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OK
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- So all the communities have to invest in themselves, and that infrastructure has to be there.
- So all the communities have to invest in themselves, and that infrastructure has to be there.
- So all the communities have to invest in themselves, and that infrastructure has to be there.
- So all the communities have to invest in themselves, and that infrastructure has to be there.
- If you look at Social Security data and the U.S.
Summary:
The committee held a study on the potential effects of living wage or minimum wage laws in Oklahoma, with the chair emphasizing that the discussion was not intended to advocate for or against State Question 832. The first panel focused on economic and workforce impacts. An Oklahoma Department of Commerce representative argued that living wage calculations vary by region and household type, that Oklahoma’s average wages are already near or above many living-wage estimates, and that higher mandated wages could lead employers to cut hours, reduce hiring, automate, or avoid expansion, especially in rural areas where childcare, healthcare, broadband, and infrastructure constraints also affect labor participation. Committee members asked about wage distributions, rural cost differences, training pathways, and whether higher wages might draw workers or businesses out of state; the witness said many low-wage workers move up over time and that Oklahoma has seen net in-migration. A State Chamber Research Foundation witness then testified that a $15 statewide wage floor would raise payroll costs substantially, especially for small rural employers, and cited examples from California and Seattle to argue that higher wages can reduce hours, jobs, and benefits while increasing consumer prices. She suggested alternatives such as expanding the state earned income tax credit and promoting upskilling through existing education and training programs.
A Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry representative described Missouri’s recent voter-approved minimum wage increase to $13.75, rising to $15, along with paid sick leave provisions. She said the chamber opposed the measure because it would raise business costs, hurt rural communities and youth employment, and force some employers to cut hours, reduce hiring, or close. She cited examples from Missouri businesses facing significant added costs and warned that a future ballot initiative could create a patchwork of local minimum wages. In response to questions, she said Missouri’s law did not distinguish by age or industry, that businesses had raised concerns about union contracts and compliance, and that the chamber viewed the measure as harmful to competitiveness.
Peter Hansen of NFIB presented the final major testimony, summarizing an NFIB study projecting that a higher Oklahoma minimum wage would produce some short-term GDP gains but longer-term losses, with GDP turning negative by the early 2030s and job losses growing over time. He said businesses respond to higher wage mandates by raising prices, trimming jobs, converting full-time positions to part-time, reducing benefits, and shifting investment toward automation or other capital. He argued that the burden falls most heavily on vulnerable workers such as young or marginal employees, who are less likely to be hired when labor costs rise. In questioning, he acknowledged that higher wages can improve pay for some workers and may have some short-term positive effects, but maintained that the long-term employment and investment effects are negative. No votes or formal actions were taken in the meeting.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Emergency Management Committee Apr 7th, 2025
Emergency Management
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- AB 262 recognizes that communities need help with both infrastructure damages and individual recovery
- We need the infrastructure in place to be ready.
- And we need to make sure that infrastructure is in place so that we can all make it out on the other
- I am pleased today to present AB 549, a measure that will ensure the safety and security our prior to
- From Homeland Security for, you know, human trafficking.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, January 21, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
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the security. This is about water. the security. - We've restored law and order and brought accountability by securing the border, supporting law enforcement
- securing the border, supple supported securing the border, supple supported law<07:16:57.760>
- This administration proved what Washington refused to admit for years: that border security works when
- Speaker, all we needed was a president with the backbone to secure our border, and that president is
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Our safety infrastructure should reflect that shared responsibility.
- Texas without reinventing that wheel of infrastructure? Oh, absolutely, sir.
- to secure the items that I had secured.
- It interacts with infrastructure and how it puts people at risk.
- One is the. the infrastructure, which is all the model and the system self, computer infrastructure.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Water and Natural Resources Nov 18th, 2025
Water & Natural Resources Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Secure Association Concilio and New Mexico Secure Commission members and Land-Grant Council, which some
- Secure communities on a sound footing in addressing much-needed infrastructure projects.
- infrastructure fund.
- Selecting secure projects.
- This is currently where the tribal infrastructure and the Housing Infrastructure Fund sit in the law.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Committee on Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact Jul 11th, 2025
Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact
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- include high-demand programs in business administration, computer information systems, and cyber security
- who struggle to compete for talent and contracts and a lot of uncertainty around trade and cross-border
- the impacts that we're anticipating and already feeling from the federal retreat, supporting cross border
- better support working families just above the federal poverty. line, but are far below financial security
- We work with the infrastructure bank, iBank, to manage the the Small Business Loan Guarantee Program.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
Senate - Tax, Business and Transportation Feb 4th, 2025
Senate Tax, Business & Transportation
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- And they're at the border with everything that's going on now.
- I also, while I was down at the border, spoke to some local ranchers.
- We work border operations.
- I'm the rancher that broke his back on the border there.
- I also spent five years as a border patrol agent working these remote areas.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Apr 2nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- The budget includes key investments in water quality improvements, transportation infrastructure, and
- education infrastructure.
- We are providing $20 million for security in Jewish day schools.
