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FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Jan 14th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • So we're, where we have plans to stay ahead of the capacity need for the state.
  • Back on the bill as amended. Senators, are there any questions on the bill as amended?
  • Is there any debate on the amendment? Senator, would you like to close on the amendment?
  • All in favor of the amendment say yea. All opposed? All in favor of the amendment say yea.
  • The amendment is adopted. Now we're back on the bill as amended.
Bills: S0054, S0156, S0296, S0298
Summary: The committee first heard a presentation on the Governor’s fiscal year 2026-27 public safety budget, which totals about $8.2 billion within a $117.4 billion overall state budget. Caitlin Dawkins of the Governor’s Office of Policy and Budget outlined funding and reductions across the public safety silo, including the Department of Corrections, Juvenile Justice, FDLE, Legal Affairs, the courts, and related entities. Agency heads then presented their requests, with FDLE seeking funding for fentanyl enforcement, career offender registry staffing, alert system upgrades, alcohol testing equipment, officer mental health, criminal alien detection, and statutory staffing needs; DJJ requesting money for the Florida Scholars Academy, uniforms, residential contract rate increases, a new Broward detention center, and facility maintenance; and DOC requesting major funding for correctional officer pay increases, 500 additional FTE, facility construction and maintenance, communications and security technology, offender information system modernization, inmate health care, pharmaceuticals, and food service. Members discussed staffing shortages, prison conditions, immigration enforcement, public records burdens, mental health and substance use treatment, and the need for continued investment in corrections. A member of the public also testified about poor conditions in some prisons, including clothing, food, medical care, and maintenance issues. The committee then considered and passed CS/SB 156, the Jason Rayner Act, which would clarify that a person may not resist a law enforcement officer with violence when the officer is performing official duties and would increase penalties in cases involving violence against officers. The bill sponsor described the case of Officer Jason Rayner and said the measure was intended to prevent defendants from using claims about unlawful detention or arrest to justify violence. An amendment conforming the bill’s language was adopted, and the bill was reported favorably after support was noted from several law enforcement and municipal groups. Next, the committee passed CS/SB 54, which addresses use of substances affecting cognitive function. An amendment narrowed the medical-records language to records relevant to investigations of violent offenders and clarified privacy protections. The bill was then reported favorably. The committee also passed CS/SB 296, the Haven Act, which would direct a study of a secure web-based alert system for domestic violence victims so they can contact 911 without alerting an abuser, and would expand the Address Confidentiality Program to include dating violence victims. Testimony from survivors and advocates emphasized the danger victims face when trying to leave abusive situations. Finally, the committee passed CS/SB 298, the public-records companion bill, which extends confidentiality protections for participants in the Address Confidentiality Program to dating violence victims as well. All three bills were reported favorably, and the committee adjourned after no further business.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Insurance Committee Jan 14th, 2026

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Amendments, try to have amendments to the bill to us as quick as you can toward the end of the session
  • Amendments, try to have amendments to the bill to us as quick as you can toward the end of the session
  • Amendments, try to have amendments to the bill to us as quick as you can toward the end of the session
  • Amendments, try to have amendments to the bill to us as quick as you can toward the end of the session
  • Amendments, try to have amendments to the bill to us as quick as you can toward the end of the session
Bills: SB19, HB40, HB27, HB40, HB27, HB40, HB27
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 29th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • Supreme Court's 1963 decision that said the Sixth Amendment requires every state to provide attorneys
  • It happens all the time, actually, and it happens in other states.
  • Other states have things they call expunction, but it's just nondisclosure.
  • In 2015, the Legislature came back and amended the junk science writ law via House Bill 37.
  • In 2015, the Legislature came back and amended the junk science writ law via House Bill 37.
Bills: HB115
Summary: The Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence reconvened with a quorum present and announced it would likely not vote that night because of confusion over the bill list; members were told a definitive list would be circulated the next morning and a formal meeting would be scheduled later. The chair then heard a series of bills, generally taking testimony and leaving each pending without action. House Bill 1847 would set maximum caseload standards for private attorneys handling indigent criminal appointments through the Texas Indigent Defense Commission; House Bill 2417 would expand compensation eligibility for some wrongfully imprisoned people; House Bill 2813 would require earlier and more specific victim notice of scheduled court proceedings; and House Bill 2309 would expand state and local authority in certain civil asset forfeiture cases involving human trafficking, health care fraud, and organized crime. Each bill was laid out by its author or a member, with no opposition witnesses registered, and each was left pending. The committee also heard House Bill 4733, which would require sealing records for people acquitted of charges when they were not convicted on the related allegation; House Bill 2328, which would modernize expunction service by encouraging electronic notice, setting a standardized fee when electronic service is unavailable, extending clerk retention of expunction orders, and preserving certain mental health commitment orders; and House Bill 115, which would revise Texas’s “junk science” post-conviction writ law by providing counsel, changing the relief standard, requiring written decisions, and easing procedural barriers. Testimony on HB 2328 was mixed: county clerks supported the bill as a cost-saving modernization, while legal advocates warned that permanent retention of expunction orders could undermine true expunction and create privacy risks. HB 115 drew support from innocence and defense organizations, with some concern about a provision affecting subsequent writs. All were left pending after testimony. Later, the committee heard House Bill 2046, which would allow affirmative family-violence findings for any Penal Code offense rather than only Title V offenses; testimony from a Dallas County prosecutor and a committee member emphasized that family violence can involve arson, burglary, fraud, and other non-Title V conduct, and the bill was left pending. House Bill 1765 would tighten restrictions on no-knock warrants by requiring higher-level approval, judicial review, and identifiable officers; members discussed the dangers highlighted by the Harding Street raid and similar incidents, and the bill was also left pending. The meeting ended with the chair noting that some bills had been removed from the agenda at the author’s request and that members should be prepared to finalize the vote list the next day.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Judiciary Committee Apr 23rd, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Oh, there's an amendment that we need to be added. That amendment.
  • So, the amendment... Eligible to do it. So, the amendment took that out.
  • following this state.
  • I am following this state and what this state voted on with the majority of the members in this state
  • But I like the amendment. Sir, absolutely. You can speak to the amendment.
Bills: HB265, HB146, SB254, HB202, HB3, HB42, SB18
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Agriculture and Forestry Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Agriculture and Forestry

