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TX
Texas 89th Regular
The July 2025 Flooding Events, General Investigating Apr 28th, 2026
The July 2025 Flooding Events, General Investigating
Transcript Highlights:
- Yes, sorry, 11 feet inside of that building.
- , and we asked camps to come to the table to help us build it.
- The camp of which she is a director and owner.
- For the Eastland family, as the camp directors and owners, As the camp directors and owners, whom I have
- Camp owners know it; it's in there.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Twenty Three - Wednesday, February 18 -Afternoon Session-
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And does the credit carry with the property owner if they sell their property, or does the credit in
- It offers a level of protection for a business owner. These are not corporations.
- It offers a level of protection for a business owner. These are not corporations.
- Well, and if it burns down and you build another house right there, it's going to be residential.
- If this had been in place, I think that would have helped that business owner.
Summary:
The House established a quorum and then took up several bills for perfection and printing. House Bill 2189, sponsored by the Jasper member, would allow five-year vehicle registrations, eliminate the old even/odd model-year registration rule, and limit the five-year option to vehicles six years old or newer. Members discussed how the bill would interact with emissions, safety inspections, insurance verification, and county tax collection systems. House Amendment 1, which set the five-year fee at $45, was adopted, and the bill was then perfected and printed.
The chamber next considered House Committee Substitute for House Bill 1790, a ballot-language measure sponsored by the St. Louis County member. The bill requires clearer ballot wording for local tax levies, including stating levy amounts in dollar terms, alphabetic labeling of propositions, disclosure when a measure would nullify a prior sunset, and a rollback rule tied to reassessment years and voter-approved levies. Members generally supported the transparency goals, and a drafting correction amendment adding a comma was adopted before the committee substitute was perfected and printed.
House Committee Substitute for House Bill 2178, sponsored by the Pike member, drew the most extended debate. The bill would limit commercial property assessment increases to 15% per reassessment cycle, require a physical inspection if increases exceed that threshold, and require Board of Equalization decisions by the end of September or revert to the prior year’s assessment. Amendments were adopted to add short-term rental protections so assessors cannot reclassify residential short-term rentals as commercial property, to incorporate ballot-language provisions from other bills, and to add taxpayer protections requiring clearer assessment notices, faster refunds, and litigation-cost recovery in some successful appeals. The body adopted House Amendment 1 by roll call, 92-43 with 5 present, and later adopted House Amendments 2 and 3; House Amendment 4 was then taken up for further discussion at the end of the transcript.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- They will often turn to water districts to help trace those water rights to the appropriate owner.
- Safety, Modular Buildings, Building Safety Public Works, Contractors License Board.
- Safety, Building Code Rules, Rules for Factory-Built Structures.
- Safety, Building Code Rules, and recommends all be rejected in their entirety.
- Docket 2439-30-202, 2439-30, Rules of Building Safety, Building Code Rules, proposed rule, which the
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Civil Rights & Judiciary Jan 21st, 2026 at 08:00 am
Civil Rights & Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- Small business owners, individual for home, auto, all lines of insurance, and the prices continue to
- This House has been for families, renters, nonprofits, and small business owners.
- Any record or even a child can build or assemble with no background check.
- This file is very specific instructions on how the printer should build the part.
- This file is very specific instructions on how the printer should build the part.
Committee:
House Civil Rights & Judiciary
Keywords:
litigation finance, legal funding, lawsuit, financial services, access to justice, firearm regulation, manufacturing, safety standards, background checks, license requirements, health care market standards, hospital consolidation, merger review, health care transaction notice, attorney general review, antitrust, provider organizations, hospital systems, contracting affiliation, material change
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Higher Education Apr 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill builds on the accomplishments by enabling the senator remain in existence and be eligible to
- Building in classrooms with the new appointees and a change in leadership.
- Some are buildings or buildings are different maintenance. This was really going down.
- I'm a business owner and I've grown my own beautiful family here in Gainesville.
- And I think that we will continue to build on that and continuing to offer testable education.
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- It goes to the owner of the vehicle, right? Because the citation is issued on the license plate.
- They go to the owner of the vehicle, and I have no way of knowing when I pass a speed camera sign and
- </c><00:25:07.200><c> I</c> owner. So, I don't know what happened. I owner.
- </c> executive order would continue to build executive order would continue to build out<00:48:45.119
- . owner. owner.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
AGR Public Hearing - Wed Feb 12, 2025 @ 9:30 AM HST
Agriculture & Food Systems
Transcript Highlights:
- I can provide the name of the owner after the hearing to be amended and added.
- building this agricultural statistics center for the benefit of the state.
