The bill opens the door for casinos to open across the state. September 2015: State Representative Rick Kotik introduces a bill to allow sports betting at the state’s existing casinos. October 2017: The state legislature passes HB 271, which legalizes online gambling in the state and creates...
The party with a majority is able to control which bills are voted on. Powerful leaders are able to quash some legislation altogether, or resurrect other bills that previous parties bottled- up for years."The majority party in any legislature has control of the agenda in a profound way," ...
Local, State, and Federal Legislation Monitoring NEAAPA is actively monitoring bills presented across the Northeast State Legislatures that could impact the industry, including Wage and Hour, School Calendar, Industry Regulations, and more. When necessary, NEAAPA will mobilize efforts to educate elected...
More Than 1,000 Teamsters Joined by Governor, State Representatives to Oppose Right-to-Work, Paycheck Deception Bills PennsylvaniaTeamsters Rally at Capitol in Protest of Anti-Worker Legislation JUNE 20, 2017 Galen Munroe Email:gmunroe@teamster.orgPhone: (202) 439-7427 ...
As a state representative, Solomon has championed good-government bills targeting issues such asbanning public officials from receiving most gifts,opening primaries, andtightening campaign finance rules; none have become law. He did find some rare success, however, passing bills in the then-Republican...
Other states including Pennsylvania, New York, Mississippi, and West Virginia have sports betting bills pending in their legislature, and at least fifteen other states have introduced bills in some form. Unlike PASPA, a federal statute that provided a uniform application for nearly all states ...
Though the Wolf administration and legislative Republicans have supported bills to make treatment more accessible and regulate the distribution and disposal of medications, overdose deaths havecontinued to increase, reaching a three-year high in 2020. ...
To investigate the mechanism, we surveyed former councilors and analyzed 346,553 bills proposed by municipalities in the period. This analysis largely corroborates our findings, showing that politicians prefer to provide private and local public goods. This paper has implications for the design of ...
The next step for the bill is a vote by the full Senate on the senate floor. Mathew Higbee, an attorney and former political consultant who tracks expungement bills nationwide, says that he would expect that the bill will be supported by the full Senate. “It is rare for a bill to be...
Google kills bills that would have forced it to pay a fee for using local news August 22, 2024 11:07 am Google has killed a pair of bills that would have forced the company and other tech giants to pay news companies for using their stories. The state and the tech […]Election...