State Legislature Bills

This bill creates a state-facilitated health insurance cooperative for small businesses, freelancers, and sole proprietors in Texas to access negotiated group rates. It emphasizes lower costs and simpler enrollment while requiring the program to be fully self-funded with no use of state general revenue or state liability for claims.

This Idaho bill increases penalties for organized retail theft, fentanyl trafficking, and repeat violent felonies, while funding an Attorney General-led program to improve coordination among prosecutors and law enforcement. It also requires annual reports on spending, case outcomes, and recommendations to improve enforcement and public safety.

This bill increases penalties for organized cargo theft, repeat freight theft, and port-related smuggling in Alabama, while letting ALEA coordinate a formal task force with police, port authorities, prosecutors, and regulators. It focuses on major shipping corridors and port facilities, with implementation limited by current constitutional protections and available funding.

This bill creates a Wisconsin program to fund mixed-income housing, preserve older rental units, and back anti-displacement efforts in expensive urban areas. It prioritizes projects near jobs or transit that use matching funds and include measurable protections against involuntary displacement.

This bill would fund affordable and mixed-income housing near major transit stops, but only in places that adopt faster by-right approval for qualifying projects. It also ties funding to tenant protections like just-cause eviction, right-to-return, relocation help, and preserving existing affordable units, with the state tracking housing and displacement results.

This bill would push South Carolina police and agencies to cooperate more closely with federal immigration enforcement, allow sentence enhancements for certain felonies committed by people unlawfully present where legally provable, and require lawful-presence verification for most state-funded public benefits while preserving emergency care, K-12 education, and other legally protected services.

This bill would make computer science and STEM instruction a required part of Colorado’s K-8 core curriculum every year and require high school students to earn at least one coding-inclusive computer science credit to graduate. It aims to expand statewide tech education and make STEM skills a standard part of K-12 schooling.

This bill creates a faster state review path for qualifying starter-home and multifamily projects that already comply with local zoning and safety rules, sets deadlines for local permit decisions, and requires cities to publicly list impact fees and other housing approval costs in a standard format. It aims to lower housing-related costs through speed and transparency while preserving local authority over land-use planning, health, and safety.

This bill requires Florida state and local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration authorities when people unlawfully present in the U.S. are charged with or convicted of serious crimes, bars local limits on that cooperation, adds penalty enhancements for certain felony convictions, and mandates annual compliance reporting. It frames implementation around public safety, due process, and uniform statewide enforcement.

Georgia would give six months of temporary cost-of-living relief by suspending the state gas tax, removing certain state utility regulatory fees, and exempting essentials like diapers, infant formula, OTC medicines, feminine hygiene products, and basic cleaning supplies from state sales tax. The changes would take effect within 30 days and automatically expire after six months unless lawmakers renew them.