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S. 1931 and H.R. 10744. Bills to amend the District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.--S. 2480. A bill to amend the District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage Control Act to prohibit the sales of alcoholic beverages to persons under twenty-one years of age

Focusing exclusively on the functional rather than the territorial level, this book reveals that the reshaping of the state in western Europe involves different policies across Europe and conflicting tendencies in the impact of the various reform programmes. Whilst the state may be in retreat in some respects, its activity may be increasing in others. And nowhere, not even in Britain, has its key decision-making role been seriously undermined.

In this article, we ask to what extent immigrants and people with disabilities are excluded from labor markets and to what extent they are exposed to poverty in different European welfare state regimes. Our starting points lie in the United Nation's and European Union's agendas for sustainable development, in research on welfare regimes, and in the social investment paradigm. We utilize the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) to run multilevel random effect models to measure the extent to which there are regime-specific differences in risk of poverty and months out of work. Our results show that within-regime dif-ferences are often larger than between-regime differences. The implementation of the social in-vestment paradigm, emphasizing the role of a decent level of income transfers combined with extensive public services, fortifies the fiscal and social sustainability of the welfare state.

Digital health in the United States is rapidly and continuously evolving to enhance patient care and revolutionize health care delivery. This technology offers substantial promise to both patients and providers, but lacks a comprehensive regulatory structure to ensure adequate safety and privacy. While the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Federal Trade Commission regulate portions of the digital health industry, their oversight is incomplete, with numerous digital health companies falling between the cracks and assuming an unregulated status. This article analyzes the state of digital health legal and regulatory oversight in the United States, discusses how state legislatures and industry organizations have worked to fill existing legal gaps, and presents strategies for encouraging compliance for unregulated entities.

This article evaluates the effectiveness of traditional state primary classification schemes as tools for the study of state primary systems. It calls into question the traditional categories (open, closed, and blanket) and analyzes the validity of research based on these categories. It is also argued that alternative classification schemes fail to overcome problems endemic to the traditional scheme. The authors introduce as a corrective the notion of "subject-relevance"—the notion that primary classifications must be made through the use of criteria relevant to specific end-view studies of state primaries. The authors conclude that state primary classification schemes have an acceptable heuristic function only if the requirement of subject-relevance is followed in their construction and only if the limitations of subject-relevance are acknowledged in their future use.