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The bane of some motorists is the governor's signature away from becoming a state law. A Colorado House of Representatives bill to allow bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs and red traffic lights as stop signs statewide passed the House 44-20 and Senate 25-8. Now it just needs Gov. Jared Polis' signature. The Colorado safety stop bill allows those age 15 and older who are riding a ...

Absentee ballots have seen a rise in use across the state and the country since the beginning of the pandemic and during the 2020 election. HARTFORD, Conn. — Gov. Ned Lamont signed a bill Friday that expands the use of absentee ballot voting in Connecticut. Effective immediately, House Bill 5262 redefines a "sickness" as an acceptable reason for absentee voting. In addition to a personal vot...

Gov. Larry Hogan, House Speaker Adrienne Jones and Senate President Bill Ferguson in a presser. (AP Photo) ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland measure to ban guns without serial numbers will go into effect without Gov. Larry Hogan’s signature. The governor made the announcement Friday on the first of more than three dozen bills he is expected to make decisions about that the General Assembly pr...

The agreement, which faced fierce opposition from reform advocates, will likely increase the population of people in jail before their trials. New York City Police Department officers arrest demonstrators during an eviction protest on Oct. 1, 2020. New York bail reform kept more people out of jail before their court dates. But debate over the law’s impact on crime rates held up the state budg...

PAGA authorizes employees to act as if they were state agencies in legal disputes with their workplaces. (Shutterstock) CalMatters On Oct. 12, 2003, five days after California voters decided he should be ousted from the governorship, Gray Davis signed Senate Bill 796, a valuable gift to the labor unions, attorneys and other groups that supported him during the recall election. The measure cr...

2021 was a deadly year for police officers in the US 03:38 Art Acevedo is a CNN law enforcement analyst. He served as police chief in Austin, Houston and Miami, during a career in law enforcement spanning three and a half decades. Acevedo has been active in the national debate over police reform and public safety, including his call for a national standard on the use of force by police office...

MADISON- Today, Governor Tony Evers signed 2021 Assembly Bill 727 into law as 2021 Wisconsin Act 223. Rep. Shankland introduced this bipartisan bill with a coalition of legislators in the 2019-21 session as part of the Speaker’s Task Force on Water Quality, and again in the 2021-23 legislative session. The new law will help protect our state’s drinking water and groundwater by creating a nitr...

The author discusses the key differences between the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act (“COGSA”), which defines the basic relationship between ocean carrier and cargo owner, and the Harter Act, which governs certain transactions that COGSA does not. The Carriage of Goods by Sea Act (“COGSA”) defines the basic relationship—duties, liabilities, rights, and immunities—between ocean carrier and cargo ...

Some so-called "idle warriors" are making huge amounts of money reporting commercial vehicles left running without a driver under the rules of a 2019 New York City law. One man has already made six figures off it. Former Mayor Bill de Blasio tried to publicize the law, called the Citizens Air Complaint Program, in his final days in office as he pushed his climate agenda. Here's how it works. ...

The state Senate unanimously approved Dillon's Law 2.0, sending it to Governor Evers.(wbay) MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has signed Dillon’s Law 2.0 that expands the availability of epinephrine auto-injectors for people who have life-threatening allergic reactions. The law was the mission of Angel and George Mueller, who lost their 18-year-old son Dillon in 2014 when he ha...