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WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Education Committee, February 13, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, one of Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation's top priorities is protecting private property rights.
  • There's no fiscal note attached to this bill because the Department of Corrections is telling you how
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  • of Wyoming in strong support of HB 102, protecting kids from deepfakes and exploitative images.
Bills: HB0076, HB0102, HB0115
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Education Committee, February 13, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
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  • department of education in conjunction department of education in conjunction consultation<00:51
  • /c><01:09:06.319> if<01:09:06.480> we Department of Education to see if we Department of
  • think in the department of education, I think in the department of education, I think we've<01:12
  • Dicky Shainer, Department of members.
Bills: HB0076, HB0102, HB0115
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Commerce and Tourism Feb 11th, 2026

Commerce and Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • All in favor of the amendment signify by saying aye. Show the amendment adopted.
  • skill and care expected of a competent professional in the field.
  • Are there any questions of the sponsor? Members, any questions of the sponsor?
  • Seeing no questions of the sponsor. Members, are there any questions to the sponsor?
  • I want to thank each and every one of you for your work on this committee.
Bills: S0888, S1516, S1562
Summary: The Commerce and Tourism Committee met with all members present and took up three bills. On Senate Bill 1562, as amended by a strike-all, Senator Trumbull explained that the measure would apply only to new vehicle brands and would limit any one dealer or dealer group to no more than one-third of statewide sales after a brand reaches 1,000 vehicles in Florida, with the stated goal of promoting competition and preventing manufacturers from concentrating sales through a single dealer. The committee adopted the amendment and then reported the bill favorably. Senator Smith later asked to be recorded in the negative on this bill, and Senator Yarbrough asked to be recorded in the affirmative on SB 1562 and SB 888. The committee then heard Senate Bill 888 by Senator Martin, which would limit professional services contracts for architects, engineers, surveyors, and landscape architects so they are liable only for their own negligence or that of those under their supervision, extend those protections from public to private contracts, void broader indemnity clauses, require a professional standard of care, and prohibit additional-insured requirements. There was no debate or opposition, and the bill was reported favorably. Finally, Senator Garcia presented Senate Bill 1516 on caller identification information, citing the volume of robocalls and fraud losses among older adults. The bill would prohibit misleading caller ID practices, require telecommunications companies to provide accurate originating number and location information, create penalties for violations, and require STIR/SHAKEN authentication or a comparable framework. Two appearance forms were filed in support from the Elder Law Section of The Florida Bar and AARP, and Senator Smith voiced support during debate. The committee reported the bill favorably. The meeting concluded with closing remarks and adjournment.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Business and Insurance 2ND REVISED Apr 23rd, 2026 at 09:30 am

Business and Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Is there any concern of the impact of the demographic of what you just described of lower price products
  • Is there any concern of the impact of the demographic of what you just described of lower price products
  • This is the result of a collaborative effort between the Oklahoma Insurance Department and the Oklahoma
  • Last year we passed a consumer protection bill surrounding some of the protections dealing with the growth
  • This regulation and licensing is also protecting the hundreds of small mom and pop other businesses that
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Business and Insurance 2ND REVISED Apr 23rd, 2026

