This legal map shows laws that regulate various aspects of non-hospital facilities that provide office-based surgery, procedures and/or anesthesia/sedation.
This legal map shows laws requiring facilities where abortions are performed to be licensed as ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) and meet regulations governing ASCs in effect as of August 31, 2020.
This study uses policy surveillance to compare the prevalence and characteristics of facility laws governing abortions specifically targeted regulation of abortion providers (TRAP) laws; office-based surgeries, procedures, sedation or anesthesia (office interventions) generally (OBS laws); and other procedures.
This map shows laws that require facilities where abortions are performed to be regulated under a distinct abortion facility licensing (AFL) provision, and/or meet special requirements regulating abortion providers. This page identifies variation in states that have AFL requirements in effect as of August 31, 2020.
This map identifies and displays key features of state-level landlord-tenant laws across all 50 states and the District of Columbia in effect August 1, 2017 through August 1, 2019.
This map identifies and displays key features of city nuisance property ordinances across the 40 most populous cities in the United States in effect from August 1, 2017 through August 1, 2019.
So far, it looks as if law has reduced the damage but not turned back the tide in the opioid epidemic. Given that most states now have adopted some version of Good Samaritan, naloxone access, and PDMP laws, where do lawmakers go next?