Iowa boards and commissions would no longer have to have a balance of men and women serving on them under a bill headed to Gov. Kim Reynolds‘ desk. The Iowa House voted 62-33 to pass the bill Monday, sending it to Reynolds for her signature. The Iowa Senate passed the measure last week. Senate File […]
A UK government move to scrap a legal duty to protect an all-island economy will have little practical effect, Stormont’s economy minister has said. Conor Murphy said economic links across the island of Ireland had developed organically in recent years, and he predicted that growth would accelerate in the time ahead, regardless of the contents […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon’s legislature is now in session and one of the first items under the magnifying glass is considering the future of Oregon’s controversial Measure 110. Both sides came out in full force in Salem Wednesday evening to make their cases heard by lawmakers. It was a room divided as lawmakers heard […]
A Florida House committee Tuesday voted to repeal part of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, paving the way for teenagers to buy rifles like the one used to kill 17 students and teachers six years ago in Parkland, Broward County. The proposal (HB 1223) by Rep. Bobby Payne, R-Palatka, aligns state […]
Jan. 23—OLYMPIA — Washington voters will likely have the chance this November to do away with the state’s new tax on capital gains, after a ballot initiative to repeal it was certified Tuesday. The capital gains tax, enacted in 2021, has brought in nearly $900 million to the state’s budget since it took effect last […]
Jan. 23—The Office of Hawaiian Affairs said Monday that it is asking a court to repeal the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority. OHA announced it filed a lawsuit in Oahu Circuit Court last week challenging the legality and constitutionality of the law that created the authority. The new state agency was created by Act […]
Dave McCormick, a wealthy former hedge fund manager and leading Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, would vote to repeal President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill, he said on a pro-Trump radio show in mid-November. During McCormick’s appearance on “The John Fredericks Show,” Fredericks asked McCormick how he would “stand firm to cut spending” once […]
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to repeal a federal labor board rule set to take effect in February that would treat companies as the employers of many contract and franchise workers and require them to bargain with those workers’ unions. The House voted 206-177 to nix […]
In the waning hours of the 2023 legislative session, lawmakers inserted into the state budget the ability for Indianapolis to create a special taxing district to spruce up the downtown and address homelessness. Now there’s an effort underway to take it back, even as the city has already set the district into motion, with the […]
President Joe Biden commemorated the 80th anniversary of the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese laborers from entering the country. In a White House official statement released Sunday, Biden said the legislation, enacted in 1882, was a measure that “weaponized our immigration system to discriminate against an entire ethnic group.” It was […]