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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...
Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled in a wrongful death case that frozen embryos used for in vitro fertilization are people, bringing IVF procedures at several state hospitals to a halt and drawing widespread disapproval, including from some Republican governors.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) called the IVF ruling “scary,” taking particular issue with the concurrence from Chief Justice Tom Parker that relied heavily on scripture.
“There’s two issues: No. 1, I mean, you have the separation of church and state, and using theology and opinions and all that. Let’s not start bashing Christians. I believe wholeheartedly in Christianity,” he said in an interview on CNN. “It sounds to me like obviously that judge overstepped his bounds in terms of using those arguments to make his case.”
He added: “If you based everything on religion, your own personal religion behind the bench, it would be chaos everywhere.”
Alabama Sen. Tim Melson (R), an anesthesiologist and clinical researcher who chairs his chamber’s health care committee, is planning to introduce a bill to narrow the ruling. (ROUTE FIFTY)
Florida lawmakers gave final approval to legislation (SB 7016 and SB 7018) that would allocate $700 million for bolstering the state’s health care workforce. Among other things, the measures would provide funding for training and residency programs, and provide new paths to licensure for foreign doctors and recent medical school graduates.
The measures were part of a package of health care-related measures that were a top priority for Senate President Kathleen Passidomo (R). As of Feb. 1, over 100 measures referring to health care workforce were pending in 25 states. (PLURIBUS NEWS, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Iowa’s Senate passed a bill (SF 2251) that would extend Medicaid coverage to new mothers for a full year after they give birth. The measure would also lower the income threshold to qualify for such postpartum coverage, cutting off access to about 1,700 new mothers per month. Iowa, Idaho and Arkansas are the only three states that haven’t implemented 12-month postpartum coverage. (DES MOINES REGISTER, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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