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15 Mar 2013, 1:34 pm
In the US today, 9 states and the District of Colombia have legalized same-sex marriages and 9 states (counting Colorado, where the legislature passed a civil union bill on March 13) have legalized some form of civil union or domestic partnership for same-sex couples. [read post]
15 Mar 2013, 11:45 am
Companion legislation, S. 1921 by Senator Raymond Lesniak, D-Union, has already passed the Senate, and if it’s enacted into law, New Jersey will become the tenth state to end gestation crate confinement. [read post]
15 Mar 2013, 9:02 am
Reach out to your State Senator or House Member if they are on the judiciary committee and ask them to support the legislation.Leave a comment below if you have an opinion how whether the legislation would be "smart of crime." [read post]
14 Mar 2013, 11:30 pm
A Republican state senator who authored a failed 2011 raw milk bill says he will be introducing a new proposal for consideration by the Wisconsin Legislature, which is meeting in year-round session in Madison. [read post]
14 Mar 2013, 3:51 pm
For example, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence oversees intelligence activities. [read post]
14 Mar 2013, 11:31 am
If you think Florida laws need to be changed, call your state representative and senator and ask them to initiate and support the changes you want. [read post]
14 Mar 2013, 7:25 am
As it stands now, there are eight distracted driving bills in the state's Legislature. [read post]
14 Mar 2013, 5:30 am
The bill passed the state House unanimously, but was postponed indefinitely in the Senate once cooler heads prevailed. [read post]
12 Mar 2013, 10:01 pm
The Legislature in Little Rock is scheduled to adjourn on Thursday. [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 3:25 pm
For the first time, the Washington legislature has an online form to accept e-comments on pending legislation.According to their website:E-Comments is a feature the Legislature is testing during the 2013 Session that lets you send comments on a bill to the members of the Legislature. [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 1:58 pm
It will now be ruled on by a state senate committee. [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 12:19 pm
In a time when Michigan law enforcement is making big steps to preventing teenage delinquency, the state’s legislature is also contributing in their own way. [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 9:43 am
Yesterday, a Florida State Senate Senate committee unanimously approved Senate Bill 52 (“Bill 52”), which would impose a statewide ban on texting while driving. [read post]
10 Mar 2013, 7:00 pm
Grits had mentioned the other day that, on Tuesday, the Senate Criminal Justice Committee will take up Chairman John Whitmire's SB 825 making sustained grievances related to prosecutorial misconduct public records and extending the statute of limitations for State Bar sanctions when prosecutors hide exculpatory evidence. [read post]
10 Mar 2013, 9:23 am
In a close call, they should trust the judgment of those who are elected, even if the judges might have made a different law had they been serving in a state legislature or in Congress. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 1:44 pm
On the last day of bill filing for the 83rd Legislature, state Senators Rodney Ellis and Robert Duncan have filed a new reciprocal discovery bill, SB 1611, that imposes fewer disclosure requirements on the defense than the earlier SB 91. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 1:24 pm
Mike Beebe's veto of a bill that would ban most abortions after 12 weeks, just days after the state Senate also voted to do so, making the bill law. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 7:38 am
“corporate money is not speech”; and state vs. federal powers in the cases of immigration and health care. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 6:30 am
The Legislature of the State of Texas declares that a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition manufactured in Texas, as described by Chapter 2003, Business & Commerce Code, as added by this Act, that remains within the borders of Texas: (1) has not traveled in interstate commerce; and (2) is not subject to federal law or federal regulation, including registration, under the authority of the United States Congress to regulate interstate commerce. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 4:53 am
The Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee has finally posted the agenda for its first meeting of the 83rd Legislature. [read post]
