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IL HB 1897, an EPA-renewable fuels program, was re-referred to the Rules Committee on House Committee Amendment No. 1, Rule 19(c), on 2025-03-21.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org)
IL HB 1553 (Election Day Waiver) latest action on 2026-03-27: House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c), re-referred to Rules Committee.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
IL HB 2516 PFAS product ban: latest action on 2025-08-15 was Public Act 104-0231.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org)
Two years after Hurricane Helene, North Carolina voters are frustrated with a slow recovery that could carry a political price, Grist reports.
Source: Grist (grist.org)
Grist reports that Lula's reelection in Brazil kept an ally in the presidency but a rightward shift in Congress leaves Indigenous leaders facing more battles.
Source: Grist (grist.org)
Republicans have spent an estimated $183 million on television ads focused on transgender-related attacks against Democrats in the final phase of this year's midterm elections
Source: ABC News (abcnews.com)
President Donald Trump said his administration is terminating a Biden-era rule that aimed to cut methane emissions from oil and gas drilling.
Source: NPR (npr.org)
WV HB 4652 would exempt a municipal Utility in which the members are elected from local taxes and fees; its latest action on 2026-01-23: To House Local Governments.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
WV SB 935 would eliminate the business and occupation tax exemption for certain coal-fired merchant power plants; latest action 2026-02-26: to House Energy and Public Works.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
WV SB 531 establishes the First Amendment Preservation Act; latest action (2026-06-25): Chapter 153, Acts, Regular Session, 2026.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
WV HB 4583, Victims of Communism Day, latest action on 2026-01-20: to House Education.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
WV HB 4099, to disallow recognition of a drivers license issued by another state to any undocumented immigrant, moved to House Judiciary on 2026-01-14.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
WV SB 78 would prohibit financial institutions from discriminating against firearms businesses; latest action 2026-01-14: to Banking and Insurance.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
WV HB 5671: increasing the minimum wage based upon increases in the consumer price index; latest action (2026-02-17): to House Judiciary.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
WV HB 5275, providing the circumstances that a qualified voter is authorized to vote an absentee ballot by mail, latest action 2026-02-05: to House Judiciary.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
WV HB 4797 would create the Charlie Kirk Memorial First Amendment Freedom Act; latest action on 2026-01-23 was in the House.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
WI AB 788 relates to ratification of the agreement negotiated between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee for the 2025-26 fiscal year,
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
Bill AB 1077 on permits for firearms dealers, firearms transactions and safety, firearms crimes, an appropriation and a penalty failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
WI AB 1137, relating to evicting tenants for failure to pay rent, failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1 as of 2026-03-23.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
WI AB 103 on school board policies related to changing a pupil's legal name and pronouns failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor