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AR
Arkansas 2026 Regular Session
ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE Jun 18th, 2026
ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE
Transcript Highlights:
- But we want to just talk about when we talk about modernizing our workforce and social services system
- innovating to meet rapid changes in employment, labor markets, skills needed for jobs and deployment of technology
- As I mentioned, with economic changes coming due to AI, quantum computing, and other technologies, we
- So what happens if we have another economic shock, and how do we respond if AI and technology causes
- So why modernization through integration?
Summary:
The committee met to hear consultants Mason Bishop and Cameron Christie discuss Arkansas’s “one door/no wrong door” workforce and social services modernization effort. Bishop argued that the current system is fragmented across multiple agencies, offices, and portals, making it hard for job seekers and employers to access services efficiently. He said the goal is to create a more integrated system that promotes upward mobility, longer labor force attachment, better employer access to talent, greater efficiency, and faster adaptation to changes such as AI and other economic disruptions.
Bishop repeatedly pointed to Utah as a model, describing how that state combined workforce and public assistance functions into a single agency, used statewide cost allocation to blend funding streams, and improved customer service and outcomes after reform. He said Arkansas should consider integrating governance, service delivery, and financing, including possible waivers, a statewide cost allocation plan, and a benefits-cliff pilot. He also said Arkansas’s current local workforce board structure creates duplication and weak coordination, and that Launch is a useful tool but not a full service-delivery system.
Committee members asked how the proposal would work in practice, including whether TANF could be used to cross-train DHS workers, how federal waivers might be obtained, how local boards would be affected, and how disabled clients would be handled. Bishop said TANF should be treated as part of a workforce strategy, that federal pilot authority for workforce reform nearly passed but did not, and that waivers are now the practical path. He also said Arkansas could either merge functions more fully or at minimum co-locate workforce staff in DHS offices statewide. No votes were taken; the meeting ended with plans to continue the discussion in August, including a focus on case management and whether the state is managing programs or people.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Employers across our state, especially in healthcare, manufacturing, and technology, need trained workers—workers
- It updates the statute to reflect modern workforce training goals and eliminates outdated course lists
- This is a smart, timely modernization of an approach that originally launched after World War II to help
- experiencing a significant shortage of credentialed employees, particularly in healthcare, industrial technology
- For instance, we have an AI group and a technology group, and we meet with them regularly to ask, "What
Bills:
HB173, HB184, HB484, HB678, HB 1211, HB1507, HB1705, HB1868, HB2290, HB2851, HB2856, HB3041, HB3204, HB173, HB184
Keywords:
foreign donations, higher education, public institutions, national security, funding, prohibition, Texas law, healthcare, insurance, affordability, access, public health, foreign influence, education policy, student loan repayment, prosecuting attorneys, border prosecution unit, financial assistance, tobacco, cigarettes
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Finance (Part II) Jan 28th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- With Technology and people—there's a lot of stuff we can do to be more efficient with technology now.
- But there's so much technology now.
- The darker line shows technology modernization appropriations, which is specifically for that AIMS development
- So it's excellent technology.
- So it's excellent technology.
Summary:
The Senate Finance Committee heard the Legislative Budget Board’s overview of the Texas Department of Public Safety’s 2026-27 budget, followed by extensive testimony from DPS leadership. The LBB presentation covered funding and staffing changes across driver license services, facilities, troopers and recruit schools, crime labs, vehicle and aircraft operations, and border security. The recommendations included added support for customer service staffing and trooper hiring, but did not include several DPS exceptional items such as major driver license staffing and technology requests, new regional headquarters in El Paso and San Antonio, and other capital projects. Members also discussed proposed rider changes, including a new rider to lapse unused trooper funding and require reporting after recruit schools.
Much of the committee’s questioning focused on driver license operations, where senators criticized long call wait times, low call-answer rates, appointment delays, and what they viewed as an overreliance on adding staff rather than improving processes. DPS and LBB witnesses said the agency is pursuing some technology upgrades, including automation, online pre-population of applications, and appointment-system improvements, but acknowledged that the driver license division remains a major problem area. Senators also raised concerns about whether the 2019 efficiency study led to meaningful changes and whether the agency should consider broader process redesign or even a different administrative structure.
