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• Texas Senate Poised to Pass Abortion Bill to Perry
• Jul. 12, 2013
• Senators scheduled a vote on a pivotal abortion bill Friday afternoon, one day after a Senate committee gave its approval on a partisan 6-3 vote

• Tests Show Few Utah Welfare Applicants Use Drugs
• Jul. 12, 2013
• Since Utah's new law requiring drug screening for welfare applicants went into effect last August, the state has spent more than $26,000 looking for drug users among 4,400 applicants. Of those applicants, about 400 were identified after taking a written test as having a "reasonable likelihood" that they were using drugs.

• Home to Highest Homeless Rate, Philly Lays Out Plan to Address it
• Jul. 12, 2013
• In an unusually frank document, the city has laid out stark statistical descriptions of poverty in Philadelphia, accompanied by a plan to try to deal with the problem.

• N.J. Supreme Court Blocks Christie's Plan to Abolish Affordable-Housing Agency
• Jul. 11, 2013
• Gov. Chris Christie cannot shut down an independent state agency charged with building affordable housing for New Jersey’s poorest residents, the state Supreme Court ruled today. The decision deals a blow to the Republican governor’s agenda and shields other independent agencies from similar power grabs.

• Abortion Restrictions Pass Texas House, Likely to Pass Senate
• Jul. 10, 2013
• Members voted 96-49 on the measure, which now sends the one of the nation's most restrictive abortion laws in the country to the Texas Senate, where passage appears certain.

• Ohio Governor Urges Legislature to Return to Reconsider Medicaid Expansion
• Jul. 10, 2013
• A week after state lawmakers adjourned for summer recess, Gov. John Kasich and other supporters of expanding Medicaid packed into the Statehouse yesterday to urge legislators to return to Columbus to extend tax-funded health coverage to tens of thousands poor, uninsured Ohioans.

• States Use Sports Teams to Inform Public About Health Exchanges
• Jul. 10, 2013
• In an effort to get the word out about their new health exchanges, Massachusetts and Colorado are making use of local sports teams.

• Texas House Provisionally Approves Abortion Law
• Jul. 10, 2013
• The Texas House on Tuesday night provisionally approved tough new abortion restrictions, making good on a third attempt to pass the measure this year.

• Study: ACA Leaves Current Medicaid Patients Out of Better Preventive Care
• Jul. 9, 2013
• The requirements in the Affordable Care Act pertain only to private insurers, Medicare and Medicaid expansion programs.

• Judge Delays Enforcement of Wisconsin's New Abortion Law
• Jul. 9, 2013
• After a hastily called hearing, a federal judge Monday put a 10-day freeze on a new state law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have hospital-admitting privileges.

• North Carolina Abortion Bill Needs More Debate, Says Gov. McCrory
• Jul. 9, 2013
• Gov. Pat McCrory said Monday he wants legislators to take a closer look at abortion regulations in North Carolina before acting further on legislation that would place higher standards on clinics and more responsibilities on physicians.

• Hundreds Testify in Texas Abortion Hearing
• Jul. 9, 2013
• Hundreds of witnesses from both sides of the abortion issue tried Monday to sway a Senate committee as a sweeping abortion bill remained on a fast track in the Legislature.

• After Marriage Ruling, Attorneys Brace for Gay Divorce
• Jul. 8, 2013
• The flip side of gay marriage is, of course, gay divorce. With the legal resumption last week of same-sex marriage in California, the state's family law attorneys are gearing up for what happens when some of those marriages fail.

• Lawsuits Immediately Follow Signing of Wisconsin Abortion Bill
• Jul. 8, 2013
• Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Friday requiring doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges, and abortion clinics responded by immediately suing state officials over the measure.

• California Considers Becoming 2nd State to Give Condoms to Prisoners
• Jul. 8, 2013
• California lawmakers are considering a bill requiring officials to make condoms available to state prison inmates as a way of limiting the spread of HIV and other diseases.