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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government Mar 3rd, 2026
Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government
Transcript Highlights:
- It only allows for the vouchers to be issued in full to cover the cost of the procedure.
- So this would allow for... ...the vouchers to be issued in full to cover the cost of the procedure.
- So this would allow for a sliding scale or a small amount of money paid by the pet owner as opposed to
- So the goal of this is really to allow the fund to help more individuals across the Commonwealth, keep
- So this would allow some more enforcement to allow MDAR to get that information.
Bills:
H4738 , H4843 , H4844 , H4845 , H4849 , H4878 , H4887 , H4924 , H5052 , H5053 , S2878 , S2894 , S2897 , H5102 , H5107 , H5108 , H5109 , H5128 , H5136 , S2963 , S2956
Keywords:
Holyoke, City Council, municipal governance, special meetings, local government transparency, park land exchange, Lexington, public use, school committee, athletic fields, town administrator, employment authority, Wilbraham, local law, Uxbridge, public meeting notices, legal notices, municipal transparency, local government, digital publication
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- And act relating to electronic registration amending section 49-202 Idaho Code to allow an electronic
- Outboards are certainly allowed, and that's in our code now.
- Are we not allowed to crash, or are we...? “So how does that work?
- I’m trying to figure out: are we not allowed to crash, or—explain how that works on this?”
- That would allow somebody to be disconnected from the boat.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Environment, Energy & Technology Feb 3rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- publish a sustainability report and directed the Department of Ecology from distributing no-cost allowances
- to reflect The increased scope. language that requires no cost allowances to reflect the increased scope
- of coverage in the electric sector relative to the 2022 program budget of allowances.
- It also allows a person to claim the AJF tax credits for a period of 10 years from the date on which
- This striking amendment allows us to get the annual fees out of there and give them opportunity, have
Summary:
The Senate Environment, Energy, and Technology Committee took executive action on 11 bills. It advanced SB 624 on an Appliance Affordability Index study with an amendment excluding consumer electronics, and SB 6284 on artificial intelligence systems with a proposed substitute adding definitions, developer requirements, exemptions for some entities, and clarifying enforcement. The committee also moved forward SB 5609 on cultural resource protection under SEPA after rejecting an amendment to the proposed substitute, and SB 6172 on coal plant treatment under cap-and-invest after adopting an amendment related to emergency federal orders.
Several energy and climate bills were also approved, including SB 6246 on emissions-intensive trade-exposed facilities, SB 5932 on alternative jet fuel production, SB 6269 on the definition of motor fuel, and SB 6223 on community-scaled weatherization projects. On SB 5975 concerning lead in cookware, the committee rejected one proposed substitute and adopted another that bans intentionally added lead in cookware beginning in 2027 and directs future regulation through the Safer Products program.
The committee then considered SB 5466 on electric transmission reliability and capacity, taking up multiple amendments to a proposed second substitute. Amendments addressing wildfire risk, corridor identification, landowner consultation, eminent domain, and wildfire liability were all rejected, and the bill was advanced on a due pass recommendation. In each case, the committee’s final action was to pass the bills or substitutes subject to signatures, with several measures referred onward to Ways and Means or Rules as noted.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair and members, Senate Bill 1197 allows the owner of an irrigation grandfather right in the subsequent
- Finally, the bill allows the owner of an IGFR to choose not to irrigate a set portion of lands attached
- It would also allow other farmers to square up fields and do those things.
- So I think it's very germane to allow them.
- This is to allow—we're trying to bridge.
Keywords:
electronic monitoring, nursing care, assisted living, resident rights, privacy, consent, surveillance, stormwater, water storage, replenishment credits, groundwater, aquifer, Arizona Revised Statutes, irrigation rights, water duty, water allocation, management areas, Arizona beef council, beef promotion, agricultural marketing
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- to implement a bond program, which allowed us to implement a bond program, which allows million of funding
- which allowed us to implement a bond program, which allows us to accelerate major modernization of our
- Are you allowed? I'm all about saving money. $300,000 sounds like a good start there.
- And it just would allow parents across the state...
- And it just would allow parents across the state to teach their children to drive.
