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Browse public bills from the combined state legislature.
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
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.
6 cosponsors
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.
By Leonard Cox
1 cosponsor
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
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
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
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.
1 cosponsor
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.
By David Acton
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
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
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.
2 cosponsors
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.
2 cosponsors
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
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.
0 cosponsors
Florida First Public Safety and Immigration Cooperation Act
This bill requires Florida state and local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration authorities when people unlawfully present in the U.S. are charged with or convicted of serious crimes, bars local limits on that cooperation, adds penalty enhancements for certain felony convictions, and mandates annual compliance reporting. It frames implementation around public safety, due process, and uniform statewide enforcement.
By Samuel Sharp
0 cosponsors
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.
By Sam Drayton
5 cosponsors
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.
0 cosponsors
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.
By Ellie Graham
1 cosponsor
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.
By Nate Weiss
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
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.
2 cosponsors