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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the collection of reproductive health information; imposing a civil penalty. [HB-2831]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Healthcare ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Health ]
Relating to the collection of reproductive health information; imposing a civil penalty.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mihaela Plesa
Read First Time on 03/19/2025
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Relating to menstrual disorders education and informational materials for public school students. [HB-2781]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
Relating to menstrual disorders education and informational materials for public school students.
Sponsored by: Rep. Harold Dutton
Read First Time on 03/19/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Board Of Licensed Midwives [HB-95]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
An Act relating to midwives and the practice of midwifery; relating to apprentice midwives; renaming the Board of Certified Direct-Entry Midwives as the Board of Licensed Midwives; relating to the Board of Licensed Midwives; extending the termination date of the Board of Certified Direct-Entry Midwives; relating to insurance; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jamie Allard
Read The First Time - Referrals on 02/12/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to general definitions regarding biological sex and the designation and use of certain spaces according to biological sex; authorizing a civil right of action. [HB-2704]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Rights ]
Relating to general definitions regarding biological sex and the designation and use of certain spaces according to biological sex; authorizing a civil right of action.
Sponsored by: Rep. Briscoe Cain
Read First Time on 03/18/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Insurance - Screening for Ovarian Cancer - Required Coverage and Prohibited Cost Sharing [HB-1495]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide individuals over at least 45 years of age with coverage for certain preventive screenings for ovarian cancer, including MRI and CT scans; and prohibiting the insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a copayment, coinsurance, or deductible requirement on coverage for the preventive screenings.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/13/2025
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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 Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive privacy. [HB-419]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to establish reproductive rights and define terms; amend KRS 18A.225 to remove the prohibition of insurance coverage for abortion; amend KRS 39A.180 to allow the Governor to suspend statutes related to abortion during a declared emergency; amend KRS 156.496 to allow a school district to operate a family resource center that provides abortion counseling; amend KRS 205.010 to permit financial aid for an abortion; amend KRS 205.510 to include abortions or induced miscarriages as medical care; amend KRS 205.560
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Health Access Nurturing Development Services Program. [HB-417]
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[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 Brown
To Health Services (h) on 02/14/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to certain mammography reports providing required breast density information. [HB-2659]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Relating to certain mammography reports providing required breast density information.
Sponsored by: Rep. Suleman Lalani
Scheduled For Public Hearing In S/c On . . . on 04/17/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the transport of female patients to a mental health facility or residential care facility. [HB-2622]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Relating to the transport of female patients to a mental health facility or residential care facility.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Metcalf
Referred To Criminal Justice on 05/05/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Women's History Month [HB-87]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Human Rights ]
[Education ]
An Act establishing the month of March as Women's History Month.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sara Hannan
Cosponsor(s): Burke on 03/21/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to minimum standards for pregnancy resource centers. [HB-2586]
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[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
Relating to minimum standards for pregnancy resource centers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos
Read First Time on 03/17/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to perinatal palliative care. [HB-414]
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[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Insurance ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require all hospitals offering obstetric services and alternative birthing centers to provide or make referrals for perinatal palliative care; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for perinatal palliative care; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary institution to its employees, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health
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Sponsored by: Rep. Walker Thomas
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/13/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement of doula services. [HB-2573]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
Relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement of doula services.
Sponsored by: Rep. Armando Walle
Read First Time on 03/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Minority Business Enterprises - Coordination of Resources [HB-1432]
[Small Business ]
[Taxes ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Requiring the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to coordinate with the Department of Commerce and the Office of the Comptroller to promote existing benefits and incentives, including tax incentives, grants, and technical assistance for minority business enterprises operating in Enterprise Zones; and requiring the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to include an analysis of the coordination efforts in the annual report for 3 years.
Sponsored by: Rep. C.T. Wilson
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/21/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Insurance - Testing for Ovarian and Cervical Cancers - Required Coverage and Prohibited Cost Sharing [HB-1366]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for an annual cervical smear or Pap test and for surveillance tests for ovarian cancer; and prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a copayment, coinsurance, or deductible requirement on coverage required under the Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Debra Davis
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex-based classifications. [SB-116]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Rights ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated members of the opposite sex, but permit separation of the sexes if in the interest of maintaining safety, privacy, and fairness; provide a non-exhaustive list of examples of areas in which public entities may distinguish between the sexes; require any public school, public school district, state agency,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
To Education (s) on 02/11/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to study access to sexual assault nurse examiners. [HCR-20]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to study access to sexual assault nurse examiners; require report to be submitted to the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services and the Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Raymer
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 7) on 03/12/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to preauthorization of certain benefits by certain health benefit plan issuers. [SB-1142]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
Relating to preauthorization of certain benefits by certain health benefit plan issuers.
Sponsored by: Sen. Borris Miles
Read First Time on 02/24/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (The Monica Cooper Prerelease Act) [HB-1198]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Altering the required location and timeline for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to implement certain comprehensive rehabilitative prerelease services by July 1, 2026; requiring the Department to report certain information to certain entities; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Healey
Referred Judicial Proceedings Budget And Taxation on 03/17/2025