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NC House panel hosts public debate on voucher bill
A proposal to let North Carolina students use public money to attend private or religious schools drew fierce debate Tuesday from a state House panel. The House Education Committee heard from both sides of the voucher debate but didn't take a vote on a bill giving $4,200 annual grants to ...
Recent Missouri editorials
Southeast Missourian, May 19 Police cameras Improving technology has created endless fuel for the public-privacy debates of our time. We live in a surveillance society with the government and private sectors watching our movements. Whether it's Google or Facebook tracking our online habits for profitable reasons, or the government tracking ...
Requiring ACT tests for 11th graders up for vote
Every high school student in Wisconsin would take the ACT college entrance exam during their junior year under a proposal up for a vote in the Legislature's budget committee. The plan by state superintendent Tony Evers and Gov. Scott Walker was before the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee for a vote ...
Mo. bill would analyze eating disorder coverage
A proposal to study the effects of mandatory health insurance coverage for eating disorders is awaiting the signature of Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon. Lawmakers approved the legislation last week before adjourning their annual session. The bill would require the Joint Committee on Legislative Research to do an actuarial analysis of ...
Budget debate scheduled to continue in SC Senate
The budget debate in the South Carolina Senate enters week two. Senators are scheduled to resume discussions Tuesday on their state spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1. They have yet to tackle on the floor two issues expected to bring prolonged debate: Medicaid expansion and private ...
Conn. surgeons calling for medical spa regulations
Connecticut plastic surgeons are meeting at the state Capitol complex in Hartford to urge passage of a bill addressing safety at medical spas. They're holding a Tuesday news conference to highlight the need for patient safety requirements at medical spas, which offer a range of surgical and non-surgical cosmetic services ...
Annual Shroud Award given to Rep. Todd
The annual light-hearted humorous jab known as the Shroud Award was presented in the Alabama House of Representatives Monday night. The award, replete with runners up and less honorable mentions, is given yearly to the state representative who proposed a law that had little, if any, chance of passage. The ...
Conn. lawmakers announce mental health proposal
Relatives of the victims of the Newtown school shooting are calling on lawmakers to pass a child mental health bill before the legislative session ends in a little more than two weeks. Nelba Marquez-Greene, whose 6-year old daughter, Ana, was one of 20 children and 6 educators killed at Sandy ...
Bill backs Calif. mental health treatment program
The state Senate approved legislation Monday making it clear that counties can use money from a special state tax on millionaires for programs that provide court-ordered mental health treatment for those who refuse to get help on their own. Supporters of Laura's Law sought the bill in hopes that counties ...
NC Senate's budget proposal for 2013-14
Highlights of the North Carolina state Senate's $20.6 billion budget proposal for the 2013-14 fiscal year. According to budget documents, the spending plan would: — set aside $217 million for a tax overhaul plan not contained in the budget that would reduce tax rates, subject many more services to the ...
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