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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 16th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members of the JCR 4032 is the industry agreed to language to assess themselves for some fees.
  • What it does is it increases the caps on fees that the Ethics Commission fund may retain each year from
  • There could be all sorts of things that are... actually to be purchased to make that operation run.
  • House Bill 4050 is the OPERS reform where we are dropping the employer contribution amount by 7%.
  • The fund will operate under the oversight of the Invest in Oklahoma Board.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Feb 18th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • SB 644 on attorney's fees, suit money, and costs.
  • I just, in looking at it, it looks like possibly it could end up leading to kind of fees on fees on fees
  • You could be, your behavior could lead to... ...is usually around fees.
  • because they are driving up maybe the other party's fees.
  • I think that if you are... ...up maybe the other party's fees.
Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice met to consider several criminal justice and court-related bills, along with the committee’s proposed $7.9 billion budget. The committee first heard and approved CS/SB 600 on bail bonds, as amended to adjust solicitation, cash bond return, forfeiture remission timing, and clerk procedures; CS/SB 436 on felony battery, which expands qualifying prior offenses and was amended to correct a drafting issue; CS/SB 928, “Missy’s Law,” requiring immediate remand to custody after conviction for dangerous crimes; SB 1332 on career offender registration, adding in-person reporting, more detailed registration requirements, and stronger penalties for noncompliance; and CS/SB 682 on violent criminal offenses, a domestic violence measure adopted via a substitute amendment that adds stricter penalties, electronic monitoring, injunction protections, and related procedures. All of those bills were reported favorably. The committee also approved SB 1072 creating an anti-Semitism task force in the Attorney General’s Office. The bill drew extensive public testimony both for and against, with supporters emphasizing rising anti-Semitic incidents and the need for statewide review, and opponents raising concerns about free speech, the definition of anti-Semitism, and possible conflation of criticism of Israel with hate speech. Senators also discussed the bill’s scope and the IHRA definition before it was reported favorably. In addition, CS/SB 532 on clerks of court was amended to clarify foreclosure sale procedures and funding predictability for clerks, then reported favorably. CS/SB 644 on attorney’s fees, suit money, and costs was also approved after amendments that aligned family-law fee provisions and codified standards for fee awards in dissolution and paternity cases; the sponsor said the bill was intended to curb vexatious litigation and improve consistency across districts. After the bill actions, the chair summarized the criminal and civil justice budget, describing it as a disciplined proposal that addresses corrections deficits and future inmate growth while funding core public safety needs. The committee then heard substantial public testimony on prison conditions, staffing, pay, heat, infrastructure, and the possibility of reducing prison populations or adding air conditioning in facilities. The chair announced that SB 1632 and its conforming bill SB 1634 would be temporarily postponed to the following week, and the record was supplemented with the names of many people who had registered to speak for or against those bills. The meeting concluded after members were invited to record votes and the committee adjourned.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources, February 10, 2026

Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • They've already created fee structures.
  • <00:32:06.399> far stained, and in many cases operating far stained, and in many cases operating
  • You don't uh pay a flat per head fee.
  • The the third scenario that this fee.
  • friendly type structure, less operation friendly type structure, less operation and<01:04:25.280
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources, February 10, 2026

Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh so this project typically operate on.
  • <00:34:33.200> costs has made logistics and operating costs has made logistics and operating
  • The statute does not change those operative words.
  • The statute does not operative words.
  • What it change those operative words.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • up for the farmers and ranchers in the state of Oklahoma so that they can be up and running and operational
  • I would say if a memorandum of understanding were as functional and operational as some may say it was
  • still maybe don't believe that they have access to the tools and the parts that they need to be Operational
  • I don't believe in here that they perhaps operate, perhaps, but whatever that specific language would
  • We're requiring a permit fee from the fire marshal's office, and 75% of that permit fee, capped at $500,000
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Rules Jan 15th, 2026

