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AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/17/2026 - Senate Natural Resources

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • The board must establish procedures to determine eligibility, determine compensation rates, conduct research
  • is endangered, but said that does not affect a claimant’s request for compensation; the board acts based
  • the department being required to issue certificates for applications in the time period specified based
  • Arizona's land-grant mission, especially Cooperative Extension's vital role in delivering research-based
  • Research-based solutions directly to producers.
Summary: The Senate Natural Resources Committee first considered two nominations. Jessica Manuel was introduced as a nominee to the Arizona Game and Fish Commission, where testimony emphasized her science background and experience working with agencies and stakeholders. Members asked about wolf management and her qualifications, and the committee voted 8-0 to recommend her confirmation. Stephen Williams was then introduced for the Arizona Livestock Loss Board, with discussion focused on his livestock and State Land Department experience and how the board handles wolf-related livestock losses. The committee also voted 8-0 to recommend his confirmation. The committee then took up several bills. SB 1785, which would codify ADWR’s one-mile safe-harbor policy for recovery wells near groundwater storage facilities, passed 5-3 after ADWR said it largely reflected current practice but requested clarifying language. SB 1082, requiring sanitation measures and signage for petting zoos and similar animal encounter exhibits, drew strong testimony from a parent advocate describing severe E. coli/HUS cases and opposition from fair/agriculture representatives who argued the bill was too broad and unnecessary; after amendment, it failed 4-4. SB 1336, extending the State Land Department and creating a temporary oversight committee with a broad amendment on lease holdovers, notice periods, and committee membership, passed 6-2 after significant debate over the committee’s composition and scope. Later, SB 1200, which would require ADWR to revisit certain Phoenix AMA assured water supply applications using older groundwater models, passed 5-3 despite opposition from CAP and ADWR over added replenishment obligations and concerns about relying on outdated models. SB 1335, requiring the Arizona Water Banking Authority to post its annual report online, passed 7-1. SB 1559, creating rural groundwater management work groups in each basin to report to ADWR, passed 5-3 after supporters said it would improve basin-level coordination and opponents argued it created new bureaucracy without enforcement tools. SB 1761, appropriating $47.7 million to the University of Arizona for the Yuma Center of Excellence for Desert Agriculture, Cooperative Extension, and the Experiment Station, passed 7-1 amid broad support but some concern about funding levels. Finally, SCM 1007, urging Congress to divest and improve the San Carlos Irrigation Project electric system, passed unanimously.
TX
Bills: HB17, HB16, SB10, HB27, HB23, SB15, SB18
Summary: The House convened, received a message from the Senate, and the chair announced the signing of HB 4 in the presence of the House. The clerk then read a large number of first-reading measures and referred them to committees. Among the notable bills, SB 1 by Senator Perry on campground and youth camp safety was referred to the Committee on Disaster Preparedness and Flooding. Several House resolutions dealing with House rules, quorum, attendance, and penalties for members who missed sessions or broke quorum were referred to the Committee on House Administration, including HR 5, HR 17, HR 18, HR 34, HR 41, and HR 58. The House also referred a broad slate of resolutions to the Committee on Local and Consent Calendars, including measures by Riddell, Craddick, Toth, Leo Wilson, Schofield, Gehan, Bella Montgomery, Hinojosa, Schoolcraft, Little, Meyer, Luhan, Orr, Johnson, Harris Davila, Lopez, Cameron, Gonzalez of El Paso, Wharton, Flores, Dyson, and Harless. These referrals covered many individual House resolutions and concurrent resolutions, but no debate or votes were recorded in the transcript. At the end of the proceedings, the House recessed until noon pursuant to a previously adopted motion.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Business and Insurance REVISED Feb 5th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Business and Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • especially around our property insurance issues in this state, and where Oklahomans are in terms of rates
  • So that's why this bill would disallow the use of credit scores in our Premium rating system.
  • The question would be: Has there been any state that has banned the credit scoring and seen their rates
  • mean in the three hundreds, we're talking about in the 600s, is Paying 104% more for their insurance rates
  • If you have those with lower credit scores who are paying 104% more, and we take away the risk based
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 193 creates a pilot program to buy down interest rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages for
  • Senate Bill 193 is a pilot program to buy down interest rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages for first-time
  • We provide the down-payment assistance, and this program will assist to buy down the interest rate.
  • -based manufacturers have... ...come from China, where they are largely also illegal. U.S.
  • And we've reduced the rate of tobacco consumption immensely.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Mar 10th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • So why are the rates so high? Because. of the high rates of diabetes, obesity, and hypertension.
  • Based on age, sex, different race, different metabolisms.
  • Obesity, we have high rates of liver disease, we have high rates of obesity. liver disease, diabetes,
  • One, it looks like South Texas has the highest rate of Alzheimer's.
  • Based on the data from the Alzheimer's Association in...
Bills: HB5, HJR3, HB155, HB513, HB5, HB155
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • be for a community, county, industrial development board, economic development board, or nonprofit based
  • > economic development board, an e a economic development board, an e a nonprofit<00:13:22.639> based
  • nonprofit based on uh economic growth. nonprofit based on uh economic growth.
  • Study Commission on Grocery Taxation. >> For those of you who are aware, Alabama Arise is a member-based
  • and our member-based organization and our members<00:19:42.320> voted<00:19:42.720> strongly
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

