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How to help enable financial services for Maine’s cannabis industry
Specific state policies could ease the burden of banking access for the cannabis industry.
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Proposed changes to Houston fire and police pension benefits require actuarial analysis
Texas lawmakers need to know and examine the long-term costs to taxpayers associated with HB 3340 before adding more benefit promises to an already underfunded retirement system.
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Testimony: America’s increasingly obsolete air traffic control system hampers the present and threatens the future
The modernization of existing air traffic management infrastructure in the U.S. continues to fall behind peer countries and is straining from the continued operations and growth of conventional airspace users.
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Lower cannabis taxes could bolster Alaska’s legal market
Alaska's legal marijuana market could better compete with the black market if the state reduced its taxes.
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Testimony: Montana should adopt a strong open enrollment policy
Montana House Bill 203 would make it easier for students to find a public school that best fits their needs.
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Washington Senate Bill 5263 proposes important psilocybin reforms but could go further
The bill is a constructive proposal that lays the groundwork for the future adoption of a regulated marketplace for psilocybin in the state.
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Texas Senate Bill 8 would improve open enrollment policies
Adopting a strong open enrollment policy in Texas would ensure that public schools truly are available to all students.
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California Senate Bill 58 proposes constructive reforms but could go further in legalization of hallucinogenics
While the legalization of certain substances is a step in the right direction, the restrictions contained within the bill will result in a highly inefficient marketplace.
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Testimony on Alaska House Bill 22
Reason Foundation’s initial modeling suggests that HB 22 could cost Alaska upwards of $800 million in the coming decades.
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Comments and analysis of legal marijuana proposals and regulation in Hawaii’s SB 375 and SB 669
Reason Foundation recently offered testimony in Hawaii on how Senate Bill 375 and Senate Bill 669 would impact the cannabis industry.
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Testimony: Making DC’s sports gambling market more competitive, attractive and profitable
Competition would help create a legal market that might appeal to bettors in and outside of DC and finally begin to generate economic benefits.
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Testimony: Maryland Senate Bill 259 would lead to greater health disparities and criminal justice inequities
The proposal before this committee would unnecessarily strip adults in Maryland of access to these FDA-authorized and potentially life-saving alternatives.
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Examining South Carolina’s proposed open enrollment bill
House Bill 3843 includes good protections for families and needed transparency.
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Comments on Montana House Bill 226 (2023)
The changes offered in HB226 would address how PERS is only optimal to a fraction of public employees at an ever-rising cost, and turn the system towards best practices in public retirement benefit design.
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Testimony: Montana House Bill 228 (2023)
Montana House Bill 228 would help improve governance and give stakeholders even more confidence in their system for future generations.
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Testimony: Cannabis labor peace mandate in Minnesota HF 100 violates federal law
There is a long series of legal precedents that make clear proposals contained within House File 100 would be deemed federally unconstitutional.
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Testimony: North Dakota’s HB 1040 would address many challenges facing NDPERS
The North Dakota Public Employees Retirement System has about $1.8 billion in debt.
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Testimony: Michigan Senate Bill 1192 would depoliticize pension investments and protect taxpayers
Michigan Senate Bill 1192 would help ensure the goals of public pension managers and trust fiduciaries align with reality.
