healthcare

The House Select Committee on Certificate of Need Process and Related Hospital Issues meet today to continue hearings on the Certificate of Need (CON). Presenting to the Committee ... Keep Reading

The House voted to override the Governor's veto of SB781, the Regulatory Reform Act of 2011. The new law is an attempt to take some of the burden of rules off businesses and ... Keep Reading

First Governor Beverly Perdue  vetoed SB532 that would have made changes at the Employment Security Commission (ESC) and put it under the director of the Secretary of Commerce. ... Keep Reading

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit heard a suit filed by the Thomas More Law Center challenging Obamacare today.  So far, the consensus by the oral arguments is that ... Keep Reading

The House Finance Committee passed a bill (HB289) which would authorize several new special license plates, including one reading "Choose Life." That's the one, sponsored by ... Keep Reading

The Senate passed a $19.7 billion compromise budget by a vote of 31-19. Democratic amendments went down by the same county. Those amendments included restoring funding for the ... Keep Reading

Senate leaders substituted language in an old House bill (HB578) with another version of changes to the State Health Plan. The House approved the changes and the bill was sent by ... Keep Reading

Republican legislative leaders filed an Amicus brief Wednesday, May 11, urging the U.S. Court of Appeals to uphold Florida's claim Predsident Obama's "Patient Protection and ... Keep Reading

A House appropriations panel is consideringh HB854 which would require a doctor or qualified personnel to fully explain the medical risk of an abortion. It would also mandate that ... Keep Reading

The House Finance Committee approved a package of almost $100 million in new or higher fees. That's the last bit of business on the House budget as the package heads back to the ... Keep Reading