Senate

LITTLE ROCK - A Senate committee has passed laws protecting the rights of people with disabilities who need an organ transplant.Senate Bill 155 is also known as Lila's Bill after a girl with Down syndrome…

advertising From Senator Jennifer McClellan's office: Senate Passes McClellan's Law Reforming Criminal Justice System for Virginians with Mental / Developmental Disabilities and Mental Illness The bill would allow individuals to…

RICHMOND - After over 400 years more executions than any other state, Virginia could become the first southern state to abolish the death penalty. The Virginia Senate and House of Delegates each passed…

Parliament-approved workplace legislation, which later passed away during the last Congress in the Republican-controlled Senate, still faces a difficult path to get into law, even if Democrats have a slim majority in both houses.Democrats…

TEXARKANA -- Sen. Jimmy Hickey Jr. and Gov. Asa Hutchinson have slightly different impressions of what the governor said about the senator. According to Hickey, Hutchinson, at a fundraiser in Texarkana for his 2018 gubernatorial reelection…

Massachusetts lawmakers returned to the drawing board after Governor Charlie Baker rejected a provision restricting facial recognition in most areas of state government, revealing changes regulating police use of the technology.In the most…