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FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
March 13, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- It's well overdue. And Representative Oliver and Representative Lopez, thank you as well.
- It's well overdue. And Representative Oliver and Representative Lopez, thank you as well.
- Well, this amendment would remove the language in lines 28 and 29 that...
- Well, we still have that power of the purse.
- And I want to say thank you to the public who came and testified as well.
Summary:
The committee first heard CS/HB 69, which would preempt local land-use decisions for presidential libraries to the state. The sponsor said the bill was intended to make it easier to site a presidential library in Florida. Members asked about whether the bill could affect nontraditional uses such as hotels or casinos, and the sponsor said it only addressed land-use and development-order decisions. There was no public testimony, and the bill was reported favorably 16-7.
The committee then took up CS/HB 289, “Lucy's Law,” on boating safety. The bill expands boating education requirements, aligns boating penalties more closely with driving offenses, prohibits false information in vessel accident reports, and requires certain nonresidents to obtain boating safety cards. An amendment requiring boating safety courses for those convicted of civil boating infractions was adopted. The committee heard emotional testimony from Lucy Fernandez’s mother, who described the fatal 2022 boating crash that inspired the bill, along with support from industry and local-government witnesses. Members from both parties spoke in favor, emphasizing accountability, education, and enforcement. The bill passed unanimously, 25-0.
HB 7003, an open-government/sunshine bill, preserved a public-records exemption for sensitive business information submitted with applications to the Office of Financial Regulation’s financial technology sandbox. It drew no public testimony or debate and was reported favorably. HB 4007, a local bill for Martin County, capped reimbursement for inmate emergency health care at 110% of Medicare, mirroring the Department of Corrections standard; it also passed favorably after supportive public testimony.
The longest discussion was on HB 991, which would prohibit creation of new community redevelopment agencies after July 1, 2025, bar current CRAs from starting new projects or issuing new debt after October 1, 2025, and sunset existing CRAs by 2045 or their charter date, whichever is earlier. The sponsor argued CRAs have become long-lived funding vehicles used beyond their original anti-blight purpose and said local governments have other tools. Many members from both parties objected that CRAs remain important for affordable housing, small business support, infrastructure, and redevelopment in blighted areas, and several said the bill would harm ongoing or multi-phase projects. Three amendments were offered: one defining “new project,” one striking the new-CRA prohibition, and one striking the new-debt/new-project language; all were defeated except the first, which was adopted. Public testimony was split, with redevelopment groups, cities, and the Florida League of Cities opposing the bill and Americans for Prosperity supporting it. The committee did not reach final disposition in the portion provided, but the debate showed substantial opposition and concern about the bill’s impact on local redevelopment efforts.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Transportation (01/14/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- Well, that's true.
- Well, what are we doing?
- Well, you know what?
- Any amendments, uh, well... Well, the chair does have the ability to recognize them or not.
- Well, they're televised.
Summary:
The Transportation Committee met for an opening/orientation session in which members introduced themselves and explained their interest in the committee. Several members noted backgrounds in trucking, piloting, boating, motorcycles, road safety, or constituent concerns about transportation issues. The chair also noted several absent members and said the committee would first hear agency presentations before covering committee procedures.
The Department of Safety gave the main presentation, outlining its seven divisions and how they relate to transportation policy and the Highway Fund. The assistant commissioner emphasized that Highway Fund revenue supports both the Department of Transportation and the Department of Safety, with collections coming largely from the road toll/gas tax, DMV fees, and the new electric vehicle surcharge. He also noted that 12% of Highway Fund revenues go to local road repair through the DOT Betterment Fund, and warned that the fund has had a structural deficit for several biennia, requiring General Fund transfers that may be uncertain this session. He said the department aims to provide data and fiscal context on legislation and fiscal notes.
State Police then provided a detailed overview of its structure and operations, including the Operations Bureau, Investigative Services Bureau, and Justice Information Bureau. Testimony highlighted Troop G’s role in vehicle inspections, commercial motor vehicle enforcement, fraud investigations, and consumer complaint handling, as well as statewide staffing shortages. The division reported rising calls for service, motor vehicle stops, DWI arrests, and other arrests despite a vacancy rate of about 17%. It also described aviation, K-9, bomb squad, special events response, SWAT, narcotics, major crime, forensic laboratory, and other specialized units, with statistics on drug seizures, investigations, and lab workload. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during this portion of the meeting.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (09/10/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
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- >> Well, because Well, didn't we pass it?
