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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.
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Comments on Oregon’s proposed psilocybin services rules
Overall, the process appears to have generated a prudent set of rules that would create a program that balances client safety with strong licensee oversight under a flexible set of program rules.
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Testimony: The negative impacts of Columbus’ proposed ban on flavored tobacco
Flavor bans at the local level have little effect on public health and potentially disastrous consequences for communities of color.
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Testimony: FDA regulation has preserved and protected the most dangerous form of nicotine use—smoking combustible cigarettes
Testimony before an expert panel convened as part of the Reagan-Udall Foundation's operational evaluation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products.
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Public Comment: Menthol prohibition would come with negative consequences
Prohibition will result in increased tobacco smuggling and more frequent interactions between law enforcement and minority communities.
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Testimony: Teacher Retirement System of Texas can improve funding policies to benefit taxpayers, employees
The pension plan's outdated actuarial assumptions, funding policies, and benefit offerings hurt teachers' retirement security.
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Testimony: Louisiana Senate Bill 438 could cause public pension woes
This current proposal includes changes that would likely prevent the state and taxpayers from seeing any meaningful cost reduction or financial risk reduction.
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Oregon Psilocybin Services should carefully approach Measure 109 rulemaking
Our review of the proposed rules on psilocybin products, training curriculum, and testing yielded the following observations.
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Testimony: Improving transit services in rural communities
Five recommendations for improving transit services to best serve rural populations, especially transit-dependent riders.
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Testimony: Rhode Island e-cigarette prohibition could create unintended consequences
on of flavored e-cigarettes risks driving vapers back to smoking, fueling illicit markets, and forcing the closure of Rhode Island vape shops.
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Testimony on Alaska House Bill 55 and Buck’s updated fiscal analysis
House Bill 55 is a weak pension design and lacks sufficient controls.
