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Browse public bills from the combined state legislature.

Clean coal intiatives
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.
Pennsylvania Economic Security, Jobs and Community Mobility Act
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.
By Shaa
0 cosponsors
Michigan Skilled Workforce and Technology Jobs Act
The bill aligns Michigan workforce training with demonstrated employer demand, prioritizes high-demand careers and statewide access, and requires measurable employment outcomes. It favors existing resources and successful programs before creating new spending or administrative structures.
Texas Private Land Stewardship and Wildfire Resilience Act of 2026
The bill creates a voluntary, two-year wildfire-resilience program offering repayable loans, technical assistance, limited liability protection, and recognition for verified private-land thinning, grassland restoration, and firebreak projects.
August Texas Strategic Investment and Job Creation Act of 2026
The bill offers performance-based property tax abatements of up to $20 million, repayable infrastructure support, and expedited permitting for major Texas projects. It includes independent reviews, clawbacks, annual reporting, and a five-year sunset.
0 cosponsors
Pennsylvania Everyday Prices and Inflation Relief Act
The bill creates an affordability office, mandates transparent pricing, strengthens emergency price-gouging enforcement, promotes utility and housing-cost reforms, reviews burdensome regulations, and authorizes targeted grants and rebates subject to funding and fiscal review.
By Shaa
0 cosponsors
Coastal Working Waterfront Housing Resilience Act
Creates a grant and technical-assistance program for resilient affordable housing in flood- and erosion-prone coastal communities, with protections for year-round residents, fishing families, and working waterfront access. Funding requires legislative appropriation and projects must follow coastal regulations.
Nebraska Small Business Cost Relief Act
The bill lowers selected licensing, inspection, and registration fees for qualifying locally owned Nebraska businesses with up to 50 employees. It also streamlines renewals and compliance information while retaining health, safety, and consumer protections.
0 cosponsors
North Dakota Lawful Employment Verification and Reporting Act
Requires North Dakota employers to federally verify new hires’ work authorization, retain records, and report unresolved mismatches. It bars discriminatory screening, allows penalties for knowing violations, and provides a safe harbor for first-time good-faith errors.
0 cosponsors
An Act to Expand Affordable Housing Production and Tenant Stability in California
This bill would try to boost affordable housing in California by speeding up approvals for qualifying infill and mixed-income projects, while offering tax credits and low-interest financing to convert vacant commercial and public buildings into housing. It also gives grants to local governments that adopt anti-displacement policies like emergency rental assistance, eviction right-to-counsel, and tenant preservation plans in high-rent areas.
0 cosponsors
Minimum Wage Hike
This bill would raise Illinois’ minimum wage to $20 per hour starting January 1, 2027. It offers a large pay increase for low-wage workers but could also raise labor costs for employers.
0 cosponsors
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.
0 cosponsors
Vermont Affordable, Efficient, and Resilient Housing Act
This bill uses state tax credits, grants, and infrastructure aid to encourage energy-efficient multifamily housing with units reserved for low- and moderate-income households, especially in village, downtown, and transit-accessible areas. It also pushes municipalities that receive certain housing funds to adopt faster, clearer permitting for qualifying infill and mixed-income projects.
0 cosponsors
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.
0 cosponsors
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.
0 cosponsors
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.
0 cosponsors
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.
0 cosponsors
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.
0 cosponsors
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.
0 cosponsors
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.
0 cosponsors
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.
0 cosponsors
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.
0 cosponsors
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.
0 cosponsors
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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