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19 Oct 2011, 9:35 am
Since SB 398 was passed by the state legislature and signed by the governor as an “urgency” measure, it is now the active law of the land in California. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 9:17 am
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York has introduced legislature Friday that would help many children in foster care find homes by ending the discrimination against gay, hopeful adoptive parents. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 11:18 am
Live coverage of the Senate Judiciary Committee e-filing presentation can be found here. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 5:12 am
It strikes me as outright bizarre that one state agency is refusing to contract with another one when the Legislature explicitly told them to. [read post]
15 Oct 2011, 9:54 am
He resigned from the Court to take Sam Houston's place as United States Senator, when Houston resigned because he refused to support Texas' withdrawal from the Union. [read post]
14 Oct 2011, 7:22 am
The first is an Article 73 “bill of address” The governor with consent of the council may remove any commissioned officer for reasonable cause upon the address of both houses of the legislature, provided nevertheless that the cause for removal shall be stated fully and substantially in the address and shall not be a cause which is a sufficient ground for impeachment, and provided further that no officer shall be so removed unless he shall have had an opportunity to be… [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 4:12 pm
The senate is scheduled to vote on the bill next week. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 4:05 pm
Golden said the bill will be introduced in the Senate and Assembly when the legislature returns to session in January. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 12:08 pm
Those states aren't a unified bunch, though, as state legislatures made modifications to the UTSA and state courts adopted various interpretations of even the same provisions. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 11:41 am
HT Politics reports that Republican leaders in the state Legislature agree that there is a need to reform the state's universities. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 11:06 am
Legislatures are split on whether to support this law. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 10:01 am
The Missouri Legislature will consider legislation to cancel the state’s 2012 presidential primary. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 8:20 am
To the contrary, the Supreme Court very rarely invalidates legislation or agency regulations: about 0.6 percent of all federal laws are struck down; 0.5 percent of federal regulations; and 0.05 percent of all state laws — altogether the Court invalidates about three out of every 5,000 laws passed by Congress and state legislatures every year.As Professor Adler and others pointed out, it is difficult to objectively measure the Supreme Court’s activity in… [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 8:07 am
In August, the Illinois State legislature enacted an amendment to the Public Construction Bond Act (the "Act"), the substance of which amounts to nothing more than an additional burden for the unwary or unsophisticated subcontractor that provides labor and/or materials under a contract with the State (or one of its political subdivisions). [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 5:28 am
That history supports the view that the Legislature, for whatever reason, failed to include ATM cards within its expanded definition of credit card. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 12:43 pm
Numerous state legislatures in 2011 that have a version of merit selection (Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma) or have considered adopting merit selection (Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin) have put in provisions for Senate confirmation. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 10:55 am
“I was stunned by the report,” said Loni Hancock, a Democratic state senator from Oakland and a member of the senate budget committee. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 10:09 am
Amendments are ratified by legislatures (or state conventions), not by referenda. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 5:23 am
The Constitution derives its democratic pedigree from the state conventions that ratified it. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 12:00 am
State Senator Joe Zarelli introduced a bill in the legislature that does not restrict the collectively bargaining rights of public employees, but rather Senator Zarelli's bill rejects the collectively bargaining agreement that Governor Gregoire reached with state employees by challenging specific terms of the collective bargaining agreement. [read post]