Committee:
House Transportation and Defense
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Appropriations Apr 8th, 2025 at 08:30 am
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill, so essentially it's what folks are allowed to keep as a personal needs allowance when they're
- And the bill came across from the House as increasing this needs allowance by $10.
- In that same email, I linked to personal needs allowances throughout the country.
- In that same email, I linked to personal needs allowances throughout the country.
- So it's just the amount of that money that they would be allowed to keep for personal allowance.
Bills:
HB1603
Committee:
Senate Appropriations
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee met with a quorum and announced it would begin meeting at 8 a.m. for the rest of the week to work through a growing bill list. The committee first approved House Bill 1603, a companion to the Historical Society budget dealing with NAGPRA, including a $500,000 matching grant to be divided among North Dakota’s five tribes and a committee to address repatriation of human remains and cultural items. The vote was unanimous, 15-0.
The committee then considered House Bill 1225, which would increase penalties for reckless endangerment involving a firearm and create a mandatory prison term. After debate over public safety concerns versus the bill’s fiscal note and prison costs, the committee adopted a do not pass recommendation by a 9-6-1 vote. Members also discussed House Bill 1018, the State Historical Society budget, and approved an amendment that adjusted one-time funding items, including NAGPRA compliance, museum exhibits, military gallery funding, local historic grants, and line-of-credit repayment. The amended bill then received a due pass recommendation by a 14-2 vote.
The committee next approved House Bill 1468, a behavioral health facility grant for St. Hayes, which supporters said would expand in-state access to acute and adolescent behavioral health care and reduce the need to send patients out of state. The bill passed 14-1. It then amended and passed House Bill 1485, increasing the personal needs allowance for certain Medicaid recipients by $15 and indexing it to inflation; the amendment and the bill as amended both passed 14-2. Finally, the committee approved House Bill 1016, the Adjutant General/National Guard budget, after adopting an amendment that funded disaster relief, response equipment, IT and website costs, and staffing changes for the watch center; the amended bill passed 14-2. The committee adjourned after completing six bills and planned to resume the next morning at 8 a.m.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Ways & Means Feb 6th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We are not being allowed the proper time to consider this.
- We are not being allowed the proper time to consider this.
- But thank you for allowing me to speak. Thank you so much.
- Thank you for your time and for allowing me to speak today.
- Thank you for your time and for allowing me to speak today.
Summary:
The Ways and Means Committee met on February 6, 2026, and first voted to suspend the five-day notice rule for all bills on the agenda. Senators Braun and Gildon objected, arguing the bill needed more public review and that the fiscal note had only just been released, but a roll call vote passed 15-9 and the committee proceeded to Senate Bill 6346.
Staff briefed SB 6346 as a proposal to create a 9.9% income tax on Washington taxable income above a $1 million per-household standard deduction, with a $50,000 charitable deduction, apportionment rules for nonresidents and certain professions, quarterly estimated payments, and credits for capital gains tax and certain business taxes. Staff said the tax would begin in 2029 and eventually raise about $3.5 billion annually from roughly 30,000 taxpayers. The bill also would expand the Working Families Tax Credit, create a sales tax exemption for grooming and hygiene products, increase the small business B&O tax credit and filing threshold, and end the B&O surcharge on high-grossing businesses one year early. Members questioned the bill’s constitutionality, its exemption from referendum, treatment of student athletes, natural-resource industries, and whether real estate gains would be captured.
Public testimony was sharply divided. Supporters, including labor groups, educators, health care advocates, counties, child care workers, and some business owners and high-income individuals, said the bill would make the tax code more progressive and provide stable funding for health care, education, child care, public defense, and other services, while expanding the Working Families Tax Credit. Opponents, including many small business, construction, housing, and taxpayer advocates, argued the measure would function as a tax on pass-through businesses and retained earnings, harm housing production and investment, encourage wealthy residents and businesses to leave the state, and violate the state constitution or the will of voters. No final action on SB 6346 was taken during the hearing.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Aug 24th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- A request for unanimous consent to suspend Joint Rule 62A, the file notice requirement, to allow the
- A request for unanimous consent to suspend Joint Rule 62A, the file notice requirement, to allow the
- Thank you for allowing me to present Senate Bill 1439.
