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States Passing Laws to Aid Small Pharmacies States including Colorado ( HB 1094 ), Georgia ( HB 196 ), Indiana ( SB 140 ), Iowa ( SB 383 ) and Montana (HB 740) have passed laws this year setting minimum...
Child labor may evoke Dickensian images of young children in dirty, oversized clothes laboring in dusty, dangerous workshops. But this year legislators in Florida considered a bill ( SB 918 ) that would...
MN Enacts Nation’s First Social Media Warning Label Requirement Minnesota enacted a first-in-the-nation provision ( HB 2 a / SB 6 a ) requiring social media platforms to display mental health warning...
CA to Investigate State Farm over LA Wildfire Claims California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara (D) announced a “market conduct examination” of State Farm over consumer complaints about...
OR Enacts Nation’s Strongest Corporate Health Care Law Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) signed a bill ( SB 951 ) imposing the toughest regulations on private and corporate control of medical practices...
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Meta, Snap and X are lobbying in favor of a bill in South Dakota (SB 180) that would require app stores to verify the age of users instead of social media platforms. The development sets up a potential battle with Apple and Google, the former of which helped kill similar legislation in Louisiana last year. (PLURIBUS NEWS, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Virginia’s Democrat-controlled legislature approved a first-of-its-kind bill (SB 854) that would limit minors’ use of social media to an hour a day per service or app, unless their parents give consent for more or less time. The measure now goes to Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) for approval. (REALRADIO804, RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Virginia’s General Assembly also passed a bill (HB 2094) that would require developers of artificial intelligence for automated decision-making in employment, finance, healthcare and other sectors to “use a reasonable duty of care to protect consumers from any known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination.” If signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), Virginia would become the second state, after Colorado, to approve such anti-discrimination restrictions. (BLOOMBERG, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
A bill (LB 229) to classify drivers for companies like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash as independent contractors instead of employees advanced in Nebraska’s Legislature, despite a filibuster from labor-supporting lawmakers. Freshman Sen. Bob Hallstrom (R), who introduced the measure at the request of ride-share and food delivery companies, said it clarifies that the status quo is how such businesses should be run, allowing drivers to work when they want. (NEBRASKA EXAMINER)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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