Bills: SR28 , SB201 , SB1379 , SB1525 , SB1966 , SB2112 , SB2170 , HB2749 , HB3262 , HB3265 , HB3673 , HB3781 , HB3040 , HB3076 , HB3369 , HB3982 , HB3462 , HB3465 , HB3521 , HB3796 , HB3800 , HB4095 , HB4298 , HB4316 , HB4338 , HB4408 , HB4454

Keywords: alpha-gal syndrome, alpha gal, tick-borne illness, tick bite allergy, red meat allergy, meat allergy, dairy allergy, anaphylaxis, Lyme disease, public health, tick prevention, vector-borne disease, allergy awareness, May awareness month, Oklahoma Department of Health, outdoor safety, health education, research funding, minimum salary, education funding

Bills: SR28 , SB201 , SB1379 , SB1525 , SB1966 , SB2112 , SB2170 , HB2749 , HB3262 , HB3265 , HB3673 , HB3781 , HB3040 , HB3076 , HB3369 , HB3982 , HB3462 , HB3465 , HB3521 , HB3796 , HB3800 , HB4095 , HB4298 , HB4316 , HB4338 , HB4408 , HB4454

Keywords: alpha-gal syndrome, alpha gal, tick-borne illness, tick bite allergy, red meat allergy, meat allergy, dairy allergy, anaphylaxis, Lyme disease, public health, tick prevention, vector-borne disease, allergy awareness, May awareness month, Oklahoma Department of Health, outdoor safety, health education, research funding, minimum salary, education funding

Summary: The Senate convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a special family recitation of the Declaration of Independence by Senator Hamilton’s children. The chamber then adopted SR 28, recognizing May as Alpha-Gal Awareness and Prevention Month in Oklahoma and encouraging awareness, prevention, and research on alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne allergic condition. Senator Seifried also introduced constituents affected by alpha-gal. Later, the Senate heard a gallery introduction from advocates for victims of impaired driving, highlighting the toll of DUI-related crashes in Oklahoma. The Senate then took up several House amendments and final-passage votes on bills. SB 201, clarifying that a teacher pay raise applies to certified classroom teachers, passed 47-0 and was advanced as an emergency. SB 1379, SB 1525, SB 1966, SB 2112, and SB 2170 also passed after adoption of House amendments, with SB 1525 and SB 1379 advanced as emergency measures. SB 1525 raised the threshold for contracting to host a conference from $25,000 to $75,000, and SB 1966 served as the annual omnibus highway, memorial highway, and bridge designation bill. Among the House bills considered, HB 3262 increased the sheriff fee for service of process from $50 to $100 and passed 37-8. HB 3265 allowed a psychologist to make PTSD determinations for the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System and passed 47-0. HB 3781, a major insurance modernization bill changing rate-filing procedures for homeowners insurance and expanding the insurance commissioner’s review authority, passed 39-6 after extended debate over transparency, regulation, and market impact. HB 3040 expanded sex-offender loitering restrictions around businesses serving minors and passed 40-4, while HB 3076 authorized alternative teacher certification providers under OEQA oversight and passed 38-6 as an emergency measure. The chamber also passed HB 3369, a deregulation and efficiency bill affecting fire suppression and LP gas inspections, HB 2749, which shifted an intergenerational education program toward a Medicaid state plan amendment, HB 3982 on fleet vehicle titling, HB 3462 creating a shorter residential-only plumbing licensure pathway, HB 3465 extending the Oklahoma Emission Reduction Technology Rebate Program to 2029, HB 3521 modernizing money transmission law, HB 3796 as an Oklahoma Insurance Department omnibus bill, HB 3800 as a roofing-industry cleanup bill, and HB 4095 modernizing the 211 hotline advisory council. Several of these measures drew debate over regulation, workforce needs, public safety, or fiscal and policy impacts, but all of the listed bills ultimately passed by recorded vote.

Transcript Highlights:

• It doesn't include language about a compensable claim and making sure that it's something that's actually
• incredibly grateful to the Chair, committee staff, the staff at the Department of Insurance, the staff at Judiciary
• We were pleased to work with the committee, the sponsor, the department, Judiciary, and the author, and
• Motion is due pass to the Judiciary Committee. Senators Padilla, aye. Niello, aye. Becker, aye.

