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Two-Week Stretch Before Holiday Recess - Congress only has two weeks left in session for the rest of year. There is a lot to accomplish in those two weeks. While government funding has been punted into early 2024, Congress is...more
Limited Time Before the End of the Year and January 19 First, welcome back from what was hopefully a wonderful and restful Thanksgiving break. Although this year will not entail a year-end government funding package, we are...more
Wednesday, November 15, 2023: Touting Systemic Enforcement Efforts, US EEOC Issued Its FY 2023 Agency Financial Report - Report Long on Narratives, But Short on Statistics - Agency Plans to Release Comprehensive...more
The legislation contains several reforms to FDA’s statutory authority and the regulatory framework that it administers. Key Points: ..Omnibus legislation appropriates new funds to FDA and reauthorizes certain FDA...more
LIBOR Relief Included In Appropriations Bill - New York Law Concerns - The New York law enacted in April 2021 provides the ‘Get Out of Jail’ card[2] for banks from litigation relating to the LIBOR (London InterBank...more
The 110th day of the legislative session is two weeks from today. Debate is now limited to: bills passed by both chambers, Appropriations bills, Ways and Means bills, Government Oversight bills, Administrative Rules Review...more
The Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 (the “Act”), which was signed into law by the President on March 6, 2020, provides $8.3 billion in emergency funding for federal agencies to...more
On December 20, 2019, the President signed into law a bill to fund the federal government through September 30, 2020. The bill included several important health care provisions but left some longstanding policy challenges...more
Good news for tax-exempt organizations! The “Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020” (H.R. 1865 — 116th Congress (2019-2020)) (the “Act”) signed into law on December 20, 2019, retroactively repealed Section 512(a)(7)...more
Legislators left Raleigh this past Friday after passing bills drawing new congressional district lines and some additional appropriations bills. They plan to return on Jan. 14 for a session that may consider a variety of...more
As the budget stalemate nears its second month, new budget proposals emerged from the General Assembly. The next few weeks could see attempts at piecemeal budgets and tax rebates. In other news, high profile and controversial...more
The week at the General Assembly ended without a budget veto override or compromise on the budget. Legislators considered bills on a variety of other topics....more
The Minnesota Legislature wrapped up its 2019 legislative session with a one-day special session last month that resulted in the passage of an omnibus appropriations bill, the Jobs and Economic Development Omnibus. The...more
Legislative Action by the Numbers: 1124 bills introduced in the House of Delegates - 618 bills introduced in the State Senate - 101 bills have passed the House of Delegates - 105 bills have passed the State Senate -...more
Recently, the Hill has been taking a flurry of legislative actions that impact the advanced reactor community across all spectra. We provide a summary of some of the major bills going through Congress below, including a...more
On September 21st the President signed an FY2019 “Minibus” into law (HR 5895) covering three of the twelve appropriations areas – energy and water, MilCon/VA, and legislative branch. The Energy and Water portion funds the...more
Foley & Lardner LLP’s (“Foley”) Bipartisan Public Policy Team is pleased to share our “Public Policy Weekly* Health Care Newsletter” in which we compile the latest Health care policy news and legislation. *Please note that we...more
$900 million in appropriations for fiscal year 2016-17 - With California’s cap and trade program suffering from legal challenges, decreasing auction revenue and general criticism of the program’s effectiveness, Gov....more
The renewable energy industry, particularly the wind and solar energy sectors, have been hopeful that the U.S. Congress would act this year to extend certain tax credits that project developers and related sectors, such as...more
The illusive Special Session lived up to its hype. Despite the close proximity of the two temporary chambers in the State Office Building, the bodies were far apart in their desired outcome for the session. After...more
The General Assembly finished the 1st Regular session of the 121st Session last Thursday, but will return the week of June 16 to take up gubernatorial vetoes, conference reports, and any of the appropriations bills related to...more
On Wednesday and Thursday this week, the California Senate and Assembly approved Assembly Bill 91 (“AB 91”) and Assembly Bill 92 (“AB 92”), both which are part of the Budget Act of 2015. The legislation allocates $1 billion...more
On December 16, 2014, President Obama signed into law the $1.1 trillion Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015 (Appropriations Act), which includes some significant changes to the rules governing...more
New legislation is enacted to assist and fortify deeply troubled multiemployer pension plans. On December 16, U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law sweeping changes to the current law that governs multiemployer...more
Narrowly averting a federal government shutdown, on December 13 in a rare Saturday evening session the Senate passed the massive 1600 page, $1.1 trillion FY2015 Omnibus Appropriations bill that will fund government operations...more