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...
During the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, travel nurses made national headlines for earning double or triple what nurses employed by health systems were making. Now some states are considering legislation to regulate travel nurse and other healthcare staffing...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law during the month of September, hundreds of bills with potentially far-reaching implications. Will Workers Benefit from Statewide Fast Food Council? The first major piece of legislation Newsom signed was AB 257 ,...
Will States Lead Way in Regulating DeFi? Decentralized finance, or DeFi - financial services like banking, borrowing and lending but provided via blockchain technology instead of a traditional financial institution - has exploded in the past few years. That rapid...
New CA Legislation Could Impact Websites Across the Nation The California State Legislature last month approved sweeping legislation that has the potential to impact virtually every website you visit, regardless of which state you call home. The California...
Saying “Our kids deserve a future free of plastic waste and all its dangerous impacts,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed legislation on June 30 th that imposes the nation’s most far-reaching regulations on single-use plastics. So far...