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
Earlier this week the White House released its Fiscal Year 2025 Budget. Of course, the federal government has not yet adopted a budget for the Fiscal Year 2024 even as we approach that year’s halfway mark. But I digress. The...more
Health care was one of the most active issue areas in 2023 and this trend is expected to continue when Congress returns in the New Year for the second session of the 118th Congress. The activity by the health committees of...more
The U.S. Government Accountability Office's recently issued annual bid protest report is noteworthy because it shows that 31% of bid protests were sustained — more than double the rate for prior years— and that protesters...more
Last week, the U.S. Government Accountability Office ("GAO") published its much anticipated Bid Protest Annual Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2023. GAO's annual report is required under the Competition in Contracting Act...more
The 2024 Federal Fiscal Year (FFY2024) begins on October 1, 2023, and as of the writing of this Alert, Congress has not passed and the President has not signed a bill to provide funding for FFY2024. As a result, federal...more
Early Indication of Challenging 2024–25 State Budget - On September 20, 2023, Blake Washington, the new director of the New York State Division of the Budget (DOB), issued the annual agency “call letter,” which requests...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Each Fiscal Year (“FY”), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) releases data on the number of charges it receives from applicants and employees. This data is noteworthy as it reflects the...more
The Association of Clean Water Administrators (“ACWA”) has updated a chart it previously prepared that addresses: Funding Levels for Key Water Appropriations (“Chart’) The Chart addresses funding numbers from the fiscal...more
The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals’ 2022 annual report provides information of significant interest to the contractor community, but a closer look raises many questions....more
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued its annual bid protest report. As discussed below, this year’s report is noteworthy for multiple reasons, including that it shows that protesters received some form...more
Editor’s Note: The Hart-Scott-Rodino Act established the federal premerger notification program, which provides the FTC and the Department of Justice with information about large mergers and acquisitions before they occur....more
October 1, 2023 marked the start of the federal government’s fiscal year 2023 (FY 2023), with the Department of State (DOS) October Visa Bulletin taking effect the same day. What is sure to be disappointing to many is the...more
Last month, the New York State Division of the Budget released an updated economic forecast (First Quarterly Update to the FY 2023 Enacted Budget Financial Plan), which revises the State’s financial outlook over the next...more
For many U.S. public companies, June 30 is the end of their second fiscal quarter, which means it is time to prepare their Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. This also means it is time for these companies to evaluate their...more
The Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee (ISDC) recently issued its annual report to Congress on federal government suspension and debarment activities for fiscal year (FY) 2020. Key takeaways from the year’s ISDC...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of May 23, 2022 – May 27, 2022... May 25, 2022: The IRS issued a press release revising frequently...more
On April 11, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the FY 2023 Medicare Proposed Rule for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs). Key policy changes include a proposed recalibration of the Patient...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Friday that the initial registration period for fiscal year 2023 H-1B cap numbers will open at noon Eastern on March 1 and run through noon Eastern on March 18,...more
With many hospitals well into their FY 2021 Medicare cost report preparation, here is a brief reminder of the process required for protesting items, as well as a summary of two new developments for Medicare Graduate Medical...more
As public companies embark on the year-end reporting process, they will need to consider, and in some cases take steps to address, a number of significant developments and issues. As in past years, Mintz has prepared a...more
On November 16, 2021, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) issued its Bid Protest Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2021 (“FY 2021 Bid Protest Report”). The GAO’s annual Bid Protest Report to Congress—required under the...more
It is that time of year again when the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) submits its bid protest statistics to Congress as mandated under the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984, 31 U.S.C. §3554(e)(2). On...more
The Government Accountability Office ("GAO") recently released its Annual Report to Congress for the Fiscal Year 2021. The report shows that, while the total number of bid protests dropped significantly in FY2021, nearly half...more
On May 28, 2021, the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 budget and Green Book, which provides detailed insights into the proposals of US President Joe Biden’s recently released...more