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FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Senate in Special Session E May 29th, 2026

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator Burgess: The methodology utilized was 25%. That was a number that we came up with.
  • But I think the other thing is it's the purview of the legislature to allow them to continue to utilize
  • But it seems to me, through the number of IGTs that are being utilized, that there's plenty of capacity
  • And it changes the order in which insurance premium tax credits are taken against tax liabilities so
  • we've been taking steps across the board and in different sectors to try to reduce what that tax liability
Summary: The Senate convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then moved to the conference report on House Bill 501E, the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2026-27. Budget chairs presented the major spending areas, describing a $114.5 billion overall budget that they said was fiscally responsible and below the prior year’s spending. Highlights included pay increases and retirement adjustments for public safety employees, education funding for K-12, higher education, health and human services, criminal justice, transportation, environmental programs, and agriculture/regulatory agencies. Members then questioned chairs on several items. In education, senators discussed K-12 declining enrollment funding, teacher salary set-asides, private school scholarship spending, mental health funding, preeminence funding for universities, the Hamilton Center at UF, and charter school PICO funding. In health and human services, questions focused on the iBudget waiver waitlist, provider rates, ADAP/HIV funding and the return of Biktarvy to the formulary, KidCare, rural health funding, SNAP-related IT and error reduction efforts, and the IDD managed care program. In criminal justice, senators asked about correctional officer pay, prison staffing and infrastructure, air conditioning in prisons, juvenile justice facilities, law enforcement recruitment, and court system funding. Environmental and transportation questions covered Florida Forever, water quality, state parks, water projects, housing, elections funding, and emergency management. Several specific actions and explanations were given during debate: the budget includes $8.8 million for state attorney competitive area differentials but no funding for public defender CAD requests; assistant state attorneys will start at $70,000 and assistant public defenders at $65,000; the battery disposal issue was described as a temporary study/preemption approach; and the Senate said the budget does not fund Medicaid expansion, preeminence funding, or the SunBucks Summer EBT state share. Senators also noted that some proposals discussed in committee did not make it into the final budget. The transcript ends with debate statements from members praising the budget process and Chair Hooper, while also expressing concerns about public schools, health care access, affordability, and the lack of funding for certain priorities.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Finance Dec 11th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • Insurance, I guess I think that I missed that we included this: $5 million for medical professional liability
  • So my answer would be yes, but it's not being utilized yet until we see movement in Congress to pass
  • I don't need to answer on that, but on line 51 for the governor, employee liability insurance premiums—what
  • Why do they need a liability? So, Mr.
  • They need a liability. So, Mr.
Summary: The Department of Public Safety presented its FY27 budget request, emphasizing three priorities: improving community engagement through a redesigned website and outreach, expanding statewide data and intelligence integration through intelligence-led policing, and improving emergency response and officer safety through fleet replacement, a driving track, and a requested helicopter. DPS said much of its increase is driven by rising health care premiums, and it is also seeking special appropriations for fleet replacement, the website rebuild, and an Honor Guard program created after the 2022 helicopter crash that killed four public servants. Members asked about vacancies, fleet costs, cybersecurity compliance, the real-time crime center, EV fleet participation, and the Metro DPS facility. DPS said its vacancy rate is about 9%, its fleet replacement needs are driven by mileage and condition, it is compliant with federal CJIS standards even though DoIT has raised concerns, the real-time crime center would be built as a regional model to complement Albuquerque’s center, and the Metro facility is moving toward a January groundbreaking. Committee members also discussed several DPS-related capital and IT requests, including the intelligence-led policing data lake, recurring maintenance for critical systems, and a $5.6 million reauthorization for state crime lab DNA backlog work and a $900,000 reauthorization for fingerprinting equipment. DPS explained that the website request is high because the current site must be rebuilt from scratch to support missing-person alerts, memorial updates, ADA compliance, and better communication with law enforcement and the public. Members also raised concerns about speed enforcement, construction-zone cameras, and whether EVs are practical for patrol use; DPS said it is not pursuing speed cameras and is only partially participating in the state EV initiative because patrol needs make full electrification difficult. The committee then received an LFC quarterly update on non-recurring appropriations from the 2025 General Appropriation Act. LFC reported that of the $1.4 billion appropriated in Section 5, $164 million had been expended and $333 million encumbered, leaving $897.4 million unspent, which is a slower pace than the prior year. Staff highlighted a number of reauthorization requests and slow-moving projects across agencies, including AOC cybersecurity funding, DFA housing and public safety grants, DoIT cybersecurity and higher education funds, EDD economic development and energy programs, OSI mitigation and malpractice funds, EMNRD energy and geothermal grants, Health Care Authority behavioral health-related appropriations, DPS crime lab and fingerprinting funds, PED career technical education and special education initiatives, and higher education loan repayment and technology funds. Members questioned why some large appropriations had little or no spending, discussed the need to monitor reauthorizations more closely, and asked for follow-up on several specific line items and project balances.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration, June 24, 2026 - AM

Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration

Transcript Highlights:
  • The student ADM recommendation and the historical practice of the K-12 funding model utilized the greater
  • Uh, the first one is that the way that utilities will be calculated because of the bill will... calculated
  • Uh, concerns include liabilities, the emotional burden of non-police force people having to discharge
  • There may be some other safety and security resources that can be utilized at the school. Mr.
  • How do you utilize your SROs when school's not in session?
Keywords: 916, all
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • controls for non-opioid analgesics than the least restrictive or extensive utilization controls for
  • <00:02:40.239> controls or more extensive utilization controls or more extensive utilization
  • restrictive or extensive utilization restrictive or extensive utilization controls<00:02:48.080>
  • <00:37:43.599> for<00:37:43.920> exercising administrative liability for exercising
  • administrative liability for exercising this<00:37:44.800> right.
Keywords: 958, all
Summary: The Senate Standing Committee on Health Services met with a quorum and first moved through administrative regulations without comment. The committee then heard Senate Bill 56, sponsored by Senator Gerald Neal, which would require Medicaid and its managed care entities to treat non-opioid pain medications on equal footing with opioid analgesics by prohibiting more restrictive coverage controls, prior authorization, or step therapy for non-opioids. Neal argued the bill would improve access to safer pain treatment options and reduce the risk of opioid use disorder, and Billy O'Brien of Young People in Recovery testified in support, describing personal experiences where non-opioid options were difficult to obtain despite a desire to avoid opioids. After discussion, the bill received a motion and second and passed the committee on a 10-0 vote. The committee then took up Senate Bill 72, sponsored by Senator Don Douglas and presented with Greg Chaffin of Alliance Defending Freedom. Douglas described the bill as a provider recruitment and retention measure intended to protect health care workers from being compelled to act against their conscience and to address workforce shortages and pressure in health care settings. He said the bill would protect individual beliefs while maintaining professionalism. A large number of witnesses then testified, and the chair limited public comments to two minutes each because of the number of speakers and the controversy surrounding the bill. Most public testimony opposed SB 72. Speakers including representatives of the Kentucky Council of Churches, a psychologist, an ordained minister and nurse, a nurse practitioner, and an ACLU policy strategist argued the bill was overly broad, could allow refusals of care by a wide range of health care workers, and could delay or deny treatment, especially for vulnerable patients and in rural or emergency settings. Several cited concerns about discrimination, patient safety, and the lack of adequate protections for patients. One witness recounted the death of an 18-year-old pregnant patient as an example of the harm that can result from delayed care. The transcript ends during additional testimony on SB 72, before any committee vote or final action on that bill is shown.
NJ

