Massachusetts—the state that still bans happy hour—just legalized 3 a.m. last call and drinking outdoors in designated districts this summer. Gov. Healey signed it days before the World Cup kicked off, with matches coming to Foxborough.
The California Assembly voted 61-9 to ban menopause discrimination at work—adding perimenopause, menopause, and related conditions to the state’s civil-rights law. Every mandatory workplace poster would have to say so by 2027. The Senate Judiciary Committee takes up AB1940 on Tuesday.
🧵 Pennsylvania’s House Health Committee takes up a bill Monday that would bar transgender girls and women from girls’ and women’s sports teams in public schools and colleges. It passed the Senate 32-18 over a year ago—the House has shuffled it between four committees ever since.
SB9 defines sex as anatomy and genetics at birth, and requires every public school and college team to be designated male, female, or coed on that basis. A student who claims they were “deprived of an athletic opportunity” can sue the school for damages and attorney fees.
Louisiana just signed the Caleb Wilson Hazing Prevention Act, named for the Southern University band member killed in a fraternity hazing ritual last year. It requires reporting suspected hazing to police, not just the school—and a public database of every incident and how the campus responded.
The House Health Committee meets Monday. Read what the bill does and tell your representatives where you stand before the hearing.
Nothing’s automatic—cities and towns have to opt in, and the pilot only runs through July 31.
Ohio’s legislature just sent a photo voter-ID amendment to the November ballot, clearing the House 61-27 after a 22-9 Senate vote. Photo ID is already Ohio law—the amendment would lock it into the constitution, beyond a future legislature’s reach, and exempts mail ballots.
Here’s AB1940 in plain English—read what it changes and weigh in before Tuesday’s hearing!
New York just voted to freeze new large data center permits for a year—103-38 in the Assembly, 43-17 in the Senate—and to keep data centers’ power costs off household electric bills. If Gov. Hochul signs it, New York will be the first state in the nation to hit pause on new data centers.
New York A11560 places a one-year moratorium on data center permits, mandates energy efficiency goals, and sets labor standards for data center.
