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Browse public bills from the combined state legislature.
South Carolina Immigration Cooperation and Public Safety Act
This bill would require South Carolina law enforcement and detention facilities to cooperate with federal immigration authorities by honoring lawful detainers where allowed, giving advance notice of releases, and allowing access for identification and transfer. It also sets statewide compliance standards, quarterly reporting, and grant preferences for agencies that fully cooperate.
0 cosponsors
Florida Public Safety and Immigration Cooperation Act
This bill requires Florida state and local governments, including law enforcement, to use best efforts to cooperate with federal immigration authorities on identification, detention, transfer, and lawful status checks. It also bans local limits on that cooperation and allows state grant penalties for material non-compliance, while preserving exceptions for victims, witnesses, and emergency services.
By Samuel Sharp
1 cosponsor
South Dakota Local Land-Use Sovereignty and State Authorization Act
This bill would block South Dakota state agencies from helping carry out any new federal land-use or environmental rules affecting farmland, grazing, water use, or private property unless the Legislature specifically approves it or a court orders it. It frames that cooperation as a state-level choice and emphasizes local control and property rights.
By Nate Yoder
3 cosponsors
Taxes Reform Act
The Taxes Reform Act is a very broad bill that says Mississippi should address tax concerns through clear standards, transparent reporting, and accountable implementation. Because it lacks specific tax rates, cuts, or enforcement details, voters are likely to judge it more as a vague good-governance statement than a concrete tax reform plan.
0 cosponsors
Hawaii Workforce Housing Near Jobs and Transit Act
This bill speeds up approval for workforce housing near job centers and existing transit corridors in Hawaii, while requiring a meaningful share of units for modest-income households and compliance with building, environmental, and infrastructure rules. It also offers targeted tax incentives, infrastructure support, and agency coordination with counties to reduce permitting delays and expand attainable housing.
By Danny Lau
0 cosponsors
South Carolina Immigration Enforcement Cooperation and Local Compliance Act
This bill would require South Carolina state and local agencies to cooperate with lawful federal immigration detainers and information-sharing requests, while banning local sanctuary-style policies that limit that cooperation. It also lets the State Attorney General investigate violations, seek court orders, and withhold certain state grant funds from jurisdictions that refuse to comply, subject to constitutional and legal exceptions.
4 cosponsors
Arizona Border Security Cooperation and County Support Act
This bill requires Arizona state and local law enforcement to cooperate with lawful federal border enforcement, raises penalties for organized human smuggling and repeat offenses, and creates a fund to reimburse border counties for public safety and infrastructure costs tied to unlawful migrant traffic. It frames that cooperation as subject to federal and constitutional law and requires annual appropriations and reporting.
By Hank Calhoun
4 cosponsors
Colorado Starter Homes and Transit-Oriented Housing Acceleration Act
This bill speeds up permitting for smaller and denser housing types in high-cost Colorado metro areas, especially near transit and job centers, if projects meet energy and safety rules. It also gives state grants to cities that shorten permit timelines, allow modest density, and cut parking minimums, while tracking housing production and energy savings.
By Nate Weiss
0 cosponsors
Virginia Rural and Veteran Healthcare Workforce Stabilization Act
Virginia would create a targeted program to bolster healthcare staffing in rural and underserved areas through temporary loan repayment and retention incentives, with priority for veterans and veteran-serving providers. It also expands rural telehealth support and improves state planning for medicines, mobile clinic supplies, and critical equipment to reduce care disruptions.
1 cosponsor
An Act to Expand Affordable and Energy-Efficient Housing Through Infill Development and Workforce Housing Incentives
This bill would make it easier to approve qualifying infill housing in existing village centers and downtowns, while offering state grants and low-interest financing for workforce and affordable housing. Projects receiving state incentives would also have to meet baseline energy-efficiency, weatherization, and sustainable building standards.
4 cosponsors
The Infill Housing Acceleration and Tenant Protection Act
This bill speeds up approval of qualifying infill and affordable multifamily housing in urban areas by imposing clearer state permitting timelines, reducing duplicative review for compliant projects, and rewarding cities that hit permitting benchmarks. In exchange for state funds, local governments must adopt tenant protections for assisted projects, including just-cause eviction standards, relocation assistance tied to displacement, affordability covenants, and annual public reporting.
3 cosponsors
An Act to Accelerate Housing Production and Support Transit-Oriented Workforce Development in Washington
This bill aims to speed up housing construction in Washington by setting clearer permitting timelines, cutting duplicative reviews, and prioritizing projects that already fit local zoning. It also offers tax, grant, and infrastructure support for middle-income and workforce housing near transit and job centers, with public reporting on results.
1 cosponsor
New Jersey Transit-Oriented Infill and Anti-Displacement Act
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.
