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TX
Texas 89th Regular
Congressional Redistricting, Select Jul 24th, 2025
Congressional Redistricting, Select
Transcript Highlights:
- The HCVAP is the lowest threshold because the court has told us we're going to gear off of that number
- We're going to gear off of that number because those are the folks that can actually vote. in that election
- Maryland, New Jersey, and so many other states are gearing up to redistrict if this redistricting does
Committee:
House Congressional Redistricting, Select
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Military and Veterans Affairs Jul 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- focus on New Mexico joining some of the professional interstate compacts that are, for our purposes, geared
- A lot of women don't feel comfortable wearing that gear unless they're going to a veteran-specific event
- women renew their nursing license, their commercial driver's license, their fire, getting firefighter gear
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (05/07/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- They're not geared to be doing this. nothing and I'll tell you in 2010 that I nothing and I'll tell you
- They're they're not<00:54:13.520><c> they're</c><00:54:14.040><c> not</c><00:54:15.319><c> geared</c>
- > to</c><00:54:16.559><c> be</c><00:54:16.800><c> doing</c><00:54:17.200><c> this</c> They're not geared
Summary:
The committee took up several insurance-related bills. Senate Bill 47, concerning health insurance policies related to the birth of the mother, was moved ought to pass with no amendments and was approved on a 6-0 vote. Senate Bill 121, dealing with Medicare Advantage plan notice requirements, was amended to reduce the required notice from 120 days to 90 days and to remove a federal citation; the department said the change was to avoid conflict with federal notice rules. After discussion about the stress caused when carriers leave the Medicare Advantage market, the committee voted ought to pass as amended, 7-0.
The committee then heard a detailed explanation of the continuing care retirement communities bill, described by the Insurance Department as a rewrite of a 1989 law to modernize oversight, require quarterly financial reporting as an early warning system, create a bill of rights for residents, and clarify issues such as entrance fees and removal of dangerous residents. A member recalled the bill’s original purpose as protecting solvency because residents pay substantial upfront fees. The bill was moved ought to pass and approved unanimously, 7-0.
The final major discussion concerned a pooled risk organizations bill. Members debated whether oversight should remain with the Secretary of State or be moved to the Insurance Department. Supporters of moving it argued the issue is solvency, citing concerns about reserve levels, prior insolvencies, and the Insurance Department’s expertise. Opponents said the Secretary of State’s office had historically overseen the entities and that the bill would fundamentally change how they operate. A straw vote favored an amendment, but the committee ultimately voted to retain the bill for further work, with plans to revisit it later in the session.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, July 23, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And, uh, they also are outdoors in the fall to watch the Rye Garnets High School football games.
- /c><02:05:02.239><c> they</c><02:05:02.480><c> also</c><02:05:02.719><c> are</c><02:05:02.960><c> outdoor
- ><02:05:03.360><c> in</c><02:05:03.520><c> the</c><02:05:03.679><c> fall</c> And uh they also are outdoor
- in the fall And uh they also are outdoor in the fall to<02:05:04.080><c> watch</c><02:05:04.239><c>
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- addition to being the home of the Twins, the ballpark has earned accolades as the region's premier outdoor
- 36:01.760><c> the</c><00:36:01.880><c> region's</c><00:36:02.320><c> premier</c><00:36:02.720><c> outdoor
- </c><00:36:03.080><c> concert</c> as the region's premier outdoor concert as the region's premier outdoor
Committee:
House Taxes
Keywords:
Hennepin County, sales tax, health care facilities, ballpark improvements, tax revenue, HF4234, Minnesota private activity bonds, tax-exempt bonds, bond cap, aggregate bond limitation, residential rental projects, multifamily housing, affordable housing finance, housing bonds, public finance, bond allocation, private activity bond cap, Minnesota Statutes 474A.02, tax committee, tax refund
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 3/18/26 - Afternoon Meeting
Elections Finance and Government Operations
Transcript Highlights:
- The current statute requires that disclaimers on outdoor signs be prominent.
