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AI Industry Spending Big to Block State Regulations The AI industry has launched three super PACs in recent weeks that could spend over $100 million largely on statewide races next year. The industry...
Special Session on Rural Healthcare Coming in ND North Dakota’s legislature intends to form a new interim committee and hold a special session to allocate $500 million in federal funding for rural...
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CA Insurance Commissioner Seeking Reforms to Intervenor Process California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara (D) announced he wants to make changes to the foundational insurance law approved by the...
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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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