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ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Agenda Mar 12th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • She pleaded guilty to one count and only served six months in jail, 10 years on probation.
Keywords: 989, all
Summary: The committee heard testimony on Senate Bills 1371 and 1372, which were described as school safety and hiring-transparency measures intended to ensure educational entities request and share relevant personnel information, including pending investigations, resignations during investigations, and disciplinary actions. Senator Nichols said the bills would help prevent individuals with misconduct concerns from moving unnoticed between districts or into private and charter schools, and would require referral to the Idaho Professional Standards Commission when covered employees resign, are terminated, or are placed on leave during an investigation. State Superintendent Debbie Critchfield said the department shared the goal of protecting students and was also working on reinforcing the Code of Ethics and mandatory reporting expectations for educators. Several witnesses testified in support, including a read statement from Dr. Laura Bolton, who said she had reported misconduct in the Boise School District and faced retaliation, Kathy Wilson, who said her son was harmed because the district reported internally instead of making a mandatory report, and Tori Dole, a former Boise teacher who said she was retaliated against after reporting concerns and believed staff should be required to contact law enforcement sooner. Committee members asked whether current law and background checks already covered the conduct described, how the bill would affect privacy and private schools, and what specific amendments were being made. Nichols and Critchfield said the bills were still being refined with the Attorney General’s office and other stakeholders, including clarifying disclosure language and folding whistleblower provisions into one bill. After discussion, members agreed the measures needed more drafting work before moving forward. On motion, the committee voted to hold Senate Bills 1371 and 1372 in committee, with the chair indicating they would be brought back once the language was finalized.
IN

Indiana 2026 Regular Session

Friday, Feb. 27 part 4

Indiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • deny bail to those people who pose a real and violent threat to the public if they were released from jail
Keywords: 964, all
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part II) Apr 30th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • After he treated the injuries of John Wilkes Booth, he was tried for conspiracy and he was sent to jail
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Appropriations Committee Apr 23rd, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • would help convicted felons who engage in murder, rape, and even child sex trafficking get out of jail
Summary: The Assembly Appropriations Committee met on April 23, 2025, with a large regular-order agenda and first approved a consent calendar covering many bills. Several measures were then heard individually, with most receiving support from sponsors and stakeholder groups and no formal opposition in the room, though some bills drew respectful opposition or no votes. The committee also read and deemed approved a lengthy suspense calendar before taking up additional bills and public comment. Among the bills discussed, AB 263 would extend temporary flow regulations on the Smith and Shasta Rivers for five years or until permanent rules are completed; AB 309 would remove the sunset on pharmacists’ ability to provide sterile syringes without a prescription to support HIV and hepatitis prevention; AB 631 would require animal shelters to post intake and outcome data online; AB 792 would allow consolidation of bargaining for court interpreters; AB 867 would ban cat declawing except when medically necessary; AB 1206 would require pre-approved housing plans for small residential projects; AB 787 would require health plans to better help patients find in-network providers; AB 596 would protect workers’ right to wear face coverings unless unsafe; AB 282 would allow housing providers to prefer voucher holders without violating source-of-income discrimination law; AB 738 would create a limited rebuilding exemption for disaster survivors from newer solar requirements; AB 566 would require browsers and mobile operating systems to make global privacy opt-outs easier; and AB 622 would clarify CDCR’s authority to award credits to people serving indeterminate sentences who complete rehabilitation programming. Most of these bills were reported out on roll calls, often with bipartisan or limited dissent. AB 309, AB 631, AB 792, AB 867, AB 1206, AB 787, AB 596, AB 282, AB 738, AB 566, and AB 622 all advanced, while AB 263 also moved forward despite opposition from the Siskiyou Board of Supervisors and the California Farm Bureau. AB 622 generated the most extensive debate, with supporters emphasizing rehabilitation, parole-board review, and cost savings, and opponents warning about public safety and the impact on serious violent offenders. The meeting ended after brief public comment on several other bills on the suspense file and then adjournment.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Health Policy Feb 18th, 2025

