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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...
AR Lawmakers Pass Bill Banning PBMs from Running Pharmacies The Arkansas legislature passed a bill ( HB 1150 ) that would make the state the first in the nation to prohibit pharmacy benefit managers...
The days of simply setting a price for goods or services and waiting for customers to accept it are gone. Thanks to predictive pricing , businesses of all sorts can now use data analytics, machine learning...
‘Predictive Pricing’ Top Priority for CA Lawmakers Predictive pricing, a practice involving the use of artificial intelligence to set prices for customers based on factors like the websites...
Patchwork of Paid Leave Laws Set to Continue There’s currently no federal law requiring paid leave. The federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 only requires employers to provide unpaid time...
At least four states have banned or severely restricted the use of smart phones in schools in the current legislative biennium. Florida became the first state to do so last year, and Indiana and Ohio passed bans this year. Meanwhile, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) issued an executive order this month requiring the state’s department of education to set guidelines for making schools cell phone-free, and boards of education in Alabama and South Carolina are working on similar rules. (PLURIBUS NEWS)
Elon Musk announced that he will be moving the headquarters of SpaceX and X from California to Texas in response to a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) last week (AB 1955). In a post on X, Musk said the law, which prohibits school districts from requiring parental notification of a student’s change of gender identification, was “the final straw,” coming after a string of other laws “attacking both families and companies.” (CNBC, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has been called to testify before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security. U.S. Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), chairman of that committee, and U.S. Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), chairman of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, said the company’s faulty software update that caused millions of Microsoft Windows devices to crash this month offers a “warning about the national security risks associated with network dependency.” (CNBC)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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