Government Relations News

ANA members won a significant victory in the waning days of the California legislative session when AB 2546, a bill aimed at gutting federal preemption for commercial email advertisements, was killed for the year.

The U.S. Senate has approved an appropriations bill which would require that the price for pharmaceutical products appear in all DTC ads for those products.

ANA has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a critically important case involving the question of whether the First Amendment allows state tort liability for truthful commercial speech when a court later determines that a lawful product is hazardous.

In a joint statement, the CEO's of ANA, ARF, 4A's and AAF expressed their opposition to a new question in the 2020 U.S. census that asks "is this person a citizen of the United States?"

California Governor Jerry Brown signed sweeping new privacy/data security legislation yesterday. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, AB375, breezed through the state legislature in just one week and passed unanimously in both houses. The new law will have a substantial impact on all companies that do business in California.

Broad new privacy legislation is on a fast track to passage in California.

Two key lawmakers in the California State Legislature have introduced new privacy legislation that is intended to supplant a broad privacy ballot initiative that has been proposed for the November election.

The California Senate Governance and Finance Committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday (May 16th) on a bill to impose a new tax on advertising and other business services.

Today, ANA called on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to urge the organization not to move forward with proposed changes to the WHOIS system.

An onerous data broker bill is pending in the Vermont Senate which could have very serious negative consequences for all marketers.

The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to accept and review a critically important case involving government-imposed warnings – an ordinance of the City of Berkeley, California which mandates wireless producers and sellers to provide a point of sale public notice regarding radio frequency safety.

California is off to a troubling start regarding overly restrictive tax and privacy legislation in 2018.

Today, ANA sent a letter to every member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives telling them about the important work of the #SeeHer initiative.

The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) today expressed serious concerns to the sponsors of bills moving through the legislature that would make substantial revisions in the current statutory right of publicity as embodied in New York Civil Rights Law.

The Association of National Advertisers released the following statement on the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee is holding a hearing on December 12 to examine a report recently published by the National Academy of Sciences that recommends ending the tax deduction for DTC advertising.

Earlier this week, Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) filed an amendment to the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act that would eliminate the advertising costs deduction for pharmaceutical companies. We believe this sort of advertising restriction faces serious First Amendment challenges as it threatens the commercial speech rights of companies to reach their consumers in a truthful way.

ANA has long advocated for common-sense tax reform that lowers corporate rates and guarantees U.S. competitiveness on a global playing field,” said Dan Jaffe, Group Executive Vice President of Government Relations for the ANA.

The long-awaited tax reform blueprint from the Republican “Big Six” has been released.

In a key victory for the ad community, a three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit imposed a preliminary injunction on a San Francisco ordinance requiring health warnings on ads for certain sugar sweetened beverages.