New Jersey 2026-2027 Regular Session

Senate Budget and Appropriations Jun 28th, 2026

Senate Budget and Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Yes, thank you, Joey Grentz, New Jersey Utilities Association.
  • Yes, thank you, Joey Grentz, New Jersey Utilities Association.
  • New Jersey Utilities Association, opposed. We'd like to speak?
  • in utility infrastructure and to compensate utilities for the increased risk of turning over their transmission
  • Ryan Sharp, utility, opposed, no need to testify.
Keywords: 1146, all
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • In the medical field, a lot of our increased cost we're just seeing by increased utilization.
  • utilization.
  • Um there there is some good utilization.
  • And maybe that was... >> So is the change in utilization?
  • <01:08:05.520> gross mobile radio service and utilities gross mobile radio service and utilities
Summary: The committee met on November 5, 2025, and first approved the minutes after a moment of silence for the UPS airport tragedy. The main presentation was from the Personnel Cabinet on the state health insurance plans and executive branch salary schedule adjustments. Officials said the health plan covers roughly 265,000 active members and up to about 300,000 across all benefit offerings, including school board employees, retirees, and other eligible groups. They described rising claims and expenditures, especially from high-cost claimants and pharmacy spending, and said recent premium and benefit changes were intended to balance costs while preserving recruitment and retention efforts. They also explained that employee premiums had not increased for several years, while employer contributions rose sharply in recent years, and projected a 10% employer increase and 3% employee increase going forward based on actuarial analysis. Committee members asked about deductibles, GLP-1 drug costs, claims validation, and the causes of cost growth; officials said the plan uses multiple payment-integrity vendors and that the increases reflect utilization, drug trends, and high-cost cases rather than a change in coverage. The committee also discussed executive branch salary schedule adjustments. Personnel and budget officials explained that when the legislature approves annual pay increases, the salary schedule is adjusted by the same percentage through executive order so the minimum and midpoint stay aligned with approved compensation levels. They said the 2025 adjustment was a 3% match effective September 16 and that the change was costless because salaries had already been increased. Members raised concerns about salary compression, noting that new hires can sometimes be paid near the level of long-serving employees. Officials said the adjustment helps prevent compression from worsening but does not solve it, and they acknowledged prior RFP efforts to address the issue were unsuccessful because no qualified bidder met the requirements. After the health plan and salary discussions, the committee began a presentation from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services on Kentucky’s senior meal program. Secretary Stack explained that the program is a federal-state-local partnership under the Older Americans Act, with area development districts helping deliver services. He outlined eligibility rules, noting that congregate meals at senior centers are available to people age 60 and older, with a spouse of any age allowed to join, and that home-delivered meals have additional homebound and assistance requirements. Members asked whether there was any means test for congregate meals, and the secretary said there is not; the only threshold is age for the center-based meals, while the home-delivered program has additional criteria.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Delivery of Government Efficiency Mar 5th, 2025

Delivery of Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • How we utilize the moon will help. here on earth.
  • If they're utilizing the benefits.
  • standpoint, how would you not establish the liability for the benefits if you're allocating the liability
  • Overstatement of a liability that doesn't exist.
  • It's almost a double liability because.
Keywords: 1184, house, all
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means (01/29/2026)

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • their insurance premium tax liability. their insurance premium tax liability.
  • So, as you'll see, a member insurer may offset against its tax liability and up to its tax liability
  • > any to its tax liability under RSA 400A any to its tax liability under RSA 400A any assessment
  • liability is higher than the assessment. liability is higher than the assessment.
  • nationally any of that liability? nationally any of that liability?
Keywords: 1189, house, all
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 14th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • All but one of our facilities in our company utilizes a CRNA-only model currently through delegation
  • First of all, I know there was a question of liability that came up.
  • So I think having that additional burden of liability is a barrier for them as well.
  • So the liability, in a way... having independence would decrease their liability?
  • That utilizes the National Precursor Log Exchange and PLEX to govern the sale of pseudoephedrine.
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee Meeting Jun 23rd, 2026

