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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session May 14th, 2026 at 08:00 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 1372 has passed as an emergency measure.
  • Senator Curran, you care to vote?
  • Regina Goodwin, you care to vote? Thank you.
  • Senator Woods, you care to vote?
  • Senator Mann, do you care to vote? Senator McIntosh, do you care to vote?
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Mar 4th, 2026

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Sometimes I believe that emergency clause is overused when this truly is not an emergency for them to
  • Sometimes I believe that emergency clause is overused when this truly is not an emergency for them to
  • And the reason for that is because it's specifically for the emergency indoor and the emergency housing
  • That doesn't mean I don't care or my communities don't care, but we're not facing the reality that it
  • emergency shelters.
Summary: The Senate took up a series of House bills, often suspending the rules to move measures directly to final passage after brief debate. Messages from the House reported signed bills being transmitted, and the Senate later signed several measures in open session. The chamber also excused a few members from voting on specific bills. Among the first major actions, Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2508, clarifying the scope and authority of the Office of Independent Investigations, passed 44-4 after supporters described it as a technical housekeeping bill and opponents raised concerns about overlapping investigations. Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1408, which dedicates 20% of sales tax revenue from the two large stadiums to a community preservation and development authority in South Downtown/Pioneer Square/Chinatown International District, passed 47-1 after supporters emphasized reinvestment in historic buildings and neighborhood safety. Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1500, requiring more complete resale certificates for common interest communities and homeowners associations, passed 39-9 after a successful amendment clarifying litigation language. Substitute House Bill 1570, allowing collective bargaining for certain student employees at public institutions, failed an amendment to remove the emergency clause and then passed 29-19 despite objections that it blurs student and employee roles. The chamber then debated Substitute House Bill 1390, which repeals the Community Protection Program and directs DSHS to transition participants into other developmental disability services. Numerous amendments sought to preserve restrictions, add assessments, or create liability protections, but most were rejected; the committee striking amendment updating agency names and dates was adopted. The bill passed 29-20 after a lengthy, emotional debate over whether the program protects public safety or unfairly restricts people with developmental disabilities, with supporters citing civil rights concerns and opponents warning about risks to vulnerable residents and the lack of a detailed transition plan. Other measures passed with broad support, including Substitute House Bill 2114 on defective license plates (48-0), Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2471 on collective bargaining if the NLRB loses authority (31-18), House Bill 1069 on bargaining over supplemental retirement contributions for Department of Corrections employees (31-18), House Bill 2441 expanding medical premium reimbursements for surviving spouses of line-of-duty deaths (49-0), and Engrossed Third Substitute House Bill 1710 adding preclearance requirements under the Washington Voting Rights Act, which drew debate over local control and litigation but had not yet reached a final vote by the end of the transcript.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 10th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • An act relating to personnel for ambulance service inter-facility specialty care transports.
  • of millions of dollars in ensuring that every single Washingtonian, from our schools to our child care
  • From our farmers to our food banks, to our child care centers and our public schools, we want everyone
  • I also know that we have a health care workforce shortage across our state, rural, urban, and suburban
  • Ensuring that we're providing access to health care in the dietitian area and making sure that these
Summary: The House convened, established a quorum, recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and heard a prayer. Members approved the prior day’s minutes, referred introduction-sheet bills, and later took up several second- and third-reading bills. Early in the day, the chamber also announced that members could wear Seahawks apparel during floor action the next day. The House passed House Bill 1155, which bans non-compete agreements, after adopting amendments clarifying tribal worker relationships, replacing references to “customer” with “patient” in certain contexts, and requiring notice to current and some former employees that non-competes are void. An amendment to exempt senior executives earning over $350,000 was rejected. The bill passed 65-29. The House also passed House Bill 1002, allowing certain coroners and medical examiners to seek workers’ compensation for PTSD; an amendment to isolate costs to their own risk class was rejected, and the bill passed 70-24. House Bill 2264, clarifying unemployment insurance eligibility for workers who voluntarily participate in layoffs, passed unanimously 94-0. Later measures included House Bill 2110, allowing nurses to accompany inter-facility ambulance transports without also holding EMT licenses, which passed 94-0 after an amendment clarifying training; House Bill 2272, a technical update to ski equipment terminology, which passed 94-0; House Bill 2238, creating a statewide food security strategy, which passed 83-12 after a technical amendment narrowing agency scope; and House Bill 2445, aimed at preventing profiteering in probate estates, which passed 67-28 after a technical amendment. The House also passed House Bill 2109 on securing vehicle loads (95-0), House Bill 2492 requiring behavioral and mental health training for construction workers and apprentices (79-16), House Bill 2472 on licensed contractors for fire sprinkler work (92-3), House Bill 288 joining the dietician licensure compact (93-1), and House Bill 2229 updating the Professional Engineers Registration Act and requiring five years of Washington practice for board members after an amendment (68-26).
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Mar 4th, 2026

