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AR
Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session
ALC-OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING REVIEW SUBCOMMITTEE Jan 15th, 2026
ALC-OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING REVIEW SUBCOMMITTEE
Transcript Highlights:
- have to have a four-year degree and that you have to have a certain number of hours in biological sciences
- , earth sciences, and soils classes.
- Yeah, mostly going to be in the biology, earth science, physical science.
- So you have to have 30 hours in the biological and physical sciences, and then 15 hours in college before
Summary:
The Occupational Licensing Review Subcommittee met to review two occupational licensing reports: the Arkansas State Board of Nursing and the State Board of Registration for Professional Soil Classifiers. For nursing, board officials described the board’s history, scope, and licensure categories, noting it regulates about 72,000 nurses and oversees RNs, LPNs, advanced practice nurses, medication assistants, and a new dialysis patient care technician registry. Members asked about workforce shortages, complaint types, and the board’s finances; the board said Arkansas has enough licensed nurses overall but has vacancy issues in some areas, complaints commonly involve criminal backgrounds, fraud, misrepresentation, drug abuse, and misappropriation, and the average case length is 191 days though some cases remain open much longer while awaiting criminal adjudication. Officials also said they are working on efficiency improvements and have added help positions with Department of Health support. The report was accepted without objection.
The committee then reviewed the soil classifier program, now housed under the Natural Resources Commission after the former board was abolished in 2023. Agriculture Department officials explained that soil classifiers are a small, specialized profession requiring a four-year degree with coursework in biological, earth, and soil sciences, and that the state currently has 29 registered soil classifiers. Members asked whether that number is sufficient, what the work involves, and how the program’s finances are used. Officials said the profession is mainly used for septic system design, wetland determinations, nutrient management, and other soil-related work, and that current staffing appears adequate. They also noted the program has about $20,000 in reserves, above the statutory three-year balance, and discussed possible uses such as training, curriculum upgrades, and expanded administrative funding. The report was also accepted without objection, and the meeting adjourned with the next meeting scheduled for February 19 at 1:30 p.m.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Feb 9th, 2026 at 11:18 am
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- participated in projects including food preservation, baking, quilting, embroidery, macrame, wood science
- , cultural arts, wildlife, forestry, plant and soil sciences, wildlife, forestry, plant and soil sciences
- is deeply involved in leadership and service within 4-H, and she serves as a family and consumer sciences
- is deeply involved in leadership and service within 4H, and she serves as a family and consumer sciences
- in Ag Media and a Master of Science in Agriculture from West Texas A&M.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business; to be immediately followed by a hearing to examine certain pending nominations. Apr 30th, 2025 at 08:30 am
Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Dario Gil to be Undersecretary of Energy for Science. and he's as well qualified and has my support.
- Andrea Travnick, and she has been nominated to be Assistant Secretary of Interior for Water and Science
- Dario Gil to be Undersecretary of Energy for Science. The clerk will call the roll. Aye. Mr.
- Travnik has been nominated to be the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science.
- If confirmed, as the Assistant Secretary of Water and Science, I'll bring my core values and natural
NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York State Senate Session - 06/02/2026
New York Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And the Iroquois Middle School Science Bowl champions coached by Elizabeth Keny.
- And the Iroquois Middle School Science Bowl champions coached by Elizabeth Keny.
- And the Iroquois Middle School Science Bowl champions coached by Elizabeth Keny.
- Department of Energy National Science Bowl National Finals, from April 30 to May 4, 2026.
- And lastly, I thank Senator Bailey for mentioning the Holocaust Museum of Science.
Summary:
The Senate convened, approved the prior day’s journal, and then processed a large number of motions to discharge bills from committees and substitute identical Senate or Assembly versions for third reading. The chamber also adopted the resolution calendar with exceptions and took up several resolutions and ceremonial recognitions, including a resolution mourning Hudson Talbott, a Dairy Month resolution highlighting New York’s dairy industry, and introductions honoring Niskayuna academic teams, Gabriella Scheer for receiving the Liberty Medal, the Hartstein family’s civic engagement, and Diana Cochran’s advocacy for safe firearm storage.
The Senate then moved through the calendar and passed many bills on topics including insurance, public health, education, labor, social services, banking, local government, veterans, public service, consumer protection, criminal procedure, cannabis, parks, taxation, election law, and highway matters. Several members explained votes on notable measures: support for acupuncture insurance coverage, consumer protections for doorbell-camera data sharing, expanded protections in debt collection cases, trauma-informed procedures for sexual assault survivors, a Legionnaires’ disease awareness program, changes to mandatory minimum sentencing, and universal safe storage of firearms. A number of home rule and local authorization bills were also approved, including parkland alienation measures and local tax exemption authorizations.
