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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...
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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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