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States taking action to prioritize survivor financial security
States highlighted in the Map have introduced legislation in 2021-2024, that if passed, would impact their Scorecard. Click on a state to learn more about how states are prioritize survivor financial security.
2024-2025 Legislative Database
There have been over 300 pieces of legislation introduced across the nation in 2021-2024 alone that would impact survivor financial security. Use this legislative database to learn more.
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| State | Bill Number | Status | Year | Author(s) | Policy Category |
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| MS | HB 1406 | Signed into law | 2024 | Tullos | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Enacted provisions related to absentee ballot envelopes; prohibited rejection of an elector's ballot if a portion of the elector's signature extends outside of the box on envelope; added people who work on-call and those who are incarcerated for a non disenfranchising crime to individuals eligible to receive an absentee ballot; and provided for other revisions related to election administration. | |||||
| MN | SF 3492 | Signed into law | 2024 | Mohamed | Rental Protections |
| Description: Enacted various modifications to residential housing tenant and landlord provisions. | |||||
| WI | SB 934 | Failed | 2024 | Carpenter | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Would prohibit abusive work environments and allow an employee subjected to such an environment to bring a civil action. | |||||
| WI | SB 1064 | Failed | 2024 | Johnson | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would expand family leave to include safe leave for survivors and create a fund to provide insurance benefits for family and medical leave. | |||||
| WI | AB 1156 | Failed | 2024 | Hong | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would expand family leave to include safe leave for survivors and create a fund to provide insurance benefits for family and medical leave. | |||||
| WV | HB 4475 | Died | 2024 | Young | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would permit registered voters to vote an absentee ballot by mail in all circumstances. | |||||
| WV | HB 4545 | Died | 2024 | Young | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would permit anyone over 65 to vote absentee. | |||||
| WV | SB 247 | Died | 2024 | Caputo | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would enact provisions related to the modernization of procedures for voting in public elections. | |||||
| WV | HB 4836 | Died | 2024 | Hansen | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would enact provisions to modernize procedures for access to, and security for, voting in public elections. | |||||
| WV | HB 4614 | Died | 2024 | Young | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would establish a child tax credit as well as a child and dependent care tax credit, and authorize an earned income tax credit and student loan interest tax credit. | |||||
| WV | SB 309 | Died | 2024 | Woelfel | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would establish a refundable State child or child care tax credit. | |||||
| VA | HB 764 | Signed into law | 2024 | Delaney | Rental Protections |
| Description: Amends current law to permit a tenant who is a victim of family abuse, sexual abuse, or other criminal sexual assault to terminate such tenant's obligations under a rental agreement if the tenant has obtained a permanent protective order and has given proper written notice of termination. | |||||
| WA | SB 5928 | Died | 2024 | Padden | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would require the gender and justice commission to undertake a study on coercive control. | |||||
| WA | HB 2030 | Died | 2024 | Simmons | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would limit revoking a person's voting rights to only when convicted of a state crime punishable by death. | |||||
| WA | SB 6196 | Died | 2024 | Kauffman | Guaranteed Income for Survivors |
| Description: Would create the evergreen basic income pilot program. | |||||
| VA | HB 348 | Held | 2024 | Ward | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would expand paid sick leave benefits to all employees of private employers and state and local governments; require accrual of sick leave hours for fee-for-service workers; allow use of sick leave for reasons including domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking; permit more generous policies by employers; and provide penalties for violations. | |||||
| VT | HB 701 | Died | 2024 | Demrow | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would amend the amounts of the Vermont earned income tax credit and child tax credit, and would exclude payment of these credits from tax debt setoff. | |||||
| UT | SB 95 | Signed into law | 2024 | Weiler | Spousal Support Exemption for Survivors |
| Description: Recodifies and amends statutes related to domestic relations. | |||||
| TN | HB 2415 | Failed | 2024 | Dixie | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would automatically restore voting rights for people who complete their sentence; add seditious conspiracy to list of offenses that make a person ineligible to register and vote. | |||||
| TN | SB 2867 | Died | 2024 | Oliver | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would automatically restore voting rights for people who complete their sentence; add seditious conspiracy to list of offenses that make a person ineligible to register and vote. | |||||
| TN | SB 2166 | Died | 2024 | Yarbro | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would allow certain individuals convicted of a serious crime between July 1, 1986, and July 1, 1996, to request full restoration of their voting rights. | |||||
