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FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Kids failing in schools. I knew nothing. I just couldn't take it anymore. Kids failed in school.
- And I decided to run for school board. So I get in this school board race, very popular candidate.
- Dozier School for Boys Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program and appropriates $20 million to
- high school graduation requirements.
- There won't be a public school union because there won't be any public schools.
Summary:
The Senate convened with a quorum, opening prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, and several introductions and recognitions, including a resolution honoring Bob Graham and a moment of silence for firefighter Roger Timmy Miley. The chamber then moved through a special-order calendar with multiple bills, many of them paired with House companions and amended before final passage. Early action included adoption of a tax conformity bill tied to federal changes in the Internal Revenue Code, with a 34-0 vote.
The most extensive debate centered on CS/CS/SB 1758, a Medicaid and SNAP reform bill. The sponsor described provisions to strengthen fraud enforcement, impose work requirements for able-bodied adults, expand behavioral health services through a waiver, modernize Medicaid drug purchasing, and require a SNAP fraud-reduction plan and photo ID on EBT cards. Democrats offered amendments to delay work requirements until Medicaid expansion and to add protections for SNAP users such as caregivers, seniors, disabled individuals, and domestic violence survivors; both amendments failed. Senators also questioned implementation details, exemptions, and potential effects on vulnerable populations. After debate, the bill was placed on the calendar for third reading.
The Senate also passed bills on technology education and AI instruction, a public records exemption and related Parkinson’s Disease Registry measures, designation of the SS American Victory as the state flagship, electronic payments for local governments, repeal of the sunset on legal tender recognition for gold and silver, public records protections for financial and digital-asset custodians, a Florida stablecoin pilot program, local government budget transparency, digital voyeurism, insurance customer representative licensing, and a medical freedom bill with amendments on vaccine-related materials and anti-kickback provisions. Most of these measures passed with little or no opposition, though the public records bill for gold/silver custodians and the legal tender repeal drew a few dissenting votes.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Day 33 (2-24-26)
Kentucky Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- </c> school employee. school employee.
- Middle school in Twin Hoff.
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WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Mar 10th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Washington Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- of Senate pages Anna Bush Conway, a granddaughter of Senator Steve Conway, and a student at Mason Middle
- School from Tacoma, and Sahazra Pompana, a student at North Star Middle School from Redmond.
- Pampana, a student at North Star Middle School from Redmond, and they will now present the colors.
- Today's pledge will be led by Senate page Lamar Elsebach, a student at Discovery High School from Camas
- Lamar Elsebach, a student at Discovery High School from Camas, Washington.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 1/22/25
Agriculture Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- I just graduated from law school at the University of Minnesota last spring.
- </c> prevailing wage because it was a middle prevailing wage because it was a middle mile<01:07:37.480
- In my world, a middle mile is from a central office to a central office.
- </c><01:13:32.440><c> mile</c><01:13:32.920><c> is</c> sent a middle M or U yeah middle mile is sent
- a middle M or U yeah middle mile is from<01:13:33.239><c> a</c><01:13:33.360><c> central</c><01:13:33.760
Committee:
House Agriculture Finance and Policy
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Higher Education & Workforce Development Jan 26th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- This context requires great collaboration across multiple entities, including middle and high schools
- I have a middle schooler.
- School districts are strapped.
- Regarding the intentionality and focus, as I said, I'm beginning to get into this as a middle school
- This is how school size, school urbanicity, and staff size relate to whether or not a school offers dual
Summary:
The committee began with a work session on dual credit, hearing first from the Council of Presidents and the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, then from the Education Research and Data Center. The dual credit overview described Washington’s six dual credit programs, high participation rates, transferability, and recent efforts to improve transparency, pathways, and equity. Testimony emphasized both benefits and challenges, including access, funding, advising, and the need for clearer statewide coordination. ERDC outlined its annual report, dashboard, research briefs, and future work on school-level factors and possible causal effects of dual credit participation. No votes were taken during the work session.
