Legislation

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs law that bars insurers from forcing people to use mail-order pharmacies

Kenneth Lovett New York Daily News 12/13/2011

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed two bills Tuesday that will regulate how insurance companies cover prescriptions.

Gov. Cuomo said Tuesday he signed into law two controversial bills regulating insurance companies, including one blocking them from requiring policy-holders to get medication from mail-order pharmacies.

24 US States Look to Enact Arizona Immigration Law HUMA KHAN ABC News 03/04/2011	NY Could Soon Have Toughest Teen Tanning Law in the Country NBC New York 06/16/2010
Undocumented nannies, housekeepers or lawn caretakers in the state of Texas can perhaps breathe easier about deportation. While new legislation in the Texas House of Representatives would make it a state crime to hire undocumented workers, it excludes those employed in single-family households -- in other words, them.	New York State legislators may ban indoor teen tanning this summer. Statewide, minors ages 14 to 18 need parental consent to fake and bake. Kids younger than 14 are banned from tanning under state law
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California aims to be the first US state to register animal abusers 03/05/2010	Same-sex marriage set for big day in federal court Karl Vick The Washington Post 01/10/2010
California lawmakers are pushing a bill that would require the registration of individuals convicted of felony animal abuse. The Golden State would be the first to establish such a record.	LOS ANGELES -- After a run of setbacks at the state level, gay rights advocates will take the campaign for same-sex marriage into a federal courtroom on Monday, starting down a treacherous avenue that ends at a U.S. Supreme Court dominated by conservatives.
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Texas Gov. Perry would pardon wrongly convicted inmate who died in prison PEGGY FIKAC Houston Chronicle 01/07/2010	Montana 3rd US State to Allow Doctor-Assisted Suicide The New York Times 12/31/2009
AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry announced Thursday he would pardon Timothy Cole, a Fort Worth man who died while serving time in prison for a rape he did not commit, as soon as he receives a recommendation from the state Board of Pardons and Paroles.	HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The Montana Supreme Court said Thursday that nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide, making Montana the third state that will allow the procedure.
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Federal court restricts Taser use by police Joel Rubin and Richard Winton Los Angeles Times 12/29/2009	Ohio: 1 lethal injection drug should end lawsuit ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS AP 11/15/2009
A federal appeals court this week ruled that a California police officer can be held liable for injuries suffered by an unarmed man he Tasered during a traffic stop.	COLUMBUS, Ohio — The state's decision to replace a three-drug lethal injection with a powerful dose of one anesthetic is raising the possibility of what may have seemed unthinkable not so long ago: a truce in the long-running legal challenges to death penalty injection across the country.
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