Republican trifectas dominate active bills this week, accounting for almost half of legislative activity
Republican trifectas dominate active bills this week, accounting for almost half of legislative activity
Almost half of the active bills this week are in states with Republican trifectas.
Recent activity
Enacted bills
States have not approved any election-related bills since our last edition, compared to three in 2023 and one in 2022. To see all enacted bills, click here.
Bills that passed both chambers
Five bills passed both chambers since our last edition and are awaiting gubernatorial action. To see all bills that have currently passed both chambers, click here.
South Dakota (Republican trifecta)
Massachusetts (Democratic trifecta)
Nebraska (Republican trifecta)
Ohio (Republican trifecta)
Vetoed bills
There has been one gubernatorial veto since our last edition. No bills were vetoed during this period in 2023. Two bills were vetoed in 2022. To see all vetoed bills, click here.
Wisconsin (divided government)
Recent activity by topic and sponsorship
Recent activity by state and trifecta status
Of the 316 bills with activity this week, 96 (30.4%) are in states with Democratic trifectas, 149 (47.2%) are in states with Republican trifectas, and 71 (22.5%) are in states with a divided government.
The map below shows election-related bills acted on in the past week by state trifecta status.
All legislation
Enacted bills by sponsorship and trifecta status
States have enacted seven bills so far this year, compared to five bills in 2023 and 11 bills in 2022. The chart below shows the number and partisan sponsorship of enacted bills in 2024, 2023, and 2022.
Four of the election-related bills passed this year (57.1%) are in states with Democratic trifectas, two (28.6%) are in states with a Republican trifecta, and one (14.3%) is in a state with a divided government. The table below shows the number of enacted election-related bills introduced by trifecta status this year compared to 2023 and 2022.
All bills by topic and sponsorship
The chart below displays the topic and sponsorship of a sample of the 2,621 total bills we’ve followed this year. Note that the sums of the numbers listed do not equal the total number of bills because some bills deal with multiple topics.
All bills by state and trifecta status
Of all the election-related bills introduced this year, 1,311 (50%) are in states with Democratic trifectas, 803 (30.6%) are in states with Republican trifectas, and 507 (19.3%) are in states with divided governments.
Of all active bills in 2023, 42% were in states with Democratic trifectas, 43.8% were in states with Republican trifectas, and 14.2% were in states with divided governments. In 2022, 37.8% of bills were in states with Democratic trifectas, 30.4% were in states with Republican trifectas, and 31.8% were in states with divided governments.
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