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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49 and Title 68, relative to school safety. [HB-1014]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
As introduced, changes the reporting date, from February 1 to January 15, by which the commissioners of education and safety must jointly report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation of the "Schools Against Violence in Education Act." - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Slater
Action Def. In Education Committee To Second Calendar Of 2026 on 03/25/2025
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North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Healthcare Workforce Reforms [HB-67]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
Healthcare Workforce Reforms
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Belk
Re-ref Com On Rules And Operations Of The Senate on 06/10/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the abolishment of the Texas Animal Health Commission and the transfer of its functions to the Department of Agriculture. [HB-2439]
[Agriculture ]
[Animals ]
Relating to the abolishment of the Texas Animal Health Commission and the transfer of its functions to the Department of Agriculture.
Sponsored by: Rep. Pat Curry
Read First Time on 03/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Schools - Water Safety - Instructional Content [HB-1127]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Water ]
Requiring each county board of education to develop certain instructional content on water safety for public school students in the county; and requiring that the instructional content be offered to students in elementary, middle, and high school.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin Holmes
Hearing Canceled on 04/02/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Applicants for Positions Involving Direct Contact With Minors - Required Information, Review Process, and Reporting - Alterations [HB-1105]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Human Services ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Requiring child care centers and youth-serving organizations to require applicants for positions involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information; requiring county boards of education, nonpublic schools, and contracting agencies to require applicants for positions involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information relating to certain boundary-violating behavior; requiring child care centers and youth-serving organizations to follow certain procedures when hiring certain applicants; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Edith Patterson
Hearing Canceled on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access - Workgroups [HB-1066]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Human Services ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Requiring the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access to establish a workgroup on the improvement of health, social, and economic outcomes related to substance use; requiring the workgroup to make recommendations on changes to State laws, policies and practices needed to mitigate the harm related to criminalization of substance use and related to the discharge of patients from substance use treatment programs; and requiring the workgroup to submit a certain report annually.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 763 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Confinement and Restrictive Housing - Limitations [HB-1107]
[Children and Youth ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Limiting the circumstances under which an incarcerated minor may be involuntarily placed in restrictive housing to the extent necessary to eliminate identifiable risk; prohibiting the placement of a minor in restrictive housing for more than 6 hours; authorizing a correctional facility to place a minor in restrictive housing at the minor's request; establishing certain requirements for detaining, confining, or transporting a child; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jazz Lewis
Hearing 2/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases - Prospective Tenant Criminal History Records Check (Maryland Fair Chance Housing Act) [HB-1077]
[Housing ]
[Crime ]
[Real Estate ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Prohibiting a landlord from requiring or requesting from a prospective tenant certain information relating to criminal history and prohibiting a landlord from considering certain information when evaluating the prospective tenant; permitting a landlord to consider certain criminal history information prior to extending a conditional offer to a prospective tenant and requiring the landlord to consider certain information provided by a prospective tenant relating to a criminal history records check; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jheanelle Wilkins
First Reading Environment And Transportation on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Residential Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Notice of Landlord Entry [HB-1076]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requiring a landlord to provide a tenant with certain written notice in a certain manner at least 24 hours in advance of when the landlord intends to enter a leased premises, except in the event of a certain emergency; and authorizing the court to issue a certain injunction or assess certain damages under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Healey
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 564 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System – Integration of 9–8–8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network and Outcome Evaluations [HB-1146]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System to have a State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, rather than a crisis communication center, in each jurisdiction; requiring each State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the System to coordinate with the national 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network to provide supportive counseling, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, referrals to additional resources, and direct dispatch to other services as needed; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 659 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Local Government - Local Personnel - Leave With Pay [HB-1080]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Human Services ]
Establishing that governmental units may provide disaster service leave with pay to certain employees; establishing that an employee of a governmental unit of a county or a municipality in the State may be entitled to disaster service leave with pay under certain circumstances; authorizing certain governmental units to waive certain requirements for disaster service leave; and authorizing a governmental unit of a county or a municipality to provide leave with pay under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Griffith
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 274 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act) [HB-1036]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
Altering the factors the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program, by July 1, 2026, to develop and submit to the Commission proposed siting and design requirements and licensing conditions; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. C.T. Wilson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 624 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Electricity and Gas - Emissions Reductions, Rate Regulation, Cost Recovery, Infrastructure, Planning, Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, and Energy Assistance Programs (Next Generation Energy Act) [HB-1035]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Climate Change ]
[Housing ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Health ]
Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration, in coordination with the Public Service Commission and the Department of Natural Resources, to pursue certain agreements with neighboring states and federal agencies related to the development of new nuclear energy generation stations; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. C.T. Wilson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 626 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Judicial and Public Safety for Service Members Act [HB-1060]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Public Safety ]
[Real Estate ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of judicial proceedings, corrections, criminal, family, public safety, and real property laws to apply to all uniformed services, rather than only the armed forces.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charlotte Crutchfield
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 262 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Service Commission - Study on the Electric Transmission and Distribution System [HB-1079]
[Energy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct a study on the electric transmission system and the electric distribution system in the State; and establishing that the purpose of the study is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the potential application of grid-enhancing technologies and advanced conductors in a manner that ensures system reliability and safeguards the cybersecurity and physical security of the electric transmission system and electric distribution system in Maryland.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Fraser-hidalgo
Hearing Canceled on 03/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Health - Medetomidine and Xylazine Consumer Protection Act [HB-1109]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
Prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, or exposing for sale a medetomidine product or a xylazine product unless the purchaser provides to the retailer certain proof; prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, or exposing for sale a medetomidine product or a xylazine product to an individual under the age of 21 years; requiring a retailer that prepares, distributes, sells, or exposes for sale a medetomidine product or a xylazine product to maintain certain records; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jesse Pippy
Hearing Canceled on 03/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Public Transit Service and Stations - Exclusion for Assault and Bodily Injury [HB-1144]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Providing that a person alleged by a public transit operator to have committed an assault or other intentional act causing bodily injury may be prohibited from using a State public transit service or entering a State public transit service station; requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to create a rider code of conduct and implement a comprehensive internal safety program to strengthen protection for operators and passengers; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 542 on 05/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a firearm safety course credit. [HB-214]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Taxes ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define terms; establish a refundable credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2030, for individuals who enroll in a firearm safety course during the taxable year; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide for the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the regulation of recovery residences and declaring an emergency. [SB-82]
[Housing ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Community Development ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 222.504 and 222.506 to require that recovery residences be inspected at least annually by state or local officials capable of ensuring compliance with all state and local zoning, building code, and fire safety laws, administrative regulations, and ordinances and establish maximum occupancy standards for recovery residences; amend KRS 222.510 to permit local governments to require an individual or entity seeking to establish a recovery residence to provide notice up to six months in advance to all property owners within 1,000 feet of the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/06/2025
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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to ambulance services. [HB-875]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
As introduced, decreases from five to three the number of business days an ambulance service provider has to furnish to a patient or their authorized representative a copy of the patient's run record upon written request; decreases from five to three the number of business days an ambulance service provider has to furnish a copy of the patient's run record to a surveyor employed by the health facilities commission upon written request. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
Sponsored by: Rep. Brock Martin
P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt. on 02/06/2025