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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Tourism and Gaming Working Group (TGWG) - Wed Apr 15, 2026 @ 11:30 AM HST

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Many states use gaming tax revenue to fund education programs or infrastructure improvement projects,
  • Many states use gaming tax revenue to fund education programs or infrastructure improvement projects,
  • Many states use gaming tax revenue to fund education programs or infrastructure improvement projects,
  • <00:13:24.480> improvement<00:13:25.080> projects, infrastructure improvement projects,
  • infrastructure improvement projects, public<00:13:26.720> safety<00:13:27.160> initiatives
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/26

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um explain to me how that relates to infrastructure redevelopment and maintaining the infrastructure
  • Um explain to me how that relates to infrastructure redevelopment and maintaining the infrastructure
  • Um explain to me how that relates to infrastructure redevelopment and maintaining the infrastructure
  • and water infrastructure.
  • And so looking at infrastructure.
Bills: HF4236, HF4122, HF4377
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Committee Apr 29th, 2025

Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure

Transcript Highlights:
  • Broadband infrastructure projects are created and funded with very slim margins in order to protect the
  • However, we have put utility infrastructure in place next to or in the right-of-way with ALDOT to serve
Bills: HB606, SB271
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/27/2026 - House Natural Resources, Energy & Water

Natural Resources, Energy & Water

Transcript Highlights:
  • Yeah, the stakeholders were mainly the infrastructure of water in Arizona, like AMWA and others that
  • , water infrastructure, which they really didn’t have the right to do before, like other authorities
  • , water infrastructure, which they really didn't have the right to do before, like other authorities
  • So Arizona Water has a program in place to replace all that aging infrastructure.
  • The bill also restricts any political subdivision, including any...
Summary: The committee first received an update from Arizona Department of Water Resources Director Tom Buschatzky on Colorado River negotiations and post-2026 operating rules. He described the legal framework governing Arizona’s allocation, argued that Arizona and the lower basin have already made substantial conservation cuts, and said the upper basin is pressing positions Arizona views as inconsistent with prior Supreme Court rulings. He emphasized the need to move water from upstream reservoirs to Lake Mead, warned of continued shortage risk, and said the state is seeking an equitable deal through ongoing federal and interstate negotiations. Members asked about outside water use, tourism and recreation impacts, and tribal water rights, including the Navajo-Hopi-San Juan Southern Paiute settlement. Buschatzky said the state’s delegation and bipartisan support have been helpful and urged continued public and legislative backing. The committee then heard House Bill 2758, which would expand McMullen Valley groundwater transportation authority and add related requirements and guardrails, including an amendment increasing the La Paz County transportation cap from 10% to 50% of the annual volume and adding conditions for sales or leases from historically irrigated acres. Supporters, including bill sponsor advocates, the Arizona Municipal Water Users Association, and the Home Builders Association, said the bill would create a lawful, regulated transfer option similar to the Harquahala model, support housing growth, and include oversight through hydrologic studies, pumping limits, and monthly reporting to ADWR. Opponents, including La Paz County Supervisor Holly Irwin’s statement, local residents, Sierra Club, and rural advocates, argued the bill would accelerate aquifer depletion, harm private wells and subsidence conditions, and benefit a New York hedge fund at the expense of rural communities. After debate, the committee adopted the Griffin amendment and then passed HB 2758 as amended on a 6-4 due-pass vote. The committee next took up House Bill 2098, which would modify bonding authority and public hearing notice requirements for county water augmentation authorities and allow local repayment agreements with WIFA. Pinal County Supervisor Stephen Miller and other supporters said the bill would clean up statutory language so the Pinal County Water Augmentation Authority can finance future water augmentation and infrastructure projects, including potential Bartlett Dam-related work, and better prepare for future Colorado River uncertainty. The Home Builders Association also supported the bill, saying it included proportionality protections for private utility water charges. The bill was moved for a due-pass recommendation and the committee proceeded to a roll call vote, with the transcript ending before the final vote result was shown.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Committee, February 23, 2026 PM 1

