The numbers below are the combined totals of all state assembly or house bills and all state senate bills for each state’s current legislative session based on their websites’ bill info pages (as best as I could calculate).
Alabama: 23*
Alaska: 244
Arizona: 1334
Arkansas: 512
California: 624
Colorado: 427
Connecticut: **
Delaware: 50
Florida: 993
Georgia: 442
Hawaii: 3224
Idaho: 244
Illinois: 3807
Indiana: 2209
Iowa: 473
Kansas: 534
Kentucky: 633
Louisiana: 2301
Maine: 976
Maryland: 2007
Massachusetts: 53
Michigan: 383
Minnesota: 808
Mississippi: 2494
Missouri: 760
Montana: 870
Nebraska: 698***
Nevada: 289
New Hampshire: 835
New Jersey: 6492
New Mexico: 956
New York: **
North Carolina: **
North Dakota: 840
Ohio: 170
Oklahoma: **
Oregon: 2078
Pennsylvania: 1142
Rhode Island: 593
South Carolina: 872
South Dakota: 458
Tennessee: 1334
Texas: **
Utah: 805
Vermont: 309
Virginia: **
Washington: 2090
West Virginia: 1617
Wisconsin: 41
Wyoming: 420
* Senate only. ** Website only allowed search for specific bill. *** Unicameral legislature.
6492 new bills! I know a lot of them are duplicates and most don’t become law, but that’s true in all the other states too. Is life in New Jersey so savage and chaotic that we need thousands of new laws every year, six times the average for the other states? We should amend the state constitution to limit each lawmaker to one new bill per session. And for each new law they pass they should have to repeal ten.
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