Committee: Senate Insurance

Keywords: 987, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Well, good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Assembly Judiciary Committee.
• members of the Judiciary Committee. Again, my name is Don Tamaki.
• I first want to thank Judiciary and Privacy Committee staff for their recent amendments.
• And I want to thank Sharon, our staff here in Judiciary, for convening the two sides.
• I'm in the middle of a 40-bill Senate Judiciary... I know.

Summary: The committee met as a subcommittee without quorum at first, then later established quorum and continued hearing several bills. SB 27, the annual CARE Court cleanup bill, would require courts to consider CARE referral for certain misdemeanor defendants found incompetent to stand trial, combine some hearings, allow limited data sharing among licensed medical professionals, and expand eligibility to include mood disorders with psychotic features. Supporters said it would clarify the meaning of “clinically stabilized,” streamline the process, and help more severely ill people receive treatment; opponents argued it would expand CARE Court too broadly, strain county resources, and divert attention from housing and voluntary services. The bill passed to the Health Committee on a roll call vote and was placed on call. SB 82, dealing with so-called “infinite arbitration clauses,” would limit consumer contract arbitration provisions to disputes arising from the product or service actually purchased. The author and supporters said the bill would stop companies from forcing arbitration in unrelated claims and would not ban arbitration itself. Opponents from business and banking groups argued the language was too restrictive, could create litigation over related transactions, and should be clarified as prospective only. The committee approved the bill and placed it on call after a roll call vote. The committee then heard two reparations-related bills. SB 437 would direct CSU to develop a genealogical methodology and framework for verifying descendants of enslaved people, with oversight, reporting, and guardrails tied to recently allocated state funding. Supporters said the bill would create a fair, evidence-based process; opponents, including professional genealogists and reparations advocates, argued the work is already well understood, the bill is unnecessary, and it could delay action. SB 518 would create a Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery within state government, with divisions for genealogy, property reclamation, outreach, and legal affairs. Supporters framed it as needed infrastructure to implement reparations recommendations; opponents objected to locating it in the Department of Justice, warned about data privacy and law enforcement control, and criticized the inclusion of broader communities. Both bills were moved to Appropriations and placed on call. The committee also heard SB 52, the End AI Rent Hikes Act, which would prohibit the use of algorithms to collude on and artificially inflate rental prices; the author and supporters described it as a response to AI-assisted rent fixing in California’s housing market.

Transcript Highlights:

• It's not Judiciary.
• Sharp Collins: aye. ...is due pass to the Judiciary Committee. Schultz: aye.
• The motion is due pass to the Judiciary Committee. This measure is on call.
• The motion is due pass to the Judiciary Committee.
• The motion is do pass as amended to the Judiciary Committee. Alonis? Aye.

Committee: House Public Safety

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• past and also through re-referral requests that the health committee, the commerce committee, the judiciary
• As you noted, this is the workers' compensation advisory council bill.
• The council addresses issues and recommends legislation pertaining to workers' compensation, and only
• The council addresses issues and recommends legislation pertaining to workers' compensation, and only
• The council addresses issues and recommends legislation pertaining to workers' compensation, and only

Committee: Senate Rules and Administration

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This is the Judiciary interim.
• Madam Chair, members of the Interim Judiciary Committee, my name is Adam Anderson.
• And again, it's conflicting with the Senate Judiciary Committee testimony that was given.
• So this is not just for us in this room in Judiciary.
• So the judiciary branch, the judge already has it, but the judiciary also sort of, in my mind, even though

Committees: Joint Judiciary , Joint Judiciary Committee

Keywords: 908, all

Transcript Highlights:

• We call that the judiciary in this country.
• He dispenses with the necessity for the judiciary to perform its functions.
• </c> call that the judiciary in this country. call that the judiciary in this country. some<02:42:53.280
• <02:42:55.439><c> or</c><02:42:55.760><c> some</c> judiciary or some judiciary or some judge<02:42:57.840
• And I think there's much judiciary.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, May 1, 2025, 1012, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Bill 1668, a bill to be entitled an act relating to the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation
• Association. ...to the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association.
• By State Affairs Committee, Judiciary Committee, Government Operations Subcommittee, Representative Persons-Mulicka
• Compensation is a mandatory subject of bargaining under Florida law.