| SC | HB 4987 | Died | 2024 | Moore | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would establish rights for protected tenants and conditions under which they can end a lease, mandate reporting of domestic violence incidents, create the Domestic Violence Shelter Fund, and direct law enforcement to assist survivors of domestic violence. | |||||
| SC | HB 4158 | Died | 2024 | Pendarvis | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow a survivor to terminate a rental lease early. | |||||
| RI | SB 2575 | Held | 2024 | Cano | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would establish a child tax credit of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per dependent. | |||||
| RI | HB 7924 | Held | 2024 | Tanzi | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would establish a child tax credit of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per dependent. | |||||
| PA | SB 580 | Died | 2024 | Robinson | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create a paid family and medical leave benefit program providing up to 12 weeks of leave, including safe leave for survivors. | |||||
| PA | HB 2477 | In committee process | 2024 | O'Mara | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would require employers to allow survivors to take up to 20 weeks of unpaid safe leave | |||||
| OK | HB 4143 | Died | 2024 | Turner | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would create Charlotte's Law to modify voting rights for individuals convicted of a felony, including court notification of voting rights loss, voter education programs, updated cancellation reasons for voter registration, among other provisions. | |||||
| NY | SB 7996 | In committee process | 2024 | Persaud | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Would prohibit discrimination against any individual with an actual or perceived status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense, or stalking, and would require training on discrimination against such individuals. | |||||
| NY | AB 8971 | In committee process | 2024 | Lucas | Safe Workplaces |
| Description: Would prohibit discrimination against any individual with an actual or perceived status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense, or stalking, and would require training on discrimination against such individuals. | |||||
| NM | HB 6 | Died | 2024 | Chandler | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act, including up to 12 weeks of paid safe leave for survivors. | |||||
| NM | SB 3 | Died | 2024 | Stewart | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create the Family Paid Leave Act for eligible employees. | |||||
| NJ | SB 966 | In committee process | 2024 | Corrado | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would revise the definition of domestic violence to include psychological abuse and economic abuse. | |||||
| NJ | AB 3236 | In committee process | 2024 | Dunn | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would revise the definition of domestic violence to include psychological abuse and economic abuse. | |||||
| NJ | SB 1541 | In committee process | 2024 | Turner | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would permit voter registration at polling place on election day. | |||||
| NJ | AB 4616 | In committee process | 2024 | Tully | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would expand automatic voter registration process to Medicaid applicants and provide for voter registration opt-out following receipt of registration notice. | |||||
| NJ | AB 641 | In committee process | 2024 | Kean | Spousal Support Exemption for Survivors |
| Description: Would permit modification of alimony award based on cohabitation of supported spouse. | |||||
| NJ | SB 2201 | In committee process | 2024 | Ruiz | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Would revise requirements for cash assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program. | |||||
| NJ | SB 2175 | In committee process | 2024 | Ruiz | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Would revise certain requirements related to cash assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program. | |||||
| NJ | SB 3164 | In committee process | 2024 | McKnight | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would establish the "New Jersey Reparations Task Force." | |||||
| NJ | SB 1568 | In committee process | 2024 | Turner | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would expand child tax credit eligibility to resident taxpayers with children ages six to 11 and increase amount of credit over a period of two years. | |||||
| NJ | AB 927 | In committee process | 2024 | Reynolds-Jackson | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would expand child tax credit eligibility to resident taxpayers with children ages six to 11. | |||||
| NJ | AR 93 | In committee process | 2024 | Dunn | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would urge the President and Congress to enact legislation permanently reinstating federal child tax credit as provided for in tax year 2021. | |||||
| NJ | AB 2009 | In committee process | 2024 | Speight | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would expand earned sick leave, including safe leave, to all employees by expanding definition of employer to include entities who employ one or more employees. | |||||
| NJ | SB 1070 | In committee process | 2024 | Greenstein | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would expand the type of documentation supporting the use of safe leave to include an employee's statement. | |||||
| NJ | AB 623 | In committee process | 2024 | Sumter | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would expand the type of documentation supporting the use of safe leave to include an employee's statement. | |||||
| NJ | SB 1007 | In committee process | 2024 | Greenstein | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would prevent a landlord from evicting someone based on their status as survivor. | |||||
| NJ | AB 3741 | In committee process | 2024 | Murphy | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would provide rental and lease protections for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. | |||||
| NJ | SB 885 | In committee process | 2024 | Bucco | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would establish protections and relief from litigation abuse. | |||||
| NJ | SB 1636 | In committee process | 2024 | Zwicker | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would change motor vehicle commission (MVC) voter registration procedures. | |||||
| NH | HB 1619 | Died | 2024 | Gerhard | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would amend the uniform act on the status of people with convictions, granting individuals convicted of a felony the right to possess firearms and vote in their last domicile, specifying requirements for criminal record annulment, and allowing incarcerated individuals to claim voting domicile where they previously resided, among other provisions. | |||||
| NE | LB 1182 | Died | 2024 | Bostar | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would increase the earned income tax credit. | |||||
| NE | LR 346 | Died | 2024 | DeBoer | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would create a study to review landlord-tenant law to determine further protections for survivors. | |||||
| MO | HB 1603 | Died | 2024 | Bosley | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would remove voting prohibition for individuals confined under a misdemeanor sentence of imprisonment, individuals on probation or parole after conviction of a felony, and individuals convicted of a misdemeanor connected with the right of suffrage. Would also add individuals who are confined in jails to the list of people eligible for a delivered absentee ballot. | |||||
| MO | SB 1424 | Died | 2024 | Fitzwater | Designated Tort for Intimate Partner Violence |
| Description: Would allow individuals who were the subject of an intimate digital depiction disclosed without consent to bring a civil action against that other person and makes disclosure of an intimate digital depiction a felony offense. | |||||
| MO | HB 2573 | Died | 2024 | Schwadron | Designated Tort for Intimate Partner Violence |
| Description: Would allow individuals who were the subject of an intimate digital depiction disclosed without consent to bring a civil action against that other person and makes disclosure of an intimate digital depiction a felony offense. | |||||
| MO | SB 1069 | Held | 2024 | McCreery | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would establish the Missouri Earned Family and Medical Leave Program, including up to six weeks of paid safe leave for survivors. | |||||
| MO | HB 2505 | Died | 2024 | Bland Manlove | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would establish a paid family and medical leave benefit program providing up to 320 hours of leave, including safe leave for survivors. | |||||
| MO | HB 2597 | Died | 2024 | Walsh Moore | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would establish an earned paid family and medical leave benefit program providing up to six weeks of leave, including safe leave for survivors. | |||||
| MO | HB 2643 | Died | 2024 | Quade | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would establish a caregiver tax credit, a tax credit for certain vulnerable persons, and the Missouri Child Tax Credit Act. | |||||
| MS | HB 145 | Died | 2024 | Scott | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would authorize same-day voter registration and related provisions. | |||||
| MS | SB 2587 | Died | 2024 | Simmons | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would provide for the restoration of suffrage upon completion of sentence or placement on probation. | |||||
| MS | SB 2364 | Died | 2024 | Norwood | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would revise procedure for requesting reenfranchisement, allowing the governor to restore the right of suffrage to certain persons disqualified after completing any sentence and paying any fines imposed by the sentencing court for such crime, and enact related provisions. | |||||
| MS | SB 2055 | Died | 2024 | Blount | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would restore suffrage to any person disqualified by reason of criminal conviction upon completion of sentence. | |||||
| MS | HB 362 | Died | 2024 | Porter | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would authorize voter registration and suffrage restoration upon completion of sentence. | |||||
| MS | HB 358 | Died | 2024 | Porter | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would authorize voter registration and suffrage restoration upon sentence completion and five years. | |||||
| MS | SB 2087 | Died | 2024 | Turner-Ford | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would create the Sick and Safe Leave Act, including earned paid safe leave for survivors | |||||
| MS | HB 930 | Failed | 2024 | Rosebud | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would require the Department of Corrections to include in discharge plans whether individuals were convicted of disenfranchising crimes and provide eligible individuals with a mail-in voter registration application to register to vote. | |||||
