On August 25, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a sweeping new transportation plan that requires the sales of all new passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035. Citing the need to combat climate change, [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/33ft Summer is coming to an end, but the baseball season is still in full swing. While most people may not think of state lawmakers or legislation when they think of baseball, there [...]

This week saw plenty of action in state capitals around the country, despite it being summer. A few notable states held their primary elections this week, including Alaska, where ranked-choice-voting was used for the first [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/flySnow Following the 2020 election, calls for voter identification laws and other election process legislation have spurred legislative debate around the country. Voter identification laws are measures in a variety of states requiring [...]

This week, several states held high profile primary races for Governor, U.S. Congress, and the state legislature. In other notable news, several states are considering various pieces of abortion legislation, [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/designer491 Fentanyl test strips are essentially a drug testing technology, initially developed for urinalysis, but can be effective at detecting fentanyl and fentanyl-analogs in samples of drugs. Lawmakers around the country are looking [...]

This week is shark week on the Discovery Channel and you can catch up on some shark-related legislation in one of DMGS' blog posts below. In other news, lawmakers and governors around the country remained [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/barbol88 Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), commonly referred to as “red flag laws,” allow for temporarily restricting a particular individual’s access to guns if they present a risk to themselves or others. In [...]

It may be summer but lawmakers and governors across the country were nonetheless busy this week on a myriad of issues. Notably, the special Texas State House investigative committee released their report of the Uvalde [...]

The issues of firearms and abortion continued to dominate talks in various state capitals this week. Notably, California implemented a law allowing victims of gun violence to sue gun manufacturers and Missouri democrats want the [...]