Most measures passed with broad bipartisan support, though some drew recorded opposition. Notable roll calls included the consumer debt uniformity bill, the mandatory minimum sentencing bill, the safe storage/firearms bill, and the public housing and public health measures, each with more divided votes. The chamber also accepted a lengthy Rules Committee report sending many additional bills directly to third reading, and then began the supplemental calendar, passing at least the first items before the transcript ended.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
A New Senator Takes Her Seat – Senator Amanda Hemmingsen-Jaeger Mar 13th, 2026
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Your background is in science, biology, and genetics. So, how did you get into politics?
- So, I got really interested into genetics in 10th grade with the DNA fingerprinting for forensic science
- also, you know, tease that I'm kind of a nerd because I still love being in genetics and being in science
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Summary:
Senator Amanda Hemmingsen-Jaeger discussed her path from science and genetics into politics, saying her lab work showed her that research was not always translating into effective policy. She described getting involved through her union, helping pass paid parental leave for state employees, and then moving into elected office after opportunities opened up in 2022. She also said her House experience helped prepare her for the Senate by teaching her the legislative process, committee work, and relationship-building.
On policy priorities, she said her district is focused on affordable health care, climate change, education, PFAS contamination and drinking water, and concerns about federal actions. She framed her agenda this session as “protect, respond, and recover,” including protecting existing laws such as paid Minnesota leave, responding to possible Medicaid and SNAP cuts, child care costs, and tariffs affecting groceries, and helping the community recover from recent ICE activity that she said disrupted public safety, businesses, and residents.
She identified one specific bill effort: continuing work to ban cryptocurrency kiosk machines, which she said are being used to scam seniors. She said the idea came from the Woodbury Police Department and that she is working with House and Senate colleagues on it. She also described herself as a thoughtful, data-driven “scientist at heart” and said her butterfly earrings symbolize pollinators, native plants, and hope, as well as her own journey and the arrival of spring.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session - part 2 Apr 24th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And then finally, we provide for a science-based, research-based...
- As you know, Representative Rick Hansen mentioned science, so what's in the bill pertaining to food and
- Now, lastly, this is a great segue to science.
- we are doing to make sure that future policy in the agriculture sphere in this state is rooted in science
- Thank you for investing in a policy approach that is rooted in science.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ports, Waterways & Intermodal Transit Committee Feb 12th, 2025
Ports, Waterways & Intermodal Transit
Transcript Highlights:
- as I... ...have information in your packet as I admit, Auburn University is a great university for science
- So we've got problems with the science, and we have... ...problems with the science.
- We have scientists who say there's problems with the science.
- So we're talking about problems with the science; we're talking about the people who don't want it, and
- their concerns—one of their economic concerns... ... concerns, and that we are also listening to the science
Keywords:
DUI, driving under the influence, ignition interlock, interlock device, driver license suspension, restricted license, motor vehicle, alcohol offense, first offense, repeat offender, blood alcohol concentration, BAC, license revocation, Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency, ALEA, public safety, traffic safety, chemical dependency, substance abuse, court referral program
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- There needs to be systematic science here, and science demonstrates that sterile insect technique can
- Science here, and science demonstrates that sterile insect technique can work.
- Science doesn't feel comfortable with that risk margin.
- Science doesn't feel comfortable with that risk margin.
- “So I get, we don’t have any, but surely we’ve talked in here today, science, science, science, science
NH
Transcript Highlights:
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HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
House Chamber - Tue Apr 14, 2026, 9:00AM HST - Day 44
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- the University of Hawaii, a graduate student at the University Hilo focusing in marine policy and science
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- He also said many vaccines were pulled from the list of recommendations not because of quack science,
- Many kupuna do not have a computer or a smartphone, and even if they do, they don't know how to fully
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session (Full Formal with Calendar) Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- refrigerator, the stuff in my closet, the stuff in my garage, the stuff in my basement, the stuff on my computer
- The stuff on my computer, that's my stuff. You only will only get it if I agree to give it to you.
Summary:
The Senate opened with the Pledge of Allegiance, recognized several guests in the chamber, and adopted a resolution congratulating Coleman-Nee on election as National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans. It also took up several local and personnel matters, including a sick leave bank for Emily Cullick and later Paul Stavarski, and local bills affecting the town of Weston and a Dorchester housing/library procurement exemption; those measures were advanced to third reading or engrossment as appropriate. The chamber also suspended Joint Rule 12 to refer several House petitions to committees.
