Bills dealing with cow burps, the state flag and changes to police traffic stop standards are among the first to land in the ...

President Donald Trump’s fifth week in office included a dramatic shift in U.S. policy toward Russia, firing the country’s ...

Shortly after Donald Trump blindsided senators and endorsed the House’s plan to advance the president’s agenda last week, Senate Majority Leader John Thune convened his leadership team to ...

It was a session when the high cost of housing and closely linked issues of local government powers took central stage, as ...

A number of accountability bills have sailed through legislative committee hearings. Others could use some last-minute public support.

Amid a push by local leaders to conserve farmlands and open spaces in the Bay Area from future development, state senator David Cortese has introduced a bill that would shore up funding to preserve ...

Of the 25 priority bills Patrick identified, two had been filed before his announcement: Senate Bill 1, the state budget, and SB 2 — the controversial $1 billion school voucher program that the ...

And finally one of the other sponsors, Rep John Bear, R-Campbell, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, stood up ...

A new bill would give the Legislature direct control over high school graduation requirements. The House Ways and Means ...

Senators are chugging through an late-night budget “vote-a-rama,” a crucial, if dreaded, step toward President Donald Trump's ...

Legislators filed nearly 2,000 bills, plus more than a 1,000 resolutions in the 2025 General Assembly session. Most died.