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Pennsylvania Makes Significant Changes to Its Data Breach Notification Law

BakerHostetler on 7/12/2024

On June 28, 2024, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an amendment to Pennsylvania’s Breach of Personal Information Notification Act into law. The amended law, which includes significant changes to the Keystone State’s...more

Mexico Amends Human Trafficking Law to Include Excess Work Shifts as a Crime of Labor Exploitation

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/5/2024

Mexico’s General Law to Prevent, Punish, and Eradicate Crimes Related to Human Trafficking and for the Protection and Assistance to the Victims of These Crimes (“Human Trafficking Law”) has as its purpose to protect the life,...more

California’s Workplace Violence Prevention Bill Passes Assembly Appropriations Committee With New Amendments

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/5/2023

On August 28, 2023, California State Senator Dave Cortese (D-15) announced last-minute amendments to Senate Bill (SB) No. 553. SB 553, if enacted, would require virtually every employer in California to adopt comprehensive...more

New York State’s Amended Pay Transparency Law

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 6/26/2023

Pay transparency laws are on the rise across the country. New York is currently one of four states and a growing number of municipalities to enact laws requiring employers to disclose salary and wage ranges in job...more

Beginning On April 10, 2023, New Jersey Employers Must Comply With Stricter Requirements On Mass-Layoffs And Business Closures

Genova Burns LLC on 1/18/2023

In 2020, New Jersey amended the Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act (referred to as the NJ WARN Act), which regulates employers implementing mass layoffs and business closures. Governor Phil Murphy...more

SECURE Act 2.0 Summary of Changes to Retirement Plans

Williams Mullen on 1/9/2023

President Biden signed the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”) as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 on December 29, 2022. SECURE 2.0 includes significant changes for the administration of employee benefit...more

Missouri Tries Again with a Revised Commercial Finance Disclosure Law as Legislative Pre-Filing has Begun Across the Country

Miles & Stockbridge P.C. on 12/30/2022

We have reported on the wave of laws enacted and proposed in various states requiring consumer-like disclosures in commercial financing transactions. California, New York and Utah have enacted similar commercial finance...more

2023 State Employment Law Updates: From Pay to Hair, Cannabis, and More

DarrowEverett LLP on 12/20/2022

The coming new year brings new changes, new goals, and newly amended employment laws. Although some jurisdictions jumped the gun (looking at you D.C. noncompete law), starting on January 1, many states are implementing new...more

2021 Data Privacy Overview: New Regulations and Guidance

Lighthouse on 1/12/2022

While everyone hoped that 2021 would be less tumultuous than 2020, it certainly did not turn out that way in the end. The same was true in the world of data privacy – with sweeping new data protection regulations and guidance...more

New Year Brings New Laws for New York Employers: 2021 Recap and 2022 Preview

Fisher Phillips on 12/29/2021

Year two of the COVID-19 pandemic brought many new legislative changes for New York employers, altering the landscape around workplace safety, employee pay, leave benefits, protected classes and activity, and privacy. Now...more

Singapore Makes Significant Changes to Data Privacy Legislation

Epiq on 7/14/2021

Countries all over the globe have been changing their data privacy landscape to account for the information protection required in the digital age. Organizations are handling large amounts of personal data gathered from...more

Utah Creates Data Breach Safe Harbor

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/13/2021

Utah recently amended its breach notice law to provide certain defenses to companies who suffer a data breach. It is now the second state, after Ohio, to include such provisions. Specifically, entities that create and...more

CCPA 2.0 Passes: The California Privacy Rights Act To Become Law

Goodwin on 11/12/2020

On November 3, 2020, California voters convincingly approved the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) ballot initiative. The CPRA builds upon and amends the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”), aligning it more with...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 11. Privacy Briefs: November 2020

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 11/11/2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 11 (November 2020) - HHS Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology (ONC) is giving health care organizations more time to meet new rules on information...more

California’s new privacy law, the CPRA, was approved: Now what?

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 11/10/2020

On November 3, 2020, California voters passed Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), by approximately 56-44%. This act will amend and supersede the still recent California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), once...more

Vermont Attorney General Provides Guidance on Security Breach Notice Act

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 8/10/2020

On March 5, 2020, Gov. Phil Scott (VT-R) signed into law amendments to the Security Breach Notice Act (the “Act”). The amendments, which originated in the State Senate as part of an initiative addressing a number of data...more

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) – Amendment Update - Cybersecurity and Privacy Alert

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 9/18/2019

The dust has finally settled in the California State Legislature and the big winner for amendments to the CCPA is AB-25, which started out as carving out employees from the definition of consumer for the purpose of CCPA. The...more

US Data Breach and Privacy 2019 Legislative Recap

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 7/2/2019

A few weeks ago, Texas signed into law an amendment to its data breach law, capping off a busy first half of 2019 for state lawmakers in this arena. As we gear up for the second half of 2019, we thought a recap was...more

Captive Insurance Update | Spring Edition | 2019: A summary of state and federal developments in the captive insurance industry

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC on 5/22/2019

There were no significant changes in Vermont’s leadership team during the last election cycle. Governor Phil Scott, a Republican, was re-elected in November 2018 for another two-year term. Michael Pieciak, the Commissioner of...more

Potentially Expanded Private Right of Action Increases Risk of Class Action Exposure Under the California Consumer Privacy Act

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 5/2/2019

Looking Back - the California Consumer Privacy Act, and How We Got Here - As companies were getting up-to-speed on the effects of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) last year, California quickly...more

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