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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 ...
Okla. Legislature honors Moore schools educators
The Oklahoma Legislature on Thursday honored two educators from a school district where a massive tornado destroyed one elementary school and heavily damaged another. Robert Romines, incoming superintendent of Moore Public Schools, and Shelly McMillin, principal of Briarwood Elementary School, appeared before the Oklahoma House and Senate just four days ...
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 ...
House votes to let Ore. community colleges compete
The Oregon Legislature on Thursday sent Gov. John Kitzhaber a bill that would repeal a prohibition on public community colleges creating programs that compete with offerings of for-profit career colleges. Supporters of the ban say it enables for-profit universities to compete on a level playing field with public colleges. But ...
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 ...
It's now House's turn to create NC state budget
Senate Republicans handed off their vision of North Carolina's state budget to their counterparts Thursday in the House, who are likely to take issue with several proposals and listen to what GOP Gov. Pat McCrory wants in a final plan. The Senate gave its final approval to a government spending ...
Senate rejects move to stop Common Core standards
A resolution pushed by tea party groups seeking to keep the state from using a set of uniform national standards for public school testing was killed Thursday by the Louisiana Senate. Senators voted 27-8 to shelve the legislation and keep it from moving any further, a day after the Senate ...
New Minn. law allows more childhood abuse lawsuits
Adults who suffered childhood sexual abuse and want to file lawsuits against both abusers and the institutions that employed them will have greater access to Minnesota's court system under a bill awaiting Gov. Mark Dayton's signature. In 1996, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that anyone over the age of 24 ...
Wash. college students ask Congress for stability
College students in Washington state say they need Congress to give them affordable student loans at a rate they can depend on, instead of a yearly debate on rising interest rates. "The fact that it's so unpredictable for students and their families ... is pretty senseless," Evan Smith, the student ...
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