Podcast: A Conversation with Geoff Burgan, Communications Director for the Democratic Attorneys General Association
The Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine and the Food, Beverage and Agribusiness Industry — What You Need to Know
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Policing Reform
Privacy Concerns When Contact Tracing in the Health Care Workplace - Diagnosing Health Care Podcast
Privacy and Data Protection Issues for Employees in the COVID-19 Environment
Global privacy in the age of COVID-19
VIDEO: What is the Impact of COVID-19 on New Jersey Workers' Compensation?
[WEBINAR] Laying the Foundation for Maximizing Benefits Around Emerging Technologies
[WEBINAR] Automated Vehicle Pilot Project Risks and Smart Infrastructure
Straight Talks: Innovations in product liability for autonomous and connected vehicles
K&L Gates Triage: Drones and Disruption in the Health Care Field
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 137, interview with Loren Steffy
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more
Directs federal agencies to support the expanded use of civil commitment and institutional treatment for homeless individuals with serious mental illness or substance use disorders, while conditioning federal grants on the...more
New York State legislators passed the $254B Fiscal Year 2026 state budget, reflecting an increase of $17B from FY25. The FY26 budget included inflation refund checks (up to $200 for individuals and $400 for families), an...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
While many lawmakers and lobbyists crawled into the Georgia State Capitol on Monday after the double-whammy of Crossover Day and the return of Daylight Savings Time (to Senator Ben Watson’s chagrin), a few select legislators...more
Last Tuesday, Governor Hochul released her $252B FY26 Executive Budget. The proposal includes funding for $1B in tax cuts for middle class New Yorkers, $3B in rebate checks, $800M to expand the state’s child tax credit, $340M...more
Last Tuesday, Governor Hochul delivered her 2025 State of the State address, laying out her vision for the year ahead. Highlights from the State of the State are below. The Governor will release her Executive Budget soon to...more
On Jan. 16, 2025, Gov. Brian Kemp delivered his 2025 State of the State address to the Georgia General Assembly, highlighting resilience and progress while outlining an agenda to strengthen Georgia’s economy and quality of...more
Yesterday, Governor Phil Murphy delivered his annual State of the State Address, outlining an ambitious agenda aimed at securing economic opportunity and strengthening New Jersey’s future. Murphy is in his final year of...more
Mayor Parker Marks Opening of Riverview Wellness Village- This week, Mayor Cherelle Parker unveiled the new Riverview Wellness Village in Northeast Philadelphia, a key part of her administration’s strategy to address...more
This weekend, state lawmakers passed the $237B FY25 state budget, reflecting an increase of $8B from FY24. The budget was passed more than two weeks after the deadline of April 1, and will be retroactively in effect from...more
CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker Announces Plan to Make Chicago Quantum Technology Capital- Illinois Governor JB Pritzker announced a plan to make Chicago a quantum technology capital at M-Hub, a business incubator on Chicago’s...more
CHICAGO — Chicago Government’s IT Infrastructure Inefficient to the Point of “Barely” Working, Consultant Tells City Council- An IT consultant hired by City Hall to diagnose the city’s wide array of technological woes urged...more
On August 21, the 113th General Assembly convened for its first extraordinary or “special” session called by Governor Bill Lee to address public safety concerns. A host of security modifications had been made to the capitol...more
The 113th General Assembly adjourned its first of two annual regular sessions on April 21, 2023, approximately one month after the Covenant School shooting. Calls for school safety measures and gun control action in the...more
On the evening of February 2, Chicago rideshare drivers gathered outside the Copernicus Center on the city’s Northwest Side, braving extremely cold and windy weather, to demand better working conditions, wages and benefits. ...more
Governor Hochul Releases FY24 Executive Budget- Last Wednesday, Governor Hochul released her Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The state’s $227 billion budget includes no significant tax raises, and Governor Hochul...more
CHICAGO — Chicago Offering 12 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave to City Employees; New Policy Applies to Birthing, Non-Birthing Parents- In yet another pre-election sweetener, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that the city is...more
Prompted by rising rates of overdose deaths, suicides and incidence of mental illness in at-risk populations, such as children, Congress has spent the better part of the year working in a bipartisan manner to develop and...more
In October of 2018, Congress passed the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (P.L. 115-271). The comprehensive opioid treatment law passed both chambers of Congress with large bipartisan support and tackled many aspects...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
Lawmaking in the COVID Era - The legislature adjourned Friday June 26 at 8:41 p.m. Sort of. After holding what was nearly the longest and certainly the strangest session in history – half of it remotely – the legislature has...more
California’s Gun Violence Restraining Order Law Bolstered by Newly Signed Bills - Fifteen new gun control bills were signed into law last week by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Five of those bills significantly expand and strengthen...more
On July 9, 2019, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Public Act No. 19-191 “An Act Addressing Opioid Use” (PA 19-191). PA 19-191 makes various revisions to Connecticut’s opioid use prevention and treatment...more
When police officers were dispatched to the home of a 30-year-old resident for a welfare check, they found four firearms in the house — including a semi-automatic assault rifle. The officers went to the home after the man’s...more