Louisiana Income Tax Reporting and Audit Regime Updated

2.18.22 – National Law Review In the 2021 Louisiana Regular Legislative Session, the Louisiana Legislature enacted Act 287 making wholesale changes to the Louisiana income tax reporting and audit regime for partners and partnerships.  Effective June 2021, the...

Arkansas Governor Focuses on Police Funds as Session Starts

Gov. Asa Hutchinson speaks Monday, Feb. 14, 2021 at the state Capitol in Little Rock as he delivers his state of the state speech. (Staton Breidenthal/The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 2.14.22 – (AP) Arkansas’...

Texas voters alarmed by low reading scores, access to jobs, increasing crime, other close-to-home problems

Widespread concern for the future of Texas aligns with widespread support for key policy solutions With the March 1 primaries and November elections on the horizon, a new statewide poll shows Texas voters broadly agree on a range of issues that affect them as parents,...

Oklahoma bill introduced to limit use of automated dialing systems

1./.22 – Consumer Finance Monitor  Titled the “Telephone Solicitation Act of 2022,” the bill would prohibit the use of an “automated system” to make a “telephonic sales call” without the “prior express written consent” of the “called party.” … The...

Bill moving through legislature would reduce restrictions on home-based businesses

2.9.22 – (WLOX) – BILOXI, Miss. A bill is moving through the Mississippi legislature designed to create more opportunities for home-based businesses. Before his time on the State House Floor, Rep. Jansen Owen from Poplarville was a student trying to make...

Proposed Maryland bill would restrict biometric information collection

2.7.22 – Diamondback Maryland could soon join a growing list of states imposing restrictions on companies that collect biometric identifiers — a person’s unique biological data that confirms their identity, such as fingerprints, faceprints and voiceprints. The...