• Evers Vetoes Bill to Allow Out-of-State Mental Health Care Providers

    Bipartisan tele-health care proposal opposed by mental health advocacy groups.

    • WLNS

    East Lansing Fire Dept. fights fire with fire

    Fire officials were out in the Lansing area today with lit torches in hand. Normally we expect them to put out fires, but today, the goal was starting them.

    • KFDI

    Governor vetoes bill on gender care

    Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has vetoed a bill from the state legislature that would ban access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth. In vetoing Senate Bill 233, the Governor issued a statement saying, “This divisive legislation targets

  • Kansas gov. vetoes multiple bills

    Editor's Note: The description for Senate Bill 434 in the article below was listed with the description of another bill bearing the same title from 2022. It is now updated with the correct information for Senate Bill 434 for 2024. We regret this error. TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansas' governor is vetoing several bills and giving []

  • Evers Vetoes Nursing Licensure Bill

    Evers, Republicans couldn't agree on supervision requirements.

  • Illinois bill would allow three-time felons to be paroled

    (The Center Square) – A Democratic lawmaker on Thursday sought to advance a bill that would put an end to the practice where three-time convicted felons are denied parole. Other bills advanced that work to protect victims. State. Rep. Rita Mayfield, D-Waukegan, acknowledged at a hearing of the Illinois House Judiciary – Criminal Committee that the State's Attorneys Association is opposed to House Bill 1053, probably because they’re worried about resources being dedicated to...

  • Youngkin vetoes Democrat bills to shield abortionists' interstate lawbreaking

    Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin rejected bills that would have protected abortionists who help people break other states’ pro-life laws or flee to Virginia to violate abortion restrictions in their home states.

  • Lawmakers vote down bill that would allow some Alabama death row inmates to be resentenced

    Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would provide new sentences for about 30 inmates who were given the death penalty despite a jury’s recommendation of life imprisonment.

  • Iowa Senate gives final approval of governor’s literacy bill

    Iowa Senate lawmakers gave final approval to the governor’s K-12 literacy bill on Wednesday, sending the bill to the Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk for her signature. The bill, House File 2618, would require students at teacher prep programs around the state to take a test similar to the Massachusetts state “foundations of reading assessment”

  • Brazilian senate approves bill to introduce local content quotas for streamers

    The Brazilian senate’s Economic Affairs Commission has approved a bill that regulates VoD operators, including Netflix, YouTube, TikTok and FAST channels. The approved text, which will now go to

  • Supreme court allows Idaho to enforce ban on treatment for transgender youth

    Order allows ban to stand while lawsuits proceed, in decision critics call ‘an awful result for trans youth and their families’The supreme court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts.The justices’ Monday order allows the state to put in a place a 2023 law that subjects physicians to up to 10 years in prison if they provide hormones, puberty blockers or other gender-affirming care to people...

  • Kansas governor vetoes bill banning gender-affirming care to minors

    Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) vetoed a bill that would have banned gender-affirming care for minors in the Sunflower State Friday. “This divisive legislation targets a small group of Kansans by placing government mandates on them and dictating to parents how to best raise and care for their children,” Kelly said in a veto message