What happened on Friday, 02 February 2024
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High school entrepreneurs urge lawmakers to eliminate business license requirements for young innovators.
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House Bill 241 adds clean technology definitions and passes with 62 votes in Utah.
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Legislature directs Public Service Commission to review natural gas pricing and purchasing practices
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State enforces bid requirements for all construction projects exceeding $50,000 in total cost.
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Senate Bill 127 allows nursing apprentices 75 days to retake failed licensure tests.
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Public Service Commission to assess utility rates and report findings every two years
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Senator Baldry expands business license bill to exempt high school students, including homeschoolers.
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Utah Senate approves Senate joint resolution 9 honoring native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities
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Proposed legislation aims to waive tolls for school buses carrying students on West Virginia turnpikes
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Commission reviews net metering and increases capacity limits for customer-generators statewide.
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Utah House passes HB 292 allowing brighter snowplow lights for safer winter driving.
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Senate approves legislation addressing vaping industry issues and promoting women in STEM fields.
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Schools gain increased funding to choose programs for suicide prevention initiatives, promoting school choice.
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Legislation aims to exempt school buses from paying tolls on state turnpikes.
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House Bill 210 passes unanimously with 71 votes in favor during legislative session.
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New committee will assess needs and improve K9 Search and Rescue operations statewide
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Legislature creates committee to standardize K9 Search and Rescue policies and training statewide.
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State plans to enhance Turnpike infrastructure using toll revenues and fund tourism developments.
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Steiner addresses technical errors in secondary water meter bill and HOA landscaping requirements.
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Teachers with advanced degrees enhance student opportunities and retention amid declining teaching workforce.
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Senators discuss ideal family structures and their impact on youth poverty rates.
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County boards can provide funds to parents of students removed for disruptive behavior.
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Technology-based app significantly improves social skills in children, with 105 schools on the waitlist.
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New legislation allows removal of chronically disruptive students for alternative education in West Virginia.
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Agency reveals budget changes, highlighting salary hikes and improved vacancy rates this year.
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Senate concurred and passed several bills including property tax and motor vehicle amendments.
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Joint resolution promotes success sequence to reduce poverty through educational integration.
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New legislation aims to attract and retain highway workers through locality pay differentials.
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Senate Bill 115 enables in-state tuition for military families' immediate members.
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DLS told the subcommittee the Maryland Tax Court fiscal 2025 allowance would increase to $967,989, noting a largely personnel‑driven budget and recommending statutory changes and a new case management system to allow online appeals and reduce delays.
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Senator praises bill's benefits for rural counties, emphasizing nuclear power's positive impact on education.
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House passes HB 317 on energy storage with 71 votes, sending it to the Senate.
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New bill modifies education and apprenticeship standards for funeral directors and embalmers in West Virginia
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DLS told the subcommittee the Office of Administrative Hearings’ fiscal 2025 allowance would rise to $19.6 million, with notable increases in special‑education mediations and due‑process hearings; OAH leadership said the office remains focused on impartial, timely adjudication and submitted no audit findings for the period reviewed.
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Utah's Hope for Utah program significantly reduces youth suicides through school-based mental health initiatives.
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The bill aims to assess energy storage needs during potential catastrophic events.
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The Senate moved multiple bills toward final consideration (and passed several) on third reading or by recorded vote, including tobacco and e-cigarette measures, regulatory-sandbox clarifications, education and public-safety bills; several bills were circled for further review.
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New bill sets weekly job search requirements and defines acceptable work search activities.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Committees, Legislative , Vermont
The House voted to suspend rules and remove House Bill 614 from the notice calendar, referring the bill — described in the motion as "an act relating to land improvement, fraud and timber trespass" — to the Committee on Judiciary by voice vote. A separate voice vote then adjourned the House until Feb. 6, 2024.
Public Safety, Transportation, and Environment Subcommittee, Budget and Taxation Committee, SENATE, SENATE, Committees, Legislative, Maryland
At a subcommittee hearing, Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Secretary Carolyn J. Scruggs defended a $211.5 million fiscal 2025 allowance, outlined steps to address Public Information Act complaints and contraband delivered by drones, and acknowledged multi‑year IT projects that remain behind schedule.
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Utah House approves bill to permit hands-free bicycle riding for children.
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Senate Joint Resolution 3 — urging review of the ‘success sequence’ for possible inclusion in secondary curriculum — won third-reading approval after floor debate over whether language (notably the word ‘marrying’) risks excluding single-parent families.
