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When a new federal law takes effect Jan. 1, Georgia patients with health insurance might finally stop getting many types of surprise medical bills. All sides abhor surprise medical bills: bills that happen when a properly insured patient finds out too late that a member of their care team was not in their insurance plan’s network. In such cases, the patient can be stuck in the middle — and st...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed Senate Bill 1780C on Dec. 22, 2021, which allows the state's notaries to conduct remote online notarizations (RON). The law is slated to be effective on June 20, 2022. New York joins more than 37 states that already allow for RONs. When New York notaries start completing RONs next year, California (which has pending RON legislation) and several other key stat...

Annie Lane writes the Dear Annie advice column. Dear Annie: I am in an interracial relationship and am a stepparent to a 7-year-old daughter. When COVID-19 came, my mother-in-law was without a job and in between places. We have only two bedrooms, one for us and one for my stepdaughter. My mother-in-law had no place to go, so we offered her our couch. My husband, who was taking care of her fin...

PROVIDENCE — From new restrictions on use of plastic straws to a $40 cap on co-pays for insulin, a passel of new laws take effect in Rhode Island on New Year's Day. Most were given delayed start dates to let people and industries — such as the hotel, restaurant and health-insurance industries — prepare themselves and their workers for the new laws. In other cases, the reasons for the delay a...

The Safe Outdoor Dog Act goes into effect on Jan. 18. The Safe Outdoor Dog Act goes into effect on Jan. 18. It closes the loophole that required animal control officers and law enforcement to wait 24 hours before helping a tethered dog in distress, outlines proper protection from the elements, requires dogs to have access to drinkable water and prohibits the use of chain restraints. In 2015, ...

Portsmouth mom fights into 2022 as RI becomes only state with no cottage food law  newportri.com

The death of Anton Black in police custody prompted support for a new law opening access to police disciplinary files, and won support of his parents, Antone Black and Jenal Black, shown at a September rally. But more than two months after Anton's Law went into affect, compliance has been spotty. (Gail Burton/AP) When the Maryland General Assembly passed the landmark Anton’s Law, it meant to ...

An attorney who has been unsuccessfully fighting mask mandates and COVID-19 policies in schools in the Seacoast and across the state has temporarily lost his law license. The state Supreme Court suspended the law license of Robert Fojo, barring him from practicing law in New Hampshire on Dec. 21 over allegations he mishandled nearly $100,000 in client funds, according to court documents. In ...

Bishop Jonathan Owhe and wife Olutoyin Owhe in front of their New Cassel home on Tuesday. Olutoyin Owhe said the housing law amendments were well-received in the community. Credit: Howard Schnapp New Cassel residents are breathing a sigh of relief after a local law, which targeted illegal housing and overcrowding in the area, was recently amended after years of homeowners calling for official...

The killings triggered protests against the law which gives the armed forces sweeping powers to conduct raids, warrantless searches and open fire, with broad protection from prosecution. But the six-month extension issued by India's ministry of home affairs said the government believed the state was "in a disturbed and dangerous condition." "The use of armed forces in aid of the civil power i...