Health Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This falls on our hospitals, our crisis units, our jails, law enforcement, and our economy.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Health Policy met with a quorum and heard five bills. SB 126, on prescription hearing aids, would remove Florida’s prohibition on mailing hearing aids when required tele-audiology testing and procedures are completed before sale. The sponsor said the bill would improve access, especially for people with travel or geographic barriers. The Florida Academy of Audiologists expressed support in concept but said it was still working with the sponsor on an amendment for consumer safety. The committee voted the bill favorably. SB 152 would require hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to adopt policies using smoke evacuation systems during certain surgical procedures. Supporters, including the Florida Nurses Association and several nurses, described surgical smoke as a workplace and patient safety hazard containing harmful chemicals, viruses, bacteria, and other contaminants, and said evacuation technology is available and already required in some settings. The committee voted the bill favorably. SB 264 would expand step-therapy exemptions for severe mental illness, including certain postpartum and pregnancy-related mental health conditions, so physicians would not have to require patients to fail preferred drugs in specified circumstances. Support came from Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, NAMI Florida, and several medical and pharmacy groups, who argued that delays in effective treatment can worsen crises and increase hospital and crisis-care costs. The committee voted the bill favorably. SB 342 would create a public-records exemption for current and former AHCA employees and certain family information, citing threats and harassment directed at inspectors and regulators. President Gaetz said he generally opposes such exemptions but supported this one because the employees are not elected officials and face real safety risks. The committee voted the bill favorably. SB 294 would limit the Board of Pharmacy’s ability to add heart failure, coronary heart disease, and cardiac rhythm disorders to the list of chronic conditions eligible for collaborative pharmacy practice, keeping those conditions under direct physician management. The Florida Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons, Florida Medical Association, and the Florida chapter of the American College of Cardiology supported the bill, while the Florida Society of Health System Pharmacists opposed it. The committee voted the bill favorably. Senator Trumbull asked to be recorded in support of SB 126 and SB 152, and the meeting adjourned without further business.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Municipal and County Government (01/23/2025)

Municipal and County Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • He was released with three days’ worth of medication at Valley Street jail, and if this were to pass
  • He was released with three days’ worth of medication at Valley Street jail, and if this were to pass
  • He was released with three days’ worth of medication at Valley Street jail, and if this were to pass
  • He was released with three days’ worth of medication at Valley Street jail, and if this were to pass
  • He was released with three days’ worth of medication at Valley Street jail, and if this were to pass
Keywords: 1189, house, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Transportation (01/14/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • We work with jail car a lot, and I'm proud to say over the last three years we've made a lot of changes
  • We work with jail car a lot, and I'm proud to say over the last three years we've made a lot of changes
  • We work with jail car a lot, and I'm proud to say over the last three years we've made a lot of changes
  • We work with jail car a lot, and I'm proud to say over the last three years we've made a lot of changes
  • We are making great progress to make sure that we're always in compliance with jail car.
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The Transportation Committee met for an opening/orientation session in which members introduced themselves and explained their interest in the committee. Several members noted backgrounds in trucking, piloting, boating, motorcycles, road safety, or constituent concerns about transportation issues. The chair also noted several absent members and said the committee would first hear agency presentations before covering committee procedures. The Department of Safety gave the main presentation, outlining its seven divisions and how they relate to transportation policy and the Highway Fund. The assistant commissioner emphasized that Highway Fund revenue supports both the Department of Transportation and the Department of Safety, with collections coming largely from the road toll/gas tax, DMV fees, and the new electric vehicle surcharge. He also noted that 12% of Highway Fund revenues go to local road repair through the DOT Betterment Fund, and warned that the fund has had a structural deficit for several biennia, requiring General Fund transfers that may be uncertain this session. He said the department aims to provide data and fiscal context on legislation and fiscal notes. State Police then provided a detailed overview of its structure and operations, including the Operations Bureau, Investigative Services Bureau, and Justice Information Bureau. Testimony highlighted Troop G’s role in vehicle inspections, commercial motor vehicle enforcement, fraud investigations, and consumer complaint handling, as well as statewide staffing shortages. The division reported rising calls for service, motor vehicle stops, DWI arrests, and other arrests despite a vacancy rate of about 17%. It also described aviation, K-9, bomb squad, special events response, SWAT, narcotics, major crime, forensic laboratory, and other specialized units, with statistics on drug seizures, investigations, and lab workload. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during this portion of the meeting.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources & Energy.(6-4-26)