- The current statute requires that disclaimers on outdoor signs be prominent.
- believes that it would be best for the legislature to weigh in with a set of standards on what the outdoor
- believes that it would be best for the legislature to weigh in with a set of standards on what the outdoor
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/10/26
State Government Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Morning light is especially important for school children, commuters, people who work outdoors, and our
- <01:34:42.480><c> people</c><01:34:42.760><c> who</c><01:34:42.840><c> work</c><01:34:43.080><c> outdoors
- ,</c> commuters, uh, people who work outdoors, commuters, uh, people who work outdoors, our<01:34:44.120
Committee:
House State Government Finance and Policy
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 13, February 24, 2026-AM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Additionally, we'll hear from our good folks at WWNRT and our outdoor recreation trust fund. >> Chairman
- 41.599><c> uh</c> from our good folks at WW NRT and our uh from our good folks at WW NRT and our uh outdoor
- </c><01:58:44.000><c> Um</c><01:58:44.480><c> thank</c> outdoor recreation trust fund.
- Um thank outdoor recreation trust fund.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session-Day 12, February 23, 2026-AM
Wyoming Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- member of the speech and debate, National Honor Society, DECA, French Club, Girls State, Girls Nation, Outdoor
- Girls State, National Honor Society, Girls State, Girls<00:18:50.160><c> Nation,</c><00:18:50.799><c> Outdoor
- /c><00:18:51.280><c> Track</c><00:18:51.440><c> and</c><00:18:51.679><c> Field,</c> Girls Nation, Outdoor
- Track and Field, Girls Nation, Outdoor Track and Field, French<00:18:52.400><c> Club,</c><00:18:52.640
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Children and Family Law (01/20/2026)
Children and Family Law
Transcript Highlights:
- But a father-son going into the woods, engaging in traditional outdoor activities, and with all due care
- into the woods engaging in<01:07:50.960><c> traditional</c><01:07:52.240><c> uh</c><01:07:53.440><c> outdoor
- </c><01:07:54.000><c> activities</c> in traditional uh outdoor activities in traditional uh outdoor activities
Committee:
House Children and Family Law
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- There is what one would refer to as an outdoor kind of portico that you see in some people's driveways
- refer</c><00:11:29.120><c> to</c><00:11:29.360><c> as</c><00:11:29.519><c> an</c><00:11:29.680><c> outdoor
- </c> um what one would refer to as an outdoor um what one would refer to as an outdoor uh<00:11:30.480
Committee:
Senate Capital Budget
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session 5/16/25 - Part 2
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- encourage members to vote against this amendment um and and take a strong position in support of outdoor
- Against time outdoors.
- encourage members to vote against this amendment um and and take a strong position in support of outdoor
- Against time outdoors.
- Against time outdoors.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
WAM/FIN Joint Info Briefing - Fri Feb 14, 2025 @ 9:30 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Every girl deserves the opportunity to experience STEM, outdoors, life skills, and entrepreneurship.
- Impaired community<01:08:08.079><c> Through</c><01:08:08.359><c> structured</c><01:08:08.960><c> outdoor
- exploration and Next caking with outdoor exploration and Next Generation<05:16:35.280><c> science</c
- Our curricula cultivate affinity for land, improve mental health outcomes through outdoor immersion,
- The curricula cultivate affinity for land, improve mental health outcomes through outdoor immersion,
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Status of Persons with Disabilities Jun 21st, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- So I think we’re going to shift gears now to ComCore. Is that right? And then? Yes.
Summary:
The Disability Employment Subcommittee of the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Persons with Disabilities met and began with roll call, but did not have a quorum, so approval of prior minutes and an inspirational quote were tabled. A planned presentation from a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs employee was canceled shortly before the meeting, and the agenda shifted to an informal discussion with two Treasury employees, Steve Kroder and Bill Collievis, about veterans with disabilities in the workplace.
