Language included in HB 1075, the state budget bill, increases the telecommunications excise tax to fund and expand Illinois' 988 suicide prevention and mental health crisis system, ensuring compliance with federal law and providing sustainable support for crisis response services.

LB 9 broadens Nebraska’s tobacco laws to cover nicotine analogues, alternative nicotine products, and electronic nicotine delivery systems, also called ENDS. It introduces new taxes, tightens compliance requirements, strengthens penalties, and mandates forfeiture of contraband. The bill aligns Nebraska law with emerging nicotine technologies and aims to improve tax enforcement and public health oversight.

Sections 34-50 of AB 192 enact the Uniform Mortgage Modification Act. The Act establishes several categories of safe harbor modifications that can be made in recorded mortgages and secured obligations, and the act outlines the implications of each type of modification.

The legislation introduces the Uniform Special Deposits Act, which establishes a framework for managing special deposits in financial institutions. It specifies that a special deposit must be for the benefit of at least two beneficiaries, denominated in a recognized currency and serve a permissible purpose as stated in the account agreement.

Creates the Disability Employment Act, which expands an income tax credit for goods and services purchased from qualified businesses that employ disabled workers and that pay those workers at least the minimum wage. This bill establishes the Kansas Sheltered Workshop Transition Fund. The fund shall be for the purpose of facilitating transitions by Kansas-sheltered workshop employers away from employing persons with disabilities under a certificate issued under 29 U.S.C. § 214(c) and toward paying all employees with disabilities at least the minimum wage. The fund shall provide grants to be matched on a $1 to $1 basis by the Kansas-sheltered workshop employer from nonstate sources. Applicants shall provide transition plans to the Secretary of Labor demonstrating how they will use grant funding to transition away from employing persons with disabilities subminimum wage and shall commit to completing the plan to receive the grant. The Secretary of Labor may award additional grants to the same workshop employer upon satisfactory progress. Sheltered workshop employers shall disclose information as requested to analyze and monitor the use of grant funds and compliance.