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CA Regulators Complete Review of Wildfire Risk Model California’s Department of Insurance has completed a review of the state’s first wildfire catastrophe model, which property/casualty insurers...
Trump Administration’s ‘AI Action Plan’ Targets State AI Regulation The Trump administration released an “AI Action Plan,” aimed at speeding the development of artificial...
In the span of just 36 days this spring and summer, the number of states offering unemployment benefits to striking workers doubled—to four. New Jersey was the first to offer such benefits, beginning...
Developing Anti-‘Debanking’ Trend in Red States? A new front appears to have opened in the ongoing battle over environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. In March Idaho Gov. Brad...
FL Requests Medicaid Waiver to Bolster Health Workforce Florida is seeking a federal waiver to use Medicaid funding to expand its health care workforce, a plan that could be adopted by other states....
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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 Tony Evers (D) intends to direct up to $80 million in federal coronavirus funding toward updating the state’s outdated unemployment system.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