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NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs Jan 27th, 2026 at 09:00 am
House Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- And then we also had to get a loan from the Water Trust Board.
- The only reason that we got water in the Rio Chama was because Albuquerque was not getting its water.
- The rest of them are all using cobblestones and sod or whatever they can to redirect water.
- The rest of them are all using cobblestones and sod or whatever they can to redirect water.
- Are acequias currently eligible right now for those water projects that you are aware of?
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- ; HB 2356, greenhouse gas program; HB 2472, water; HB 2473, water; HB 2480, waste program; HB 2485, plant
- resources; HB 2513, water; HB 2514, adequate water supplies; HB 2515, state land; HB 2516, watershed
- cultural and rule affairs; HB 2544, utility and water; HB 2545, multi-family property and water; HB 2547
- , well drilling and water; HB 2549, groundwater resources; HB 2551, Office of Energy and Water; HB 2552
- , energy management; HB 2560, energy and water and government; HB 2560, restaurants and water.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> increased water increased water consumption<00:48:34.960><c> under</c><00:48:35.200><c> current<
- hogs causing both water pollution and water depletion.
- </c> also water Hogs causing both water also water Hogs causing both water pollution<01:03:04.680><c>
- </c> our increased electric bills or water our increased electric bills or water bills<01:05:38.200><
- With respect to water, it would require a certification from the DNR that the water that's going to be
Committee:
Senate Taxes
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> curious if um you know how the water curious if um you know how the water quality<00:38:58.079><
- on the air we breathe and the water that on the air we breathe and the water that we<00:48:42.000><c>
- causing both water depletion and water pollution.
- causing both water depletion and water pollution.
- causing both water depletion and water pollution.
Committee:
House Taxes
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Emergency Management Committee Jul 14th, 2025
Emergency Management
Transcript Highlights:
- Public water agencies are tasked with providing the public with safe and reliable drinking water.
- water.
- water infrastructure needs to best serve the community.
- Water Agencies have additional considerations. including maintaining water quality, financial constraints
- This bill has no mandates for water infrastructure.
Committee:
House Emergency Management
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Business and Commerce (Part I) Apr 1st, 2025
Business & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- Speaking of water, this is why we're concerned about this.
- And reliable water funding is a top priority for TechSWIM.
- On water projects, delays are almost inevitable.
- We will live longer without food and water.
- And being also a ranch girl, I know what it takes to get water.
Bills:
SB75 , SB715 , SB776 , SB1299 , SB1405 , SB1968 , SB2021 , SB2077 , SB2148 , SB2321 , SB2330 , SB2411
Committee:
Senate Business & Commerce
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
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee Mar 24th, 2026
Natural Resources and Water
Transcript Highlights:
- The Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee will come to order. Good morning.
- But with me today is Rick Ortega from the Grasslands Water District and Mike Lines from the California
- I'm the general manager of the Grasslands Water District, the sponsor of SB 1108.
- would improve coordination in an area of the San Joaquin Valley that lacks a comprehensive land and water
- That adjourns our hearing today of the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water.
Committee:
Senate Natural Resources and Water
Summary:
The Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee heard several measures focused on conservation, wildlife access, and coastal protection. SB 1108 would create the Grasslands Ecological Area Conservancy in Merced County to coordinate land, water, habitat, and wildlife corridor protection in the largest remaining wetland/grassland complex west of the Mississippi. Supporters, including the Grasslands Water District and Audubon California, emphasized the area’s importance to migratory birds, groundwater sustainability, and voluntary conservation easements; there was no opposition. The committee members generally praised the bill’s regional coordination and ecological significance.
The committee also heard SB 1021, which would direct the Fish and Game Commission to create a program allowing youth with physician-certified life-threatening illnesses to participate in hunting and fishing opportunities under structured supervision. The author and supporters described it as a compassionate, tightly limited program with conservation safeguards, hunter education requirements, reporting, and a sunset. There was no opposition, and members expressed support for the bill’s intent.
