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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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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced plans last week to require on-site workers at all private businesses in the city to get vaccinated for COVID-19 in an effort to stem the spread of the new Omicron variant this winter. The sweeping mandate, likely to face legal challenges, would apply to about 184,000 businesses and go into effect on Dec. 27, days before the mayor leaves office (NEW YORK TIMES)
A global advocacy group called Fight for $15 and a Union released a report this month documenting more than 77,000 alleged violent or threatening incidents at fast-food restaurants in nine major California cities that prompted 911 calls between 2017 and 2020. The report was intended to draw support for a bill pending carryover in the California Legislature (AB 257) that would make the state the first to create a council to set pay and workplace standards for the fast-food industry. (SACRAMENTO BEE, FIGHT FOR $15 AND A UNION, STATE NET)
-- Compiled by KOREY CLARK