A selective digest of bills and briefings of interest Thursday at the state Capitol. Click on the links for times, locations and details.

Senate Bill 1194 Regarding the hotel tax.

House Bill 152 Regarding workers’ compensation.

• Senate Bill 458 Regarding the GET and educational facilities.

Senate Bill 535 Basic rights for domestic workers.

House Bill 450 Hydrogen-fueling stations demonstration project.

Senate Bill 532 Breastfeeding in the workplace.

Senate Bill 1261 Defines brewpubs, taxes brew sales.

Senate Bill 391 Sets up Safe Places pilot program for youth.

Senate Concurrent Resolution 123 Opposing hydraulic fracturing.

Decision making on job security, the judiciary’s budget, partners with STDs and tobacco sales.

Informational briefing on prison escapes.

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Photo courtesy Clexow.

—Chad Blair

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