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Nineteen Georgia Hospital Boards Complete Required State Training PR Web March 03, 2021 HomeTown Health (HTH) is pleased to announce that nineteen Georgia Rural Hospitals have completed their required state board training through the HomeTown Health Board & Leadership Training Program. In 2018, the Georgia General Assembly implemented a training requirement for rural hospital executives, board members, and hospital authority members. The legislation, HB 769, delegated responsibility for the cr...

Committee Reports House Small Business Development — Incentives and Education Workforce Subcommittee Subcommittee Chairman Dale Washburn (R-Macon) called up one bill, HB 611, authored by Representative Mike Cheokas (R-Americus). HB 611 seeks to provide a new definition in O.C.G.A. 50-5-121(3) for the term, ‘small business.’ This legislation was brought to the General Assembly by Scott Hilton with the Georgia First Commission. The new definition creates three tiers: Tier 1 - 10 or fewer em...

On February 3, 2021, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) updated its frequently asked questions (FAQs) to make clear that employers can seek an extension for...

Saturday, February 27, 2021 We recently provided an update on the looming end date for COBRA and other deadline extensions and the uncertainty that continues to add to the administrative burdens without more clarity from the DOL and IRS.  Message received, apparently. On behalf of the IRS, the DOL has now released Disaster Relief Notice 2021-01 that attempts to resolve a potential conflict with other statutory guidance under ERISA Section 518 and Code Section 7508A, which technic...

Department of Labor DOL and Internal Revenue Service IRS released joint-agency guidance that extended several important deadlines for employees, including COBRA election and payment deadlines, HIPAA Special Enrollment deadlines, and claims submission and appeal deadlines.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In May of 2020, the Department of Labor (DOL) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released joint-agency guidance that extended several important deadlines for employees, including COBRA election and payment deadlines, HIPAA Special Enrollment deadlines, and claims submission and appeal deadlines.  Under the guidance, plan administrators were required to extend the deadlines that would otherwise apply for any individuals affected betwe...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Two recent private letter rulings highlight the need to carefully consider an organization’s stated purposes and the provision under Code Section 501(c) that best fits those purposes before applying for exempt status. In Private Letter Ruling 202102013, the IRS denied exempt status under Code Section 501(c)(3) for an organization whose stated purposes were to promote recreation and preserve/restore historic cars.  The organization�...

Written And Submitted By D.A. King   Professional licenses are public benefits in Georgia. The Georgia Chamber of Commerce is well aware of that fact as they opposed the law that created it. I was there. The people who run Georgia are tired of any delays involved in the process of verifying the lawful immigration status of applicants for public benefits. Georgia law (OCGA 50-36-1) put in place in 2006 and improved several times after that says that applicants for public benefits must swear the...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: It is not unreasonable to anticipate that there will be a federal tax policy transformation following a change in the political control of the White House, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. What may be unreasonable, however, is making knee-jerk tax planning decisions in anticipation of possible modifications to the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code"). Reactionary planning, unless it is well thought out and is based...

LAAS GM Barnette Undermines Animal Cruelty Case, Bashes Animal Control Officers on Facebook Details ANIMAL WATCH-In a hostile and childish Facebook rant on September 26, Los Angeles Animal Services General Manager Brenda Barnette publicly attacked the integrity and insulted the competence of her own animal control officers, who made an experienced and professional determination that an animal needed to be removed immediately from its owner for its health/safety and...