The main business was Senate No. 2516, the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act, which came before the Senate on a Ways and Means substitute (Senate Document 2608). Senators Creem, Moore, Charles, Feingold, Keenan, and others spoke in support, describing the bill as a comprehensive consumer privacy measure with data minimization rules, limits on sensitive data, protections for minors, and strong Attorney General enforcement. Several amendments were debated, with many rejected or withdrawn, while some were adopted, including provisions on geolocation data protections, opting out of targeted advertising, affiliate and merger/acquisition protections, internal operations exemptions, parental access to child data, and a Ways and Means amendment. A number of other amendments on employee data, union data, loyalty programs, AI training, reporting, and related issues were either not adopted or held/withdrawn.
After the amendment process, the Senate adopted the amended Ways and Means substitute and ordered the bill to a third reading. The bill was then passed to be engrossed on a roll call vote of 40-0. The Senate also adopted an order to adjourn to the following Monday at 11:00 a.m. and to dispense with printing a calendar. The session adjourned in memory of Darrow Logan Alexander of South Boston.
AZ
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- So for the person that's coming in, maybe visiting their family and they flip open their computer and
- wanted to cover to make sure that they're not obligated to pay the state because they opened up the computer
Bills:
SB683, SB1579, SB1389, SB1387, SB1390, SB1391, SB2063, SB1829, SB2060, SB1842, SB1398, SB1212, SB2158, SB102
Keywords:
education, tax credit, student support, private school, Oklahoma Parental Choice Tax Credit, financial assistance, homeschooling, qualified expenses, property tax, valuation increase, taxpayer rights, homestead, protest process, school choice, tuition assistance, income limits, parental choice, accreditation, sales tax, motor vehicles
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Courts, Corrections and Justice Sep 23rd, 2025
Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- I have been told that we can park our personal things, backpacks, computers, and all that, if you wish
- We'll have things, backpacks, computers, and all that, if you wish to, in the room right to our right-hand
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- changed is the advanced sensors, uh, the communications, the more, the faster and more powerful computer
- , uh, computers and software, and the advanced modeling and machine learning.
Bills:
HB 551, HB 1281, HB 1378, HB 1617, HB 2868, HB 2881, HB 3374, HB 4439, HB 4726, HB 4732, HB 4878, HB 4914, HB 4921, HB 4958, HB 5200, HB 5318, HB 5360, HB 5402, HB 5568, HB 5573, HB 5623, HJR 218
Keywords:
political contributions, address privacy, Texas Ethics Commission, election transparency, campaign finance, international organizations, World Health Organization, jurisdiction, state law, enforcement, United Nations, World Economic Forum, attorney general, Texas attorney general, state sovereignty, legal enforcement, Texas Attorney General, electric energy storage, municipal regulation, county regulation
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Commerce and Tourism Mar 10th, 2025
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- I've got mine in color here on my computer, so it's different. Line 39 is the current law as it is.
- If you could help, because on my computer it shows what's in color and what's in blue.
Keywords:
jury duty, nursing mothers, exemption, legal rights, parental responsibilities, sexual extortion, criminal law, felony, threat, blackmail, SB116, machine gun conversion devices, switches, pistol conversion device, auto sear, firearm accessories, machine gun, automatic weapon, semiautomatic pistol, gun control
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- instructed by her physician that she really could only be not more than 15 minutes in front of a computer
- His proficiency with how to deal with the computer and the database and whatever is amazing, and I can't
- I think Ryan lives in my office because my computer is always breaking.
- And he either fixed it, put a new button in it, or got me a new computer.
- That whole department, computer.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House committee hears bill to designate the giant beaver as Minnesota's state fossil 3/13/25
Transcript Highlights:
- Alex Hastings, the Fitzpatrick Chair of Paleontology at the Science Museum of Minnesota.
- Um, and it is currently on exhibit at the Science Museum.
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NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Chamber Meeting Jan 26th, 2026 at 11:12 am
New Mexico House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research and is a program started by the National Science
- They are establishing 32 new faculty in high-impact science and engineering disciplines, and they're
- In their program, the main goals are to support students who want to study science and engineering, yay
- , and to help improve science and engineering in ways that last in New Mexico, and to encourage research
- His areas of interest are engineering, robotics, political science, business, and music.