0 cosponsors
New Jersey Mixed-Income Infill and Transit Communities Act
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.
0 cosponsors
An Act Relating to Affordable and Energy-Efficient Housing Growth
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.
1 cosponsor
Illinois Workforce and Transit-Oriented Housing Acceleration Act
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.
1 cosponsor
Texas Entrepreneurial Freedom Act
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.
1 cosponsor
An Act to Expand Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing and Tenant Protection Standards in California
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.
2 cosponsors
South Carolina Immigration Enforcement and Public Benefits Integrity Act
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.
0 cosponsors
An Act to Strengthen Iowa’s Teacher Recruitment and Retention Pipeline
This bill creates an Iowa program to recruit and keep teachers by offering tuition aid or student loan repayment for new teachers who commit to hard-to-staff public schools, especially in rural areas. It also funds mentoring and classroom supply stipends for early-career teachers and expands alternative pathways into teaching, with annual public reporting on results.
By Abby Shaw
2 cosponsors
Indiana High-Need Schools and Career Readiness Act
This bill would give extra state education funding to Indiana public school districts with high poverty, staffing shortages, or weak academic performance, while offering teacher retention incentives and expanding career and technical education access. It also requires annual public reporting on how funds are distributed and what results they produce.
2 cosponsors
An Act Concerning Transit-Oriented and Mixed-Income Housing Permitting
This bill would require Connecticut municipalities to create faster permitting for mixed-income housing near rail stations, major bus corridors, and job centers, while offering state planning grants and infrastructure incentives to towns that approve projects with below-market units. It aims to increase housing supply and reduce cost-of-living pressure while keeping local health and safety standards in place.
1 cosponsor
Wisconsin Skilled Trades Apprenticeship and Manufacturing Jobs Partnership Act
Wisconsin would create a workforce program through the Department of Workforce Development to expand registered apprenticeships and give performance-based hiring incentives to manufacturers and skilled-trades employers that partner with schools, technical colleges, and union or joint labor-management training programs. The bill targets recent graduates, displaced workers, and high-unemployment areas while requiring industry-recognized training, fair wages, and reporting on retention outcomes.
1 cosponsor
Missouri Organized Retail Theft and Repeat Burglary Enforcement Act
This bill creates a new organized retail theft offense for coordinated or resale-focused theft schemes, raises penalties for repeat burglary, and funds state-local task forces, prosecutors, and evidence-sharing systems to target theft rings and habitual property offenders. It also requires annual reports on arrests, prosecutions, stolen goods recovery, and program effectiveness.
6 cosponsors
Colorado Housing Permitting and Grid-Ready Infill Act
This bill would speed up approvals for mixed-income infill and transit-oriented housing in already-developed areas, while coordinating utilities and state agencies on grid upgrades for new multifamily housing. It also gives local governments technical help to modernize permitting and reduce delays, aiming to ease housing costs near jobs, schools, and transit.
By Nate Weiss
3 cosponsors
North Carolina Faith-Based Service Provider Fair Access Act
This bill would bar North Carolina governments from denying or limiting grants, contracts, licenses, certifications, or public-program participation solely because a qualified nonprofit is religious or faith-based. Religious providers would still have to follow the same health, safety, licensing, financial accountability, and applicable state and federal service rules as everyone else.
2 cosponsors
Colorado Housing Supply and Transit-Oriented Permitting Act
This bill would require larger Colorado municipalities to allow more housing types like duplexes, triplexes, ADUs, and mixed-use multifamily housing by right in transit-accessible and infill areas, while speeding up permitting for qualifying projects. It also offers planning grants and technical help to local governments, keeps more local control outside covered areas, and requires yearly reporting on housing supply, permit delays, and affordability.
By Nate Weiss
3 cosponsors
An Act establishing the Iowa Teacher Recruitment and Retention Grant Program
This bill creates a state grant program in Iowa to help public school districts recruit and keep teachers, especially in rural areas and hard-to-staff subjects like special education, math, science, and career and technical education. Districts could use funds for signing incentives, loan repayment, relocation support, residency partnerships, and retention stipends, with annual reporting required.
By Abby Shaw
2 cosponsors
North Dakota State Sovereignty and Anti-Commandeering Act
This bill would bar North Dakota from using state staff, money, or resources to enforce new federal emergency, land-use, or resource-control actions affecting land, water, energy, agriculture, or minerals unless state leaders specifically approve it. It preserves compliance with final court orders, existing agreements, and constitutional obligations.
1 cosponsor
The Kansas Working Families Cost-of-Living Relief Act
This bill would suspend Kansas sales tax on groceries for 12 months and require stricter, faster review of electric, gas, and water utility rate hikes, especially those exceeding inflation. It is framed as targeted cost-of-living relief while keeping utility oversight and service reliability in place.
By Hal Brenner
2 cosponsors