tesla Inc. to pay over $130 million in damages to a Black former employee. The jury found that the company didn’t take sufficient action to protect Owen Diaz, an elevator operator at the company’s Fremont factory in 2015 and 2016, from racial harassment. (INSURANCE JOURNAL)
-- Compiled by KOREY CLARK