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Blog Post:
Texas et al Win Challenge To Obama Immigration Policy
Mary Peck
Twenty-five states joined Texas in challenging President Obama’s executive actions on immigration policy in November 2014, expanding temporary relief from deportation for undocumented immigrants. Fifteen states also filed amicus, or “friend of the court,” briefs supporting those executive...
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15 Jul 2016
Blog Post:
Most States Allow Transportation Network Companies
Mary Peck
Thirty-seven states have passed laws regulating transportation network companies (TNCs), according to the R Street Institute and LexisNexis State Net’s legislative tracking database. The most recent addition to that group is Delaware, where Gov. Jack Markell (D) signed SB 262 last week. TNC legislation...
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12 Aug 2016
Blog Post:
Public Pension Return Rates Lagging In States
Mary Peck
Investment returns for large public pension plans in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2015 were significantly lower than the plans’ assumed rates of return, according to money management news source Pensions & Investments . The one-year return rates for 17 large public pension funds - including...
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19 Aug 2016
Blog Post:
States Sue To Block Federal Overtime Rule
Mary Peck
Twenty-one predominantly Republican-governed states have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new Obama administration rule extending mandatory overtime pay to millions of American workers. The rule, which was finalized in May and takes effect in December, mandates that employers pay salaried workers...
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30 Sep 2016
Blog Post:
Governors In Brief - December 5 2016
Mary Peck
Gov. Kasich Urges Reduced Medical Licensing Boards OHIO Gov. John Kasich (R) and lawmakers are working on a plan to consolidate the Buckeye State’s multiple medical licensing boards. Legislation currently under consideration in the General Assembly would reduce the number of medical-licensure...
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2 Dec 2016
Blog Post:
Opioid Overdose Rates Up and Rising in States
Mary Peck
Between 2014 and 2015 death rates due to opioid overdose rose by over 25 percent - more than twice the national average (11 percent) - in five states and the District of Columbia. The five states with the highest opioid death rates in 2015 were West Virginia (36 deaths per 100,000 people), New Hampshire...
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31 Mar 2017
Blog Post:
Bevin Seeks KY Medicaid Changes
Mary Peck
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) has asked the Trump administration for a Medicaid waiver that would allow the Bluegrass State to require able-bodied adults without dependents to work at least 20 hours a week to qualify for coverage. The request is an amendment from one made previously that would have...
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7 Jul 2017
Blog Post:
Potpourri - August 7 2017
Mary Peck
Potpourri In the U.S. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upholds a lower court’s ruling that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service does not have the legal power to strip gray wolves in the Great Lakes Region of their protection under the Endangered Species Act without fully considering...
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4 Aug 2017
Blog Post:
Another Slow Year for Ballot Measures
Mary Peck
On Nov. 7 voters in 7 states will consider a total of 22 statewide ballot measures, bringing the count for the year - with measures on the ballot last month in two states - to 27. That continues a downward trend in the number of measures on the ballot in odd-numbered years since 1987, when voters considered...
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3 Nov 2017
Blog Post:
Majority of Ballot Measures Win Passage
Mary Peck
Voters in seven states considered a total of 22 statewide ballot measures on Nov. 7. Texas voters weighed seven of those measures, the highest number of the seven states. All seven measures passed, which isn’t too unusual in the Lone Star State, where voters have approved 91 percent of the 152...
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10 Nov 2017
Blog Post:
Most States Taking Action on Cybersecurity
Mary Peck
As of Oct. 30 at least 43 states had introduced over 240 bills and resolutions related to cybersecurity this year, according to analysis of LexisNexis State Net data by the National Conference of State Legislatures. Twenty-seven of those states have enacted bills, and four have adopted resolutions. Among...
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8 Dec 2017
Blog Post:
2018: A Year of Living Dangerously
Mary Peck
The shadow of President Donald Trump and the Republican tax bill will hover over state governing bodies in 2018, a year of midterm elections that Tim Storey, political analyst for the National Conference of State Legislatures, says will be “a referendum on the president.” Long before...
