From six daylight hours to whenever the heck you get around to it, snow-shoveling laws vary widely across the Washington region.

D.C.’s criminal code dates back to 1901 and still includes references to stables and steamboats — large portions of it have not been updated since then.

Laws to reform police, improve workplace conditions, and establish implicit bias training for health professionals are coming to Maryland.

Maryland and Virginia have a number of bills going into effect on July 1, including laws expanding telehealth, disability rights, and protections for tenants.

“If you don’t know the rules, you can’t play the game,” says the District’s Chief Tenant Advocate.

The D.C. Council met today for its annual legislative session, and here are some of the bills that legislators introduced.

D.C.’s many laws govern what the public can and cannot do, but those very laws don’t exist in the public domain. One open government advocate changed that.

The D.C. Council gathered yesterday for its monthly legislative session, and plenty of bills were introduced. Here’s some of what you missed.

It was back to business today for the D.C. Council, and it being the first legislative session of the council’s 20th period, there were a lot of new (and old) bills introduced.

The D.C. Council closed out its 19th session yesterday with a marathon session of lawmaking: some 120 bills were debated and voted on over a 12-hour span. We’ve got the big highlights, including Sunday liquor sales, bees, floods, and mopeds.