It’d be understandable if you’re confused about the legal status of the abortion pill these days. A lot has happened with the drug mifepristone in the last few months. In early April, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of Texas – an appointee...
Environmental, social and corporate governance, ESG, has taken off in recent years. And in the process, it has broadened the ideological divide between liberal-leaning states and conservative ones, with lawmakers in the former embracing ESG principles and those...
The gig economy has transformed the world of work. Gigs like working as an on-demand driver for Lyft or Uber, or as a freelance web developer on Fiverr , offer flexibility and autonomy not found in traditional nine-to-five jobs. Americans are flocking to them...
Artificial intelligence is having a moment. As we recently reported , ChatGPT has been grabbing headlines for a while now for its astonishingly human-like writing ability. And just last month, Siqi Chen , chief executive of a San Francisco startup called Runway...
Spurred by health insurance companies’ increasing efforts to save money by dictating how providers deliver care, state lawmakers across the country have begun introducing legislation aimed at regulating the use of “utilization management policies.”...
ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-driven computer program designed to facilitate interaction between users and their digital devices, has drawn a great deal of public attention since being introduced last year. Some state lawmakers are taking notice too and calling...
At the start of the year, we took a look at some of the legislative issues we believed would get the most attention from state lawmakers in 2023 within the realms of health, insurance/finance, labor and technology . This week, with the guidance of attorneys Celeste...
Once again, the California Legislature is proving to be a pioneer in lawmaking, as several states across the country, including Maryland and New Mexico, are looking to follow the Golden State’s lead and pursue comprehensive legislation to protect the digital...
While the pandemic is slowly fading from the headlines, vaccine legislation continues to be a priority for lawmakers in many states. The flood of proposals and shifting mandates are posing challenges for government affairs and compliance professionals alike and...
With so much of our world online, data privacy has become a major concern for American policymakers. But in the absence of comprehensive federal legislation addressing data privacy, states are leading the way—creating compliance headaches for businesses....
As the nation has transitioned to living with COVID-19, the attention of state lawmakers has shifted away from pandemic-related matters like testing availability and vaccine distribution to other concerns. Many of the issues we expect to top state legislative agendas...
Former longtime U.S. Rep. Tip O’Neill (D-MA) famously lived by the mantra that “ all politics is local .” It was certainly true in O’Neil’s heyday, and it was still so when I got to the State Net Capitol Journal in 2002. But with...
Once again, Twitter played a meaningful role in the 2022 Midterm Elections, as it has in several previous elections. Democrat John Fetterman used Twitter to relentlessly mock his Republican opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz in their Pennsylvania Senate race while he was...
Along with deciding which party will control Congress and many state legislative chambers next year, voters across the country also weighed in this month on over 100 ballot measures. A number of those measures dealt with abortion and other health-related issues...
The U.S. Department of Labor last month returned to a question vexing government officials and business leaders coast to coast: What makes a worker an employee versus an independent contractor? On October 13, the federal agency published a Notice of Proposed...