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12 Apr 2014, 6:11 am by Walter Olson
Summary of bills passed in legislature [Washington Post] With legislative session over, bills that did not meet with favorable action include “source of income discrimination,” i.e., requiring landlords to accept Section 8 [unfavorable report, earlier]; curbing competition among hospices [unfavorable report, earlier] Dining allergy bill gets to conference committee stage, requirement that restaurants keep trained allergy advisers on hand watered down to county option… [read post]
25 May 2021, 2:55 am by Colby Pastre
States were never intended to tax international income, and doing so raises serious constitutional issues in many states. [read post]
29 Jul 2022, 9:07 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  The key issue that seems to make even skeptics somewhat optimistic about the ECA update is that it would make clear that a state legislature must abide by the laws that exist on Election Day, which means that a rogue Republican-dominated legislature could not pass a law the day after a presidential election saying, "Our voters just voted for the Democrat, but the US Constitution gives us the power to determine our state's electors, and we hereby… [read post]
21 Jun 2012, 9:20 am by Steve Hall
Senate passes rewrite of Racial Justice Act. [read post]
8 Mar 2016, 1:46 pm by CJLF Staff
VA Senate Passes Death Penalty Bill:  A bill passed Monday in the Virginia Senate allows for use of the electric chair in executions when lethal-injection drugs are not available. [read post]
25 Jan 2024, 10:15 am by Unknown
" Related post: - Regional Focus: United States (8 Jan. 2024) [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 8:34 am by Steve Hall
The state Department of Correctional Services has responded to a letter from three state senators asking for details about the department's recent purchase from an Indian company of one of the drugs used in Nebraska's lethal-injection protocol. [read post]
24 Oct 2017, 11:55 am by Alysha Stein-Manes
As many of these laws have only been enacted in the last three years, Governor Brown wants to provide the state legislature more time to determine whether current protections are effective before adding more requirements into the law. [read post]
24 Oct 2017, 11:55 am by Alysha Stein-Manes
As many of these laws have only been enacted in the last three years, Governor Brown wants to provide the state legislature more time to determine whether current protections are effective before adding more requirements into the law. [read post]
2 Feb 2009, 7:57 am
Washington DC has more residents than Wyoming, whose residents have two Senators and one Representative.The District of Columbia is the only federal district in the Americas whose residents are denied equal voting representation in the national legislature. [read post]
15 Jul 2021, 9:55 am by Kevin Kaufman
The Senate-passed budget, S.B. 105, would reduce the state’s flat individual income tax rate from 5.25 to 3.99 percent by 2026 and phase out the corporate income tax altogether by 2028. [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 11:35 am by Lyle Denniston
The state legislature was not in session when the redistricting map was nullified in court, the challengers noted, but it has now begun work, and already 13 of the 34 members of the state senate have joined in sponsoring a new plan “that meets all federal and state constitutional requirements.”  The sponsors, it argued, come from all parts of the state, and even include the state senator who is married to one of… [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 9:02 am by Steve Hall
Pfeifer, a moderate Republican, was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee as Ohio debated the capital punishment bill that became law in 1981. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 4:47 pm
Today was the opening day of the State of Hawaii, Twenty-Seventh Legislature 2013-2014. [read post]
21 May 2020, 7:50 am by Ellie Rushforth
We came close to getting rid of the old abortion ban this past year with a narrow loss in the legislature. [read post]
22 Jun 2020, 3:00 am by Jay Butchko
  In November 2019, Florida state Senator Victor Torres of Kissimmee introduced a bill that would require workers’ compensation to cover PTSD in correctional officers when it results from trauma that the officers experienced at work. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 1:19 pm by KH
Posted in Legislative Oversight, Rules Review, State Rulemaking [read post]
29 Sep 2008, 3:21 pm
  However, the California legislature forgot to add texting to that ban. [read post]