PHLP Issue Briefs

PHLP Issue
Briefs are short papers summarizing research of laws that impact public
health in the STLT community. These Issue Briefs were prepared by PHLP
attorneys, who are available to provide technical assistance on these
topics.

Selected Issues regarding ERISA, Health Benefit Plans, and State Laws that Address Health System Transformation  [PDF - 272KB]
Summary
of responses to technical assistance requests PHLP received regarding
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and its
relationship to health benefit plans and state laws that address health
system transformation

Pseudoephedrine: Legal Efforts To Make It a Prescription-Only Drug  [PDF - 188KB]
An
overview of legal efforts at the federal, state, and local levels to
limit access to pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient used to make
methamphetamine

Summary
of the Internal Revenue Service’s April 5, 2013, Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking on Community Health Needs Assessments for Charitable
Hospitals  [PDF - 188KB]Summarizes
proposed regulations that provided guidance to charitable hospital
organizations on the 501(r) Community Health Needs Assessment
requirements and related excise tax and reporting requirements

Preemption and Local Public Health Law  [PDF - 152KB]
An
overview of the legal doctrine of preemption, including a definition,
the use of preemption as a strategy, and methods for local governments
to address preemption

American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Hunting and Fishing Rights  [PDF - 166KB]
An
overview about key legal doctrines courts have developed to explain
off-reservation AI/AN hunting and fishing rights. These doctrines are
significant in a public health context because many tribal communities
rely on traditional foods for subsistence.

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