Public Safety
Ohio 136th General Assembly
Allow employers to post certain labor law notices on the internet [HB-94]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
To amend sections 4109.08, 4111.09, 4112.07, 4115.07, 4123.54, 4123.83, and 4167.11 of the Revised Code to allow employers to post certain labor law notices on the internet.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert A. Peterson
Referred To Committee: Workforce Development on 04/02/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Address Confidentiality Program [HB-104]
[Public Safety ]
[Data Privacy ]
An Act creating and relating to the address confidentiality program; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Himschoot
Sta Rpt Cs(sta) 6dp on 04/23/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms. [HB-581]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define "safe storage depository" and require an owner or custodian of a firearm to store the firearm in a safe storage depository or render the firearm incapable of being fired using a gun-locking device; require an owner or other person lawfully in possession of a firearm or any person who sells ammunition to report the loss or theft of the firearm or ammunition to a law enforcement agency; amend KRS 237.990 to establish penalties for violations.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/25/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Providing protection for search and rescue group dogs [HB-2395]
[Animals ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to include police canine units and community search and rescue group canines assisting law-enforcement officers in the search and rescue for individuals and cadavers in definitions of "law enforcement officers" in relation to crimes against law enforcement officers and the level of force allowable to protect the canines as law enforcement officers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jonathan Adam Pinson
Filed For Introduction on 02/14/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Creating WV Constitutional Carry Act of 2025 [SB-469]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to allow those persons 18-20 years of age to be permitted to carry a deadly weapon as those persons 21 and over are currently permitted to do.
Sponsored by: Sen. Darren J. Thorne
Filed For Introduction on 02/14/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Allowing off-duty law-enforcement officers to carry concealed weapons at public schools and public school events [SB-481]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Education ]
The purpose of this bill is to allow off duty law enforcement officers to carry concealed weapons at public schools and at public school events.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael A. Woelfel
Filed For Introduction on 02/14/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To allow those who are 18-20 years old to carry a deadly weapon concealed without a permit, as is allowed for those who are 21 or older [HB-2384]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
The purpose of this bill is to allow those persons 18-20 years of age to be permitted to carry a deadly weapon, as those persons 21 and over are currently permitted to do.
Sponsored by: Rep. Evan Bradley Worrell
Filed For Introduction on 02/14/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Requiring teachers to wear a “mobile alert button” for emergency situations, to be known as “Alyssa’s Law.” [HB-2394]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Children and Youth ]
The purpose of this bill is to implement a wearable panic alert system, to be known as Alyssa's law, in all schools in the state.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adam Dwayne Burkhammer
Do Pass, But First To Finance on 03/19/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Requiring a syringe service program to be affiliated with a local health department [HB-2378]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to make syringe services unlawful and provide for penalties for violation of the article. The proposed bill permits the provision of harm reduction services not associated with a syringe exchange program and permits an administrative timeframe for the transition of care. Requiring the Office for Health Facilities Licensure and Certification to seek penalties and the ability to seek injunctive relief for violations of the article.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jarred A. Cannon
Markup Discussion on 03/18/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Employment Discrimination - Fire and Rescue Public Safety Employees - Use of Medical Cannabis [SB-1023]
[Cannabis ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Safety ]
Prohibiting an employer from taking certain discriminatory employment actions against a fire and rescue public safety employee based on the employee's use of medical cannabis, subject to certain conditions; and requiring an employer to report an incident of a fire and rescue public safety employee reporting for work while impaired by cannabis to the State Emergency Medical Services Board.
Sponsored by: Sen. Carl W. Jackson
Third Reading Passed (36-8) on 03/17/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Emergency Volunteer Corps. [SB-160]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Public Safety ]
[Military ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Amend KRS 37.170 to create the Kentucky Emergency Volunteer Corps (KEV Corps) within the Kentucky State Defense Force; create a new section of KRS Chapter 37 to detail KEV Corps eligibility, supervision, training requirements, uniform details, and prohibitions and to create the KEV Corps fund; amend KRS 39B.030 to permit the local emergency management director to use the KEV Corps during a local disaster or emergency; amend KRS 39B.050 to include the KEV Corps as a part of the local disaster and emergency services organization; amend KRS 39B.070
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Sponsored by: Sen. David P. Givens
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Office of Safer Communities, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-515]
[Public Safety ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Community Development ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to establish the Office of Safer Communities within the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 12.020 and KRS 12.023 to conform; appropriate $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2025-2026 to fund the office; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to telecommunicators. [HB-525]
[Telecommunications ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 15.530 to define terms; amend KRS 15.552 to remove hiring date restriction and allow a fully-trained part-time telecommunicator credit toward the full-time training academy if conditions are met; amend KRS 15.560 to require all part-time telecommunicators to complete telecommunicator overview training within 12 months of the hire date; EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Aaron Thompson
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/21/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Increase the allowance for volunteer and part-volunteer fire companies and Allowing fire departments to make an expenditure for educational and training supplies and fire prevention promotional materials [HB-2371]
[Public Safety ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
The purpose of this bill is to increase the allowance for volunteer and part-volunteer fire companies and departments to make an expenditure for educational and training supplies and fire prevention promotional materials from $500 to $5,000 per year.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Kenneth Horst
Filed For Introduction on 02/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to protection from extreme weather conditions. [SB-137]
[Energy ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to define terms and prohibit a utility from suspending residential service during extreme weather conditions.
Sponsored by: Sen. Casey Chambers Armstrong
To Natural Resources & Energy (s) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motor vehicle racing. [HB-465]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 189.993 to establish enhanced penalties for a violation of KRS 189.505, including increased fines, vehicle impoudment for up to six months for the first offense, and vehicle forfeiture for the second or subsequent offense.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Taken From Judiciary (s) on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state government. [HB-491]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Healthcare ]
[Real Estate ]
[Pensions ]
[Education ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Retirement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Construction ]
[Funding ]
Amend KRS 45.750 to redefine "equipment" to include electronic equipment that incorporates advanced computing, including smart medical, scientific, and research equipment; increase the threshold required for a lease of real property to qualify as a capital project from $200,000 annually to $500,000 annually; increase the threshold required for equipment to qualify as a capital project from $200,000 to $500,000; increase the threshold required for a lease of movable equipment to qualify as a capital project from $200,000 annually to $500,000 annually;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Riley
Taken From Rules on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to evictions during extreme weather conditions. [SB-138]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Create a new section of KRS 383.200 to 383.285 to prohibit evictions of residential tenants during extreme weather conditions; amend KRS 383.245 to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Casey Chambers Armstrong
To Natural Resources & Energy (s) on 02/14/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Expanding powers of National Park Service law-enforcement officers [SB-225]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to expand the powers of law enforcement officers of the National Park Service, which shall include traffic or parking related offenses.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jack David Woodrum
Approved By Governor 4/29/2025 on 04/29/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Licensing sale of charitable raffles and boards to benefit volunteer fire departments [SB-259]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Gaming ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Nonprofit ]
[Public Health ]
The purpose of this bill is to license the sale of charitable raffles and boards to benefit Volunteer Fire Departments in this state. The bill sets forth the licensure requirement. The bill provides for the agency to issue licenses. The bill provides for the designation of proceeds. The bill clarifies the county option. Finally, the bill provides for enforceability.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Stuart
Filed For Introduction on 02/12/2025