- SB 1261 allows these ADRCs to keep operating while their local area agencies on aging transition.
- Speaker, for allowing me to present this important legislation.
Summary:
The Assembly convened, established a quorum, offered a prayer and pledge, and then moved through a long daily file and concurrence agenda. Early procedural actions included withdrawing AB 1555 and AB 2221 from engrossing and enrolling, suspending rules to move SB 813 to second reading, re-referring several bills to committees, and approving committee meeting notices. The chamber also adopted a rules waiver for chaptering-out amendments and handled several other procedural motions before turning to floor votes.
On the Senate third reading file, members approved a wide range of bills covering housing, health care, education, transportation, energy, public safety, taxation, and local government. Measures discussed included EV charger liability in HOAs (SB 1267), local public benefits authority (SB 1099), special needs trusts under Proposition 19 (SB 974), infant formula tax treatment (SB 1151), mutual water company rate transparency (SB 1417), Alzheimer’s treatment coverage (SB 950), protections for mental health professionals in correctional settings (SB 993), development fee transparency (SB 1014), climate literacy in schools (SB 1048), illegal dumping enforcement (SB 1218), homeowner repair timelines for unpermitted work (SB 1272), EV charging station permitting (SB 1283), nonprobate asset distribution (SB 1288), DCA sunset cleanup (SB 1311), wildfire and disaster-related measures (SB 742, SB 904), nitrous oxide sales restrictions (SB 936), PrEP access (SB 1023), early math assessments (SB 1067), firearm restrictions for certain serial-number offenses (SB 1220), and several licensing, education, and health-related bills. Most measures passed with strong margins; a few drew notable opposition, including SB 993, which failed, while SB 222, SB 1037, SB 1220, SB 1255, and SB 1279 passed with narrower votes.
The Assembly then took up concurrence on numerous Assembly bills with Senate amendments. Among the bills concurred in were AB 2075, AB 431, AB 1153, AB 1328, AB 1486, AB 1573, AB 1591, AB 1617, AB 1738, AB 1749, AB 1789, AB 1802, AB 1818, AB 1820, AB 1829, AB 1877, AB 2010, AB 2011, AB 2160, AB 2178, AB 2262, AB 2310, AB 2349, AB 2422, AB 2481, AB 2504, AB 2580, AB 2640, AB 1705, and AB 1793. These concurrence items covered forestry, aviation, illegal dumping, Medi-Cal, climate resiliency, housing, health professions, hazardous waste reporting, domestic violence protections, mental health parity, lactation support, community college programs, air quality response, student aid, beverage containers, teacher credentialing, state mandates, privacy, cash payments, and more. The transcript ended while the Assembly was beginning consideration of SB 1412 on remote parent-teacher conference participation.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations.(3-11-26)
Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations
Transcript Highlights:
- It does allow a more broad spectrum in the statute.
- Um it also allows a work on those regs.
- This would allow them to work in room.
- </c><00:12:00.760><c> a</c> purse stabilization fund and allows a purse stabilization fund and allows
- However, the allow for that. Okay.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Assembly Education Committee and Senate Education Committee Jan 20th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- At most, our resolution would potentially require students or schools to purchase services to allow for
- schools to choose how they want to, allow, once again, the flexibility for schools to choose how they
- Ten years will allow ample time for development, teacher preparation, and program adjustments.
- A level one being the least AI allowed, a level five meaning the most.
- allowed, a level five meaning the most.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Assembly Education Committee and Senate Education Committee Jan 20th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- At most, our resolution would potentially require students or schools to purchase services to allow for
- schools to choose how they want to, allow, once again, the flexibility for schools to choose how they
- Ten years will allow ample time for development, teacher preparation, and program adjustments.
- A level one being the least AI allowed, a level five meaning the most.
- A level one being the least AI allowed, a level five meaning the most.
