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MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Kind of predates<00:47:31.000><c> me</c><00:47:31.320><c> in</c><00:47:31.440><c> my</c><00:47:31.680
- </c><00:47:32.640><c> It</c> predates me in my current position.
- It predates me in my current position.
Committee:
Senate Elections
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Human Services Jan 20th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- It prohibits a person from resentencing if they've been convicted of a serious violent offense, a violent
- from resentencing if they've been convicted of a serious violent offense, a violent offense, or a sex
Committee:
Senate Human Services
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Advancing Education in Minnesota – Senator Julia Coleman Apr 7th, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- You have a bill out, Senate File 676, that asks for more transparency when it comes to violent incidents
- transparency when it that asks for more transparency when it comes<00:04:58.520><c> to</c><00:04:58.720><c> violent
- inance</c><00:04:59.759><c> on</c><00:04:59.960><c> school</c><00:05:00.240><c> ground</c> comes to violent
- inance on school ground comes to violent inance on school ground so<00:05:00.720><c> talk</c><00:05:
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
House Chamber - Mon Mar 24, 2025, 12:00PM HST - Day 38
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- They've empowered residents with the knowledge they need to protect themselves in a time when violent
- :20:51.159><c> when</c> to protect themselves in a time when to protect themselves in a time when violent
- 20:52.240><c> on</c><00:20:52.440><c> the</c><00:20:52.679><c> rise</c><00:20:53.679><c> these</c> violent
- crime is on the rise these violent crime is on the rise these leaders<00:20:54.440><c> understood</c
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Bill to ban semiautomatic military-style assault weapons 2/24/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- banning so-called assault weapons or large capacity magazines had an effect on mass shootings or violent
- banning so-called assault weapons or large capacity magazines had an effect on mass shootings or violent
- banning so-called assault weapons or large capacity magazines had an effect on mass shootings or violent
- banning so-called assault weapons or large capacity magazines had an effect on mass shootings or violent
- of repeat violent offenders who continue<00:42:23.359><c> to</c><00:42:23.599><c> get</c><00:42:23.760
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Government Contract Review Committee (12-9-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- who previously served as deputy director during a controversial investigation into allegations of sexual
- controversial investigation into<00:36:31.920><c> allegations</c><00:36:32.400><c> of</c><00:36:32.640><c> sexual
- </c><00:36:32.960><c> harassment</c> into allegations of sexual harassment into allegations of sexual
- So this bankruptcy predates that bankruptcy.
Summary:
The committee first established a quorum, approved the minutes from the November 10 meeting, and then approved a large agenda of contracts and related items, with the total agenda amount stated as $359,638,393.88. Most items were approved without objection, but two contracts were pulled for discussion: attorney general panel counsel contingency fee contracts and a Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission personal services contract.
For the attorney general’s office, Chris Lewis explained that the contracts were panel counsel contingency fee agreements, with 14 qualified awards from 16 applicants. He said the contracts were contingency-based, so no money would be paid unless cases were successful, and that the fee structure worked out to roughly 5% under the statutory waterfall. Senators asked about the size of the contracts, whether the terms were uniform, why no Kentucky firms were among the awardees, and how the public should understand the large dollar figures. Lewis said one Kentucky firm applied but was disqualified for a late submission, other Kentucky firms had inquired but did not apply, and local firms could still work with national firms on cases. The committee then approved the contracts.
The Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission contract drew more extensive questioning. Commission representatives said they had previously had a contract disapproved because the proper process was not followed, so they used an RFI process posted on the state and commission websites for at least three weeks. They received one applicant, a Kentucky firm, and set the rate at $125 per hour. Members questioned whether the commission was acting beyond its ethics mission, whether staff were helping draft complaints against legislators, and whether the commission was taking on a prosecutorial or human-resources role. The commission said its role is limited to enforcing the legislative code of ethics, providing advisory guidance, and following the formal complaint process; it does not pursue matters outside that code. Members also raised concerns about the earlier procurement misstep and the commission’s credibility, and the commission apologized, said it had corrected the process, and pledged to comply going forward. The committee then approved the contract.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Public Works and Highways (03/04/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- You'll see four projects there, four things that we had asked for initially, which was Hatchery Predator
- What is in the governor's budget is the Hatchery Predator control, the replacement of the 50-foot trailer
- The Hatchery Predator control— is this for the hatchery down in Nashua, or is that for all the hatcheries
- thank you Mr chairman the<05:09:46.760><c> um</c><05:09:47.040><c> Hatchery</c><05:09:47.558><c> predator
- </c><05:09:48.200><c> predator</c> the um Hatchery predator predator the um Hatchery predator predator
Summary:
The Department of Administrative Services presented its capital budget process and priorities, explaining that it maintains and operates 96 state buildings and uses annual facility walkthroughs, condition assessments, and rough cost estimates to rank projects for the governor’s capital budget. Officials described how requests are triaged, how the governor’s office and Public Works refine estimates, and how the resulting capital budget book serves as legislative intent for approved projects. They also noted that this year the governor’s office asked for estimates on all selected projects, which increased workload but reduced detail.
