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The Utah House passed legislation on a 41-32 vote, repealing the 1973 misdemeanor crime of fornication, or sex between people who are not married, Fox 13 reported.
The bill doesn't change the class of convictions, such as a Class B felony, but proponents argued judges needed more leeway in sentencing offenders.
Less than two months after taking office, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker embarked on a new and potentially bruising political campaign Thursday by seeking to win public approval of a graduated-rate income tax that he contended would raise $3.4 billion.
Several states have passed legislation in recent years to stop what supporters of the measure often refer to as "passing the trash."
In some cases, Abbott appointed judges who have lost multiple elections to Democrats.
Former Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel is challenging his suspension in a petition filed Thursday in Broward County Circuit Court, alleging that Gov. Ron DeSantis exceeded his legal authority when he ousted him from office.
The number of kids enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) — two government health plans for the poor — fell by nearly 600,000 in the first 11 months of 2018.
For the first time since the Great Recession, most states have restored their education cuts. But the places where protests have erupted still have a long way to go.
How much Schenectady County, N.Y., saved on prescription drugs last year, partially because it allows employees to import them from Canada, Great Britain and Australia, which charge significantly less. The FDA recently warned counties to stop, but many likely won't.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in an op-ed announcing he will not run for president.
The bill, House Bill 2384 and Senate Bill 1295, will prohibit anyone from using or distributing the tobacco products on a school bus, on school property, and at on-site and off-site school-sponsored activities.
In Washington state, child welfare workers are shifting to a digital approach. Beginning in April, people who’ve browsed websites on foster care will see recurring online ads espousing the joys of foster parenting — haunting the prospective parent from site to site like a new car or pair of boots.
The outbreak has also raised questions about how officials dealing with public health concerns can undermine detainees’ legal rights.
Republican members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives are drawing scrutiny for wearing pearl necklaces while gun control activists shared their own experiences with gun violence at a recent hearing.
Nearly 17,000 registered Wisconsin voters — potentially more — were kept from the polls in November by the state’s strict voter ID law, according to a new survey of nonvoters by two University of Wisconsin political scientists.
The House Oversight and Reform Committee is investigating allegations of voter suppression in Georgia under Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who has since become governor.
Cities and local governments in several states said they will continue to use a Canadian company to offer employees prescription drugs at a highly reduced price, even though federal officials raised safety concerns about the practice last week.
In a ruling released Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg said that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had failed to justify his decision to include a citizenship question in the upcoming census.
We all want safe neighborhoods, but the way we treat many people arrested for low-level offenses does more harm than good.
Cities large and small are stepping up their efforts to combat climate change and cope with its impact. There's much that they can do.
This form of pay inequity, referred to as salary inversion, is making it difficult to fill supervisor positions in the public sector.
Nevada Senate Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson, a Democrat, who resigned and pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations.
Economic development deals in which Texas changed once-finalized contracts for companies receiving tax breaks -- usually to lower the number of jobs they were required to create. These type of renegotiations are rarely made public.
The Republican governor told reporters on Tuesday that the measure is supported by a vast majority of Kentuckians. The measure won final approval from state lawmakers last week. Its supporters include the National Rifle Association.
Murphy, a Democrat elected in 2017 to succeed Republican Chris Christie, has argued that a so-called “millionaire’s tax” would help lift the middle class by providing funding for priorities like education.
"In this most difficult of circumstances, I have been treated respectfully by the prosecutors and investigators," he said. "And I have no one to blame for this but myself in this situation."
State funding for public K-12 schools remains lower than before the recession in a number of states, including five where teachers have gone on strike in the last year.
More than six years of legal battles between Lakewood's Masterpiece Cakeshop and the state will end after baker Jack Phillips agreed to drop his lawsuit alleging the Colorado Civil Rights Commission was harassing him for refusing to make LGBTQ-themed cakes.
Michael Bloomberg is confident he'd beat President Trump in 2020 -- but he's not going to try.
The subpoena was served late Monday on the company, Aon, one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in the world, as part of an inquiry by the New York State Department of Financial Services.
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