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Comprehensive Overview Of 2025 Illinois Legislative Session From McGuireWoods Consulting

FY 2026 Budget - SB 2510 (Welch/Sims) created the fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget appropriation bill. The budget is based on estimated general funds revenues of $55.29 billion and spending of $55.04 billion for an estimated...more

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Governor Kehoe Signs Repeal of State Paid Sick Leave Law

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On May 14, 2025, the Missouri Legislature repealed the brand new paid sick leave law (the “Sick Leave Law”) that voters approved last November. Governor Kehoe’s July 10, 2025 signature officially enacts that repeal and begins...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Missouri Governor Finalizes Prop A Repeal

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On July 10, 2025, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed House Bill (HB) 567 into law, effectively repealing Proposition A, the controversial ballot initiative passed by Missouri voters in November 2024 that was repealed by the...more

UB Greensfelder LLP

Paid Sick Leave Act Repeal Clears Missouri Legislature

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Late on May 14, 2025, the Missouri Senate majority invoked a rarely used procedural tool to advance a vote on House Bill 567, which would repeal the Missouri Paid Sick Leave Act (or Proposition A). As passed by Missouri...more

Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.

Legislative Top 5 – May 2025 #2

With the end of the 2025 legislative session fast approaching, legislators are working to approve the omnibus finance bills necessary to implement a FY 2026-2027 Biennial Budget. Legislative leaders and the Governor continue...more

Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.

Legislative Top 5 - February 2025 #4

While House and Senate committees met and heard a variety of policy and spending bills this past week, legislative leaders again failed to agree on setting committee deadlines. DFL leaders have been advocating for later...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Gold Dome Report - Legislative Day 22 - February 2025

Lawmakers and lobbyists watching the Georgia State Senate on Monday saw a lot of green and red, but it wasn’t exactly Christmas. While some state agencies and contractors stand to see a few extra greenbacks in the Senate...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Gold Dome Report - Legislative Day 21 - February 2025

With fewer fireworks than many expected, Governor Brian Kemp’s comprehensive tort reform legislation achieved passage by a comfortable margin in the Georgia State Senate on Friday. Garnering a 33-21 vote mostly along party...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New York Paid Prenatal Leave Begins Next Year – What Employers Need to Know

Beginning on January 1, 2025, all New York employers will be required to provide eligible employees with 20 hours of paid prenatal leave (“Paid Prenatal Leave”) during any 52-week period for health care services during or...more

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July is Still the New January! Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute’s Mid-Year Legislative Report

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Hot off the press – here is Littler’s mid-year report!  As federal regulators, states and cities continue to pass new workplace regulations through the calendar year, we summarize each state’s notable labor and employment law...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Gold Dome Report - Legislative Day 37 - March 2024

Senate committee meetings continue under the Gold Dome as this report is published on Wednesday. With the Senate’s requirement that bills pass out of committee before the chamber convenes for Legislative Day 38, legislators...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Gold Dome Report - Legislative Day 31 - March 2024

The Georgia House of Representatives took up a veritable smorgasbord of legislation on Thursday. From the establishment of a license plate commemorating America’s semiquincentennial (SB 369), to allowing lifetime appointment...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Oregon Legislature Changes OFLA and Paid Leave Oregon Rules, Yet Again

In what many employers will regard as a welcome change, on February 27, 2024, the Oregon Legislature passed Senate Bill 1515 (which Governor Tina Kotek is expected to sign into law right away) to eliminate many of the...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Oregon Legislature Enacts Changes to Better Coordinate the Oregon Family Leave Act and Paid Leave Oregon

The ink is not yet dry on Senate Bill 999, drafted to attempt coordination of the Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA) and the Oregon Paid Family and Medical Leave Act also called “Paid Leave Oregon” (PLO). On June 7, Senate Bill...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Paid Leave Oregon Is (Finally) Coming ‎

In 2019, the Oregon legislature passed the Paid Family Medical Leave (PFML) Act, establishing a paid ‎family and medical leave insurance program for Oregon workers that will be funded by employee ‎contributions. After...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Gold Dome Report – Legislative Day 12 2022

The floors of the House and Senate were busy today as legislators quickly got back to work after the three-day weekend. The Senate took up several weighty measures, including SB 338, which would expand Medicaid coverage for...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

HB 1732 and 1733: Washington’s Long-Term Care Act

The Washington Legislature and Governor Inslee moved quickly the last week of January to pass and sign House Bills 1732 and 1733, which revised the controversial Long Term Care Act that would have gone into effect January 1,...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Another “Special” Session

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In a much anticipated joint statement, Lt. Governor Randy McNally and Speaker Cameron Sexton announced on Tuesday that they have obtained the signatures of two-thirds of the members of each of their respective chambers to...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

California Legislative Update: Employment-Related Bills on the Horizon

The end of 2020 was not the end of the California Legislature’s focus on employment-related legislation. Just two months into the new year, the Legislature has already introduced several bills addressing the workplace that...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Update on the West Virginia Legislature - Issue 4

The dates below are the significant deadlines in this year's regular session: - February 12: Last day to introduce bills in the House of Delegates. This does not apply to bills originating in committee. - February 18:...more

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