Summary:
The committee began by discussing 15 retained bills and the chair’s preference to keep them alive through interim study rather than kill them, using them as vehicles for further discussion and possible later amendments. The chair said the bills would be executed out by November and then move to the House floor in January, and members generally agreed that interim study was the prevailing motion for the retained bills.
Several health-related bills were then discussed. On Senate Bill 247, concerning pharmacy network exclusion when PBM reimbursement is below acquisition cost, members said the issue had been presented differently in prior discussions and noted unfamiliar intermediaries such as PSAOs; the bill was viewed as too complex to resolve immediately, so interim study was favored. A bill on treatment alternatives to opiates was said to need an amendment from the Insurance Department, and a bill on self-funded employer access to claims data was described as having changed substantially through amendment; the sponsor explained it was intended to incentivize self-funded plans to opt into the state’s all-payer claims database (CHIS) so their data could be used for cost analysis, and members indicated a separate bill would be brought later.
The committee spent the most time on a glucose monitoring bill, with testimony from a sponsor and a parent of a type 1 diabetic describing the medical benefits of continuous glucose monitors, especially for preventing dangerous lows and managing fluctuations. Opponents and committee members raised concerns about the cost of a mandate, the effect on premiums in the individual and small-group markets, and whether the bill should require coverage without a prescription; one member cited medical literature suggesting limited evidence for non-insulin users. The chair concluded the bill was headed to interim study and said the committee would do further homework on the economic impact, especially for type 1 coverage. The meeting then moved on to a bill about insurer audits and clawbacks, where the Insurance Department commissioner explained that the issue involved several separate provider-payment problems that had recently come to the department’s attention and that the department would provide a report and work with the sponsor on next steps.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
April 2, 2025 - 04:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- The professors, well, this doesn't limit them.
- Well stated for your encouragement.
- Well, my city is going through a massive expansion.
- Well, it's not the percentage that I'm concerned about.
- I think we received just well over 200 million. All of us are sewered.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations - Room 210; 21 January, 2026: 1:30 PM
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- We've got a fee that's $10 for a well driller fee or well drilling a groundwater well.
- We've got a fee that's $10 for a well driller fee or well drilling a groundwater well.
- We've got a fee that's $10 for a well driller fee or well drilling a groundwater well.
- We've got a fee that's $10 for a well driller fee or well drilling a groundwater well.
- </c> as well. as well.
Committee:
Joint Appropriations
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Farewells - 05/18/26
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> And that works pretty well. And that works pretty well.
- I hope it works well for you. And I hope that you do very well.
- . well. well.
- Well, Well, Well, I<03:20:39.640><c> do</c><03:20:39.880><c> have</c><03:20:40.160><c> some</c><03:20
- </c> as well as a good friend. as well as a good friend.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Health and Human Services (02/06/2025)
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- You captured it well.
- </c> law that needs to be changed as well law that needs to be changed as well right<00:42:08.960><c>
- </c><02:39:17.200><c> I</c> language associated with it as well I language associated with it as well
- </c> 988 suicide and crisis Lifeline as well 988 suicide and crisis Lifeline as well as<02:59:53.800>
- </c> um a full-time Finance position as well um a full-time Finance position as well as<03:01:09.399>
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (01/15/2026)
Commerce and Consumer Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh and well.
- </c><00:20:19.919><c> Uh</c> actually other countries as well. Uh actually other countries as well.
- Uh right now the federal as well.
- </c><04:03:45.840><c> use</c><04:03:46.080><c> any</c> well well I'll just read it. use any well well
- >> Okay.<04:52:33.520><c> Well,</c> >> Okay. Well, >> Okay.
Committee:
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs
WV
West Virginia 2026 Regular Session
Senate in Session Mar 12th, 2026 at 11:34 am
West Virginia Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- A lot of our coaches have great intentions, and they have good meaning, and they mean well, but a lot
- Well, I'm just concerned that we might lose the initial intent of 4481, something might have...
