SNAPSHOTS

Delay proposed: The Obama administration is proposing a one-year delay in a feature of the new health care law intended to give workers at small companies health plan choices similar to what employees of large businesses enjoy.

Starting Jan. 1 small companies with up to 100 workers will be able to buy coverage through new health insurance marketplaces called exchanges. These exchanges are the small-business version of new markets also opening up for individuals.

As first set up, employees would have chosen their plans. Now, for the first year, the employer will choose for the company.

Officials say the year is needed to smooth introduction of the program.

No statue of limitations: Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law Monday a bill that ends the statute of limitations on rape and aggravated sodomy.

Dentist may be charged: Citing the scope of a public health scare involving thousands of patients of an Oklahoma oral surgeon, the head of the state’s dentistry board said Monday she wants prosecutors to consider criminal charges. Dozens of Dr. W. Scott Harrington’s 7,000 patients were tested in Tulsa for hepatitis B and C and the virus that causes AIDS.

New stand: U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said Monday he favors gay marriage, the latest of several lawmakers to change positions on the issue now before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Oldest American dies: Elsie Thompson, the oldest person in the U.S., has died at age 113, just weeks before her 114th birthday. Her church in Clearwater, Fla., said she died March 21. Thompson was born April 5, 1899, in Beaver Falls, Pa.