Summary:
The joint Senate and Assembly Education Committee hearing featured opening remarks from legislators welcoming students from the California Association of Student Councils and SABLE, with members emphasizing student voice and noting that several past student proposals had become law. The hearing then moved through multiple student panels presenting policy ideas, with members responding in a mix of support, technical questions, and cautions about cost, implementation, and tradeoffs in instructional time.
The first panel proposed an annual civic engagement day for grades 7-12 to increase civic literacy and participation through flexible school-based activities. Members asked about costs, flexibility for sixth grade, voter registration, and how the proposal would fit within existing curriculum and standards. The second panel proposed amending Education Code Section 35012 to require at least one student board member in every unified and high school district, with added motioning rights and training on budgeting and LCAPs; members raised concerns about mandate costs, board size, and the scope of motioning authority. The third panel proposed middle school financial literacy instruction, potentially embedded in existing classes like math, with a 10-year phase-in for teacher training and curriculum updates; members questioned whether the state should wait for the already-approved high school financial literacy course to be implemented first.
The fourth panel proposed expanding restorative justice by creating a CDE task force and authorizing PPS-certified staff to use restorative justice materials in discipline processes; members discussed prior legislation, confidentiality in expulsion hearings, and the likely cost of a state task force. The fifth panel proposed short, twice-a-semester mental health and life-skills sessions for grades 7-12, but members expressed skepticism that brief classroom sessions could meaningfully address mental health needs and suggested wellness centers or student-led awareness efforts instead. The hearing then began panel six on AI implementation in classrooms, with students arguing that districts need clearer guidance on AI use and that education must adapt rather than ignore the technology.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- is that there's case law that says that's not allowed. >> So it should be allowed. >> So currently right
- is that there's case law that says that's not allowed. >> So it should be allowed. >> So currently right
- is that there's case law that says that's not allowed. >> So it should be allowed. >> So currently right
- are allowed, even if there's a case law, they are allowed to put in and be explicit in a lease, then
- </c> that considering that they are allowed that considering that they are allowed and<00:52:58.640><
Committee:
House Housing
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
CPC Public Hearing - Thu Apr 9, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST
Consumer Protection & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:17:16.679><c> a</c> that or the taxpayers get by allowing a that or the taxpayers get by allowing
- 201H allows zoning exemptions to allow certain exemptions from our zoning rules.
- Chiropractic students are allowed to Chiropractic students are allowed to work<00:44:08.240><c> on</c
- allowed to follow.
- That's not<01:33:21.800><c> allowed.
Committee:
House Consumer Protection & Commerce
Summary:
The committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce met on April 9, 2026, and heard testimony on several measures. SB 3302 SD1 HD1, dealing with homemade food products, would require the Department of Health to adopt rules for farm kitchens producing homemade food products that are no more stringent than rules for home kitchens. The Department of Health said it supported the bill with technical amendments, and the Hawaii Food Industry Association and Grassroot Institute of Hawaii also supported it. No opposition was heard.
A lengthy discussion focused on SB 2061 SD2 HD1, which concerns a 99-year leasehold residential condominium project and HCDA’s rules for sales, income restrictions, and buyback pricing. HCDA supported the bill and said the House draft clarified unclear provisions and would help move the project to pre-sales. Testimony and committee questions centered on whether the project should remain owner-occupied in perpetuity or allow investor purchases after an initial sales period. HCDA explained that the bill was revised to make the project feasible in the market, that 60% of units would be income-restricted for buyers at or below 140% of area median income, and that the remaining units could be sold without owner-occupancy restrictions. Some members and testifiers expressed concern that the bill had shifted away from the original owner-occupancy vision and could become an investment property model, while others argued the changes were necessary for the project to pencil out and compete with fee-simple developments. No vote was taken during the discussion shown.
