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The amount it costs to hold a prisoner per year.
What is $30,000-$80,000?
A two house legislative body.
What is bicameral?
How often district lines are redrawn.
What is every 10 years?
State laws cannot conflict with _______ ______.
What is federal laws?
A single chamber legislature.
What is unicameral?
Laws at the local level.
What is ordinances?
Something included with a Special District. (name one)
What is education/trash removal/sewage/firefighters?
Specifies how land in a certain county can be used.
What is Zoning Codes?
How local leaders reach out to civilians to get opinions. (name one)
What is visit local coffee houses/send out email surveys/offer listening booths at local fair?
State legislatures powers include have the power to...
What is make and enact laws for their state?
Something controversial about land use and zoning. (name one)
Normally the largest territorial and political subdivision within a state.
What is a county?
The minimum age you have to be to hold office in the state Senate.
What is 24?
How often states hold sessions.
What is yearly?
A form of government where citizens govern themselves.
What is a Direct Democracy?
A unit of government that has a certain size population and geographical area.
What is a City?
The higher of the two branches in a state legislature.
What is the Senate?
How states try and keep crime levels low and people out of prison. (name one)
What is probation/re-entry programs/supervised community service?
Less than 4% of state lawmakers are under the age of ______.
A plan of action adopted by government decision makers to solve a problem or reach a goal.
What is Public Policy?
Policies recently added for voters. (name one)
What is early voting/mail-in voting/"no excuse required" absentee voting?
In California there is a law called _________ __________ where parents can sign a petition and if over half he parents sign it the school is required to become a charter school, close, or implement major reforms for better education.
What is parent trigger?
When water, sand, and chemicals are injected into rocks to release natural gas and oil.
What is fracking?
This form of government is where people have the most say.
What is local government?