Federal, state and local bills on the causes CSWH follows, found by our daily update. Each links to its official page; the status and latest action come from Congress.gov, Open States or the city's own records, and the official page is the final word. Find your legislators to write to them.
Ordinance 2715-2026 would authorize returning unused $15,000.00 in HUD CDBG-CV funds to the State of Ohio for granting to a local non-profit providing harm reduction services.
Latest action (Oct 26, 2026): Status: Council Office for Signature
Ordinance to authorize the City Clerk to enter a fiscal agency agreement with The Participatory Budgeting Project, Inc. for payment to budget delegate facilitators and a $7,500.00 appropriation.
Latest action (Oct 26, 2026): Status: Council Office for Signature
PA HB 1964 would provide for a moratorium on the privatization of public water and wastewater systems and establish the Water Utility Reform Working Group; it was re-committed to Appropriations.
DE HCR 108, celebrating DEMEC Day and recognizing the Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation, community-owned not for profit electric utilities, passed the Senate on 2026-03-25 (20 yes, 1 absent).
Latest action (Mar 25, 2026): Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT Sponsor: Mara Gorman (Democratic)
SD Governor signed HB 1099 on 2026-03-10, rescheduling crystalline polymorph psilocybin in a drug product approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a Schedule IV controlled substance.
Latest action (Mar 10, 2026): Signed by the Governor on 2026-03-10 H.J. 547 Sponsor: Pischke (Republican)
MN HF 3910, which would remove authority for certain federal agents to perform arrests under state law, was referred to Public Safety Finance and Policy after introduction and first reading.
Latest action (Mar 2, 2026): Introduction and first reading, referred to Public Safety Finance and Policy Sponsor: Hollins (Democratic-Farmer-La)
Adopted Baltimore City Council resolution requiring an assessment of the City's readiness to comply with a 2024 Maryland act on naloxone availability in public buildings.
