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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...
Judge Permanently Blocks OH Social Media Access Law A federal judge issued an injunction permanently blocking an Ohio law that requires parental consent for those under the age of 16 to have a social...
State Lawmakers Target PSAOs After targeting pharmacy benefit managers for years for contributing to the high cost of prescription drugs, state lawmakers have begun setting their sights on pharmacy services...
Two years ago, California enacted first-of-its-kind legislation allowing residents to demand that data brokers delete the personal information the brokers have collected about them. Known as the California...
MN Considering Taxing Social Media Apps Minnesota’s Senate Taxes Committee heard a bill ( SB 3197 ) last week that would make the state the first in the nation to tax social media apps. The measure...
Michigan is poised to become the first state in almost 60 years to repeal a right-to-work law, after the state’s Democrat-led Legislature approved a bill (HB 4005) along party lines last week that would repeal the 2012 Republican-backed law barring unions in the state from requiring membership as a condition of employment. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said she planned to sign the measure into law. Some business groups and labor opponents are considering an effort to put a measure on the state’s 2024 ballot enshrining right-to-work in the state’s Constitution. (DETROIT NEWS, MLIVE, NEW YORK TIMES, PLURIBUS NEWS, STATE NET)
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) signed a bill (HB 131) this month prohibiting most private employers from considering vaccination status when making employment decisions, including those related to hiring and determining compensation. The measure provides some exemptions, such as for employers that are federal contractors and for entities that would violate mandatory requirements for funding from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by complying with the law. (SHRM, STATE NET)
In a memo to agency staff National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said a Feb. 21 decision by the board retroactively prohibits severance agreements hindering workers from filing lawsuits or communicating with the board, unions or the media. The board’s February decision voided a pair of Trump-era rulings holding that a severance agreement only violates federal labor law if an employer engages in “animus and additional coercive or otherwise unlawful conduct” to get a worker to sign it. (REUTERS, INSURANCE JOURNAL)
A bill (AB 259) introduced this month in Nevada would require providers of “jobs and day training services,” starting in 2028, to pay those with intellectual or developmental disabilities no less than the state minimum wage. Nevada’s minimum wage will increase to $12 per hour next year. (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, STATE NET)
—Compiled by KOREY CLARK