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CA Bans Algorithmic Price Fixing California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signed AB 325 , making it a violation of the state’s antitrust law, the Cartwright Act, “to use or distribute a common...
CO Becomes First State to Cap Prescription Drug Price On Oct. 3 Colorado’s Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board set an upper payment limit, or UPL, for Enbrel, a prescription drug used...
Move over, artificial intelligence. Quantum computing may be the next big thing in tech, and state legislators are beginning to take a look at it. For the uninitiated, quantum computing, like AI, is...
Glowing Progress Report on FL Insurance Market from Gallagher Re The insurance industry reforms enacted in Florida in 2022 and 2023 in response to soaring homeowners’ premiums and carrier insolvencies...
CA Enacts AI Safety Law California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed an artificial intelligence safety measure ( SB 53 ), exactly one year after vetoing a similar but broader bill (SB 1047 [2024]). The new...
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed over half a dozen bills dealing with healthcare and family support. The measures include SB 790 and SB 791, allowing home help caregivers to unionize, and SB 929, increasing pay for healthcare workers and expanding low-income residents’ access to healthcare. (MICHIGAN ADVANCE)
The Republican attorneys general of 20 states filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa aimed at overturning a Biden administration rule setting minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes. The Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule requires nursing homes that receive payments from Medicare or Medicaid to provide 3.48 hours of direct nursing care per resident per day. The nursing home industry says it couldn’t afford to meet that requirement, even if it could find the staff needed to do so in the midst of a national healthcare workforce shortage. (KENTUCKY LANTERN)
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) announced a pilot program to test the use of drones to deliver medical supplies to rural areas. Pennsylvania and Virginia and tribal nations in North Dakota are conducting similar programs. (PLURIBUS NEWS)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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