At least four states - Indiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina and New Jersey - have introduced legislation this year dealing with motor vehicle subscription services, according to LexisNexis State Net’s legislative tracking system. Indiana and North...
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed a series of far-reaching bills last week aimed at reducing the rising cost of prescription drugs and boosting the use of renewable energy across the Pine Tree State. Mills called the rising cost of prescription...
CA Votes to Ban Use of Motorized Scooters Citing a string of accidents, the BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA City Council votes to ban the use of motorized scooters in the city for six months. The Council said it plans to work with scooter companies to develop...
Here are some of the topics you may see covered in upcoming issues of the State Net Capitol Journal: - Right to Try - Right to work - Legalizing pot
CA Governor Signs SB 785 Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signs SB 785 , which prevents lawyers from revealing the immigration status of crime victims and witnesses in open court unless a judge rules the information relevant to the case (LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)...
Connecticut Governor Signs HB 7125 CONNECTICUT Gov. Ned Lamont (D) signs HB 7125 , which among several things requires that health insurers not place more stringent limits on mental health and substance use disorder benefits than for medical and surgical...
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States in Regular Session: CA, DC, DE, IL, LA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PR, RI, SC, TN, US, WI States in Special Session: CA "b", VA "a" States in Recess: KS, PA States currently prefiling for 2015 Session: MT States...
In The Hopper Number of 2015 Prefiles last week: 444 Number of Intros last week: 2,948 Number of Enacted/Adopted last week: 1,850 Number of 2015 Prefiles to date: 20,530 Number of 2015 Intros to date: 104,724 Number...
Things are certainly different for kids these days. As NBC News reports , Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill last month that allows students to take “mental health days” the same way they would for a case of the flu. Now hold your nasty...
At least 26 states have introduced bills this session dealing with the collection and use of biometric information, such as fingerprints, speech patterns or gait, according to data from the National Conference of State Legislatures and LexisNexis State...
If politics appears at times to be a race to see who can be the most absurd, that’s because it often is. Case in point this week comes from Mississippi, where GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. Robert Foster refused to allow a reporter from Mississippi...
OR Senate Approves HB 2005 The OREGON Senate approves HB 2005 , which would grant workers up to 12 weeks of paid time off that they could also use to recuperate from their own serious illness, care for new adopted or foster children, or deal with domestic...
IL Governor Signs SB 1852 ILLINOIS Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signs SB 1852 , which requires Prairie State sterilization facilities to prevent leaks of ethylene oxide into surrounding neighborhoods and reduce legally allowable pollution emitted through...
(04/17/2015 - 05/08/2015) 04/21/2015 Florida Special Election House District 64 Texas Special Election House 124 04/28/2015 District of Columbia Special Election Council Wards 4 and 8 New Hampshire Special Election...
This session Colorado’s Democrat-led General Assembly passed legislation ( SB 42 ) adding the state to the national popular vote interstate compact. That agreement commits the signatory states’ electoral votes to the candidate in a presidential...
In case you missed it A recent measles outbreak in California that spread across at least 16 more states has sparked a furious debate over whether states should reconsider vaccine exemptions. In case you missed it, the story can be found on our...
You have to admire the chutzpa of Wisconsin Sen. Chris Kapenga. As the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports , in order to get his vote on the recent state budget bill, his GOP colleagues had to insert an amendment to allow carmaker Tesla to sell their vehicles...
01/14/2014 Arkansas Special Election Senate District 21 Florida Special Primary US House (Congressional District 13) 01/21/2014 Rhode Island Special Primary House District 49 Virginia Special Election Senate District 33 01/28/2014 Alabama Special Election...
Federal Court Upholds Kentucky Law A federal court upholds a KENTUCKY law requiring doctors who perform abortions to first complete an ultrasound and attempt to show and describe the image to the patient, as well as to play an audible heartbeat of...
Last week California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill (SB 27 ), passed on a straight party-line vote by the state’s Democrat-controlled Legislature, that requires candidates for President of the United States and California Governor to disclose...
Washington gridlock has driven both parties to the states to advance their agendas. But perhaps surprisingly, neither party is as unified as they might seem. In case you missed it, the story can be found on our Web site at http://www.statenet.com...
(02/06/2015 - 02/27/2015) 02/10/2015 Arkansas Runoff Senate District 16 Florida Special Primary House District 64 Iowa Special Election House District 23 02/17/2015 Florida Special Election House District 13 ...
PRITZKER ISSUES IL TRANSGENDER STUDENT EO ILLINOIS Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) issued Executive Order 19-11 , aimed at protecting the Prairie State’s transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming students. The governor’s directive creates...
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