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Signed into law by President Donald Trump on July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) contains extensive revisions to the U.S. Internal Revenue Code (Code). (For a comprehensive analysis of the bill, see Holland &...more
The Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025, spans nearly 900 pages and touches numerous aspects of federal policy. Nestled within this lengthy legislation are employee benefits provisions that...more
On May 19, 2025, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed House File 248, which requires employers to treat adoptive parents the same as biological parents under certain circumstances. Specifically, if an employee adopts a child up...more
On March 20, 2025, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recognized “Intent-Based Parentage” as a pathway to legal parenthood in the Commonwealth. In the landmark decision of Glover v. Junior, the court recognized previously...more
On January 1, 2025 the Massachusetts Parentage Act (“MPA”) took effect. The MPA updates and adds to Mass. General Laws c. 46 on “Return and Registry of Births, Marriages, and Deaths,” and Mass. General Laws c. 209C, commonly...more
In the wake of the Supreme Court of the United States’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the adoption of laws outside California that criminalize most abortions as well as gender affirming care,...more
On June 9, 2022, Governor JB Pritzker signed the Family Bereavement Leave Act (SB3120) into law, expanding unpaid bereavement leave available to employees in Illinois....more
The General Assembly wrapped up its workweek on Thursday by taking up a number of weighty issues in each chamber. The House approved the much-discussed “Student Technology Protection Act” (HB 1217), legislation allowing for...more
On August 8, 2020, Wanda Vázquez Garced signed into law an amendment to the Puerto Rico Working Mothers Act. Under the amendment, adoption leave benefits were extended to female employees adopting minors 6 years old or older....more
On August 8, 2020, Puerto Rico Governor Hon. Wanda Vázquez Garced signed into law House Bill No. 2424 (“Bill No. 2424”), to amend the Puerto Rico Working Mothers Protection Act, otherwise known as Act 3 of March 13, 1942...more
Enforcement activity reached new heights in 2019. The year saw the two largest corporate resolutions in the history of the FCPA, corporate penalties paid to US enforcement agencies topped last year’s record levels, and...more
Child Labour Without the Authority’s Permit - New Legislation Enacted - As from January 1, 2020, a person under the age of sixteen may be employed in cultural, artistic, sporting or advertising activities without...more
Congress recently passed the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the “SECURE Act”), the largest package of retirement system reforms in over a decade. Many of the provisions in the SECURE Act...more
Among other things, the Fair Workplaces Better Jobs Act, 2017 (Bill 148) significantly amended Ontario's Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA). Most of Bill 148’s ESA amendments came into force in 2018, with the remainder to...more
In this Report, the Nelson Mullins government relations team provides you an update of the significant initiatives which may be of interest to you, your business or other organization. While much of the client work that...more
Some parents decide to put their child up for various reasons. It used to be that it was difficult for somebody who was put up for adoption to find out the identify of their birth parents. Certainly, not all of those who...more
In early November, I posted an article entitled “Tax Reform Proposal Nixes Favorable Tax Treatment of Several Employee Benefits”. That article reviewed the Ways and Means Committee’s proposal (H.R. 1, the Tax Reform and Jobs...more
A reasonable amount of uncertainty, speculation, and even fear is expected with any change. Recently, we have seen a change among states and laws governing child welfare agencies and same-sex adoption....more