Summary: The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, quorum calls, and several recognitions before taking up a series of Senate messages and House motions. Members also recognized House Sergeant at Arms staff, visitors in the gallery, and family members. The chamber approved the journal and then moved into message lists and concurrence motions on several bills. On CS/CS/SB 1668, relating to the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association (NICA), the House concurred in a Senate amendment that clarified that if the NICA plan lacks adequate cash flow, the Office of Insurance Regulation may authorize a cumulative transfer of up to $20 million over the life of the plan and removed a proposed time limit on provider assessments. The bill then passed 96-2. The House also concurred in a Senate amendment to CS/CS/CS/HB 905, the foreign influence bill, after debate over a proposed strike-all amendment that would have removed surrogacy-related language; that amendment failed. Supporters said the bill still retained key foreign-influence restrictions, while opponents objected to the surrogacy provisions and other remaining restrictions. The bill passed 83-17. The House then took up CS/CS/HB 1279 on education. The Senate amendment added provisions on tuition residency for certain military and State Department families, a one-year deferral option for Benacquisto Scholarship recipients, virtual school notifications, educational emergency authority for persistently low-performing schools, epinephrine flexibility, VPK and New Worlds Reading changes, math pathways, dance credit, IEP service notifications, charter school safety officer options, and FEFP adjustments for Florida advanced courses, while removing several House provisions including the 95% Florida resident requirement for preeminent universities, the 5% cap on undergraduate international enrollment, and DEI-related provisions. Debate focused heavily on the educational emergency and collective bargaining language for persistently low-performing schools, with supporters saying it would help districts improve student performance and opponents warning it would weaken unions and affect schools that are not truly failing. The bill passed 81-16. Finally, the House considered CS/CS/CS/HB 399 on land use and development regulations. An amendment to repeal portions of last year’s SB 180 was ruled not germane. The House then took up a Senate amendment on compost facilities that would bar local governments from conditioning compost-facility approval on the purchase of additional property to expand a privately owned road and would limit local revocation of permits when facilities comply with state or regional environmental regulation; debate began on that motion as the transcript ended.

Transcript Highlights:

• During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Insurance Division of Workers' Compensation successfully
• House Bill 2488 by Representative Keith Bell authorizes the Division of Workers' Compensation to hold
• Because we're not subject to the same rules as the judiciary, because it's an administrative agency,
• created, I think, back in 2003 to allow associations or groups to come together to ensure workers' compensation

Bills: HB111

Committee: Senate Business & Commerce

Summary: The committee heard a long series of House bills, with most measures laid out by Senate sponsors and then left pending after brief public testimony. Early bills focused on construction and licensing issues, including HB 305 on prompt payment for public construction audits, HB 5093 on restoring public access to notary contact information, HB 2037 on updating landlord-tenant repair and security deposit rules, HB 4214 on a centralized public information request contact database, and HB 5435 exempting higher education institutions from a 90-day notice requirement for certain public-private partnership projects. Testimony was generally supportive on these bills, and no votes were taken; each was left pending. The committee also considered several transparency and regulatory bills. HB 111 would expand the Public Information Act to certain nonprofit state associations and narrow some attorney-client and working-paper exceptions, with supporters arguing it would improve oversight of public funds and critics questioning the scope and thresholds. HB 5129 would protect occupational license holders’ personal identifying information from disclosure without consent, HB 4350 would allow peace officers to redact personal information from online real property records, HB 4748 would authorize multiple-award state purchasing contracts, and HB 4765 would clean up code enforcement officer licensing rules. HB 4134 would allow motor vehicle creditors to charge limited fees for electronic payment options while requiring a free alternative, and HB 1043 would direct a study of blockchain-based property title records; both drew testimony, with some concern about the practical effects and vendor implications of the blockchain study. Several bills addressed insurance, workforce, and digital-asset regulation. HB 3520 would reduce the insurance coverage required for transportation network companies during the period when a driver is en route to pick up a passenger, drawing support from Texans for Lawsuit Reform and opposition from trial lawyers who argued the higher coverage better protects the public. HB 3320 would create a self-insurance pool for religious institutions, with TDI explaining it would still be regulated but operate under a special statutory framework. HB 4233 would modernize rules for digital asset service providers by removing certain auditor-access requirements and updating reporting and licensing provisions. HB 3923 would reduce bachelor’s-degree requirements for some state jobs, though Every Texan argued low pay, not degree requirements, is the main driver of turnover. HB 4518 would create a legal structure for decentralized unincorporated nonprofit associations tied to blockchain governance; business law experts opposed it as unnecessary and potentially risky, while crypto advocates supported it. Finally, HB 1803 would join an interstate compact for dentists and dental hygienists, with supporters citing workforce shortages and opponents saying Texas already licenses quickly and that the compact could weaken state oversight. Throughout the hearing, the committee repeatedly closed testimony and left bills pending, and a quorum was eventually established before later items were heard.