SB 949 would designate the Santa Cruz Mountains as a resource of statewide significance, with an emphasis on biodiversity, watershed protection, wildfire resilience, public access, working lands, and collaboration with tribes and private landowners. Support came from Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, Sempervirens Fund, and several local and conservation organizations; no opposition was heard. The committee also considered SJR 12, which urges the federal government to remove California from proposed offshore oil and gas leasing plans and calls for stronger environmental review and public engagement. Supporters cited spill risks, coastal economic harm, and prior local and state opposition to offshore drilling. All measures were approved by the committee, with the bills and resolution moving forward on recorded votes, and the consent calendar items were also adopted.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee Mar 24th, 2026
Natural Resources and Water
Transcript Highlights:
- The Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee will come to order. Good morning.
- But with me today is Rick Ortega from the Grasslands Water District and Mike Lines from the California
- I'm the general manager of the Grasslands Water District, the sponsor of SB 1108.
- would improve coordination to an area of the San Joaquin Valley that lacks a comprehensive land and water
- That adjourns our hearing today of the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water.
Committee:
Senate Natural Resources and Water
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
March 12, 2025 - 10:15 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- service to City B, but those water facilities... ...number provided water service to City B, but those
- water facilities were actually in City B.
- The 25 percent is specifically related to the municipal water and sewer.
- So I'm in a community that's getting a surcharge on water and sewer.
- Secondly, is the surcharge as it relates to water and wastewater.
Summary:
The Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee met with a quorum present and considered five bills. The first, PCS for HB 987, was an honorary transportation facility designation bill naming several roads and an overpass for fallen officers, a military service member, and first responders. An amendment added the Sheriff Gary S. Borders Memorial Highway designation in Lake County. Members offered supportive remarks, and the bill passed 17-0.
The committee then heard HB 703, which would require authorities such as FDOT or local governments to pay the costs when they require telecom providers to relocate infrastructure from public rights-of-way. Support came from Charter Communications, Associated Industries of Florida, and Florida Internet and Television, with discussion focused on the communication services tax and the cost burden of relocations. The bill passed unanimously 18-0. HB 1523 followed, addressing municipal utilities serving customers outside their boundaries by requiring public meetings, annual reporting, limits on transfers to general revenue, and reduced or eliminated surcharges for outside-boundary customers. Municipal utility representatives opposed parts of the bill, citing rural impacts, debt obligations, and the need for a glide path, while supporters argued for transparency and fairness to ratepayers outside municipal boundaries. An amendment changed a reporting date to January 31, 2026, and the bill passed 14-4.
HB 867 established a legal framework for commuter rail operations along Florida’s coastal corridor, including insurance and indemnification arrangements for Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties using the Florida East Coast Railway right-of-way. An amendment clarified that Florida East Coast Railway and Brightline are not state entities and do not have sovereign immunity unless expressly provided by law. The bill passed 18-0. Finally, HB 1137 clarified a prior energy preemption law by adding boards, agencies, commissions, and authorities of counties and municipal corporations to the entities covered, aimed at preventing discriminatory energy-source practices by an appointed board. Public testimony included support from the Florida Natural Gas Association and the Florida Home Builders Association and opposition from Florida Student Power. Members noted the bill was a cleanup measure, and it passed favorably.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- You know, in my district we have a massive shortage of water right now and a lot of commissioners and
- Certainly, our houses don't sell if there isn't water to them.
- the development community or whoever finding new water sources and bringing it in.
- I'm assuming utility companies, power companies, water companies have to basically do the same.
- , sewer, which we talked a little bit about water services earlier.
Committee:
House Land & Resource Management
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- You know, in my district we have a massive shortage of water right now and...
- Um, our houses don't sell if there isn't water to them. And so in areas where...
- community or whoever to find new water sources and bring it in.
- But there's other authority related to the provision of water, sewer, utilities.
- Is it water, sewer, which we talked a little bit about water services earlier? Thank you.
Committee:
House Land & Resource Management
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This could be someone with a strong water safety background.
- There's a lot of reasons you need to respect natural water.
- So, uh, your water ski camp, which is a, probably a great place for kids to enrich or even grow in water
- And we look at water differently, especially in natural water.
- So, so we've got a water ski camp. What other kind of camps?
Committee:
House Public Health
Keywords:
youth camp, safety regulations, advisory committee, child welfare, health standards, summer camp, camp safety, child abuse reporting, child neglect, mandatory reporting, background check, criminal history check, sex offender registry, CPR training, first aid, public health, child protection, camp operator, camp counselor, Health and Safety Code
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm always worried about our water wells. I've always...
