Targeted Ad Tax Rules, PBM Fee Disclosure, LTC Rate Filing

The Illinois Department of Revenue posted draft rules implementing the state's new Targeted Advertising Services Tax Act, the U.S. Department of Labor finalized pharmacy benefit manager fee disclosure requirements, and an insurer filed with Pennsylvania's Insurance Department to raise long-term care premiums, among 519 items that entered the record on October 31, including 313 agency regulations across eight jurisdictions.

Why it matters: Compliance staff at pharmacy benefit managers and large self-insured health plans, providers of targeted advertising services in Illinois, Pennsylvania long-term care policyholders, and Central Legal Staff attorneys at Pennsylvania's Superior Court all have new filings from the collection day to review.

What moved

• Draft Proposed Rules for Targeted Advertising Services Tax (Illinois): The Illinois Department of Revenue posted draft rules implementing the Targeted Advertising Services Tax Act, enacted by Article 1 of Public Act 104-0468, which taxes providers' gross receipts from targeted advertising services in Illinois and takes effect January 1, 2027. The rules are proposed; the department is taking public comment through November 30 at 5 p.m. The draft applies to providers of targeted advertising services in Illinois.

• Improving Transparency Into Pharmacy Benefit Manager Fee Disclosure (US): The Department of Labor adopted a final regulation requiring pharmacy benefit managers and their affiliated brokerage and consulting providers to disclose compensation to fiduciaries of large, self-insured group health plans under an ERISA prohibited-transaction exemption. The rule is final and applies to PBM compensation arrangements with those plans.

• CMFG Life Insurance Company; rate increase filing for individual LTC form 2006-LTC-COMP (PA) (CUNA-135093119); rate filing (Pennsylvania): CMFG Life Insurance Company filed with Pennsylvania's Insurance Department for a uniform 20% premium increase on its individual long-term care insurance form, affecting 789 Pennsylvania policyholders. Interested parties have 20 days from publication to comment, and the filing may be deemed approved by operation of law unless formal administrative action is taken by January 5, 2027.

• Amendments to the Superior Court operating procedures (Pennsylvania): The Pennsylvania Superior Court adopted amendments to its operating procedures, effective June 10, that establish new definitions and general procedures for motions, applications, and petitions, and require Central Legal Staff attorneys to be admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar within one year of joining. The amendments are adopted and published; no further procedural step is stated.

By the numbers

• Across all jurisdictions, agency regulations totaled 313, the busiest count since October 6, a gap of 25 days, against a trailing 30 day weekend average of about 111 (about 157 across all days of the week, for context).
• Federal regulations alone totaled 102, against a trailing weekend average of about 57; federal court opinions totaled 148, against a trailing weekend average of about 120.
• State regulators and courts contributed 267 items across 16 states. Virginia logged 107 regulations, far above its trailing weekend average of under 5; the last day at or above that count was September 3 (data load day).
• Pennsylvania logged 56 regulations, the most since September 1, against a trailing weekend average of about 14.
• California's courts produced 45 opinions, the most since September 19, against a trailing weekend average of about 9.

Bill actions

No tracked bill carried an action dated October 31 among tracked bills.

Methodology

"Collected" means the pipeline's collection date, not the source date. Counts are deduplicated processed records from OmniLegislation's own pipeline, and item descriptions come from the pipeline's own summaries of each record. Baselines are trailing 30 day daily averages for the same kind of day, weekend days against weekend days and weekdays against weekdays, excluding known bulk-load days; the 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 31, 2026. Bill records originate from LegiScan; court opinions from CourtListener, a Free Law Project service; federal regulations from the Federal Register.