OK Approves HB 1965 The OKLAHOMA Senate approves HB 1965, a bill that would bar Sooner State drivers from sending or reading cell phone text messages while driving. The bill returns to the House (KANSAS CITY STAR). CA Approves AB 147 The CALIFORNIA...
California Assembly Minority Leader Kristin Olsen is a big fan of electrically-motorized skateboards.Unfortunately for her the snazzy boards, which are definitely a few notches up from the man...uh, boy-powered kind yours truly bombed around on as a kid...
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is sporting a new look these days. As Statehouse News Service reports, Baker joined hundreds of others last week in getting a serious buzz cut as part of a fundraiser for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Quincy. The...
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner seems like a guy who needs a hug, some decaf or likely both. Rauner came into office breathing fire and vowing to take names and dismember anyone who gets in his way. Okay, not really that last part but he has definitely been...
The Maryland legislative women’s caucus – officially the Women Legislators of Maryland – has always been open to male lawmakers. It’s just that none have ever wanted to join. At least until now. As the Washington Post reports,...
In The Hopper Number of 2015 Prefiles last week: 1,033 Number of Intros last week: 1,635 Number of Enacted/Adopted last week: 1,445 Number of 2015 Prefiles to date: 20,086 Number of 2015 Intros to date: 101,776 Number...
The week in session States in Regular Session: AK, AL, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, HI, IA, ID, IN, MA, MD, ME, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NV, OH, OK, OR, PR, RI, SC, TN, TX, VT, WA States in Special Session...
(04/10/2015 - 05/01/2015) 04/14/2015 South Carolina Special Election House District 63 04/21/2015 Florida Special Election House District 64 04/28/2015 District of Columbia Special Election Council Wards 4 and 8 ...
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Every day, professionals look for the proverbial ‘needle in a haystack’ when it comes to monitoring the media. LexisNexis Newsdesk is like a powerful magnet that quickly pulls those needles out and arranges them neatly in one place for review...
Last week, Mark Dunn, the due diligence segment leader for Risk and Compliance at LexisNexis, offered his insights during an ISM Webinar entitled “Mitigating Risks and Impact of Sanctions Regimes on Your Supply Chain.” It’s a growing...
Perhaps it began with a cave drawing – one early human trying to quantify the benefits of hunting versus gathering. Soon those cave drawings evolved into maps, then graphs and eventually the infographic was born. One thing is clear – a picture...
When Congress approved the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, the law was hailed as “momentous social legislation” that constituted “the biggest attack on economic inequality” in three decades ( New York Times...
The national uninsured rate dropped 3.5 percent (from 17.3 percent to 13.8 percent) last year, when the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance mandate took effect, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. The five states with the biggest...
States have gotten worse at forecasting revenues over the past three decades, according to a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New York. Between 1987 and 1999 the median error...
An analysis by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer found that the city’s five pension funds have paid over $2 billion in management fees over the past decade with virtually nothing to show for that investment. “We asked a simple...
NY Budget Cap on Yachts As part of its recently passed state budget, NEW YORK capped sales taxes on yachts at 8.25 percent, or $18,975, in most counties, for the stated purpose of leveling the playing field with Florida and other states “so New...
The Democracy Alliance, an organization that advises top Democratic donors, is launching an effort to boost the amount of money being contributed to liberal organizations in the states. The aim of the five-year initiative, called 2020 Vision, is to increase...
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) proposed budget calls for reductions of science staff at the state’s Department of Natural Resources. But administrators at the agency are considering doing away with the agency’s Bureau of Science Services...
Thanks in part to the relative looseness of its gun laws, Texas is already known as a gun-friendly state. But Republican lawmakers who control both chambers of the Legislature are pushing for additional freedoms, including “campus carry” and...
MD Passes Major Changes to Open Records Law Both chambers of MARYLAND’s General Assembly overwhelmingly passed legislation making major changes to the state’s open records law, including the creation of a new ombudsman in the Office of...
Vermont Gov. Pete Shumlin (D) joined with the Vermont Commission on Women to launch an initiative aimed at ensuring women earn equal pay for equal work in the Green Mountain State. Shumlin said the state would be the first employer to sign onto the Vermont...
Alaska Gov. Bill Walker (R) said last week that Medicaid reform without expanding the joint state-federal program to cover more low income residents would be unacceptable to him. His comments came as leaders in the Republican-controlled Legislature showed...
In an effort to combat air pollution in southern OREGON, Gov. Kate Brown (D) announced she will authorize the use of state funds to pay for residents in two downstate counties to swap out their old woodstoves and fireplaces for newer, more efficient models...
MT Approves SB 66 The MONTANA House approves SB 66, which would bar the sale of electronic cigarettes and nicotine liquid to minors. It moves to Gov. Steve Bullock (D), who is expected to sign it into law (GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE). NM Vetoes SB 503...