Transcript Highlights:
  • Are they talking about not compensating the state? I'm... ...compensating the state? I'm confused.
  • We're going to risk a heck of a lot for the sportsmen of the state and for all of the of the state and
  • for all of the economic impact that is brought into this state and resides in this state.
  • Uh, most every state that tested for CWD in the United States has found it.
  • They're counted in every state that tests... counted in every state that tests.
Bills: HB509
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 7th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • I know that certain states can't ship alcohol made in their state into Texas.
  • The state needs to understand it, and other states have already...
  • States of America.
  • Virginia is a good state model.
  • We have been to 10-plus states.
Bills: HB28, SB3, SB 3
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 7th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • I've worked in adult-use legal states and medicinal-only medical states.
  • I've worked in adult use legal states and medicinal-only medical states.
  • I've written legislation in states all over the country, red states, blue states, all different shapes
  • I love this state dearly.
  • It would also... ...violate the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution, which ensures equal
Bills: SB 3, HB28, SB3
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Judiciary Committee Mar 5th, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • I've got the amendment.
  • Do I have a motion to adopt this amendment? I made the motion to adopt the amendment.
  • This will be our amendment. ...this will be our amendment.
  • Any questions on the amendment? I move to adopt the amendment.
  • Favorable report as amended. Okay. Favorable report as amended. Thank you.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ethics and Campaign Finance Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Ethics and Campaign Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • expert that reviewed Alabama's laws compared to... ...that reviewed Alabama's laws compared to other states
  • principles analysis with standardized principles, followed by ethics, and then what do all the other states
  • Other states do—kind of a national survey.
Bills: HB250
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Education Finance Committee 2/18/25

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
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  • and explain your amendment?
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Bills: HF6, HF52, HF53
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Friendly amendment to the amendment. Reid the Provenzano amendment. Mr.
  • We need to take up the amendment and then the amendment to the amendment. Please.
  • up the amendment to the amendment.
  • Hey, the amendment to the amendment.
  • Back on the amendment as amended. See no questions.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Will the staff please read the amendment? Mr.
  • We'll adopt the amendment without any objection.
  • Without objection, we'll adopt the amendment.
  • I'd like to recognize staff to read the amendment. Mr. Chair, I move to amend House Bill 3970.
  • Amendment submitted.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations and Budget Feb 17th, 2026 at 04:30 pm

Appropriations and Budget

Transcript Highlights:
  • I will file an amendment on the floor to name it Leo's Law after someone that we tragically lost way
  • I do plan to support it, but I have a constituent whose work centers around this effort in Tulsa, and
  • And so I do anticipate we're going to need a floor amendment anyway to make some technical changes.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Tue Mar 24, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 33

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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  • Thank you very much, and welcome to the State House.
  • stand and welcome to the State House. stand and welcome to the State House.
  • truly lasting impact on in our state. truly lasting impact on in our state.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Apr 22nd, 2025

Alabama House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • B is these memorandums of understanding, state-to-state voter... of understanding, state-to-state voter
  • The state-to-state memorandums of understanding. That's three.
  • Speaker, I have an amendment. Clerk, see the amendment?
  • Clerk, see the amendment. Amendment to... Clerk, see the amendment.
  • I have an amendment. Clerk, the amendment.