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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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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 Tony Evers (D) intends to direct up to $80 million in federal coronavirus funding toward updating the state’s outdated unemployment system.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