Video & Transcript Research : 'Texas Elections Code'
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ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Tax Reform and Relief Advisory Committee Mar 17th, 2026 at 09:30 am
Transcript Highlights:
- Texas has a 4.6% rate. I believe, actually, I believe that's incorrect for Texas.
- I believe, actually, I believe that's incorrect for Texas.
- One of theirs is, I'll get the correction on the Texas tax.
- The election costs alone are 9% of that 3%.
- We hold our annual elections in June.
Summary:
The committee met to continue its tax reform and relief study agenda, approved the December 3, 2025 minutes, and announced a new subcommittee to examine property tax statement issues with counties, auditors, and the tax office. Representative Headland was named chair, Senator Rummel vice chair, and Representatives Dressler and Dr. Dr. and Senator Patton were also assigned. The chair noted the group may need an additional meeting and thanked staff and attendees.
A major portion of the meeting focused on economic development incentives. The Department of Commerce presented on the Renaissance Zone program and TIF districts, describing Renaissance Zones as locally tailored tools that combine local property tax relief with state income tax incentives. Commerce said the program has supported thousands of projects since 1999 and cited examples from Beach and Mandan showing increases in property and taxable value, business retention, housing, and downtown revitalization. Committee members raised concerns that smaller rural communities often lack the staff and expertise to apply, and Commerce said it provides outreach through conferences, office hours, and one-on-one assistance. League of Cities and local officials from Bismarck and Ellendale echoed the capacity issue, discussed how the programs have worked in their communities, and suggested possible reforms or more targeted support for small towns. Ellendale’s mayor also described two TIF districts, one for industrial infrastructure in Oaks and one for housing infrastructure tied to a data center project in Ellendale.
The committee then turned to stripper oil taxation. The Tax Department gave a comparison of oil and gas tax structures in selected states, noting that most have some form of stripper or marginal well provision, while Alaska does not appear to have a specific stripper-well exemption. Members asked for more detail on definitions and North Dakota’s annual adjusted rate. The Department of Mineral Resources followed with a detailed presentation on North Dakota stripper wells, explaining the statutory thresholds, the 12-consecutive-month production test, and the fact that once a well qualifies it remains on stripper status even if production later rises. DMR said about 11,332 stripper wells are active, representing roughly 54% of wells and about 16% of state production, and emphasized that stripper status can extend well life, preserve tax revenue, and reduce orphaned wells. Committee members and industry witnesses discussed refracs, the economics of keeping marginal wells active, and the competitive disadvantage created by North Dakota’s oil price discount. No votes were taken on these informational items.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Criminal Jurisprudence S/C New Offenses & Changed Penalties Apr 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- And it, they happen from North Texas to South Texas.
- busts across North Texas.
- The Texas Penal Code on non-livestock animal cruelty states that a person commits an offense if the person
- Pursuant to Texas Penal Code Section 6.03, a person is criminally negligent when he ought to be aware
- Civil Practice and Remedies Code.
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Transcript Highlights:
- The Texas Legislature is thus failing to serve the Texas people.
- You were elected to serve the Texas people, not businesses.
- specifically looking at Texas Education Code Section 33001637115 and 3835.
- I am a newly elected trustee for the seventh largest district in the state of Texas, Conroe ISD.
- According to Section 33005 of the Texas Education Code, school counselors are required to plan, implement
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- As we talk about this historic money, knowing that every district wins in Texas.
- in the state of Texas, period, end of conversation.
- Texas Tech's Dr.
- Residency programs in Texas perform comparably to teachers.
- It is critical to get us up to speed for thousands of Texas students.
Bills:
HB2
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Judiciary Subcommittee - Afternoon Session Jan 13th, 2026 at 01:00 pm
A&B Judiciary Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- meet monthly to hear our investigations and to make determinations about whether a violation of the code
- So, we do not limit it only to the judges who are brand new who have just been elected.
- The state of Texas has gotten a ton of attention.
- The state of Texas has a dramatic need for employment of people.
- And so the state of Texas, I think quite wisely made the decision.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Executive Director of Texas Ethics Commission and Mike Novak, Executive Director of Texas Facility Commission
- Texas endured an unprecedented election cycle. Lots of money coming into this.
- Texas Real Estate Commission, and the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, there's a number.
- Texas or from Texas who never go to the valley or go to the border and, you know, they think it is 1,200
- Council of Texas, ERCOT, who runs the majority of the Texas electric grid.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs May 23rd, 2025
Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Texas A&M, West Texas A&M, and some pretty impressive programs that are working.
