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House approves bills aimed at prison overcrowding (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - The House approved four bills designed to ease inmate overcrowding and make related reforms. ...

Committees advance bills in response to San Francisco oil spill (The Fresno Bee) - Cleanup crews would speed their response to oil spills and have more money and better technology at their disposal under eight bills that cleared their first legislative committees Monday.

Rates on Treasury bills rise at weekly auction to highest level in a month (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - WASHINGTON - Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction to the highest levels since early March. The Treasury Department auctioned $24 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 1.450 percent, up from 1.440 percent last week.

Committees Advance Bills In Response To SF Oil Spill (KTVU 2 San Francisco) - Cleanup crews would speed their response to oil spills and have more money and better technology at their disposal under eight bills spurred by the Cosco Busan disaster last November that cleared their first legislative committees Monday.

Committees advance bills in response to San Francisco oil spill (CBS 47 Fresno) - Cleanup crews would speed up their response to oil spills under bills moving through the state Legislature.

Rolling Hills project means more bills (The Fort Dodge Messenger) - Progress, and for homeowners, unwanted bills, are coming on the Rolling Hills drainage project in Fort Dodge. The City Council expects to award a contract next month for installing a new storm sewer in that northern neighborhood. And officials plan to charge 41 percent of the estimated $604,000 cost to land owners there.

Committees advance bills in response to San Francisco oil spill (KESQ Palm Springs) - SACRAMENTO (AP) - Cleanup crews would speed up their response to oil spills under bills moving through the state Legislature. They also would be given more money and better technology under the eight bills advanced by committees on Monday.

Power Cut Off to Hundreds in Hagerstown Over Overdue Bills (FOX 5 Washington D.C.) - The Hagerstown Light Department says its customers owe about $800,000 in past-due electricity bills. Service to about 300 customers with bills at least 30 days late was shut off last week. City utilities director Michael Spiker says other customers with late bills will soon have their power shut off too.

Bills offer more tax breaks to save, produce alternative energy (Spartanburg Herald-Journal) - COLUMBIA Bills offering bigger tax breaks for South Carolina residents to buy energy efficient homes and appliances are to be discussed by South Carolina lawmakers this week.

House approves supplemental bills for prisons, juvenile services (NewsChannel 4) - Emergency funding bills for state prisons and juvenile facilities are on the way to Gov. Brad Henry's desk.