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Title | Bill Number | State | Year Enacted | Summary | Year Included | Bill Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
An Act to Facilitate Licensure for Credentialed Individuals from Other Jurisdictions | HP 105 | Maine | 2021 | H.P. 105 codified an opportunity for skilled workers educated in, or with relevant experience or licensure in, other jurisdictions (including other states and U.S. territories) to pursue a variety of opportunities where their skills are critically needed. | 2024 | |
Financial institutions; reporting financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults | SB 174 | Virginia | 2024 | The bill permits a financial institution to allow an elderly or vulnerable adult, as defined in the bill, to submit and periodically update a list of trusted persons whom such financial institution or financial institution staff may contact in the case of the suspected financial exploitation of such adult. The bill also permits a financial institution to conduct a training to instruct its staff on how to identify and report the suspected financial exploitation of an elderly or vulnerable adult internally at such financial institution to a designated trusted contact and to various other authorities. The bill directs the Bureau of Financial Institutions of the State Corporation Commission to develop and publish guidelines for such training by Jan. 1, 2026. The bill provides that financial institution staff receiving training are not liable in any civil or administrative proceeding for disclosing the suspected financial exploitation of an elderly or vulnerable adult pursuant to the bill's provisions if such disclosure was made in good faith and with reasonable care. The bill provides that no financial institution that has provided such training shall be liable for any such disclosure by financial institution staff. | 2024 | |
Families Serve Act of 2024 | SB 478 | Maryland | 2024 | The Families Serve Act supports Maryland’s military families by expanding job opportunities for military spouses. The law requires that spouses of members of any branch of the uniformed services receive a ten-point credit to selection tests when applying for state jobs and authorizes private employers to grant hiring and promotion preferences to spouses of a full-time active-duty member of any branch of the uniformed services. | 2024 | |
Right to Start | AB 77 | Nevada | 2023 | Assembly Bill 77 creates the Office of Entrepreneurship within the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. The Office is required to: (1) work to strengthen policies and programs supporting the growth of entrepreneurship in the State, including, without limitation, across demographic segments and geographic areas; (2) work with stakeholders and organizations supporting entrepreneurship to enhance the learning and skills of, provide technical support to and expand access to resources for entrepreneurs across the State; and (3) serve as a point of contact to assist businesses that have been in operation for not more than 5 years in their interactions with state agencies. | 2023 | |
Kansas Financial Institutions Privilege Tax | SB 15 | Kansas | 2024 | Increasing the maximum amount of yearly income tax credits available for purchases under the disability employment act from qualified vendors, continuing in existence such credits beyond tax year 2023 of eligible purchases available for such credit and further defining qualifying vendors and employees eligible for the credit, establishing a grant program to facilitate transitions by employers to minimum wage employment for persons with disabilities and creating the Kansas sheltered workshop transition fund. | 2023 | |
Dealer Code of Conduct | SB S4970A | New York | 2021 | This bill creates a robust code of conduct for licensed gun dealers in New York state, including theft protection, employee training, and maintenance of records to aid investigations of gun crimes. The bill lays out a number of concrete steps licensed firearm dealers in NY state must take to ensure they’re doing all they can to keep guns off the illegal market out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them. | 2023 | |
Uniform Community Property Disposition at Death Act | HB 1409 | Arkansas | 2023 | The act provides a set of default rules to ensure the equitable distribution of community property when the first spouse dies. It assists courts in determining the character of property when there is a dispute between potential heirs. The act also clarifies the process for partitioning and reclassifying community property for couples who mutually agree to separate their interests, and provides a remedy to address bad-faith transfers intended to impair the property rights of one spouse. | 2023 | |
Establishing regulatory standards and safeguards for earned wage access providers | SB 290 | Nevada | 2023 | Provides for the regulation of employer-integrated earned wage access providers and direct-to-consumer earned wage access providers. | 2023 | |
