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Tim Storey, who will take over as NCSL's executive director, has pledged to maintain the organization's bipartisan approach.
Amount by which Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc is accused of inflating some drug prices. More than 40 state attorneys general are suing the drug company.
Shawn Sample, a karate instructor, after Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill to remove nunchucks from the list of weapons prohibited in public.
The Trump administration is pulling some federal funding from California. But that project and others like it are quickly moving forward.
It turns out that the same lethal drug that has been driving the nation’s spiraling opioid epidemic is also causing an historic surge in overdose deaths among cocaine users.
The bill continues the program, which began in 2016, and provides health insurance to about 95,000 low-income adults.
The law faces an almost certain court challenge, likely backed by the state's largest teachers union, the Florida Education Association.
On Friday, the state's Republican governor, Doug Ducey signed a bill removing nunchucks from a list of prohibited weapons that includes bombs, gun silencers and automatic firearms.
Over the past few decades, as a manufacturing decline left homes vacant and storefronts dark, New York’s upstate cities opened their doors to refugees.
HB 1050 reclassifies possession of up to a half ounce of marijuana by adults 21 and older as an infraction punishable by no jail time and a maximum fine of $1,000.
Garner was killed July 17, 2014, as police in Staten Island tried to arrest him for selling loose cigarettes.
The 20 drug companies engaged in illegal conspiracies to divide up the market for drugs to avoid competing and, in some cases, conspired to either prevent prices from dropping or to raise them, according to the complaint by 44 U.S. states, filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut.
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For years, hundreds of cities and counties have been saving money by letting their employees use cheaper drugs from other countries.
Thad Kousser, a political scientist who says the current and former governors running for president will be hurt in the primary by their moderate politics and policies. Two governors have already entered the 2020 race -- Jay Inslee of Washington and John Hickenlooper of Colorado -- and Montana's Steve Bullock is expected to join this week.
States where at least one legislative chamber has passed a resolution that declares pornography consumption a public health crisis. The Republican Party made the issue part of its national platform in 2016.
The administration raised the possibility of changing the poverty calculation in a notice published this week in the Federal Register.
This week the Arizona Senate approved a measure urging the state to prevent exposure and addiction to porn, drawing criticism from some experts who say the approach is misguided and poses risks.
The Senate abruptly removed a rape and incest exception from the bill without allowing a roll call vote on that decision.
"This homeless issue is, rightfully, top of mind for people all across the state that are outraged by it," Newsom told reporters during a news conference at the state Capitol.
The policy, added to the code in 1976, was recently scrutinized when a teacher at a San Francisco school had to cover the fees for the person subbing for her while she undergoes breast cancer treatment.
Rounding out the top 10 counties identified in the study as most at-risk for a measles outbreak are: Los Angeles; Miami-Dade; Queens, N.Y.; King, Wash.; Maricopa, Ariz.; Broward, Fla.; Clark, Nev.; Harris, Texas; and Honolulu.
Even with these bills' passage, Washington still is projected to fall short of the emission targets set by state law.
Warwick Public Schools had said it would serve sunflower butter and jelly sandwiches to students whose families are in arrears beginning Monday, sparking a public backlash and upsetting the mayor, who asked the school committee to reconsider.
Loss in gross domestic product that Texas could suffer in a three-month span from increased wait times at the state's ports of entry. In March, the Trump administration ordered hundreds of customs officers to instead help the U.S. Border Patrol, potentially slowing down trade with Mexico.
Jeff Hunt, director of the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University, a critic of Initiative 301, which voters passed this week to make Denver the first U.S. city to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.
Houston firefighters are getting what they wanted. But it's coming at a cost.
In turning its bail system around, New Jersey has shown a capacity for evidence-based policy innovation that's likely to serve as a national model.
Someday Congress may mandate it, but there's nothing to keep states from moving on their own.
Regional partnerships are a way to help low-income families gain the advantages of resource-rich areas. There's new support from Washington.
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