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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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Alabama’s House and Senate have fast tracked legislation (HB 237 and SB 159) that would grant civil and criminal immunity to providers of in vitro fertilization procedures. Several providers in the state paused IVF procedures after the Alabama Supreme Court issued a decision granting “personhood” status to frozen embryos and making such clinics subject to prosecution for destroying them under the state’s wrongful death law. Both bills were passed by their chamber of origin and could become law this week. (AL.COM, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Florida Sen. Erin Grall (R) pulled her bill (SB 476) aimed at granting civil protections to unborn children after concerns were raised about its potential impact on IVF procedures, following the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling. The measure had already cleared a couple of committees, but Grall said work had to be done to safeguard IVF treatment. (WASHINGTON POST, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Mississippi’s House passed a bill (HB 1725) that would expand Medicaid to cover those who earn less than 138% of the federal poverty limit but require them to work at least 20 hours a week at a job that doesn’t provide health insurance coverage. Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann (R), who also leads the state’s Senate, has expressed support for a companion bill in that chamber. But Gov. Tate Reeves (R) has steadfastly opposed Medicaid expansion and indicated he’s skeptical about the feasibility of work requirements. (PLURIBUS NEWS)
A pair of Los Angeles-based doctors and the activist group Do No Harm have filed a lawsuit challenging California’s requirement that all continuing medical education courses include training in implicit bias, unconscious beliefs that could contribute to racial and ethnic bias. The suit is part of a national effort by right-leaning advocacy groups to push back against DEI initiatives in health care, partly spurred by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last year barring affirmative action in higher education. (KFF HEALTH NEWS)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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