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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Aeronautics and Transportation REVISED Apr 13th, 2026

Aeronautics and Transportation

Summary: The Senate Aeronautics and Transportation Committee heard two executive nominations first and advanced both unanimously. Tim Gatz was nominated to serve as Cabinet Secretary for Transportation, with supportive remarks from Senator Paxton and Senator Guthrie about his responsiveness and long service; the committee voted 12-0 to advance him. Justin Blake Wilson was nominated to the Oklahoma Motor Vehicle Commission, introduced by Senator Howard as a banker and entrepreneur interested in public service; he also advanced 12-0. The committee then considered several transportation and motor vehicle bills. House Bill 3982 would give certain commercial fleets a 90-day temporary tag and allow nonresidents 60 days to title and license vehicles in another state; it advanced 12-0. House Bill 2123, a backup measure related to a Tulsa/Jenks/Bixby Arkansas River bridge project aimed at easing congestion and improving safety, also advanced 12-0. House Bill 2979 would allow ODOT to establish school zones on portions of state highways at local request, with ODOT identifying 14 qualifying locations and an estimated cost of $266,000; it passed 12-0. House Bill 2997, a consumer protection bill targeting bait-and-switch practices in retail motor vehicle sales and increasing enforcement staffing, advanced on a 10-2 vote after discussion of raising the maximum fine from $1,000 to $10,000. Other measures approved included House Bill 3148, allowing licensed new and used motor vehicle dealers to perform their own VIN inspections, which passed 12-0; House Bill 4108, adding airport operational areas to the list of critical infrastructure and prohibiting trespass there, which passed 12-0; House Bill 4143, raising the damage threshold for a required written collision report from $300 to $3,000 and allowing no report when parties exchange information, which passed 11-1 amid concerns about fault and insurance verification; House Bill 4266, the omnibus license plate bill, which passed 12-0 with a zero fiscal impact noted; House Bill 2053, clarifying outdoor advertising rules for playgrounds and planned unit developments, which passed 12-0; and House Bill 4058, allowing optional blood type information on driver licenses and ID cards to aid first responders and blood supply efforts, which passed 11-0. The chair closed by thanking members and staff, noting it was likely the committee’s final meeting and his last as chair.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Apr 7th, 2026

Appropriations

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  • it talks about if a supply is available in the form, function, and utility required by the using agency
  • So if it doesn't fit the need of the agency, you're not required.
  • And the money is just following the agency. But let's get to some questions.
  • The money's already there, and we're just moving it with the agency.
Bills: HB82 , HB143 , HB145 , HB160 , HB222 , HB430 , HB445 , HB490 , HB603 , HB619 , HB670 , HB672 , HB763 , HB773 , HB781 , HB810 , HB874 , HB981
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Transcript Highlights:
  • I know that the agency asks in the budget for 7.6 million for a childcare subsidy.
  • That's the agency request right now. And so that's still in the pipeline.
  • Speaker, members, basically This works with the home part of the Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency.
  • So what I wanted to do, we have a lot of agencies that touch on workforce.
  • Work you expect that they can possibly have recommendations not just for us but also for the agencies
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Transcript Highlights:
  • I know that the agency asked in the budget is $7.6 million for a child care subsidy.
  • That's the agency request right now. And so that's still in the pipeline.
  • Members, basically this works with the HOME part of the Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency.
  • Members, basically this works with the home part of the Oklahoma House Finance Agency.
  • So what I wanted to do, we have a lot of agencies that touch on workforce.
Summary: The House convened, completed the roll call, heard an invocation, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several introductions and recognitions, including guests in the galleries and a special recognition of a doctor of the day and a state volleyball championship team. The chamber then took up a series of bills, with most receiving brief explanations and little or no debate. House Bill 2997, dealing with used-car bait-and-switch enforcement and higher fines, failed on final passage 47-39, and notice was given of a possible motion to reconsider. House Bill 2021, creating a DHS grant program for out-of-school programming through larger community-based organizations, passed 51-29 after questions about eligibility and partnerships. House Bill 3041, adjusting the cap on credit-card surcharges so retailers can recover actual processing costs up to 2%, passed 86-1 and its emergency was adopted. The House also passed House Bill 1823 on Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency compliance with federal HOME grant guidelines, 83-5, with the emergency adopted. House Bill 3372, creating lower-cost financing tools for high-performing charter schools, drew extensive questioning about taxpayer funding, ownership, default risk, and comparisons to public-school bonds, but ultimately passed 53-36. House Bill 1427, as amended by the Senate, was adopted and passed 57-20, codifying current clean-burning vehicle tax-credit practices tied to the bank privilege tax. House Bill 3127, which would have broadened employer drug-testing and zero-tolerance authority beyond current safety-sensitive positions for medical marijuana users, drew the most extended debate over worker protections, constitutionality, and testing standards, but failed narrowly 47-46; notice of reconsideration was given. Later measures passed with broad support, including House Bill 3128 creating a task force to identify workplace barriers and recommend administrative or legislative fixes, 73-21; House Bill 4198 allowing employers to seek protective orders against former employees who pose an imminent threat, 88-12; and a series of sunset-extension bills for professional and advisory boards. Those included House Bills 3000 through 3007, covering the cosmetology board, child death review board, county personnel training commission, chiropractic examiners, optometry board, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Oklahoma Advisory Council on Indian Education, and DEQ natural resource advisory councils, with most also receiving emergency clauses. House Concurrent Resolution 1020, commending Team USA Olympic hockey teams for gold medals, was adopted by unanimous consent.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 5th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

