Two other ROT bills that have passed both houses would require direct pay permit holders to conduct an annual review of their purchase activity and would revise Illinois’ level the playing field rules. Tennessee: The Department of Revenue recently published Notice 24-08 to summarize the sales ...
The following tax and revenue bills were recently passed by the Illinois General Assembly and are now before Governor Pritzker for signature: HB 3144(the Governor's “grocery tax”) would repeal (eff. Jan. 1, 2026) the state’s 1% tax on groceries and authorize municipalities and counties to...
Including the Chicago Tribune, which recently editorialized about the state’s dire position Illinois legislators fumble repeated attempts to send a balanced budget to Gov. Bruce Rauner; while the stack of Illinois’ unpaid bills climbs by the minute; while our leaders prioritize politics over poli...
Gifford retired for good in 1964 and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1977. After his career as a player ended, he worked as a play-by-play and commentator for 27 years on ABC's"Monday Night Football." Giffordpassed awayin 2015 at the age of 84. Anautopsyrevealed he lived with...
*Crain’s | Bolingbrook clinic owner to pay $2.2M, serve three-year sentence for Medicaid fraud:LaTeena Smith, 38, former owner of Power Positive Youth Development, a clinic in Bolingbrook, pleaded guilty in December to submitting fraudulent bills for psychotherapy services for Medicaid managed ca...
A new bill, H.R.6572 Countering CCP Drones Act, was introduced recently as an amendment to a military funding bill and passed the House of Representatives. The bill bans the procurement and use of DJI drones and due to proclaimed national security risks of data on critical infrastructure in ...
The bills aim to end the practice of withholding payments from contractors across the board and instead adopt federal standards that impose retainage only when specific project issues arise. The bills would only apply to state agencies and public universities, not local governments or private developme...
The proposed Illinois Child Tax Credit would be a huge help to families struggling to make ends meet. With $700 per child under the age of 17, families could use the funds to cover essential expenses like food, clothing, and medical bills. ...
More than 4 in 10 bills identified as anti-LGBTQ by the American Civil Liberties Union would directly alter policies and procedures in K-12 schools if passed. Such laws threaten to disrupt the lives of thousands of young people in Florida — and across the country. About 1.4% of the U.S...
Chamber Letter on National Privacy Legis- lation (May 31, 2022), available at https://perma.cc/XD4Z-W43G (ex- plaining that "[m]ore than 130 countries have enacted general privacy protections, and five state legislatures have passed comprehensive data protections bills," yet a "private ...