State Legislature Bills

Creates a two-year, $180 million capped state fund competitively matching local spending on drainage, detention, and voluntary property buyouts in repeatedly flooded ZIP codes. Projects require at least a 50% local share, public scoring, limited overhead, and legislative reauthorization to continue.

The bill expands career and technical education in North Carolina high schools through partnerships with community colleges, employers, and workforce boards, offering credentials, dual enrollment, and supervised work experience while retaining core academics and tracking outcomes.

Creates targeted, performance-based tax credits for manufacturers and skilled-trades employers investing in former industrial communities, with incentives for apprenticeships and Pennsylvania suppliers. It also streamlines permit reviews while retaining environmental, health, and safety protections.

Requires Mississippi employers to use E-Verify for new hires and penalizes knowing employment of unauthorized workers after a final federal determination, while providing notice, appeal rights, and anti-discrimination protections.

The bill requires lawful-status checks for certain state-funded benefits while exempting emergency care, public health, disaster aid, K–12 education, and federally protected services. It also permits lawful federal coordination, protects personal data, and provides a process to correct verification errors.

The bill allocates $100 million over two years for clean-coal tax credits, worker training, research, infrastructure, and a new authority focused on preserving Eastern Kentucky jobs while maintaining environmental rules and reliable power.

The bill temporarily expands Nebraska income-tax deductions for essential equipment bought by locally owned small businesses, simplifies certification, and requires free guidance. The relief expires after three tax years unless renewed.

The bill appropriates $250 million for affordable housing, workforce training, small-business financing, energy savings, transportation, broadband, and targeted investment in underserved Pennsylvania communities. It also requires matching funds for many recipients, public performance reporting, independent evaluations, and clawbacks for misuse or nonperformance.

The bill offers targeted bonuses to retain teachers in high-need subjects and rural districts, streamlines certification for qualified professionals and out-of-state educators, and funds mentoring, shared staffing, and professional development in rural schools.

The bill requires local governments to permit duplexes, townhomes, and small multifamily buildings near frequent transit while streamlining affordable and workforce housing reviews under objective standards. Existing health, safety, environmental, public notice, and appeal protections remain.