Stablecoins, an Alaska Tariff Filing, and California Courts' Busy Day

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency finalized rules for payment stablecoin issuers, an Alaska utility filed a tariff notice, and Florida, Illinois and Ohio moved rules on school incident reporting, video gaming and food assistance. California's courts logged 31 opinions, the most since October 7, as 353 items entered the record for October 23.

Why it matters: Entities under OCC supervision, Florida school districts, users of Illinois video gaming terminals, and Ohio households on both SNAP and cash assistance all have new filings to review from a single day's record.

What moved

• Implementing the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act for the Issuance of Stablecoins by Entities Subject to the Jurisdiction of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (federal). The OCC issued final regulations implementing the GENIUS Act, governing the issuance of payment stablecoins and related activities by entities under its jurisdiction. Status: adopted. Applicability: entities subject to OCC jurisdiction that issue payment stablecoins or engage in related activities.

• Regulatory Commission of Alaska: Notice of Utility Tariff Filing (ENSTAR) - Alaska Online Public Notices (Alaska). The commission posted a filing from ENSTAR Natural Gas Company requesting approval of a gas exchange agreement with Matanuska Electric Association and Hilcorp Cook Inlet, under which Hilcorp would deliver about 1.2 billion cubic feet of gas to ENSTAR in late 2026 at $11.75 per Mcf, with ENSTAR returning equivalent volumes to MEA by March 31, 2028 at $9.00 per Mcf. ENSTAR also requests authority to pass associated costs and credits through its gas cost adjustment surcharge. Status: filing published; ENSTAR seeks expedited consideration with an October 30, 2026 effective date. Applicability: ENSTAR, Matanuska Electric Association and Hilcorp Cook Inlet under the exchange agreement. National coverage of tariffs and trade policy ran about three times its trailing pace on October 23; this filing and a same-day notice of a Railbelt Transmission Organization Tariff Subcommittee meeting are the day's state filings on that subject.

• **Notice of Rule Development - 6A-1.0017 - This rule sets forth the criteria school districts must use to report disruptive or criminal incidents to the Florida Department of Education, so that the data ** (Florida). The State Board of Education published a notice of rule development for Rule 6A-1.0017, setting the criteria school districts use to report disruptive or criminal incidents to the department, including a planned move to a new cloud-based reporting portal. Status: notice of rule development. Applicability: Florida school districts reporting incident data to the state.

• Proposed Rule to Integrate Video Gaming into the Self-Exclusion Program (Illinois). The Illinois Gaming Board approved a proposed rule that would allow individuals to voluntarily exclude themselves from the state's roughly 50,000 video gaming terminals through identity verification, and would establish a framework for video gaming player accounts, cashless wagering and responsible gaming limits. Status: proposed; next it goes to the General Assembly's Joint Committee on Administrative Rules. Applicability: individuals seeking to self-exclude from Illinois video gaming terminals.

• 5101:4-6-16 Food assistance: reduction of cash assistance benefits due to assistance group's failure to perform a required action (Ohio). Ohio amended this rule, effective October 21, 2026, specifying that SNAP allotments will not increase when Ohio Works First cash assistance is reduced for a group's failure to perform a required action, including learnfare failures, intentional program violations, fraud or job termination without just cause. Status: amended, now in effect. Applicability: Ohio households receiving both SNAP and Ohio Works First cash assistance.

By the numbers

• Across all jurisdictions, 353 items entered the record on October 23, combining 205 federal items and 148 items across 19 states.
• Federal courts logged 122 opinions, against a trailing 30 day weekday average of about 97; federal regulations reached 83, against a trailing 30 day weekday average of about 67.
• California's courts logged 31 opinions, the most since October 7, against a trailing 30 day weekday average of about 16.
• Wisconsin logged no items, against a trailing 30 day weekday average of about 6.

Bill actions

No tracked bill carried an action dated October 23.

Methodology

"Collected" means the date OmniLegislation's pipeline processed each record, not the source date. Counts are deduplicated processed records; item descriptions come from the pipeline's own summaries. Baselines are trailing 30 day daily averages for the same kind of day, excluding known bulk-load days; highest single-day counts are measured since tracking began on April 5, 2026, and include load days, which are labelled. Bill actions cover tracked bills only. This report covers October 23, 2026. Bill records originate from LegiScan; court opinions from CourtListener, a Free Law Project service; federal regulations from the Federal Register.