Natural Resources & Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • new judges coming in, and a judge is dictated with a lot of roads and other issues, garbage and and jails
  • issues,<00:21:05.760><c> garbage</c><00:21:06.320><c> and</c><00:21:06.400><c> and</c><00:21:06.720><c> jails
  • </c><00:21:07.280><c> But</c><00:21:07.520><c> I</c> issues, garbage and and jails.
  • But I issues, garbage and and jails.
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Protection and Victim Services Committee May 13th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Protection and Victim Services Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • Well, we already have the fines in our statute because all of the criminal penalties are jail or money
  • or criminal penalties are jail or money or both.
  • But one day could be a get-out-of-jail-free card. Three years and 364 days older.
  • But one day could be a get-out-of-jail-free card. Three years and 364 days older.
Keywords: 908, all
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

Senate Executive Departments and Administration (04/15/2026)

Executive Departments and Administration

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, I'm concerned as someone who's been on jail for a while, I'm concerned that it doesn't have the proper
  • someone<00:41:26.319><c> who's</c><00:41:26.560><c> been</c><00:41:26.720><c> on</c><00:41:26.880><c> jail
  • <00:41:27.520><c> for</c><00:41:27.680><c> a</c><00:41:27.760><c> while,</c> someone who's been on jail
  • for a while, someone who's been on jail for a while, I'm<00:41:28.240><c> concerned</c><00:41:28.720
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session - 04/09/26

Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Seniors are getting scammed thinking their grandchild is in jail and the only way to get them out is
  • nearly a victim of this type of scheme where they faked my son's voice and told him that my son was in jail
  • nearly a victim of this type of scheme where they faked my son's voice and told him that my son was in jail
  • nearly a victim of this type of scheme where they faked my son's voice and told him that my son was in jail
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Wed Mar 18, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you don't pay this money into this machine today, you're going to go to jail because you missed your
  • going</c><00:51:54.880><c> to</c><00:51:54.960><c> go</c><00:51:55.040><c> to</c><00:51:55.120><c> jail
  • </c><00:51:55.400><c> because</c><00:51:55.720><c> you</c> you're going to go to jail because you you're
  • going to go to jail because you missed<00:51:56.200><c> your</c><00:51:56.800><c> jury</c><00:51:57.040
Summary: The committee heard SB 1166 SD2, a bill on insurance and climate-related damages that would authorize the Hawaii Property Insurance Association and, in amended versions discussed during testimony, other public and private entities to pursue civil actions to recover losses tied to climate disasters and extreme weather. DCCA’s Insurance Division and the Department of the Attorney General raised legal concerns, saying the bill’s scope may not fit the insurance code section being amended, that it could create subject-matter and title issues, and that some subrogation language may be duplicative of existing rate-filing practice. Lawyers for Justice opposed the measure, arguing it conflicts with existing subrogation law and recent Hawaii Supreme Court rulings that treat the judicial lien process as the exclusive remedy. The American Petroleum Institute also opposed, warning the bill would add liability and litigation risk for companies operating under existing permits and could undermine energy reliability and investment. Supporters said the bill would help shift climate-related insurance costs away from residents and onto fossil fuel companies and other responsible parties. Testimony in support came from the Polluters Pay Hawaii Coalition, Center for Climate Integrity, Hawaii Island Council, Our Hawaii, Sierra Club of Hawaii, and others, who described recent flooding, storm damage, rising premiums, non-renewals, and underinsurance as evidence of a worsening climate-driven insurance crisis. Several supporters urged amendments to give the Attorney General explicit authority to recover insurance-related losses for the Hurricane Relief Fund, HPIA, and private insurers, and to ensure recovered amounts benefit policyholders. Committee members questioned whether HPIA is a private entity, whether the Attorney General could represent it, whether the bill could create double recovery or affect pending climate litigation, and whether insurers would have standing or damages if they are only paying contractual claims. The committee then took up SB 888 SD2, a consumer protection bill that would restrict smart household security device operators from sharing user data with law enforcement without consent or a judicial order, and would bar conditioning device use on such consent. The Office of Consumer Protection testified in support and said an Illinois law could serve as a useful template for exceptions to the warrant requirement. An individual supporter said the measure would protect immigrant communities, judges, and others from surveillance and misuse of private data. No vote was taken during the portion of the meeting provided, and the chair noted additional written testimony submitted in support of SB 1166.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 3/10/26

