Colorado's air commission holds its hearing on summer limits for commercial gas mowers and blowers November 18-20. In Texas, prefiled bills would ban noncompetes for workers earning $15 an hour or less, end state licensing of PEOs and two electrician trades, and require human override switches on high-risk AI.
The Bill Board 4 bills
State
Bill
Stage
The read
CO
Regulation 29 (5 CCR 1001-33)
Hearing Nov. 18-20
Commercial landscapers in the Front Range would cut summer use of gas trimmers, blowers and mowers to 90% of inventory in 2027 and 10% by 2032, and file annual reports
TX
SB 251
Prefiled Nov. 9 for the 2027 session
Employers lose noncompetes for anyone paid $15 an hour or less, on contracts signed from Sept. 1, 2027
TX
HB 849
Prefiled Nov. 9 for the 2027 session
PEOs, journeyman industrial electricians, journeyman linemen and dog and cat breeders would no longer need a state license
TX
HB 510
Prefiled Nov. 9 for the 2027 session
Deployers of high-risk AI must build, test and staff a human override, with attorney general penalties for failures
CO FL TX Colorado's graduated income tax appears to have passed and reaches business income above $500,000. Florida's Amendment 3 cuts the cap on commercial assessment growth to 5%. And Texas senators prefiled bills to repeal data center tax breaks and require a new state permit.
CA TX Companies with more than $1 billion in revenue owe California their first Scope 1 and 2 emissions reports today, with flat fees to follow. In Texas, new filings would end optional workers' comp in construction, add a necessity test for oil waste sites and cut medical billing time to 90 days.
NY IL TX With the election over, the unfinished business is back: 388 New York bills await the governor, Illinois returns November 17 with data center rules pending, and Texas opened 2027 bill filing with a solar tax repeal and a farm equipment right-to-repair bill.
CA AZ CO Two days after the vote, Proposition 40 is losing and the asset tax ban in Proposition 42 leads, but California's top income tax rate is now permanent and the CEQA deadlines are trailing. Arizona's grocery tax cap passed, its mileage tax ban is too close to call, and Colorado's gas amendment failed.
NY TX New York's Chapter 368 bars chatbot features such as flattery and long memory unless an operator first confirms a user is an adult, and a baby monitor law follows. Texas's comptroller proposes ending sales tax on electronic health records, and a PUC storage rule takes effect Nov. 4.
CA AZ Five days out, business taxes and permitting are on the Nov. 3 ballot in two states. California voters decide a one-time 5% wealth tax, a ban on new asset taxes, a permanent top income tax rate and CEQA deadlines. Arizona decides a 2% cap on city grocery taxes and a ban on mileage-based fees.
TX NY Railroad Commission rules for SB 1150 set four narrow ways to keep a 15-year-idle well unplugged and widen annual testing, and a carbon storage rule loosens bonding. New York proposes fewer bank investment filings and monthly, not weekly, nursing home bed counts.
TX NY The Texas comptroller proposes to undo a 2025 rule that taxed the fees online platforms charge their sellers, at a cost of about $18 million a year in state revenue. Texas also lifts its expedited-suit ceiling to $325,000, and New York signs a larger volunteer firefighter credit and lands a rare earth plant.
TX IL AZ Proposed Texas SB 17 rules would make lenders, title insurers and agents report suspect foreign land deals, and a newborn coverage rule for employer plans takes effect. Illinois will appeal the swipe fee injunction. Arizona certifies the Eagle Eye gas plant and credits APS bills.
TX NY Proposed Texas rules would make shrimp wholesalers label imports, while the alcohol regulator moves to cut recordkeeping and warning-letter penalties. New York's lead rule for older rentals takes effect, and gas utilities must start annual emissions reports.
TX CA The Texas PUC's large load interconnection rule takes effect October 8 and reaches projects already in the queue. In California, Gov. Newsom signed AB 1776 with a caution about its market power standard, put merchant cash advances under license and opened a faster permit path for retailers.
CA FL On California's last signing day, Gov. Newsom signed AB 1331 and AB 1883 on workplace monitoring, vetoed AB 1813 over a $1.5 billion ratepayer estimate and vetoed a health care AI override bill. In Florida, SB 488 and HB 1293 take effect October 1.
CA CO NY California's governor suspended the summer gasoline rules a month ahead of schedule and signed SB 869, which puts added-sugar icons on chain restaurant drink menus. Colorado voters will decide Amendment 82 on November 3, and New York created a rebate for battery landscaping equipment.
