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States Passing Laws to Aid Small Pharmacies States including Colorado ( HB 1094 ), Georgia ( HB 196 ), Indiana ( SB 140 ), Iowa ( SB 383 ) and Montana (HB 740) have passed laws this year setting minimum...
Child labor may evoke Dickensian images of young children in dirty, oversized clothes laboring in dusty, dangerous workshops. But this year legislators in Florida considered a bill ( SB 918 ) that would...
MN Enacts Nation’s First Social Media Warning Label Requirement Minnesota enacted a first-in-the-nation provision ( HB 2 a / SB 6 a ) requiring social media platforms to display mental health warning...
CA to Investigate State Farm over LA Wildfire Claims California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara (D) announced a “market conduct examination” of State Farm over consumer complaints about...
OR Enacts Nation’s Strongest Corporate Health Care Law Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) signed a bill ( SB 951 ) imposing the toughest regulations on private and corporate control of medical practices...
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A bill (HB 1150) under consideration in the Arkansas House may be the most aggressive effort to regulate pharmacy benefit mangers yet. The measure would bar PBMs from owning pharmacies, potentially forcing healthcare conglomerates like CVS Caremark and United Health’s Optum Rx to split up their businesses in Arkansas. (PLURIBUS NEWS, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
The “Health Information Privacy Act” (SB 929) was one of the first major bills to be passed by New York’s Legislature this year. But whether it will be signed into law remains uncertain.
The measure, which would prohibit the sale of health data by any health-related app to third parties without consumers’ consent, was aimed in part at protecting the privacy of those seeking reproductive care, including abortions. And while Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has been a staunch defender of a woman’s right to have an abortion, she will likely face strong opposition from health tech companies at a time when her administration is trying to make the state more business-friendly. (TIMES UNION, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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