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15 Dec 2017
Blog Post:
Half of States Use Commissions for Redistricting
Mary Peck
Commissions, rather than legislatures, have primary responsibility for drawing state legislative and/or congressional districts in 13 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. In another 12 states, commissions either assist legislators with redistricting or take over the process...
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16 Mar 2018
Blog Post:
More Than Half of States Allow Marijuana Use
Mary Peck
Twenty-nine states have passed laws broadly legalizing the use of marijuana. Twenty of those states allow the use of the drug for medical purposes, such as pain relief or the control of nausea. Nine states have legalized recreational use of marijuana by those over the age of 21 in addition to medical...
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4 May 2018
Blog Post:
More States Considering ACA Medicaid Expansion
Mary Peck
Thirty-two states have expanded Medicaid in accordance with the 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act but letting states decide whether or not to implement the Medicaid expansion provided for by the federal law. A budget proposal that includes Medicaid expansion has also...
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18 May 2018
Blog Post:
Many States Taken Action but Many Yet to Act on Wayfair Ruling
Mary Peck
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that a law passed by South Dakota had freed it from a longstanding legal precedent barring states from imposing sales taxes on internet and mail-order retailers that did not have a physical presence within their borders, some predicted there would be a flurry...
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7 Sep 2018
Blog Post:
Data Privacy Popular Issue in States
Mary Peck
At least 33 states have considered legislation this session dealing specifically with the privacy of personal data. Nineteen of those states have enacted data privacy measures. They include California, which enacted AB 375 , modeled after the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation...
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14 Sep 2018
Blog Post:
Democrats Seem Poised for State Election Gains
Mary Peck
The pendulum of politics that in many states has swung Republican for the last eight years appears to be heading in a Democratic direction in the Nov. 6 midterm elections. Nonpartisan analysts and pollsters give Democrats a solid chance to win nine to 15 legislative chambers and as many as 11 governorships...
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19 Oct 2018
Blog Post:
Politics in Brief - November 19 2018
Mary Peck
SUPREME COURT TO HEAR VA REDISTRICTING CASE The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by Republican lawmakers in VIRGINIA of a lower court ruling ordering 11 House of Delegates districts to be redrawn to address racial gerrymandering. That decision will apparently not stop the redistricting...
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16 Nov 2018
Blog Post:
Most States Prepared for Next Recession
Mary Peck
It’s been 9 1/2 years since the last U.S. recession - the second-longest period between economic downturns on record. The economy still appears to be going strong. But there are signs trouble may not be far off. The good news for states is that most seem to be reasonably well prepared for it. ...
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18 Jan 2019
Blog Post:
Governors in Brief - February 25 2019
Mary Peck
NEWSOM WANTS TO STEP UP CA POT ENFORCEMENT Citing a lack of cohesive enforcement to stamp out CALIFORNIA’s illegal marijuana market, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced expanded efforts by the state National Guard to work with federal officials to target black market dealers, including illegal drug...
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22 Feb 2019
Blog Post:
Mills Signs Strict ME Data Privacy Bill
Mary Peck
Saying that “Maine people value their privacy, online and off,” Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed one of the toughest data privacy measures in the nation last week. Under SB 275 , which Mills signed last Thursday, Pine Tree State Internet providers will be prohibited from using, selling,...
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7 Jun 2019
Blog Post:
Most States Considering Drug Price Control Measures
Mary Peck
At least 40 states have introduced legislation in 2019 aimed at reducing the cost of prescription drugs, according to LexisNexis State Net ’s legislative tracking system. Fifteen of those states have enacted such measures.
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14 Jun 2019
Blog Post:
Local Governments Shine Light on Public Surveillance
Mary Peck
In May the Board of Supervisors for the City and County of San Francisco approved an ordinance banning the use of facial recognition technology by all city departments. It’s the only major U.S. city to have taken such action against the emerging technology. But the measure is part of a larger and...
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12 Jul 2019
Blog Post:
With Feds Distracted, States Will Have Much to Ponder in 2020
Mary Peck
It’s the holiday season, and if most voters are thinking about politics at all they are probably pondering more about how to get through family festivities without a major blowup over differing political philosophies than they are about next year’s legislative agendas. But rest assured...
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22 Nov 2019
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