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FL
Transcript Highlights:
- The commissioner is an AV-rated securities attorney with more than 30 years of legal experience and a
- He founded a securities transactional litigation law firm, which he ran until he became commissioner
- Prior to that, he served as a securities and transactional litigation attorney in the private sector.
- Senate, as well as the CIA, DIA, FBI, SEC, Homeland Security, and the Justice Department.
- And my husband's Social Security, my Social Security, and my retirement, I can't survive.
Summary:
The committee first took up SB 794, as amended by a late-filed strike-all, which would require a human being to make insurance claim denial decisions and prohibit artificial intelligence from being the sole basis for a denial. The sponsor said the bill was intended to preserve human oversight while allowing innovation in claims processing. Public testimony included support from the Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate and the Florida Medical Association, along with one speaker urging additional protections for homeowners. The committee adopted the strike-all and reported SB 794 favorably with committee substitutes.
Members then heard SB 134, which removes the $500 threshold on the sales tax exemption for bullion, making sales of gold, silver, and platinum bullion fully exempt and eliminating certain dealer documentation requirements. Supporters argued the change would reduce a regressive tax and help consumers preserve savings; the sponsor estimated a revenue impact of about $300,000. The bill was reported favorably. The committee also adopted a strike-all on SB 888, which directs the Office of Insurance Regulation to create a more consumer-friendly homeowners insurance website with premium comparison information, market data, rate filing access, and educational resources. The sponsor and Leader Boyd said the goal was to improve transparency and help consumers navigate a stabilizing market. SB 888 was reported favorably with committee substitutes.
The final bill heard was SB 1578, covering mammograms and supplemental breast cancer screenings. The sponsor said it would expand coverage requirements in ACA plans and private insurance policies, including annual mammograms for women ages 40 to 50 and supplemental screening coverage, while noting Medicaid already provides these services. The Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate waived in support, and the bill was reported favorably. After the bills, the committee held a lengthy panel discussion on gold and silver as legal tender and transactional money, with testimony from officials from Utah and Florida, industry representatives, and advocacy groups. Panelists discussed constitutional authority, consumer protections, depository oversight, taxation issues, and possible transactional platforms for precious metals. No further action was taken after the discussion, and the committee adjourned.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- The more secure we are in our food, the more secure we are as a nation.
- Food security is national security.
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FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-02-11 (12:00PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Committee substitute for Senate Bill 52, a bill to be entitled an act relating to security services at
- using professional, licensed security personnel.
- Some houses of worship that can't afford hiring an outside security service are now using volunteers.
- from the Class D and Class G licensing required of professional security services.
- requirements as a paid security service.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development Jan 14th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Our military bases need that airspace for our really critical national security initiatives.
- Eggland, Tyndall, McDill, our military bases need that airspace for our really critical national security
- This project will ultimately secure $20 million in federal construction funding once complete.
- You think about border security and a whole host of other missions.
- You think about border security and a whole host of other missions.
Summary:
The committee met to hear the Governor’s proposed budget for the Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development silo and to consider one bill. The Governor’s Office outlined a $117.4 billion state budget, including $18.3 billion for the TED area, with major allocations for the Department of Transportation, Commerce, Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, State, Military Affairs, Emergency Management, and the Florida State Guard. Agency heads then presented their priorities, including housing and disaster recovery funds at Commerce; pay, vehicles, aviation, and data systems at Highway Safety; facility modernization, recruitment, retention, and maintenance at Military Affairs; election audit, conservation lab, and historic preservation funding at State; transportation, aviation, seaport, and safety investments at DOT; and emergency response, flood mitigation, grant systems, and alerting at Emergency Management. Members asked questions about Visit Florida’s private match, FHP’s role in immigration enforcement and body cameras, National Guard deployment tempo and staffing, State Guard staffing and facilities, arts grant rules, rail funding, and the number of detainees at the Everglades detention site.
Several notable positions were expressed during questioning. Visit Florida said it met and exceeded its private match requirement and described the match as important to ensuring value from public dollars. The Highway Patrol said its aviation assets have been used more heavily in immigration enforcement and that in-vehicle camera systems were a higher priority than body cameras at present. The National Guard and State Guard both emphasized heavy operational demands, readiness needs, and the importance of additional funding for facilities, personnel, and equipment. The Department of State said its audit funding would help counties move to automated post-election audits and that its arts grant rule changes were intended to create more consistent scoring rather than reduce access.
