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On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law. While the legislation addresses broad economic and social issues, several provisions stand out for employers. From enhanced tax...more
On July 4, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”) was enacted into law with President Donald Trump’s signature. Although the OBBBA’s tax and spending provisions tend to receive greater media attention, it also contains...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
Yesterday, state lawmakers passed the $254B FY26 state budget, reflecting an increase of $17B from FY25. The budget was passed over five weeks after the deadline of April 1, and will be retroactively in effect from April 1,...more
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently approved legislation requiring industrial development agencies (IDAs) to consider the extent to which a project provides onsite child care facilities as a criteria in their Uniform Tax...more
The 2023 Regular Session of the Connecticut General Assembly, which concluded on June 7, 2023, saw the passage of several acts that will be of interest to real estate owners and investors. The following is a brief description...more
Washington’s legislators had their eye on common interest communities (CICs) during the 2023 regular session, which ended on April 23, 2023. Three bills relating to or affecting CICs become effective on July 23, 2023. One...more
As of October 1st, 27 new bills from the 2021 Legislative Session have taken effect. A number of bills passed during the 2021 Florida Legislative session were effective upon approval by Governor DeSantis, and many others took...more
Just after midnight, the 2021 Legislative Session concluded with many legislative measures sneaking in under the wire—and many others lying dead on the House and Senate floors. The House and Senate compromise on the FY22...more
Beginning Monday, March 29, 2021, employers must begin providing California employees a new form of COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave. The new version reaches small and large employers alike and mandates that employers...more
The General Assembly kicked off the penultimate week of the 2021 Legislative Session early this morning with a number of committee meetings preceding early afternoon convenings of both chambers. Perhaps the most watched of...more
In this Virtual Town Hall discussion, we explored what employers need to be thinking about as we head into year end. Topics discussed include: - Paid Child Care Leave as schools adopt a hybrid model; - Remote work...more
On March 18, 2020, President Donald Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) in response to the spread of the novel coronavirus and the illness it causes, COVID-19. Among other fiscal packages, the act...more
As we discussed recently, this was a significant week in the California Legislature, as the Assembly and Senate Appropriations Committees decided the fate of hundreds of bills in announcing which bills made it off the...more
Although the California Legislature sent Governor Jerry Brown bills on bed bugs, powdered alcohol, and making denim the official state fabric, the laws enacted in 2016 affecting the state’s private-sector employers were...more
Even though New York amended its combination statute for years beginning in 2007, we are just now beginning to see litigation related to those amendments. At the end of June 2013, an administrative law judge in New York’s...more
Capping a tumultuous session, the 88th Minnesota legislature, on the final day of the 2013 session, passed a bill, S.F. 778, which was long sought by labor unions because it would give them the right to organize private...more
Capping a tumultuous session, the 88th Minnesota legislature, on the final day of the 2013 session, passed a bill, S.F. 778, which had long been sought by labor unions. The bill gives unions the right to organize private...more