CA TX California's governor signed SB 886, SB 887, AB 2383, AB 2469, SB 1168 and the two reporting bills on September 21, over opposition from CalChamber, manufacturers and the data center industry. Texas proposed a home health and hospice rule that makes agencies suspend accused aides through every appeal.
CA FL Gov. Newsom vetoed SB 954, which would have rewritten last year's environmental review exemption for advanced manufacturing, and AB 539, which would have locked in approved prior authorizations for a year. In Florida, the last scheduled step of the 2020 wage amendment lands September 30.
NY CA Gov. Hochul signed a personnel-records access law that takes effect November 8 and a reporting-pay law for construction crews. In Sacramento, Gov. Newsom signed a voluntary system for third-party AI audits, while a narrowed AI layoff-notice bill waits on his desk.
CA NY California's governor signed 13 child online safety bills, including new damages for platforms found negligent in harming children and a ban on addictive features for users under 16. New York regulators proposed the rule that ends insurers' ability to raise personal auto rates without approval.
CA AZ Three California bills now waiting on the governor would raise the floor for farm labor, put a human in charge of AI-assisted firings and end private website-tracking suits under one statute. Arizona's budget tax law, with its three-year data center pause, takes effect September 12.
CA CO SB 492, the narrowed utility wildfire package, never got an Assembly floor vote, leaving utility liability and its cost to ratepayers unsettled. AB 1776 adds a single-firm monopoly ban to California's antitrust law. Colorado's graduated income tax, with corporate rates up to 8.4%, qualified for November.
CA TX AB 1577 and AB 2619 would make data center owners report power, noise and water use to the state and local permit offices, a year after a similar water bill was vetoed. AB 2124 would price energy mandates before lawmakers vote. Texas solar sellers need a state registration from September 1.
CA CO SB 1349 would have the Legislative Analyst rate six large corporate and investor tax breaks for repeal, while two other bills headed to the governor fix claim denials for providers and speed commercial plan checks. Colorado's rate cap qualified for November as the competing graduated tax waits on its signature count.
CA NY SB 1435, which takes the federal business interest cap out of California's personal income tax, cleared Assembly Appropriations on Aug. 13, as AB 2222's executive pay limit cleared the Senate panel and an industrial power rate bill was held. New York proposed paid family leave rules for union construction workers.
CA TX AZ The Assembly Appropriations Committee held SB 1054 and SB 1284 on its suspense file, sparing employers monthly hours-and-occupation filings and a public list of who employs Medi-Cal enrollees. Texas proposed its large load demand service, and Arizona's co-ops won a standard path for data center contracts.
TX CO NY The Texas Workforce Commission wants occupation, hours, county and remote-work data on every quarterly wage report, and its tougher work-search rule takes effect today. Colorado proposed a summer phase-down of gas equipment for commercial landscapers, and New York cleared a power hookup for Empire Wind.
NY TX New York adopted the RGGI program review, cutting its power plant allowance budget by close to 90% over a decade and raising the auction floor. New York's labor board proposed new private-sector and farm labor procedures, and Texas wrote a ban on new self-insurance groups into its rules.
NY CO The attorney general adopted age-assurance rules for the SAFE for Kids Act, which her own analysis says could cost platforms up to $144 million a year. Colorado's FAMLI Division set a 2027 premium and ended private plan renewals, and a 2026 law cut a grocery equipment credit to $5 million.
TX IL The Public Utility Commission of Texas would spread transmission costs over 12 monthly peaks and bill large loads on contracted demand for at least 20 years; comments are due Aug. 11. Pritzker signed a ban on store-credit-only refunds and a phone-call rule for long service windows.
CO NY The EEOC voted 2-1 on July 21 to propose ending federal workforce demographic reports. Colorado's HB26-1207 will require them anyway from July 2027. New York's financial regulator proposed a stablecoin rule built to match federal law, and upstate rate requests go to hearing Sept. 14.
CA IL SB 33 keeps the 45-day review, 60-day payment and 7% interest rules for public works claims past their 2027 sunset. AB 2175 and AB 2559 help warehouses, factories and builders. Illinois's new downcoding law puts a person behind every reduced claim from 2028.
CA IL SB 171, signed July 13, rewrites the second-injury fund that employers pay for through an assessment that reached nearly $850 million. Illinois fixed how its low-income utility discount is billed to businesses, and banned formaldehyde, mercury and some PFAS in cosmetics from 2028.
IL FL Gov. Pritzker signed SB 315 on July 6, adding a yearly outside audit that New York does not require. In Florida, a tax package with relief for packinghouses and cardrooms, a rule that 50-megawatt customers pay their own grid costs and a restaurant fee disclosure law all started July 1.