The committee then took up CS/SB 48 on accessory dwelling units. The bill requires local governments to allow property owners to voluntarily create ADUs, preserves homestead treatment for the primary residence portion, limits parking restrictions, and extends density bonus incentives to housing for military families receiving basic housing allowance. An amendment was adopted removing reusable tenant screening reports and clarifying that compliant ADUs are allowed by right without a separate hearing or permit. Testimony from the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association supported the bill, especially the long-term rental requirement, as a tool to help workforce housing. The committee reported the bill favorably by a roll call vote, and then adjourned.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Water and Natural Resources Nov 18th, 2025
Water & Natural Resources Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- We understand that's for national security, but the same basic premise applies: microgrids are a really
- Secure Association Concilio and New Mexico Secure Commission members and Land-Grant Council, which some
- Secure communities on a sound footing in addressing much-needed infrastructure projects.
- from unfunded capital outlay requests, ICICI, IP data, and the past two years of requests to the SECURE
- Selecting secure projects.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Indian Affairs Nov 13th, 2025
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- One more question about: is there any budget for security, and is this something that could be added
- into the budget to help with security?
- , although really our security officer. are not law enforcement, so we're very clear with them.
- , and then a capital outlay for security. upgrades.
- And so there's two different sides that we work on in terms of security.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
Legislative Finance Sub Committee Oct 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- So, how much is, um, do we have a good portion or percentage that's going into security? Mr.
- Security projects, we've had from the capital outlay bill this previous session, HB 450.
- There isn't a designated amount indicating how much of that is for security.
- I don't even know where to start with security.
- But the schools for security? Mr. Chair, Madam, yes, you are correct.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- That includes Space Power, Generate Grid Services, and Power Secure, alongside Enchanted Rock.
- That includes Base Power, Generate Grid Services, and Power Secure, alongside Enchanted Rock, to testify
- Easy, safe, secure. Yeah.
- They're saying it's easy, it's convenient, it's safe, it's secure. We can do it in this modern age.
- We are very reduces their any security risk that they might be worried about.
Keywords:
electric generation, reliability, ERCOT, Public Utility Commission, penalties, performance requirements, energy policy, construction contracts, compensatory damages, government delays, contractor, legislation, nonprofit donor privacy, membership lists, supporter confidentiality, volunteer privacy, association rights, public records exemption, Texas Public Information Act, government transparency
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce heard Senate Bill 2021 by Senator Johnson, as substituted, on distributed energy resources (DERs). Johnson said the bill was intended to create a regulatory framework for DERs and virtual power plants, address interconnection and registration issues, and prevent regulatory capture as the industry grows. Testimony was split: Texas Electric Cooperatives asked for clarification so co-ops would not be unintentionally excluded from owning or operating DERs; AECT supported the bill as providing needed rules and customer protections; TABA, Texas Solar and Storage Association, Sierra Club, Texas Solar Energy Society, and several others opposed it or raised concerns that it was too utility-centric, imposed red tape, and could burden homeowners and small businesses with registration and interconnection requirements. Johnson repeatedly said the bill was not meant to stop rooftop solar or backup systems and that he was open to specific redlines and further changes. SB 2021 was left pending after testimony.
The committee then took up Senate Bill 2330 by Senator Parker, which would end government payroll deduction for dues to certain public employee organizations, while exempting first responders under Chapters 143 and 147 and making other conforming changes in a committee substitute. Parker argued the bill was about government neutrality, transparency, and employee freedom from coercion, and said organizations can collect dues directly using modern payment methods. Supporters from Texas Public Policy Foundation, Texas Business Coalition, Freedom Foundation, ABC Texas, and Texans for Fiscal Responsibility said taxpayer-funded payroll systems should not be used to collect dues for private organizations, especially ones involved in political activity. Opponents, including ATPE, Texas Classroom Teachers Association, Texas Public Employees Association, and correctional employees, said payroll deduction is a convenient, secure service that helps professional associations and employee groups, and argued the bill would burden teachers and other public employees.