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • districts, cities, counties, watershed districts, state agencies, boards and commissions, courts, jails
  • 52.159><c> and</c><01:09:52.400><c> commissions,</c><01:09:53.359><c> courts,</c><01:09:53.920><c> jails
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Keywords: 1183, house
CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 049 Mar 4th, 2026

Colorado House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Representatives Carter and Ricks, also Senators Judah and Weissman, concerning requirements for municipal jails
  • Weissman concerning requirements for and Weissman concerning requirements for municipal<00:47:19.119><c> jails
  • </c> municipal jails. municipal jails.
Keywords: 981, all
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • an oath to stand by that, and if they don't, there will be legal penalties and they may end up in jail
  • 55:53.200><c> in</c> legal penalties and they may end up in legal penalties and they may end up in jail
  • 53.920><c> out</c><00:55:54.079><c> of</c><00:55:54.160><c> the</c><00:55:54.319><c> legislature</c> jail
  • and kicked out of the legislature jail and kicked out of the legislature &gt;&gt; and<00:55:55.440><
Summary: The joint meeting of the House Elections, Constitutional Amendments and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee and the House State Government Committee was called to consider House Concurrent Resolution 45, sponsored by Representative Jason Petri. The resolution would support calling for a federal balanced budget amendment through the Article V process. Petri argued that Kentucky’s own constitutional balanced-budget requirement shows the value of fiscal restraint, and he said decades of federal deficit spending and rising debt make a constitutional amendment necessary. Governor Ron DeSantis and Lauren Ends of the National Campaign for a Balanced Budget Amendment also testified in support, emphasizing the growth of federal debt, the risk of a future debt crisis, and the view that Congress is unlikely to solve the problem on its own. Members asked about the mechanics and risks of an Article V convention, including whether the convention’s “sole purpose” language would be enforceable and whether a convention could become a “runaway” process. DeSantis and Ends said states can impose guardrails on delegates, including criminal penalties and delegate-limitation laws, and noted that any proposed amendment would still require ratification by 38 states. They also said that if Congress chose to draft the amendment itself in response to state pressure, that would be acceptable. One witness said 18 states have passed faithful-delegate or delegate-limitation laws. Representative Callaway asked what would happen if the debt issue is not addressed. Witnesses responded that continued borrowing could lead to economic dislocation, higher interest costs, and a debt crisis that would crowd out other federal spending. They said the current debt burden is already more than $100,000 per U.S. citizen and roughly $300,000 per taxpayer, and that a balanced budget amendment would be a first step toward stopping the growth of debt before any long-term paydown could occur. The transcript provided does not show a final vote or other committee action on the resolution.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, September 16, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • safety and security in our Nation's capital so violent offenders are not handed any more get-out-of-jail-free
  • SAFETY AND SECURITY IN OUR NATION'S CAPITAL SO VIOLENT OFFENDERS ARE NOT HANDED ANYMORE GET OUT OF JAIL
  • The reality, which we all know because it is self-evident, is: When a criminal is in jail, they are not
  • WHEN A CRIMINAL IS IN JAIL THEY ARE NOT COMMITTING CRIMES ON OUR STREETS AND NOT TERRORIZING INNOCENT
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary (05/15/2025)

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • somebody found guilty was actually shorter than the time they had spent in a mental health facility or jail
  • somebody found guilty was actually shorter than the time they had spent in a mental health facility or jail
  • He ended up being jailed for 30 days, and unfortunately Mr.
  • Pendleton died in jail, so the case never got resolved.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all