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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...

MN, NY Follow CO’s Lead on Taxing E-Commerce Deliveries In 2021 Colorado passed a transportation funding bill ( SB 260 ) that included a 27-cent charge on food and goods deliveries from companies like Amazon and DoorDash. This year the Minnesota...

WA Stockpiling Abortion Drug as ‘Insurance Policy’ Against Potential Court Ruling Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said he ordered the state’s Department of Corrections to purchase 30,000 doses of the abortion pill mifepristone last...

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...

MI to Repeal Right-to-Work Law Michigan is poised to become the first state in almost 60 years to repeal a right-to-work law, after the state’s Democrat-led Legislature approved a bill ( HB 4005 ) along party lines last week that would repeal...

MS Gov Nixes Health Insurance Reform Bills Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) vetoed two health insurance reform measures that were passed by the Legislature with bipartisan support. One of the bills ( SB 2622 ) would have accelerated the prior authorization...

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...

MT Senate Passes Sweeping TikTok Ban The Montana Senate approved a TikTok ban ( SB 419 ) that goes much further than the executive actions of several Republican governors prohibiting the use of the Chinese-owned video-sharing app on state-issued devices...

Walgreens Caught in Red-State, Blue-State Battle over Abortion Pills California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said last week that his state was cutting ties with Walgreens, including a $54 million contract to provide medications to inmates of the state’s...

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...

25 GOP AGs Seek to Block Federal ESG Investment Rule The Republican attorneys general of 25 states have asked a federal court in Texas to block implementation of a regulation from the U.S. Department of Labor governing the consideration of issues like...

CA Lawmakers Trying Again to Regulate Crypto Industry California lawmakers are considering legislation ( AB 39 ) that would require digital asset companies to be licensed by the state and also impose new disclosure requirements on them intended to protect...

Seattle Becomes First U.S. City to Ban Caste Discrimination Seattle’s City Council passed an ordinance ( CB 120511 ) prohibiting discrimination in various arenas, including employment and housing, based on caste, which it defines as “a system...

Amazon Closes $3.9B One Medical Deal Amazon announced last week that it had closed its $3.9 billion deal to buy One Medical, furthering its efforts to expand its growing medical services business. The tech giant’s announcement came the day after...

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...

FL, Other States Seek to Protect Teens from Social Media A bill ( HB 591 ) introduced in Florida this month would require social media companies to disclose to users that that they employ “addictive design features” like auto play and infinite...

WI Gov’s Proposed Budget Includes Family Leave Plan One of the most significant provisions in Gov. Tony Evers’ (D) proposed 2023-25 budget is a new family and medical leave program. Under that program both public and private employees who...

CA to Consider $25 Minimum Wage for Healthcare Workers A bill introduced last week in California ( SB 525 ) would establish a statewide $25 minimum wage for healthcare workers and support staff. The bill would require healthcare facilities and home...

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...

U.S. Rep Introduces Unique Measure Calling for Regulation of AI U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) introduced a resolution last week calling on Congress to establish a nonpartisan commission to make recommendations about how to regulate artificial intelligence...

CA’s New Fast-Food Industry Law on Hold Implementation of a landmark law passed last year in California ( AB 257 ) aimed at improving working conditions for fast-food employees and potentially increasing their minimum wage up to $22 per hour has...

Flurry of Bills Targeting Vaccine Makers and Mandates: Already this year lawmakers in 18 states have introduced over 80 measures dealing with vaccine policy, according to Dorit Reiss, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of Law...

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...

NLRB Official Rejects Amazon’s Effort to Overturn Union Victory in NYC: A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board rejected Amazon’s effort to overturn a union victory at the company’s JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island...

Illicit Crypto Use Reaches $20B: The use of cryptocurrencies for illicit purposes reached a record $20.1 billion in 2022, according to data from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. Despite falling crypto transaction volumes overall, the value of...