Kroder and Collievis described barriers veterans face, including stigma, employer misunderstanding, the need for frequent medical appointments, invisible disabilities such as PTSD and other service-connected conditions, and challenges for Guard and Reserve members balancing service with civilian work. They also discussed supportive practices in public employment, the need for better outreach to employers, the role of local veterans service officers, Military OneSource, TAP, and the importance of helping veterans navigate benefits and transition services. Commission members responded by emphasizing education, employer outreach, and possible resource-sharing through the commission’s website and toolkit.
The committee then heard a presentation from Commonwealth Corporation on its Young Adults with Disabilities employment grant program. Staff explained the program’s funding, eligibility, training and placement model, and data from the prior cycle, including participant demographics, completion rates, credential attainment, employment outcomes, and wages. Members discussed benefits counseling, underemployment definitions, stigma around addiction as a disability category, and the need to connect grantees and participants with work incentives and benefits information. Commonwealth Corporation said grantees now receive training on benefits impacts and that the agency is open to further partnership.
The meeting ended with a brief update on a planned commission event focused on youth and young adults with disabilities, inclusive workplaces, PCAs, and job coaches. Organizers said they were still securing a venue and were considering a hybrid or virtual format, with participation from youth organizations, the PCA Council, and the Arc of Massachusetts. The subcommittee then voted to adjourn.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Revenue Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am
Joint Committee on Revenue
Transcript Highlights:
- status of the industry and the complex challenges ahead and to develop a multi-pronged action plan geared
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Revenue
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on H. 3256, a bill stemming from the Massachusetts Cranberry Revitalization Task Force that would remove Chapter 61A barriers for certain renewable energy projects on non-producing agricultural land. Supporters said the bill would let farmers separate adjacent land from Chapter 61A without a municipal right of first refusal, avoid rollback and advance tax penalties, and use small solar or other renewable projects to generate supplemental income while keeping the farm in operation. Testimony emphasized that the proposal is intended to be “farm-first,” limited to marginal or accessory land, and could also produce local tax revenue for municipalities. Some members raised concerns about whether the bill should be limited to solar, the appropriate project size, impacts on other agricultural sectors, and whether future sales or conversion back to other uses should trigger local rights of first refusal. Witnesses said the bill had been reported favorably in a prior session and noted that similar projects typically involve 20-year leases with extensions.
The committee also took testimony on S. 2009, which would authorize regional transportation ballot initiatives. MAPC and Transportation for Mass argued that the bill would give municipalities and groups of municipalities a flexible tool to raise local revenue for transportation projects such as transit, roads, bridges, bikeways, and pedestrian infrastructure, with sunset provisions so the revenue ends when the project ends. They said the measure would not raise taxes on its own, but would allow local voters to decide whether to adopt a revenue source, and pointed to examples from other states where similar initiatives funded major transit and infrastructure projects. No votes were taken during the hearing.
Testimony was also heard on S. 1922, which would create a Massachusetts fund allowing voluntary taxpayer donations to the UN Least Developed Countries Fund or related 501(c)(3) nonprofits supporting climate-vulnerable communities. Climate Reality Project representatives said the bill would let Massachusetts residents support climate resilience projects in the world’s poorest countries at no cost to the Commonwealth, and could serve as a model for other states. Senators questioned how recipient countries and nonprofits would be selected, what safeguards would exist regarding countries such as Yemen, and how taxpayers would know where donations would go; witnesses said the fund would be administered through the UN system and that they would provide more clarification. Rep. Michelle Ciccolo also testified on H. 3051, seeking a one-year deferral of the higher interest rate that applies when deferred property taxes become due after the death of a senior or veteran, saying the current jump to 16% can burden heirs and discourage use of the deferral program. The hearing concluded without any votes or committee actions.