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After committee reports and roll calls, the Senate confirmed Benjamin Battles (27–0), Rachel Marie Malone (29–0), and Rory Thomas Thiebaud (29–0) to terms on the Superior Court. Sponsors summarized candidates’ legal backgrounds before the votes.
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MHEC highlights community colleges as crucial for student success and workforce development in Maryland.
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Legislation seeks to protect remote work by prohibiting strict local zoning ordinances.
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On Feb. 2 the Utah House passed a series of bills covering boards and commissions, veterans’ parking, bike rules, vehicle registration, snowplow lighting, paid leave, post-retirement reemployment, and more; most measures passed unanimously or by large margins and will be transmitted to the Senate.
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Senator Hankins moved to substitute House Bill 47 to direct review of earthquake-related hazards and prioritize restoring water, electrical, gas and telecommunications infrastructure; the Senate substituted and circled the bill for further review.
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Senate members unanimously adopted the Transportation Committee report on S.256 and ordered the bill to a third reading. The bill aligns Vermont law with federal veteran definitions, expands eligibility to those disabled during service and gives the DMV and Veterans Affairs office authority to determine specialty plates.
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New law establishes protections for home-based businesses and removes local government barriers.
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HB186 rewrites limits on personalized license plates to adopt specific, viewpoint-neutral prohibitions (no profanity, slurs, obscenity, indecency, references to intoxicants or illegal activity). Sponsors argued the language reduces vagueness; opponents warned about hate-speech implications; the House approved the measure 58–8.
Education, Business and Administration Subcommittee, Budget and Taxation Committee, SENATE, SENATE, Committees, Legislative, Maryland
College presidents, MHEC and faculty testified that proposed BRFA/BRFAA changes to the CADE funding formula and a contingent $22.6 million reduction would shift costs to local districts and students, jeopardize dual-enrollment programs and small, specialized programs across Maryland.
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Second-substitute HB241 changes statutory language from 'renewable' to 'clean' and expands the statutory list of qualifying technologies (including nuclear, geothermal, pumped storage and carbon-capture) so they are recognized as 'clean' resources; the House passed the bill 62–5 and sent it to the Senate.
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On Day 18 of the 2024 session the Utah Senate concurred with House amendments and passed a series of bills — including measures on offender‑registry access, transportation and tax fixes — returning them to the House for signature or further consideration.
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Legislation prohibits forcing cognitively impaired to testify and increases penalties for sexual assault.
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Senator Winterton celebrates child actor Harrison Middleton's birthday while discussing film incentive bill.
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The Utah House passed first-substitute HB317 to commission a statewide study of energy storage needs and options — including salt caverns, transmission and pipeline vulnerabilities — adopting a sponsor amendment clarifying private-industry coordination; the bill passed 71–0 and heads to the Senate.
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Bill seeks to protect cognitively impaired individuals from testifying in court and increase penalties.
NORTH PIKE SCHOOL DIST, School Districts, Mississippi
At a regularly scheduled meeting, the North Pike School District board amended the agenda, approved routine financial and personnel items, approved creation of a National Elementary Honor Society chapter at North Pike Upper Elementary, accepted a 91.8% graduation rate update, and approved a 2024–25 teacher salary scale pending legislation. The board also moved the June meeting to June 11 at noon.
Education, Business and Administration Subcommittee, Budget and Taxation Committee, SENATE, SENATE, Committees, Legislative, Maryland
Maryland's labor secretary urged the subcommittee to retain proposed funding for EARN and a Talent Innovation Fund, described apprenticeship growth and correctional education expansions, and detailed steps to improve unemployment insurance customer service and IT systems after pandemic-era backlogs.
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Utah Senate approves House Bills 44, 70, 81 and 57 addressing social work and domestic violence.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH COMMITTEE - SENATE, Senate, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas
DCFS Director Tiffany Wright told the Senate Children and Youth Committee the department formalized a 10% board payment increase for resource parents, clarified Safe Haven surrender protections and is rolling out a new case-management system while addressing staffing vacancies and foster-home recruitment.
Education, Business and Administration Subcommittee, Budget and Taxation Committee, SENATE, SENATE, Committees, Legislative, Maryland
The State Treasurer told the Education, Business and Administration Subcommittee the office has begun paying a promised 6% rate for Maryland's save-for-college accounts, is working through claims and IRS issues, and has delayed—but not abandoned—a major financial-systems modernization while responding to the 529 transition.
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The Senate passed House Bill 116 to clarify Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C‑PACE) financing so exported biofuels will not disqualify projects; sponsor said the change will help projects such as a cited $300 million biotech development.