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  • Agencies as defined under RCW 1.80.010.
  • So it still requires that whoever the law enforcement agency, the agency that is actually using potential
  • And as you've already seen, people go after public agencies, law enforcement agencies, and even state
  • Why should sheriffs have some special ability to continue to lead a law enforcement agency having had
  • those agencies anymore.
Summary: The House took up Second Substitute Senate Bill 5974, a bill modernizing and strengthening laws concerning sheriffs, police chiefs, volunteers, youth cadets, and related law enforcement roles. Members first considered a striking amendment and then a series of floor amendments, with debate repeatedly focusing on sheriffs as elected constitutional officers, the scope of state authority over local law enforcement, and whether the bill would create unfunded mandates or practical problems for counties. Supporters of the bill and many amendments argued for clarifying language, local flexibility, and state payment for new requirements; opponents generally warned the bill would weaken elected sheriffs, impose costs on counties, or overreach into local control. Amendment 2343, which would have added intent language emphasizing that sheriffs are directly accountable to the electorate, was debated at length and defeated on a roll call vote, 41 yeas to 56 nays. Amendment 2373, shifting background-check costs to the state through the Washington State Patrol, was also defeated, 44 yeas to 53 nays. Amendment 2374, narrowing provisions affecting private security and specially commissioned officers, failed 41 to 56. Amendment 2369, clarifying rules for volunteers and youth cadets, failed 41 to 56. Amendment 2371, limiting surveillance-related provisions to situations requiring a warrant, failed 42 to 55. Amendment 2372, clarifying that only non-public information would be restricted from disclosure, also failed 41 to 56. Later, Amendment 2370, which would have aligned the bill’s definition of volunteer law enforcement officers with existing statute, was defeated 42 to 55. Finally, Amendment 2352, which would have exempted current sheriffs from the bill’s new decertification rules, was debated as a protection against changing the rules midstream but was opposed on the grounds that the bill already grandfathered in the one sheriff who did not meet the new experience requirement; the amendment’s vote was not completed in the excerpt provided. The transcript also begins with the Speaker signing several bills, including Substitute House Bill 1570 and Substitute Senate Bill 6248.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Rules 2ND REVISED Mar 4th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Rules

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  • The legislature would still be able to lead that. So with that, I'm open to questions.
  • pretty elaborate process spelled out in statute about how it would change if local government were to lead
  • About a year or so ago, the director of an agency told me of the failure of that agency to take a deep
  • Senate Bill 1316 is a way to force all Oklahoma agencies to do what those directors are doing and to
  • I've actually had a number of agencies that I've talked to about this and had questions that they've
Committee: Senate Rules
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Rules 2ND REVISED Mar 4th, 2026

Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • The legislature would still be able to lead that. So with that, I'm open to questions.
  • Spelled out in statute about how it would change if local government were to lead that change.
  • About a year or so ago, the director of an agency... Direction.
  • About a year or so ago, the director of an agency told me of the failure of that agency to take a deep
  • I've actually had a number of agencies... ...continuing to be a work in progress.
Committee: Senate Rules
Summary: The Senate Rules Committee met and first laid over Senate Bill 2133 and skipped several bills because the Pro Tem and Senator Hall were not present. The committee then took up Senate Bill 1552, which would expand an option for very large counties to adopt local charters; an amendment was adopted to raise the population thresholds so the bill would apply only to future growth. After discussion that the measure was optional and not a mandate, the bill passed 12-7. The committee also passed SJR 39, a proposed constitutional amendment to lower the cap on annual increases in property tax assessed value from 3% to 1% for homestead and agricultural property and from 5% to 3% for other property, despite opposition that it would worsen funding pressures and create inequities between long-term owners and new buyers. SJR 47, moving voter ID requirements into the Constitution, and SJR 48, changing how the state handles ad valorem reimbursement for tax-incentive projects, both passed 16-2. The committee next passed Senate Bill 1491, which requires replacement presidential electors to take the same oath as the original slate, and Senate Bill 2174, which changes the membership mix of the State Fire Marshal Commission to include more business-oriented voices; both measures drew little opposition and passed overwhelmingly. Senate Bill 1877 also passed unanimously; it creates a centralized reporting system for 510 reports, with members noting it should have no fiscal impact because an existing state filing system would be used. House Joint Resolution 1024, which revises the Judicial Nominating Commission by removing certain lawyer/non-lawyer and party-balance restrictions and capping service at 12 consecutive years, passed after significant debate over judicial independence and political influence. The committee then approved Senate Bill 2040, which updates the Tulsa Reconciliation Education Scholarship Program by simplifying eligibility rules, changing the income cap to $128,000 and indexing it to inflation, and clarifying that unused funds may still be used for room, board, and books; supporters said it preserves a long-standing scholarship with no fiscal impact. Senate Bill 1316 passed 17-1 and would require agencies to periodically sunset a percentage of administrative rules, though the author said he may lengthen the cycle after reviewing other states’ models. Senate Bill 1679, the Preserving Oklahoma Values Act, passed 16-2 after debate over its references to foreign law and Judeo-Christian Western values; supporters said it protects due process and equal protection, while opponents warned it could marginalize other faith traditions and create legal uncertainty. Finally, the committee passed Senate Bill 227, clarifying which oil and gas facilities are exempt from ad valorem tax and ensuring flow lines, gathering lines, and injection wells are treated consistently; Senate Bill 2153, directing state agencies to use the terms Judea and Samaria instead of West Bank in official documents; and Senate Bill 2180, a transparency measure on foreign lobbying that was amended before passing 17-0. The meeting then adjourned.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Feb 27th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Appropriations

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  • date of certain other agency reports.
  • by all of the HEAL Act agencies.
  • of agencies.
  • For the second category, agencies...
  • By increasing agencies' requirements to hide children from their parents, By increasing agencies' requirements
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  • Neighborighs, you're recognized to lead us and to pledge of allegiance. Back to you, Mr.
  • We actually brought this to LOFT first and they said they felt like they were not the right agency to
  • They actually are the ones that suggested that the OID be the agency.
  • I mean again they're dealing in probabilities and they have to make assumptions and That can lead to
  • You know, I say again, we deal With that on fiscal impacts coming from the agencies themselves, that
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Delivery of Government Efficiency Apr 16th, 2025

Delivery of Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • When the agency was first created, they agreed to oversee an administrator hearings and and agencies
  • These are just additional agencies they want to incorporate under this current These are not new agencies
  • to use multi-agency vendors. agency, multi-award.
  • agencies.
  • Work is a benefit for agency workers and one that allows TCEQ and other state agencies to recruit competitive
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives May 31st, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

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  • Representative Thomas, will you lead us in the pledge? I'll do the pledge.
  • Bill 274, Senate Bill 274 by Senator Edmonds provides relative to environmental quality data records leading
  • to lead hazard detection.
  • What the report did was, the language was a little bit wonky on the lead bill whenever it got sent back
  • Family Services, increasing transparency, accountability, and coordination with other child welfare agencies
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Administrative Rules Apr 27th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Administrative Rules

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  • I will be calling upon the agency to take and get at the end of the table down there and explain.
  • In this instance, we have already an eligible agency type.
  • They feel like certain agencies, not your own necessarily, but other agencies have made a commitment
  • This is a concern that I share because I see this in other agencies.
  • and other agencies that have perhaps indicated a bias or hostility towards their industry.
HI
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  • Recommendation to attached agencies.
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Committee: House Finance
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 4/20/26

Ways and Means

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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 46

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EEP Info Briefing - Thu Apr 16, 2026 @ 9:00 AM HST

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

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  • know, to build a new natural gas combined-cycle plant in the United States, it's about a seven-year lead
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HI
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  • </c> responder agencies respond. responder agencies respond.
  • Drowning is consistently one of the leading causes of death among children.
  • Drowning is consistently one of the leading causes of death among children.
  • Drowning is consistently one of the leading causes of death among children.
  • Drowning is consistently one of the leading causes of death among children.
Bills: HCR92 , HCR46 , HCR172 , HCR147 , HCR112 , HCR100 , HR84 , HR42 , HR139 , HR104 , HR92
Committee: House Labor