Colonel Freeman and other DPS officials then defended the agency’s broader law enforcement and border-security work, emphasizing the need for the Williamson County training academy, the 500 additional troopers funded in prior sessions, and continued support for Operation Lone Star. They described DPS’s role in border interdiction, threat-to-life investigations, oilfield theft cases, Capitol and Alamo security, and highway safety, and said the agency is stretched thin by deployments and overtime. Members asked about border reimbursement possibilities, regional staffing differences, pursuit safety, fleet and aircraft replacement needs, and the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame museum. No votes or formal actions were taken in the portion provided.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- SF 4745 seeks to simplify and modernize prevailing wage reporting by utilizing a centralized database
- . modernization. modernization.
- So, modernization of process to bring some additional integrity and law compliance.
- So, modernization of process to bring some additional integrity and law compliance.
- <01:08:03.000>
we uh faster because of the technologies we uh faster because of the technologies
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- , not specifically for this, but technology funding in general for a number of different technology projects
- And it's funded through the technology fund. And I would... your job easier. Yes. Yes.
- And it's funded through the technology fund.
- I'm a technology advocate in every sense and convenience. All in favor of doing it.
- This is a modern-day bill, so I accept that.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- This floor amendment proposes non-substantive amendments to ensure that the renewable energy technologies
- how to live in a car culture. ...freedom and delivered, but the adoption of that world-changing technology
- Uh, society at that time, given those dangers, did not reject that technology.
- In particular, I'd like to thank the technology and judiciary committee chairs for their work.
- It's human responsibility and actions It's human responsibility and actions that can make a technology
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Address to Congress by the President of the United States (Tuesday, March 4, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Now, for the first time in modern history, more Americans believe that
- Now we have the technology. It's incredible. Other places have it. Israel has it.
- If you bring it up to modern-day costs, it was given away by the Carter administration for $1, but that
- We stand on the shoulders of these pioneers who won and built the modern age.
- Age these workers who poured Modern Age these workers who poured their<02:25:25.120>
sweat <02
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division I (02/24/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- However, in the modern age, it's Venmo, it's PayPal, we license Apple Pay, we license Amazon Pay.
- And then another example of looking at external costs: we have a project underway to modernize our data
- a project underway to move to modernize a project underway to move to modernize our<00:14:10.079
- I'm the commissioner of the Department of Information Technology.
- <03:18:02.359>
to us and you know I use technology to us and you know I use technology to
Summary:
The committee first heard the Banking Department’s fiscal year 2026-2027 budget presentation from Commissioner Amelia Galeri. She described the department as a self-funded consumer protection regulator overseeing two main areas: the Banking Trust Division, which supervises state-chartered banks, credit unions, and trust companies, and the Consumer Credit Division, which oversees more than 7,000 licensees including mortgage and money transmitter businesses. She said the department’s budget is about 86% salaries and benefits, with 53 positions all filled, and explained that the agency funds itself through fees, fines, and end-of-year assessments on regulated entities.
Galeri said the department is facing workload growth from several directions: continued growth in the trust industry, increased fintech supervision, and a new requirement to regularly examine auto dealers that take finance applications, which adds about 300 exams over two fiscal years. She said the department was directed to flat-fund its budget based on 2025 levels but was allowed to increase travel and training. To stay within that limit, she said the department reduced office space, went paperless, converted administrative and licensing positions into examiner positions, and expects to defund an embedded DOJ database administrator position once a new SharePoint system is fully implemented.
Members asked about how the department’s revenue and assessments work, including whether fees were increasing and how much existing banks would pay. Galeri said fees are not being raised, most banks pay little or no fines, and assessments are based largely on asset size, with trust companies paying the bulk. She also explained that fines are set by statute, generally capped at $2,500 per violation for consumer credit entities, and said she would not recommend increasing that cap. The committee then voted to accept the Banking Department’s budget proposal as presented in HQ1, with a motion and second and no discussion.
The transcript then moved to the Department of Energy budget. Commissioner Jared Chakin and Chief of Operations Lenny Radio discussed federal program funding, including LIHEAP fuel assistance and weatherization. They said the apparent drop in fuel assistance funding from FY 2024 actuals to the budgeted amount is due to the loss of ARPA and CARES Act supplemental funds, while weatherization remains a federally constrained program with a waiting list and limited flexibility. Members also asked about a proposed transfer from the renewable energy fund; staff said the transfer would still allow the department to carry out its statutory duties for the year, though the committee deferred deeper discussion until House Bill 2.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jun 2nd, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It's time our laws catch up to the technology so our constituents don't literally pay the price.