| MS | HB 965 | Died | 2024 | Scott | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would automatically restore voting rights for certain individuals after completing their sentence, parole, or probation; prohibit removing a person's name from voter lists unless incarcerated or on parole for a disenfranchising crime; mandate updating voter rolls and pollbooks; and direct the Secretary of State to adopt voter registration forms stating that individuals whose voting rights have been restored are eligible to register; among other provisions. | |||||
| MS | HB 172 | Died | 2024 | Osborne | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would create the Early Voting Act, which would provide time for early voting, require notice of early voting in three public places fourteen days before voting beings, among other provisions. | |||||
| MS | HB 166 | Died | 2024 | Scott | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would create the Early Voting Act, which would provide an early voting period of twenty days before an election and continue for five days preceding an election, require notice of early voting in three public places eight days before voting begins, among other provisions. | |||||
| MN | SF 4258 | Died | 2024 | Mann | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would establish and appropriate funds for Task Force on Preventing Violence Against Latina Women. | |||||
| MN | SF 4097 | Signed into law | 2024 | Klein | Coerced and Fraudulent Debt Protections |
| Description: Omnibus commerce policy bill that included provision to improve existing coerced debt protections such as a creditor holding a harm-doer civilly liable for the debt. | |||||
| MN | SF 3748 | Died | 2024 | Gustafson | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would prohibit landlord eviction action against a tenant who terminates a lease based on their status as a crime victim and provide for eviction records expungement modifications. | |||||
| MN | HF 3810 | Died | 2024 | Moller | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would prevent a landlord from evicting someone based on their status as a crime survivor | |||||
| MN | HF 4347 | Died | 2024 | Norris | Coerced and Fraudulent Debt Protections |
| Description: Would modify coerced debt provisions. | |||||
| MN | SF 3994 | Died | 2024 | Champion | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would establish the Minnesota Voting Rights Act. | |||||
| MN | SF 4314 | Died | 2024 | Gustafson | Coerced and Fraudulent Debt Protections |
| Description: Would make improvements to existing coerced debt protections including a creditor holding a harm-doer civilly liable for the debt | |||||
| MN | HF 3591 | Died | 2024 | Agbaje | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would prevent discrimination based on tenants use of housing assistance | |||||
| MI | SB 835 | In committee process | 2024 | Chang | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would require certain voting information be provided to individual upon release from incarceration. | |||||
| MA | HB 4744 | Signed into law | 2024 | Roy | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would add coercive control to the state's definition of abuse that includes financial abuse tactics | |||||
| MA | HB 4241 | Companion bill enacted | 2024 | Michlewitz | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would add coercive control to the state's definition of abuse that includes financial abuse tactics | |||||
| MD | HB 1062 | Died | 2024 | Lopez | Designated Tort for Intimate Partner Violence |
| Description: Would establish that it is harassment for a person to distribute a deep fake representation that is indistinguishable from an actual and identifiable human being, and would permit a person to bring a civil action for defamation against another who distributes a computer-generated visual representation that is indistinguishable from an actual visual representation of the person and falsely depicts the person with their intimate parts exposed or engaged in sexual activity. | |||||
| MD | HB 800 | Died | 2024 | Smith | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would prohibit local governments from restricting voting rights for protected classes, mandate language assistance in local elections, require preclearance for certain policies, and prohibit voter intimidation or obstruction. | |||||
| MD | SB 660 | Died | 2024 | Sydnor | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would prohibit local governments from restricting voting rights for protected classes, mandate language assistance in local elections, require preclearance for certain policies, and prohibit voter intimidation or obstruction. | |||||
| KY | SB 292 | Died | 2024 | Neal | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would amend current law to provide convenience of the voter as a basis for absentee voting and permit any qualified voter the ability to vote in-person absentee during normal business hours on any of the 12 working days and two Saturdays before an election. | |||||
| KY | SB 12 | Died | 2024 | Armstrong | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would create a refundable State child tax credit for taxpayers with qualifying children under the age of six and set a maximum credit of $1,000 per qualifying child for individuals with income below designated threshold. Would allow a reduced credit amount for individuals with income above the designated threshold. | |||||
| KY | HB 734 | Died | 2024 | Timoney | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Accessibility |
| Description: Would enact provisions to increase accessibility to public assistance programs and appropriations to expand public assistance programs, promoting family well-being. | |||||
