I have to do a project and don't understand what they are wanting me to do here is the question
Search for the local, state, and federal healthcare legislations and regulations that are specific to you area as it applies to the medical assisting profession.
Once you find the legislation and regulatins specific to your area, identify three legislatice items that applies to your area explain how each one will affect your role as amedical ssistant.

1) Search for the local, state, and federal healthcare legislations and regulations that are specific to you area as it applies to the medical assisting profession.

2) Identify three legislative items that apply to your area. Explain how each one will affect your role as a medical assistant.

If you go to your public library and ask a reference librarian for help, he will dig out the laws you need to cite. Some of the laws may make it easy to be a medical assistant and some may make it difficult. That's the "explain how" part.