The Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Agriculture committees will hammer out details on Medicaid and nutritional assistance spending and tax cuts.

After a truly brutal winter for ratepayers struggling to bear the cost of keeping their homes warm, Gov. Maura Healey’s administration is going nuclear.

GOP spending hawks lobbed shots at the package for failing to do enough to rein in rising federal deficits. And Republicans with concerns related to imperiled energy projects in their districts or the revised cap on state and local tax decisions registered their own complaints.

The GOP bill "fund[s] tax giveaways for billionaires and big corporations," U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said.

The Legislature passed a bill to tax and regulate consumable products containing THC derived from hemp, a legal form of the cannabis plant.

AID IN DYING ALIVE: Dozens of advocates who’ve spent years in the Capitol’s hallways pushing for terminally ill New Yorkers to legally end their own lives with a physician’s aid are finally seeing hope.

A bill to legalise assisted dying in Scotland has passed an initial vote at Holyrood. The proposals would allow terminally-ill, mentally competent adults to seek medical help to end their lives.

A bill that would prohibit landlords from evicting many low-income and pregnant Oregonians and offer rental assistance through the first year of their baby’s life is up for consideration in the Oregon Legislature.

What this does is remove testing from being the center of gravity for the year the way that it is now,” state Rep. Diego Bernal, D-San Antonio, said on the House floor this week. “The days of teaching to the test,