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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Banking, Financial Services and Pensions Feb 10th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Banking, Financial Services and Pensions

Transcript Highlights:
  • So let's move to the top of the agenda.
  • I'm the director of the police pension.
  • This bill's called the Protections for Financial Exploitation of Protected Adults Act.
  • It also provides some immunities to the employees of those institutions and the institutions for acting
  • We've covered the agenda. We'll be back here next week with a longer agenda.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Veterans and Military Affairs REVISED Feb 12th, 2026

Veterans and Military Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Back on the bill as amended with the committee substitute. The amendment is adopted.
  • Back on the bill as amended with the committee substitute.
  • So that it just because it went back to the Treasury rather than just coming back to our operating funds
  • The biggest concern I have is the excluding from the Purchasing Act and so choosing that exclusion.
  • biggest concern I have is the excluding from the Purchasing Act and so choosing that exclusion I mean
Summary: The Veterans and Military Affairs Committee met and advanced several bills related to veterans records, National Guard benefits, burial honors, and veterans home operations. Senate Bill 2026 would allow grandchildren, with proof of lineage, to access a veteran’s DD-214 filed with a county clerk; it passed 9-0. Senate Bill 1376, amended to be named the CW5 Chris Rowe Act, would revise National Guard retirement and pay provisions, including a five-year Oklahoma Guard service minimum for retirement eligibility and language intended to ensure full-time Guard members are paid at their rank; despite concerns raised about the five-year threshold and out-of-state members, it passed 9-0. Senate Bill 1355 would create a program and funds to provide memorial headstones, markers, or medallions for eligible veterans and National Guard veterans; it also passed 9-0. The committee then considered Senate Bill 2115, a broad measure affecting Oklahoma veterans homes and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The bill would allow more flexible hiring of part-time health care staff, create revolving funds for quicker purchasing of supplies, and exclude certain purchases from the state Purchasing Act. Members questioned the canceled warrant fund, the scope of the purchasing exemption, and how donations and federal funds would be handled. The author and ODVA representatives said the bill was still a work in progress and emphasized the need for flexibility and safeguards. The bill passed 9-0. Finally, Senate Bill 1533, described as cleanup language for the Dignity and Burial Act, would change eligibility to require a veteran to have been a resident of Oklahoma rather than dying in the state. It also passed 9-0. Near the end of the meeting, Chair Stanley noted plans for another committee meeting the following week and Senator Peterson mentioned an upcoming floor substitute related to the Strategic Military Planning Commission sunset issue.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

House in Session Jun 5th, 2025

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The House will come to order. Members and visitors of the gallery, please rise for the prayer.
  • The Clerk will lock the machine and announce the presence of a quorum. 96 members voting, a quorum is
  • Members and visitors of the gallery, please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.
  • I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands
  • None on the desk, Mr. Speaker. Bills on the special order calendar? None on the desk, Mr. Speaker.
Summary: The Florida House of Representatives convened for a brief session focused on procedural matters. Representative McClure moved to waive rules and introduce House Bill 5017 and House Joint Resolution 5019. The primary business was Representative Garrison's House Concurrent Resolution 1635, which extends the 2025 regular legislative session until 11:59 PM on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. The resolution specifies that only the General Appropriations Act (GAA), its implementing bill, and an enumerated list of conforming bills, joint resolutions, and general bills may be considered during the extension. All other legislative measures will be indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration as of 12:00 AM on Saturday, May 3, 2025. The resolution was adopted.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services May 5th, 2025

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • other insurance options, but he fought for those benefits back for the, for those board members.
  • I will just tell you based on my experience in banking that back in the 90s when home equity lending
  • So there were a lot of protections put in the bill back in the mid-nineties and And so we've, we've advanced
  • Property taxes will be levied to pay back those loans, but in the case of an emergency, if, if, if, uh
  • What are the, if you know, the current requirements under the Fair Debt Collection Act?
Bills: HJR40
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Veterans and Military Affairs REVISED Feb 12th, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Veterans and Military Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • , this Act shall be known and may be cited as the CW5RI Rowe Act submitted by Senator Hiinz.
  • Eyes have it, so the amendment is adopted. Back on the bill as amended with the committee sub.
  • I put the language back in. Back in there. Will there be questions of the author?
  • Go back and ask for a refund of that in our appropriations so that, just because it went back to the
  • There's really the biggest concern I have is the excluding from the purchasing act and so choosing that
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • costs on the back end.
  • toothpaste back in the tube very easily.
  • back in the tube.
  • then looked back into the current codes, it was determined that some of the other things that have been
  • I think you removed the voting member of the sheriff in your sub. We're going to put that back in.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • I mean this was back in the 1900s so A lot of people didn't know a lot of things about the Navy SEALs
  • Now to back it up a little bit, when I got hurt, I got introduced to the opioids.
  • But the Lord kept putting me back in here.
  • If you would state your name for the record. and your position on the bill and I'm back to Mr.
  • This also gets to the issue of scheduling pursuant to the Controlled Substances Act. is a Schedule I
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Administration of Criminal Justice May 6th, 2026

