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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
HF748 approved in House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/25
Transcript Highlights:
- What we're really trying to prevent is the conflict between the semis, all of the freight hauling the
- What we're really trying to prevent is the conflict between the semis, all of the freight hauling the
- What we're really trying to prevent is the conflict between the semis, all of the freight hauling the
- What we're really trying to prevent is the conflict between the semis, all of the freight hauling the
- I would like to ask MnDOT, does this law prevent you from... Addressing road safety concerns, Mr.
Summary:
The committee took up House File 748, a bill revising Minnesota’s transportation greenhouse gas and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) impact assessment requirements for trunk highway projects. The chair first moved and adopted the A2 author’s amendment and then the A3 amendment, which was described as adding implementation time and project exemptions when federal dollars are available. The bill author explained that the measure responds to concerns from stakeholders that the current law can force costly mitigation, delay or stop safety and capacity projects, and create uncertainty because key implementation details are still being developed by a technical advisory committee.
Testimony was split. County and city engineers, county commissioners, the Minnesota Transportation Alliance, and the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities generally supported the bill, arguing that the current requirements can add 20% to 40% or more to project costs, are difficult to administer, and could jeopardize critical safety improvements, congestion relief, and federal funding. They cited examples such as Scott County and Trunk Highway 65, and said VMT mitigation is especially hard to quantify and fund. Opponents, including Move Minnesota and Sierra Club, argued that safety and climate goals are not in conflict, that reducing driving can save lives and reduce pollution, and that the bill would weaken an important tool for cutting transportation emissions. Members also asked about how GHG and VMT are measured, whether the required assessment was ready, and who would be responsible for mitigation assets and costs.
After discussion, the committee held a roll call vote. The bill, as amended, passed 8-7 and was moved to the General Register.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> would remove a key barrier preventing would remove a key barrier preventing schools<00:19:48.160
- </c> remain unchanged, preventing remain unchanged, preventing unintended<00:36:04.960><c> financial<
- Prevention programs and appropriate.
- </c> report, and effectively prevent abuse. report, and effectively prevent abuse.
- prevention Implementing comprehensive prevention programs<01:11:40.960><c> is</c><01:11:41.199><c> both
Committee:
Senate Education Policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session 5/12/26 - Part 2
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- ,</c><00:55:25.480><c> protecting</c> intervention and prevention, protecting intervention and prevention
- </c> awful mass shootings prevented. awful mass shootings prevented.
- Which means hardening our schools doesn't necessarily prevent these shootings.
- Which means hardening our schools doesn't necessarily prevent these shootings.
- ,</c> that includes intervention, prevention, that includes intervention, prevention, and<01:21:55.800
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 6 on Public Safety Apr 20th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We need to ensure both prevention and accountability continue to happen.
- So to address these, prevention program and no quality assurance program.
- Accountability and prevention are not just moral imperatives.
- Accountability and prevention are not just moral imperatives.
- Accountability and prevention are not just moral imperatives.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Environmental Quality Committee Jun 17th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm Jen Avery on behalf of Breast Cancer Prevention Partners in Support.
- of Programs and Policy of Breast Cancer Prevention Partners.
- Nancy Buremeyer, Breast Cancer Prevention Partners.
- I'm here on behalf of Breast Cancer Prevention Partners, a science-based organization working to prevent
- As a tobacco use prevention and it...
Summary:
The committee heard AB 839, which would allow up to three sustainable aviation fuel projects to qualify for expedited CEQA judicial review. The author and airline and airport supporters argued SAF is a key emissions-reduction strategy for aviation and that California needs to signal investment certainty after prior project litigation. Environmental Justice and Earthjustice opposed, saying the bill weakens the public’s ability to challenge polluting projects and that SAF facilities can harm already overburdened communities. The committee later took a roll call on the bill and it was held on call after a 3-0 vote, with the motion being due pass to Judiciary.
Members then took up AB 762, which would ban the sale of disposable nicotine vapes in California. The author and a broad coalition of waste, public health, local government, and environmental groups said the devices create fire hazards, add lithium batteries to the waste stream, and burden local recycling and hazardous waste systems. Opponents, including retailers and business groups, argued the bill would mainly affect a small legal market while the illicit market would continue to supply most disposable vapes, and warned of unintended consequences. After discussion about illicit sales, EPR ideas, and reuse alternatives, the committee voted 2-2 on the motion to pass as amended to Revenue and Taxation, so the bill was kept on call.
