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Nebraska lawmakers advance human trafficking bill
A Nebraska bill that would expand protections for human trafficking victims won first-round approval Thursday from lawmakers. The bill focuses on minors — both female and male — who are coerced and sometimes forced into the sex trade. But the proposal was scaled back from an original bill package that ...
Wis. budget committee approves DNA upon arrest
The Legislature's budget-writing committee has approved a plan to require police seize DNA from anyone arrested for a felony, certain misdemeanors and anyone convicted of any crime. Wisconsin currently takes DNA only from convicted felons and sex offenders. Republican Gov. Scott Walker's 2013-15 budget set out nearly $6 million for ...
Maine governor moves out of office over TV dispute
Maine's governor, who has gained attention in the past for telling the NAACP to "kiss my butt" and comparing the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo, has moved out of his office at the State House and says he'll work out of the governor's mansion because of a dispute over ...
Senate passes additional Newtown-related bills
Connecticut lawmakers on Thursday began building on a package of reforms the General Assembly passed in April that addressed the Newtown school shooting, requiring annual firearms safety training for armed security in local schools and improvements in mental health services for children. Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, whose district ...
Wildfire bills get Colorado governor's signature
Wildfire prevention measures passed after Colorado's tragic wildfire season last year have been signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper. The governor signed the bills at Mesa Verde National Park in Cortez. One of the bills puts new curbs on prescribed burns on state forest land. The safeguards include a ...
Highlights from around the Capitol
Nearly 2,000 people went to Gov. Rick Perry's website in January to sound off on how lawmakers should cut taxes by $1.8 billion. Many won't get what they wanted. The state sales tax rate isn't budging. Another sales tax holiday isn't in the works. Nor is the Texas Legislature raising ...
House Dems seek changes to JobsOhio oversight
Ohio House Democrats proposed reporting and oversight changes to Gov. John Kasich's private nonprofit job-creation office on Thursday that they said would make it more publicly accountable. The so-called JobsOhio Accountability Act targets an operation that has faced a steady stream of challenges since it was created by Kasich in ...
Conflict arises over sentence for Ala. juveniles
The sentence a juvenile who has been convicted of capital murder should receive is currently up in the air. That's because of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling and the failure of the Alabama Legislature to deal with the issue. One of the state's leading defense attorneys in capital cases, ...
Mass. Senate candidate Markey to release returns
Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Edward Markey agreed Thursday to release his tax returns dating back to 2005, one more year than was previously released by his opponent Gabriel Gomez, in a day of campaigning in which money from outside groups was at issue as well. Markey, a veteran U.S. congressman, ...
Crashes rekindle debate about seat belts on buses
An Indiana lawmaker who sponsored a bill that would have required seat belts on school buses hopes two high-profile collisions in a span of a week that left more than 60 people injured will spur parents to urge the General Assembly to act. "I hope parents in Indiana will call ...
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