Finance and Taxation Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairman, this is simply putting uh another type of health care that is falls under the Affordable Care
  • Chairman, this is simply putting uh another type of health care that is falls under the Affordable Care
  • Can someone share with me what the definition of a health care sharing..."
  • </c> category of uh a ministry, a health care category of uh a ministry, a health care sharing<00:09:
  • </c> definition of a health care sharing? definition of a health care sharing?
Bills: HB125 , HB116 , HB183 , HB342 , HB341 , SB280 , SB245 , SB159 , HB125 , HB116 , HB183 , HB342 , HB341 , SB280 , SB245 , SB159
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Jan 30th, 2026 at 12:05 pm

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • They are here to help take care of our oral health.
  • Between food and medical care. Mr.
  • , providing for reproductive health care providers and gender-affirming health care providers to participate
  • We don't care about the 30%, right?
  • of an adverse health care outcome.
Bills: HM3 , HM11 , HM14 , HM15 , HM21 , HM25 , HB9 , SB2 , SB19
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 11th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I pray you would give them your wisdom for this work, a heart to care for those they govern, your guidance
  • law a bill that allows us to increase Medicaid rates to Medicare rates, to ensure access to health care
  • During that time, new technologies were introduced, raising concerns among health care professionals.
  • While technology can be helpful, it cannot replace the human relationship central to nursing care.
  • And we want to ensure that they can continue to work despite the emerging technology that is emerging
Summary: The House convened, established a quorum, recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and heard a prayer before caucusing. The chamber then received a Senate message that Substitute Senate Bill 5820 had passed the Senate. Members took up a long series of House bills on second and third reading, with most advancing by wide margins after brief debate and, in some cases, amendments. Among the measures considered, Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2165 on impersonating law enforcement drew the most debate. Supporters said it would address public safety and accountability by prohibiting people from claiming police authority or creating that impression, while opponents argued it could create confusion, overlap with existing law, or interfere with federal-state law enforcement cooperation. Amendment 1521 was adopted to protect ceremonial transfers of badges and identification to families of fallen or retired officers. The bill ultimately passed 56-38. Other bills passed included House Bill 2624 on clarifying property-related definitions for conservancies, House Bill 2385 delaying implementation dates tied to Medicaid reimbursement changes, Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1717 on affordable housing tax remittance, Second Substitute House Bill 1859 on housing development on faith-owned land, Substitute House Bill 2151 adopting national standards for factory-built housing inspections, House Bill 2155 protecting the nursing title, House Bill 2111 on Interstate Bridge toll interest revenue, House Bill 2543 on county clerk fees, House Bill 2606 updating the Office of Privacy and Data Protection’s performance measures and AI-related duties, and House Bill 2417 aligning victim rights for National Guard members. Later, the House considered additional bills on early learning, marine safety, energy devices, nitrous oxide sales, derelict vessels, and a Seahawks-related resolution. House Bill 2317 on early learning assistance was amended to clarify school and community/technical college premises and passed unanimously. House Bill 2436, a technical fix for pilotage-related vessel requirements, also passed unanimously. Substitute House Bill 2296, dealing with distributed energy resource devices and meter-mounted equipment, passed 56-38 after concerns about timing relative to UTC rulemaking. Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2532, restricting nitrous oxide sales with exemptions for medical, dental, and automotive uses, passed unanimously after an amendment clarifying those exemptions. Substitute House Bill 2199, aimed at removing derelict and sinking vessels, passed unanimously. Finally, House Bill 1759 designating December 12 as the “Day of the 12s” in honor of the Seahawks and their fans passed 93-2 after enthusiastic floor remarks and a brief point of order. The House then recessed for caucus until 2 p.m.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 11th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Did the hospice care employees have participation in this language? Thank you for the question.
  • The question was: the hospice care employees are not directors, but the very folks that would have to
  • family wants them to take care of the drugs and dispose of them properly.
  • emergency to have passed.
  • It is passed as an emergency. Madam Leader, thank you, Mr. President.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 11th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • After a decade of practicing family and urgent care medicine in rural and suburban communities, Doctor
  • Now celebrating its seventh year, the clinic provides free care and medication to uninsured patients
  • Please just thank these wonderful people who helped to take care of them.
  • I declare Senate Bill 1250 to have passed as an emergency measure. Mr. Leader, Mr.
  • Bottom line, Senate Bill 1794 helps Oklahoma get people in crisis to care faster.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 22nd, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Emerging victorious as the 2026 large team overall national champion.
  • Seeing none, I declare Senate Bill 169 to have passed as an emergency measure.
  • But today, I honestly believe that those people do care about gambling addiction.
  • The prediction markets don't care if you have a gambling problem and it's here now.
  • these sales have to be used for infrastructure, capital improvements, or projects that enhance the care
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Transcript Highlights:
  • And Actually, I'm somewhat concerned about the care we give our vulnerable population and those most
  • And ensure patients have and continue to receive high-quality dental care across Oklahoma.
Bills: SB227 , SB1942 , SB1627 , SB625 , SJR39 , SJR47
Committee: House Rules
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Law & Justice Feb 2nd, 2026 at 10:30 am