- building this agricultural statistics center for the benefit of the state.
- </c> private property by the property owner private property by the property owner provided<01:13:07.960
- </c> egg is the one place we can build egg is the one place we can build thousands<02:01:41.719><c> of
Committee:
House Agriculture & Food Systems
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- This would allow them to have another means of reliable power to the building.
- Yeah, now on-site means in the building, not necessarily in the room, but in the building.
- Yeah, now on-site means in the building, not necessarily in the room, but in the building.
- Why should you not have that freedom to make that decision as the business owner?
- Why should you not have that freedom to make that decision as the business owner?
Committee:
Senate Health & Welfare
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Health and Welfare met on May 13 with a quorum present and approved the prior meeting minutes. The committee first heard HB 971, which would equalize Medicaid reimbursement rates between independent clinics and hospital-owned rural health clinics; supporters said independent clinics are disadvantaged by a large payment disparity, and the bill was reported favorable without objection. The committee also recognized visiting Alpha Phi Alpha members and other guests during personal privilege remarks.
Members then considered HB 414, which would bar hiring certain health care workers and direct support professionals with serious disqualifying convictions from other states and address background-check issues for therapeutic group homes. After adopting three amendment sets, the bill was reported as amended. HB 740, creating an independent review process for Medicaid behavioral health claim disputes in the coordinated system of care, was amended to clarify applicability and CSOC definitions and then reported as amended. HB 288, which would place the term “miscarriage” alongside “spontaneous abortion” in medical documentation, drew emotional testimony from affected parents and advocates; the committee reported it favorable.
The committee also advanced several more bills: HB 405, updating the name of the national acupuncture certifying body, was reported favorable; HB 786, prohibiting extrapolation in certain managed-care claims recoupments, was reported favorable; HB 1095, allowing alternative backup power sources for nursing homes, was reported favorable; HB 403, raising the cottage food gross-sales cap, was amended from $50,000 to $150,000 and then reported favorable; HB 930, modernizing cosmetic-product regulation and creating a small-producer exemption, was reported favorable; HB 557, defining long-term pharmacies for policy purposes, was reported favorable; HB 779, on expedited partner therapy for sexually transmitted diseases, was reported favorable; HB 915, setting utilization-management timelines and standards, was reported favorable; HB 546, expanding criteria for peace officers to take someone into protective custody during a mental health crisis, was reported favorable; HB 796, creating a chiropractic preceptorship program, was reported favorable; and HB 933, authorizing commemorative birth certificates, was reported favorable.
The final major item was HB 1041, a “no-mandate” bill barring discrimination based on medical intervention status. The sponsor and Surgeon General said it was aimed at healthy, asymptomatic individuals and not at public health quarantine powers, but Senator Boudreaux objected to exemptions for schools and hospitals and offered an amendment to restore broader coverage. That amendment failed on a roll-call vote, and the bill remained under discussion as the transcript ended, with no final committee disposition shown in the excerpt.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Even though the owner grabbed me against my will in the back, thank you. owner grabbed me against my
- It is a... ...sell the land to the owners.
- If we were to build something, an attraction, people would come up.
- So my kids are raised in this building, in these two buildings.
- So my kids are raised in this building, in these two buildings, and they've never left my side and always
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> the Senate building. the Senate building.
- </c> working together to lease a building working together to lease a building that<00:46:51.280><c>
- </c> both buildings then who's leasing it? both buildings then who's leasing it?
- <00:48:20.640><c> from</c> building from building from ourselves.<00:48:23.520><c> Okay.
- </c><01:58:44.639><c> Um</c> our our property owners in St. Paul. Um our our property owners in St.
Committee:
Senate Capital Investment
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance May 14th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Now, if you would turn to page 4, that building, the CCAT building from UNM, you could see the design
- So you're going to build this big building and it's going to follow the Western campus calendar probably
- You're maybe a little longer than the time frame it took you to build the building, but here's your next
- institutions one building at a time or five buildings at a time, but we're going to build them within
- Chair, if we get an architect that gets an award after he builds a building, we ought to penalize him
WV
West Virginia 2026 Regular Session
WV Senate Judiciary Committee in Session Mar 10th, 2026 at 03:04 pm
Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- See, I'm a small business owner, or small business owners on this committee.
- That's what this feels like when I read it as a business owner.
- How many local restaurant owners, when they're getting started, are experts in HR?
- There's not, especially when you're a small business owner. Yeah.
- So as an example, let's say that I was a business owner, I employed 10 people...
Committee:
Senate Judiciary
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- It also allows for the 1802 Uniform Mitigation Expense Forms to be stored by OIR, so property owners
- Let's ensure that our state honors its past as we build a more connected future. Thank you.
- Let's ensure that our state honors its past as we build a more connected future. Thank you.
- knows the location of the apparent owner.
- Exposure to different perspectives builds critical thinking, adaptability, and leadership.
Committee:
House Commerce Committee
Summary:
The committee first considered CS/HB 1263 on the Office of Insurance Regulation. The sponsor said the bill would strengthen OIR’s tools to oversee property insurance, including market conduct and solvency exams, claims handling oversight, mandatory discounts for certain mitigation measures, storage of mitigation inspection forms, and clearer authority over pharmacy benefit managers. An amendment narrowing fingerprinting requirements was adopted, and the bill passed favorably after supportive testimony from OIR and others.
Members then heard CS/HB 527, which would require a human review before an insurance claim can be denied or reduced when artificial intelligence or automated systems are used. After an amendment removing the term “algorithm” was adopted, the bill drew opposition from several insurance industry groups, while consumer and labor witnesses supported it. The sponsor argued the measure was needed after reports of AI-driven claim denials, and the bill passed favorably. The committee also approved CS/HB 637 on farm equipment “lemon law” protections, with an amendment clarifying who qualifies as a consumer, refund rights, repair timelines, and an effective date.
The committee next took up CS/HB 1007 on data centers, which would create a regulatory framework for siting and operating large data centers, limit NDAs in some circumstances, set PSC tariff requirements, and restrict certain locations near homes and schools. After an amendment narrowing the five-mile buffer to data centers over 50 megawatts and adding noise-study requirements, the bill drew mixed testimony from business, consumer, and local-government groups, with supporters emphasizing guardrails and opponents warning about competitiveness and site restrictions. The bill passed favorably despite several no votes.
Later, the committee approved CS/HB 1291 on the NICA birth-related neurological injury compensation program after a strike-all amendment revised reimbursement and assessment provisions; testimony included support from NICA and concerns from the Florida Justice Association and a family affected by the program. The committee also passed CS/HB 185 on a sales tax exemption for home-hardening products, CS/HB 425 on a historic African-American cemetery preservation program, CS/CS/CS/HB 1177 on Space Florida and spaceport operations, CS/CS/CS/HB 657 on community associations and HOA/condo reforms, and CS/CS/HB 1221, the DFS agency package. The final bill discussed was CS/HB 1001, which would restrict county and municipal DEI-related actions and contracting; the sponsor explained the strike-all, and members began questioning its definitions and exceptions, but the transcript cuts off before the bill’s final disposition.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- It's 80% of AMI and 80% owner-occupied buildings. That is the bill. There is an amendment.
- So you said it's 80% of owner-occupied units.
- Are those considered owner-occupied? No. No.
- Can that building apply for the program?
- But half of the building is not, is snowbirds.
Bills:
S2500 , S2502 , S2504 , S7028 , S2506 , S2508 , S2510 , S2512 , S2514 , S2516 , S2518 , S0482 , S0678 , S0984 , S1016 , S1074 , S1706 , S7030
Committee:
Senate Appropriations
Keywords:
budget, appropriation, education funding, healthcare, environmental protection, infrastructure, local government, Appropriations Act, funding, education, rural development, economic assistance, collective bargaining, state employees, labor relations, impasse resolution, negotiations, retirement, elected officials, Deferred Retirement Option Program
Summary:
The committee heard presentations on the Senate’s proposed 2026-2027 budget, SPB 2500, with chairs outlining major spending in K-12 education, higher education, health and human services, criminal and civil justice, transportation/tourism/economic development, and agriculture/environment/general government. Highlights included a $115 billion overall budget, pay raises for state employees and public safety workers, major K-12 funding increases and enrollment supplements, higher education workforce and nursing investments, expanded Medicaid/KidCare and behavioral health funding, corrections and law enforcement operational funding, transportation and housing investments, and significant environmental and water quality spending. Members asked about civic education funding, declining enrollment, professor retention, APD waiver waitlists, cultural grant allocations, and other line items. Public testimony also addressed HIV/AIDS drug assistance funding and prison air conditioning. SPB 2500 was adopted as a committee bill after amendment consideration and a roll call vote.
The committee then took up implementing and related budget bills, including SPB 2502 (implementing the General Appropriations Act), SPB 2504 (state employee bargaining placeholder), SB 7028 (Florida Retirement System contribution rates and related retirement changes), SPB 2506 (fuel tax distributions), SPB 2508 (state agency law enforcement radio system surcharge), SPB 2510 (termination of an unused court trust fund), SPB 2512 (new judgeships), SPB 2514 (K-12 conforming changes), SPB 2516 (higher education conforming changes), and SPB 2518 (health conforming changes). Most were explained as technical or conforming measures tied to the budget, and all were reported favorably as committee bills, with SB 7028 amended to direct a portion of increased contributions to disability and line-of-duty death benefits in the FRS investment plan.
The committee also heard and passed several member bills, including CS for SB 1074 on rounding rules for cash transactions in a world without pennies, CS for SB 678 restoring the alcohol loss deduction framework for distributors, and SB 964 on firefighter cancer benefits and prevention. SB 964 drew the most discussion, with questions about the one-year death-benefit window, the separate $25,000 cancer diagnosis payment, and whether the bill could create gaps in coverage for firefighters diagnosed or dying just outside the new time limits. Firefighter representatives testified in support, saying the bill would provide clearer protections for members and families. All of these measures were reported favorably.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (01/14/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:15:45.440><c> is</c> yes that's why this building is yes that's why this building is condemned
- </c> able to protect the the bar owner able to protect the the bar owner because<00:25:43.080><c> they
- </c> it's it's called what's the building it's it's called what's the building called<00:46:55.160><c
- </c> but after they got vacated this building but after they got vacated this building they<00:47:16.559
- </c><03:23:38.199><c> liquor</c> know build liquor know build liquor stores<03:23:41.560><c> sure</c>
Summary:
The committee opened with House Bill 242, a liquor bill concerning brew pub licenses. Testimony from the New Hampshire Beer Distributors Association, the New Hampshire Lodging and Restaurant Association, and the Liquor Commission explained that the bill is intended to correct a clerical error from the prior session and restore the agreed-upon language. The bill would allow a brew pub, within the existing 2,500-barrel limit, to self-distribute its own product to one authorized on- or off-premise license; otherwise it must use wholesale distribution. Witnesses said the measure is a narrow fix specific to brew pubs and does not affect other manufacturing licenses. No opposition was raised during the hearing, and the chair closed the hearing after no committee questions remained.
The committee then heard House Bill 81, which would allow patrons to take purchased alcoholic beverages into restaurant restrooms. The sponsor argued the current prohibition is outdated and can create safety risks by forcing people to set drinks down, citing concerns about drink tampering and a personal story about a friend who was drugged and assaulted after leaving a drink unattended. Committee members and the sponsor discussed whether the bill would increase liability for restaurants, how enforcement would work, and whether the current law is aimed at preventing underage handoffs or drink spiking. The sponsor said the bill would be permissive for establishments, not mandatory, and that liability would still depend on overservice and Liquor Commission investigations. The New Hampshire Lodging and Restaurant Association testified in opposition, saying the bill could raise liability and create concerns about underage consumption in bathrooms. The hearing ended without a vote, with the chair noting the bill would move on to further committee/subcommittee consideration.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 03/05/25
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- So there is an advantage to build them from scratch rather than to build them from scratch rather than
- </c> schools modernize their buildings schools modernize their buildings without<01:14:44.560><c> o</
- </c> Chambers are and work in that building Chambers are and work in that building if<01:16:57.320><c
- Minnesota building and maintaining the Minnesota building and maintaining the state<01:20:24.800><c>
- </c> ready and eager to assist in building ready and eager to assist in building the<01:20:45.239><c>
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 04/02/25
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- owners worldwide.
- Um, who's the owner of this building right now?
- Um, who's the owner of this building right now?
- Uh, uh, Ned Rup is the current owner of the building.
- building.
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:
- Building codes are a necessary and overdue step.
- A stretch code is a type of building code.
- These practices make buildings... ...using less energy-intensive building materials.
- and building new ones.
- By 2070, 3,100 North Shore buildings By 2070, 3,100 North Shore buildings could face tidal flooding on
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.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- That's the law: the cash is handed to them, and they're the owner of that tip.
- </c><00:45:03.280><c> And</c> that they're the owner of that tip.
- And that they're the owner of that tip.
- It violates the basic principles of building a tax code that makes sense.
- a a tax code that principles of building a a tax code that makes<01:08:25.359><c> sense.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 02/03/25
Jobs and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> directly with CEOs small business owners directly with CEOs small business owners and<00:38:09.240
- Those loans also helped purchase a nearby building to accommodate production.
- The restaurant expanded and remodeled an adjacent blighted building.
- The restaurant expanded and remodeled an adjacent blighted building.
- The restaurant expanded and remodeled an adjacent blighted building.
Committee:
Senate Jobs and Economic Development