- The bill modifies the requirements for the licensee in charge of a funeral establishment, as well as
- This bill would change the date on which the balance of the oil and gas abandoned well-plugging fund
- This will actually help further along our well plugging as we tackle this issue of orphan well plugging
Summary:
The Senate met on March 11, 2026, with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, journal approval, and numerous guest and page introductions, including school groups, prayer caucus visitors, and advocates for Home Family Education Day and Women in Blue Day. The chamber then took up committee reports and a large number of House bills, most of them on third reading, along with several resolutions and referrals. Senate Resolution 62, designating March 12, 2026, as West Virginia Athletic Trainers Day, was adopted after remarks emphasizing the value of athletic trainers in preventing injuries and tragedies in school sports. Several other resolutions and concurrent resolutions were referred to the Committee on Rules or laid over under the rules.
The Senate passed a wide range of bills addressing economic development, public safety, health, licensing, and state administration. Measures approved included bills on the West Virginia Collaboratory at Marshall University, the Business Ready Sites program, volunteer fire company spending authority, the Load Forecast Accountability Act, funeral service licensure, work zone fines, biennial business reporting, correctional officer retirement law, the Right to Try Act, quick claim deed tax exemptions, an ibogaine drug-development grant program, aggravated vehicular homicide sentencing, 529 savings plan definitions, opportunity zones, barber apprenticeship, municipal and county hotel occupancy fund uses, criminal-record licensing standards, intimate image disclosure remedies, executor training materials, contempt penalties, PEIA treatment flexibility, PANS/PANDAS information, the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact, capitation rate review expansions, convention and visitors bureau board membership, peer support services, cosmetology licensure compacts, natural resource police retirement, DNR fee indexing, ALS care services, the Neighborhood Investment Program, oil and gas well plugging and carbon capture-related provisions, DUI technical changes, abuse intervention program terminology, and a youth summer employment and career readiness program. Most bills passed overwhelmingly, with a few closer votes, including the Load Forecast Accountability Act and the DNR fee-indexing bill.
Several bills were amended on the floor, including title amendments and strike-and-insert changes. The Senate also debated the work zone penalty bill, with supporters citing worker safety and fatalities and opponents arguing the bill increased fines too much without requiring removal of outdated work-zone signs. On the energy-related load forecast bill, senators discussed the inclusion of provisions from Senate Bill 420 and concerns about coal plant utilization and utility impacts. After debate, the Senate adopted amendments and passed the bill. In most cases, after passage the Senate ordered the bills communicated to the House, and for a few measures it also adopted title amendments or made bills effective from passage or on a specified date.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Children and Family Law (01/13/2026)
Children and Family Law
Transcript Highlights:
- That has been over a year now, and my son... as well. He's unemployed. Um the the as well.
- He was he was doing really well. Um up. He was he was doing really well.
- We might as well have it. Okay.
- Well, that's what lawyers are.
- Well, that's what any monopolies. Well, that's what lawyers<04:17:51.040><c> are.
Committee:
House Children and Family Law
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 021 Feb 3rd, 2026
Colorado House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- That is a very well-placed motion.
- </c> Well, the first speaker made it clear. Well, the first speaker made it clear.
- </c> safety or our nation's well-being. safety or our nation's well-being.
- I do will be a no vote as well.
- </c> the procedures in the manual as well. the procedures in the manual as well.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you. of abandoned equipment. Additional of abandoned equipment.
- </c> well be a half trillion. well be a half trillion.
- She's not responding well.
- She's not responding well.
- London Derry and other towns as well. London Derry and other towns as well.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Executive Departments and Administration (01/14/2026)
Executive Departments and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- Happy to take any questions the well.
- </c> the requirements of a well-managed fund. the requirements of a well-managed fund.
- >> Well, it kind of for me it kind of >> Well, it kind of for me it kind of blends<03:31:
- I would be as well.
- Is are there any specific well.
VT
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:08:25.280><c> and</c><00:08:25.400><c> personal</c> well as his wisdom and personal well as his
- The Senate added an additional provision allowing youth to participate in court diversion as well as
- as youth substance awareness as well as youth substance awareness safety<00:16:34.400><c> programs.