Transcript Highlights:

• I know Judiciary is starting in like 10 minutes.
• Now, if we need bodies over in Judiciary, we might actually recess for a brief time.
• thing is that this bill does provide the process for unitization and pooling and ensures equal compensation
• Because they wanted to be or because they're part of the bigger pool that was created, is compensated

Committee: House House Energy, Environment & Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:

• or benefit than what compensation or benefit than what they're<01:21:11.520><c> legally</c><01:21:11.920
• Will the bill be traveling to Judiciary if we're talking about data and data privacy as well?
• Will the bill be traveling to Judiciary if we're talking about data and data privacy as well?
• <01:26:25.400><c> be</c><01:26:25.560><c> traveling</c><01:26:25.960><c> to</c><01:26:26.360><c> Judiciary
• </c> will the bill be traveling to Judiciary will the bill be traveling to Judiciary if<01:26:27.320>

Committee: House State Government Finance and Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• That important part, which is going to be traveling on to the Judiciary, which has been my home, and
• Senate File 856, as amended, is recommended to pass and re-refer to Judiciary.
• One, so I think it goes to Judiciary after this, is that correct? Mr.
• One, so I think it goes to Judiciary after this, is that correct? Mr.
• Senate File 475 is recommended to pass and re-refer to Judiciary.

Committee: Senate State and Local Government

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Two of our members are in Judiciary, hopefully for a short time, so we will start on the bill.
• I'm already doing a patient compensation fund and then also using this to offset.

Committee: House House Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:

• Finance is important, and people worry about what happens in judiciary, but what we do here really impacts
• Increases for compensation for teachers and all public school personnel, increases for insurance support

Committee: Senate Senate Education

Transcript Highlights:

• The co-equal branches of government are the legislative body, the executive, and the judiciary.
• The co-equal branches of government are the legislative body, the executive, and the judiciary.
• My VA disability compensation does not count towards the income threshold, but earned income and pension

Bills: SB1047 , SB1365 , SB1474 , SB1618 , SB1620

Committee: Senate Military Affairs and Border Security

Keywords: National Guard, active duty, combat, Arizona, declaration of war, state law, military service, property tax, exemptions, veterans, disabilities, widows and widowers, Arizona Revised Statutes, immigration enforcement, local law enforcement, federal cooperation, law enforcement training, public safety, military affairs, funding

Transcript Highlights:

• Madam Chair, it goes to Judiciary next. Okay, thank you.
• So, Madam Chair, it goes to Judiciary next. Okay, thank you. So, questions? Representative Kates.
• the insurance limits that we are aware that most providers carry if they are outside the Patient Compensation

Committee: House House Health & Human Services

Keywords: 996, all

Transcript Highlights:

• The House Judiciary Committee is called to order. "Would you call the roll, please, Cameron?"
• Madam Chair, Representative, we don't have them being compensated in the enabling legislation.
• If we want to be a business-friendly environment in this state, we need to find a way to get our judiciary

Committee: House House Judiciary

Keywords: 996, all

Transcript Highlights:

• As most of you know, these workers' compensation benefits are generally referred to as heart-lung benefits
• This is a Committee on Judiciary bill, which establishes certain deceptive trade practices relating to
• This is a committee on judiciary bill, which establishes certain deceptive trade practices relating to

Committee: Senate Commerce and Labor

Keywords: 909, all

Transcript Highlights:

• working groups, and preventing state grants from going to nonprofits where staff receive excessive compensation
• The bill passed out of the Senate's Housing and Homelessness Committee and now heads to the Judiciary
• </c> The bill passed out of the Senate's Housing and Homelessness Committee and now heads to the Judiciary

Keywords: 1187, senate, all