- It modernizes our antitrust laws.
- Today, I present AB 561, a bill that modernizes the process for obtaining.
- Assembly Bill 979 by Assemblymember Irwin, an act relating to technology.
- Specifically, these technologies make it easier for images, audio.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- technology and how you plan to do that? technology and how you plan to do that?
- <03:07:23.200>
Those technologies like iron battery. - Those technologies like iron battery.
- New technology allows about spent fuel.
- found out he's developing the technology found out he's developing the technology that<04:13:34.640
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-03-11 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill modernizes Florida's trademark registration process.
- The amendment does not ban technology.
- The amendment does not ban technology.
- Identification is prohibited from using this technology.
- I feel like this bill is stymying innovation and technology.
Summary:
The Florida Senate convened with a quorum, opened with a prayer and Pledge of Allegiance, and heard several member introductions recognizing guests, interns, public servants, and a resolution honoring Indiana University quarterback Fernando Mendoza for winning the Heisman Trophy. The chamber then moved to the special order calendar and took up a series of bills, with some measures temporarily postponed and others advanced after brief debate and, in several cases, substitution of House companions for Senate bills.
The first major bill passed was CS/CS/HB 355 on health care patient protection, which requires hospitals with emergency departments to have pediatric emergency care policies, training, equipment, and a designated pediatric coordinator; it passed 36-0. The Senate also passed CS/HB 1113 on public records, expanding confidentiality protections for victims and temporarily protecting the name of a law enforcement officer who becomes a victim in the line of duty; it passed 33-4. CS/CS/HB 1085 on local government cybersecurity was amended to place the program under the Florida Digital Service and to adjust grant timing, then passed 37-0. CS/CS/HB 925 on clerks of court passed 38-0 after amendments affecting revenue retention, legal notices, traffic citation distributions, and municipal fee sharing. CS/CS/HB 679 on trademark registration modernization and CS/CS/HB 589 on septic permit timing also passed unanimously.
The most extensive debate centered on CS/CS/HB 991 / SB 1334, an elections bill that would use Real ID data to verify citizenship, change voter ID rules, alter candidate qualifying requirements, and revise election administration procedures. Senators offered and debated numerous amendments on documentation fees, senior exemptions, human review versus automated systems, student and retirement-center IDs, and effective dates; most were defeated, though one amendment adding stock-trading disclosure language for candidates was adopted. The bill’s sponsor cited election-crimes reports and specific prosecutions involving non-citizens as justification for the measure, while opponents argued it could disenfranchise eligible voters, especially students and seniors. The transcript ends during continued questioning and debate on that elections bill, before final disposition is shown.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Health Apr 21st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- improving surveillance, testing, treatment, and vaccine expertise and delivery, and data system modernization
- to address vaccine-preventable disease surveillance and response to outbreaks, including data modernization
- These have been key investments to address infrastructure that had not been enhanced, modernized, or
- I would just say, like ELC funding, it allowed California to modernize our outdated IT infrastructure
- members, the directors of those public health labs, are striving for the best science, the best technology
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Environment Committee Meeting - 2025-03-25
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- They use the state parks, and they want modern and high-quality experiences.
- Our anglers want modern and functional fish hatcheries that will ensure that angling opportunities are
- To the question about Bedorah Nursery, there were a number of phases to modernizing that facility.
- key issue, as there's been conflicting testimony and some challenges trying to make sure that the technology
- It's important to understand that many modern cadmium pigments are encapsulated or bound within a matrix
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- By modernizing these systems, we month.
- By modernizing these systems, we will<00:26:05.840>
improve <00:26:06.320>energy <00:26: - <01:20:49.440>
aging costing 8.1 million will modernize aging costing 8.1 million will modernize - Uh this bill will give us a great concept design and study resulting in a modern-day interchange.
- <01:32:07.120>
Washington modern-day interchange. Washington modern-day interchange.
