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‘Unauthorized Alien’ Limits Among Trio of Auto Insurance Proposals Under Consideration in LA House Three auto insurance bills cleared the Louisiana House Committee on Civil Law and Procedure...
Social Media Bill Dodges Veto Override in CO Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ (D) veto of a social media bill ( SB 86 ) survived an override attempt. The state’s Democrat-controlled Senate voted...
WA Enacts Law Keeping Medical Debt Off Credit Reports Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) signed a bill ( SB 5480 ) prohibiting collection agencies from reporting unpaid medical debt to credit agencies...
In 2022, there were about 22 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births in the United States. That’s the highest rate of maternal deaths among high-income nations worldwide. That sobering statistic...
DOGE-Like Effort in FL Could Impact Insurance Industry The wave of housecleaning that’s swept through the federal government courtesy of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency appears...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed legislation (SB 606) expanding the enforcement authority of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA). The new law, effective Jan. 1, 2022, establishes a rebuttable presumption that an employer who operates multiple worksites and is found to have safety violations at one of them has similar violations at others. The law also allows Cal/OSHA to cite “egregious” employers for each willful violation and treat each individual employee’s exposure to such a violation as a separate incident for the purpose of issuing fines and penalties, as well as grants Cal/OSHA greater subpoena power during an investigation. (SHRM)
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) announced last week that Ford Motor Corp. and South Korea-based SK Innovation will build two battery manufacturing plants in the state that will employ 5,000 people. The record $5.8 billion project, more than triple the state’s previous single largest economic development investment, will place the state on the leading edge of the electric vehicle industry, the governor said. (LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER)
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) intends to direct up to $80 million in federal coronavirus funding toward updating the state’s outdated unemployment system. The news comes after Republicans, who control the state’s Legislature, repeatedly rejected the governor’s requests to use state taxpayer dollars to make the upgrades. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL [MADISON])
-- Compiled by KOREY CLARK