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On December 3, 2024, a nationwide injunction was issued in the matter of Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland, No. 4:24-cv-478 (E.D. Tex. Dec. 3, 2024) preventing enforcement of the reporting requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). On December 6, 2024, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (known as “FinCEN”) suspended reporting while the injunction remains in effect.

On December 2, 2024, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) published an extension of the Under the Hood Exemption (the “Exemption”) in the Federal Register. As school transportation contractors know, FMCSA initially granted the NSTA Request for the Under the Hood Exemption in October 2022, after a series of prior waivers, for an Exemption period of two years beginning on November 27, 2022 and ending November 27, 2024. The Exemption period has now been extended by FMCSA for an...

In January 2021, the United States Congress passed the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (the “NDAA”), which includes a chapter establishing beneficial ownership reporting requirements for certain companies nationwide. This chapter is known as the Corporate Transparency Act (the “Act’), which goes into effect in the new year. As the effective date is fast approaching, you may have recently heard rumblings of this Act...

As you may have heard, a proposal has been made by the Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act to Schedule III on the basis that marijuana has a currently accepted medical use and does not have the same level of abuse potential or level of physical or psychological dependence as other Schedule I drugs, consistent with the Department of Health and Human Services views on marijuana. The DEA filed a No...

Overtime compliance can be difficult to track especially if your employees do not have a typical 9 to 5 workday. In addition, the tests that have been put into place by the United States Department of Labor to track are not always clear if your employees perform multiple types of work at differing rates. Now, the Department of Labor has introduced another change to overtime rules that will require employers to take an even closer look at whether their employees are owed overtime. To learn more a...

School bus contractors are required to comply with many laws and regulations to ensure legal compliance for their operations. Federal Motor Carrier laws and regulations and state Department of Transportation regulations are normally at the forefront of the minds of contractors. However, other laws that apply to the operations of contractors but are not necessarily transportation-related often get overlooked. One such law is the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which many contractors must comply with w...

Often, school bus contractors, repair facilities, and school bus OEMs and resellers may find themselves in a situation where they have an empty school bus that needs to be moved, but do not have a driver with a P endorsement readily available to drive. Recently, this issue has been tackled by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (“FMCSA”), so continue reading for an overview of what the law currently requires, and what updates may be on the way.