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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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Indiana’s Senate passed a bill (SB 11) that would prohibit social media companies from allowing those under the age of 16 from accessing their platforms without parental consent. A provision that would have allowed parents or guardians to sue for violations was stripped from the measure in committee. But the bill would still allow the state’s attorney general to initiate civil investigations of potential violations, which could result in penalties of up to $250,000. (INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE)
A bill (HB 2664 [2024]) introduced in Pennsylvania in November that would have authorized the state’s treasurer and public pension funds to invest in bitcoin failed to make it out of committee before the legislative session ended. But the measure’s sponsor, Rep. Mike Cabell (R), said the proposal was likely to be reintroduced by a colleague this year. And the bitcoin advocacy group Satoshi Action said it expected legislation based on its model bill to be introduced in at least 10 other states. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
North Dakota’s House Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a bill (HB 1386) that would prohibit artificial intelligence-generated content depicting child sex abuse. The number of reports of such content in the state has tripled since 2020. (FARGO FORUM)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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