Tag: Legislation
GOP efforts to tighten voting laws gets underway in Texas
AUSTIN, Texas — Republican efforts to tighten voting restrictions across the U.S. are getting underway in Texas, where state GOP leaders helped push unsupported...
Arkansas abortion bill would require rape, incest reports
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Senate on Thursday voted to require victims of rape and incest to have first reported the crime to...
House OKs Dems’ immigration bills for Dreamers, farm workers
WASHINGTON — The House has voted to unlatch a gateway to citizenship for young Dreamers, migrant farm workers and immigrants who’ve fled war or...
Florida House OK’s campus ‘viewpoint diversity’ measure
<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Republican-led effort promoting ideological diversity on college campuses won approval Thursday in the Florida House after sparking debate over intellectual...
Congressional Democrats push $50B bill for nonprofits
Congressional Democrats are pushing a federal bill that would give nonprofits $50 billion to help them retain employees, hire newly unemployed workers and expand...
GOP efforts to tighten voting laws gets underway in Texas
<p>AUSTIN, Texas — Republican efforts to tighten voting restrictions across the U.S. are getting underway in Texas, where state GOP leaders helped push unsupported...
N. Dakota House cools to bill seen as helping Hoeven’s bank
BISMARCK, N.D. — Republican North Dakota House leaders on Friday signaled a reluctance to fully support a proposal to would funnel $10 million to...
Arkansas abortion bill would require rape, incest reports
<p>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Senate on Thursday voted to require victims of rape and incest to have first reported the crime to...
S Carolina lawmaker draws ire from fellow Dems on trans bill
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Twenty-three South Carolina Republicans have signed onto a measure aimed at blocking hormonal treatments for transgender youth. But the bill’s chief...
Kentucky bill criminalizing taunts against police stalls
FRANKFORT, Ky — A bill that would make it a crime to taunt a police officer in Kentucky has stalled in the state's House...