The committee also heard AB 907, which would compensate the six local air district representatives who serve on the California Air Resources Board the same as other board members. The author and supporters said the change would improve equity and help ensure local representation on CARB, and no opposition was presented. The chair expressed support, noting similar legislation had passed the committee previously, and the bill was held for a later vote once quorum issues were resolved.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Sep 2nd, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I rise today to present ACR 70 to proclaim September as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.
- So what can all of you do to help prevent suicide? First on my list: be kind.
- suicide prevention services and mental health resources.
- We must ensure that Californians know the resources on suicide prevention and mental health and feel
- Today I rise in support of ACR 70, which declares September as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.
Summary:
The Assembly met after a quorum call, prayer, and pledge, then moved through a heavy floor schedule with several procedural motions and unanimous-consent actions, including withdrawing AB 362 from Appropriations, moving SB 494 to the inactive file, and rescinding prior action on SB 400. Members also adopted a motion suspending the rules to withdraw AB 362 from Appropriations and place it on second reading, with the roll showing 41 ayes and 13 noes.
The chamber then took up ACR 70, proclaiming September 2025 as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Assembly Member Pellerin presented the resolution with a personal account of losing her husband to suicide and urged use of the 988 lifeline, safe firearm storage, and open conversations about mental health. Many members from both parties and caucuses shared personal stories and support. The resolution was adopted by voice vote, Senate amendments were concurred in, and suicide awareness pins were distributed.
Members next concurred in Senate amendments to AB 977 on Native American human remains, with broad support and a 68-0 vote, and to AB 1510 on public employees, which passed 66-1. HR 65, designating October as Filipino American History Month, drew extensive remarks on Filipino American history, labor, public service, and community contributions; it was adopted by voice vote with 63 co-authors added. The Assembly also passed SB 81 and SB 98, both urgency measures aimed at protecting immigrant communities in health care facilities and schools from immigration enforcement activity, and both were sent immediately to the Senate after 54-10 and 54-8 votes, respectively. Finally, the chamber debated SJR 9 condemning immigration raids; supporters described fear and family disruption, while one Republican member argued for secure borders and criticized the bill and related policies. The transcript ends during that debate without showing a final vote on SJR 9.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Preventing Gun Violence in Minnesota – Senator Ron Latz Mar 7th, 2026
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- violence recently, you know, prompting a conversation with urgency and earnest around gun violence prevention
- So, Senator Zaynab Mohamed and I put together this gun violence prevention working group just to try
- So, in your opinion, what is the number one thing the legislation can do this session to prevent gun
- </c><00:03:18.200><c> I</c><00:03:18.280><c> think</c> session to prevent gun violence?
- I think session to prevent gun violence?
Summary:
The interview focused on Minnesota gun violence prevention efforts following the June shootings of the Hortmans and Hoffmans and the Annunciation shooting. The senator said those events prompted him and Senator Zaynab Mohamed to form a gun violence prevention working group during the interim to gather public and expert input, explore ideas, and build bipartisan support. He said the group was meant to set the stage for session work, and that several ideas vetted there are now appearing in legislative proposals, along with a package from the governor’s office.
Asked what the legislature should prioritize, the senator said there is no single solution and outlined a multi-pronged approach: enforcing and expanding red flag and universal background check laws, considering an assault weapons ban and high-capacity magazine limits, banning ghost guns and binary triggers, improving firearm storage and security, and increasing school counseling and wraparound mental health supports. He emphasized that mental health alone is not the cause of violence, but said better identification of students in distress and easier access to care could help. He also argued that these measures can coexist with the Second Amendment and said regulation is appropriate to keep firearms from people with violent criminal histories, domestic violence histories, or other prohibitions.
On politics and prospects, he said passage will depend on bipartisan negotiation in a closely divided legislature, noting that some Democrats and Republicans are uncomfortable with certain proposals while others are open to them. He said he is willing to adjust language, as he did on earlier red flag and background check laws, and hopes members will work with him and Senator Mohamed, especially in swing districts. If no package passes this session, he said the issue will return next session and voters should hold legislators accountable in the next election. He closed by telling families affected by gun violence that lawmakers are working on the issue now and should not wait for another mass shooting, adding that gun violence also includes suicides and other daily deaths, not just mass shootings.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Farm down payment assistance program modified 3/23/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm not saying I'm not trying to prevent cannabis growing. Certainly not trying to prevent it.
- I'm not saying I'm not trying to prevent cannabis growing. Certainly not trying to prevent it.