- Wells of Brownington. White of Westfield. White of Bethel. Winter of Ludlow. Wood of Waterbury.
- Um, well, but there is, uh, it's not in the bill as right now. So.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services May 27th, 2026
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- This as well.
- They go well above Medicare. They go well above Medicaid.
- They go well above Medicare. They go well above Medicaid.
- Well, you know why.
- He doesn’t do well.
Committee:
Senate Health & Human Services
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- >> [laughter] >> Well, >> Well, >> Well, you<00:25:35.960><c> know,</c><00:25
- Well, tell us what this bill does, first of all. >> Well, uh, it prohibits in Wicomico County a person
- </c> of mine also has those concerns as well. of mine also has those concerns as well.
- you</c><01:35:28.520><c> you</c><01:35:28.720><c> you</c> Well, I I appreciate you you you Well, I I
- Well, isn't that Marylanders safe.
Summary:
The House convened with 122 members present, opened with prayer, and approved the previous day’s journal. The chamber then took up two congratulatory resolutions: one honoring Layla Wishard of Hagerstown for winning gold with Team USA at the Junior Roller Derby Association World Cup in Australia, and another recognizing Delores Millhouse as the 2026 Maryland Mother of the Year. Both resolutions were read and adopted with applause.
The House then considered a series of committee reports, primarily from the Committee on Economic Matters, and advanced multiple bills to third reading after adopting committee amendments and favorable reports. Measures included consumer contract protections in House Bill 103, workers’ compensation presumptions for hypertension in House Bill 347, broadband access and affordability in House Bill 382, housing and land-use changes in House Bills 548 and 894, data privacy in House Bill 711, franchise law changes in House Bill 730, a blockchain-based real property title pilot program in House Bill 810, bankruptcy exemptions in House Bill 1098, and telecommunications infrastructure protections in House Bill 1100.
Several bills drew questions and were special ordered for further review. House Bill 711, the Data Privacy Act, prompted extended discussion about whether its geolocation provisions could affect stadium and venue security tracking; the sponsor said the bill was intended to close loopholes around cell phone and vehicle location data and would not change existing permission-based rules, but the bill was still special ordered until the next day. House Bill 894, the transit-oriented development bill, also drew questions about local government concerns and was special ordered, with the floor leader saying county and municipal groups were generally satisfied with the amendments. House Bill 1100 was also taken up after the amendments were adopted, and the title amendment process began as the transcript ended.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Committee, June 11, 2026 - PM
Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- And they would would control as well.
- c> livestock</c> say, "Well, h well, how do the livestock say, "Well, h well, how do the livestock growers
- ,</c> neighbors downstream might say, "Well, neighbors downstream might say, "Well, he<01:16:04.960><
- </c> is that they didn't manage it well. is that they didn't manage it well.
- </c> that some of the public is thinking well that some of the public is thinking well now<01:24:47.040
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 2/12/25
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Representative Cha, you are on the list as well.
- well have banks<00:45:38.000><c> at</c><00:45:38.160><c> Wells</c><00:45:38.440><c> Fargo</c><00:45:38.839
- </c> protections um the larger Banks so Wells protections um the larger Banks so Wells Fargo<00:46:18.119
- </c><00:53:10.400><c> for</c> Senate Commerce Committee as well for Senate Commerce Committee as well
- You’ve been taking questions nonstop and presenting for well over an hour and a half. Well done.
Committee:
House Commerce Finance and Policy
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- beloved, uh, and has dedicated his life to not only, uh, the state of Texas, but to his country as well
- Well deserved.
- Well. Greeting clerk, you may continue now.
- and deteriorating water wells or for the Committee on Natural Resources.
- rights of certain parties in connection with the performance of certain tests on certain inactive wells
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- very much beloved and has dedicated his life to not only the state of Texas but to his country as well
- Well-deserved John Sharpe's career is defined by decades of public service to not only his district,
- and deteriorating water wells. for the Committee on Natural Resources.
- rights of certain parties in connection with the performance of certain. tests on certain inactive wells
- Affecting electric utilities and consumers or for the committee on state affairs hb 4669 maybe more well
Keywords:
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