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MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Thirty Four - Monday, March 9
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Age verification puts a door where there is no door today, and it codifies the ruling by the AG's office
- We talk about age verification.
- Just like this age verification, you could take somebody's ID, put them in a database, and have you.
- Let's not just limit it to age verification on adult websites.
- In this state, let's not just limit it to age verification on adult websites and specify porn and not
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Day 31 (2-20-26)
Kentucky Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And I was just looking through all of the different methods for voter verification and identification
- So, this is a simple bill to strike out those two photo, excuse me, those two verifications of ID that
- <00:33:50.320><c> me,</c><00:33:50.559><c> those</c><00:33:51.039><c> two</c><00:33:51.360><c> verifications
- </c><00:33:51.919><c> of</c><00:33:52.080><c> ID</c> excuse me, those two verifications of ID excuse
- me, those two verifications of ID that<00:33:52.720><c> do</c><00:33:52.880><c> not</c><00:33:53.039>
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on State Administration Mar 17th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- At the same time, every day we interact with immigrant communities around the state.
- One of our roles is assisting people by statute who are qualified for certain forms of immigration status
- We do not care what your immigration status is.
- You cannot be turned away from certain businesses, for example, because of your immigration status.
- Of course, in this last year, we see this target of individuals that are perceived to be immigrants.
Summary:
The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on State Administration met to hear the Civil Rights Department’s budget items, with the chair opening by emphasizing that agency directors should appear in person if they want their items heard. Go-Biz was not heard because its director was absent. The department outlined four chaptered-legislation implementation items: SB 464 on updated pay data reporting categories, AB 822 extending the Commission on the State of Hate, AB 935 expanding data collection and reporting, and SB 518 creating the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery. The Department of Finance and Legislative Analyst’s Office had no concerns with these proposals.
Members then asked about the department’s broader workload and role in responding to discrimination, hate incidents, and immigration-related fears in communities. CRD explained that it handles complaints in areas such as housing, employment, public accommodations, hate crimes, and human trafficking, but does not have jurisdiction over the federal government or landlord-tenant law generally. Officials said filings and open matters have risen sharply, with the department nearing 12,000 open matters, and described outreach in multiple languages, immigrant-serving work, and support for victims through T and U visa-related assistance. They also discussed the Commission on the State of Hate, the California vs. Hate hotline, and coordination with Stop the Hate grantees and community organizations.
The committee also heard items on ongoing workload for AB 2188, AB 1041, and AB 1949, which would convert limited-term resources to permanent positions because workload has met or exceeded initial estimates. The LAO had no concerns. A final item requested $502,000 for ongoing security guard services at CRD public counters after more than a dozen threats to staff since July 2024; the LAO again had no concerns. Members expressed support for the security request and discussed the need for safe public-facing offices. No votes were taken, and each item was closed after discussion and public comment.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Feb 20th, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- She is the first Armenian American woman, the first immigrant woman, and the youngest person to ever
- Many Japanese immigrants and their American born children were involved in farming, business, and other
- I want to share a little story about a daughter of immigrant. immigrants who relocated to San Bernardino
- your aye vote today, but to continue to support the education of our future generations and our immigrants
- and our future immigrants to understand and remember.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House DFL Press Conference 1/21/26
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, I'm raised, but I came here as an immigrant, but I'm a U.S. citizen.
- It's not immigrant, but I'm US citizen.
- We're not here saying we are against federal action towards immigration.
- We're not here saying we are against federal action towards immigration.
- We're not here saying we are against federal action towards immigration.
Summary:
State Rep. Samakab Hussein and other Minnesota lawmakers held a press event focused on allegations of ICE misconduct in St. Paul and surrounding communities, using the case of Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen, as the central example. Hussein and others said Ahmed was detained for two days, denied clear explanation and legal representation, and suffered trauma and injuries; Ahmed described being taken from a predominantly Somali neighborhood, called a racial slur, and physically restrained, while her father said the experience was unacceptable for any citizen or resident.
Several lawmakers, including Reps. María Isa Pérez-Vega, Mahmud Nur, Dave Pinto, and St. Paul City Council Member Anika Buouie, said they were drafting or supporting legislation and local responses to provide behavioral health, mental health, and emergency assistance for affected families and businesses. They also said they were hearing from teachers, faith leaders, and community members about fear, disrupted work and school attendance, and broader economic harm, and that St. Paul’s city council would pursue a letter to Gov. Walz seeking an eviction moratorium.
