In the United States, bills are the most common form of legislative proposals. According to the U.S. Senate, public bills pertain to matters that affect the general public or classes of citizens. While the legislative process may differ to some degree in other countries, public bills generally...
Jennifer Frazer
The Senate has been controlled by Republicans for all of Harris’s tenure, limiting her legislation’s odds of passage significantly. Still, four of her 131 bills were enacted into law — that’s good for a first-term Democratic senator. We selected a handful of the bills she int...
Indiana Senate Bill 11 would require social media companies to restrict anyone under the age of 16 from accessing the site if they did not receive verifiable parental consent. Jeff Harden, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame and father of children who live in the sta...
Senate Bill 6, or “An Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring” (CTDPA), went into effect July 1, 2023. The law also draws from Virginia and Colorado’s statutes, with a few departures. It applies to businesses that, during the preceding calendar year: Controlled or ...
The House and the Senate may propose their own budget resolutions that aren't covered in the White House budget. There is no requirement for both houses of Congress to pass a budget. If it fails to do so, budget resolutions from previous years carry over. Individual appropriations bills are...
Complete a Personnel Action Notice (PAN) form for any employees who receive a change in pay rate due to the California minimum wage increase. COVID-19 Who –All California employers What –There are several bills enacted: Effective January 1, 2023, Assembly Bill 2693 updated the state’s CO...
Some people haven't received all their Social Security benefits, even though they paid into the system. A new law changes that.
While Republican leaders cheered the bill's passage, it's dead in the Senate, and the White House said President Biden wouldveto the measure. Spending bills Congress has so far failed to enact any of the appropriations bills that fund the government, although this is not unusual. It has onl...
The president argued— as Democrats have for two months now — that it would be better for the House to take up the Senate-passed bill waiting in its hopper. If Johnson did otherwise, Biden questioned whether the Senate could process it. ...