| KY | HB 118 | Died | 2024 | Kulkarni | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would prohibit disqualification from unemployment benefits for workers unemployed as a result of domestic violence and abuse. | |||||
| KY | HB 73 | Withdrawn | 2024 | Kulkarni | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would prohibit disqualification from unemployment benefits for workers unemployed as a result of domestic violence and abuse. | |||||
| KY | SB 214 | Died | 2024 | Yates | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would establish income tax credits for contributions to domestic violence shelters or rape crisis centers, renting residential units to protected tenants, and converting condemned property into shelters; would prohibit charitable contribution deductions when claiming the tax credit and would permit the Department of Revenue to report on tax credits. | |||||
| KS | HB 2781 | Signed into law | 2024 | Burrows | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Allow for compensation from the crime victims compensation board to be awarded for criminally injurious conduct, and increase the amount that can be transferred from the crime victims compensation fund to the crime victims assistance fund in each fiscal year. | |||||
| IA | SF 2380 | Died | 2024 | Senate State Government Committee | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would make changes to the survivor address confidentiality program and conduct of elections. | |||||
| IA | SSB 3161 | Died | 2024 | Senate State Government Committee | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would make changes to the survivor address confidentiality program and conduct of elections. | |||||
| IL | SB 3482 | In committee process | 2024 | Collins | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would restore voting rights to individuals convicted of felonies, ensure voting eligibility within 14 days of conviction, prohibit voter denial based on criminal history, facilitate voting by mail for people who are incarcerated, allow legal action for violations, and mandate a civics education program in correctional institutions, effective January 1, 2025. | |||||
| IL | SB 3652 | Signed into law | 2024 | Peters | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would require landlords to attach a copy of a summary of rights for survivors to rental lease agreements. | |||||
| IL | HB 5550 | Companion bill enacted | 2024 | Mah | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would require landlords to attach a copy of a summary of rights for survivors to rental lease agreements. | |||||
| IL | HB 5474 | Died | 2024 | Cassidy | Economic Abuse Defined in State Laws |
| Description: Would add coercive control to the state's definition of abuse that includes financial abuse tactics. | |||||
| HI | SB 2604 | Died | 2024 | Kidani | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would establish a court's authority to issue an order restricting abusive litigation and amend laws pertaining to litigation abuse. | |||||
| HI | HB 2183 | Failed | 2024 | Kapela | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would establish safe harbor protections for survivors of sexual exploitation who seek medical or law enforcement assistance. | |||||
| HI | SB 2660 | Died | 2024 | Lee | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would establish a refundable State child tax credit. | |||||
| HI | HB 1965 | Held | 2024 | La Chica | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would establish a court's authority to issue an order restricting abusive litigation. | |||||
| HI | HB 2657 | Signed into law | 2024 | Saiki | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would establish protections and relief from litigation abuse. | |||||
| GA | HB 1279 | Died | 2024 | Roberts | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would create the Representative Democracy Enforcement Act, which would require direct initiative petition sponsors to be campaign committees, prohibit the use of public funds for or against such petitions, and allow for rule-making, among other provisions. | |||||
| FL | SB 1424 | Withdrawn | 2024 | Jones | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would abolish monetary bail after a specific date and provide that the terms "bail" and "bond" in the Florida statutes include any and all forms of pretrial release. | |||||
| FL | HB 985 | Died | 2024 | Eskamani | Rental Protections |
| Description: Would allow a survivor to terminate a rental lease early. | |||||
| CT | HB 5498 | Signed into law | 2024 | Government Administration and Elections Committee | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would provide for video recording of absentee ballot drop boxes and retention of such recordings; require town clerks to record the method of receipt for absentee ballots; prohibit the commercial use of certain voter registration information; modify the timeline for the conduct of a post-election audit; and other revisions related to election administration. | |||||
| CT | SB 123 | Signed into law | 2024 | Banking Committee | Coerced and Fraudulent Debt Protections |
| Description: Would establish protections against coerced debt. | |||||
| CT | SB 7 | Died | 2024 | Looney | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would amend the Connecticut Paid Sick Days Law to expand access, accrual, and usage of paid sick leave. | |||||
| CO | HB 1311 | Signed into law | 2024 | Kennedy | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would create a family affordability tax credit. | |||||
| CO | HB 1101 | Failed | 2024 | Mabrey | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would enhance survivor's access to restorative justice practices in criminal cases. | |||||
| CA | AB 2200 | Died | 2024 | Kalra | Services and Protections for Undocumented Survivors |