The speakers alleged that ICE actions were unlawful, racially targeted, and in some cases in violation of a recent federal court order limiting certain tactics. They urged people to document incidents, call 911, and use an attorney general portal to report constitutional-rights violations so data could be collected. No formal vote was taken at the event, but the lawmakers said they were working with county and state officials and referenced ongoing lawsuits and possible future court orders.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Mar 5th, 2025
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Immigrants refer to Border Patrol, just to name a few.
- What's not talked about often is the 114,000 illegal immigrants who were booked into Texas.
- To assist, we developed a top ten criminal illegal immigrant list.
- list, a criminal illegal immigrant from Cameroon. who was wanted for sexual assault out of San Antonio
- I mean, there are some agencies that aren't going to focus on immigration enforcement.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/26
Higher Education Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- So, even aside from whatever anyone may think about immigration policy or someone's immigration status
- So, even aside from whatever anyone may think about immigration policy or someone's immigration status
- So, even aside from whatever anyone may think about immigration policy or someone's immigration status
- So, even aside from whatever anyone may think about immigration policy or someone's immigration status
- immigration status, someone's immigration status, I<00:20:45.000><c> I</c><00:20:45.160><c> cannot</
Committee:
House Higher Education Finance and Policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 02/19/26
Housing and Homelessness Prevention
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> have an office next to an immigration have an office next to an immigration law<00:48:46.960><c>
- He said we need legal immigration.
- We need legal immigration. over legally. We need legal immigration.
- , immigrants, immigrants, naturalized<00:53:11.440><c> citizens.
- </c> concerns related to federal immigration concerns related to federal immigration enforcement<01:18
Committee:
Senate Housing and Homelessness Prevention
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- law and the enforcement of immigration law.
- </c> has jurisdiction over immigration law. has jurisdiction over immigration law.
- </c> authority when it comes to immigration authority when it comes to immigration law<01:13:23.520><
- people are facing, if we blame immigrants, if we're effective enough at blaming immigrants for the price
- :29.600><c> blaming</c><01:37:30.000><c> immigrants</c> effective enough at blaming immigrants effective
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 3/23/26
Transportation Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- And then it updates some of the language about having an independent study or independent safety verification
- And then it updates some of the language about having an independent study or independent safety verification
- And then it updates some of the language about having an independent study or independent safety verification
- And then it updates some of the language about having an independent study or independent safety verification
- </c><00:47:18.200><c> from</c> or independent safety verification from or independent safety verification
Committee:
House Transportation Finance and Policy
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- To me, they want on-site verification and a better verification process with consequences.
- To me, they want on-site verification and a better verification process with consequences.
- Um, it could be things like you mentioned electronic visit verification.
- like you mentioned<00:26:37.600><c> electronic</c><00:26:38.080><c> visit</c><00:26:38.400><c> verification
- </c> mentioned electronic visit verification. mentioned electronic visit verification.
Committee:
Senate Human Services
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 01/30/25
Housing and Homelessness Prevention
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm sorry, subdivision three is the one that provides the sheriff's verification requirements and service
- </c><00:03:48.319><c> requirements</c><00:03:48.799><c> and</c> sheriff's verification requirements and
- sheriff's verification requirements and the<00:03:49.080><c> service</c><00:03:49.439><c> of</c><00:
- <00:04:02.560><c> requirements</c><00:04:03.120><c> service</c><00:04:03.400><c> the</c> verification
- requirements service the verification requirements service the process<00:04:04.439><c> requirements
Committee:
Senate Housing and Homelessness Prevention
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Housing Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Housing
Transcript Highlights:
- Increases are impacting immigrants. Rent increases are impacting immigrants in the Commonwealth.
- One in six Massachusetts residents is an immigrant, and 80% of those immigrants are in our workforce.
- No one and no immigrant should have to be put through the trauma of displacement.
- He was an immigrant. He said, you know what, I'll just try and pay the higher rent. He agreed.
- In recent years, my city has experienced an influx of immigrants.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Housing
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Housing held a hybrid hearing on a broad slate of landlord-tenant and home rule bills, with most testimony focused on rent stabilization, tenant opportunity to purchase (TOPA), tenant fees, access to counsel, algorithmic rent fixing, and tenant protections in subsidized housing. Chairs Cyr and Haggerty outlined the hearing procedures and noted that written testimony could also be submitted. Several members and invited speakers emphasized that the committee was hearing from both local officials and residents affected by housing instability, especially in Somerville and other communities facing high rents and displacement.
