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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...
Pennsylvania became the second state to enact legislation (HB 2268) requiring health insurers to cover speech therapy for children who stutter. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Brandon Markosek (D), said he drafted it after meeting with former NBA star Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, who stuttered until receiving speech therapy in college and who started a foundation to help those who stutter after retiring from the NBA in 2020.
Kidd-Gilchrist’s star power helped get a bill dealing with insurance coverage for speech therapy enacted in Kentucky (SB 111) in April, and Delaware lawmakers sent a similar measure (HB 273) to Gov. John Carney (D) in June. Kid-Gilchrest said he’s contacted lawmakers in over a dozen states about taking up the issue. (PLURIBUS NEWS, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Delaware Gov. John Carney (D) signed a bill (HB 253) requiring private health insurers, the state employee health plan and Medicaid to cover annual mammograms for women over the age of 40 whether they have a referral from their physician or not. The measure also requires mammography facilities to provide mammograms to patients without referrals or provide them written notice that they don’t perform mammograms without referrals. (DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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