All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 14 2019 // Faced with legislation in California that endangers their business model, Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. are urging a compromise that would keep their drivers from being considered employees.“We can make...
Jun 13 2019 // A key House committee has passed legislation to renew the National Flood Insurance Program for five years and institute various reforms.The House Financial Services Committee, by a bipartisan vote of 59 to 0, approved the...
Jun 13 2019 // Weeks after North Carolina House members watered down a distracted driving bill, state senators want to restore robust language that would prohibit drivers from holding their cellphones.Republican lawmakers and parents of...
Jun 12 2019 // An Oklahoma judge is declining to approve the state’s proposed $85 million settlement with an opioid maker until he’s assured it complies with a new law targeting such deals.The attorney general’s office...
Jun 12 2019 // A coalition of environmental groups on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Interior Department’s rollbacks of safety measures put in place by the Obama administration in the aftermath of the fatal 2010 BP...
Jun 12 2019 // Facial and head injuries from riding electric scooters have tripled over the past decade, according to a Rutgers study.Electric scooter use has been increasing in popularity as an alternative to gas vehicles. However,...
Jun 11 2019 // The Surplus Line Association of California board has voted to adjust the stamping fee to 0.25%, effective Jan. 1, 2020, the group announced on Tuesday.The stamping fee has been set at 0.2% for seven years, the longest...
Jun 11 2019 // The steady drumbeat of warnings over the surge in risky corporate borrowing is growing louder and louder. Time and again, regulators in the U.S. and Europe have pointed to the hazards of businesses taking on too much...
Jun 10 2019 // The New York Senate approved new safety regulations Thursday for limousines, following an upstate crash that killed 20 people last fall.The nine bills endorsed Thursday include provisions that would require large stretch...
Jun 7 2019 // A florist who refused to provide floral arrangements for the wedding of a same-sex couple violated the state’s consumer protection and anti-discrimination laws, Washington’s Supreme Court has ruled.The ruling...
Jun 7 2019 // White conservative males who allege that liberal bias at Google Inc. doomed their chances of getting hired by the tech giant cleared the first hurdle to proceed with their lawsuit.A California state judge on Thursday...
Jun 7 2019 // Recreational marijuana use is grabbing attention in three states that appear poised at some point to clear the way for adults to buy and possess cannabis for reasons other than medicinal purposes.Illinois is set to become...
Jun 7 2019 // The head of the national coal miners’ union on Thursday urged the Trump administration to impose regulation on silica dust in mines, which researchers believe is responsible for a resurgence of black lung disease in...
Jun 6 2019 // Four companies – Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc., Bird Rides Inc. and Lime – are aggressively lobbying in New York to legalize electric scooters, considered both perilous play-rides of the well-off and one of...
Jun 6 2019 // In a courtroom packed with environmental activists, federal judges wrestled Tuesday with whether climate change violates the constitutional rights of young people who have sued the U.S. government over the use of fossil...
Jun 5 2019 // The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday will vote to adopt a package of rules mandating brokerage firms disclose potential conflicts in the fees investors pay and the commission brokers earn when...
Jun 5 2019 // Satellites tracking water vapor in 2012 helped scientists accurately predict Superstorm Sandy’s frightening turn toward New York and New Jersey where it killed dozens of people and inflicted billions of dollars in...
Jun 4 2019 // Large shipping losses declined by more than 50% in 2018 from the previous year – their lowest level this century, according to Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE’s (AGCS) Safety & Shipping Review...
Jun 4 2019 // Facebook Inc. must defend itself in a District of Columbia lawsuit accusing the social network of failing to safeguard users’ personal data and allowing a U.K. political consulting firm to mine the information for...
Jun 3 2019 // The U.S. Congress on Monday approved legislation providing $19.1 billion in emergency funding for disaster recovery efforts throughout the United States, including Puerto Rico, sending it to President Donald Trump to sign...