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December 20, 2015

Dem lawmaker says Vermont鈥檚 single-payer health care plan has already flatlined

In 2011, while the rest of America argued the merits of the president's Affordable Care Act, Vermont jumped the progressive curve, promising to launch the nation's first health single-payer system, in which state government pays providers to care for all residents.

December 20, 2015

Future of California's multi-billion dollar 'bullet train' becomes election issue for Dems with reelection challenge

California鈥檚 effort to build the country鈥檚 first taxpayer-funded, high-speed rail system is facing a midterm derailment -- as Republicans make it an election-year issue and lawmakers with re-election challengers appear reluctant to continue to support the most expensive project of its kind.聽

December 20, 2015

Federal judge rules Tenn. must recognize 3 same-sex marriages

In Tennessee, marriage between partners of the same gender is prohibited by state law and by a constitutional amendment approved in 2006.

December 20, 2015

Hawaii animal lovers seek ban on eating cats, dogs in state

The House Committee on Agriculture later advanced SB 2026, a bill to ban the practice.

December 20, 2015

Bill allowing Rand Paul to run for Senate, president advances in Kentucky

Republican Senate leaders in Kentucky cheered a bipartisan vote Wednesday that advanced a bill to let Republican Sen. Rand Paul run for president without automatically giving up his Senate seat.

December 20, 2015

South Carolina House votes to cut funds for universities over gay-themed books

The South Carolina House approved the cuts to the College of Charleston and the University of South Carolina-Upstate as part of their 2014-2015 budget legislation after bids by Democrats to restore the funds failed.聽

December 20, 2015

Three Utah bills to change rights of biological fathers in adoption cases encounter pushback

Loopholes in Utah's adoption law have been making it possible for pregnant women to head to the state and put children up for adoption, without consent of the biological fathers.聽 Now three bills have been introduced during the current session in the state legislature to change things, but there's pushback.

December 20, 2015

Montana ballot measure urging equal number of men, women in Legislature passes first test

A ballot measure in Montana that would require an equal number of men and women to serve in the state Legislature is a step closer to getting on the November ballot.

December 20, 2015

Vermont lawmaker's proposal to tax plastic and paper bags draws criticism

Critics say state Sen. Bob Hartwell isn鈥檛 providing much evidence as to why the tax is needed.

December 20, 2015

Study of pension reform costing Pennsylvania taxpayers more than $1 million

As Pennsylvania lawmakers continue to debate pension reform, the meter is running.