The committee then held public hearings on several bills. SB 6227 would direct WSAC to work with public higher education institutions to create formal data collection protocols for parenting students and convene a work group to recommend how to identify and support them. Senator Wilson and multiple student and advocacy witnesses supported the bill, citing the lack of consistent statewide data and the barriers parenting students face; WSAC testified that its research found significant food, housing, and child care insecurity among these students. SB 6235 would prohibit public colleges with athletics programs from entering certain private equity or sovereign wealth fund agreements involving athletics revenues or control. Senator Holy said the bill was intended to prevent loss of institutional control, while UW and WSU testified in opposition, warning it could limit flexibility and create competitive disadvantages.
The committee also heard SB 6217, which would expand Washington College Grant eligibility to students in eligible non-degree credential programs beginning in 2027-28. Supporters from the community and technical college system, a community college president, and workforce representatives said the bill would help students access short-term training for family-wage jobs and address workforce shortages, especially in construction trades. Finally, SB 6209 would restore Washington College Grant and College Bound Scholarship eligibility for certain private four-year and career/vocational schools if they meet a gainful-employment standard. DigiPen, Evergreen Beauty College, Seattle Film Institute, and related students and administrators testified in support, arguing the bill would preserve access for low-income and nontraditional students in career-focused programs; some witnesses on the bill’s earlier panel also urged that certificate and two-year programs be included. The hearings were managed with shortened testimony times because of the large number of sign-ins, and no final committee action or votes were recorded in the transcript.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- I know Human Services is in the middle of their hearing as well.
- I go to school with ICUC. I go to San Bernardino High School, and I'm in strong support of this.
- schools.
- Schools should be safe havens, not sources of chronic disease.
- Schools should be safe havens, not sources of chronic disease.
Committee:
House Health
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Transportation Infrastructure Revenue Subcommitee Oct 6th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Chairman, my question is in regards to homeschool and private school students.
- Chair, Representative Dow, we engage them just the same as we do a school.
- here, a Christian school, that we also engage with for dual credit.
- student in high school, where all of those students are college-bound.
- As you see in the middle is our FY 26 budget.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, June 8, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><03:58:33.520><c> Since</c> and allies in the Middle East. Since and allies in the Middle East.
- It has targeted American Middle East.
- > costs, strong schools, affordable costs, strong schools, affordable housing,<07:24:13.920><c> and</
- The group makes use of the Greenberg Nature Center, Edgemont High School, and other schools as sites
- Davidson is a graduate of Union High School and was New Jersey's top recruit in the 2022 high school
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Jun 15th, 2026
California Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Universal school meals, billions of dollars, again, is being provided for that.
- We know we need more special ed funding, particularly for our K-12 schools.
- Particularly for our K-12 schools, we're fully funding universal school meals.
- We're continuing to negotiate around middle-class scholarship funding.
- We know funding the middle-class scholarship is critical and crucial.
Summary:
The Senate convened with a quorum, approved the June 8–11, 2026 journals, and adopted floor amendments. It also referred several bills to Rules and approved motions affecting Budget and Fiscal Review Committee procedure, including second-reading treatment for budget measures and suspension of Joint Rule 62A to allow budget hearings on short notice. Both motions passed on roll call after some protest votes.
The chamber then considered several appointments to the Delta Stewardship Council and the Board of State and Community Corrections. Senators discussed the Delta, water policy, and the proposed Delta Tunnel, but the confirmations of Julie Lee, Ann Patterson, and Sheriff Christopher Clark all passed. The Senate also adopted Senate Joint Resolution 17, authored by Senator Choi, honoring Republic of Korea veterans who served alongside U.S. troops in Vietnam and urging Congress and the President to clarify that states may extend burial and memorial benefits in state veterans’ cemeteries.
