Legislation Telephone Seminars

Prevailing Wage Law: An Understanding of Davis-Bacon ...t of federal wage and hour laws. Recently enacted federal legislation and Executive Orders issued by the Obama Administration involving the use of federal stimulus monies impose additional prevailing wage and employment law compliance requirements and will result in increased enforcement by the federal government. Federal public works contractors often do not understand the requirements for  more...

Are You Prepared for the Financial Institution Record Match Program? ...legislation (California Revenue Tax Code 19266) that will impact virtually every bank, credit union, thrift and brokerage firm doing business in California. This new program will place a new burden on financial institutions in order to help the state collect delinquent taxes. Financial institutions should start consideration of the FIRM Agreement and how to comply with the FIRM requirements.  more...

Animal Law: Past, Present and Future ... law being practiced nationwide, and involves litigation, legislation and corporate/transactional work. Animal law has a very broad range and this audio conference will serve only as an introduction to some of the most common and popular topics. The field covers everything from companion animal issues in local communities (dog bites, dangerous dog issues, leash laws and breed specific  more...

Understanding the Durbin Amendment's Impacts and Implications ...legislation for the debit card industry. Certain Durbin Amendment impacts have been immediate but the industry will continue to evolve for some time in response to the longer-term implications of these new requirements. Attendees at this live audio conference will engage with the speaker on an overview of the various provisions of the Durbin Amendment and the Federal Reserve Board's final  more...

Employee Discipline for Conduct Outside of Work ...s for conduct outside of work. You will hear about recent legislation and court cases involving some of the hottest topics in employment law, including employee discipline for blogging, web-based 'employer trashing,' workplace dating and extramarital affairs, and physical appearance such as weight, tattoos and body piercing. Our experienced professionals will discuss permissible discipline for  more...

Commonly Encountered Sales and Use Tax Audit Issues and Strategies to Defuse Them ...hifting tax policies and a new wave of proposed sales tax legislation all serve to highlight the importance of staying current on tax law while minding your business operations. Failing to do so may lead to unexpected sales tax assessments upon audit. Benefits of attending this live audio conference include developing an understanding of what you can do now to minimize future audit  more...

The Trickle Down Effect of Health Care Reform: A Potpourri of Payroll, Benefits, Income Taxes, and Other Changes ...ss their decisions and consider the future impact of this legislation. Attend this live audio conference and stay current on your compliance obligations, planning considerations and take a closer look at the impact on your payroll system, benefit plans, and accommodations. This live audio conference is designed for payroll professionals, human resource managers, benefits administrators,  more...

Preparing for Medicaid Audits ...verall budgets. Under recently enacted health care reform legislation the Medicaid program and its projected budgetary shortfalls is only going to expand. Those states are now looking toward Medicaid providers to make up the shortfall, through the use of post payment audits and overpayment recovery. The use of statistics based upon a small sample of claims but extrapolated over an entire  more...

HR Budgeting Fundamentals: Translate Your Goals into Revenue Terms ...legislation and CFO/controller's demanding budgets from the HR department, HR professionals have had to learn budgeting skills. Most HR people did not go to school to be financial gurus and learning to properly budget for people-related expenses is a foreign language. However, if you truly want a seat at the table you must learn to appropriately forecast and plan for the most important assets:  more...

Economic Substance Doctrine Codification Update ...2010 has produced the sweeping changes in health care via legislation titled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Knowledge of its tax implications, tax credits, employer obligations and other financial aspects will be discussed in this informative audio conference. Awareness of the compliance rules will avoid financial risk and a variety of costly penalties for both individuals and  more...

Grant and Other Funding Opportunities Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 ...legislation signed into law in March provides a significant number of direct and indirect federal grant funding opportunities for medical providers, hospitals, home health agencies, nursing facilities, colleges and universities, and employers. Under several of the grant programs, state and local government, and nonprofit entities are flow-through entities through which eligible applicants can  more...

Health Care Reform Update ... and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010. This legislation will effectively restructure one-sixth of our economy and have a significant impact on our personal lives. Beyond the partisan politics and media hype are the practical concerns of employers, HR professionals, attorneys, third-party administrators, and other consultants and professionals who work with group health plans and  more...

Schedule C Reporting Update BenefitsAccording to IRS statistics, more than 22 billion Schedule C forms are filed each year. Many of these represent small, often home-based, businesses. However, a large number also represent large, full-time business enterprises. It is not surprising that with such a large vast array of different types of businesses, Schedule C filers are frequent targets of IRS audits. This teleconference  more...

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: The Overhaul of the U.S. Financial System ... Obama overhauls the United States financial system. This legislation will affect every corner of the financial services industry. Learn how this legislation is likely to affect you. This teleconference will review many important aspects of the Act, including the new Financial Stability Oversight Council, new resolution authority of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and new consumer  more...

Understanding the HIRE Act and Form 941 ...legislation that has affected employers, it is becoming difficult to keep up with the new requirements. During this teleconference, you will obtain the knowledge on how to make sure that your company can take tax benefits being offered to employers for producing jobs and hiring new employees. We will explain in detail the HIRE Act from how to determine what employees and/or employers qualify,  more...

Climate and Energy Policy: Interpreting State, Regional and Federal Discrepancies ... is critical for analyzing the effects of pending federal legislation. The speakers will also identify some of the opportunities that have been enacted, and the new technologies and practices coming into the market. Learning Objectives - You will be able to discuss EPA Actions under the Clean Air Act. - You will be able to identify regional greenhouse gas initiatives. - You will be able to  more...

