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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to insurance. [HB-184] [Insurance ]
Amend KRS 304.3-705 to extend the insurance regulatory sandbox program until December 31, 2030; amend KRS 304.3-735 to extend the commissioner's reporting requirement.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Clines Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 67) on 03/24/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Commercial Law - Earned Wage Access Services [HB-1425] [Finance ] [Consumer Protection ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Requiring a certain provider of earned wage access services to register with the Commissioner of Financial Regulation; requiring a provider to file a certain surety bond or an irrevocable letter of credit with the Commissioner in a certain manner; regulating providers and earned wage access services; authorizing a certain consumer to submit a written complaint to the Commissioner under certain circumstances; providing the Commissioner with certain investigatory and enforcement authority; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Fraser-hidalgo First Reading Economic Matters on 02/09/2024

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Commercial Law - Earned Wage Access Services [SB-998] [Finance ] [Consumer Protection ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Requiring a certain provider of earned wage access services to register with the Commissioner of Financial Regulation; requiring a provider to file a certain surety bond or an irrevocable letter of credit with the Commissioner in a certain manner; regulating providers and earned wage access services; authorizing a certain consumer to submit a written complaint to the Commissioner under certain circumstances; providing the Commissioner with certain investigatory and enforcement authority; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Katherine Klausmeier Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to investor-owned electric utilities. [SB-192] [Energy ] [Finance ] [Public Safety ] [Consumer Protection ] [Budget and Spending ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 to define terms; give permissive authorization to an investor-owned electric utility to apply to the Public Service Commission to finance though securitization both extraordinary costs and costs associated with the retirement of electric generation of more than $200 million dollars for a single regulatory asset or more than $275 million for multiple regulatory assets; prescribe the contents of an application for a financing order; prescribe the way proceedings of the commission will handle applications for (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Phillip Wheeler Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 72) on 03/23/2023

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State (North Carolina)
North Carolina 2023-2024 Session

DOI Omnibus Bill.-AB [HB-127]
DOI Omnibus Bill.-AB

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Mitchell Setzer Ref To The Com On Insurance, If Favorable, State Government, If Favorable, Rules, Calendar, And Operations Of The House on 02/16/2023

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Residents of Common Ownership Communities - Discharge of Liabilities in Bankruptcy Proceedings [HB-836] [Real Estate ] [Housing ] [Consumer Protection ]
Prohibiting an assessment, a charge, a fee, or a fine, or a lien related to an assessment, a charge, a fee, or a fine, owed to the governing body of a cooperative housing corporation, condominium, or homeowners association, from being discharged in bankruptcy.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin Holmes Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/06/2023

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State (Indiana)
Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Statute of limitation on certain claims. [HB-1400] [Crime ] [Children and Youth ] [Law Enforcement ]
Statute of limitation on certain claims. Provides that an action for injury to a person that results from the sexual abuse of a child, that has expired under the current statute of limitations, may be commenced at any time against certain entities seeking bankruptcy protections.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Elizabeth Brown First Reading: Referred To Committee On Judiciary on 02/23/2023

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State (Indiana)
Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Opioid settlement. [HB-1208] [Healthcare ] [Overdose Prevention ] [Pharmaceuticals ] [Public Health ] [Law Enforcement ] [Funding ] [Grants ]
Opioid settlement. Specifies that the distribution of funds from an opioid litigation settlement is subject to a bankruptcy court order or bankruptcy settlement. Provides that an annual distribution of less than $5,000 payable to a city or town pursuant to an opioid litigation settlement agreement must be paid instead to the county. (Under current law, the threshold is $1,000.) Specifies that amounts owed by the state for attorney's fees and costs incurred in connection with opioid litigation must be deducted from the opioid settlement distribution (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Philip GiaQuinta First Reading: Referred To Committee On Appropriations on 02/27/2023

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Federal
US Congress 117th Congress

Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment and Technical Corrections Act [S.3823] [Finance ] [Small Business ] [Consumer Protection ]
A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, to modify the eligibility requirements for a debtor under chapter 13, and for other purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley Became Public Law No: 117-151. (txt | Pdf) on 06/21/2022

