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States Loosening Occupational Licensing Laws In an effort to boost their workforces, states are advancing legislation to loosen their occupational licensing laws. For example, the Louisiana House passed...
ME House Passes Restrictive Data Privacy Bill Maine’s House narrowly approved a bill ( LD 1977 ) that would impose restrictions on the digital information that companies can collect. Businesses...
By many if not most people’s standards, Heidi Clayton was a clear victim of workplace harassment . A member of the Atlantic City Police Department, Clayton was asked out on dates by a lieutenant...
MD Drug Affordability Board Weighing Caps on Eight Drugs Maryland’s Prescription Drug Affordability Board could soon impose price limits on up to eight drugs on state-run health insurance plans...
MD Passes Major Data Privacy Bills With the approval of a pair of bills last week, Maryland joined a handful of other states, including California, Connecticut, Texas and Utah, that have passed both...
Georgia lawmakers gave final approval for a bill (HB 1339) aimed at expanding health care coverage for lower-income individuals, sending the measure to Gov. Brian Kemp (R). Among other things, the bill would eliminate the certificate-of-need requirement for hospitals that open in rural communities where former hospitals have been shut down for a year or more. But the House rejected some of the changes made to the measure in the Senate, such as those allowing outpatient surgery centers that serve multiple medical specialties and new imaging centers operate without a certificate-of-need permit.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) filed a lawsuit alleging drug manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers conspired to inflate the price of insulin. Similar lawsuits have been filed by AGs in Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota and Mississippi. (INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE, NOLA)
New Hampshire’s House narrowly passed legislation (HB 1283) that would allow individuals with less than six months to live to obtain access to drugs to end their lives. The measure now moves to the Senate. (WMUR, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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