- It would include funds for infrastructure, equipment, and teacher training.
- Now, we have a circumstance where sometimes people come across the border from Alabama or Georgia and
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session May 19th, 2026
California Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I especially want to recognize the courage and sacrifice of the security guard, Amin Abdullah, who gave
- They are emergency infrastructure. They are economic engines.
- The very infrastructure that has been enjoyed by ...year after year.
- Often It aims to provide state support for critical infrastructure for housing developments.
- This bill will help create an incentive structure, Infrastructure to support the growth.
Summary:
The Senate opened with a roll call, a moment of silence for the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, prayer, and the Pledge of Allegiance. The body then handled routine matters and confirmations, including Julia Montgomery as General Counsel for the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, Dr. Cynthia Glover Woods, Dr. Brenda Lewis, and Gabriela Orozco Gonzalez to the State Board of Education, and George Cardona as Chief Trial Counsel for the State Bar. All of those appointments were confirmed, with some no votes from a few members on the education and legal confirmations.
The chamber also adopted several resolutions, including SR 111 on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia, and Transphobia; SCR 129 naming part of Highway 152 the Rusty Arraes Highway; SCR 169 proclaiming October 2026 as Women’s Small Business Month; and SCR 173 designating May 2026 as California Fairgrounds Appreciation Month. Senators spoke in support of fairgrounds as community, agricultural, and emergency-response assets. The Senate also welcomed Cal Lutheran University students, faculty, and staff to the gallery.
A large number of policy bills were then taken up and mostly passed, covering procurement, elections, education, privacy, housing, transportation, labor, and health care. Among the measures approved were SB 1154 on best-value procurement for community college projects, SB 1369 on judicial recall safeguards, SB 1048 creating a climate literacy seal, SB 1106 shortening data broker deletion timelines, SB 1408 authorizing a Contra Costa transportation tax measure, SB 1172 on local tax-sharing transparency, SB 1383 protecting local labor standards in density bonus projects, SB 1223 on competitive bidding at fairs, SB 1344 extending anti-SLAPP protections to certain housing-related projects, SB 1371 limiting solid waste contract force majeure clauses during labor disputes, SB 908 on residential window replacement permits, SB 1272 on remedies for preexisting home code violations, SB 1406 targeting the “Montana tax loophole,” SB 1238 on HOA transparency, SB 868 on plug-in balcony solar, SB 903 restricting unlicensed AI psychotherapy advertising, SB 950 on early-onset Alzheimer’s coverage, SB 874 on Medi-Cal behavioral health oversight, SB 1049 on corrected health care claims, SB 1067 on early math screening, SB 1202 on Medi-Cal outreach, SB 944 on acupuncture coverage, SB 957 on notice for federal subpoenas to social media companies, SB 959 on wildfire-related school closures, SB 988 on auto glass insurance practices, and SB 1000 on AI content transparency. Most passed on largely party-line or near-unanimous votes, with a few dissenting votes from members who objected to procurement, labor, privacy, or tax-related provisions.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, February 25, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
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- security and long-term prosperity. security and long-term prosperity.
- Do we need to have border be run. Do we need to have border enforcement?
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bill Department of Homeland Security bill Department of Homeland Security bill - the Department of Homeland Security the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations<01:46:00.719
- resilient, and secure? resilient, and secure?
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, June 25, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
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- more secure and so much more.
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As NATO infrastructure commitments. As NATO infrastructure commitments. - infrastructure by almost $200 million. infrastructure by almost $200 million.
- member of the Homeland Security member of the Homeland Security Committee,<07:42:19.440>
I <07:57:28.718>of the safe and safety and security of the safe and safety and security of
TX
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- It's going all the way from the southern border up to the Louisiana border.
- I am, I do border the Trinity River, so we've got that aspect of it.
- But talk about bordering the Trinity River. I border the Trinity River too, a little bit upstream.
- We need to focus on the infrastructure that moves the water.
- I had a lot to do with the Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act.
HI
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- I just want to summarize: we are requesting budget support for our IT infrastructure, support in the
- We have the Department of Defense in support on Zoom. uh support for our it infrastructure uh support
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grant for state and local cyber security grant for state and local cyber security - GM TRN 195, sequence 2187: Add $220,354 in FY 26 for Customs and Border Protection equipment.
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and security uh cyber security services and security uh cyber security services
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 01/28/25
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- These are certified corners that have a higher hierarchy and a higher level of secureness, like because
- Most of it is if the land is bordering state land and dealing with state agencies as well.
- state land and dealing land is bordering state land and dealing with<00:27:13.679>
state <00:27 - Some are incredibly financially secure, while others are struggling to get by because perhaps they just
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development we focused on infrastructure development we focused on infrastructure
Summary:
The committee heard Senate File 59, authored by Senator Green, which would require counties to locate and restore original public land survey monuments and related boundary markers. Green argued that newer GIS/GPS-based surveys have sometimes shifted long-established property lines, creating disputes for landowners, counties, and state agencies. He described examples involving his own property and constituents, including a case where a neighbor allegedly lost access to a well and septic system after a new survey and another where a landowner was told he was farming school trust land based on a newer plat reference.