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2022 Regular Session

Action to Collect a Private Education Loan - Required Documents [SB-732] [Student Loans ] [Consumer Protection ] [Education ]
Prohibiting private education lenders and private education loan collectors from initiating a certain action unless the private education lenders or private education loan collectors possess certain documents; requiring a private education lender or private education loan collector to introduce certain information in a certain action; and requiring a private education loan collector to provide certain information to a student loan borrower in a certain communication and on request of the student loan borrower.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe Hearing 3/09 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/09/2022

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to the opioid abatement trust fund and declaring an emergency. [HB-92] [Funding ] [Public Health ] [Overdose Prevention ] [Pharmaceuticals ] [Law Enforcement ] [Healthcare ] [Budget and Spending ] [Crime ]
Amend KRS 15.293 to provide that funds received from bankruptcy proceedings shall also be allocated to the Opioid abatement trust fund and local governments; specify that any named defendant in In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation, MDL No. 2804, Case No. 1:17-md-02804, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio is to be included as well.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser Line Items Vetoed (acts Ch. 240) on 04/26/2022

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2022 Regular Session

Action to Collect a Private Education Loan - Required Documents [HB-111] [Student Loans ] [Consumer Protection ] [Education ]
Prohibiting private education lenders and private education loan collectors from initiating a certain action unless the private education lenders or private education loan collectors possess certain documents; requiring a private education lender or private education loan collector to introduce certain information in a private education loan collection action; and requiring a private education loan collector to provide certain information to a student loan borrower in a certain communication and on request of the student loan borrower.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Lesley Lopez Referred Judicial Proceedings on 03/11/2022

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Federal
US Congress 117th Congress

COVID–19 Bankruptcy Relief Extension Consolidation Act of 2021 [S.3437] [Finance ] [Small Business ] [Economic Development ] [Disaster Relief ]
A bill to extend certain COVID-19 bankruptcy relief provisions through March 27, 2022.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley Message On Senate Action Sent To The House. on 12/20/2021

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2022 Regular Session

Relating To Homestead Exemptions. [HB-429] [Real Estate ] [Property Tax ] [Housing ]
Increases the homestead exemption for all persons up to $2,000,000 and requires that the real property be the principal residence.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew Lopresti Carried Over To 2022 Regular Session. on 12/10/2021

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Federal
US Congress 117th Congress

Stop Wall Street Looting Act [HB-5648] [Finance ] [Consumer Protection ] [Small Business ]
To subject certain private funds to joint and several liability with respect to the liabilities of firms acquired and controlled by those funds, and for other purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva Referred To The Subcommittee On Antitrust, Commercial, And Administrative Law. on 11/01/2022

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Federal
US Congress 117th Congress

Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2021 [HB-5150] [Human Rights ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ] [Children and Youth ]
To reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for other purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Valadao Referred To The Subcommittee On Crime, Terrorism, And Homeland Security. on 11/01/2022

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Federal
US Congress 117th Congress

Nondebtor Release Prohibition Act of 2021 [S.2497] [Consumer Protection ]
A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, to prohibit nonconsensual release of a nondebtor entity's liability to an entity other than the debtor, and for other purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Cory Booker Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On The Judiciary. on 07/28/2021

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Federal
US Congress 117th Congress

Nondebtor Release Prohibition Act of 2021 [HB-4777] [Finance ] [Consumer Protection ]
To amend title 11, United States Code, to prohibit nonconsensual release of a nondebtor entity's liability to an entity other than the debtor, and for other purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Cicilline Committee Consideration And Mark-up Session Held. on 11/03/2021

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Federal
US Congress 117th Congress

Third Reconstruction: Fully addressing poverty and low wages from the bottom up. [HR-438] [Poverty ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Economic Development ] [Human Services ]
Third Reconstruction: Fully addressing poverty and low wages from the bottom up.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee Introduced In House on 05/25/2021

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Federal
US Congress 117th Congress

Retirement Security and Savings Act of 2021 [S.1770] [Retirement ] [Pensions ]
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform retirement provisions, and for other purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Collins Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 05/20/2021

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