HB 25 78 (substitute) would tie tax incentives and other benefits to data‑center performance standards — energy‑management targets, cleaner backup generators, and clean power procurement — and launch stakeholder workgroups; supporters said the bill uses incentives to raise industry performance, while industry and some localities warned of competitiveness and retroactivity concerns; the subcommittee laid the bill on the table (4–1).

HB 22 33 would create a one‑time responsibility fee on large historical emitters to fund disaster recovery and resilience; sponsors emphasized shifting costs off taxpayers while opponents warned of retroactivity, legal risk and pass‑through costs to consumers; bill tabled 5–0.

Attorneys on the commission warned that retroactive parole raises separation‑of‑powers concerns if parole discharges a sentence before its originally imposed end date; commissioners discussed statutory drafting options to avoid future litigation.

On Oct. 27 the council approved first reading of Ordinance 26-14 to prevent newly deed-restricted housing from increasing the town's 25% short-term rental license cap. The measure prompted an extended debate over retroactivity, property rights, and housing funding; one member voted no.

On Oct. 27 the council approved first reading of Ordinance 26-14 to prevent newly deed-restricted housing from increasing the town's 25% short-term rental license cap. The measure prompted an extended debate over retroactivity, property rights, and housing funding; one member voted no.

Staff presented updated agricultural preservation rules and regulations tied to the county's transferable development rights (TDR) program; property owners asked staff to remove a proposed provision they say would apply new requirements retroactively to existing APDs; board kept record open and scheduled joint consideration with linked text amendment.

The agreement that Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, cut to stay in California underscores businesses’ fears about a major tax proposal.

Ordinance 48, amended to set a 50% renovation/value trigger and remove retroactivity, was adopted to require a separate bypass lane (to be known as "Megan's Way Out"). The Cullman family attended and urged broader adoption at the state level.

The models committee recommended replacing the tool's '0.5 max' depletion allocation with WebSquared/adjacent-expanding methods and updating transmissivity and storage coefficients derived from kriging analyses. Council members repeatedly requested pilot testing, external validation (pump-test and agricultural data) and a non-retroactivity assurance before statewide adoption.

Adam B. Thimmesch (University of Nebraska at Lincoln – College of Law) has posted Adjudicative Retroactivity and Constitutional Safe Harbors on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court’s retroactivity doctrine, together with much of the accompanying legal scholarship, has increasingly treated federal adjudication as necessarily retroactive. But that understanding emerged largely in the context of a constitutional history marked by the expansion of individual rights and by corresponding limits on government power.