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Bill Setting Rounding Rules for Cash Transactions Advances in FL The Florida Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee advanced a bill ( SB 1074 ) that would direct retailers how to round cash transactions...
NH Bill Aimed at Banning Political Discrimination in Workplace New Hampshire Rep. Terry Roy (R) has introduced a bill ( HB 1464 ) that would prohibit employers from refusing to hire, barring from employment...
ACA Health Insurance Enrollments Down by More Than 800,000 About 830,000 fewer Americans have signed up for Affordable Care Act health insurance plans than last year, according to data from the Centers...
What a difference a year makes. In March of last year, we reported that many states were considering requiring insurers to cover popular weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Victoza....
State Lawmakers Target Data Centers State lawmakers are considering legislation to protect consumers from rising energy prices as data centers drive up demand. A bill [ HB 3546 (2025) ] passed in Oregon...
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Washington’s Public Works Board, one of three bodies in the state that award broadband grants, is considering changing its objection process to require objectors to provide more evidence to support their claims. Public utilities say their efforts to make use of the $400 million in mostly federal funds the state has set aside for broadband development have been blocked by Comcast and other private telecommunications companies with spurious claims about service offerings and promises of service expansion. (CROSSCUT [SEATTLE])
Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, north of Hartford, was the target of a cyberattack last week. But the Connecticut Airport Authority said the distributed denial-of-service attack on the airport’s website caused no disruption of operations. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
As of last Thursday (3/31) the majority of ballots counted in the unionization vote at an Amazon fulfillment center on New York’s Staten Island favored unionizing, 717 to 581. If that trend hods with the thousands of ballots that likely remain the facility would become the company’s first to support unionization. (CNBC)
Amazon has been cited and fined by the Washington Department of Labor and Industries four times in the past year for alleged violations of the state’s workplace safety laws. The company has appealed three of the citations and intends to appeal the fourth as well. (SEATTLE TIMES)
Vermont’s House passed a transportation spending bill (HB 736) and omnibus state appropriations bill (HB 740) that together would provide $866 million for transportation infrastructure development. That sum includes $22 million in incentives to reduce the cost of buying electric vehicles and $19 million for electric vehicle charging stations. (VT DIGGER)
Oregon’s new semiconductor industry task force met for the first time last week. The group plans to establish an “initial roadmap” this spring for how to attract more semiconductor research and manufacturing to the state. (OREGONIAN [PORTLAND])
The Connected Commerce Council is a trade group based in Washington, D.C. that claims to lobby against aggressive regulation of big tech companies on behalf of small businesses. But the group’s financial support comes entirely from tech giants Amazon and Google. (CNBC)
-- Compiled by KOREY CLARK