Temp Workers Fairness and Safety Act | HB 2862 | Illinois | 2023 | This bill amends the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act. Specifically, it provides that no day and temporary labor service agency may send a day or temporary laborer to a place where a strike, a lockout, or other labor trouble exists without providing, at or before the time of dispatch, a statement, in writing and in a language that the day and temporary laborer understands, informing the day or temporary laborer of the labor dispute and the day or temporary laborer's right to refuse the assignment without prejudice to receiving another assignment; provides that a day or temporary laborer who is assigned to work at a third party client for more than 60 calendar days shall be paid not less than the rate of pay and equivalent benefits as the lowest paid directly hired employee of the third party client with the same level of seniority at the company and performing the same or substantially similar work on jobs the performance of which requires substantially similar skill, effort, and responsibility, and that are performed under similar working conditions; provides that upon a reasonable belief that a day and temporary labor service agency or a third party client is in violation of any part of the Act, an interested party may initiate a civil action in the county where the alleged offenses occurred or where any party to the action resides. | 2023 | |
Consumers Legal Remedies Act: Advertisements | SB 478 | California | 2023 | The False Advertising Law makes it a crime for a person or a firm, corporation, or association, or any employee thereof, to engage in specified false or misleading advertising practices. The Unfair Competition Law makes various unfair competition practices unlawful, including any unlawful, unfair, or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue, or misleading advertising. | 2023 | |
The Delaware EARNS Act | HB 205 | Delaware | 2022 | This act establishes the Delaware Expanding Access for Retirement and Necessary Saving (EARNS) program to serve as a vehicle through which eligible employees may, on a voluntary basis, provide for additional retirement security through a state-facilitated retirement savings program in a convenient, cost effective and portable manner. The EARNS program will be designed to serve small businesses that are unable to offer retirement plans to employees due to the cost and administrative burden. Because there are documented wealth gaps in Delaware disproportionately impacting women and people of color, a state-facilitated savings plan aims to alleviate barriers small employers face in offering options, close the wealth gap among low to modest wage earners and keep Delaware competitive with neighboring states by attracting talented workers to Delaware. A state-sponsored savings plan, funded by employees, facilitated by employers and overseen by the state will offer one solution to the quickly emerging crises stemming from generations of workers without adequate savings. The act creates the Delaware EARNS Program Board to oversee initial design and implementation of the program. | 2022 | |
Expansion of Experiential Learning Opportunities | SB 22-140 | Colorado | 2022 | This bill expands experiential learning opportunities through relationships with employers. It establishes a work-based learning incentive program, a digital navigation program, a careeraligned English as a second language program and a global talent task force to study indemand occupations. | 2022 | |
Uniform Registration of Canadian Money Judgments Act | AB 145 | Nevada | 2021 | This act creates an administrative procedure for the registration and enforcement of a Canadian money judgment in an enacting state. Once the Canadian judgment is successfully registered in the state, the judgment is enforceable in the same manner as a judgment rendered in that state. The act supplements the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act (“Recognition Act”) by providing an alternative method to seeking recognition and enforcement of a foreign judgment. Section 6 of the Recognition Act requires the filing of a lawsuit to seek recognition and enforcement of a judgment, whereas Assembly Bill 145 offers a simple administrative alternative. | 2022 | |
Virtual Currency Custody Services | HB 802 | Louisiana | 2022 | This bill enables a financial institution or trust company to provide its customers with virtual currency custody services if the financial institution or trust company has adequate protocols in place to effectively manage risks and comply with applicable laws. | 2022 | |
Consumer Privacy Act | SB 227 | Utah | 2022 | This bill addresses consumer privacy and data collected and maintained by certain businesses. Controllers are responsible for transparency, purpose specification and data minimization. They must also obtain the consumer’s consent for any secondary uses and must honor consumer rights (generally within 45 days of receipt of the consumer’s request). Controllers are also responsible for safeguarding date privacy and security, non-discrimination, non-retaliation and non-waiver of consumer rights. Controllers are prohibited from processing certain data qualifying as “sensitive data” without first presenting the consumer with clear notice and providing an opportunity to opt-out of processing. | 2022 |
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