This Week in the States

For the Week of November 24, 2025

View our legislative session calendar here.     

  • In session or committee meetings: Blue
  • Upcoming or in special session: Red
  • Adjourned or in recess: Grey 

Also meeting: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, PUERTO RICO, GUAM, NORTH MARIANA ISLANDS and UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS. 

 

STATE AND LOCAL HIGHLIGHTS 

 

MASSACHUSETTS

On November 25, the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security will meet to discuss SB 2736, which requires that all short term rentals be inspected to ensure that they have a carbon monoxide detector. 

Contact: Patrick McCue

 

NEW JERSEY

On November 24, the Princeton Mayor and Council will consider an ordinance regulating short-term rentals, imposing an occupancy tax on transient accommodations, and amending Chapters 15A and 16 of the Borough Code.

Contact: Stephanie Rojo

 

NEW YORK

On November 24, the New York City Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection will consider amending the City’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act, adding paid bereavement time when any family member of an employee dies from a firearm-related death.

Contact: Stephanie Rojo