Business and Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is the result of a collaborative effort between the Oklahoma Insurance Department and the Oklahoma
  • This is the result of a collaborative effort between the Oklahoma Insurance Department and the Oklahoma
  • Last year we passed a consumer protection bill surrounding some of the protections dealing with the growth
  • licensing, is also protecting the hundreds of small mom-and-pop other businesses that those payroll
  • They work with hundreds of other Oklahoma mom-and-pop small businesses, and they have to have some protection
Summary: The Business and Insurance Committee first handled a series of executive nominations, including appointments or reappointments to the Oklahoma Securities Commission, Real Estate Commission, State Athletic Commission, Accountancy Board, Commission on Consumer Credit, Uniform Building Code Commission, Abstractors Board, Used Motor Vehicle Dismantler and Manufactured Housing Commission, and State Banking Board. Most nominees briefly addressed the committee, and the nominations were advanced by unanimous or near-unanimous votes. One HB 4488 was laid over at the start of the meeting. The committee then considered several bills. HB 4322, which would remove a dual-licensure requirement for funeral directors and embalmers, drew questions about consumer protection and body care procedures and passed 6-3. HB 4202, changing workers’ compensation fee schedule treatment for radiology, passed unanimously. HB 4203, directing the Uniform Building Code Commission to explore guidelines for single-exit configurations in certain buildings up to four stories, passed 7-2 after concerns were raised about fire safety. HB 4457, dealing with specialty pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers, and access to specialty medications, passed unanimously. Members also debated HB 3983, which would move Oklahoma’s moist smokeless tobacco tax to a weight-based system; supporters argued it would improve fairness and revenue stability, while opponents said it would raise taxes on some products and lacked consumer protections. It passed 6-3. HB 3660, authorizing natural organic reduction as an additional end-of-life option, prompted a lengthy debate over dignity, religious concerns, and consumer choice; it passed 5-4. HB 3802, prohibiting auto insurers from raising premiums solely because a spouse died, passed unanimously. HB 2933, a consumer protection insurance bill, passed 9-0 after extensive discussion of claims handling and insurer accountability. Additional insurance and regulatory measures—HB 2955, HB 2956, HB 3781, HB 3521, HB 3796, HB 3794, and HB 3800—were also advanced, most with little or no opposition. The chair closed by noting all executive nominations and legislation had been cleared from the committee for the year.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/19/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • None of that.
  • None of that.
  • It doesn't limit the ability of kind of brokers, but different social workers to kind of help guide folks
  • Department of Health Services.
  • And, and I, you know, I want to protect the rights of all people, including the people with SMI.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/04/2026 - Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency

Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • The state process is conducted by a combination of the Arizona Department of Health Services, access,
  • We worked this out with the Department of Insurance.
  • We're very thankful to Fausto Borrell and the Department of Insurance and Financial Institutions for
  • Madam Chair, members, Fausto Borrell from the Department of Insurance and Financial Institutions.
  • a lot of our resources in protecting this, and we still struggle with it.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Mar 19th, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Does any of the members of the committee have any questions?
  • This bill does not protect public health; it protects big tobacco year after year. ...it protects big
  • office, and the Department of Revenue to track and update non-compliant products.
  • The registry is being monitored by the Department of Revenue, and they have to meet certain criteria.
  • These have come out of the Court of Civil Appeals and out of the Supreme Court.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Mar 19th, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • The purpose of the lien statute was to protect the hospitals, to protect the... ...to protect the hospitals
  • I think that was the first individual that explained the purpose of the liens and such to protect the
  • Ain't nothing wrong with the leadership of our department.
  • Nothing wrong with the leadership of our police department.
  • House Bill 88 is a department bill for the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles, and it does the following
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Rules REVISED Apr 20th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • Second, I want to grow the enrollment of the University of Oklahoma of Oklahomans year over year so that
  • not going to station someone outside of each of these.
  • There's also, senator, one of the one of Kind of my requirements for carrying this legislation was that
  • How many of the families that were described earlier, of you know taking advantage of this entitlement
  • of addiction.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Rules REVISED Apr 20th, 2026

Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • of Lori Burns to the Board of Regents for Redlands Community College.
  • Second, I want to grow the enrollment of the University of Oklahoma of Oklahomans year over year, so
  • It's not a piece of paper. It is access to billions of dollars of funds.
  • of Regents of the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma to serve a seven-year term ending June
  • So we're not going to station someone outside of each of these.
Summary: The Rules Committee met to consider a long slate of executive nominations and several bills. All of the nominations received broad support and were advanced to the floor, including Lori Burns to the Redlands Community College Board of Regents, Lisa Daly to the Oklahoma State Credit Union, Juana Ellison to the Forensic Review Board, Haley Frick to the Regional University System of Oklahoma, Michael Hillary to the Wildlife Conservation Commission, Dustin Hillary to the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, John Holt to the Used Motor Vehicle Dismantler and Manufactured Housing Commission, Brian Sweeney to the Capital Medical Center Improvement and Zoning Commission, and Cale Walker to the USAO Board of Regents. Most nominations passed unanimously; Brian Sweeney’s nomination passed 15-2. The committee then heard and passed several policy bills. HB 1675 created a severe-weather preparedness framework for youth camps and passed 16-1. HB 3242, the Women’s Safety and Protection Act covering shelters, schools, and higher education, passed 15-2 after questions about enforcement and legal remedies. HB 1739 increased state police pension benefits and employer contributions to help retain officers, passing 16-1. HB 3320 overhauled the sunset review process for boards and commissions and passed 15-2. HB 3047 designated LOFT as the central recipient for legislative reports and passed unanimously, and HB 4434 required the governor or acting governor to notify the next successor before leaving the state, also passing unanimously. The committee also advanced HB 4432, which would restore the ability to deduct gambling losses against gambling winnings for state income tax purposes; supporters said it would help ordinary taxpayers, while opponents raised fiscal concerns, and it passed 16-1. HB 3705 raised the parental choice tax credit cap from $250 million to $275 million and passed 13-3 after extended debate over school choice, public funding, and reporting. HB 3718 set timelines for school districts to process evaluations tied to the Lindsay Nicole Henry Scholarship program and passed 12-2, with critics arguing it could create a separate track and strain school psychology resources. HJR 1089, which would have sent voters a constitutional convention referendum, was laid over and not voted on. The meeting ended with adjournment after the final vote.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm the President and CEO of the Texas Association of Business.
  • Most of the markers are on public land or in right-of-way, so...
  • Six agencies, I'm sorry, for these six agencies: Texas Department of Agriculture, Health and Human Services
  • , Mission, Department of Family and Protective Services, Texas Department of Insurance, Texas Department
  • of Health, Workers' Compensation, and Department of Public Safety, Administrative License.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Economic Development May 12th, 2025

Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • Most of the markers are on public land or in right-of-way. ...land or in right-of-way, so virtually all
  • of our metal markers are in public right-of-way.
  • I'm sorry, for these six agencies: Texas Department of Agriculture, Health and Human Services Commission
  • , Department of Family and Protective Services, Texas Department of Insurance, Texas Department of Workers
  • ' Compensation, and Department of Public Safety.
Summary: The Senate Economic Development Committee met without a quorum, so no votes or formal actions were taken. The chair laid out several bills and resolutions for explanation and public testimony, with each item left pending subject to the call of the chair. Early items included House Bill 1240, a cleanup measure to create a single uniform definition of the Texas-Mexico border region across state law, and House Bill 2768, which would establish an IT apprenticeship credential through junior colleges and technical institutions to help fill state government technology jobs. The committee also heard House Concurrent Resolution 90, which would encourage establishing a Texas trade and investment office in Jerusalem. Testimony on the resolution was sharply divided: one witness opposed it on foreign policy and values grounds, while a Texas Association of Business representative strongly supported it, citing Israel’s innovation and trade potential. Another major item was House Bill 4187, a committee substitute for legislation affecting the Texas Historical Commission; the sponsor described changes expanding use of trust fund money for historic sites, allowing more affiliated nonprofits, clarifying retail operations, and creating a framework for training and consistent interpretation at historic sites. A Texas Historical Commission witness explained that the bill would shift responsibility for maintaining many state-owned historical markers and monuments, including markers on private land, to the commission. Additional measures included House Bill 2788, which would shield Texas Workforce Commission fraud-prevention methods from public information requests; House Bill 5032, directing state agencies to plan for public display of the Texas Declaration of Independence, Texas Constitution, and the Victory or Death letter at the Capitol Complex; House Bill 3146, which would eliminate outdated memoranda-of-understanding requirements for certain State Office of Administrative Hearings arrangements; and House Bill 4815, a cleanup bill modernizing economic development statutes, revising the Made in Texas standard to 51% Texas-origin content, repealing the Governor’s Broadband Development Council, and making other conforming changes. The committee ended by recessing, with members indicating they would likely vote on pending business later when a quorum was available.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Elections Apr 30th, 2025

Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • In my county, we dealt with a protective order on the first day of early voting in November. 2024 and
  • SB 760 both protects the integrity of our elections and prevents the coercion of one of our most vulnerable
  • of.
  • I work as part of the Election Protection Coalition, where we field calls from voters from all over the
  • This is protecting our... vulnerable, part of our vulnerable population, and quite frankly, this is something
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Elections Apr 30th, 2025

Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • receive driver's license data from the Department of Public Safety when a Texas resident moves and obtains
  • A bunch of third-party supporters of this bill, and I'd love to hear their examples of that first. before
  • To say it's been kind of disconcerting is an understatement; it's kind of like being in a hall of mirrors
  • I'm the Vice Chair of the Libertarian Party of Texas.
  • delegates and costs tens of thousands of dollars, even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part I) May 5th, 2025

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • It includes an emergency department, intensive care units, and state-of-the-art surgery suites for both
  • And that's larger than the total budget of about a third of our departments.
  • Just kind of look at the prices of eggs.
  • And that is a gross oversimplification of what it will do to our city and to our department to remove
  • And that is a gross oversimplification of what it will do to our city and to our department to remove
Summary: The Senate Committee on Local Government heard several bills, most of them left pending after brief public testimony. House Bill 331, by Rep. Patterson and sponsored by Sen. Hinojosa, would create a presumption that firefighters, police officers, and EMTs who suffer a heart attack or stroke within eight hours after a strenuous shift were injured in the line of duty for workers’ compensation purposes; testimony from a firefighters’ association supported the bill, and it was left pending. Senate Bill 2655, by Sen. Flores, would authorize Burnet County to establish a local provider participation fund to help support local hospital services; a hospital administrator testified in support, and the committee substitute was left pending. Senate Bill 1443, by Sen. Hughes, would extend the Northeast Healthcare Provider Participation District in three counties, and House Bill 3307, by Rep. Noble, would allow property tax arbitrators to complete required continuing education online; both were left pending without opposition. Senate Bill 3048, by Sen. Birdwell, would create the Bluebonnet Hills Municipal Management District in Midlothian and was also left pending. The committee then took up House Bill 9 and HJR 1, sponsored by Sen. Bettencourt, which would raise the business personal property tax exemption from $2,500 to $125,000 and place the constitutional amendment on the November 4, 2025 ballot. Business groups, realtors, and taxpayers’ advocates testified in strong support, saying the change would provide meaningful relief to small businesses and help balance earlier homeowner tax relief. The City of Fort Worth testified in opposition, warning of a revenue shift to homeowners and budget impacts, but the committee adopted the committee substitutes and reported both measures to the full Senate on 6-0 votes. The committee also heard House Bill 1399 and HJR 99, by Sen. Nichols, to exempt animal feed from property tax when it is already sales-tax exempt; no one testified against them, and both were left pending. Senate Bill 2553, by Sen. West, would let owners of historic archaeological sites protest land and structure appraisals separately, and it was left pending after supportive testimony. Senate Bill 2907 and SJR 78, also by Sen. West, would exempt certain perishable inventory, including food and some prescription drugs, from property tax if approved by voters; pharmacists, business groups, a researcher, and a coalition of retailers and food/medicine advocates supported the bill, and it was left pending. Finally, Senate Bill 1331, by Sen. Hancock and explained by Sen. Middleton, would lower the population threshold for certain municipal civil-service-related petition restrictions from 950,000 to 70,000; law enforcement representatives and a San Marcos police association supported it, and it was left pending. The committee then recessed until 15 to 30 minutes after adjournment.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part II) May 5th, 2025

