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CT Senate Passes Sweeping Consumer Protection Bill The Connecticut Senate passed an expansive consumer protection bill ( SB 5 ). Among other things, the measure would require service providers such as...
Social Media Warning Label Legislation Catching on in States Although Congress hasn’t responded to former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s call last June to take up legislation requiring...
OR Lawmakers Pass Age Discrimination Bill Oregon’s legislature passed a bill ( HB 3187 ) that would prohibit an employer from requesting an applicant’s age, date of birth or date of graduation...
WI Assembly Passes Multiple Healthcare Bills Wisconsin’s Assembly passed multiple healthcare-related bills with broad bipartisan support. One ( AB 43 ) would allow pharmacists to prescribe birth...
A nightmare may be coming to life for social media companies in Minnesota. There, Democrats in the state Legislature have embraced a pioneering bill, SB 3197 , which seeks to levy the nation’s...
The Arkansas legislature passed a bill (HB 1150) that would make the state the first in the nation to prohibit pharmacy benefit managers from operating retail pharmacies. A spokesman for Gov. Sarah Sanders (R) declined to say whether she would sign the measure. (TALK BUSINESS & POLITICS, STAT)
AbbVie Inc., maker of Botox and the arthritis drug Humira, has filed a lawsuit aimed at blocking a new South Dakota law barring drug companies from limiting drug discounts under the federal 340B program. The law (SB 154), enacted in March, goes into effect in July. (SOUTH DAKOTA SEARCHLIGHT, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
The Indiana House passed a bill (SB 475) already approved by the Senate banning noncompete clauses in employment contracts for most physicians in the state. But the Senate refused to concur with a House amendment to the measure, sending it to conference committee. Two years ago, the Senate proposed legislation banning noncompetes for all doctors, but the House amended it to apply only to primary care doctors. (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
In a single day Idaho’s House and Senate passed a bill (SB 1211) allowing ivermectin to be sold over the counter. The drug, typically used to treat parasitic infections, was touted as an effective treatment for COVID during the pandemic, although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says clinical data doesn’t support that claim. (IDAHO STATESMAN, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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