State Legislature Bills

This bill speeds up local review for mixed-income housing and mixed-use projects near transit in New Jersey, especially on vacant, blighted, or remediated brownfield sites. In exchange for priority access to certain state funds, projects must include at least 20% affordable units and anti-displacement measures like relocation assistance and right-to-return.

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 speeds up state review for mixed-income infill and transit-oriented housing near stations, bus corridors, redevelopment areas, and remediated brownfields if projects include affordable units. It ties state aid and incentives to anti-displacement plans while keeping environmental review, local input, and compliance with labor and fair housing laws.

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 aims to increase Vermont housing by speeding permits for qualifying infill and mixed-income projects, offering tax credits and grants for affordable and rural workforce housing, and promoting reuse of underused buildings for homes. It also ties assistance to practical energy-efficiency standards to reduce utility costs and focuses growth where roads, water, and sewer already exist.

This bill speeds up state review for workforce and middle-income housing projects in Illinois, especially near transit and on vacant or outdated commercial sites. It also offers tax credits, low-interest financing, infrastructure help, and model zoning guidance to encourage conversion of obsolete offices and retail space into housing while keeping safety and environmental rules in place.

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 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.

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.