Employment Law Updates | New Proposed Legislation

August 6, 2010

Senate Passes Emergency Funds Bill For Health Care and Teacher Jobs

Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP) Extension
H.R. 1586, 8/5/2010

The Senate has approved a bill to save the jobs of tens of thousands of public school teachers and boost Medicaid payments to states. The bill specifically allocates $16.1 billion to extend Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP) to states through June 30, 2011 and $10 billion to prevent teacher layoffs and is paid for with a variety of spending rescissions.

Nationwide, the FMAP – the federal share of Medicaid – would be increased by 3.2 percentage points from January to March 2011, and 1.2 percentage points from April to June 2011 for all states, and by additional percentage points for states…

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Ontario Police Department

City of Ontario

Arch Wireless Operating Company, Inc.

B & D Contracting

Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee

Watkins Motor Lines, Inc.

Agere Systems, Inc. f.k.a. Lucent Technologies, Inc.

Tulsa Winch, Inc.

Ramsey Winch, Inc.

Norris

DP Manufacturing, Inc.

Auto Crane Company

Autozone, Inc.

Southwestern Bell Video Services, Inc.

Temco Service Industries, Inc.

SBC Telecom, Inc.

14 Penn Plaza LLC

SBC Services, Inc.

City of Philadelphia

Pacific Telesis Group

Northeastern Land Services, Ltd. d.b.a. NLS Group

Pacific Bell Telephone Co.

LA Weight Loss, Inc. n.k.a. Pure Weight Loss, Inc.

Pacific Bell Information Services

Gold’n Plump Poultry, Inc.

Advanced Solutions, Inc.

The Work Connection

Cardone Industries, Inc.

Pitt-Ohio Express, Inc.

Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School

BVP, LLC d.b.a. Big Vanilla Pasadena

Lehigh Valley Physicians Business Services, Inc.

N.F.A.C., Inc. d.b.a. Big Vanilla Athletic Club

Lehigh Valley Health Services, Inc.

J.C. Penney Corp.

Huron Valley Ambulance, Inc.

American Insurance Co.

Murphy Ford Inc. d.b.a. Murphy Ford Lincoln Mercury Murphy Ford Inc.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

United Airlines, Inc.

City of Chicago

Equal Employment Opportunity

Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co.

The Star Tribune Company

New Process Steel L.P.

Scolari's Warehouse Markets, Inc. d.b.a. Scolari's Food and Drug

National Labor Relations Board

Rent-A-Center West, Inc.

EGL, Inc.