Environment, Energy & Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Moreover, states are still utilizing incentives.
  • So if the utility owns the battery, then the ratepayers pay for that, and the utility gets a certain
  • utility. region has relied on competitive electricity market structure that separates monopoly utility
  • Utility ownership risks higher prices for ratepayers.
  • We recommend changing the language to electric utilities regulatory body, as each utility business model
Summary: The committee heard several bills focused on energy, public safety, and environmental cleanup. House Bill 455 would create a historic preservation license plate to raise funds and awareness for Delaware preservation efforts, and House Bill 471 would tighten rules and penalties for off-highway vehicles on shared private roads, with golf carts excluded. House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill 439, the Truth in E-Bike Marketing Act, would require clearer disclosures when selling electric mopeds and electric motorcycles so consumers understand classification, power, and licensing/insurance requirements. House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill 407, related to the Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act and brownfields, would shift funding for brownfield cleanup from the original realty transfer tax approach to a dedicated share of the hazardous substance cleanup fund and raise civil penalties for fraudulent acts. The committee also approved the June 18, 2026 minutes once quorum was reached. Most of the meeting centered on House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill 233, as amended, a large-load/data center bill intended to protect ratepayers from costs tied to massive new electricity users. The sponsor and Public Advocate said PJM’s warnings about a coming reliability backstop auction made it urgent to establish a Delaware framework now, requiring large energy users to sign utility agreements, cover their share of transmission, distribution, and capacity costs, and comply with curtailment and other protections. Supporters from environmental groups and some labor and business voices said the bill was needed to prevent cost shifts to households and small businesses, while opponents argued it was being rushed, could deter investment, and might unintentionally affect other industries; several asked for more time and clearer definitions. No vote was taken in the portion provided. The committee also took up House Bill 470, which would authorize Delmarva Power, with PSC approval, to build and operate utility-owned battery storage and spread costs across the customer base. The sponsor and Delmarva said the bill would improve reliability quickly and help avoid outages, while the chair expressed concern that the state had not yet fully studied whether utility-owned or competitively procured storage is the best model, noting a recent SEU storage study and broader policy questions. Supporters said utility storage could be deployed faster and help with peak shaving, while others urged a competitive process; the transcript cuts off before any final action on HB 470.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 5/6/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • This provision applies to vendors that have a sales tax liability between 20,000 and 250,000.
  • This provision applies to vendors that have a sales tax liability between 20,000 and 250,000.
  • This provision applies to vendors that have a sales tax liability between 20,000 and 250,000.
  • vendors that have a sales tax liability vendors that have a sales tax liability between<00:32:34.519
  • to offset their property tax liability to offset their property tax liability to<01:04:30.960>
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Judiciary Apr 1st, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • We will turn over to tab 15 and take up Senate Bill 1284 on civil liability for the wrongful death of
  • I'm urging you to vote no on this bill because I believe that it would increase liabilities for OBGYN
  • And on top of that potential civil liability by an estranged father and for taking the fetus because
  • And now and on top of it, this potential for civil liability.
  • One more bill by Senator Martin that Senate Bill 724 related to property owner liability.
Keywords: 999, senate, all
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Economic and Rural Development Jul 7th, 2025

Economic & Rural Development & Policy Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • And As we are promoting and accelerating our rate of tree thinning, we have a wood utilization problem
  • MNERD has begun internal reviews of forest workforce capacity, biomass utilization challenges, and how
  • This presents a rare opportunity to turn a wildfire liability into a rural economic engine.
  • As the potential to power itself, which means we can save money on utility bills, as you heard in the
  • And that is then a utility question. The utilities would own and manage the batteries.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate Chamber Jan 27th, 2026 at 11:14 am

New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so it can be utilized for other things.
  • And New Mexico needs to lead in that direction of how we... ...can be utilized for other things, and
  • Senate Bill 161, introduced by Senator Woods and Representative Dixon, an act relating to electronic utilities
  • , enacting the Wildfire Utility Mitigation and Liability Act, providing for wildfire mitigation plans
  • approvals, and annual compliance reports, allowing for cost recovery, establishing limitations on liability
Keywords: 996, all
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Aug 22nd, 2025

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • A bad police officer does care, and I'll tell you why, because there's something called Monell liability
  • There are attorneys, but in order for me to sue under Monell liability, I have to be able to prove a
  • This bill pertains to departmental documents that we're utilizing, and the body-worn camera and dash
  • They can utilize the Texas.
  • Rangers, they can utilize the Texas Attorney General's office, and they do, and those investigations
Bills: SB 15
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Aug 22nd, 2025

