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Ohio bill would extend Medicaid, add cost sharing
A Republican state lawmaker submitted a bill Wednesday to expand Medicaid to thousands more low-income Ohioans, with the hope that by adding changes such as copayments for some of the newly eligible that she could sway more of her GOP colleagues to back the idea. The plan from state Rep. ...
Retiring coal-fired plants in Nevada passes Senate
The Nevada Senate endorsed NV Energy Inc.'s plan Wednesday to retire coal-fired power plants and pave the way for the state's biggest electrical utility to transition to more renewable sources. After several revisions, SB123 was approved unanimously and now moves to the Assembly. Under the bill, NV Energy will eliminate ...
Snyder: Mich. could still get Medicaid expansion
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder said Wednesday he is hopeful he can still broker an agreement with the Republican-led Legislature to expand government health insurance for low-income adults, despite the state's tentative budget deal that leaves out the Medicaid expansion. Snyder told The Associated Press during an interview in Washington that ...
DONORS URGE CUOMO TO PRESS FOR PUBLIC FINANCING OF STATE CAMPAIGNS
c.2013 New York Times News Service ALBANY, N.Y. — As the capital is engulfed in scandals, advocates of campaign finance reform are intensifying their pressure on Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, urging him to persuade the Legislature to rewrite state elections law in the hope that change in New York could ...
Universal background checks clears state Senate
Legislation mandating universal background checks for gun transactions in Nevada cleared the Senate on Wednesday along a party lines vote. Passionate opinions flared from both sides of the aisle, with Democrats trumpeting SB221 as a step in the right direction toward reducing gun violence in the Silver State that needed ...
Bill banning sports kiosks from bars advances
Opponents of a bill to ban sports betting kiosks at bars and taverns hope to make a defensive stand in the Nevada Assembly after the measure cleared the state Senate. If approved, SB416 would prohibit the free-standing sports-betting machines in small establishments with restricted gambling licenses as of July 1. ...
NC House bill opens renegotiation on Dix property
A North Carolina House panel recommended a bill Wednesday that buys time for the city of Raleigh to renegotiate a lease for the 325-acre Dorothea Dix property with the state. The bill would tear up a lease struck in the waning days of former Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue's administration. Unlike ...
Highlights from around the Capitol
Texas schools could train teachers as armed marshals to exchange gunfire with potential attackers under a bill approved by state lawmakers and sent to Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday, while a key lawmaker said attempts to allow concealed handgun license holders to carry their weapons into college classrooms is likely ...
Republican wins Central Valley state Senate race
A Republican has won a hotly contested state Senate contest in the southern San Joaquin Valley, with his top Democratic rival conceding Wednesday that the race will not go to a runoff. The special election victory by Hanford cherry farmer Andy Vidak will have no practical effect on the state ...
Bill allows Newtown families to release records
A bill crafted behind the scenes in Connecticut is requiring the written consent of family members of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims before certain records concerning the shooting, such as photos and videotapes, are publicly released. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office released a working draft of the bill Wednesday. ...
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