Several witnesses and senators focused on the bill’s exemptions and whether it treated teachers differently from first responders. Senator Menendez questioned why some public employees were excluded while others were not, and a Houston police union representative said he moved from opposing to supporting the bill after being told the substitute would preserve meet-and-confer deductions under Chapters 143 and 147. Senator Parker closed by saying the bill was not meant to eliminate associations or payroll deduction entirely, only to remove the state as a middleman. SB 2330 was left pending, and the committee then recessed subject to call.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Securing justice for Texans, 4. Protecting Texans from fraud, waste, and abuse, and finally...
- Securing justice for Texans. 4. Protecting Texans from fraud, waste, and abuse. 5.
- Just this past July, I was able to secure a $1.4 billion settlement with Meta to stop the company's practice
- with President Trump a **$10 to $15 to $18 billion** refund for what the state of Texas has done to secure
- We'll certainly do everything we can to support discussions around securing those funds and ensuring
Bills:
SB 1
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, January 7, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- health care plan we wanted, we secured health care plan we wanted, we secured protections<01:15:
- proud that my office was able to secure proud that my office was able to secure $8<02:23:43.920>
- Speaker, this energy security. Mr.
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is worsening drought, water security is worsening drought, water security is - No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance May 14th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- the lens of national security and military readiness.
- This is a critical project for national security and military readiness as well.
- And in fact, I go back to Mayor: The purpose of that reservoir, water security for eastern New Mexico
- Water security equals mission readiness and lethality and therefore national security.
- Water security matters in eastern New Mexico because of the future of my community.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- We need to prevent these devices from becoming a tidal wave of e-waste, a security problem, or both.
- And if it wasn't for Social Security, she would not have an income.
- It does not regulate detention decisions, security procedures, or custody determinations.
- And inspections must not unreasonably interfere with security functions. In GEO v.
- And inspections must not unreasonably interfere with security functions. In GEO v.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- We're providing $125 million for food security infrastructure to help... $125 million for food security
- It's supporting flood control, drought tolerance, biodiversity, carbon storage, and food security.
- Food Security Infrastructure Grant, 2511-0124, and Healthy Soils, 2000-70-82.
- The Climate Smart Agriculture Program, 2511-70-22, Food Security Infrastructure Grant, 2511-0124, and
- The Food Security Infrastructure Grant Program, line item 251-1101-24, has been critically important
Summary:
The hearing focused on the Healey-Driscoll administration’s Mass Ready Act, a $3 billion environmental bond bill. Administration officials said the bill would fund climate resilience, clean water, land conservation, parks, PFAS remediation, food security infrastructure, and coastal and inland flood protection, while also streamlining permitting for housing, restoration, and other resilience projects. They emphasized that the bond authorizes spending but does not itself obligate it, and said the proposal includes deauthorizations as housekeeping. Committee members asked about the new Resilience Revolving Fund, flood and drought management, MVP funding, land acquisition, Chapter 61 right-of-first-refusal changes, salt marsh carbon sequestration, and how the bill would help smaller municipalities and offset expected federal funding losses. Officials said the revolving fund would be managed through EEA and the Clean Water Trust, with criteria aimed at directing aid to communities most in need, and noted that drought issues would continue to be handled through existing DEP and drought commission tools.
Several committee members and witnesses discussed specific policy provisions, including flood disclosure requirements for homebuyers and renters, expanded authority for regional planning and small-town access to grants, and permitting reforms that would exempt or expedite certain environmental restoration and priority housing projects from more time-consuming review processes. Administration witnesses defended the reforms as a way to achieve the same environmental outcomes faster and with more certainty, while some advocates argued the bill should go further, especially on Chapter 91 and restoration permitting. The administration also described investments in DCR facilities, water and wastewater systems, open space, agricultural easements, and a new focus on blue carbon and salt marsh restoration.
