January 8, 2024 Express Update

The Pennsylvania General Assembly will be slow in getting back to legislative business this year. In an unusual move, the House Speaker has announced that the House Chamber will not be in use until March 18 to allow for a repair of a water in the ceiling of that room. No House votes will be […]

The Pennsylvania Petroleum Association and the Energy Marketers of America (EMA) endorses H.R. 5840, the Transportation Security Screening Modernization Act, sponsored by Reps. Graves (R-LA), Green (R-TN), Guest (R-MS), Smith (D-WA), Titus (D-NV), and Carbajal (D-CA), which would direct the Department of Transportation to work with the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) […]

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has released the annual minimum employee random drug and alcohol testing rates for 2024. The test rates are the minimum percentage of employees subject to U.S. DOT drug and alcohol requirements who must undergo a random test during the 2024 calendar year. The number of random drug tests […]

The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office last week appealed the December ruling of the Commonwealth Court that had affirmed the legality of skill games in the state. The Commonwealth Court ruling had agreed with the position of the skill game industry that those games have an element of skill that differentiate them from games of pure […]

On January 2, the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit denied a request for rehearing in a case preempting a city ordinance prohibiting the installation of natural gas piping within newly constructed buildings in the City of Berkeley, California.  This means that the appeals court’s decision in April 2023 will remain in effect […]