VA
Virginia 2026 Regular Session
Cannabis Retail Market, Joint Commission to Oversee the Transition of the Commonwealth into a Jun 2nd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- instructing the Attorney General to expedite the rescheduling process, which kind of kicked this back into gear
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- With one other kind of just shifting gears, and to say that, you know, a birth is upwards of $20,000,
Committee:
House Health and Mental Health
Summary:
The House Committee on Health and Mental Health met in executive session and first adopted a substitute for House Bill 3401, Representative Phelps’s workplace violence bill, then voted the House Committee Substitute do pass. The substitute broadened language by removing a specific reference to bodily fluids, based on testimony from hospital security personnel that broader wording would be easier to prosecute. The roll call showed the substitute adopted and the bill passed out of committee.
The committee then heard House Bill 2370, sponsored by Representative Peters, which would require private insurance to cover a one-year supply of self-administered hormonal contraceptives at one time, similar to Missouri HealthNet. Supporters included ACOG, the Missouri State Medical Association, Beacon Reproductive Health Network, and the Missouri Nurses Association, who argued the bill would improve access, reduce missed doses and unintended pregnancies, and save costs by reducing barriers such as transportation, work schedules, and pharmacy refill gaps. The Missouri Insurance Coalition opposed the bill, arguing it would impose a mandate on private plans, increase costs—especially for brand-name products—and raised questions about whether the bill would require bulk dispensing and how it would interact with existing refill rules. The committee also heard informational testimony from MoSPI noting rural access barriers, higher adherence with 12-month supplies, and that Missouri HealthNet already covers an annual supply.
Finally, the committee heard House Bill 3278, sponsored by Representative Lobbinger, which would create a multidisciplinary adult protection team framework for adults 60 and older and adults 18 and older with cognitive impairments or disabilities. The bill is intended to improve coordination among agencies handling abuse, neglect, and exploitation cases by allowing limited information sharing and reducing duplicated investigations while preserving confidentiality and guardianship protections. DHSS testified in support, saying the bill would provide a clearer framework for existing multidisciplinary teams, streamline coordination, and help protect vulnerable adults without creating new positions or infrastructure. Committee members asked about membership, meeting frequency, conflicts of interest, and how the bill differs from the ombudsman system; the sponsor and DHSS explained that the teams would be case-specific, generally meet as needed or quarterly, and apply to community cases rather than facility residents. The sponsor also submitted letters of support from existing multidisciplinary teams and related organizations.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- So last year we had landing gear and props overhauled, so it was a pretty substantial annual last year
Committee:
All ALC-REVIEW
Summary:
The subcommittee reviewed multiple methods of finance and construction items, including projects for Arkansas State University, Black River Technical College, UAMS, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, and UCA. The UAPB Allied Health and Sciences Building appeared both as a method of finance and as an alternative delivery construction project, with East Harding Construction selected and AMR Architects as designer. Members approved the methods of finance, the alternative delivery project, and several discretionary grants, including Department of Health grants for a heart attack center designation and community health worker training, and DHS grants related to homeless services, behavioral health transition support, and an enabling technology pilot.
The committee then reviewed service contracts, including RFQs, construction-related contracts, intergovernmental agreements, and a large number of out-of-state and in-state contracts. Testimony focused heavily on DHS staffing and state hospital contracts, the Arkansas State Police seatbelt survey, AEDC’s lithium supply chain analysis, and Shared Administrative Services’ new SuccessFactors performance-management contract. Members asked detailed questions about contract nursing costs, turnover, hiring timelines, and whether some contracts were being renewed or amended beyond their original projected costs. DHS and Veterans Affairs officials explained staffing shortages, retention incentives, and the use of contract labor as a supplement to state employees.
Several contracts drew scrutiny and were held for further review. Representative Wardlaw raised concerns about projected costs and repeated amendments on the Department of Education security contract and on DHS staffing contracts, arguing that some had exceeded their original projected totals. The committee voted to hold contracts 5, 7, and 8 until Friday, while adopting the remaining contracts. The meeting ended after informational reports on service contract amendments without material change, executed contracts, and emergency procurements were presented, with no further business before adjournment.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- So last year we had landing gear and props overhauled, so it was a pretty substantial annual last year
Committee:
All ALC-REVIEW
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services Feb 25th, 2026
Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- I think this bill will make a huge difference and it is geared not to private nursing schools but to