- I'm not saying I'm not trying to prevent cannabis growing. Certainly not trying to prevent it.
- I'm not saying I'm not trying to prevent cannabis growing. Certainly not trying to prevent it.
- I'm not saying I'm not trying to prevent cannabis growing. Certainly not trying to prevent it.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 3/9/26
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- They also have a vested interest in preventing fraud.
- The way to re engineer the state's approach to us to better prevent fraud in the future and to prevent
- They have a vested interest in preventing fraud.
- They want to prevent fraud as much as anyone else does.
- Real-time data sharing to support timely preventative investigative actions.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Health Policy Jan 26th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- So this legislation for me is about prevention.
- It ignores a very real, very preventable public threat.
- We can't afford to have our kids at home sick with vaccine-preventable diseases.
- Every family asks me the same question: How could I have prevented this?
- We shouldn't go back to a world where children die of preventable, preventable viral illnesses.
Summary:
The committee heard several health-related bills. SB 1082 would let providers or insurers in state-regulated commercial plans opt into the federal independent dispute resolution process for emergency out-of-network claims, with a late-filed amendment clarifying access to the state program in certain circumstances. The bill sponsor and emergency physicians said the measure would reduce litigation and improve payment resolution; the committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably as a committee substitute.
SB 1168 would centralize background screening work for the care provider clearinghouse at the Agency for Health Care Administration and update related screening rules, including sealed and expunged records for qualified entities. The sponsor said the change would speed turnaround and reduce duplication; an amendment was adopted, and the bill was reported favorably as a committee substitute. SB 1156 would move ambulatory surgical center regulation out of Chapter 395 into a standalone section of law, and it was reported favorably without amendment.
SB 1480, as amended by a strike-all, would grandfather certain temporary certificate holders practicing in areas of critical need if federal designations change, allowing them to continue seeing current patients and potentially new patients in their existing area subject to board oversight. The committee heard support from health system representatives and reported the bill favorably. The final and most debated measure, SB 1756 on medical freedom, would require vaccine education materials and alternative schedules, expand school immunization exemptions to conscience-based objections, clarify limits on emergency vaccination orders, and allow pharmacists to dispense ivermectin behind the counter with written information. The sponsor and supporters framed it as parental choice and access, while physicians, public health advocates, cancer advocates, and parents of immunocompromised children warned it would lower vaccination rates and increase disease risk. The committee adopted a liability-related amendment, rejected a substitute amendment that would have required consultation for exemptions, and continued hearing public testimony opposing the bill; the transcript ends before final action on SB 1756.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Committee Sep 11th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- It also expands mussel prevention activities to include all invasive mussels, including golden mussels
- It also expands mussel prevention activities to include all invasive mussels, including golden mussels
- We will not be able to prevent hunger for veterans, foster youth, children, and others as a result of
- We will not be able to prevent hunger for veterans, foster youth, children, and others as a result of
- The $30 million invested to prevent California from being subject to a $2 billion federal penalty is
Summary:
The Assembly Budget Committee held an informational hearing on the September budget package, which included SB 105 and a series of trailer bills covering health, human services, education, resources, child care, transportation, labor, public safety, housing, revenue, background checks, collective bargaining, and a special election. The Department of Finance described the package as largely technical and clarifying, but also responsive to state and federal changes, especially H.R. 1. Key items included roughly $3.3 billion in Proposition 4 climate and environmental spending, $540 million in discretionary greenhouse gas reduction funds, and major responses to H.R. 1 such as CalFresh error-rate mitigation, food bank support, and Medicaid-related changes. Other notable provisions included vaccine policy flexibility, an Abortion Access Fund, a gender-affirming care program, community college basic-needs and aid changes, CEQA and coastal permit exemptions tied to the 2028 Olympics, invasive mussel prevention funding, a civic media program, labor and pension-related provisions, and special election administration changes.
Members raised questions and concerns about several parts of the package. There was support for climate, water, transit, offshore wind, food security, and health investments, but also significant criticism of the lack of cleanup language for SB 131 and its advanced manufacturing exemptions, with multiple members saying promised fixes had not materialized and expressing concerns about tribal consultation, labor standards, and environmental protections. Members also questioned the scale and timing of some Proposition 4 allocations, including fairground upgrades, regional conveyance, and a UC Davis alternative protein research center. The Department of Finance said some programs would roll out over time and that certain funding levels reflected current implementation capacity.