Administration of Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • I don't see him back there. I think I thought he was in the back of the room.
  • if you read the revised statute and the law, then if you commit two of the following acts—leave the roadway
  • And I'm just trying to find the funding, report back on the programs, anything that we can do to help
  • were just doing kind of back-of-the-napkin computation.”
  • It came back as the lesser-included offense of second-degree murder, the lower charge.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • The agency amendment was originally filed back in October.
  • The agency amendment was originally filed back in October.
  • intent of the waiver is to successfully transition these kids to the community and back into the home
  • <00:46:44.680><c> to</c> back to back to the<00:46:45.880><c> primary</c> the primary the primary problem
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Summary: The committee first approved the minutes and then took up a series of administrative regulations from several agencies. Early items included Attorney General consumer protection rules on removal sales, health spas, liquidation sales, and nonresident sellers of visual aid glasses; Finance and Administration Controller rules on clearinghouse validation and fraud prevention; and Board of Dentistry rules updating exam requirements, controlled substance prescribing, training for neuromodulators and dermal fillers, infection control, sedation/anesthesia continuing education, and required education on pediatric abusive head trauma and controlled substance ingestion prevention. The committee also approved staff amendments on these items, generally to conform to KRS Chapter 13A, and members asked a brief question about the dentistry controlled-substances changes, which was answered as an alignment with statute. The committee next approved regulations for the Board of Ophthalmic Dispensers, Board of Nursing, and Board of Emergency Medical Services. The ophthalmic dispensers package would revise meeting and recordkeeping language, raise renewal fees, set reinstatement and apprentice-license rules, add complaint and hearing procedures, and repeal a duplicative regulation. The nursing regulations would streamline approval of training programs and require notice and documentation of site visits and deficiencies. EMS rules would create five EMS medical director certifications, set expiration and renewal requirements, require publication of disciplinary sanctions, and exempt currently approved directors before October 1, 2026. Staff amendments were adopted without objection on each set. The Education and Labor Cabinet’s school transportation regulation drew extended discussion. The agency explained the changes were intended to implement Senate Bill 46 and update references affected by later legislation, including an oral amendment to delete a subsection reference tied to KRS 160.380. The committee adopted both the agency and oral amendments without objection after brief questions about the scope of the bill changes and van transportation for students. The committee then heard a lengthy package from the Department for Public Health on WIC and related nutrition program regulations, including updates to infant and child certification periods, documentation requirements, vendor criteria, sanctions, hearing procedures, and high-risk vendor standards. Staff amendments were adopted without objection. Finally, the committee considered the Inspector General’s regulation for freestanding birthing centers, which included both staff and agency amendments. The agency changes would require two neonatal resuscitation program-certified staff, set rules for medical director vacancies and appeals, revise facility and staffing terminology, adjust transfer-agreement requirements, and allow waivers when agreements cannot be secured. Mary Katherine DeLodder of the Kentucky Birth Coalition testified in support, saying the parties had worked through concerns and were ready to move forward. The committee then moved on to Medicaid’s 1915C child waiver regulations, where staff amendments were adopted, but Lucy Heskins of Kentucky Protection and Advocacy testified against the package because it did not include person-directed services, which she said are required by Kentucky law and important for families using the waiver.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/26