Law & Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • care, and food, with just wages.
  • The bill does not distinguish whether the debt is emergent care, a single episode of care, or simple
  • And because it was Sunday night, my father was unable to receive the emergency care he needed.
  • Hospitals have an obligation under EMTALA to care for anyone who presents to an emergency department.
  • Just be careful there.
Bills: SB5962 , SB6105 , SB6203 , SB6296
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education REVISED Apr 7th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Care to close? She waves, clerk Alderall.
  • Leader Daniels, care to close? Thank you. Thank you for your support.
  • Enatorseifried care to The clerk will call the roll.
  • Sayfried, care to close? She waves. Clerk, will call the roll.
  • Would you care to explain your amendment?
Committee: Senate Education
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Ways & Means Mar 2nd, 2026 at 10:30 am

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 6353, modifying the Working Connections Child Care program.
  • Senate Bill 6353, modifying the Working Connections Child Care program.
  • Senate Bill 6353, modifying the Working Connections Child Care program.
  • event, and removes the definition of an energy emergency.
  • Affordability Account for Cascade Care Savings Program.
Committee: Senate Ways & Means
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • We thank you for your watch and care over.
  • Eaves, Hayes, Harris, Representatives, care to Representative Woolley, care to vote.
  • Timmy Lightfoot, you care to vote aye.
  • Senate and act relating to maternal care.
  • If they were in utilized Medicaid or Sooner Care.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Mar 18th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • I don't care where it is. I don't care who the judge is. I don't care what it is.
  • I don't care where it is. I don't care who the judge is. I don't care what it is.
  • I don't care where it is. I don't care who the judge is. I don't care what it is.
  • I don't care where it is. I don't care who the judge is. I don't care what it is.
  • I don't care where it is. I don't care who the judge is. I don't care what it is.
Committee: Senate Judiciary
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 13th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • was aware of, and it left him oftentimes where he would go into AFIB and would have to make that emergency
  • room trek, and he was told that... ...to make that emergency room trek, and he was told that, you know
  • My dad was the one that every single day would make sure that she was taken care of and that she would
  • But I think that we have to really be careful going to...
  • Senator Gaynor said, “We need to be careful going forward about what kind of message we are sending to