Public testimony largely supported the bill. Mass Audubon, the Trustees of Reservations, the Environmental League of Massachusetts, The Nature Conservancy, MAPC, the Massachusetts Municipal Association, municipal officials, and others praised the bill’s resilience, conservation, and water infrastructure investments. Some witnesses urged additional funding for land protection, coastal resilience, buyouts, and restoration, and several called for stronger or simpler permitting reforms. Municipal witnesses from Boston, Beckett, Beverly, Conway, and regional planning organizations stressed the need for flexible financing, especially for small and rural communities facing costly infrastructure and climate adaptation projects. No votes were taken during the portion of the hearing provided; the committee heard testimony and asked questions before moving on to additional panels.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Friday, November 21, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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checks expecting their social security checks expecting their social security - Let's talk about your Social Security.
- Let's talk about your Social Security.
- Let's talk about your Social Security.
- Social Security.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 01/22/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
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TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V Feb 26th, 2025
Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V
Transcript Highlights:
- staff, and 16.1 million for technology improvements to streamline in-person services, including a secure
- Item six provides an overview of DPS border security historical funding, which continues on to the next
- Partners on the Joint Terrorism Task Force on, uh, national security threats with these assets also.
- That we're required to have the, the, the cellular access to, to, to feed that to the Border Security
- Then they, it, it was very organized and it turned out Homeland Security Investigations, HSI already
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, June 5, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- cuts at the Social Security cuts at the Social Security Administration<02:12:24.719>
have - sure that there is change and to secure sure that there is change and to secure her<07:23:30.080
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Administration Nuclear Security Administration Nuclear Security Administration
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- That creates a Protective Services Unit within the Capital Security Division of the State Patrol.
- That creates a Protective Services Unit within the Capital Security Division of the State Patrol.
- <01:08:36.600>
bill <01:08:37.080>later, safety and security bill later, safety and - <01:10:10.720>
locations cover three new security locations cover three new security locations - to staff those personal security details.
Summary:
The Senate Finance Committee took up Senate File 203, a broad housing bill authored by Senator Port. Port described the measure as a package including $50 million in housing infrastructure bonds, MHFA administrative and investment reforms, expanded Greater Minnesota infrastructure grants for workforce housing, manufactured housing bill of rights provisions, and a private equity restriction on large investors buying certain single-family homes starting in 2026. Fiscal analyst Eric Olafson walked through the spreadsheet and said the $50 million bond authorization would add debt service costs over time, with the total estimated debt service for that authorization at about $75.8 million. Senator Draheim raised concern about the growing cost of bonding and said the state should rely more on cash than debt.
The committee then adopted two technical amendments. The A21 amendment, described by Port as correcting manufactured housing bill of rights language, aligning MHFA board meeting language, conforming a lived-experience exemption to federal law, and fixing a capacity-building grants reference, was approved without objection. The A20 amendment, offered by Draheim, was also adopted and would give the legislature more control and visibility over MHFA funding and how quickly program dollars are reinvested after agency operations.
Members then debated Draheim’s A22 amendment, which would delete the manufactured home park provisions from the bill. Draheim and several Republicans argued the section could function like rent control, could burden good park owners, and might have unintended consequences for park operations and purchases. Port, Senator Boldon’s allies, and other supporters said the provisions were needed to protect residents from rent spikes and private equity abuses in manufactured home communities, where residents own their homes but not the land. The transcript ends during that debate, before any final disposition on A22 or the bill itself is shown.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/25
State Government Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- uh regarding collateral pledge to secure uh regarding collateral pledge to secure loans<00:59:50.720
- He heads up our security navigator program.
- He heads up our security navigator program.
- He heads up our security navigator program.
- was intact, physical security was intact, and the like.
Keywords:
Compensation Council, salaries, state officials, judicial compensation, legislative process, public funds, misuse, law enforcement, accountability, state government, legislative auditor, compliance, transparency, retirement benefits, health insurance, dependents, state employees, Medicare, legislative studies, government oversight
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Council Jan 19th, 2026 at 01:39 pm
Legislative Council
Transcript Highlights:
- We're going to start with a session security report from State Police Major Alexander Rodriguez.
- We're actually going to be up a few officers this year from last year, having identified a couple of security
- This will include bomb sweeps and other security as necessary. Any questions for City Police?
- drastic technological upgrade from the kiosks that were there previously, and it also eliminates the security
- issues with those very tall towers that were blocking the line of vision for security.