2021

Arkansas

Legislative panel OKs $25 million for Arkansas water systems • Arkansas Advocate

The Arkansas Agriculture Department’s Natural Resources Division will distribute more than $25 million in loans and grants to public water systems throughout the state, pending further legislative approval. The Arkansas Legislative Council’s Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review (PEER) subcommittee approved the money Tuesday for the third year of a five-year, federally-funded program, the Drinking Water State […]

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Alabama

Alabama IVF ruling spurs a GOP reckoning on conception bills | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

The split over how states should handle fertility treatments could force some abortion opponents in Congress to reckon with their support of long-standing abortion bills. The Alabama Supreme Court’s Feb. 16 ruling that frozen embryos used in in vitro fertilization or IVF are humans has ignited a firestorm over how to address personhood laws in […]

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