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • A bad police officer does care, and I'll tell you why, because there's something called Monell liability
  • , and I don't know how many people here are attorneys, but in order for me to sue under Monell liability
  • This bill is departmental documents that we're utilizing.
  • They can utilize the Texas Rangers.
  • They can utilize the Texas Attorney General's office, and they do.
Bills: SB 15
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • As a senator stated, there are really good laws on the books, including joint liability with cargo owners
  • And as a senator stated, there are really, really good laws on the books, including joint liability with
  • Shane Guzman, on behalf of the Teamsters, the Amalgamated Transit Union, the Machinists, Utility Workers
  • The Amalgamated Transit Union, the Machinists, Utility Workers Union of America, Unite Here, and the
  • I think it's important that we have some statewide standard around the utility of these opportunities
Summary: The Assembly Labor and Employment Committee heard several bills focused on worker rights, workplace technology, pay equity, and retail/self-checkout standards. SB 703 would require ports to collect and report information on trucking companies to help identify worker misclassification in the port trucking industry; supporters, including Teamsters and the California Labor Federation, said better data is needed for enforcement, while trucking and retail groups said they were working with the author and expected to remove opposition after amendments. The bill passed 5-0 and was re-referred to Transportation. The committee also approved a consent calendar of other measures. SB 294, the Workplace Know Your Rights Act, would require the Labor Commissioner to create a template for annual employer notices about workers’ labor and civil rights, including emergency contact notification if a worker is detained or arrested. Supporters said the bill would help workers understand their rights amid federal rollbacks and weak enforcement; the California Restaurant Association opposed it. SB 7 would require notice and human review before employers use automated decision-making systems for discipline or termination, and would bar predictive use of such systems for employment actions. Labor groups supported the bill as a safeguard against biased or opaque algorithmic management, while HR, chamber, retail, and local government groups raised concerns about breadth, notice burdens, and small-business impacts. Both bills passed 5-0 to their next committees. The committee also advanced SB 238, which would require disclosure about workplace surveillance and AI monitoring tools, and SB 442, which sets staffing and operational standards for self-checkout, including at least one staffed lane, one employee dedicated to monitoring self-checkout, item restrictions, and a 15-item limit sign. Supporters argued both bills improve transparency, safety, and worker protections; opponents warned SB 238 could expose security practices and SB 442 could raise costs and create preemption issues. SB 464 would expand state pay-data reporting to better capture public-sector workforce demographics in line with reparations and pay-equity goals, and SB 642 would strengthen the Equal Pay Act by extending recovery periods, clarifying wage definitions, and updating pay-scale language. SB 464 and SB 642 also passed, with some opposition from county and business groups over scope and retroactivity. All measures taken up in the hearing were approved by committee, generally on 5-0 votes, and re-referred to the appropriate policy or fiscal committees.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on the Judiciary Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on the Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill would also allow police or firefighters to be able, without the possibility of liability, to
  • Right now, when no one's there, they are subject to potential civil liability for taking the child out
  • And then I know that you said that there would be criminal potential criminal liability if it's negligent
  • His birth parents utilized Massachusetts termination form in Texas, and his adoption was finalized in
  • Many were fired for refusing a brand-new, liability-free product.
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The committee hearing began with opening remarks from the House and Senate chairs outlining procedures for a large public hearing with more than 100 witnesses on 64 legislative proposals. They explained time limits, rules for in-person and virtual testimony, written testimony procedures, and the committee’s reporting deadline. Testimony then moved through a series of juvenile justice, child protection, and civil liberties bills, with witnesses generally urging favorable reports or, in one case, opposing expanded juvenile court transparency and child advocate access to records. Several witnesses supported bills aimed at juvenile justice reform. Representative Hendricks backed H. 1744 to prevent child labor exploitation and trafficking, citing federal findings of child labor in seafood processing and calling for stronger penalties and a ban on minors working in such facilities. Senator Gomez supported S. 1131 and S. 1121 to reduce juvenile fees, fines, restitution burdens, and bail-related costs, arguing they worsen racial and economic disparities. Senator Crean and other advocates supported S. 1051/H. 1695 to expand juvenile diversion eligibility, while multiple witnesses from juvenile justice and immigrant advocacy groups supported H. 1657/S. 1058 to expand juvenile expungement and to limit sharing juvenile fingerprints with federal authorities, describing recent ICE detentions of Chelsea students and the resulting fear in immigrant communities. Witnesses also supported H. 1918/S. 1240 to narrow the youthful offender statute, raising the minimum age and reducing mandatory adult-style penalties for youth. The committee also heard testimony on child safety and bodily autonomy bills. Middlesex District Attorney Marion Ryan supported H. 1752 to protect children left in extreme temperatures, explaining it would create civil penalties, allow emergency responders to remove children from cars without liability, and add criminal penalties when serious injury results. Representative Thurber and Senator O’Connor testified for H. 2011/S. 1227, a bill prohibiting coercion or mandates for health-related interventions, including vaccinations, and allowing legal remedies for violations. Senator Jalen supported S. 1136/H. 1847 to prevent false confessions by requiring recording of interrogations and banning deceptive tactics, and several innocence-project and legal-services witnesses described wrongful convictions tied to false confessions and coercive interrogations. Another major topic was H. 1626, which would require age verification for pornographic content and launch an education campaign about online sexual exploitation; Representative Cruz and survivor Udoz Wallace testified in support, describing nonconsensual image sharing and deepfake harms. Not all testimony was supportive. The Committee for Public Counsel Services opposed S. 1035, which would increase transparency in juvenile court proceedings, and H. 1689, which would expand the child advocate’s access to confidential juvenile records, arguing both would undermine privacy and trauma-informed protections for children and families. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the portion of the hearing provided; the session consisted of opening remarks and public testimony on the listed bills.
AK

