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Mo. bill would analyze eating disorder coverage
A proposal to study the effects of mandatory health insurance coverage for eating disorders is awaiting the signature of Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon. Lawmakers approved the legislation last week before adjourning their annual session. The bill would require the Joint Committee on Legislative Research to do an actuarial analysis of ...
Conn. surgeons calling for medical spa regulations
Connecticut plastic surgeons are meeting at the state Capitol complex in Hartford to urge passage of a bill addressing safety at medical spas. They're holding a Tuesday news conference to highlight the need for patient safety requirements at medical spas, which offer a range of surgical and non-surgical cosmetic services ...
Kan. Legislature stalemated on tax, budget issues
Kansas legislators were stalemated Monday on spending and tax issues as Republican leaders publicly bickered over GOP Gov. Sam Brownback's plan to stabilize the budget by canceling a scheduled decrease in the state sales tax. Senate President Susan Wagle acknowledged that she's waiting for the House to endorse Brownback's proposal ...
Annual Shroud Award given to Rep. Todd
The annual light-hearted humorous jab known as the Shroud Award was presented in the Alabama House of Representatives Monday night. The award, replete with runners up and less honorable mentions, is given yearly to the state representative who proposed a law that had little, if any, chance of passage. The ...
Conn. lawmakers announce mental health proposal
Relatives of the victims of the Newtown school shooting are calling on lawmakers to pass a child mental health bill before the legislative session ends in a little more than two weeks. Nelba Marquez-Greene, whose 6-year old daughter, Ana, was one of 20 children and 6 educators killed at Sandy ...
Bill backs Calif. mental health treatment program
The state Senate approved legislation Monday making it clear that counties can use money from a special state tax on millionaires for programs that provide court-ordered mental health treatment for those who refuse to get help on their own. Supporters of Laura's Law sought the bill in hopes that counties ...
Calif. bill would strip secrecy from health agency
Two lawmakers are pushing legislation to strip broad secrecy provisions from the state agency overseeing health care reforms in California that could shield from the public how hundreds of millions of dollars are spent, officials said Monday. The bill by Republican Sen. Bill Emmerson and Democratic Sen. Mark DeSaulnier was ...
Senate OKs regulations for medicinal marijuana
California would take steps to regulate the sale of medical marijuana under a bill approved Monday by the state Senate, restricting cannabis dispensaries that federal prosecutors say have grown out of control. California voters first supported legalizing marijuana to treat illness in 1996, but federal prosecutors recently cracked down. They ...
Large funnel cloud touches down near Oklahoma City
A large tornado is bearing down near Oklahoma City, part of a series of severe storms expected across portions of the Midwest. Television footage shows a funnel cloud touching down southwest of the city on Monday, and radar indicates it is moving toward the state's capital city. The Oklahoma House ...
Okla. House suspends work as tornado sirens blare
The Oklahoma House has temporarily suspended its daily session and members were urged to head to the basement of the Capitol after tornado sirens sounded outside the building. Faxon Republican Rep. Don Armes was presiding over the House Monday afternoon when he said troopers alerted him to worsening weather conditions ...
Senate budget committee stalls Medicaid expansion
State senators rejected a proposal on Monday for Louisiana to offer government-subsidized health insurance to the working poor through the federal health overhaul law known as the Affordable Care Act. The 7-3 vote by the Senate Finance Committee largely fell along party lines, with all but one Republican voting against ...
State workers who smoke would pay $50 fee
State workers who smoke would have to pay $50 more per month for health insurance under a proposal by Gov. Scott Walker. The Legislature's Joint Finance Committee planned to take up the issue Tuesday. The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimates that the fee will generate $6 million over the next ...
Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers
Telegraph Herald. May 17, 2013. Top outrage? Take your pick It's been quite a week for President Obama and his administration. In the span of just a few days, the White House has had to address these outrageous (and, in at least one case, criminal) acts: — The Internal Revenue ...
Democrats strike back at GOP voting measures
In a bitter fight, Colorado Democrats recently muscled through the Statehouse a massive elections reform bill that allows voters to register up until Election Day and still cast their ballots. It's the latest — and most substantial — development in a nationwide Democratic Party effort to strike back at two ...
Senate Republicans release first NC budget details
The Republican-led Senate offered details Sunday evening of the chamber's North Carolina budget proposal for the next two years, a spending plan that the Senate's leader said would absorb still-spiraling Medicaid costs and create a new state division focusing on rural economic development. The spending plan would spend $20.6 billion ...
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