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- The Dignity Act: Immigration Reform With Bipartisan Potential
House Representatives Veronica Escobar (D-TX) and Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) recently introduced the Dignity Act of 2023, a comprehensive and bipartisan immigration bill, with the goals of stopping illegal immigration, providing a solution for undocumented immigrants currently in the United States, strengthening the American workforce, and
- Examining the Latest Immigration Reform Legislation - AAF
Executive Summary As part of President Biden’s larger immigration reform plan, the House passed two immigration bills last week, the Dream and Promise Act and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act Both bills offer a path to legalization for certain groups of immigrants by creating new categories and reforming old ones While the bills offer some […]
- Immigration Reform in The America COMPETES Act of 2022
The America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology and Economic Strength (COMPETES) Act of 2022 (H R 4521), contains the first immigration reforms to be considered in regular order by this Congress; it includes three reforms: a new entrepreneur’s visa, an exemption for some skilled immigrants from numerical caps
- New State of Play: Florida and the Limits of ERISA Preemption
This law was created to reduce costs and regulatory burdens on employers to incentivize them to offer employees high-quality health insurance More than 70 percent of employers with 500 or more employees are typically self-insured and regulated by ERISA Self-insured plans alongside other commercial plans pay significantly more for health care
- H-1B Visa Holders: A Case Study for a Points-based Immigration System
Executive Summary The U S immigration system requires a more efficient legal pathway to citizenship for the more than 580,000 H-1B visa holders who are limited by the duration of their temporary visa and are not automatically converted to permanent residency once the visa expires This population is an important source of labor as it has […]
- Immigration Rule Brings First Real Costs of New Administration
Their eventual passage into law was never really in doubt; the White House had clearly stated the administration’s position on each resolution Nevertheless, these signatures now officially wipe two Biden-era rulemakings – with a combined $464 5 million in estimated total costs – off the board
- An Update on Right to Repair - AAF
The New York law would only apply to devices manufactured or sold in New York after July 1, 2023 As a result, the law would do little to provide complete relief for many older devices Implications for Future Right to Repair Laws The New York law will likely impact the behavior of manufacturers beyond the Empire State
- The App Store Accountability Act and Age-verification Mandates
The bill would preempt similar state-level bills that have begun to pass into law and make the Federal Trade Commission the primary enforcer of the act’s various provisions The bill raises significant privacy and constitutional concerns, primarily stemming from the burden it would impose on anonymous speech and the additional information
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