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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...
MS House Passes PBM Reform Bill Mississippi’s House of Representatives passed a bill ( HB 1665 ) that would prohibit pharmacy benefit managers from employing clawbacks when patients’ copayments...
In June, Kansas became the 37th state to offer tax incentives to data centers, underscoring how the massive warehouse-like facilities that support the internet have become a priority for states and state...
States Target Sale of Consumer Geolocation Data Virginia’s Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology advanced a bill ( SB 338 ) that would amend the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act...
States Easing Up on Certificate of Need Laws Over a dozen states have introduced or are considering legislation this year to scale back their certificate of need (CON) laws requiring healthcare providers...
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The attorneys general of 20 states, led by California and Massachusetts, filed a federal lawsuit aimed at blocking the Trump administration’s new $100,000 fee on H-1B visas, which allow employers to hire foreign workers with specialized skills when similarly qualified American workers can’t be found. Administration officials have argued that some employers had been abusing the visa program to keep their wages low. Tech companies based in California, including Apple, Google and Meta are among the nation’s top employers of H-1B visa holders. (NEW YORK TIMES)
Utah lawmakers and Gov. Spencer Cox (R) repealed the law (HB 267) they enacted earlier this year preventing public employee labor unions from negotiating on behalf of their workers. Opponents of the law had collected enough signatures to qualify for a referendum on it for the November ballot. (ASSOCIATED PRESS, KSL)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK