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AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

06/10/2026 - Joint Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • How much did Hacienda cost this state?
  • from the state aviation fund to ADOT to plan, construct, develop, and improve state, county, city, or
  • From the state highway fund to the general fund for providing support and maintenance for state agencies
  • recruit more military to this state and retire in this state.
  • More military to this state to retire in this state, and I'm really, really proud of that too.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • In the state of Arizona and outside the state of Arizona who would travel here for these treatments.
  • Who is the state to violate those parental rights?
  • We did a cross-map analysis between where the state opportunities to close loopholes in our state.
  • It is reasonable for the state to decline subsidy.
  • That has drawn both state and federal scrutiny.
Summary: The committee heard and acted on several health-related bills, with the longest discussion centered on SB 1214, the Arizona Stem Cell Therapy Act. The bill would regulate stem cell and birth tissue therapies, bar use of tissues derived from aborted fetuses or embryos, require informed consent and disclosure for non-FDA-approved therapies, and create civil and criminal penalties for violations. Supporters framed it as a patient-safety and bioscience-innovation measure, while opponents objected to the abortion-related language and felony penalties. The committee approved SB 1214 on a 4-3 vote. The committee also advanced SB 1194, which would prohibit health professionals and institutions from denying care or reducing care quality based on vaccination status, and SB 1814, which creates a study committee on substance use disorder treatment standards and oversight. SB 1602, increasing monthly stipends for kinship foster care parents, and SB 1603, expanding child-only cash assistance eligibility for certain foster and relative placements, were both amended and passed unanimously. SB 1177, barring public funds from being used for gender transition procedures, and SB 1014, requiring insurance coverage for detransition care and related reporting, both drew strong support and opposition and were each approved on 4-3 votes. Later, the committee unanimously passed SB 1628, requiring insurers and health plans to report claims-denial and prior-authorization data to DIFI for public reporting, and SB 1629, requiring AHCCCS managed care organizations to give advance notice and network-adequacy documentation before terminating high-volume providers without cause. Supporters of both bills emphasized transparency and patient access, while opponents argued the measures duplicated existing federal or state oversight. The committee then heard SB 1752, which would criminalize commercial harvesting or sale of mescaline while preserving a religious-use defense; the sponsor said it was intended to address improper sales of peyote-derived substances, but no final action on that bill was taken in the portion provided.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Retirement and Government Resources Feb 10th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Retirement and Government Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • I believe that in the interest of transparency in state government, we should not prevent our state employees
  • Members, this is a program to incentivize state employees and state agencies to proactively look for
  • But in state government, they tend to focus on what their tasks are.
  • We do not want to become a sole source state for bidding. Because we want.
  • We need to make sure we're looking at what those actuarials state.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • It's not a state issue.
  • I don't think there's anything stating that no one can go to the state department without any concerns
  • Education is vitally important to our state, and as such, our teachers are vital to our state, and they
  • Organizations in the state.
  • result of that state question.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Members of the committee, as we know, workforce housing is a serious issue in the state.
  • that they would like to and that they feel would be successful for the economic development of the state
  • This legislation will allow the OCC workers to use state-owned or state-leased vehicles between their
  • They all have duties all over the state, but yet OCC has to come back to Oklahoma City to get the car
  • to go all over the state.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Retirement and Government Resources Apr 14th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Retirement and Government Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • And you are sick of cake by the time you get through testing those cakes. But it's wonderful.
  • If you look on page two, that is clarified as a state officer employee.
  • These modifications include establishing that the development and testing of new procurement policies
  • It says 'subcommittees thereof, judges, justices, and state legislators.' Why strike that?
  • Basically, the group worked closely with the state auditor, her office officers, and legal staff.
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Retirement and Government Resources 2ND REVISED Apr 7th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Retirement and Government Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • He was the executive director of the state chamber of commerce.
  • We are on the Secretary of State at this time.
  • This is a bill to Make sure that state governments and agencies don't use state funds and resources to
  • So, given that a portion of our population in the state is LGBTQ, why would our state not be able to
  • It's saying state resources and state dollars shall not be attributed to it.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget REVISED Feb 18th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Joint Committee on Pandemic Relief Funding

Transcript Highlights:
  • Test check 12 mic test check 12.
  • House Bill 2787 is a FY26 supplemental appropriation to the State Department of Health to pay for legacy
  • looking at the state's obligations and those things we contracted with outside entities to fulfill state
  • goals and state strategies.
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget Feb 17th, 2026 at 04:30 pm

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget

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  • Is the Oklahoma Pregnancy Care Network a state agency? No, it is a pass-through.
  • These programs are going to be administered under the Oklahoma State Department of Health based on the
  • The reason I raise those questions is because I'm curious why they need to come to the state legislature
  • We have so many obligations with state agencies and various services that we need to give to.
  • Maybe have some more information on that, but there are a lot of public-private partnerships in this state
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Is this from your county, or is this from multiple counties across the state?
  • as long as it's approved by the state treasurer.
  • Something in our state statute that is allowable as long as it's approved by the state treasurer?
  • So 4-H in the state of Oklahoma and OSU are almost operating in...
  • Please state your question. Thank you, Madam Chair.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/28/2026 - Senate Government

Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is my first legislative session here at the Arizona State Senate.
  • It's not just at one archival library in the state; they're all over the state.
  • Instead, this proposed law would create state-sanctioned bullying.
  • of Washington, state of California, state of Oregon—things that have never occurred in Arizona.
  • I think better of our state, better of our legislature.
Summary: The committee first handled Senate Bill 1045, which would bar cities, towns, and counties from taxing or charging fees on the use of blockchain technology in residences, with limited exceptions. The sponsor said the bill was a repeat of a measure vetoed the prior year and framed it as a tax-preemption issue. There was no testimony, and the bill was moved and passed out of committee on a 4-3 vote. The committee then heard Senate Bill 1019, which would prohibit the addition of fluoride to public water systems. Senator Shamp argued the bill was about health freedom, informed consent, and emerging research she said raised concerns about fluoride’s benefits and possible neurodevelopmental risks. Opponents, including representatives of Arizona dental and public health groups, testified that community water fluoridation is safe, effective, and especially important for low-income and rural communities with limited dental access. After extended debate, the bill received a do pass recommendation on a 4-3 vote. Senate Bill 1050 would provide free lifetime state park passes to Arizona veterans. State Parks testified neutrally but warned the measure could reduce revenue used to support park operations and rural economies; the sponsor said the bill was prompted by a park visit where veterans were charged admission. The committee also approved SB 1050 on a 4-3 vote. Later, SB 1078, dealing with de novo review in public records denial cases, passed unanimously after support from the Goldwater Institute, and SB 1083, which would prevent HOAs and condo associations from banning certain lighted home address devices for emergency response, also passed after testimony from the sponsor and a homeowners coalition.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Finance May 21st, 2026

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • The total state budget at engrossed is $46.6 billion for fiscal year 27.
  • other state revenue sources as recognized by REC and a reduction of $47.1 million in state general fund
  • State general fund savings in the Medicaid program.
  • Office of State Procurement, $13.4 million with 99 T.O. positions.
  • Environmental State Revolving Loan Funds, $126.5 million.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 5/18/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:04:29.040> um space as well as the state patrol. um space as well as the state patrol.
  • The Minnesota State Academies gets $17,000 per year.
  • The Minnesota State Academies gets $17,000 per year.
  • > Universities<00:10:57.760> receives State Colleges and Universities receives State Colleges
  • It's important to people in the state of Minnesota, so thank you all.
Bills: SF2884, HF1889
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Commerce and Small Business Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Commerce and Small Business

Transcript Highlights:
  • agreed-upon bill, and we feel comfortable that it will help and assist many of our school systems across the state
  • agreed-upon bill, and we feel comfortable that it will help and assist many of our school systems across the state
  • Because this is a bill that was passed in another state and this bill is copied and pasted off another
Bills: SB279, HB478, SB279, HB478
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Fraud Committee Meeting - 2025-05-05

Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • General of the State of Minnesota.
  • The state pays the remaining 25%.
  • Public is essentially state-run services, government employees, whether they're at the state level or
  • sized states.
  • Are they billing other state agencies?
Bills: HF3043, HF2891
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Those who've been here a certain period of time have access to in-state tuition rates.
  • unless a citizen or national in the United States is eligible for such a benefit.
  • The State Regents already had to implement these changes.
  • The cost to the state is zero. Move for adoption, yield to questions.
  • This is aligning our statute to stuff that states like Arkansas have already done.
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

General Government Feb 10th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

General Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • A comparison of our incentives to those elsewhere in our state and out of state.
  • type of state money.
  • This child has gone to their parent, who is a state employee of the state of Oklahoma and has shared
  • So at what point does this law then get in the way of a state employee who may be using their state employee
  • Other states have certainly gone further.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Appropriations May 8th, 2025

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • I mean, Texas is a pretty amazing state.
  • It's almost all of our state revenue, plus most of the...
  • So should our state revenue dry up, we haven't really set aside 10% of it.
  • I don't know what the average is across the states.
  • So most states don't. have a nice reserve set aside.
Bills: SJR4, SJR 4