Bills:
HF2178, HF942, HF2470, HF1043, HF1287, HF1229, HF1230, HF424, HF571, HF404, HF910, HF1055, HF318, HF319, HF401, HF609, HF306, HF1599, HF1881
Keywords:
HF2178, Cohasset, capital investment, bonding bill, state bonds, public infrastructure, water tower, water infrastructure, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, street reconstruction, municipal infrastructure, Public Facilities Authority, bond proceeds fund, Minnesota bonding, local government aid, utility infrastructure, public works, infrastructure, stormwater
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
01/13/2026 - Senate Regulatory Affairs & Government Efficiency Committee of Reference
Senate Regulatory Affairs & Government Efficiency Committee of Reference
Transcript Highlights:
- We are using this process here to modernize our systems and keep pace with a rapidly evolving industry
- We have already implemented an interim solution while we build a long-term technology solution, which
- The remaining items are in progress and are part of the same modernization and process improvement work
- Second, we successfully implemented Senate Bill 1679 in 2024, which helped modernize how the industry
- We focus on safety first, modernizing our regulatory approach, and effective... ...safety first, modernizing
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee Mar 26th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- If we underfund our IOUs, we will threaten the stability, safety, and reliability of our modern power
- We will see we will threaten the stability, safety, and of our modern power service. Thank you.
- So my bill has many exceptions, like safety enhancement, commodity costs, and modernization.
- And modernization.
- You did legislation last year looking at grid-enhancing technologies.
Summary:
The committee first heard AB 13, which would restructure the CPUC to increase legislative oversight, add legislative liaisons, require more detailed and timely reporting on rate-setting decisions, and add a public advocate member. The author and supporters argued the bill would improve transparency, accountability, and geographic diversity in CPUC decision-making amid rising utility rates. Witnesses from TURN, San Joaquin County, SDG&E, and former CPUC Commissioner Loretta Lynch offered support or support-in-principle, while no opposition testimony was presented. Members generally praised the bill’s transparency goals, and AB 13 passed 10-0 to Appropriations, with the roll left open for absent members.
The committee then adopted the 2025-2026 committee rules and approved three consent items: AB 61, AB 365, and AB 406. The next bill, AB 99, would cap investor-owned utility rate increases above inflation except for specified costs such as safety, modernization, and fuel/commodity costs. The author and supporters, including a representative of the California Senior Legislature, said the bill was needed to protect ratepayers, especially seniors and low-income customers, from repeated rate hikes. Opposition came from utility labor, utilities, the Chamber of Commerce, and others, who argued the bill was too simplistic, could suppress labor costs, and did not account for major cost drivers such as wildfire mitigation, mandates, and net metering. Several members supported moving the bill forward as a starting point on affordability, while others criticized it as overly blunt. AB 99 passed 11-0 to Appropriations, with the roll left open.
The hearing then shifted to an informational panel on strategies to reduce California transmission costs. A Public Advocates Office staffer described a growing backlog of approved-but-unbuilt transmission projects, rising transmission access charges, and long project timelines driven largely by utility pre-application and construction periods. Panelists from Net Zero California and consulting firms presented research suggesting that public financing or public-private partnership lease models could reduce transmission costs by lowering financing, tax, and capital costs, with estimated savings of up to 57% and as much as $123 billion over 40 years. PG&E’s representative said the utility is already pursuing federal loan guarantees, grants, and a public-private partnership with Citizens Energy, but warned that state ownership could create tax, wildfire-liability, and governance risks. Members asked about the CPUC’s role, the causes of delays, and whether public financing could complement existing competitive solicitation processes.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- As a father of a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old, I can tell you that technology is coming more and more
- As a father of a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old, I can tell you that technology is coming more and more
- 1046, Senator Weber's bill, to make some modifications to the Shortline railroad infrastructure modernization
- 1046, Senator Weber's bill, to make some modifications to the Shortline railroad infrastructure modernization
- 1046, Senator Weber's bill, to make some modifications to the Shortline railroad infrastructure modernization
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Just allow me two minutes to maybe go over the modernization of public notice in Florida.
- So the 2012 bill did help modernize notices, but this was not the end.
