State Legislature Bills

This bill creates a Community Stadium District to tie any publicly backed pro football venue to local economic benefits, including small-business contracting quotas, prevailing wage, local hiring, apprenticeship use, and protections against displacement. It also sets up a fund financed by ticket surcharges, sponsorship revenue, and capped tax-increment revenue to support in-district small businesses while barring public money from covering the team ownership’s private costs.

This bill creates targeted tax credits and workforce training grants for advanced manufacturing, energy production, and steel supply chain employers that create or keep full-time jobs in distressed Pennsylvania communities. It prioritizes high-unemployment areas and requires training partnerships, in-state hiring and wage standards, annual reporting, and clawbacks if companies miss job promises.

This Idaho bill increases penalties for repeat violent offenders, creates a separate crime for organized retail and cargo theft by groups, and lets prosecutors combine related thefts in a common scheme for charging. It also funds county prosecutors, rural sheriffs, and multi-jurisdiction task forces, with annual reporting on enforcement and recidivism.

This bill would give Montana a 12-month suspension of certain state taxes and regulatory fees on dyed farm diesel, home heating propane and fuel, and key agricultural inputs like fertilizer, seed, and livestock feed. It aims to lower rural household and farm costs during inflation, with anti-fraud rules and a follow-up public report on savings and revenue impacts.

A temporary Texas inflation relief bill that mixes property tax and regulatory relief with housing deregulation, faster permitting, workforce training reforms, a DOGE-style state efficiency audit, and a permanent ban on taxpayer-funded lobbying and new protections for farmers and ranchers. Its biggest political fault lines are local zoning preemption, automatic permit approvals, and limits on certain lawsuits over agricultural harms.

New Mexico would create a Department of Health grant and workforce program to expand primary care, behavioral health, and maternal health services in rural, tribal, frontier, and other underserved areas. The bill funds clinics, mobile units, telehealth, and provider recruitment tools like loan repayment and training support, with annual reports on access and workforce results.

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 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.