Partner Lance Dial and associate Rachel Mann wrote a Law360 Expert Analysis article about trends in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) legislation on the state level in 2023.
“Legislators in five states used their prefiling process to get ESG bills to the top of the legislative agenda,” write Lance and Rachel. “Three state legislatures — Arkansas,[13] Missouri[14] and Texas[15] — saw prefiled bills that seek to limit corporations from discriminating based on ESG scores. While some states are proposing new forms of ESG investing bills, some states are trying again with legislation that failed in the prior legislative session.”