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Colorado Senate panel advances farmworker wages, rights bill JAMES ANDERSON, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - In this June 15, 2020, file photo, is an overhead view of the Senate chambers in the State Capitol in Denver. A Colorado state Senate panel is hearing testimony on a bill to grant minimum wage and overtime rights to thousands of farmworkers and allow those workers to organize and join labor unions. The bill, sponsored by three Democrat lawmakers, would regulate working hour...

Election office aided push to oust judge over voting ruling JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI , Associated Press March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5FILE — In this July 23, 2018, file photo, Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle presides over a court case in Nashville, Tenn. Almost every Tennessee House Republican says hearings should be held for the removal of Ellen Hobbs Lyle, who expanded absentee voting in the 2020 election due to the COVID-19 pandemic, sparki...

New Mexico puts surging income into schools, economic relief MORGAN LEE, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail A fence is seen surrounding the State Capitol in Santa Fe, on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. Republican lawmakers in New Mexico have asked that the state remove protective barriers erected around the state Capitol following the Jan. 6 insurrection in which supporters of former President Donald Trump broke into the U.S. Capitol building in an attempt to overturn the results of the president...

Ex-Florida senators raided home in bogus candidate probe CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The home of a former Republican state senator in Florida was raided Wednesday by law enforcement officials looking into his support of a bogus candidate in a legislative race. Boxes of material were taken out of the Palmetto Bay home of Frank Artiles, who multiple media reports say has been implicated in a plot to plant a candidate in a Miami-area state Se...

Colorado lawmakers consider permanent fence around Capitol March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Legislature is considering allocating about $1 million toward permanent fencing around most of the state Capitol building in downtown Denver in response to vandalism during protests last year, a newspaper reported. Recent renderings reviewed by The Denver Post showed plans for a six-foot-tall (1.8-meter-tall), wrought-iron black fence that circles the building but does no...

SC lawmaker draws ire from fellow Dems on transgender bill Sign In MEG KINNARD, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail State Rep. Cezar McKnight, D-Kingstree, speaks during a House Judiciary Committee meeting on a bill that would likely ban all abortions in the state,. Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 in Columbia, S.C. The bill has already passed the Senate.Jeffrey Collins/AP COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Twenty-three South Carolina Republicans have signed onto a measure aimed at blocking hormonal treatments fo...

Florida bill seeks to block trans athletes from girls teams BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Transgender women and girls couldnt play on girls and womens school sports teams under a bill passed by a Florida House committee on Wednesday. The bill, called the Fairness in Womens Sports Act, would require that anyone participating in girls and womens sports at the K-12 and college level be biologically eligible to do so. If challenged, they would...

Colorado Senate passes school cannabis medicine bill March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail DENVER (AP) — Colorados Senate has passed legislation to make it easier for children with complicated medical conditions to receive cannabis-based medication at school. Wednesdays 33-1 vote sends the bill to the House. One champion of the legislation is Republican Senate minority leader Chris Holbert, who cited emotional testimony by Benjamin Wann, a Douglas County student who takes a cannabis-based medic...

Kansas bill on trans athletes advances amid misogyny charges JOHN HANNA, AP Political Writer March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 8 1of8Members of the Kansas Senates Rules Committee confer during a debate on a bill that would ban transgender students from girls and womens school sports at the Statehouse, Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in Topeka, Kan.John Hanna/APShow MoreShow Less 2of8Kansas state Sens. Renee Erickson, left, R-Wichita, and Molly Baumgardner, right, R-Louisburg, confer d...

Georgia Senate votes to extend COVID-19 business shield March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state Senate voted Wednesday to extend a law protecting businesses from being sued by a person who blames the business after they contract COVID-19. The bill passed 36-17, with Republicans in support and most Democrats opposed. It now heads to Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk. Protections are currently set to expire on July 14, but the legislation would extend them another year throu...