Supporters of rent stabilization and local-option rent control argued that Massachusetts needs tools to prevent displacement while new housing is built. Senator Eldridge, Senator Jalen, Somerville officials, tenant organizers, and residents described steep rent increases, no-fault evictions, and the loss of naturally occurring affordable housing. Somerville’s home rule petition was described as allowing annual increases tied to CPI plus 2%, capped at 5%, with exemptions for owner-occupied two- and three-family homes and a 15-year exemption for new construction. TOPA supporters said it would let tenants or their designees buy buildings before speculative buyers, preserving affordable housing stock; opponents, including small landlords and property managers, argued rent control would reduce supply, discourage investment, and that TOPA could delay sales and harm properties.
The committee also heard testimony on bills to curb junk fees and regulate tenant charges, including limits on late fees, lease renewal fees, payment portal fees, attorney’s fees, and other add-on charges. Advocates said these fees can add hundreds of dollars a month and disproportionately harm low-income renters and renters of color. Another major topic was algorithmic rent fixing: Senator Moore and Representative Sabadoza said landlords should not use software such as RealPage to coordinate pricing, citing federal antitrust actions and arguing that competition is essential to lowering rents. Additional testimony supported a statewide right to counsel in eviction cases, with legal services providers saying representation dramatically improves outcomes and can save the state money, and a bill to create an office of tenant protections to better enforce sanitary code violations. No votes or final actions were taken during the hearing.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- enforcement to the polls, restrictive voter... ...regime's threats to send immigration enforcement to
- I'm a state policy advocate with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, CHIRLA, and I'm here today
- As we enter into another election season, immigrant communities across California are experiencing a
- Families are hearing federal calls to send immigration enforcement to polling places.
- Well, at the same time, ...send immigration enforcement to polling places, while at the same time, we're
Committee:
House Public Safety
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Jan 16th, 2026
California Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- They propose including the treatment of our immigrant communities. But there is hope.
- King helped pave the road forward, immigrants from every corner of the world... forward, immigrants from
- As of the new year, immigration enforcement agencies reported that more than 328,000 arrests nationwide
- He was with a stranger, with the immigrant.
- Well, as he worked together with everyone regardless of their immigration status.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Emergency Management Committee Apr 7th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- DeMaio, as somebody who is a proud immigrant, as somebody who has just gone through a disaster in Los
- We are a nation of immigrants. We support that. We celebrate that. If someone... Of immigrants.
- To illegal immigrants?
- The second answer was no, it has nothing to do with illegal immigrants, but the first...
- So it does have, it does allow for illegal immigrants to receive the benefits.
Summary:
The Emergency Management Committee met to adopt its rules and hear a series of disaster- and public safety-related bills. Several measures were placed on consent and approved, including bills sending items to Appropriations, Natural Resources, Judiciary, Labor and Employment, and Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. AB 262, by Assembly Member Caloza, proposed a California Individual Assistance Act to create a state grant program for disaster-related costs when federal aid is unavailable; supporters cited Rio Dell’s earthquake recovery as an example, while some members raised concerns about eligibility, cost, and whether the bill could aid undocumented residents. The bill passed to Appropriations on a 4-2 vote.
AB 549, by Assembly Member Gabriel, would create an interagency coordination framework for major sporting events such as the 2026 World Cup, 2027 Super Bowl, and 2028 Olympics, with supporters emphasizing public safety and anti-trafficking planning. An opposition witness argued the bill could be used to justify prostitution arrests and misuse trafficking funds, but the committee members largely supported the coordination concept, and the bill passed 6-0 to Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism. AB 270, by Assembly Member Petrie-Norris, would establish a three-year pilot for autonomous aerial firefighting helicopters overseen by the Orange County Fire Authority; supporters described it as a way to extend wildfire response into conditions where crewed aircraft are limited, and the bill passed 6-0 to Privacy and Consumer Protection.
