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19 Apr 2012, 9:36 am by Patrick
 They voted out longstanding Democratic majorities in the State House and Senate, and would have voted out the Governor and the State Dog Catcher if they'd been on the ballot. [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 9:08 am
Yesterday, the Senate Banking Committee of the California Legislature approved a bill that will put a limit on the interest that Buy Here Pay Here car dealers may charge consumers. [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 7:23 am
The New York State Legislature realized a .45 percent commuter income tax was a terrible idea when they repealed it in 1999, so this taxpayer-funded bailout should be dead on arrival. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 9:21 pm by Jessica Mendelson
 Although federal legislation has yet to be passed, state legislatures have begun to address the issue. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 10:30 am by Adam Gillette
  In the mid-1980s, a New London, Wisconsin eighth grade teacher, Lyle Brumm, tried to teach his students about how government works by lobbying the Wisconsin Legislature to pass a bill naming the American Water Spaniel named the official state dog of Wisconsin. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 8:45 am
But if the Maryland legislature ever goes along, it will prove our worst suspicions about our state politics. [read post]
17 Apr 2012, 12:21 pm
After eight years of total Democratic control in Trenton during which property taxes soared by 60% despite record levels of state spending, property tax levies are leveling off under reforms like Cap 2.0 championed by the Governor and Republicans in the Legislature. [read post]
17 Apr 2012, 9:48 am by Michael Schmidt
   New York has just joined the fray as well, with New York State Senator Liz Krueger introducing a bill (S. 6938) that would prohibit employers or their agents from demanding personal social media account information, and expressly state that a refusal to provide such information cannot form the basis of an adverse hiring decision. [read post]
17 Apr 2012, 8:59 am by Bradley Vallerius
In order to illuminate some of the options the legislature is exploring, our report takes care to demonstrate the ways in which S.B. 1463 has adapted from two prior bills in the California legislature last year (S.B. 45 – Steinberg, and S.B. 40 – Correa). [read post]
17 Apr 2012, 8:29 am by Bill Raftery
In the Senate SB 2345 is up for a vote in the Senate Government Operations Committee April 18. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 6:41 am by Bill Raftery
Legislatures Going Out of Session Alaska 4/15 Iowa 4/17 (Per diem expenses end) Floor/Committee Activity of Note April 16 Missouri Senate SB 676 Mandates that any court, arbitration, tribunal, or administrative agency ruling shall be unenforceable if based on a foreign law that does not grant the parties the same rights as the parties have under the United States and Missouri constitutions. [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 12:17 pm by Lee Davis
Bill Haslam allowed House Bill 368/Senate Bill 893, the evolution bill, to become law without his signature. [read post]
14 Apr 2012, 4:56 pm
Long, Editor of CCH Privacy Law in Marketing.Maryland employers would be prohibited from asking employees or applicants to hand over the passwords for their Facebook accounts or other personal social media accounts, if a bill that has passed both houses of the Maryland legislature (Senate Bill 433 and House Bill 964) is signed by the governor. [read post]
13 Apr 2012, 2:24 pm by Adam Gillette
  From what I can tell, the Alabama Senate has not yet voted on the bill. [read post]
13 Apr 2012, 9:03 am by Steve Hall
She was at the statehouse Wednesday night as the state legislature gave final approval to a bill that will make Connecticut the 17th state to repeal capital punishment. [read post]
13 Apr 2012, 8:33 am by Steve Hall
Connecticut is poised to become the 17th state to abolish the death penalty, as least going forward, now that the state House of Representatives has joined the Senate in approving repeal legislation. [read post]
13 Apr 2012, 8:08 am by Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
The Texas Legislature, in its turn, took unnecessary measures to reduce funding to legal-aid offices across the state. [read post]
13 Apr 2012, 7:58 am by Keith Paul Bishop
  Unless either the Assembly or Senate adopts by majority vote a resolution rejecting the Governor’s plan, it becomes effective on the 61st day after it has been given to the Legislature. [read post]
13 Apr 2012, 3:30 am by Erin Kristofco
As discussed in prior blog posts, the Bill actually hurts consumers and roofers.Senate Bill 38 was written by insurance companies and it being pushed through the Legislature by State Farm’s lobbyists. [read post]