As of March 2017, 32 states enforced voter identification requirements. A total of 15 states required voters to present photo identification, while 17 accepted other forms of identification. Commonly accepted forms of ID include driver's licenses, state-issued identification cards, and military identification cards.
https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_identification_laws_by_state
Concealed weapons bans were passed in Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813. (In those days open carry of weapons for self-defense was considered acceptable; concealed carry was denounced as the practice of criminals.) By 1859, Indiana, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, and Ohio had followed suit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_States
Bills and Resolutions. 0 bills and resolutions are on the House and Senate calendars for the coming days. Once bills are scheduled for floor action they typically have enough support to pass! Each year the United States Congress considers about 5,000 bills and resolutions, but of those only about 4% will become law. Congress works in two-year legislative sessions tied to the elections. The current session is called the 115th Congress and it began on Jan 3, 2017.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/
Voters in Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C. approved marijuana legalization on Tuesday. The Oregon and Alaska measures legalizes personal possession, manufacture and sale of marijuana for people 21 years of age and older. Florida voters rejected a proposal on medical marijuana in Florida, according to a CNN projection.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/04/politics/marijuana-2014/index.html
Because the law was a constitutional amendment, it needed 60% approval. 1  Voters in Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C. have voted to approve sweeping pro-marijuana legalization, according to a CNN projections.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/04/politics/marijuana-2014/index.html
State Medical Marijuana Laws. 5/12/2015. In 1996, California voters passed Proposition 215, making the Golden State the first in the union to allow for the medical use of marijuana. Since then, 22 more states, the District of Columbia and Guam have enacted similar laws.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-medical-marijuana-laws.aspx
The states use different terminology for licenses or permits to carry a concealed firearm, such as a Concealed Handgun License/Permit (CHL/CHP), Concealed Carry Weapons (CCW), Concealed (Defensive/Deadly) Weapon Permit/License (CDWL/CWP/CWL), Concealed Carry Permit/License (CCP/CCL), License To Carry (Firearms) (LTC/LTCF), Carry of Concealed Deadly ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_States
Beginning in the 1980s, many States. passed legal reforms designed to get. tough on juvenile crime. One important. reform was the revision of transfer (also. called waiver or certification) laws (Grif­. fin, 2003) to expand the types of offenses. and offenders eligible for transfer from the.
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/220595.pdf
Prosecutorial direct-file laws, currently in 14 States and the District of Columbia (Snyder and Sickmund, 2006), vest the discretion with prosecutors, allowing them to decide whether to file. charges in the juvenile or criminal court. Twenty-five States also have reverse. waiver laws (Snyder and Sickmund, 2006).
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/220595.pdf
Some states publish statistics indicating how many residents hold permits to carry concealed weapons, and their demographics. For example, Florida has issued 2,031,106 licenses since adopting its law in 1987, and had 843,463 licensed permit holders as of July 31, 2011.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_States
how many states passed c
215 states have passed c.