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Browse public bills from the combined state legislature.
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.
By David Acton
0 cosponsors
Nevada Cost-of-Living Fiscal Transparency and Relief Act
The bill requires plain-language impact statements before major Nevada tax or fee increases and seeks verified administrative savings to finance one-time household rebates, subject to legislative approval and annual reporting.
4 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
Pennsylvania Pathways to Homes and Work Act
The bill would spend $50 million annually on a voluntary “housing-first, work-forward” program offering housing assistance, employment training, support services, and employer tax credits, with annual outcome reporting.
By Shaa
0 cosponsors
Pennsylvania Public Integrity Act
The bill requires conflict disclosures and recusals, restricts gifts, publishes major contract and beneficial-ownership information, protects whistleblowers, and creates a Public Integrity Office within the Attorney General’s office. It also establishes civil penalties and possible contracting bans for knowing violations.
By Shaa
1 cosponsor
Pennsylvania Infrastructure and Technology Modernization Act
The bill funds broadband expansion, smart infrastructure upgrades, stronger cybersecurity and emergency communications, digital government services, workforce training, and public technology access, prioritizing underserved Pennsylvania communities.
By Shaa
4 cosponsors
South Dakota Lawful Arrest Immigration Status Coordination Act
Requires South Dakota agencies to check federal immigration databases after lawful custodial arrests and coordinate with federal authorities when appropriate, while protecting emergency care, barring profiling, and preserving notice and due-process rights.
By Nate Yoder
2 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.
2 cosponsors
Hawaii Workforce and Affordable Housing Near Employment Centers Act
Establishes competitive grants and infrastructure aid for workforce and affordable housing near jobs and reliable transit, with expedited objective review. It preserves local zoning authority and includes affordability monitoring, relocation assistance, and right-to-return protections.
By Danny Lau
1 cosponsor
An Act to Promote Transit-Oriented Housing and Workforce Affordability
The bill permits multifamily housing near major transit hubs statewide, streamlines local approvals, and offers grants and tax incentives for projects meeting housing and affordability goals. Public support would favor projects using union labor, prevailing wages, and workforce-housing requirements.
By Tom Callahan
3 cosponsors
Rhode Island Mixed-Income Housing and Community Development Fund Act
Creates a state-administered fund offering competitive loans and grants for affordable mixed-income rental housing, prioritizing developments near schools, transit, jobs, and essential services while rewarding municipalities that approve locally reviewed projects.
1 cosponsor
Delaware Workforce Housing and Streamlined Development Act
The bill creates a workforce housing initiative for mixed-income developments near jobs and transit, offering coordinated, time-limited state review while retaining local zoning, public notice, environmental review, and affordability rules. Assistance and infrastructure priority would depend on legislative funding.
By Ellie Graham
1 cosponsor
The Transit-Oriented Mixed-Income Housing and Tenant Stability Act
The bill requires transit-served municipalities to allow reasonable multifamily, mixed-income housing near stations, offering grants and technical assistance for meeting housing targets. It also preserves affordable units and adds notice, relocation aid, and enforcement protections for tenants.
By Tom Callahan
2 cosponsors
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.
By Samuel Kent
0 cosponsors
North Dakota Immigration Status Verification and Fraud Reporting Act
The bill requires North Dakota public agencies to verify immigration or work authorization only when federally permitted and relevant, while protecting personal data, allowing record corrections, and reporting credible fraud to federal authorities. It does not create independent state immigration enforcement or restrict legally required emergency services.
4 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
North Carolina Immigration Information-Sharing and Victim Protection Act
The bill requires North Carolina law enforcement agencies to participate in applicable federal immigration information-sharing programs while ensuring immigration-status inquiries do not obstruct crime investigations, victim services, or protections for witnesses and crime reporters.
1 cosponsor
North Carolina Public Benefits Eligibility and Federal Cooperation Act
Requires North Carolina agencies administering public benefits to verify eligibility and lawful status using federal systems and cooperate with lawful immigration requests, while preserving emergency services, appeals, record corrections, and anti-discrimination safeguards.
0 cosponsors
Colorado Workforce Housing and Clean Development Act
The bill offers competitive state grants, faster local review, and technical assistance for income-restricted workforce housing near transit and employment centers that meets clean-energy standards, while retaining local zoning authority and requiring annual performance reports.
By Nate Weiss
3 cosponsors
Oregon Housing Stability and Infill Act
The bill creates a state-backed fund for affordable and supportive housing near transit, jobs, and services, while accelerating qualifying infill projects. It also adds tenant relocation protections, coordinates voluntary support services, and requires annual public reporting.
2 cosponsors
Pet Food Safety
The bill would ban Red No. 3 and purely cosmetic artificial red dyes in pet food sold in Indiana beginning in 2028. It also requires nutritional and labeling standards, authorizes inspections, and imposes penalties of up to $5,000 for repeated violations.
By Chris Storm
0 cosponsors
Arizona Border Cooperation and Taxpayer Protection Act
The bill requires Arizona state and local agencies to cooperate with federal immigration authorities when people unlawfully present are charged with or convicted of crimes, bans policies that block that cooperation, and restricts state-funded public benefits for undocumented immigrants to emergency care, required K-12 education, and other legally mandated services.
By Hank Calhoun
0 cosponsors
An Act Relating to Expanding Workforce and Middle-Income Housing Through Permit Streamlining and Transit-Oriented Development
This bill would speed up permits for workforce and middle-income housing, especially near high-capacity transit, while allowing cities to convert some underused commercial and office land into housing more easily. It also offers state planning and infrastructure grants to local governments that expand housing capacity and reduce delays.
7 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
Indiana Power Revise
This bill would authorize a massive energy and infrastructure project near Richmond, Indiana, including underground utility relocation, a new reservoir, an underwater dual-reactor nuclear facility, and upgrades for five nearby fire departments. It promises resilience and power reliability, but would likely raise major questions about cost, land use, environmental risk, and the unusual underwater reactor concept.
By Chris Storm
0 cosponsors
Texas Strategic Investment and Job Creation Act of 2026
This bill creates temporary Texas tax abatements and limited infrastructure support for large projects like sports venues, factories, data centers, and mixed-use developments if they meet job and revenue targets. It also adds fast-track permitting, annual reporting, clawbacks for missed promises, and a five-year sunset.
By David Acton
1 cosponsor
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
Colorado Consumer Call Protection and Fraud Deterrence Act
This bill cracks down on illegal telemarketing and scam robocalls in Colorado by creating steep civil penalties, allowing consumers to sue, giving the Attorney General stronger enforcement tools, and requiring phone carriers to provide call authentication and free robocall blocking. It also creates a restitution fund for victims and mandates annual public reporting on enforcement and carrier compliance.
1 cosponsor
Richmond Stadium Act
Virginia would finance a new Level 2 stadium for the Richmond Capitols, while requiring average ticket prices to stay capped at $150 for the next two seasons. The project also ties the stadium area to a Metro extension and a transit-oriented development plan.
1 cosponsor
Florida Sports Infrastructure and Small Business Growth Act
This bill lets Florida local governments create special districts to help fund pro football stadium projects and nearby improvements, but only if private sources cover most costs and no new statewide general tax is used. It also requires at least 35% of contracts to go to Florida small businesses, adds local hiring and apprenticeship programs, mandates annual transparency reports, and allows public support to be cut back or recovered if promises are not met.
By Samuel Sharp
1 cosponsor