- According to the Texas Water Development Board, there are currently no operational ASR projects in Texas
- Caddo is the only natural lake in Texas.
- House Bill 4530 addresses a Texas Water Development Board legislative priority. The Texas Water...
- Since then, the TCEQ, in consultation with the Texas Water Development Board and the Texas Parks and
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, June 29, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- They expect their elected representatives to honor that vote.
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that elected representatives to honor that elected representatives - I thank the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the Texas legislators advancing common sense ...measures
- The court Texas age verification law.
- I would not be standing before you as the first Black woman elected to you as the first Black woman elected
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Local Government (7-29-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- , fire codes.
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Uh <00:24:34.400>if are building codes, fire codes. - Uh if are building codes, fire codes.
- Amending the state building code to allow, or to reduce costs associated with high building code mandates
- with that except to send out the code with that except to send out the code enforcer.<01:01:29.280
Keywords:
Meeting Start: 00:00:05
Roll Call 00:00:12
Discussion of Legislative Measures 00:03:12
Discussion of Housing and Land Use 00:21:58
Discussion of Short Term Rental Policies 01:03:17
Adjournment 01:15:38, 958, all
Summary:
The committee approved the minutes from its June 4, 2025 meeting and then heard a series of presentations focused largely on housing and land-use policy. Senator Robbie Mills and Representative Josh Bray discussed two 2025 housing measures: Senate Bill 50, which would create residential infrastructure development districts to help local governments finance infrastructure for new housing developments through special assessments and local debt, and House Bill 7, which would let local governments identify development areas and rebate new property tax revenue to developers as an incentive for housing growth. They said Kentucky faces a statewide housing shortage of roughly 210,000 units, projected to grow if building patterns do not change, and argued that regulatory relief and financing tools are needed to increase supply.
Representative Rebecca Rymer presented House Bill 371, which would require local permitting when an industry’s residual waste landfill is located in a different county from the industry itself. She said current law lets such landfills bypass local review, leaving host counties with no say despite road impacts and other local burdens. She said the bill would preserve the existing exemption when the landfill and industry are co-located, and noted support from KLC and KO. Representative Steve Doan also described House Bill 806, a statewide backyard chicken bill that would allow domesticated hens, prohibit roosters, set a minimum of six hens that local governments could not go below, and preserve local authority over setbacks, sanitation, maintenance standards, and egg sales. He said it would override outright local bans but not HOA restrictions, and cited a current Northern Kentucky dispute and ADA litigation as reasons for the proposal.
The committee then heard a broader discussion on housing and land use from Charlie Gardner of the Mercatus Center and Nolan Gray of California YIMBY and the Bluegrass Institute. They outlined categories of land-use regulation, described the recent growth of state-level housing reforms nationwide, and cited examples such as ADU legalization, smaller lot sizes, reduced parking minimums, streamlined permitting, and single-stair or other building-code reforms. They argued that housing shortages are a statewide concern, that localities often have incentives to block growth, and that state intervention can reduce costs and uncertainty without compromising health and safety. Members asked about the housing shortage estimate, the effect of red tape on safety and local authority, and how state reforms could be phased in; the presenters said reforms often include lead time, can be targeted to larger jurisdictions, and should focus on reducing time and cost while maintaining basic standards.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- To make this a good policy for Texas.
- Chapter 49 of the Code of Criminal Procedure relates to death inquests and Chapter 50 of the Code of
- The Code of Chrome procedure project is an interesting one. For decades, the code needed updating.
- codes or parts of codes enacted during the preceding legislative session to incorporate enactments of
- This bill is of all our code bills each session, the must-pass bill because of the way Texas enacts hundreds
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/05/2026 - House Artificial Intelligence & Innovation
Artificial Intelligence & Innovation
Transcript Highlights:
- In Texas, it's 13.
- Messaging a certain number of days before an election: in Texas, it's 30 days, and in Minnesota, it is
- ish by California and Texas.
- officials understand their election procedure manual, because a lot of... ...understand their election
- procedure manual, because a lot of election officials, election administrators, they aren't attorneys
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Because they want to get elected, stay elected, and die elected.
- The reality is that right now, uh, Texas bans elective abortions.
- Section 24502 of the Texas Health and Safety Code 1, 245021B says that the definition of abortion does
- First, I want to be clear that Texas hospitals do not perform elective abortions.
- , and they have stopped for the most part performing elective abortions in the state of Texas.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- In Texas, only 9.4%.
- zip code.
- Under Texas Government Code 661.20, state employees are guaranteed 12 sick days per year.
