Public Health
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive health care. [HB-418]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Healthcare ]
[Data Privacy ]
Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to define terms; establish privacy protections for a woman seeking reproductive health care outside of the Commonwealth; establish protections for any person or entity assisting a woman seeking reproductive health care out of the Commonwealth; establish a civil cause of action for violations; waive sovereign immunity protections of the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/14/2025
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Gettr Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hyperbaric oxygen therapy. [SB-135]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Veterans ]
Amend KRS 217.934 to include a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder as an eligible condition for hyperbaric oxygen therapy; amend KRS 217.936 to include post-traumatic stress disorder to the hyperbaric oxygen therapy written informed consent requirements.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Health Access Nurturing Development Services Program. [HB-417]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Amend KRS 211.690 to require the Health Access Nurturing Development Services (HANDS) Program to provide educational information about maternal and postpartum depression; make technical corrections.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Health Services (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to comprehensive universities. [SB-134]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Eastern Kentucky University to offer doctor of osteopathic medicine degrees required for professional practice and licensure in osteopathic medicine; permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine; permit Western Kentucky University to offer up to five research doctoral degree programs.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
To Education (s) on 02/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the recruitment and retention of health care professionals and declaring an emergency. [SB-132]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to ensure federal law relating to emergency medical treatment and the collection of evidence is not overridden; define terms; prohibit discrimination against health care professionals who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience; grant health care professionals the right not to participate in services that violate their conscience; exempt health care professionals from liability for exercising these rights; prohibit hiring or licensing authorities from reprimanding health care professionals;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Donald Douglas
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/13/2025
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North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Support Firefighters Fighting Cancer [HB-97]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Support Firefighters Fighting Cancer
Sponsored by: Rep. Dennis Patrick Riddell
Regular Message Received From House on 05/05/2025
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Colorado 2025 Regular Session
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Behavioral Health Treatment Stigma for Providers [HB-1176]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
Concerning measures to reduce the stigma of behavioral health treatment for medical practitioners.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dafna Michaelson Jenet
Governor Signed on 05/31/2025
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Colorado 2025 Regular Session
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Misbranding Cultivated Meat Products as Meat [HB-1203]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Concerning cell-cultivated meat, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting the misbranding of cell-cultivated meat as a meat product and requiring cell-cultivated meat to be clearly labeled as cell-cultivated meat.
Sponsored by: Sen. Paul Harold Lundeen
Governor Signed on 04/17/2025
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Colorado 2025 Regular Session
Increasing Public Awareness of Mold Health Effects [HB-1202]
[Public Health ]
[Housing ]
[Environmental ]
[Healthcare ]
Concerning measures to address mold in indoor environments, and, in connection therewith, enacting the "Mold Awareness and Registration Act".
Sponsored by: Rep. Javier Mabrey
House Committee On Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed on 05/13/2025
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North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Environmental Justice [HB-77]
[Environmental ]
Environmental Justice
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary G. Belk
Passed 1st Reading on 02/11/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program - Acquisition of Land [SB-1005]
[Healthcare ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Community Development ]
[Public Health ]
Authorizing the Board of Public Works, on recommendation of the Secretary of Health, to make grants under the Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program to counties, municipal corporations, and nonprofit corporations for the acquisition of land for the construction or use of a federally qualified health center.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne C. Benson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 641 on 05/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to patient-directed care at the end of life. [HB-408]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; establish a qualified terminally ill patient's right to voluntarily request medication to self-administer to cause death; establish conditions required to make request; permit patient to rescind request at any time; permit an attending physician to provide medication; establish requirements for attending physician to inform patients and document request; require disposal of unused medications; establish residency requirements for qualified patients; require report by the Cabinet for Health
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Health Services (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to tobacco, nicotine, or vapor product licensure. [SB-100]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 438.305 to define terms; create new sections of KRS 438.305 to 438.350 to create the Division of Tobacco, Nicotine, and Vapor Product Licensing within the Department of Beverage Control; give the department investigators the authority to inspect any premise where alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, or vapor products are sold without obtaining a search warrant; require any retailer that sells alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, or vapor products to obtain a tobacco, nicotine, and vapor products license issued by
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
Signed By Governor on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to comprehensive universities. [SB-119]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Eastern Kentucky University to offer doctor of osteopathic medicine degrees required for professional practice and licensure in osteopathic medicine.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jared K. Carpenter
To Education (s) on 02/12/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Occupations - Cross-Sex Hormone Therapy for Minors - Prohibition (Protect the Kids Act) [HB-1399]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
Prohibiting a licensed health care practitioner from prescribing, dispensing, or administering a cross-sex hormone or otherwise providing cross-sex hormone therapy for the treatment of certain mental health diagnoses to an individual who is a minor.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus R Kipke
Hearing Canceled on 03/11/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
End-of-Life Option Act (The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings and the Honorable Shane E. Pendergrass Act) [HB-1328]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessments, the disposal of drugs prescribed for aid in dying, health care facility policies, and the effect of aid in dying on insurance policies; authorizing a pharmacist to dispense medication for aid in dying only to certain individuals under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana M Stein
Hearing 3/03 At 2:00 P.m. (health And Government Operations) And Hearing Canceled (judiciary) on 02/27/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists - Temporary Telehealth Licenses - Establishment [HB-1474]
[Healthcare ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Mental Health ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
Establishing a temporary telehealth license to be issued by the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists authorizing the holder to provide clinical professional counseling services only to a student attending an institution of higher education in the State if the student and out-of-state licensed professional counselor have a previously established relationship that has existed for at least 6 months; limiting the term of the temporary license to 6 months; and prohibiting the renewal of a temporary licensed issued under the Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 649 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health - Abortion - Ultrasound and Wait Time [HB-1271]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Prohibiting a qualified provider from performing or inducing an abortion on a pregnant woman within 24 hours after the woman receives certain ultrasound imaging; establishing certain requirements related to the performance of a certain transabdominal ultrasound; and providing that a woman is not required to accept anything offered during certain transabdominal ultrasound imaging.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barrie S. Ciliberti
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Prescription Drug Repository Program - Revisions [HB-1310]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
Altering the Prescription Drug Repository Program, including by allowing certain entities located in another state to participate in the Program as drop-off sites and repositories, including over-the-counter drugs under the Program, and altering the individuals who are eligible to receive drugs or medical supplies under the Program; and altering the persons for whom and the activities with respect to which certain immunity is provided under the Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Harry Bhandari
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 705 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Animal Testing and Research - Alternative Nonanimal Test Methods [HB-1448]
[Animals ]
[Science ]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Health ]
Prohibiting certain research facilities in the State from using a traditional animal test method if an alternative nonanimal test method has received certain approval or the requirement to use a traditional animal test method is waived; requiring certain research facilities to conduct testing using traditional animal test methods in a certain manner; requiring the Attorney General to enforce the Act; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bonnie L Cullison
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 04/03/2025