Your Guide to Offshore Legislation

• The Thomas-Voinovich law was enacted but expires at the end of FY04.
• The Dodd amendment to expand Thomas-Voinovich to the states has passed the Senate but not the House.
• wenty-eight states have antioffshoring bills pending. So far none has become law.

A proposed Senate bill would require employers to give workers 90 days? notice if their jobs are going to be offshored.

• On the state level, it is likely that one or two right-to-know type bills will pass.
• On the federal level, even if a bill mandating notice gets through the Senate, it will never pass the House, where business-friendly Republicans are in control.

• Arizona has a bill pending that would prohibit the transcription of medical files outside the United States.
• California has a similar bill pending that includes financial data.
• It is unlikely that these bills will pass.