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CA Regulators Complete Review of Wildfire Risk Model California’s Department of Insurance has completed a review of the state’s first wildfire catastrophe model, which property/casualty insurers...
Trump Administration’s ‘AI Action Plan’ Targets State AI Regulation The Trump administration released an “AI Action Plan,” aimed at speeding the development of artificial...
In the span of just 36 days this spring and summer, the number of states offering unemployment benefits to striking workers doubled—to four. New Jersey was the first to offer such benefits, beginning...
Developing Anti-‘Debanking’ Trend in Red States? A new front appears to have opened in the ongoing battle over environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. In March Idaho Gov. Brad...
FL Requests Medicaid Waiver to Bolster Health Workforce Florida is seeking a federal waiver to use Medicaid funding to expand its health care workforce, a plan that could be adopted by other states....
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Florida’s Senate passed legislation (SB 7016 and SB 7018) that would allocate $800 million for bolstering the state’s health care workforce, including by providing tuition assistance for medical and dental students, and loans for building clinics. The measures were approved unanimously after being amended to cut tuition and educational aid by $70 million and a loan fund for innovative health care programs by $25 million. (ORLANDO SENTINEL)
Lawmakers in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi—three of the ten states that haven’t expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act—are now considering doing so, in an effort to address the wave of rural hospital closures and the high rates of uninsured. Arkansas, which used federal expansion money to buy private insurance for uninsured residents, could serve as a model. (PLURIBUS NEWS)
Indiana’s Senate Health and Provider Services Committee approved a bill (SB 139) that would establish a therapeutic psilocybin research fund. The fund would be used to provide financial assistance to state research institutions studying the use of psilocybin to treat mental health and neurological conditions. (CHICAGO TRIBUNE)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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