- Senator Cloud, Patrick Rye, Louisiana Chemistry Association, I believe that water systems, water wellheads
- Water intake structures, it's under B, triple I, water intake structures and water treatment facilities
- That might cover it, but we might want to add water tanks and water storage for public consumption, something
- And then I see water control structures, including floodgates.
Committee:
Senate Judiciary C
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (02/11/2025)
Energy and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- or in water service, surface water, national forest, and surface waters designated natural, so on, which
- or in water service, surface water, national forest, and surface waters designated natural, so on, which
- or in water service, surface water, national forest, and surface waters designated natural, so on, which
- or in water service, surface water, national forest, and surface waters designated natural, so on, which
- or in water service, surface water, national forest, and surface waters designated natural, so on, which
Committee:
Senate Energy and Natural Resources
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- That was fairness between domestic water users in the unincorporated counties and the cities.
- Fairness between domestic water users and counties and their long-permitted non-domestic water user neighbors
- It clarifies for purposes of only this statute and only the exemption for the domestic water use for
- out and water the grass.
- out and water the grass.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Committee Mar 17th, 2026
Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure
Transcript Highlights:
- So in the process of building these things, they don't work with uh with agencies on any runoff water
- on any runoff water runoff or soil.<00:14:15.279><c> Uh</c> soil.
- And there has to be some form of regulation authority over these projects to make sure that storm water
- :39:14.000><c> go</c> that could damage the water to go that could damage the water to go through<00:
- </c><00:39:16.960><c> to</c> cause things to fall into the water to cause things to fall into the water
Keywords:
HB542, district attorney, prosecutor, supernumerary district attorney, Employees' Retirement System, ERS, Alabama retirement, public employee retirement, pension, retirement benefits, post-retirement employment, salary cap, dual participation, double dipping, District Attorneys' Plan, assistant district attorney, deputy district attorney, state pension, survivor benefits, Office of Prosecution Services
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Resources, Recreation and Development (02/11/2026)
Resources, Recreation and Development
Transcript Highlights:
- as our drinking water.
- to the well water board.
- bottles, plastic water bottles.
- plastic water bottles.
- of um of uh water bottles uh plastic<04:15:14.720><c> water</c><04:15:15.040><c> bottles.
Committee:
House Resources, Recreation and Development
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> this change, the Aurora East Range Water this change, the Aurora East Range Water Project<00:46:
- </c><00:46:53.960><c> Project</c> to the Aurora East Range Water Project to the Aurora East Range Water
- </c> Aurora and chair of the East Range Water Aurora and chair of the East Range Water Board,<00:47:05.560
- ><c> to</c> quality than the existing water uh to quality than the existing water uh to the<00:48:24.200
- </c> this project East Range Water Board? this project East Range Water Board?
Committee:
Senate Capital Investment
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
AEN-WLA-EIG, AEN-WLA-EDT, AEN-GVO, AEN DEFER, AEN, AEN-EDU Public Hearings 02-18-2026
Agriculture and Environment
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, people don't know, but solar does take a little bit of water. Not a lot of water.
- Uh, people don't know, but solar does take a little bit of water. Not a lot of water.
- Uh, with AEN, Water, Land, and DDT.
- We always run out of water on that one. We always run out of water on that one. one. one.
- </c> to water plants come to without water. to water plants come to without water.
Committee:
Senate Agriculture and Environment
Keywords:
workforce development, agriculture, biosecurity, pilot program, Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity, University of Hawaii, Leeward Community College, DHRD, training, apprenticeship, career pathways, credentialing, job training, internship, hands-on experience, state employment, workforce pipeline, agricultural jobs, biosecurity jobs, general fund appropriation
Summary:
The committees first heard SB 2371, which would prioritize lease offers on agrivoltaics parcels for beginning farmers, require annual compliance reports to DAB, authorize penalties for noncompliance, and allow solar facilities on certain agricultural lands. DAB, the State Energy Office, PUC, and Hawaii Farm Bureau generally supported the intent, while OPPSD recommended amendments to preserve agricultural lease affordability and strengthen food-production language. Members questioned whether the bill would meaningfully encourage solar on ag lands, whether beginning farmers would have enough information to use such parcels, and how the bill would interact with Land Use Commission review. The Farm Bureau said agrivoltaics remains challenging and largely in pilot form, and noted the Mililani project as a promising example of dual use. The committees voted to pass SB 2371 with amendments, with one member expressing a preference that it be opened to all farmers rather than only beginning farmers.
