On June 5, the House Appropriations Financial Services subcommittee passed their Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) spending bill for FY’25, which begins on October 1, 2024, by voice vote. Included in the spending bill is a policy provision that PIA strongly supports and has been actively advocating in favor of from Rep. Scott Fitzgerald’s …
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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 …
Continue reading House Committee Passes Farm Bill with Crop Agent Inflation Adjustment
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 …
Continue reading PIA Crop Insurance Priority Included in House Farm Bill Draft
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 …
On April 17, the House Financial Services Committee passed the Insurance Data Protection Act, which was introduced by Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) with PIA’s strong support, by a vote of 28-22. This legislation will meaningfully reform the Federal Insurance Office (FIO), an unnecessary federal bureaucracy created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The …
Continue reading FIO Reform Bill Passes House Committee with PIA’s Full Support
Kevin Kiley was elected to the House of Representatives in 2022 to represent the 3rd congressional district of California. Prior to his election to the United States Congress, Rep. Kiley served in the California State Assembly, and in 2020 was named National Legislator of the Year by the Association of Independent Workers. Rep. Kiley earned …
On March 22, Congress again avoided a partial government shutdown after reaching a last-minute deal to fund the federal government through the remainder of the 2024 fiscal year. Included in the agreement, known as a “minibus”, was an extension of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The NFIP will now be funded through September 30, …
As the March 22 expiration date for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) quickly approaches, members of Congress need to hear from agents urging them to act to prevent a lapse of the NFIP. The history of NFIP extensions has been messy. In 2017, the NFIP’s last five-year reauthorization expired. Since then, the NFIP has been subject …
PIA recently joined letters to oppose two harmful federal rules proposed by the Department of Labor (DOL). The first rule, titled “Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees,” would change overtime regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and harm employers and employees alike. The second rule …
Congress again avoided a partial government shutdown last week by passing a short-term spending bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), to fund the federal government. Last week's CR reauthorized all government programs, but, like its predecessor, it divided the budget in half along the same lines as it had previously, using two separate expiration …
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