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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Collective Bargaining - Local Government Employees and Public Employee Relations Act [HB-1509]
Establishing collective bargaining rights for public local employees; applying the Maryland Public Employee Relations Act to county and municipal government employers and their employees; providing that a public employee may be deemed a certain management employee for purposes of establishing collective bargaining rights; establishing impasse procedures for collective bargaining between public local employees and their employers that include binding arbitration; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Harris Hearing Canceled on 03/24/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to government personnel policies and declaring an emergency. [SB-164]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to prohibit a state or local government or public agency from providing preferential treatment to individuals or entities on the basis of religion, race, sex, color, or national origin when they contract or seek employment with the state or local government; define terms; prohibit a state or local government from requiring or incentivizing a person to attend a diversity, equity, and inclusion training or provide any differential treatment or benefits to an individual based on the individual's participation in (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson To State & Local Government (s) on 02/18/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. [SB-162]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to require the Education and Labor Cabinet to refer suspected unemployment insurance fraud cases to the United States Department of Justice, the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, and the county attorney or Commonwealth's attorney within 30 days of the suspected fraud determination; require that public agencies immediately terminate employees or contractors determined to have collected or attempted to collect unemployment benefits while employed by the public agency; do not require a legal disposition (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Donald Douglas Signed By Governor on 03/24/2025

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State (Montana)
Montana 2025 Regular Session

Revise residential home construction contract laws [HB-485]
Revise residential home construction contract laws

  

Sponsored by: Rep. John Fitzpatrick (h) Missed Deadline For General Bill Transmittal on 03/12/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

State Procurement - Construction and Services - Contract Modification [HB-1499]
Requiring a procurement contract for 3 years or more in duration and valued at greater than $1,000,000 for construction or security services to include a clause requiring contract modification for increased costs for compensation and benefits as a result of statutory changes increasing required compensation or benefits or collective bargaining; and requiring a certain contract that is modified to be contingent on approval by the Board of Public Works.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser Hearing 3/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/20/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to retail installment contracts. [SB-145]
Amend KRS 190.100 to authorize holders of retail installment contracts that utilize installment periods that are under 28 days to have a shorter waiting period prior to charging a delinquency and collection fee.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 55) on 03/24/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program - Funding [HB-1492]
Increasing the appropriation that the Governor is required to make in the annual budget bill to $900,000 for the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program for fiscal years 2027 and 2028.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jared Solomon First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/12/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Commissioned Public Art - Artist Rights [SB-1006]
Prohibiting an entity from including in a contract for State public art a provision requiring artists to waive copyright protections or certain rights; defining "State public art" as public art commissioned for a project that receives State funding, regardless of whether the State funding directly paid for the public art; and prohibiting enforcement of a certain waiver in an existing contract.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl Kagan Hearing 3/12 At 3:00 P.m. on 03/10/2025

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State (Alaska)
Alaska 34th Legislature

Large-scale Clean Energy Projects [SB-91]
An Act relating to clean energy project development licenses and leases of state land for clean energy projects.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Read The First Time - Referrals on 02/10/2025

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State (Alaska)
Alaska 34th Legislature

Physician Assistant Scope Of Practice [SB-89]
An Act relating to physician assistants; relating to collaborative agreements between physicians and physician assistants; relating to the practice of medicine; relating to health care providers; and relating to provisions regarding physician assistants in contracts between certain health care providers and health care insurers.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Shelley Hughes Hss Rpt 5dp on 03/05/2025

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State (Montana)
Montana 2025 Regular Session

Allow covenants that provide housing affordability [HB-422]
Allow covenants that provide housing affordability

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jonathan Karlen (h) Missed Deadline For General Bill Transmittal on 03/12/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Consumer Protection - Artificial Intelligence [HB-1331]
Regulating the manner in which a developer or deployer of artificial intelligence must protect consumers from certain risks; requiring a developer that offers to sell a certain artificial intelligence system to provide certain information and make certain disclosures; requiring a deployer to implement a certain risk management policy and take certain precautions to protect consumers from certain risks; requiring a deployer to complete an impact assessment and make certain disclosures; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Lily Qi First Reading Economic Matters on 02/07/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Consumer Protection - Third-Party Litigation Financing [HB-1274]
Prohibiting certain litigation financiers from engaging in certain conduct with respect to litigation financing transactions and certain litigation financing contracts; requiring that the litigation financing contracts contain certain disclosures and be executed in a certain manner; requiring a certain disclosure of a litigation financing contract in certain civil actions; and imposing a fiduciary duty on litigation financiers in certain class actions.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Andre Johnson First Reading Economic Matters on 02/07/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Labor and Employment - Noncompete and Conflict of Interest Provisions [HB-1288]
Altering the noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in employment contracts or similar documents that are null and void as being against public policy.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. April Rose Hearing Canceled on 02/26/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Garrett County - Bids and Contracts - Advertisement Exceptions [HB-1334]
Providing that, in Garrett County, a certain requirement to advertise for bids does not apply to a certain contract for goods or services procured on an as-needed basis over time or for certain vehicles.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Hinebaugh Referred Budget And Taxation on 03/12/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Cyber Maryland Program – Revisions [HB-1468]
Transferring the Cyber Maryland Program from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to the Maryland Department of Labor; altering the duties of the Program; requiring the Program to issue certain competitive grants and contracts beginning in fiscal year 2026; altering the purposes for which the Cyber Maryland Fund may be used; altering certain funding requirements related to the Program; requiring that certain unused balances from certain programs and funds be transferred to the Program at the close of the fiscal year; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Catherine Forbes Hearing Canceled on 03/08/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Education - Procurement Contracts and Memoranda of Understanding - Reporting [HB-1479]
Requiring the reporting of certain procurement contracts and memoranda of understanding entered into by certain public elementary and secondary education systems in the State.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. April Fleming Miller Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/04/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Department of General Services - Clean Energy Procurement Program - Establishment [HB-1417]
Requiring the Department of General Services, in consultation with the Maryland Green Purchasing Committee, the University System of Maryland, and the Maryland Clean Energy Center, to establish a Clean Energy Procurement Program in the Department on or before January 1, 2026; requiring the Department, in consultation with certain entities, to issue a certain solicitation for a biogas contract; authorizing the Department to enter into a contract to procure biogas; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Hornberger Hearing Canceled on 03/06/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Human Remains - Transportation Protection Agreements [HB-1220]
Excluding transportation protection agreements from the definition of "preneed burial contract" and "pre-need contract" under the Maryland Cemetery Act and the Maryland Morticians and Funeral Directors Act, respectively; and providing that transportation protection agreements are not insurance and are not subject to regulation under certain provisions of law.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Johnson Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/15/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Commercial Law - Voice and Visual Likeness - Digital Replication Rights (Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act - NO FAKES Act) [HB-1407]
Establishing that each individual and a certain right holder have the right to authorize the use of the voice or visual likeness of the individual in a digital replica; providing that the right does not expire on the death of the individual and is transferable or licensable in a certain manner; providing that the right terminates after a certain period of time; requiring an online service to designate an agent for certain purposes; requiring the Secretary of State to maintain and make available certain information; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Marlon Amprey First Reading Economic Matters on 02/07/2025

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