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • To cross those streams kind of defeats the whole purpose of this bifurcation of these funding methods
  • So I'm going to kind of go to something a little different than I had planned, and kind of the math of
  • The expansion of the district is necessary to accommodate the annexation of five additional tracts of
  • land totaling 145 acres within the corporate limits of the city of Mustang Ridge and the city of Creedmoor
  • That's the end of the MUD train. That's the end of the...
Summary: The Committee on Local Government heard a series of local bills and public testimony focused on hospital districts, municipal management districts, local provider participation funds, manufactured housing, transit financing, development moratoriums, and property tax procedures. Early items included House Bill 467, which would help dissolve the defunct Maybank Kemp Hospital District and establish an Andrew Gibbs Memorial Nursing Endowment, and Senate Bill 3063, creating the Bio Bell Municipal Management District in Liberty County; both drew no public opposition and were left pending subject to call. The committee also heard House Bill 1327, extending the Harris County local provider participation fund through 2027, and Senate Bill 1375, extending Collin County’s LPPF authority, both presented as mechanisms to draw federal Medicaid matching funds for hospitals. A major portion of the meeting centered on Senate Bill 2764, which would require earlier notice to buyers of manufactured homes about how to convert a home from personal property to real property. Senator Cook described the bill as a consumer-information measure tied to displacement concerns at a mobile home park in her district, and a resident testified in support, saying the notice would help families make informed decisions. The committee also discussed Senate Bill 2519, a bill by Senator Bettencourt aimed at preventing local governments from shifting maintenance-and-operations tax revenue into debt-like uses and from changing the purpose of tax rate elections after voters approve them. Supporters argued it would protect taxpayers and preserve the separation between M&O and debt service, while opponents tied the bill to Austin’s Project Connect transit financing and warned it would disrupt an approved project and invite litigation. The committee heard and left pending several other bills, including House Bill 1244 on agricultural land ownership changes without reapplying for an ag exemption, House Bill 2559 on development moratoriums, and Senate Bill 2063 on unequal appraisal protests. Testimony on House Bill 2559 came from developers and builders who said moratoriums in Conroe had delayed projects and harmed buyers, while supporters of the bill said it would impose clearer limits and notice requirements. On Senate Bill 2063, the sponsor explained a committee substitute narrowing how market value evidence may be used in unequal appraisal appeals. The committee also considered multiple local district bills, including new MUDs and management districts in Montgomery, Denton, Fannin, Travis, Hays, and Williamson counties. At the end of the meeting, the committee took up pending business and voted out several measures, including House Bill 1244, House Bill 2559, House Bill 467, House Bill 1327, House Bill 1399, House Bill 2723, House Bill 2730, House Bill 3307, House Joint Resolution 99, and multiple district bills such as Senate Bills 3037, 3043, 3047, 3048, 3050, 3052, 3053, 3056, 3057, 3063, and others. Most were reported favorably, often with committee substitutes, and many were recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. Several bills, including the transit-related SB 2519 and the manufactured housing bill SB 2764, remained pending subject to call after testimony closed.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • For months, Aledo ISD has spent tens of thousands, and I mean tens of thousands of dollars, just to keep
  • of a bunch of volunteers on just one of the curriculums.
  • a part of the discussion of abortion.
  • And that's, of course, been the power of the sonogram.
  • Passed off of the Senate floor multiple times, the protection reinforces the launch of the program, ensuring
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Banking, Financial Services and Pensions Apr 7th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Banking, Financial Services and Pensions

Transcript Highlights:
  • It has a lot of consumer protections and ensures that those who are doing the transaction are aware that
  • a great service to small business in the state of Oklahoma.
  • Let's what what off uher of guys which would you prefer to do?
  • Thank you, Chairman, and thank you, members of the committee.
  • You'd probably like to know the general topic of this bill has to do with the protection of vulnerable
Bills: SB1623, SB2067, SB2132
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Committee, February 24, 2026

Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, so I'm just going to kind of work Not all of the projects that came in Not all of the projects that
  • The top or the bottom of page one there and top of page two is just kind of general conditions for the
  • And I'm just going to kind of walk through quickly, um, one project to show the kind of format of how
  • and kind of bring the small sections of and kind of bring the small sections of the<00:36:11.359
  • > what little bit of an explanation of what little bit of an explanation of what we're<00:43:04.319