The main floor debate centered on Assembly Bill 109, the 2026 Budget Act. Supporters highlighted a $355.9 billion budget with $253 billion General Fund spending, $36.5 billion in reserves, a reduced structural deficit, and investments in child care, Medi-Cal, hospitals, housing, IHSS, education, transit, and other services. Opponents criticized the budget as relying on future tax increases, leaving a structural deficit, and failing to do enough on affordability, public safety, Prop. 36, unemployment insurance debt, and gas prices. After extensive debate, AB 109 passed 28–9, and the Senate later approved a consent calendar of six Assembly bills. The session ended with adjournments in memory of Hajan Lee, Doris Fisher, and James Leslie Barbie, and the Senate adjourned until June 18, 2026.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Jefferson County Legislation Committee Feb 19th, 2025
Jefferson County Legislation
Transcript Highlights:
- I'll draw your eye to the middle numbers because this is where...
- I'll draw your eye to the middle numbers because this is where the rubber meets the road.
- Heal United is a very strong partner of ours, and we are going into the schools with that... are going
- into the schools with that healthy eating and active living program in the elementary schools.
- They're partnering with us with the elementary schools in Selma to take that curriculum to them.
Committee:
House Jefferson County Legislation
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Policy and Administration (02/10/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- was</c> so at the middle school level it was so at the middle school level it was just<00:57:15.880><
- </c><04:50:32.280><c> teach</c> Middle School teacher um we teach Middle School teacher um we teach reading
- </c><04:52:07.760><c> school</c> good practice is in middle school good practice is in middle school
- But the children that come from our elementary schools and our high schools and middle schools are learning
- But the children that come from our elementary schools and our high schools and middle schools are learning
Summary:
The committee began by announcing that afternoon hearings, including House Bill 283, would be moved to Representatives Hall because of expected public interest. It then took up House Bill 671, which would establish a kindergarten literacy readiness program. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Mark Pearson, described the measure as a way to close gaps in early reading readiness and said it was intended as a first step, with only a placeholder appropriation while details are developed. He framed it as a targeted effort to help children who are not entering first grade ready to read.
Testimony on HB 671 was largely supportive. Representatives asked about the bill’s structure, whether a specific program had been identified, how it would interact with play-based learning, and why the provider was limited to a registered nonprofit. Waterford.org representatives Teresa Rosenberger and Rob Riley testified in support, describing Waterford Upstart as a home-based, evidence-based early learning program already used in New Hampshire. They said the program provides adaptive instruction, family coaching, and technology support, including computers, tablets, internet access, and translation services in more than 100 languages. They also said the model has been successful in New Hampshire, including a Nashua pilot and later statewide efforts, and that similar legislation has existed in other states. Rep. Jonah Wheeler also spoke in support of the bill. The chair then closed the hearing on HB 671.
After a fiscal note for HB 671 was distributed, the committee moved to House Bill 781, which would require school districts to adopt policies for a cell phone-free education and includes an appropriation. The transcript cuts off as Rep. Litchfield was introduced to testify on that bill, so no testimony, debate, or vote on HB 781 is included in the excerpt.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, June 30, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- School District for your multiple top 10 finishes.
- And a special congratulations to Edgewood Middle School on receiving the prestigious School of Excellence
- To the 20 middle school students and eight high school students who competed, you ...school students
- , Southwestern Middle School, and Klondike...
- Speaker, I rise today on behalf of the Severance Sailing School team.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Another reason we're asking for more time is our school districts are very Rodney Holmes: small in Wise
- Like a school district, city council, or county commission, the relationship between our constituents
- And your school board members?
- I'm here to speak in favor of the bill because we need more middle class housing, middle class families
- It's a middle class opportunity bill.
Committee:
House Land & Resource Management
Keywords:
affordable housing, land use, zoning, urban planning, community development, housing crisis, mixed-use development, sustainability, municipal utility district, board of directors, qualifications, land ownership, Texas, taxation, residency, municipal approval, subdivision plans, local governance, plats, local government
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Feb 10th, 2026 at 12:22 pm
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- corporation, has supported school-based health services for 25 years, and whereas school-based health
- The services determined to be held in the school-based health clinics are by the school boards.
- It is tasked with organizing and regulating youth athletics amongst high school and middle school sports
- middle schools participating in over 30,000 student athletes.
- She goes to Mountain View Middle School with this young gentleman right over here.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Education Finance Feb 17th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- These are into jobs in a career or into graduate school. These are our priorities.
