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31 Jul 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
  But signature-gathering isn’t the only way to get a measure on the ballot in California; if 2/3 of each house of the state legislature votes to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot, the amendment is offered to the electorate. [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 3:00 pm by Maria
California Senate pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg is carrying CA Senate Bill 520 through the Legislature to amend Education Code provisions relating to student instruction to create an incentive grant program to assist faculty and individual campuses of the University of California (UC), the California State University (CSU), and the California Community Colleges (CCC), to provide increased opportunities for students to take online courses. [read post]
30 Jul 2013, 5:08 pm by Will Baude
If one thinks that the legislature is constitutionally permitted to regulate access to marriage in this way (a big if, these days!) [read post]
26 Jul 2013, 4:12 am by David DePaolo
The way to reform workers' compensation in North Carolina, or any state for that matter, is through the legislature. [read post]
25 Jul 2013, 6:05 pm by Law Offices of David L. Freidberg, P.C.
  However, with a Senate vote of 41-17 and a House vote of 77-31, the Legislature attained the three-fifths majority necessary to override the veto and enact the law. [read post]
24 Jul 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The recent Supreme Court decision invalidating Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act has, similarly, been followed immediately by Republican-dominated state legislatures’ doing everything they can to repeal the efforts that were made in the Sixties to advance the cause of electoral reform (especially with respect to voting by racial and ethnic minorities). [read post]
24 Jul 2013, 2:24 pm by Erik Weibust
  There are currently three bills pending in the Massachusetts legislature that could affect the enforceability of non-compete agreements in the Commonwealth:  Senator Brownsberger and Representative Ehrlich’s compromise bill and two bills that would prohibit non-compete agreements altogether. [read post]
24 Jul 2013, 5:42 am by Susan Brenner
  He noted that “[i]n the 1986 Senate report, the Senators stated that the reasoning behind changing the language was only `to simplify the language’ and not to change the scope of the coverage as alleged by” Cave. [read post]
23 Jul 2013, 8:56 am by James P. Yudes, Esq.
  Senate Bill S 2750 and Assembly Bill A 3909, however, represent a departure from the State Legislature’s long-standing tradition of allowing the law on alimony to develop and evolve in the court system. [read post]
23 Jul 2013, 7:36 am
  Introduced by Representative Stephen Kulik and Senator Daniel Wolf back in February, this bill marks an effort to overhaul 1970’s era Massachusetts state laws governing municipal zoning, subdivision control, and planning. [read post]
21 Jul 2013, 8:17 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Hughes and Senators Hinojosa and Estes' legislation this spring - if that had become law I'd have shut up about it about it by now! [read post]
20 Jul 2013, 11:55 am by JB
  Different states get very different amounts of funding in various federal programs, largely as a result of logrolling and the political strength of small-state Senators. [read post]
18 Jul 2013, 10:56 pm by briadm
However, the bill received broad support in both houses of the state legislature. [read post]