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Local Government & Preemption legislation, all 50 states and DC

State legislation that governs cities and counties -- home rule, state preemption of local ordinances, municipal finance, and local authority. Deliberately broad: a city affairs office cares about municipal bonds, utilities and courts as much as about preemption fights, so the hub errs toward including anything a municipality is subject to.

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Enacted (171)

Advancing (18)

Substituted (12)

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Introduced or in committee (206)

Status unknown (53)

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Died or failed (40)