The Iowa House passed a bill Thursday retroactively bumping the premium tax rate for health maintenance organizations to make up for a Medicaid budget shortfall — a move Democrats and insurers said ...

AB 2600 would fund lawyers for Californians facing deportation, prioritizing detained people and nonprofit providers.

The Polis administration is asking for hundreds of millions of dollars to expand the state’s prison system, just as Colorado’s legislators are bracing for a worsening fiscal outlook. The request sets ...

Nearly a year after a critical public school funding plan expired, there is still no clear path to reviving it and teachers are opposed to the proposal being tentatively pushed by Republican ...

The legislature’s Joint Budget Committee has already been slashing spending for weeks as it works to draft the state’s 2026-27 fiscal year budget. That includes cuts to Medicaid, which is the primary ...