The next measure, SB 2800, appropriates funds to DAB, DLNR, and ADC for acquisition, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems. All testifying agencies and the Farm Bureau supported the bill, and members pressed them for estimates of needed funding and the condition of existing systems. DAB cited major repair needs, including Waimea, Molokai, Kahuku, and Kawailoa, and said its backlog could total roughly $65 million; ADC estimated about $35 million for several systems; and DLNR said its current needs for three systems were about $35 million, with the largest cost tied to piping in Kekaha. The committees amended the bill to defer its effective date to July 1, 2050 and to blank out the appropriation amounts in the bill text, with the agencies’ requested amounts to be included in the committee report for consideration. SB 2800 then passed in AEN, Water and Land, and EIG.
The final measure discussed was SB 2718, a food hub pilot program beginning in 2028 that would require state departments and UH to source 30% of certain food purchases from local agricultural products, create a nutrition- and ʻāina-based school program, and have DAT partner with a regional aggregator for Native Hawaiian staple crops. DAT, DOH, the Farm Bureau, Food Plus Policy Group, HAPA, and others supported the bill’s intent, while the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation opposed it, saying it is already struggling to meet the current local procurement percentage and faces procurement and quantity barriers, especially for staple items used daily. The testimony focused on whether agencies could realistically meet the higher local purchasing target and whether smaller farms could supply the needed volumes.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee (4-28-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:26:00.400><c> loan</c> Authority to present three uh water loan Authority to present three uh
- water loan requirements<00:26:01.440><c> requiring</c><00:26:01.919><c> action.
- of 3-inch water line along Hilltop Drive will also be replaced with new Class 250 SDR17 pipe.
- </c> fund, the East Clark County Water fund, the East Clark County Water District's<00:26:52.640><c>
- </c> water line along Mount Sterling Road. water line along Mount Sterling Road.
Summary:
The committee first approved the February minutes and noted there had been no March meeting. Staff then provided a series of information items, including quarterly capital project status reports from state agencies and postsecondary institutions, a University of Kentucky equipment purchase report, notice that the committee took no action on certain March transactions, school district debt notices for Fayette and Jessamine counties, lease-space advertisements due to building conditions, a Kentucky Asset/Liability Commission report, and asset preservation project reports from KCTCS and Eastern Kentucky University.
The committee then heard and unanimously approved Murray State University’s request for interim authorization to use institutional revenues for a $1.5 million roof replacement at the Curs Center student center. University of Kentucky also received unanimous approval for a $115 million public-private partnership project to expand Parking Structure 7 and the Johnson Center recreation space; testimony emphasized the loss of parking from hospital expansion, increased student enrollment, a planned $21 per semester recreation fee increase, and the goal of improving student retention and campus capacity.
Next, the committee received a report on a Kentucky State Police Post 11 renovation in London funded at $1.138 million, with members asking how long the repairs would extend the building’s useful life; KSP said the work was a long-term investment and replacement was still many years away. The committee also approved multiple real property lease actions, including a new CHFS lease in Scott County, several lease renewals for the Commonwealth’s Attorney, CHFS, Transportation Cabinet, and a Secretary of State relocation lease tied to a capital renovation project. Members questioned one Jefferson County lease rate and the witness said it had been in place since 2007.
Finally, the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority presented three water loan items, which were rolled and then approved: an $841,383 East Clark County Water District loan for waterline upgrades, a roughly $6.13 million Oldham County Water District loan for US 42 improvements, and a $619,180 increase for Canonsburg Water District’s Schopes Road project due to higher-than-expected bids. The committee then approved eight K-12 school facility issuances, including projects in Clinton, Franklin, Fulton, Lincoln, McLean, Paris, Somerset, and Spencer counties, covering early childhood, new school construction, HVAC, energy conservation, and renovations. The meeting ended with notice of the next meeting date and adjournment.