What happened on Saturday, 09 March 2024
House (Introduced), 2024 Bills, Maryland Legislation Bills Collections, Maryland
Committee will recommend policies ensuring input from individuals with homelessness experience.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Committees, Legislative , Vermont
Emma Mulvaney Stanek resigns from House to become Burlington's first woman and LGBTQ+ mayor.
House (Introduced), 2024 Bills, Maryland Legislation Bills Collections, Maryland
Legislation creates a fund to support transition to eco-friendly school buses.
Isanti City, Isanti County, Minnesota
City staff presented geometric changes to a proposed roundabout after updated traffic counts showed higher heavy-vehicle use. The plan shifts from a ‘mini’ to a small standard roundabout, adds a westbound left at Credit Union Drive and a turn lane into Kwik Trip; staff will advance to 3‑D design and begin land-easement work.
House (Introduced), 2024 Bills, Maryland Legislation Bills Collections, Maryland
Legislators aim to establish Anne Arundel County committee to shape homelessness policy.
2024 Budget Session - Floor Sessions, Budget Sessions, Committees, Legislative, Wyoming
The House adopted the joint conference committee report on House Bill 166 (ESA bill), approving a revised means test and tiered award amounts. The compromise increased the top award level to $6,000 and extended eligibility tiers down to 500% of the federal poverty level with stair-stepped award amounts.
House (Introduced), 2024 Bills, Maryland Legislation Bills Collections, Maryland
Baltimore City will notify the Administration about chronic offenders with unpaid citations.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Committees, Legislative , Vermont
Tragic tanker crash at Francis Scott Key Bridge claims lives of immigrant construction workers.
2024 Budget Session - Floor Sessions, Budget Sessions, Committees, Legislative, Wyoming
The House considered and failed to override the governor’s veto of Senate Enrolled Act 22 (Senate File 61), a measure that would have allowed charter schools to act as their own local education agencies and receive 10 equal payments. The override failed 41–20 (1 excused), so the governor’s veto stands.
2024 Budget Session - Floor Sessions, Budget Sessions, Committees, Legislative, Wyoming
The House adopted the joint conference committee report on Senate File 118 (Bighorn and domestic sheep relocation). Conferees compromised on the effective date, moving it from July 1, 2026, to January 1, 2026, after negotiating with the Senate. The report passed on a recorded vote.
House (Introduced), 2024 Bills, Maryland Legislation Bills Collections, Maryland
House Bill 492 restricts vehicle registration for individuals with unpaid parking fines in Baltimore.
2024 Budget Session - Floor Sessions, Budget Sessions, Committees, Legislative, Wyoming
The Wyoming House voted to override several parts of the governor's veto of Senate Enrolled Act 28 (Senate File 2) in a series of separate roll-call motions. Each override vote treated a different vetoed paragraph or wording change; most passed by more than a simple majority and several met the two-thirds threshold required for override.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Committees, Legislative , Vermont
Jeremy advocates for respect and fair treatment of people with disabilities at the people's house.
House (Introduced), 2024 Bills, Maryland Legislation Bills Collections, Maryland
Delegate Pippy introduces bill to allow Bay Restoration Fund usage for wastewater lagoon decommissioning.
2024 Budget Session - Floor Sessions, Budget Sessions, Committees, Legislative, Wyoming
The House adopted joint conference committee number 1 on House Bill 4, the property tax refund program. The Senate added a $70,000 appropriation for Department of Revenue administrative costs and the House accepted the position; the conference report passed by roll call.
House (Introduced), 2024 Bills, Maryland Legislation Bills Collections, Maryland
Baltimore City must inform vehicle owners about overdue fines from speed monitoring systems.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Committees, Legislative , Vermont
Representative Emma Mulvaney Stanek submitted a written resignation effective April 1, 2024, saying she will become the next mayor of Burlington and noting pride in her legislative work and family support.
House (Introduced), 2024 Bills, Maryland Legislation Bills Collections, Maryland
House Bill 1360 aims to enhance electric vehicle support for county and school buses.
Environment, House of Representatives, Committees, Legislative, Connecticut
The Environment Committee voted to advance House Bill 5217 to the floor. The substitute would ban second‑generation anticoagulant rodenticides beginning in October while exempting public health activities, municipal health departments responding to outbreaks, certain agricultural uses and specified industrial sites; lawmakers questioned municipal transfer station use, EPA guidance and alternatives.
2024 Budget Session - Floor Sessions, Budget Sessions, Committees, Legislative, Wyoming
The House adopted the joint conference committee report on House Bill 92, which clarifies that the existing parental rights statute applies to K–12 schools and accepts a change to add the word “unemancipated” before “child.” The House approved the report by roll call.
Isanti City, Isanti County, Minnesota
Council discusses updates to the roundabout project and 2025 preliminary budget proposals.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Committees, Legislative , Vermont
H.875, updating the State Ethics Commission and creating a municipal code of ethics, advanced after amendment; the House accepted an appropriations adjustment and rejected a Colchester‑led amendment to allow municipal self‑certification of equivalency by roll call (43–95). The bill includes expanded disclosures, enforcement procedures, advisory opinions, training, liaisons and whistleblower protections.
2024 Budget Session - Floor Sessions, Budget Sessions, Committees, Legislative, Wyoming
The House adopted the joint conference committee report on House Bill 45, a property tax cap bill. Conferees reached a compromise to set the annual cap at 4 percent (a middle ground between 3% and 5%) and clarified treatment of structures and the effective dates for buildings and land.
Isanti City, Isanti County, Minnesota
The Isanti City Council approved preliminary 2025 levy and budget resolutions with a $1,000 reduction to the general fund levy, and unanimously approved a conditional-use amendment to add pickleball at Winter Greens and a records-management contract with DigiTicket. Staff stressed reserve and grant timing considerations.
House (Introduced), 2024 Bills, Maryland Legislation Bills Collections, Maryland
Starting in 2025 Maryland mandates zero-emission buses while allowing propane options after 2030.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Committees, Legislative , Vermont
The Vermont House defeated a member amendment to House Bill 883 that would have incorporated roughly $25.75 million in recently passed or pending appropriations into the FY2025 budget for public transparency, then passed H.883 on third reading. The amendment failed on a roll‑call vote, 41–97.
Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury, Executive, Federal
An announcement says buyers of qualified plug-in electric vehicles purchased in 2022 or earlier may qualify for a federal Clean Vehicle Tax Credit of up to $7,500; eligibility depends on battery size, vehicle weight, manufacturer sales, and, in some cases, final assembly rules. See irs.gov/cleanvehicles for details.
2024 Budget Session - Floor Sessions, Budget Sessions, Committees, Legislative, Wyoming
The House adopted the joint conference committee report on Senate File 67 concerning public-employee retirement contributions. The conference committee removed a House-added $3.4 million appropriation that would have covered increased employee contributions, returning the bill to its original form; the conference report passed on a recorded vote.
House (Introduced), 2024 Bills, Maryland Legislation Bills Collections, Maryland
State officials establish grants to support transition to eco-friendly school transportation solutions
Utah State Board of Education, Utah Education, State Agencies, Organizations, Utah Executive Branch, Utah
Board members debate transparency and clarity in education scoring rules amid parental concerns.
Salem-Keizer SD 24J, School Districts, Oregon
An agency official for Salem-Keizer SD 24J said the district's safety systems and its partnership with Salem police worked after South Salem High went into lockdown following an incident at Bush Pasture Park; the district urged people to report tips, avoid sharing unverified information and treat all threats seriously.