On May 24, the House Agriculture Committee, led by Chairman GT Thompson (R-PA), passed H.R. 8467, the Farm, Food, and National Security Act, by a vote of 33 to 21. The bill passed with the unanimous support of Committee Republicans, along with the support of four Democrats, Representatives Yadira Caravao (D-CO), Eric Sorensen (D-IL), Don Davis …
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House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-PA) recently released the title-by-title summary of the draft Farm Bill, which the committee plans to release this week and mark up next week. A key piece of legislation that PIA strongly supports and helped develop, the Ensuring Access to Risk Management Act of 2024 (H.R. 8055), is …
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On May 9 PIA, along with a diverse group of business stakeholders sent a letter to the Department of Labor (DOL) urging it to delay the first increase to the minimum salary threshold under the Department’s new overtime final rule until at least September 1st, 2024. Delaying implementation of the rule will give employers the …
In the latest entry in our commissioner spotlight series, we are focusing on the head of the North Dakota Insurance Department (NDID) and president-elect of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), Commissioner Jon Godfread. Commissioner Godfread was first elected to serve as North Dakota’s insurance commissioner in 2016. Prior to his election, Commissioner Godfread worked for …
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