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ISRI is tracking more than 500 state bills and regulations across the nation. Materials Theft Pennsylvania HB 267, as approved by the Governor on June 22, creates a new offense for the theft of secondary metal, based on value. This new offense is intended to create a deterrent for metals theft. In Maine, LD 1440...

ISRI’s congressional and agency advocacy paid off allowing recyclers – once again – to redeem from the U.S. Mint large amounts of bent, broken, or unusable coins resulting from shredding operations or vending machines for scrap value. The new redemption program, suggests the Mint, will update and improve the redemption process to enhance security and...

ISRI has partnered with the Regional Information Sharing System (RISS) to host STA as a service provider on the RISS network.RISS receives funding from Congress and is administered by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance. STA is also now accessible through the Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP) administered by the Criminal Justice...

A U.S. District Court in Texas ruled for plaintiffs who challenged the Department of Labor’s 2016, rule. The Justice Department, which defended the rule, formally ended its attempt to impose the rule.  The Overtime Rule: Once an employee works over 40 hours a week, employees must be paid time-and-a-half. The exemptions to this are workers...

To reduce the costs of the proposal, many tax deductions and allowances would be eliminated. President Trump proposed, during the recent Presidential campaign, that corporate tax rates be lowered to 15 percent and many in the corporate world are hoping that happens. ISRI secured for the industry a permanent 50 percent accelerated depreciation allowance in...