| Description: Would create the California Guaranteed Health Care for All program to provide comprehensive universal single-payer health care coverage and a health care cost control system for the benefit of all residents of the state. | |||||
| CA | SB 1356 | Signed into law | 2024 | Wahab | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Requires the Judicial Council, when developing any training on gender bias, to consider the role of gender in court proceedings and meeting the needs of litigants in unique situations of vulnerability. | |||||
| CA | AB 2499 | Signed into law | 2024 | Schiavo | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would amend existing laws on unlawful employment practices to protect workers from discrimination for time off. | |||||
| CA | AB 3127 | Died | 2024 | McKinnor | Alternatives to Law Enforcement Responses |
| Description: Would amend provisions relating to mandated reporters. | |||||
| CA | AB 2422 | Signed into law | 2024 | Grayson | Safe Banking Protections |
| Description: Would direct the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation to create online resources on financial abuse. | |||||
| AZ | HB 2349 | Held | 2024 | Hamilton | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would establish an earned paid family and medical leave benefit program providing up to 24 weeks of leave, including safe leave for survivors. | |||||
| AL | SB 7 | Introduced | 2025 | Hatcher | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would create the Alabama Voting Rights Act Commission to prevent discrimination in voting and require the Secretary of State to establish database on election administration. | |||||
| CA | AB 2422 | Sent to governor | 2024 | Grayson | Safe Banking Protections |
| Description: Would require the department to make available to financial institutions and the general public online resources related to financial abuse of victims of domestic violence for the purpose of protecting the survivors’ assets and resources. | |||||
| HI | SB 2685 | Introduced | 2024 | Rhoads | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would establish litigation abuse protections | |||||
| MS | SB 2365 | Died | 2024 | Norwood | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would automatically restore voting rights upon completion of sentence and following a two-year waiting period. | |||||
| IA | HF 2610 | Pending | 2024 | Schultz | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would make changes to the survivor address confidentiality program and conduct of elections. | |||||
| MS | HB 949 | Died | 2024 | McCray | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would establish early voting. | |||||
| MS | SB 2200 | Died | 2024 | Blackmon | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would restore voting rights upon completion of sentence. | |||||
| MS | HB 1111 | Died | 2024 | Taylor | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would establish automatic voter registration. | |||||
| NE | LB 1324 | In committee process | 2024 | Conrad | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would adopt the Child Tax Credit Act. | |||||
| IL | SB 3284 | In committee process | 2024 | Halpin | Not Specified |
| Description: Would amend the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. | |||||
| TN | HB 2417 | In committee process | 2024 | Dixie | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would allow certain individuals convicted of a serious crime between July 1, 1986, and July 1, 1996, to request full restoration of their voting rights. | |||||
| VA | HB 904 | Pending | 2024 | Price | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would make changes to voter registration activities and procedures. | |||||
| UT | SB 0174 | Sent to governor | 2024 | Pitcher | Paid and Protective Leave |
| Description: Would establish a safe leave program for certain state employees. | |||||
| MN | SF 3999 | Introduced | 2024 | Kunesh | Not Specified |
| Description: Would classify survivor-identifying documents provided by medical providers to a sexual assault exam payment program as private data | |||||
| MN | HF 3527 | Introduced | 2024 | Coulter | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would establish the Minnesota Voting Rights Act. | |||||
| IN | SB 0172 | Sent to governor | 2024 | Crider | Victims of Crime Compensation Accessibility |
| Description: Would make changes to victims of crime compensation. | |||||
| IL | SB 3736 | In committee process | 2024 | Villivalam | Access to the State’s Policy-Making Process |
| Description: Would allow specific driver's license or state ID applications serve dual purposes without meeting REAL ID Act standards. | |||||
| HI | SB 2685 | In committee process | 2024 | Rhoads | Litigation Abuse Protections |
| Description: Would establish judicial procedures to prevent and remedy abusive litigation. | |||||
| WA | SB 6006 | Sent to governor | 2024 | Dhingra | Not Specified |
| Description: Would make changes to how the state identifies and responds to child survivors of human trafficking and sexual assault. | |||||
| HI | HB 1662 | In committee process | 2024 | Kapela | State Tax Credits |
| Description: Would establish a refundable child tax credit, applying to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024. | |||||
| UT | HB 0308 | Introduced | 2024 | Clancy | Not Specified |
| Description: Would amend provisions related to victims of crime. | |||||
| KY | HB 118 | Introduced | 2024 | Kulkarni | Unemployment Insurance (UI) Accessibility |
| Description: Would allow those who must leave their job due to domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking to remain eligible for unemployment insurance. | |||||
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