Florida house passes bill to lower minimum age to buy a firearm
Florida’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill that would lower the minimum age to purchase a firearm from 21 to 18. HB 1223, titled “Minimum Age for Purchase or Transfer of Firearms,” passed by a vote of 76-35. The bill, originally proposed by Republican Representatives Bobby Payne and Tyler Sirois, will now […]
Florida House passes bill to prevent homeless people from sleeping in public
Florida House of Representatives passed a bill Friday that would ban homeless people from sleeping in public and require local governments to fund homeless camps. HB 1365 passed the Republican-controlled House 82-26 on a nearly party-line vote. The bill is supported by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who said it is a way to “fight homelessness […]
Alabama Legislature Passes IVF Protections Bill
The Alabama House and Senate passed a bill Thursday protecting in vitro fertilization (IVF) after the Supreme Court reportedly ruled last Friday that frozen embryos are “children outside the womb.” did. The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that embryos destroyed during in vitro fertilization, in which eggs are fertilized and transferred to women with fertility […]
Senate passes short-term funding bill to avert partial government shutdown
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Senate passes spending bill, punting shutdown threat to next week
The Senate passed a short-term spending bill Thursday that postponed the threat of this weekend’s government shutdown until later in the month, but questions remained about how Congress will fund the government through the rest of the year. Just hours after the House passed the bill by an overwhelming 320-99 vote and a day before […]
Georgia’s GOP-led Senate passes funding ban on American Library Association
Georgia’s Senate passed a bill Thursday that would prohibit libraries from spending public or private funds on services provided by the American Library Association. Republican members of Congress call the association a “Marxist and socialist” organization. The bill, Senate Bill 390, passed by a vote of 33-20. Democrats objected, saying ALA provides a valuable service […]
House passes stopgap to prevent partial government shutdown Friday
The House passed a bipartisan deal Thursday to avoid a partial government shutdown, pushing the two-phase deadline to late March. Lawmakers approved spending patch 320-99 and sent it to the Senate, which is likely to approve it Thursday or later Friday. Two Democrats joined the 97 Republicans who opposed the bill. The White House announced […]
House passes short-term funding bill to avert shutdown
The House approved a short-term funding bill Thursday to avert a partial government shutdown this weekend, sending the bill to the Senate a day before Friday’s funding deadline. The bill, which passed the chamber on a 320-99 vote, would extend two deadlines for government funding to March 8 and March 22, allowing lawmakers to iron […]
Washington state House passes ban on hog-tying by police in a landslide
Washington state lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday that would ban police from tying suspects, a restraint method that has long been a concern because of the risk of suffocation. “This practice is inhumane and dangerous,” Democratic Rep. Charlette Mena said during the vote. “Yet, hog tethering is still allowed in a small number of […]
Kentucky Senate passes a top-priority bill to stimulate cutting-edge research at public universities
A top bill aimed at turning researchers at Kentucky’s public universities into collaborative teammates on cutting-edge research won overwhelming approval in the state Senate Wednesday. The bill, introduced by Republican Senate President Robert Stivers, passed the Senate on a 36-0 vote and advanced to the House. Details of the start-up funding for this initiative will […]