The combined weight of several amendments under discussion ultimately sank the bill By NACS Online Legislation that would allow year-round sales of higher ethanol blends will not move through the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee this year, after it attracted amendments that targeted major environmental laws, reports Politico. Committee Chairman John Barrasso…
By the U.S. Food & Drug Administration On August 14, 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued guidance to clarify that a waiver to the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food final rule (Sanitary Transportation rule) covers retail food establishments that sell food for humans, including those that sell both human and animal food,…
Government seeks limited appeal of overtime rule decision; Labor Department plans to issue new regulation By Allen Smith, J.D. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has abandoned its defense of the increased salary level in the 2016 overtime rule. The DOJ said in a brief on June 30 to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal…
Department says it wants salary to be a factor in overtime eligibility NACS Online The U.S. Labor Department suggested last week that it could lower the salary threshold for overtime eligibility set under the Obama administration, Reuters reports. The news source writes that the department asserted to the New Orleans-based 5th U.S Circuit…
Plans to remove debit repeal from the Choice Act were announced By NACS Online Politico is reporting that House Republicans are removing the repeal of debit swipe fee reform from H.R. 10, the Financial CHOICE Act, after facing significant pressure from members in the Republican conference. The repeal effort is the most controversial piece…
The Food & Nutrition Service hits the drawing board to redefine “variety” to work for small retailers NACS Online On May 18th, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food & Nutrition Service (FNS), which oversees the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formally posted an announcement on its website that “passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act…
NACS Online Last week, legislation moved through a Congressional committee that would repeal the debit reforms we fought so hard to achieve. The next stop for this bill is the House floor where it is expected to be voted on in just a couple of weeks. We must stop the repeal efforts but to…
White House signals a delay in the agency’s final menu-labeling rule, set to take effect on May 5th NACS Online On April 28th, the U.S Food and Drug Administration submitted an interim final rule to the White House Office of Management and Budget that signals a delay in the agency’s final menu-labeling rule, set to…
Across the country many municipalities and states have passed laws raising the legal smoking age to 21. Raising the minimum age to 21 to purchase and/or use tobacco products is a promising strategy to reduce smoking and other tobacco use among youth. California and Hawaii have both passed laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco to…
The narrow ruling said that lower courts could hear challenges on whether the New York law inhibits how retailers advertise prices NACS Online A New York law that prohibited retailers from informing customers that using a credit card costs more cannot violate the merchants’ free speech, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, USA Today…