- newspaper where the public expects them to be, but at the same time, striving to keep up with technological
- applicable standard of care, including but not limited to care related to assisted reproductive technologies
- , there are many fertilized human eggs on hand that have been created by assistive reproductive technology
Summary:
The Judiciary Committee took up two bills. SB 98, by Senator Harrell, would let self-storage facilities advertise lien sales either in a newspaper or on a qualifying website, while keeping other notice requirements in place and updating contact information provisions. Supporters, including the Florida Press Association and several newspaper/storage owners, argued print and digital newspaper notices already provide broad public notice and that the bill could reduce notice effectiveness; the sponsor said the bill is an optional modernization and does not affect government notices. After debate, the committee voted 8-1 to report SB 98 favorably.
The committee then heard SB 164, by Senator Grall, which expands Florida’s Wrongful Death Act to allow parents to recover civil damages for the death of an unborn child at any stage of development, with carve-outs for the mother and lawful medical care. The sponsor said the bill aligns civil law with Florida’s criminal protections for unborn children and gives families a remedy where current law may not. Opponents, including the ACLU of Florida, health care workers, and others, warned it could invite lawsuits against doctors, hospitals, friends, family members, and people involved in abortion access, and could worsen OB-GYN shortages and deter care. Supporters said it recognizes unborn life and should be treated consistently with existing wrongful death law. The committee approved SB 164 on a 4-3 vote and then adjourned.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- But we also have incredible potential to grow, whether it's embracing new technology or strengthening
- Also, we have a new technology that is starting to show up on Texas farms that is going to give us the
- So that's a lot of the new technology that is happening. across the state so as I mentioned Texas Dairy
- Texas must invest in modernized irrigation infrastructure. to maximize the efficiency of available water
- impact of water shortages such as low interest loans or grants. for on-farm water conservation technology
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Natural Resources & Energy. (3-4-26)
Natural Resources & Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- The purpose of Senate Bill 8 is to modernize Kentucky's Public Service Commission to better handle the
- Public Service modernize Kentucky's Public Service Commission<00:27:46.280>
to <00:27:46.440>< - It modernizes Kentucky's threshold to 5 miles while preserving the oversight of larger projects.
- It modernizes Kentucky's threshold to 5 miles while preserving the oversight of larger projects.
- It modernizes Kentucky's threshold to 5 miles while preserving the oversight of larger projects.
Keywords:
Meeting Start 00:00:00
Attendance Roll Call 00:00:38
SB 213 Discussion 00:01:23
SB 213 Roll Call Vote 00:20:45
SB 8 Discussion 00:26:23
SB 8 Roll Call Vote 00:58:16, 958, all
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum, approved the prior minutes, and first heard Senate Bill 213 from Senator Phillip Wheeler. He described the bill as a response to rising electric bills, especially in Eastern Kentucky, and said it would give the Public Service Commission more tools to push utilities toward least-cost planning, require stronger integrated resource plans, and address utility service territories, utility sales, and generation contracts. He argued that monopoly service territories are privileges granted by the Commonwealth, not irrevocable rights, and said the bill would help prevent ratepayers from bearing the cost of poor utility decisions or sale premiums. He also said the bill would allow large new loads, such as data centers, to choose alternative power sources in certain areas to encourage economic development.
Members asked questions about how the bill would work, especially the section stating that service territory rights belong to the Commonwealth and the provision dealing with utility sale premiums. Senator Wheeler explained that if a utility is sold at a premium, that premium should not simply be passed on to customers, and he said the bill aims to reduce costs for ratepayers and create more competition. Several members spoke in support of the bill’s goals while noting the complexity of utility regulation. Senator West said some companies had not been responsive to concerns about rates, Senator Williams said he would pass but wanted utilities to have enough generation to serve Kentucky users, and Chair Smith said the bill was a smart approach within the legislature’s limited authority. The committee then voted to report Senate Bill 213 favorably with the expression that the same shall pass.
The committee then took up Senate Bill 8 from Senator Brandon Smith, which would modernize the Public Service Commission. He said the bill and committee substitute were intended to help the PSC handle increasingly complex utility regulation, infrastructure investment, and rate cases by expanding the commission from three to five members, with three gubernatorial appointees and two appointed by the Auditor of Public Accounts. He also said the bill would adjust the threshold for PSC review of electric transmission construction from one mile to five miles, to reduce delays while preserving oversight of major projects, and would update appointment terms and other language in the substitute. Smith said the changes were meant to improve staffing and expertise at the PSC and speed transmission buildout. The discussion was still underway when the transcript ended, and no final vote on Senate Bill 8 appears in the provided excerpt.