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Statehouse Shift Ahead for Earned Wage Access? In recent years earned wage access apps, which allow workers to obtain access to their earnings before they receive their paychecks, have exploded in popularity...
SD to Consider App- and Device-Based Age Verification Legislation in 2025 The South Dakota Legislature’s Study Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Regulation of Internet Access by Minors voted...
CA Prohibits ‘Captive Audience’ Meetings California Gov. Newsom (D) signed a bill ( SB 399 ) prohibiting businesses from requiring employees to attend employer-sponsored meetings concerning...
CA Enacts Guardrails for Use of AI in Healthcare California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a pair of bills making the state one of the first to establish guardrails for the use of artificial intelligence...
From Concord, New Hampshire to Sacramento, California and the overwhelming majority of state capitols in between, artificial intelligence has been one of the hottest topics in state legislatures this year...
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) signed a bill (SB 72)—passed unanimously by both legislative chambers—that bars the state’s Board of Medical Examiners and Medical Licensure Commission from taking adverse action against doctors for prescribing or recommending off-label medical treatments. The measure’s sponsor, Sen. Arthur Orr (R) said it “just allowed a doctor to do what they’re already doing without any fear of reprisal from the State Medical Board,” adding that there are often FDA-approved drugs that can help treat ailments they weren’t initially intended to treat. (ALABAMA REFLECTOR, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Inequities in the delivery of mental health care will cost the country $478 billion in 2024 and could increase to $1.3 trillion by 2040 if unchecked, according to a report from Deloitte. The report, compiled by Deloitte’s Health Equity Institute and the School of Global Health at Meharry Medical College, attributed most of those “avoidable and unnecessary expenses” to premature death and productivity loss that disproportionately impact certain populations. The analysis looked at differences in mental health outcomes among demographics segmented by race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status and age. (FIERCE HEALTH)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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