The University of VIRGINIA imposes several new rules on fraternities and sororities, including a ban on kegs of beer and pre-mixed alcohol drinks at all social functions. Other mandates include a requirement that at least three members of the organization...
Less than an hour after being sworn in, ARIZONA Gov. Doug Ducey (R) issued Executive Order 1 2015, which bars all state agencies from issuing new regulations on businesses without approval from his office. The order also requires those agencies to review...
The price of crude sank to $46.83 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange this month, the lowest level in more than five years. With Alaska deriving about 90 percent of its budget from oil taxes and royalties, it may have to pull about $3.5 billion...
Colorado taxpayers could receive $200 million in tax refunds this year and $187 million next, thanks to the state's constitutional cap on tax revenue growth, known as the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, or TABOR. But those refunds would come even though...
KENTUCKY Gov. Steve Beshear (D) announces the state will furnish three urban Bluegrass State hospitals with a total of 2,000 naloxone kits to send home with heroin overdose patients. Naloxone, which has proven to be very effective in stopping and reversing...
Upcoming Stories Here are some of the topics you will see covered in upcoming issues of the State Net Capitol Journal: - Common Core - State worker exodus - Legalizing pot
Wind power companies have invested more than $532 million in MAINE over the last eight years and are providing 1,560 jobs a year, mostly in construction, according to a report commissioned by wind-power advocacy group Wind For Maine. The report also said...
None of which apparently bothers Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who took a poke at Christie via Twitter by posting a picture of a Green Bay Packers fan wearing a "cheesehead" — an orange thing shaped like a triangular wedge of cheddar —...
California's High-Speed Rail Authority officially began construction last week on the first stretch of the state's planned $68-billion bullet train project. The groundbreaking at the future site of a station in downtown Fresno comes seven years...
Ceremonies last week in the Missouri Senate kicking off the 2015 session were disrupted by protestors in the upper gallery chanting "no justice, no peace" and "black lives matter," rallying cries from the protests in Ferguson following...
Minnesota lawmakers may opt to complete all the work planned for the 2015-16 legislative session this year and take next year off, when renovations will shut down much of the Capitol. Senate Minority Leader David Hann (R) said the Legislature used to...
Clear leaders emerged in TEXAS' three special legislative elections last Tuesday, but none of the candidates appeared to have received the 50-percent voter support needed to win outright. So all three of the races — in House District 17, House...
Former major league pitcher Curt Schilling was never shy about running a fastball in high and tight, nor has he ever been hesitant to run his yap until people practically cover their ears and beg for mercy. His latest round of self-serving bloviation...
New technologies from a variety of innovative industries and the same old partisan gridlock in Washington D.C. will drive state agendas in 2015. In case you missed it, the story can be found on our Web site at http://www.statenet.com/capitol_journal/12...
At any given time, State Net tracks tens of thousands of bills in all 50 states, US Congress, and the District of Columbia. Here's a snapshot of what's in the legislative works: Number of 2014 Prefiles last week: 128 Number of 2015 Prefiles last...
NEW YORK Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signs AB 739, which bars Empire State residents from adorning their pets with tattoos or piercings. The law, which exempts procedures done for medical reasons or identification, takes effect in 120 days (STATE NET, NEWYORK...
The United States Supreme Court declines to hear a challenge to an appeals court ruling that blocked an ARIZONA law that prohibited women from taking the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone after the seventh week of pregnancy. The court declined to overrule...
The MICHIGAN House unanimously approves SB 926, a bill that would prohibit the use of a drone aircraft to interfere or harass a hunter, and impose a misdemeanor sentence of up to one year in jail and a $2,500 fine for more than one violation. It has returned...
President Obama signs HR 83, a $1.6 trillion dollar spending bill that, among other things, bars the Department of Justice from spending any federal funds to arrest or prosecute operators of medical marijuana facilities in states where medicinal marijuana...
The United States Supreme Court allows to stand an order from the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals barring ARIZONA from denying driver's licenses to young immigrants authorized to stay in the U.S. and work under President Obama's deferred-deportation...
President Barack Obama makes permanent a 2010 executive order deeming ALASKA's Bristol Bay off limits to oil and gas exploration. The president's original order was set to expire in 2017, but now can only be overturned by a new executive directive...
The MICHIGAN Senate endorses HB 6074, legislation that would codify that athletes at Wolverine State public colleges and universities are not school employees and therefore not eligible to form a union. The measure moves to Gov. Rick Snyder (R) for review...
The OHIO Senate gives final approval to SB 177, which would allow Buckeye State judges to include household or companion animals in court-ordered protection orders for domestic abuse victims. The measure moves to Gov. John Kasich (R), who is expected...
Here are some of the topics you will see covered in upcoming issues of the State Net Capitol Journal: - Common Core - State worker exodus - Legalizing pot
MONTANA Gov. Steve Bullock (D) announced that a Republican, Rep. Jeff Welborn, will carry his legislation seeking to allocate $380 million for Treasure State infrastructure projects in the upcoming legislative session (MONTANA GOVERNOR'S OFFICE)....