- Because this way our students are prepared to go into the school. Apply for that.
- Hundreds of thousands of Californians are applying to attend multiple state schools, CSU schools, and
- family, even oftentimes upper-middle-class family can provide for their child students.
- earlier in high schools, quite frankly, to get students interested in the campuses?
Summary:
The subcommittee heard an overview hearing on the 2026-27 budget and policy issues for California’s three public higher education segments: the Community Colleges, CSU, and UC. Chair David Alvarez emphasized shared responsibility to expand access, right-size campuses to enrollment trends, improve transfer pathways, align programs with workforce needs, and measure success by completion, transfer, and job placement rather than participation alone. The chancellors and president each described their systems’ current enrollment trends, budget priorities, and efforts to collaborate more closely across segments.
Chancellor Sonia Christian said community college enrollment has rebounded strongly and asked for 3% enrollment growth funding, more support for the Common Cloud Data Platform, credit for prior learning, AI literacy, and recovery-related workforce training in Los Angeles. She highlighted right-sizing efforts such as Peralta’s proposed consolidation into Oakland City College, and described partnerships with CSU, UC, employers, unions, and housing projects. Chancellor Mildred García said CSU is focusing on CSU Forward, enrollment growth, student success, facilities, and fiscal health monitoring, while reallocating enrollment and resources to higher-demand campuses. She cited intersegmental programs such as nursing pathways, 2+2 and 3-year degree programs, and AI curriculum work, and said the system is also addressing labor and compensation issues.
President J.B. Milliken said UC is facing federal funding threats, investigations, and rising costs, but has reached record enrollment of more than 300,000 students, including over 200,000 California resident undergraduates. He supported continued compact funding, said UC is exploring more use of technology, experiential learning, and short-term credentials, and stressed the need to adapt while preserving UC’s research and medical mission. Members pressed all three leaders on common course numbering, transfer outcomes, enrollment reallocation, BSN capacity, deferred maintenance, and the role of the master plan; the leaders generally agreed more collaboration and flexibility are needed, and several committed to follow up with updated data and timelines. No formal votes were taken. Public comment followed, including support from the CSU employees union for the Governor’s budget and full funding of CSU obligations.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Because the middle school kids can stay at Bridgewater-Hebron.
- Because the middle school kids can stay at Bridgewater-Hebron.
- Because the middle school kids can stay at Bridgewater-Hebron.
- Because the middle school kids can stay at Bridgewater-Hebron.
- Because the middle school kids can stay at Bridgewater-Hebron.
Committee:
Senate Education
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Artificial Intelligence and Data Center Committee Aug 13th, 2026 at 09:30 am
Artificial Intelligence and Data Center Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- And if I put myself back in the role of a school administrator or a school teacher, a 68-page document
- in middle school, but one of the few allowable uses of early federal dollars was specifically for educational
- student, maybe a middle school student.
- So often... ...students are going home from their schools, middle schools and high schools, and their
- a school accreditation program that evaluates primary, middle, and high schools' uses of technology
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- These test scores are valuable for high school students and how schools are evaluated by the state, and
- None of us went through the COVID pandemic while still in school.
- It's a practical way to help kids navigate school, you know.
- It's a practical way to help kids navigate school and relationships and stress.
- House Bill 2320, relating to school bond elections.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- schools to succeed, including our charter schools.
- And, you know, in addition to that, you learn how to read, but then when you go into middle school and
- </c> you go into middle school and on you you go into middle school and on you read<01:10:23.400><c>
- Now that most Minnesota schools, almost all Minnesota schools, participate in the Free School Meals program
- </c> on school boards who don't attend school on school boards who don't attend school every<01:41:31.080
Committee:
Senate Education Policy
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Jun 25th, 2026
California Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- She began her ministry as a teacher's aide at Our Lady of Fatima School in St.
- Sister Gorman, my entire educational career, K through 12, was in Catholic school.
- And my mom sent me to Catholic school. ...through 12 was in Catholic school, and my mom sent me to Catholic
- school, even though my father was a public school teacher, because I could get whipped each day.
- You could still get a whipping in Catholic school.