Alaska 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Jul 16th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Alaska House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It changes utility regulation, creates new government funds, restructures property taxes, as the member
  • We pay 57% higher utility costs than the lower 48. We are indeed feeling a significant squeeze.
  • bill, I ask myself: Where are the faults in this that is going to open up the state of Alaska to liability
  • Yes, there's absolutely the opportunity for utilization of stranded natural gas up on the North Slope
  • We need everything that's going to displace our utilization of natural gas in the short term so that
Keywords: 905, all
Summary: The House met with a quorum, approved the journal, and received messages from the governor and Senate, including notice that the governor vetoed CSHB 16 and allowed HB 14 to become law without signature. The chamber then took up the conference committee report on HB 381, a major Alaska LNG-related bill that revises the project’s tax and regulatory structure. The conference report was explained as a compromise package that, among other things, changes required local contribution language, expands disclosure and notice requirements, adjusts foreign ownership reporting, extends the Phase 1 construction deadline, adds a $10 million workforce development/community impact fund, modifies project labor agreement provisions, and exempts the Alaska LNG project from the new pass-through entity tax while still requiring an informational tax return in 2027. The Speaker also announced the governor had issued a proclamation calling the legislature back into session on July 27, 2026, and said sine die would be moved after debate. Debate on HB 381 was sharply divided. Supporters argued the bill is necessary enabling legislation to improve the project’s financial viability, protect Alaska’s interests, and move the North Slope gas line toward final investment decision, while also adding transparency, foreign ownership safeguards, and labor and workforce provisions. Several members said the conference committee process was collaborative and that the bill reflects hard-fought compromise with the developer, AGDC, labor, and the administration. Opponents focused on the addition of the pass-through entity/S-corp income tax and related reporting requirements, arguing it is a separate tax policy issue that should have been considered in its own bill, creates uncertainty and litigation risk, could harm existing oil and gas and Cook Inlet production, and may discourage investment. Multiple members also criticized the process as rushed and insufficiently transparent, especially the limited opportunity for the minority and the absence of Department of Revenue testimony during conference. No final vote on the conference committee report is shown in the transcript excerpt. The debate continued with members alternating between support for the gas line project itself and opposition to the tax provisions and process used to advance HB 381.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

Senate Health and Human Services (03/18/2026)

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • incorporated in this amendment and then, lastly, again with the medical society's guidance, the liability
  • incorporated in this amendment and then, lastly, again with the medical society's guidance, the liability
  • incorporated in this amendment and then, lastly, again with the medical society's guidance, the liability
  • Lastly, again with the medical society's guidance, the liability and negligence, saying essentially in
  • , are enabling utilities functioning, are enabling patients<01:00:32.240> to<01:00:32.559>
Keywords: 1191, senate, all