The Legislature also passed Senate Bill 115, which would allow enhanced carry permit holders and qualified law enforcement officers to carry pistols on the state’s Capitol grounds in Pierre. The bill ...

Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) has announced his intent to introduce, in the 2019 legislative session, a health impact fee on sugar sweetened beverages. The fee would be used to fund ...

Senate Democrats stood their ground and upheld Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of legislation that would have given teachers and other public school employees raises, saying Republican lawmakers aren't ...

In the 2019 legislative session, the first after Hurricane Harvey destroyed thousands of homes and killed more than 80 people in the Houston area, Texas lawmakers promised to shore up the state's ...

DES MOINES — When it comes to a proposal to change the way Iowa’s Supreme Court justices are chosen, a legislative forum held last week in Des Moines underscored Republicans and Democrats have a ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers are set to kick off the 2019 legislative session and Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam will update lawmakers on the state of the Commonwealth. The General Assembly ...

A signature housing bill for Gov. Tina Kotek has screeched past the finish line in the final days of the Oregon legislative session. House Bill 2138 builds on her “missing middle” housing reforms from ...

Democratic Tennessee congressional candidate Aftyn Behn derailed a session in the Tennessee state Legislature by screaming at the top of her lungs as she was forcibly removed from the chamber in a ...