Rules

Bills: S0100, S0102, S0104
Summary: The Senate Committee on Rules met with a quorum present and heard three housekeeping/statutory revision bills. Chair Passidomo introduced the committee’s new staff director, and the committee proceeded quickly through the agenda with no public appearance forms, questions, or debate on any of the bills. SB 100, the Adoption Act, prospectively adopts the 2026 Florida Statutes as an official document and adopts the statute materials passed by the 2025 regular session as official state statute law. SB 102 deletes statutory provisions that were previously repealed or expired and are now without effect. SB 104 is the General Reviser's Bill, which removes obsolete language, updates cross-references, and corrects grammatical and typographical errors in the Florida Statutes. Each bill was reported favorably by roll call vote. After the votes, several senators asked to be recorded as voting favorably on tabs 1 and 2, and the committee adopted that request without objection. The meeting then adjourned, with members reminded that the committee would meet again on Thursday.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • Clair County, obviously we are a part of this particular bill, and we get certain monies and fees allocated
  • to the Sheriff's... ...monies and fees allocated to the Sheriff's Office that at this point in time
  • can be expended only for operations of the jail.
  • And then third, we're asking that they post their hours of operation.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

TRS-EIG, TRS Public Hearings 02-05-2026

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • a motor vehicle equipped with operating a motor vehicle equipped with an<00:57:06.880> engine
  • But there's also a fee charging a registration addition to the registration.
  • and the potential of these fees being assessed on a commercial vehicle.
  • of a vehicle in a the operation of a vehicle in a negligent<01:24:44.800> manner.
  • This is the, uh, what is typically known as a fee-bait bill. Yes. Yeah.
Summary: The committees heard testimony on several transportation-related measures. SB 2356, relating to parking, drew support from the Office of Planning, the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, Appleseed Center, Realtors, and the Hawaii Bicycling League. Members discussed the bill in the context of the planned stadium-area mixed-use development, with questions about whether parking would be built in structures rather than as large surface lots. Senators expressed support and noted the measure’s broader housing and parking-reduction goals, but no vote was taken during the hearing. The bulk of the hearing focused on SB 2699, which would create a fare-free youth transit program, a special fund, annual evaluations, and appropriations tied to the environmental, energy, and food security tax. The Attorney General’s office raised technical concerns about whether the special fund met statutory requirements. The Department of Education and Department of Health supported the bill, as did the City and County of Honolulu DOT, Appleseed Center, Hawaii Youth Transportation Council, Public Health Institute, Hawaii Children’s Action Network, Hawaii Bicycling League, Our Children’s Trust, and numerous youth testifiers. Supporters emphasized reduced family transportation costs, better school attendance, improved health and mobility, and environmental benefits. One senator raised emergency-planning concerns about how children using free transit would be handled during events like tsunamis; DOT and DOE responded that emergency procedures are being developed. The chair said the committee would work on language changes, including a delayed effective date to July 2027, and defer decision-making until the 12th. The final measure discussed was SB 2470, which would require leading pedestrian intervals, accessible pedestrian signals, and other safety improvements at state-controlled intersections, and create a process for community requests for accessible pedestrian signals. Appleseed Center, the Hawaii Association of the Blind, and the Disability Rights Center supported the bill, citing pedestrian safety, reduced collisions, and the need for audible cues for blind and low-vision pedestrians. Testifiers urged a phased-in approach that prioritizes high-traffic intersections. The hearing ended with the bill still under consideration and no final vote announced.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The updated substitute clarifies that a fee of only 20 percent may be charged if needed to maintain food
  • This bill aligns with the regulatory framework of other states that also operate in the MISO grid.
  • Additionally, further capacity needs are managed through participation in a multi-state auction operated
  • These are operating costs because we have an obligation to serve ratepayers and to provide them with
  • If it files an update application, it prompts the PUC to review its operating expenses, investments,
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/26

Housing Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • But she noted that there was a housing and eviction crisis before Operation Metro Surge.
  • And so um you operation metro surge.
  • For 34 years, Homeline has operated Minnesota's only free statewide tenant legal hotline.
  • Operation Metro Surge has only made our services significantly more needed by our neighbors.
  • Um, Operation Metro Surge has levels.
Bills: HF3425, HF3424, HF1385
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Mar 3rd, 2026 at 10:30 am

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • Guarantee you they're state operators in the state of Oklahoma who work for the Iranian regime.
  • Only other thing, not only other thing, there's lots of minor changes, but it does adjust the annual fee
  • from $2,000 to $3,000 and from $3,000 to $4,000 in the ongoing fee from $200 to $3,000, which is a fee
  • a bad faith lawsuit against our landlord That the landlord would be able to recoup his attorney's fees
  • In 2009, House Bill 2013 became law and prohibited law enforcement from charging accident response fees
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 4/15/26

