New York Limits Drug Price Surprises, Bans Hotel Mini-Plastics

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New York will bar health plans from hiking prescription drug prices mid-year, ban single-use plastic shampoo and lotion bottles in hotels, slash allowable lead-level limits in public schoolwater fountains, and ramp up testing for PFAS-contaminated drinking water statewide.In a flurry of pre-Christmas bill signings addressing a range of social issues and environmental ills, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Thursday also eased the process for residents to obtainabsentee ballots to vote and ordered the state to track hate-crime perpetrators and victims.