The committee also heard SB 2050 SD1 HD1, which would allow chiropractic students in accredited programs to engage in clinical practice beginning July 1, 2028. The Hawaii Board of Chiropractic and the Hawaii State Chiropractic Association supported the measure, and one testifier described personal experience with student chiropractic care in California. Members questioned why the board requested delaying implementation until 2030, and the board said it needed more time to develop rules because it meets only a few times a year and rulemaking is lengthy. Finally, SB 2102 SD2 HD1, on industrial hemp in commercial feed, was introduced; the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity offered comments, the Department of Health raised concerns about regulating pet food and possible jurisdictional conflict, and a farmer testifying in support suggested narrowing the bill to federally approved livestock feed rather than pet food.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Municipal and County Government (02/04/2025)
Municipal and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
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- </c> testimony with additional time allowed testimony with additional time allowed for<00:06:12.639><
- </c><00:46:08.359><c> for</c> in an intelligencia that allows for in an intelligencia that allows for
- </c> payment overall the exemptions allowed payment overall the exemptions allowed in<01:08:03.720><c
- </c> more that there's 7 RSA 7223 DN allows more that there's 7 RSA 7223 DN allows for<01:30:39.000><
Committee:
House Municipal and County Government
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- And so will this system allow for more coordination of...
- This program allows family...
- Increased funding for LRS would allow for adequate staffing, timely service For LRS would allow for adequate
- That was a positive thing that allowed us to do more.
- That most grocers would never allow in their facilities.
Committee:
House Appropriations
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee on HF2446 5/9/25
Transcript Highlights:
- This changes them from designated spending within the appropriation to an up-to allowable amount, and
- that I don't believe either allowance that I don't believe either body<00:13:27.519><c> is</c><00:13
- </c><00:17:03.600><c> within</c> carrying as an up to allowance within carrying as an up to allowance
- This would allow MDA to and 23.
- We're going to um allow egg person.
Summary:
The Agriculture Conference Committee met for an initial organizational and comparison session on House File 2446, the agriculture broadband and rural development bill. Members introduced themselves, noted that no conference target had yet been set, and agreed to begin with a side-by-side review of House and Senate positions. No oral testimony was taken; instead, the chair listed written testimony submitted by a wide range of agricultural, environmental, local government, food bank, and industry groups.
Nonpartisan fiscal staff walked through the major funding differences. Both bills included some shared items such as operating adjustments, wolf and elk damage compensation, and certain technical changes, but they differed on several major appropriations. The House generally proposed larger increases for meat inspection, local food purchasing, and the Board of Animal Health, and added items such as county inspector grants, biofertilizer innovation, a biosolids/PFAS-related study, a soil health study, broadband installation study funding, an Agri Works program, an Agri Support program, a milk grant program, and several House-only transfers and grants. The Senate included items such as a climate coordinator position, biofuel-related reductions and policy changes, livestock processing funding, farm-to-school and urban agriculture changes, MARL funding, cottage foods licensing updates, and several Senate-only pass-through grants and transfers. Staff also noted differences in the agriculture emergency account transfer approach and in how the two bodies handled the Second Harvest Heartland and related food distribution provisions.
House Research then reviewed the policy language differences in the bill. The House language included provisions allowing more flexible use of grant administration funds, unpaid prior-year claims, county inspector grants, and updates tied to its own policy article, while the Senate language included the climate coordinator, PFAS-related commercialization language, cooperative development grant permissive language, and other Senate policy changes. The committee did not take any votes or final actions at this meeting; the session was informational and focused on identifying differences for later negotiation.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Apr 24th, 2025
Housing and Community Development
Transcript Highlights:
- It will allow us to do that and do it smartly with data, invest in a continuum of care of... ...allow
- By allowing small, missing-middle projects that fit with the character of communities, AB 647 allows
- This is a modest bill that will allow more Californians to stay in their neighborhoods, allow families
- Number one, it allows the RHNA process to start a bit earlier.
- allow people to have more clarity.
Committee:
House Housing and Community Development
Summary:
The Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee heard AB 1157, the Affordable Rent Act, which would lower the statewide rent cap, remove the single-family home exemption, and eliminate the current sunset date on the Tenant Protection Act. The author and supporters argued the bill is needed to address severe rent increases, stabilize tenants now, and extend protections to renters in single-family homes. Supporters included tenants, labor, housing advocates, and some small landlords who said modest caps can still allow property maintenance and provide predictability.