- Because in our Texas Administrative Code, we rely on a medical diagnosis in order for these kids to get
- That is how these kids get their needs met, but the barriers in our Texas Administrative Code restrict
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- Citizens in those wards will elect their judges and marshals directly beginning in 2026.
- In 2018, I was elected mayor of Bunkie and served for one term.
- And in order to know what those codes mean, we have to get code books from DOC.
- The QR code is simply going to be on the back.
- The Texas Lottery has contributed more than $296 million to veteran programs in the state of Texas.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Currently, the office hosts the State of Texas employees from the Texas Department of Transportation
- From chapter 419 of the Texas government code, it also falls under the rules of Title 37, Part 13 of
- the Texas Administrative code.
- to communities across Texas.
- I am the mayor of Vita, Texas.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Texas DPS system.
- is the penal code is the penal code.
- We don't need Lieutenant Governor Patrick or any elected official in Texas to create an issue and protect
- and to the citizens of Texas, And yet do our duty to the state of Texas and to the citizens of Texas
- Let's give Texans the opportunity and freedom to succeed and grow Texas hemp on Texas land for Texas
Summary:
The House Committee on Public Health heard House Bill 5, a proposal to ban THC products outside the Texas Compassionate Use Program while allowing non-intoxicating CBD and CBG products under tighter regulation. Chair Van Deaver gave a lengthy background on the 2018 federal Farm Bill and Texas’s 2019 hemp law, arguing that the lack of guardrails allowed a large, unregulated THC market to develop. HB 5 would impose licensing fees, product registration, testing and inspection requirements, and restrictions intended to keep products away from children.
Invited witnesses from law enforcement strongly supported the bill. Steve Dye of the Texas Police Chiefs Association and Brian Hawthorne of the Sheriffs’ Association of Texas argued that THC consumables are widely mislabeled, often far more potent than advertised, and linked to youth access, impaired driving, and organized crime. Both said regulation would be ineffective and would amount to legalization, while a ban would be easier for officers to enforce. They also emphasized support for the Texas Compassionate Use Program and said medical THC should remain available.
Dr. Peter Stout of the Texas Association of Crime Lab Directors and Alice Amelot of Texas DPS testified as resource witnesses about forensic testing. They said current lab resources are already stretched thin, that quantitative testing for THC and related cannabinoids is expensive and time-consuming, and that a ban would simplify enforcement because labs could focus on presence/absence testing rather than concentration. Amelot said DPS labs are neutral on the bill but explained that mislabeled products and inaccurate certificates of analysis are common. Committee members asked about traffic safety, impairment, youth use, and the costs of enforcement and lab testing; witnesses repeatedly said the bill would reduce complexity for law enforcement but that any approach would still require more resources for labs.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Codes code issues best address this by requiring the building code review board to update the code to
- There's a plumbing code, a mechanical code, electric code, and so forth.
- <02:39:38.800>
So code, electric code, and so forth. - So code, electric code, and so forth.
- building code. building code.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Press Conference: For the Love of Texas Feb 27th, 2025 at 10:00 am
Transcript Highlights:
- in Texas.
- The thing is, if you look at the state of Texas, the state of Texas has been a minority-majority state
- It's about Texas kids.
- For the Love of Texas is a seminar.
- That's why we love Texas, for the love of Texas. Okay, thank you guys. Thank you.
Keywords:
education, curriculum, HB178, diverse history, equity, testimony, higher education crisis, representation
Summary:
The meeting was characterized by impactful discussions focused primarily on education and the representation of diverse histories in Texas's curriculum. Notably, Representative Christina Morales advocated for HB178, a bill aimed at ensuring that all Texas high school students have access to Mexican-American and African-American studies as part of their graduation requirements, moving from elective-only status. This bill garnered support from both sides of the aisle, highlighting a cooperative effort to improve educational equity in Texas. Several representatives shared personal stories reflecting on the importance of inclusive education, showcasing the bill's far-reaching implications for students' sense of identity and history.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Opening Ceremonies of the 89th Legislature Jan 14th, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- , Jane Nelson, Secretary of State of the State of Texas, call the Texas House of Representatives of the
- We need to elect a speaker who will stand up for the people of Texas, who will uphold our traditions.
- This is our Texas.
- because Texas is different.
- In Texas because Texas is different. I don't agree with that.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Opening Ceremonies of the 89th Legislature Jan 14th, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- of the state of Texas, call the Texas House of Representatives of the eighty-ninth legislature to order
- This is our Texas.
- It looks like Texas, all of Texas.
- Together we create our Texas.
- because Texas is different.