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IL House Passes ‘Junk Fee’ Bill The Illinois House passed a bill ( HB 228 ) that would amend the state’s Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act to prohibit businesses from...
Anthropic Not Releasing New AI Model to Public The artificial intelligence company Anthropic—recently in the headlines for demanding that the Pentagon agree to certain limitations on the use of...
CT Lawmakers Target AI in Employment A bill (SB 435) before Connecticut’s legislature would require employers to disclose to job applicants when they are communicating with artificial intelligence...
On March 11, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) signed HB 2303 . The law, which takes effect June 11, bars employers from requesting, requiring or coercing workers or job applicants to accept a subcutaneous...
ND Regulators Approve Bank-to-Bank Stablecoin Use North Dakota’s Industrial Commission approved the use of the state bank’s planned stablecoin, the Roughrider Coin, for bank-to-bank transactions...
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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 Tony Evers (D) intends to direct up to $80 million in federal coronavirus funding toward updating the state’s outdated unemployment system.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