The department highlighted several requested projects, including $1.5 million for the ERP system sustainability fund, which officials said is critical because the state is upgrading its core financial, HR, and budget system to the cloud. Other priorities included courthouse HVAC and boiler work, brick repointing at the State House annex/main building, window replacement at the Spalding building, and elevator replacement on the hospital campus. Officials also said the governor’s proposed capital budget included fewer DAS projects than in past years and asked the committee to consider funding closer to historic levels.
The committee then reviewed lapse and reallocation items. DAS said most older projects are still in design, bid, or construction because projects now take four to six years rather than two to three, in part due to ARPA-related workload and post-COVID construction backlogs. Members discussed lapsing $81,000 from the completed Spalding roof project and redirecting small remaining balances from several 2019 projects toward the Hillsboro County South cell block project through the Capital Project Overview Committee. Officials also confirmed ARPA-funded projects are expected to be completed before the December 2026 deadline and explained that the ERP system is the main state IT exception outside DOIT’s usual centralized control, though it still requires DOIT consultation and approval.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jan 17th, 2025
California Assembly Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- King made a journey to India as he learned more about how to use non-violence and non-violent non-cooperation
- It was not, you know, bringing about violent revolt against others, but really, you know, being that,
- He would be mortified to see the racism that exists in its most violent and flagrant forms, both in person
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- If that's the case, I'm all for getting violent offenders off the street.
- If that's the case, I'm all for getting violent offenders off the street.
- If they're convicted of this certain list of violent charges, they can be accepted.
- And if they're the most violent in our society, then they just ain't ready.
- Specifically, a 64% reduction in violent parole violations within the first six months.
Committee:
House Administration of Criminal Justice
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Natural Resources & Energy (2-12-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- I've spent my career doing this work, and I think I probably predate just about everybody except maybe
- career doing this work, and I think I career doing this work, and I think I probably<01:06:51.800><c> predate
- </c><01:06:52.560><c> just</c><01:06:52.840><c> about</c><01:06:53.120><c> everybody</c> probably predate
- just about everybody probably predate just about everybody except<01:06:53.800><c> maybe</c><01:06:54.080
Summary:
The committee met for an initial natural resources hearing with a quorum present and introductory housekeeping, including prayer, roll call, and recognition of guests. Chair Smith outlined ground rules for questions and then invited Kentucky Power and American Electric Power representatives to the table to discuss a proposed plan involving the Mitchell Power Plant and future generation needs in Eastern Kentucky.
Witnesses Cindy Wiseman, Alex Vaughn, and AEP CEO Bill Fehrman said the company’s goals are to stabilize and lower rates, reduce rate volatility, and expand generation in the Commonwealth. They explained that Kentucky Power seeks legislative authority to securitize its 50% interest in the Mitchell coal plant, describing securitization as a refinancing mechanism that would lower annual plant costs by about $34 million and help offset roughly one-third of the expected cost of adding new generation in Kentucky. They emphasized that the proposal is not intended to close Mitchell, and said Kentucky Power currently has no plan to divest its interest; the company still needs the plant to serve customers while it pursues additional dispatchable generation in Kentucky.
Members pressed the witnesses on the plant’s book value versus fair market value, whether the Mitchell interest had ever been assigned a nominal value, how any divestiture proceeds would be handled, whether Kentucky Power owns Wheeling Power, and how long Mitchell can continue operating. The company said it values Mitchell at net book value for accounting purposes, not fair market value, and explained that Wheeling Power is a separate AEP affiliate and that West Virginia affiliates have already proposed securitization of their share. Witnesses said Kentucky Power’s interest cannot technically operate past 2028 without additional environmental control investment, while the West Virginia side is depreciating through 2040. They also described the financing timeline, saying securitization would require enactment of legislation, a PSC financing order, bond issuance, and then parallel work to acquire or build new generation, with any reinvestment terms to be addressed through the regulatory process.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Chamber Meeting Mar 1st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Sexual offender, has a conviction of trafficking, has a felony or violent crime on the private property
- the first application approved, but they have a criminal record, sex offender, trafficking, felony violent
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Legislative Performance Audit Oversight Committee (06/06/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- It was for an audit that I think was in 2002 on sexual harassment within the prison.