Later, AB 367, by Assembly Member Bennett, sought to require Ventura County water districts in high fire-risk areas to top off tanks during red flag warnings, maintain backup generators, and harden critical water infrastructure. Water agencies opposed the bill unless amended, citing cost, flexibility, and liability concerns, while the author argued the requirements were necessary after failures during the Thomas Fire; it passed 6-1 to Utilities and Energy. AB 615, by Assembly Member Davies, required emergency response plans to be submitted with initial applications for battery energy storage and other energy facilities and to be reviewed with local responders; it passed 7-0 to Utilities and Energy. AB 1075, concerning privately contracted firefighters, also passed on consent to Natural Resources. Finally, AB 1143, by Assembly Member Bennett, would create a voluntary statewide home hardening certification program through the State Fire Marshal; supporters called it a best-practices approach to reduce wildfire losses and insurance risk, and it passed to Natural Resources. The committee then completed roll calls for absent members and adjourned after all bills were moved out.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 088 Apr 11th, 2026
Colorado House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><04:22:41.760><c> I</c> immigrants. That is entirely untrue. I immigrants.
- </c> In<04:34:11.520><c> 2022,</c> immigrants, immigrants, immigrants, undocumented<04:34:18.240><c>
- immigrants,</c> undocumented immigrants, undocumented immigrants, contributed contributed contributed
- </c> Immigrants make our country great. Immigrants make our country great.
- </c> of legal immigration. of legal immigration.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, June 25, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- As the law-abiding immigrants.
- Immigrant detention clothes for 10 days.
- A proud product immigrant communities.
- As we close out immigrant heritage month, St.
- Francis immigrant heritage month, St.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- But your bill intentionally and purposely talks about not for immigration, which is a federal law.
- But the process is law and order, and we have a federal law and a whole law on immigration, which we
- If we want to adjust immigration laws, I'm all in.
- the federal... federal immigration law.
- And so the three things that we lined out here, protective health care, immigration, and first I'm a
Committee:
Senate House Judiciary
Summary:
The committee first took up Senate Bill 40, a committee substitute addressing automated license plate readers (ALPRs) and privacy. Sponsor Sen. Worth said the bill was intended to preserve ALPRs as a law-enforcement tool while adding guardrails to prevent sharing or selling data for immigration enforcement, protected health care activity, or criminalizing constitutionally protected conduct. Supporters included state and local law enforcement, the ACLU, immigrant-rights, reproductive-rights, and sexual-assault advocacy groups. Law enforcement witnesses said the bill balanced privacy with public safety and cited cases where ALPRs helped locate kidnapped children, murder suspects, and stolen vehicles; opponents and some senators argued the bill was too narrow, too focused on immigration and health care, and raised concerns about federal law, data sales, and enforcement. After debate, the committee adopted an amendment removing subsection F, then approved the committee substitute and advanced SB 40 on a do-pass motion.
The committee then heard Senate Bill 104, which would create a process for removing wildlife commissioners after the 2023 wildlife commission legislation and the governor’s veto of the prior removal language. Sen. Worth explained that SB 104 would allow the governor to initiate removal for malfeasance, incompetence, or failure to attend meetings, with notice, a hearing, and exclusive review by the state Supreme Court; he said it was modeled on the Board of Regents removal process and was intended to complete the wildlife commission reforms. The New Mexico Wildlife Federation, Audubon Southwest, and the Department of Game and Fish supported the bill, saying it would depoliticize wildlife management and provide stability. Senators asked about the existing “three consecutive meetings” vacancy language, current vacancies, and the prior removal of a commissioner. The committee discussed the governor’s earlier veto and whether the bill was necessary, but no amendment was adopted and the committee approved SB 104 on a do-pass motion.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
House of Representatives Second Regular Session of the 60th Legislature Day 19 Mar 4th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Oklahoma House Floor Meeting
Bills:
HB4358 , HB2398 , HB3557 , HB3129 , HB3312 , HB2210 , HB1937 , HB3021 , HB4246 , HB4230 , HB3617 , HB3657 , HB2976 , HB3391 , HB4459 , HB4128 , HB3989 , HB2989 , HB4060 , HB3145 , HB2992 , HB3464 , HB3552 , HB2984 , HB4124 , HB3934 , HB3448 , HB3131 , HB4200 , HB4201 , HB3011 , HB1912 , HB3380 , HB3881 , HB3538 , HB3851 , HB3907 , HB4430 , HB4431 , HB4457 , HB2947 , HB2951 , HB2980 , HB3082 , HB3519 , HB3644 , HB3882 , HB3661 , HB3996 , HB4335
Keywords:
screen time, education, public schools, child development, digital learning, youth health, academic performance, credential of value, workforce development, labor market, government reporting, Oklahoma Agricultural Extension, local funding, financial institutions, county extension services, state funds, free expression, colleges, security fees, public forums