Last year, Colorado became the first state to use a prescription drug affordability board to set a binding payment limit for a specific drug. Now a federal judge has temporarily blocked that limit, raising questions about whether states can impose such caps on...
OH EPA Scraps Proposed Data Center Water Discharge General Permit The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency announced in a community notice last week that after “carefully reviewing the significant volume of public comments” regarding its proposed...
FDA Advisory Panel Supports Widening Access to Several Peptides Last week an advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration voted in favor of allowing compounding pharmacies to produce six peptides previously banned over safety concerns. Despite being...
California often leads other states on public policy. But on one particular issue currently before the California Legislature—the use of behavior-based telematics in auto insurance—it is following them. Usage-based insurance, or UBI, uses mileage...
STATE NET® THOUGHT LEADERSHIP SERIES The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has triggered an unprecedented building boom across the U.S. Behind every AI chatbot query, every cloud backup and every streamed video sits a data center, a massive...
Data Centers to Increase Power Costs in 13 States by Billions Power costs for millions of households and businesses in 13 eastern states and the District of Columbia will increase by $6.3 billion within the next three years, according to the results of an electricity...
MO Joins Other States in Banning Insurer Limits on Anesthesia Coverage With its enactment of HB 2372 last week, Missouri joined half a dozen other states in prohibiting insurance companies from imposing time limits on anesthesia coverage. The legislation was...
On June 10, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) sued Bridge It Inc., the company behind the fintech app Brigit , alleging that its Instant Cash advances violate the state’s payday lending laws. Brigit Chief Operating Officer Fara Remtulla said...
NJ Enacts Law Regulating Data Brokers New Jersey enacted legislation ( AB 5328 ) last month regulating data brokers. Among other things, the new law requires data brokers and data collectors to annually register and pay a fee ranging from $5,000 and $1.5 million...
CA Joins NJ in Requiring Employers to Share Cost of Employees’ Medicaid Coverage California enacted a bill ( SB 177 ) directing the state’s Department of Finance to come up with options for employers with at least 250 workers enrolled in Medi-Cal...
On June 16, Vermont became the 23rd state to enact a comprehensive consumer privacy law when Republican Gov. Phil Scott signed SB 71 , the Vermont Data Privacy and Online Surveillance Act. The measure, now Act 145, takes effect Jan. 1, 2028. The law gives consumers...
States Alter Course on Data Center Tax Breaks Virginia has become the latest state to pass legislation changing its stance on data center tax incentives in the face of growing opposition to the facilities over their potential impact on energy costs and availability...
DE Legislature Passes Ban on ‘Captive Audience’ Meetings Delaware lawmakers passed a bill ( HB 84 ) that would prohibit employers from requiring employees to attend “captive audience” meetings, those held to convey the employers’...
As in every part of society it touches, artificial intelligence is changing hiring practices—and state legislators are concerned about the implications. Consider two aspects of AI in labor that lawmakers have wrestled with this year: discrimination and...
Banking Law Updates Nearing Enactment in DE A package of bills ( SB 16 , SB 18 and SB 19 ) modernizing Delaware’s banking laws is nearing enactment in the First State. Introduced by Sen. Spiros Mantzavinos (D) in March with the support of Gov. Matt Meyer...