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DiDomenico Re-Appointed as Senate Assistant Majority Leader Senator Sal DiDomenico has once again been appointed to the position of Assistant Majority Leader of the Massachusetts Senate, serving as a select member of Senate President Karen Spilka’s leadership team. The Senator has also been tasked with chairing the Senate Committee on Bills in Third Reading and serving as Vice Chair of the Joint Committee on Education. This legislative session, the Senator will also serve as a member of the ...

Wyoming Legislature Reconvenes Today For 2021 General Session The Wyoming Legislature is slated to reconvene today for the bulk of its 2021 General Session today in Cheyenne. Lawmakers have already held an eight-day virtual session in Cheyenne as well as numerous committee meetings. But most of the high-profile items for 2021 have yet to be tackled by the legislature. Below is the remaining session schedule: Monday, March 1 Session Reconvenes. Senate Files must be into LSO in final form by Noon...

Well, maybe not out your window but definitely here at Parliament. That may need some explanation.  Parliaments House calendar is changed by hand. Some days are very, very long. Photo: VNP / Daniela Maoate-Cox The deadline is to save a couple of local bodies money by having them no longer obliged to run referendums they do not wish to run. Urgency means that when the debating wasn’t finished by 10pm on Tuesday evening everyone went home for a kip and returned to pick it back up at 9am on We...

How Nigeria can create State Police in 10 Days — Ekweremadu On Ekweremadu Former Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Committee on Electoral Act and Constitutional Amendment, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, says decentralised policing remains the way out of the mounting security challenges in the country, noting that with the requisite political will, Nigeria could successfully amend the 1999 Constitution in 10 days to the needed legal framework for state...

THE STANDARD By Moses Nyamori | February 17th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Deputy President William Ruto addresses grassroot leaders from Narok County in his Karen Residence on February 16, 2021. [DPPS] A proposed law seeking to provide guidelines for the planned June referendum has provided a fresh battle ground for rival camps in the National Assembly. MPs allied to President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga clashed with their colleagues in Deputy President William Ruto’s camp ove...

HELENA (AP) — The Montana House on Tuesday voted 51-49 against a bill that sought to penalize physicians who provide gender-affirming health care for transgender youth.

The climate bill vetoed by Gov. Baker has been refiled by House and Senate leaders in the hopes of quickly returning the legislation to the governor

Legislators want another shot at the apple.

Campus Carry Bill Sails through the House and into the Senate Berglee, a champion pistol marksman and U.S. Army veteran, described the focus of his bill. “The first thing that it does is what I consider to be permitless carry so it allows you to concealed carry in most of the areas where you can currently open carry,” said Berglee. “So to me, Montana law is very prohibitive of concealed carry but very open on open carry. Concealed carry to me, coming from a strategic or tactical safety ba...

Wyoming Legislature Announces 2021 Schedule The 2021 session of the Wyoming Legislature is scheduled to convene today for one day, with lawmakers being sworn in and Governor Mark Gordon addressing the legislature at 2 p.m. The public can attend the session today in person or watch via youtube. But because of COVID-19, this years session will be unlike any other in the states history: Tuesday, January 12 Session is convened remotely. Certify election results; elect and swear in leadership; adopt...