By four votes—216 to 212—the U.S. House voted to weaken the Clean Air Act for the first time in its 55-year history. The EPA scrapped the first federal limits on four PFAS “forever chemicals,” the Supreme Court narrowed the Voting Rights Act 6-3 in Louisiana v. Callais, and Congress again punted on the Section 702 surveillance program. In Washington this week, the work was demolition.

In the state capitols, it was construction. Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed the Utility Relief Act (House Bill 1532), making Maryland the first state to require data centers to pay for the grid upgrades they drive. Georgia (Senate Bill 540) became the first state to require AI chatbots to disclose they aren’t human; Oklahoma (Senate Bill 504) became the 17th to fully ban child marriage. States built safety nets too: Colorado's mandatory lethality assessment for domestic-violence calls (House Bill 1009), Pennsylvania’s Greg Moyer’s Law on school AEDs (Senate Bill 375), and Ohio’s FIND Act for missing-person reports, which passed 96-0. And the bipartisan bills kept moving—Mississippi’s child-care tax credit cleared 122-0 in the House and 48-1 in the Senate.

One country, two job sites: a teardown in Washington and a build-out in the laboratories of democracy.

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Bills in this episode:

• Michigan Voting Rights Act (SB961)
• Maryland Utility RELIEF Act (data-center grid costs) (HB1532)
• Maryland Protection From Predatory Pricing Act (HB895)
• Georgia AI chatbot disclosure guardrails (SB540)
• Oklahoma full child-marriage ban (SB504)
• Colorado Mandatory Lethality Assessment Act (HB1009)
• South Carolina domestic-violence survivor lease break (HB3569)
• Pennsylvania Greg Moyer’s Law (AEDs at school sports) (SB375)
• Louisiana paid leave for living organ donors (SB409)
• Ohio FIND Act missing-persons database (HB217)
• Illinois Transparency in Downcoding Act (SB3114)
• New Jersey sportsbook bet-limit transparency (SB3419)
• Rhode Island Warehouse Worker Protection Act (SB2504)
• Mississippi employer child-care tax credit (SB2867)
• Maine medical-debt lien and wage-garnishment ban (LD2129)
• Vermont positive rental-payment credit reporting pilot (H772)
• Virginia assault-firearms carry ban (SB727)
• Ukraine Support Act (HR2913)