TRS-LBT, TRS-EDT, TRS Public Hearings 02-10-2026

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Phoenix Space is an aerospace company developing an aircraft-based on-demand space access system, and
  • <00:28:08.720> And um revenue stream based on the fair.
  • And um revenue stream based on the fair.
  • >> So, um, based on the amount of passengers that come in, and let's use Honolulu for an example, the
  • We are a local company based in Kalihi.
Summary: The joint committees on Transportation, Labor and Technology, and later Transportation and Economic Development and Tourism, heard several bills. SB 2573 would allow administrative driver’s license revocation hearings to be held by interactive conference technology such as Zoom and permit electronic exchange of evidence. The chief adjudicator for the ADLRO supported it as a non-mandatory option that has worked well since 2021, improving attendance and saving time and money; DOT also supported it. The committees voted to pass SB 2573 with technical, non-substantive amendments. SB 3215 would make permanent the requirement that securing mooring lines at commercial docks be performed by labor subject to collective bargaining by repealing the sunset date in existing harbor safety law. DOT did not submit testimony, and the chair noted support from longshore labor. The committees voted to pass SB 3215 unamended. The committees also heard SB 2693, which authorizes $15 million in general obligation bonds for planning, design, and construction of a 50,000-square-foot aerospace hangar and related facilities at Hilo International Airport. A Phoenix Space executive testified in support, saying Hawaii and Hilo have geographic advantages and that the project could support aerospace investment and jobs; several other organizations and individuals submitted supportive testimony. Committee members questioned whether federal matching funds or airport capacity existed, and DOT said it had no assurance of federal participation and would need to check on capacity and potential users. The hearing then moved to SB 2698, which would create a cruise ship special fund and impose a per-passenger head fee on cruise ships docking in state commercial harbors while repealing the existing cruise ship TAT framework effective January 1, 2026. DOT supported the bill but requested amendments to clarify that the new fee is in addition to existing passenger, port entry, and dockage fees and to raise the fee from $6.50 to $10; DOT said the higher amount would better fund harbor improvements such as shore power. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings testified in support but said the added fee would significantly increase costs, while a local ship supply business supported the cruise industry and opposed the TAT approach, saying cruise activity benefits local farmers and jobs. No final vote on SB 2698 was taken in the excerpt provided.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Human Committee Meeting - 2025-04-03

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's very important to separate those two, and HASAMI really looks at the evidence-based practice of
  • However, this temporary rate restoration is necessary to meet the needs of our community.
  • I apologize, I didn't hear: was it the base amount appropriated for the program?
  • Chair, members, I believe the base room and board rate for housing support is $1,170. dollars a month
  • on top of that, and those rates vary by facility.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/3/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • seriously diminished by a 50% rate seriously diminished by a 50% rate reduction<00:55:47.760>
  • Chair, member, I believe the base room and board rate for housing support is $1,170 a month for certain
  • And those rates vary by facility.
  • And those rates vary by facility.
  • getting the special rate. getting the special rate.
TX
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  • Since then, we've only been able to have the accountability rate ratings released for one single. year
  • If a campus receives a not rated rating for any reason, the commissioner will continue. the intervention
  • with the school that doesn't want to be rated maybe but we don't know they were not rated because their
  • 31 DNF rated schools under that system.
  • It's been quality rating and there are other ratings. I see Yasmin nodding her head, so.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Last year our five-year retention rate for teacher graduates was 78 percent. compared to 66.4% for university-based
  • We have five-year rates yet.
  • Our teacher residents have a two-year retention rate of 91%. three- and four-year rates of 86 percent
  • Since then, we've only been able to have the accountability rate ratings released for one single. year
  • That's been a quality rating and there are other ratings. I see Yasmin nodding her head.
TX
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  • inflationary rates.
  • ERISA-based PBM plans follow state law. preemption, the U.S.
  • In my opinion, community-based care... is not a model of care.
  • These are the highest rates in the state.
  • So there's a bit of a rates issue in that.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • That court system had an 85% success rate.
  • Judge, you said you... serve in one county that does have Community-Based Care.
  • Okay, which is what Community-Based Care is supposed to be. It is.
  • Sheila Hemphill with Texas Rate to Know.
  • to oversee EMS providers for not properly identifying billing rates.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part II) Mar 5th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, that court system had an 85% success rate.
  • What it looks like when the community is actually invested in the success of community-based care.
  • to police EMS providers for not properly identifying billing rates.
  • This ensures that rates remain fair and responsive to rising cost without excessive fees.
  • Uh, and we have the highest uninsured rate at 21%, nearly doubling the national average.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Representative, just to clarify, Is this the tax rate?
  • House Bill 3781 is a change in the way Insurance rates are filed.
  • It just asks that accreditation be based on academics and not ideology.
  • that may be based in another state wanting to do business in Oklahoma.
  • Similar question: Does the nonprofit have to be US-based?
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 2/26/26

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • In section six, we're seeking to prohibit discrimination of a participant based on their status as a
  • In section six, we're seeking to prohibit discrimination of a participant based on their status as a
  • Why this matters: An appeal should be resolved based on merit, not paperwork technicalities or minor
  • you you um get the capitalization rate you you um get the capitalization rate from<00:43:18.480>
  • <00:43:39.760> are Um rents and capitalization rates are Um rents and capitalization rates
Bills: HF3676, HF2959, HF3233