At least one state, Kansas, adopted a law this year declaring English its official language and eliminating requirements that official documents be produced in Spanish as well as English, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The rules announced yesterday took into account legislation signed earlier this week by President Bush by eliminating requirements that executives personally certify the quality of financial disclosures and that auditors be hired by companies' audit committees rather than by management.
"Obamacare repeal," would have made it harder for many suffering from mental illness to get treatment by slashing Medicaid and eliminating requirements that private insurers provide mental health coverage.
The CDC specifically recommends eliminating requirements for specific consent to HIV testing and pretest counseling, a significant departure from previous HIV testing policy [1], [2].
Critics also say that the law encouraged landlords to do quick lead-control projects without strict rules and eliminated requirements for specially trained crews to do the work and for follow-up testing to detect residual lead dust.
Other proposals would eliminate requirements for hospitals to keep detailed logs of infection control problems and would relieve certain organ transplant centers of the need to certify the blood type of organ donors.
The Treasury statement said the action, which eliminates requirements for special exemption licenses on a case-by-case basis, reflected what it called "this administration's commitment to reinforcing ties between the Iranian and American people".
It would also eliminate requirements that insurers offer uniform premiums that vary only by age, tobacco use and geography.
Bike advocates say these efforts have helped, but because they have not eliminated requirements to produce traffic studies and hold public hearings, they haven't fixed the problem.
Loosen or eliminate requirements on insurance benefits and the people who need coverage for mental illness, or rehabilitative services, or having a baby may have a hard time finding coverage.