Opponents, including apartment, building, and property owner groups, argued rent control discourages housing production, can reduce maintenance, and should not be expanded before the Legislature receives the planned review of the existing law. Several committee members voiced mixed views: some supported moving the bill forward while warning about impacts on housing supply and small landlords, while others opposed it on supply and voter-opposition grounds. After extensive public comment from large numbers of supporters and opponents, the committee passed AB 1157 to the Assembly Judiciary Committee on a 7-5 vote.
The committee also approved the consent calendar, which included AB 413, AB 1152, and AB 1275. It then heard ACA 3, a proposed constitutional amendment to require the University of California to offer limited down payment loans to eligible long-term UC support staff who are first-time homebuyers. The author and labor supporters said the measure would help lower-wage UC workers access homeownership and stay near their jobs, while UC and other opponents said the proposal was duplicative of existing CalHFA programs and would create unnecessary administrative and financing complications. The discussion ended with questions about financing mechanics and coordination with CalHFA, but no final vote on ACA 3 is reflected in the transcript excerpt.
VT
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> allowed to have a gun then?" allowed to have a gun then?"
- <00:43:00.160><c> for</c> allow for allow for absenteeism absenteeism absenteeism due<00:43:03.160><c
- </c> retirement allowance. retirement allowance.
- c> housing</c> The statute also allows housing The statute also allows housing decisions<01:11:01.840
- </c><01:52:30.960><c> the</c> youthful offender system allows the youthful offender system allows the
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> this rule change would do is allow this rule change would do is allow members<01:17:31.400><c> to
- We don't allow them to be carried into our prisons.
- We don't allow them to be carried into our prisons.
- We don't allow them to be carried into our prisons.
- people time to get off work it not allow people time to get off work it doesn't<01:46:38.119><c> allow
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Jun 23rd, 2026
Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
Transcript Highlights:
- But it sounds like current law allows that.
- The city is allowed 31 licenses for restaurants and bars.
- We just don't have the mechanism to allow these businesses to come into our city.
- And allowing this to go forward will allow us to kind of take control of our economic development future
- And allowing this to go forward will allow us to kind of take control of our economic development future
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure held a hearing on late-filed bills, with testimony heard both in person and remotely. The committee reviewed several measures, including H. 355 and S. 3082 on veterinary telemedicine/telehealth, H. 5445 on additional liquor licenses for East Hampton, and S. 3090/H. 5114 on consumer-connected devices and software support disclosure. The chair outlined hearing logistics, including three-minute testimony limits and written testimony submission, and noted that Lawrence High School students were present to observe.
On the veterinary bills, supporters of H. 355 argued that allowing veterinarians to establish a client-patient relationship remotely would improve access to care for pets whose owners face transportation, mobility, or anxiety-related barriers, and could help veterinarians continue practicing through telemedicine. Opponents of S. 3082, including the Massachusetts Veterinary Medical Association and several veterinarians, said the initial in-person exam is essential to detect conditions that cannot be seen on video, avoid misdiagnosis, and preserve the standard of care; they emphasized that teletriage and follow-up telemedicine are already used after an in-person relationship is established. Committee members pressed both sides on the distinction between teletriage and establishing the relationship, the timing of annual exams, and whether limited exceptions for sedatives or other pre-visit needs might be workable. Senator Lovely testified in support, citing a recent Lyme case where follow-up telemedicine would have been useful.
On H. 5445, Representative Gomez and East Hampton Mayor Salem Derby urged approval of the bill to authorize eight additional liquor licenses, saying the city has reached its current cap, needs economic development, and wants to support downtown revitalization and new restaurant growth. Members asked about public safety and the number of licenses sought; the mayor said local public safety officials support the request and that the licenses would be for restaurants, not bars. On S. 3090 and H. 5114, consumer advocates and cybersecurity experts supported requiring manufacturers of connected devices to disclose software support timelines, arguing it would improve consumer transparency, cybersecurity, and reduce e-waste. Industry groups opposed the bills, saying fixed disclosure requirements could be impractical, create confusion, burden small businesses, conflict with federal efforts, and be difficult to apply to appliances, lighting, and other products with long lifecycles. The committee did not take a substantive vote on the bills during the hearing; at the end, staff announced a forthcoming poll for House members, and the committee voted to adjourn.