LEED Tax Incentives and Credits for Green Buildings ... President is working with Congress to pass comprehensive legislation to protect our nation from the serious economic and strategic risks associated with our reliance on foreign oil and the destabilizing effects of a changing climate. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act included more than $60 billion in clean energy investments intended to jump-start our economy and build the clean  more...

Impact of Health Care Reform on Health Care Providers ...h insurance coverage, recently enacted health care reform legislation also made sweeping changes to the Medicare payment and service delivery systems and strengthened current laws upon which the federal government relies to fight health care fraud, waste and abuse. This teleconference will include a broad overview of the aspects of health care reform legislation of most interest to health care  more...

Criminal Liabilities Under HIPAA ...e higher and there are more stakeholders: recent stimulus legislation dramatically increased the stakes for HIPAA compliance by substantially increasing penalties for HIPAA violations, establishing mandatory breach notification requirements, applying many HIPAA privacy and security requirements to business associates (law firms, consultants, accounting firms, etc.), tightened HIPAA privacy  more...

8 Issues When Doing Business or Contracting With Native American Tribes ...ribe. Each tribe, through its constitution and subsequent legislation, has developed its own laws and regulations addressing issues of contracting, jurisdiction and waivers, if any, of sovereign immunity. Individuals and entities seeking to do business with and/or contract with one or more tribes must become familiar with the laws and regulations of each tribe when preparing to engage in  more...

Providing Investment Advice to Retirement Plan Participants Without Triggering Liability ...der the Pension Protection Act, and new investment advice legislation is pending in Congress that could alter the regulatory landscape altogether. This teleconference will provide up-to-date advice on regulatory developments and market trends so that plans can provide the investment advice participants need, without incurring liability. Human resource managers, benefits administrators,  more...

New Regulations for the Credit Card Industry: Prepare Now and Avoid Penalties ...anges to hit the industry for quite some time. This new legislation amends the Truth in Lending Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act, and places a number of restrictions on the credit card industry and consumer reporting agencies. Some notable changes in the bill are when and how a card company can raise an individual's interest rate, who can receive a  more...

A Privacy Law Primer: What Every Attorney, Compliance and Security Officer Should Know ...legislation, standards and case law are having an ever-larger impact on your relationships with your customers, clients and employees, as well as on your company's management of personal information. Issue-spotting in this area requires some familiarity with the complex state, federal and international regulatory patchwork and nongovernmental standards that now apply, a sense of the practical  more...

Building Performance Benchmarking Strategies ...rgy reduction targets that are being discussed in pending legislation will require huge investments in the existing building stock over the next 25 years, whereas the performance targets for new buildings will far exceed current practices. This teleconference will help all directly and indirectly involved parties to set sensible targets and benchmarks, execute realistic performance  more...

Healthcare Self-Disclosure Update ...ted? - How have these been changed by health care reform legislation and the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act? - How does the position of CMS alter the approach of a health care provider undertaking voluntary disclosure? - How does the OIG's revised Self-Disclosure Protocol alter the approach of a health care provider undertaking voluntary disclosure? - If a health care provider reaches  more...

Health Information Exchange: The Impact of the Stimulus Code ...(HITECH) Act known more commonly as the Stimulus Act. The legislation for a large part included tremendous new legislation, but brings to the forefront, the first time in history, incentives for American doctors to revamp their paper charts to electronic health records format. Behind the graceful parallelism to reform health care, electronic health records and health information exchanges  more...

California Employment Law Update nCompanies with employees in California face a bewildering and complicated set of employment laws, which are often inconsistent with federal law. This three-hour teleconference will address the most important and current issues facing California employers (or out-of-state companies with employees in California), including wage and hour compliance and litigation trends, California's unique  more...

Tax Law Research Best Practices ...x issues involves an understanding of a complex system of legislation, regulations, and administrative document and decisions. Each of these elements of tax law has a different precedential value to the practitioner. Moreover, tax law is an area that changes constantly. Congress and the states regularly amend tax laws, and the Internal Revenue Service adds or amends its regulations to changes  more...

The New HIPAA Special Enrollment Rules and Related Disclosure Issues ...legislation expands the special enrollment rights currently applicable to group health plans and imposes new notice and disclosure obligations for employers that maintain such plans. While many of these obligations are not effective until after 2009, the special enrollment changes are effective April 1, 2009. In addition, the new law imposes civil penalties of up to $100 a day for failure to  more...

Impact of the New ADA Amendments on Schools ...legislation took effect that dramatically expanded the range of individuals eligible for protections guaranteed by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. ADA specified the rights guaranteed to individuals broadly qualified as "disabled." These rights applied to the areas of hiring and working conditions for all employees and also to students eligible for education accommodations under  more...

The Streamlined Sales Tax Project - How and Why It Affects Your Business ...effect as a voluntary program for taxpayer participation, legislation has been introduced in Congress to make it mandatory. If the SSTP becomes mandatory, it would effectively eliminate the physical presence standard established in Quill. Therefore, under an economic nexus standard, taxpayers would be required to collect sales tax on all sales, regardless of whether they are physically present  more...

Employee Retaliation: Supreme Court Update nThe mere mention of retaliation in the workplace today sends waves of concern throughout an employer's organization. Most recent court decisions recognize retaliation claims in nearly all areas of employment law and find adverse actions in a variety of circumstances, beyond demotion and termination, for purposes of upholding such claims. Most significantly, the U.S. Supreme Court recently  more...

Sustainable Development and Land Use: The Future is Here and it is Green ...gned to be mandatory. But thanks to an explosion of state legislation and local ordinances across the country, green building methods and requirements have now been given the force of law by inclusion and cross reference within land use laws, zoning ordinances and building codes. This teleconference will identify the compelling public policies underpinning the wave of green building  more...