Senate Finance Chairman Eric Tarr, R-Putnam, speaks during the West Virginia Legislature special session on Sunday, May 19, 2024. (Will Price | West Virginia Legislative Photography) Suspending constitutional rules that a bill be read on three separate days before passage, the state Senate fast-tracked and unanimously approved eight bills on Sunday as the West Virginia […]
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What to know about Alabama’s fast-tracked legislation to protect in vitro fertilization clinics
Alabama lawmakers are moving fast to approve measures this week to protect in vitro fertilization clinics from lawsuits in response to an uproar sparked by last month’s state Supreme Court ruling that found frozen embryos have the rights of children under the state’s wrongful death law. Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, is expected to sign […]
This fast-tracked disability tax credit bill is the first new Kansas law of 2024
Kansas politicians have enacted their first new law of 2024: a fast-tracked single-subject bill that reinstates an expired tax credit. Gov. Laura Kelly signed Senate Bill 15 into law on Thursday after it passed the House 117-1 and 34-0. The legislation reinstates and makes changes to a tax credit designed to incentivize employment of Kansans […]
Senate passes list of fast-tracked bills, explains the reasoning behind the speed
Jan. 12—MORGANTOWN — The state Senate blazed through a list of fast-tracked bills Friday morning and sent them to the House of Delegates. Nearly all of them passed last year and died in the House, and this was another attempt at getting them across the goal line. Near the end of the floor session, leaders […]
Fast-tracked €150m Adare Bypass may not be ready in time for Ryder Cup
A €150 million bypass project fast-tracked so that it would be ready ahead of the Ryder Cup in Adare, Co Limerick may not be finished in time for tournament. In internal documents, the Department of Transport was warned that time was running out for the 7km road to be finished by the time the event […]