- Which predates the requirement of any reporting, but they had gone through the whole process of answering
- ><00:57:10.960><c> in</c> think was in think was in 2002<00:57:13.119><c> on</c><00:57:13.680><c> sexual
Summary:
The meeting focused on the Legislative Budget Assistant audit of the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification’s response to 12 findings, especially those tied to mental health workforce licensure. The executive director said 10 findings were substantially resolved, one fully resolved, and one partially resolved, with most issues tied to ongoing rulemaking. He explained that the office regulates 61 professions, has limited rules-drafting staff, and is working through a long rulemaking process while also adapting to frequent statutory changes. The committee discussed the first finding on license portability/endorsement, which the director said was the office’s highest priority and had been implemented through universal recognition rules adopted in 2023.
Members asked detailed questions about how the office reviews other states’ licensing standards, whether it evaluates jurisdictions case-by-case or maintains a database, and how many jurisdictions qualify for endorsement in various professions. The director said the office initially reviewed all states and professions at once, now maintains and updates a list of substantially similar jurisdictions, and sometimes evaluates narrower jurisdictions such as counties, cities, or foreign countries. He noted that some professions, like nursing, have broad reciprocity, while others, including some mental health-related fields, vary widely and may have only a limited number of qualifying jurisdictions. He also said the office is exploring whether AI could help with research and tracking, though not with final verification.
The committee then turned to expedited licensure processing. The director said the office now handles examination, review, and issuance or denial based on board-set criteria, rather than requiring every board to review every application, which has sped up processing. He said delays still occur with criminal background checks and FBI fingerprint processing because of paper forms, federal involvement, and back-and-forth with the Department of Safety when releases are incomplete or incorrect. Members raised concerns about broader state process bottlenecks and asked whether legislation could help streamline the system. A legislator said he was already working on related background-check language for another agency and believed the current draft may satisfy FBI requirements.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Do we have any predators there that we don't need in certain places?
- And frankly, I think they've become predators to the disaster at that point, and we need to find a way
- I know that there have been families that have been called by these predators, saying, "I have your kid
- They work on violent crimes and try to identify bodies in cold cases.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- Unsuccessful. 75% more likely to be killed by their abuser if there ever was a signal that someone's violent
- It's a very violent crime and. I'm happy to vote yes on that today.
- Strangulation is a particularly violent crime.
Bills:
HB2947 , HB3257 , HB3264 , HB3834 , HB3940 , HB3944 , HB3979 , HB4003 , HB4118 , HB4326 , HB4346 , HB4421
Committee:
Senate Appropriations
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Sale and possession of ghost guns prohibited 3/24/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- and viable investigative leads for local, state, and federal law enforcement as they investigate violent
- I'd like to encourage the committee to avoid obscuring the fact that violent criminals are far more likely
- I'd like to encourage the committee to avoid obscuring the fact that violent criminals are far more likely
- Minnesota already has extensive criminal laws addressing violent offenses, illegal firearm possession
- </c><00:19:29.280><c> offenses,</c> laws addressing violent offenses, laws addressing violent offenses
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- These are not violent crimes against people or those sort of things, if that makes sense.
- These are not violent crimes against people or those sort of things, if that makes sense.
- </c> you know crime these are not violent you know crime these are not violent crimes<01:14:36.320><c
- </c> and they may end up becoming a violent and they may end up becoming a violent situation.<01:14:57.280
- </c><01:15:18.640><c> crime</c><01:15:19.440><c> but</c> isn't necessarily a violent crime but isn't
Committee:
House Ways and Means
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 048 Mar 3rd, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> This bill will not deter violent This bill will not deter violent offenders,<01:34:39.040><c> but
- At a time when violent crime continues to plague Colorado, this bill highlights the misguided policy
- At a time when violent crime a firearm.
- </c> failure to meaningfully confront violent failure to meaningfully confront violent crime.
