New laws take effect Monday
The following are selected new laws passed during the 2016 legislative session that take effect Monday. The asterisk ...
'Conception Begins at Erection Act': Is new bill preposterous or productive?
Two Ohio legislators are introducing a bill to prove laws that control a woman's body are as ridiculous as laws that control a man's.
Legislation proposed in House and Senate to limit initiative process
Two pieces of legislation aimed at limiting the voter initiative process were introduced in the Idaho Senate and House ...
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Is it legal for a NKY mayor to pick his own legislative body?
Kentucky law requires the remaining members of the legislative body to fill the vacancies, or the governor gets to do it. So the question is: Is the mayor a part of the commission? The ...
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Tennessee GOP passes immigration law to criminalize elected officials' votes
Tennessee Republicans finalized an immigration bill Thursday establishing a new enforcement office exempt from public records ...
Virginia House and Senate pass flurry of bills at session’s midpoint
Before anything gets to the governor’s desk, each House bill has to be considered by the Senate and vice versa. All of it has ...