Pending Legislation, Service Contracts

Alaska's Anti-Evasion Bill: A Threat to Small Business Lending and Modern Bank-Fintech Partnerships

Hudson Cook, LLP on 4/25/2025

A number of states have considered - and some have enacted - laws to regulate strategic partnerships between banks and technology companies that act as service providers....more

Oh My Gourd, Another Data Privacy Law?!

Bricker Graydon LLP on 11/26/2024

In 2018, there were two comprehensive state data privacy bills introduced across the United States and a whopping zero were in effect. Fast forward six years and there have been 41 new data privacy bills considered this year...more

House passes bill to ban mandatory arbitration agreements; White House threatens veto

Ballard Spahr LLP on 9/23/2019

This past Friday, by a vote of 225-186, the House passed H.R. 1423, the “Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act.” A Senate companion bill (S. 610) was introduced in February 2019 and referred to the Senate Judiciary...more

California Assembly Bill Five Excepts Certain Categories Of Workers From Independent Contractor Classification Overhaul

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass on 9/18/2019

Last week, the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill (AB) 5, a new law related to an issue that is critically important to California employers and service providers—whether a worker is classified as an employee or an...more

New Jersey Assembly Labor Committee Advances Bill Concerning Payment of Freelance Workers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 1/30/2017

On January 19, 2017, the New Jersey Assembly Labor Committee advanced a bill (A-4410) that would require written contracts between “freelance workers” and their hiring entity (“client”). Those contracts would need to include...more

California Legislative Update: It's Now Up To The Governor

Littler on 9/8/2016

The California Legislature completed its substantive legislative work for the year in the very early morning hours of Thursday, September 1, 2016, with the usual frenetic, last-minute flurry of bill-passing, including some...more

House Small Business Bill Could Have a Large Impact on Small Businesses

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 4/7/2015

On March 25, 2015, the House Small Business Committee approved The Small Contractors Improve Competition Act of 2015 (H.R.1481) (“SCICA”), which would amend the Small Business Act and the National Defense Authorization Act...more

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