Another 15 state legislatures have cyberstalking bills pending, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 34 states are projecting budget gaps for 2010.
The National Conference of State Legislatures has a nice round-up of breastfeeding laws.
Twenty-nine states have constitutional provisions banning same-sex marriage, the National Conference of State Legislatures says.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, thirty-two states have some sort of voting identification law.
Jennie Bowser of the National Conference of State Legislatures said the impact on turnout depends on who you ask.
Thirty-seven other states have laws or amendments similarly defining marriage, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Five states, including Illinois, have civil union laws, according to Lambda Legal and the National Conference of State Legislatures.
States have the power to decide how their electoral votes get allocated, the National Conference of State Legislatures noted on its website.
Nationwide, 14 states offer public funds to at least some candidates to state office, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
But states will not have a final rule on benefits until next year, explains Joy Wilson of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Forty-eight states all except Mississippi and West Virginia also recognize religious exemptions, and 20 grant exemptions for philosophical concerns, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Oregon and the District of Columbia followed suit last year, while 15 other states considered similar proposals, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
In the past two years, more than 1, 795 scope-of-practice bills were proposed, but only 349 were enacted, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Social-media privacy legislation has been introduced or is under way in 35 states since the start of 2013, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Last year, more than 150 bills were introduced in 25 states to regulate energy drilling, said Jacquelyn Pless, an analyst at the National Conference of State Legislatures.
New Jersey's 2011 law creates a presumption that a prostitution defendant younger than 18 is a "severely trafficked person, " according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
According to data compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures, 16 states, including New York, Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan, have increases slated to take effect on Jan. 1.
Much of the proposed legislation will die if it isn't passed by lawmakers before their current sessions end in late May or June, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
On the state level a July survey by the National Conference of State Legislatures found 20 had already passed laws this year affecting employment of illegals, up from 8 states in 2006.
To replenish assets, many pensions have reduced benefits to new hires and increased contributions by employees and employers, says Ron Snell, director of the state-Services division for the National Conference of State Legislatures.
In 38 states, voters will decide 174 ballot questions, and of those 34 are tax-related, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures which has a comprehensive list of state ballot measures here.
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Many of the more than 1, 000 bills pending around the country would nullify the effect of any federal ban on firearms, assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
In all, 37 states offered 160 ballot proposals, and the initiatives had no single unifying theme this November, unlike in 2004 and 2006, when voters saw same-sex marriage dominate ballots, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
An April survey by the National Conference of State Legislatures found that a record 1, 169 immigration bills--double the number from the year before--had been introduced this year in state legislatures and that the largest number (199) dealt with employment.
In the first half of 2011, state legislatures in all 50 states and Puerto Rico have introduced a record number of bills or resolutions relating to immigrants or refugees, according to a report by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
More than half of the nation's state legislatures have had measures introduced that aim to nullify the effect of any federal ban on firearms, assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, according to data collected by the he National Conference of State Legislatures.
Bills legalizing assisted suicide are being considered in Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, Kansas and Hawaii and in Massachusetts, where proponents decided to resume their efforts after the public vote, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, which tracks legislative trends.
That has supporters, including the NRF, the SSTGB and the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), mulling over how to revamp two bills, both called the "Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act, " which have been pending in the House and the Senate since 2007.
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