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Welcome back to the Children and Families Committee, Chair Pinto.
  • ><c> to</c> The act required counties to The act required counties to fundamentally<00:37:15.760><c>
  • provided</c><00:48:21.840><c> in</c> this act, and the clarity provided in this act, and the clarity
  • And we ask for the state to complete the case reporting requirements under the act so we can remain grounded
  • </c><01:41:15.360><c> are</c><01:41:15.480><c> saying,</c> the the people back home are saying, the the
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:32:23.960><c> by</c> the annual report as it comes back by the annual report as it comes back
  • It helps the seniors avoid getting lost in the first place, but here's the catch: we need to act now.
  • is now uh thank and why the time to act is now uh thank you<01:05:10.279><c> uh</c><01:05:10.520><c>
  • Well, these services flow down from the federal Older Americans Act, and, as I told you, the Board on
  • you the board on Aging act and as I told you the board on Aging is<01:07:50.000><c> the</c><01:07:50.200
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Conference Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Apr 29th, 2026

Conference Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is the Conference Committee for Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight.
Bills: HB1851
Summary: In the Conference Committee for Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight, Reverend Shriver presented House Bill 1851. He described it as a consumer protection measure that would give consumers rights regarding auto-renewal on subscriptions. After the bill was introduced, the chair asked for questions, but none were raised. There was no debate on the measure. The committee then moved to open the bill for signature, with no further discussion or recorded vote in the transcript.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Conference Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Apr 15th, 2026

Conference Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Conference Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight is now open.
Bills: HB1851
Summary: The Conference Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight met to take up Conference Committee Report No. 2 on House Bill 1851. Representative Shriver explained that the bill is a consumer protection measure aimed at giving consumers notice before annual subscriptions automatically renew, so they are reminded of upcoming charges and are aware they agreed to an annual subscription. Shriver also said the bill includes additional consumer protections to ensure people understand what they are agreeing to when signing up for such subscriptions. No questions or debate were raised during the meeting. After discussion, the chair opened the report for signatures, and the committee then adjourned.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, February 19, 2026

Labor, Health & Social Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Welcome, everybody, to Labor, Health, um, day two on Senate File 121, the Wyoming Pharmacy Act amendments
  • This amends the provisions of the act and age of patients who, uh, whom pharmacists may provide immunization
  • spot, looking at trying to mesh the things so it work for the patient and if necessary going back getting
  • If that happens in the real world and we need to fix something, come back and tell us. >> Okay, sounds
  • </c><00:08:38.320><c> the</c> drug makes sense for what the the drug makes sense for what the the diagnosis
Bills: SF0121
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

Hearings to examine turning back time, focusing on locking the clock. Apr 10th, 2025 at 09:00 am

Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • the Sunshine Protection Act.
  • I want to thank the committee for the consideration of the Sunshine Protection Act.
  • If we called it the go to work an hour earlier act rather than the Sunshine Protection Act no one would
  • here by the back and forth.
  • In the interest of time, I will yield back to the Chairman.
Summary: The committee meeting was dedicated to discussing significant legislative topics, focusing particularly on the implications of daylight saving time (DST). Senator Scott advocated for the Sunshine Protection Act, which aims to eliminate the twice-yearly clock changes and keep daylight saving time year-round. He emphasized the negative health impacts associated with DST, including increased risks of heart attacks and accidents immediately following the time changes. Various witnesses provided personal testimonies and expert opinions, highlighting the confusion and health disruptions caused by the current time change practices.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

Hearings to examine big fixes for big tech. Apr 1st, 2025 at 01:30 pm

Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights Subcommittee

Transcript Highlights:
  • The America Act sensibly does not let the fear of breakups go.
  • Back to the America app.
  • all how the Clayton Act was written.
  • I think, frankly, are not there in the text, the history of the Clayton Act.
  • Seems like that was the intuition of the drafters of the Clayton Act. I'm way over my time, Mr.
Summary: The meeting, titled 'Big Fixes, Big Tech', marked the first hearing of the Senate antitrust competition policy and consumer rights subcommittee in the 119th Congress. Chairman Lee opened the session focusing on the urgent need for effective solutions regarding anti-competitive behavior among major tech firms like Google and Facebook, highlighting several ongoing court cases regarding monopolistic practices in the digital advertising and search markets. Key discussions included the limitations imposed on small businesses and innovation due to the dominance of these tech giants, with many testimonies advocating for stronger legislative measures, including the America Act. The act aims to disrupt the monopolistic capabilities of these firms and restore competitive integrity in the marketplace, which has suffered under their oppressive market control.