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Browse public bills from the combined state legislature.

Indiana Responder Break
This bill creates a state income tax credit of $500 to $1,000 for qualified emergency responders and adds training reimbursement support for certifications, testing, and continuing education. It is framed as a way to strengthen volunteer emergency response capacity using existing funds, grants, and administrative savings without raising taxes.
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Michigan Public Safety Coordination and Violent Offender Accountability Act
This bill creates a voluntary statewide crime data-sharing and analytic support program in Michigan focused on violent crime, repeat offenders, warrants, and case outcomes. It also adds privacy safeguards, error-correction procedures, targeted grants for high-crime areas, and annual public reporting on results and accountability.
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The Delaware Workforce and Starter Housing Acceleration Act
This bill speeds up state review for mixed-income housing near jobs, transit, and existing utilities, while creating a state matching fund to help local governments pay for needed infrastructure. Projects must still follow environmental, safety, and local land-use rules, with priority for workforce and starter homes for low- and moderate-income households.
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Utah Family Housing Permitting and Infrastructure Coordination Act
This bill pushes fast-growing Utah cities and counties to speed up permitting for family housing projects that already meet current zoning and safety rules, using firm deadlines and a single coordinated review process. It also has state agencies provide model standards and technical help while keeping local control and all existing environmental, building, and public safety requirements in place.
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Oklahoma Cost Relief and Permitting Efficiency Act
This bill gives Oklahoma residents temporary cost-of-living relief by suspending state sales tax on groceries, cutting some fuel-related taxes and fees, and offering a one-year refundable tax credit for qualifying small businesses. It also speeds up routine commercial and infrastructure permits for twelve months, with the whole law expiring after a year unless renewed.
Rhode Island College Affordability, Transfer Success, and Student Completion Act
This bill expands need-based aid for Rhode Island residents at public colleges, especially low-income and first-generation students, and funds transfer advising, credit-recognition coordination, and completion planning between community college and four-year schools. It also requires public colleges receiving funds to provide mental health counseling, academic advising, early-alert retention services, and annual outcome reporting.
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Nebraska Main Street Inflation Relief Act
This bill would give Nebraska small businesses a 24-month break on some state costs by cutting sales tax in half on key operating inputs like utilities, shipping, packaging, and basic supplies, while also freezing and in some cases reducing state licensing, filing, and inspection fees. State agencies would have to make the program simple to use and report back on its fiscal impact and whether it actually lowered operating costs.
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Community Stadium District and Small Business Participation Act
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.
Pennsylvania Industrial Jobs and Workforce Revitalization Act
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.
Idaho Repeat Violent Offender and Organized Property Crime Enforcement Act
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.
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Montana Rural Cost-of-Living and Farm Relief Act
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.
Texas Inflation Relief Act of 2026
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.
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New Mexico Rural and Community Healthcare Access Act
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.
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Idaho Organized Crime and Public Safety Coordination Act
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.
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Alabama Organized Cargo Theft and Port Security Coordination Act
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.
Wisconsin Workforce Housing and Neighborhood Stability Act
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.
Colorado K-12 STEM Education Act
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.
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Utah Housing Approval Streamlining and Fee Transparency Act
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.
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Georgia Cost-of-Living Relief and Essential Affordability Act
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.
An Act Concerning Mixed-Income and Transit-Oriented Housing Production
This bill would require faster local review for mixed-income and transit-oriented housing near rail stations and major bus corridors if projects meet state standards, while offering voluntary state incentives to towns that loosen zoning or add deed-restricted affordable housing. It keeps local site-plan authority but imposes decision timelines for qualifying applications.
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Delaware Workforce and Starter Home Acceleration Act
This bill creates a fast-track state permitting process for workforce and starter-home housing, plus targeted infrastructure grants and limited tax incentives for mixed-income projects near job centers and transit. In return, projects must meet local code, follow transparent affordability standards, and report annually on units built, approval speed, and where development occurs.
Colorado Transit-Oriented Infill and Housing Permitting Streamlining Act
This bill would require Colorado local governments to allow by-right moderate-density housing in transit corridors and activity centers, while speeding approval for projects that meet energy and water standards. It also creates a voluntary state fast-track certification program that rewards jurisdictions with compliant housing plans and timely permitting through priority for certain housing and infrastructure grants.
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Ohio Skilled Trades Apprenticeship and Career-Technical Partnership Act
Ohio would expand a statewide program that links high schools, community colleges, unions, and employers to fund paid pre-apprenticeships, dual-credit career-tech classes, equipment, transportation, and job placement in high-demand skilled trades. The bill is aimed at moving students, recent graduates, and displaced workers into credentials, registered apprenticeships, or full-time jobs without requiring a four-year degree.
Missouri Organized Retail Theft and Repeat Violent Offender Enforcement Act
This Missouri bill creates a new organized retail theft offense for coordinated shoplifting and resale schemes, raises penalties for repeat offenders and people with prior violent felony convictions, and funds prosecutors and law enforcement coordination through a Department of Public Safety grant program. It also requires annual reporting on how the money is used and what case outcomes result.
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Inflation Reform Act
The bill is a broad inflation-focused framework that emphasizes clear standards, transparent reporting, and accountable implementation for residents and institutions in Nevada, but it does not include specific price-cutting measures or direct economic relief. It reads more as a governance and oversight bill than a concrete anti-inflation package.
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Colorado Workforce and Infill Housing Acceleration Act
Colorado would create a state-backed program to speed up permitting for code-compliant infill and multifamily housing in targeted areas, while offering incentives for mixed-income, energy-efficient, and adaptive-reuse projects and trimming local regulatory barriers without changing core health, safety, or environmental rules.
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Michigan Public Safety Coordination and Organized Crime Reduction Act
This bill creates a voluntary statewide system in Michigan for law enforcement agencies to share intelligence and coordinate on organized retail theft, gun trafficking, and repeat violent offenders, while offering grants for local technology and task forces. It also adds oversight through audits, data-retention limits, training standards, and public reporting aimed at protecting civil liberties.
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Wisconsin Manufacturing and Skilled Trades Jobs Act
Wisconsin would create a state initiative to grow manufacturing and skilled-trades jobs by expanding apprenticeships and offering tax credits and redevelopment grants for factories in vacant industrial areas. Companies receiving incentives would have to meet local hiring, apprenticeship, and wage reporting standards, with extra priority for projects that clean up long-unused sites and build in-state supply chains.
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Oklahoma Rule of Law and Public Safety Cooperation Act
This bill requires Oklahoma state and local agencies, sheriffs, police departments, and detention facilities to cooperate with lawful federal immigration detainer requests, share booking and release information, and avoid any local policies that limit that cooperation. It also empowers the Attorney General to investigate violations and seek court action, while stating that enforcement must still follow constitutional protections, due process, and court orders.
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An Act to Expand Coastal Workforce Housing in Maine’s Working Waterfront Communities
This bill lets certain Maine fishing and port towns create special housing zones to speed up year-round affordable homes, ADUs, and mixed-use housing, while offering state grants, financing, and tax incentives for projects serving local workers. It aims to keep working waterfront communities livable for fishermen, teachers, health care staff, and other essential employees through affordability and occupancy requirements.