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • reimbursement, I think, is one that, so as you and I, Trebaker, were talking to organizations that operate
  • 57.360> and<00:15:57.519> DLI<00:15:58.000> grants<00:15:58.399> feel operate
  • under deed and DLI grants feel operate under deed and DLI grants feel like<00:15:58.720> I<00
  • is a technical correction to coincide with the 2024 legislative amendments that updated the maximum fees
  • The notice requirements in subdivision 9 were not updated to reflect the new maximum fees at that time
Bills: HF4862, HF4598
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 4/14/26

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • really not a very large fee.
  • really not a very large fee.
  • really not a very large fee.
  • really not a very large fee.
  • And so, can I ask what the fee was that or what the fee is that they charge?
Bills: HF4479, HF4368, HF4889
Summary: The committee approved the April 9 minutes and then took up House File 4479, which would require public postsecondary institutions to make space available for town halls and similar official events by elected officials, with limits intended to keep the events on the official side and not campaign-related. Representative Frederick said the bill is meant to prevent universities from creating barriers such as fees or parking charges and to ensure a neutral, accessible venue for community conversations. The bill was laid over for possible later action. The committee heard supportive testimony from Jim Dimmick of Minnesota State University, Mankato, who argued that town halls should be public, open, moderated, and dialogic rather than speeches, and said universities should be centers for public discourse. He also said charging fees can undermine neutrality and that using partisan student groups to sponsor events can create the appearance of bias. Minnesota State official Mr. Omen said campuses often host these events, fees are set locally to cover costs, and student government sponsorship can sometimes avoid charges; he also noted the fee at Mankato is discounted and depends on room size. Several members raised concerns about the bill. Representative Scott, Chair Robbins, Representative Schwarz, Representative Allen, and others argued that campuses should not be required by statute to give legislators special treatment, that fees and parking costs cover real expenses, and that universities should remain focused on education rather than political events. Questions also focused on who would decide what room size is reasonable, how disputes would be handled, and who would pay for security if protests or safety issues arose. Representative Frederick responded that room selection would be a good-faith partnership with the university, that the bill does not require a town hall or guarantee a specific room, and that security funding is not spelled out in the bill.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/04/2026 - Senate Judiciary and Elections

Judiciary and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • filing fee on a criminal defendant, and the courts may not adopt any new fee, fine, surcharge, or assessment
  • In Arizona, we charge a fee to access your constitutional right.
  • We charge a fee for a jury trial in criminal cases, and we also charge a fee for assistance of counsel
  • , and we charge a fee for the right to appeal your trial as well.
  • And Maricopa collects zero of these fees. Maricopa collects zero of these fees.
Summary: The committee heard several criminal justice and victims’ rights bills. HB 2131 would remove the financial-gain element from weapons/explosives trafficking and impose stricter sentencing, including no early release for trafficking three or more weapons; it received a due pass recommendation on a 6-1 vote. HB 2132 would lower the fentanyl trafficking threshold from 200 grams to 100 grams and adjust related motor-vehicle language; supporters said it would help prosecutors and law enforcement, while opponents warned it would sweep in heavy users and lacked data on current prosecutions. It passed 4-3. HB 2223 would require sex offenders seeking a name change to notify prosecutors and victims, and to register under the new name with the old name as an alias; it passed 6-1. The committee also considered HB 2411, creating the crime of coerced abortion for secretly or forcibly administering abortion-inducing drugs without a pregnant woman’s knowledge or consent. Supporters argued existing laws do not clearly cover situations where the drug is given but no death occurs; opponents said assault, manslaughter, homicide, and food-contamination statutes already address the conduct and warned the bill was unnecessary and aimed at abortion access. The bill passed 4-3. HB 2043 would add unborn children to the felony-murder statute; supporters called it a cleanup measure closing a loophole, while opponents said it was an abortion/personhood measure with broader implications. It passed 4-3. HB 2046 would require victims of sex offenses to be notified of pre-hearings in probation review matters involving young sex offenders; victims and prosecutors said the change would ensure meaningful participation, and it passed unanimously 7-0. HB 2666 would increase penalties for sexual extortion involving 15-, 16-, and 17-year-olds when committed by an adult, and it passed unanimously 7-0. HB 2265 would eliminate court fees and assessments tied to public defenders, jury trials, appeals, and related criminal-case charges; supporters framed it as protecting constitutional rights, while counties warned of lost revenue, and it passed 7-0. Finally, HB 2133 would require commercial websites hosting sexual material to verify consent and age of depicted persons, retain records, and treat synthetic depictions as images; the sponsor said it was meant to curb CSAM and revenge porn, while testifiers raised concerns about breadth, record retention, and constitutional issues.