Testimony in support came from Allan Roger Olen, who said a newer survey changed his family’s property lines and created a dispute over land, a building permit, and ownership of well and septic systems. Senator Green also said county plat books are not legally binding and that the bill is intended to force counties to find original monuments before more disputes arise. Committee members raised concerns from the Association of Minnesota Counties about the bill’s timeline, funding, and requirement that counties employ a land surveyor. Green responded that counties had already been told to hire surveyors in some disputes, acknowledged the funding concerns, and said he would look for funding sources while emphasizing protection of property rights.
A committee member who teaches surveying explained that adverse possession is a real legal doctrine in Minnesota and noted that restoring all monuments would cost far more than the $10 million already appropriated, estimating the total need at about $300 million. Phil Reigns of the Minnesota Society of Professional Surveyors testified that the Public Land Survey System underlies Minnesota’s land tenure system, that the original monuments were set mostly between 1850 and 1908, and that surveyors aim to restore them as accurately as possible using historical records and modern tools. He said the work is expensive because many counties lack staff surveyors and must hire consultants.
Members discussed whether the bill would create boundary conflicts or authorize counties to alter lines, and Green said his intent was to restore original monuments and avoid litigation. Co-Chair Lang moved that Senate File 59, as amended, be recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. The motion prevailed on a voice vote. Afterward, the committee began receiving an overview from the Minnesota Council on Latino Affairs.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- . $6.5 billion is provided for border security operations across 13 state agencies.
- security.
- they would go to an entity, probably the governor or multiple entities that are currently paying for border
- security.
- Have we looked at a whole infrastructure of when we do all of these things, OK?
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Page seven, $6.5 billion is provided for border security operations across 13. state agencies.
- reimbursement. from the federal government for the, I think, $11 billion that we have invested in border
- security.
- would go to an entity, probably the governor. or multiple entities that are currently paying for border
- security.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, November 17, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- A bill to ensure the security and integrity of United States critical infrastructure by establishing
- security.
- of our nation's critical infrastructure.
- AND INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY AGENCY WITH SUPPORT FROM THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.
- When our Communities are more secure, our entire nation is more secure.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Public School Capital Outlay Oversight Task Oct 10th, 2025
Public School Capital Outlay Oversight Task Force
Transcript Highlights:
- Which is an affordable housing infrastructure project.
- The quotes included things like the infrastructure.
- Items in here include security improvements, CTE, and repair and maintenance.
- Improvements for infrastructure. We don't currently do that.
- Rounds, you made a comment earlier regarding maintenance infrastructure.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet and Cybersecurity Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet and Cybersecurity
Transcript Highlights:
- I represent the State Privacy and Security Coalition.
- So you started off by introducing the State Privacy and Security Coalition. Yes.
- Kingman of the State Privacy and Security Coalition.
- I lived in a secure building with strong locks on the doors and the windows.
- It makes me more vulnerable to security breaches.
Summary:
The committee hearing focused on a package of Massachusetts privacy and technology bills, especially measures to ban the sale of location data, establish a comprehensive consumer data privacy law, and regulate biometric recognition and surveillance pricing. Chairs and sponsors argued that self-regulation has failed, that data brokers and large tech companies routinely collect and monetize sensitive information, and that state action is needed because federal protections are weak or absent. Several speakers tied the bills to reproductive health, gender-affirming care, domestic violence, children’s data, and other sensitive uses of location and biometric information.
Supporters included legislators and advocates who backed H. 86/S. 197 (Location Shield), H. 78/S. 45/H. 104/S. 29 (comprehensive privacy bills), H. 99/S. 47 (surveillance pricing in grocery stores), and H. 36/S. 36 (biometric recognition accountability). They emphasized data minimization, bans on selling sensitive data, consumer rights to access, delete, and opt out, and in some cases a private right of action. Several witnesses said Massachusetts should lead or align with other states, while others argued that stronger protections are needed because data can be weaponized by stalkers, anti-abortion actors, abusive partners, insurers, or law enforcement.
Industry and coalition witnesses urged the committee to favor a more standardized, interoperable framework modeled on laws already adopted in other states, warning that novel definitions, data-minimization rules, and private rights of action could create compliance burdens, confusion, and costs for businesses, including small businesses. They argued that entity-level exemptions for sectors already covered by federal laws like HIPAA or GLBA promote consistency, and that Attorney General enforcement is preferable to private lawsuits. Committee members questioned witnesses on patchwork concerns, the scope of exemptions, and whether the proposed bills would harm or help consumers and small businesses. No votes or final actions were taken during the hearing; written testimony was noted as due later, and the committee continued taking testimony from multiple panels and virtual witnesses.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, April 30, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
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- day to repair critical infrastructure. day to repair critical infrastructure.
- security just as much national security?
- security just as much national security?
- and<00:46:26.640>
that's security is national security and that's security is national security - Tomorrow, many of our dedicated DHS workers, heroes who show up each and every day to secure our borders