State Legislature Bills

Requires independent civilian review of serious police use-of-force incidents, anonymized public reporting, and safeguards for due process, privacy, and criminal investigations. It also offers competitive grants for oversight, training, transparency, and officer-support programs.

Creates a state-backed revolving loan and technical-assistance program offering low-interest financing to rural Iowa small businesses for modernization, efficiency, and job retention or creation, subject to appropriations and public reporting.

The bill broadly calls for clearer family-policy standards, transparent reporting, and accountable implementation across Minnesota, but provides no specific policies, requirements, or enforcement mechanisms.

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.

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 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 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.

The bill offers grants, tax credits, and other aid for mixed-income housing near public transit, provided projects include below-market and accessible units. It also requires municipalities to expedite reviews while retaining health, safety, environmental, and historic-preservation standards.

Creates state grants and incentives for cities that expedite middle-income housing near frequent transit and existing infrastructure, while requiring affordability, labor, relocation, right-to-return, and anti-displacement protections.