- </c> ...ones going out and committing violent crimes with firearms.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Service Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Public Service
Transcript Highlights:
- first responders are increasingly asked to do more: respond to more disturbing calls, deal with more violent
- Officers are 25 times more likely to die of cardiac disease than from the violent actions of a suspect
- pension for police officers, firefighters, and certain emergency medical personnel who are injured in violent
- They respond to violent incidents, public safety threats, and mental health emergencies on our college
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Public Service
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Public Service heard testimony on a wide range of bills affecting public safety and public sector employees, with most of the discussion focused on expanding occupational presumptions and retirement protections for police, firefighters, correction officers, court officers, and other public employees. Testifiers from the Legislature, police and fire unions, the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, PERAC, and the AFL-CIO generally supported bills covering cancer presumptions, contagious disease presumptions, Parkinson’s disease for firefighters, PTSD-related disability and death, and equity for post-certified police officers under the Heart Law. Several speakers emphasized that these conditions are linked to long-term occupational exposure, that current law leaves out agencies such as UMass police, Environmental Police, DMH police, and other state or campus police, and that the bills would correct gaps in existing benefits and presumptions.
Representative Colleen Garry and Senator Joan Lovely spoke in support of expanding the Heart Law and cancer presumption protections, while Representative and Senator sponsors for the firefighter and PTSD bills described the health risks faced by first responders and urged favorable reports. PFFM and MassCOP representatives argued that firefighters and police officers face toxic exposures, infectious disease risks, and chronic stress, and cited studies and other states’ laws in support of the measures. PERAC testified that the PTSD accidental disability bill would clarify confusing case law and update filing requirements so traumatic incidents can be used in applications even when PTSD develops later, while still requiring medical review and retirement board approval.
Additional testimony came from correction officers and trial court officers seeking comparable disability and pension protections, including a bill to extend a 100% disability pension to correction officers injured in violent attacks and a bill to treat court officers more like police and firefighters when injured in the line of duty. The committee asked a few clarifying questions, including about whether the PTSD bill would address post-retirement claims and about the impact of excluding “forgotten” police agencies. No votes were taken during the hearing, and the committee ultimately adjourned after hearing all scheduled testimony.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine the rise of Antisemitism and supporting older Americans. Apr 30th, 2025 at 02:30 pm
Aging (Special) Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- intelligence desk, a team of four analysts whose main goal is to detect, investigate, and disrupt violent
- We've thwarted violent neo-Nazis, ISIS-inspired individuals, and other variants of anti-Semites with
- but rather on credible threats that meet a higher threshold, including an explicit expression of violent
- synagogues, schools, and community centers, and they are increasingly targets of harassment, vandalism, violent
Committee:
Senate Aging (Special) Committee
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Emergency Management Committee Feb 24th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- While they are relatively rare compared to other violent crimes, Their impact is immediate, devastating
- Statewide data shows that violent crime remains nearly 10% higher than before the pandemic.
- Statewide data shows that violent crime remains nearly 10% higher than before the pandemic.
- Sheriff Cooper yesterday talking about the early release of an elderly gentleman who violently kidnapped
- we have partnered with the Office of Emergency Services with grants to perform unified response to violent
Summary:
The committee held a hearing on active and mass shootings in California, focusing on prevention, response, training, communications, and gaps in preparedness across law enforcement, schools, campuses, fire, EMS, and state agencies. Opening remarks emphasized the frequency and impact of gun violence, the need for faster coordinated response, and the importance of learning from recent tragedies such as the Stockton-area mass shooting described by Sheriff Patrick Withrow. The first panel included representatives from police, sheriff, and campus public safety agencies, who discussed incident command, interoperable communications, next-generation 911, threat assessment, emergency notification systems, and the value of joint drills and cross-agency planning.
Witnesses also highlighted differences in training and authority across jurisdictions, especially for private university public safety departments versus public campus police. Campus representatives said they rely heavily on municipal law enforcement for armed response, while also using run-hide-fight protocols, text alerts, surveillance, and threat assessment teams. Members raised concerns about standardized training, after-action reviews, mental health resources, school resource officers, and whether campus safety plans and drills are sufficiently consistent or workable. Sheriff Withrow argued that early intervention and accountability are being weakened by well-intentioned laws, while other witnesses stressed prevention through relationships, diversion, and coordinated support services.
The second panel from Cal OES, the Department of Education, POST, and EMSA described statewide systems and standards. Cal OES outlined its Reduce the Risk initiative, gun violence restraining orders, mutual aid, unified command, after-action reporting, and nonprofit security grants. The Department of Education explained California’s statutory school safety framework, annual safety plans, regulated armed assailant drills, and local flexibility, while acknowledging compliance gaps and the need for more mental health support. POST described the new requirement for 16 hours of standardized active shooter training for recruits and ongoing local training options. EMSA explained its role in medical response and terrorism training standards. No votes or formal actions were taken during the hearing.