The hearing also featured discussion of Bay Area transit financing, with Finance saying SB 105 directs the department and CalSTA to examine loan or other financing options rather than immediately providing loans. Members and public commenters also discussed the state’s response to H.R. 1, with advocates supporting food bank, health care, and immunization provisions while warning of ongoing harm to immigrants, foster youth, and other vulnerable groups. Public testimony broadly supported the health, food, water, offshore wind, and golden mussel provisions, while many speakers echoed legislative concerns about SB 131 and urged cleanup action in the next session. No votes were taken because the hearing was informational only, though the chair noted votes on the bills were expected later that night or the next morning.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services (Part I) May 7th, 2025
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- But in 2009, Texas passed House Bill 1290, the country's very first heart attack prevention act.
- That was what was passed in the 2009 Texas Heart Attack Prevention Bill.
- Preventive Task Force, they go in and grade things. That's the prevention aspect.
- One of them is preventive services.
- With this type of scanning, we can prevent death.
Bills:
HB18 , HB37 , HB 116 , HB388 , HB879 , HB913 , HB 1151 , HB2216 , HB2358 , HB2809 , SB577 , SB1590 , SB1782 , SB1887 , SB2744 , HB18 , HB37 , HB116
Committee:
Senate Health & Human Services
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- By expanding how we think about prevention, the Violence Prevention Project positions Minnesota as a
- how to prevent it from suicide<00:28:41.039><c> prevention</c><00:28:41.520><c> and</c><00:28:41.840
- > the</c><00:29:01.600><c> Violence</c> think about prevention, the Violence think about prevention,
- Minnesota</c> Prevention Project positions Minnesota Prevention Project positions Minnesota as<00:29:
- </c> in crisis, um hopefully we can prevent in crisis, um hopefully we can prevent uh<00:39:06.400><c
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- prevention strategies in place.
- </c> with to actually put these prevention with to actually put these prevention strategies<01:00:12.640
- Again, every ounce of prevention.
- Again, every ounce of prevention.
- , to put prevention strategies in place, every ounce to prevent suicide in this age group, moving forward
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Emergency Management Committee Jun 23rd, 2026
Emergency Management
Transcript Highlights:
- Suicide prevention should never be political. It's a public health responsibility.
- , which is the nation's largest private funder of suicide prevention research.
- , which is the nation's largest private funder of suicide prevention research.
- Cassandra Wetstone, a volunteer with NorCal Gun Violence Prevention, in support.
- Julie Chapman, volunteer with NorCal Gun Violence Prevention, in support.
Committee:
Senate Emergency Management
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Apr 27th, 2026
California Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Because, as the resolution also notes, the CDC has deemed sexual assault a preventable health issue.
- Senate Concurrent Resolution 130 by Senator Grove relative to Child Abuse Prevention Month.
- This is... ...as a child abuse prevention month in California.
- Prevention must be our priority.
- We're also working to prevent the inflow of people becoming homeless, and I think that's a goal that
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Public Safety Committee Meeting - 2025-04-02
Public Safety Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- This will also help with retention, preventing burnout.
- In 2023, the legislature established a community crime and violence prevention account in the special
- Prevention and intervention is to prevent or intervene if a violent altercation is about to happen.
- , and there is no reason to defund violence prevention.
- I must go to public safety; I must go to law enforcement and crime prevention.
Committee:
House Public Safety Finance and Policy
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- frustrating that along the way we couldn't prevent some of these.
- </c> along and the the fraud prevention along and the the fraud prevention measures<01:10:26.640><c>
- </c> recommendation uh our prevention recommendation uh our prevention measures<01:10:56.159><c> failed
- </c><01:13:08.719><c> um</c> million in estimated fraud prevention um million in estimated fraud prevention
- </c> and those were all fraud prevention and those were all fraud prevention measures<01:13:10.840><c
Committee:
Senate Labor
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- 00:04:52.320><c> research</c> violence prevention project research violence prevention project research
- of mass shooting prevention.
- </c> mass shooting prevention. mass shooting prevention.
- </c> intervention, suicide prevention. intervention, suicide prevention.
- Thank you. prevent crises before they escalate. prevent crises before they escalate.
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Apr 8th, 2026
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- The interim charge is on preventing taxpayer funds and preventing fraud, protecting taxpayer funds and
- preventing fraud and abuse.
- worth... ...about moving to prevention, away from pay for chase.
- How can we use this technology to prevent problems before a claim is paid?
- And it’s designed to prevent this from happening, this overbilling.
Committee:
Senate Health & Human Services