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • study under this section shall be reported to the Joint Corporations, Elections, and Political Subdivisions
  • interim committee not later subdivision interim committee not later than<00:04:02.560> September<
  • We got to get away from that problematic infrastructure that it's attached to.
  • , Specifically not for infrastructure.
  • <01:03:11.839> or have the reimbursement infrastructure or have the reimbursement infrastructure
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/28/2026 - House Science & Technology

Science & Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • Our critical infrastructure is.
  • So I am intimate with critical infrastructure.
  • So there is Hikvision out there right now in critical infrastructure.
  • It can be used to remotely take control of that critical infrastructure.
  • So there is hike vision out there right now in critical infrastructure.
Summary: The House Committee on Science and Technology convened for its first meeting of the session, with members and staff introducing themselves and the chair reviewing committee rules and amendment deadlines. The committee then heard several bills focused on technology policy, infrastructure security, and a new study committee on assistive technology. Testimony was generally supportive of the bills’ goals, though several members raised concerns about implementation, costs, and the role of the Arizona Corporation Commission on the infrastructure bill. HB 2121 would prevent manufacturers from disabling consumer electronic devices when owners make modifications, such as using third-party parts or firmware changes, and would allow owners or the Attorney General to sue for damages. After discussion about consumer ownership, security, and possible manufacturing impacts, the committee adopted the Fink amendment narrowing the bill to consumer products and gave HB 2121 a do pass recommendation by a 7-1 vote with one present. HB 2134 would restrict Chinese-produced equipment from critical infrastructure and limit contracts with Chinese companies; the sponsor and supporters framed it as a national security measure, while opponents focused on cost, implementation, and utility coordination. The committee heard testimony from the Arizona Corporation Commission, which said the bill would require new staff and resources, and from outside witnesses who said the bill was prospective and aligned with federal restrictions. HB 2134 passed 5-4. HB 2451 would adjust Arizona Space Commission board terms, extend the strategic plan deadline, and add astronautic educational opportunities to the commission’s duties. Supporters described the commission as a bipartisan effort to grow Arizona’s space industry, and the bill passed 8-0. HB 2700 would create a Technology Study Committee focused on assistive technology and technology-first approaches for people with disabilities. The sponsor and a constituent advocate described how assistive technology can improve independence and service delivery, and members expressed support for the concept. After adopting the Connolly amendment, the committee approved HB 2700 as amended by an 8-0 vote. The committee then adjourned.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband May 2nd, 2025

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband

Transcript Highlights:
  • It involves land acquisition, infrastructure installation, planning and maintenance, and tree management
  • Almost all of the public infrastructure along that corridor needs to be moved to accommodate the wider
  • franchise fee to help cover their fair share of the cost of maintaining and managing that important infrastructure
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband May 2nd, 2025

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband

Transcript Highlights:
  • The video streaming companies do not have any infrastructure right-of-way like the cable companies do
  • Only companies such as cable companies that have physical infrastructure in the public right-of-way,
  • Clients in Netflix and Hulu do not have any physical infrastructure in the right-of-way, so we don't
  • What physical infrastructure? Physically, they connect their cells to the public right-of-way.
  • But if this bill passes, those companies that are tearing up our streets, installing the infrastructure
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/26

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Providing infrastructure like PFML allows good employers to actually be good employers.
  • <00:40:15.520> Providing<00:40:16.160> infrastructure 15 employees.
  • Providing infrastructure 15 employees.
  • Providing infrastructure like<00:40:17.240> PFML<00:40:18.160> allows<00:40:18.560>
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

AEN-HOU, AEN-EIG, AEN Public Hearings 03-18-2026

Agriculture and Environment

Transcript Highlights:
  • on the Department of ag subdivisions on the Department of Agriculture."
  • Thank you for being here. adoption, which is charging adoption, which is charging infrastructure.<00:
  • Cost of living is the infrastructure.
  • I think the number of EV charging infrastructure right now is so low relative to the overall load that
  • right now is so low as infrastructure right now is so low as relative<00:47:19.440> to<00:47:
Bills: HB1736, HB1620, HB1695
Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 1737, which clarifies allowable uses in agricultural districts for farm dwellings and farm employee housing, and HB 1604 HD2, which creates an agricultural workforce housing working group within the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity. Testimony on HB 1737 was overwhelmingly supportive, with county agriculture officials, the Hawaii Farm Bureau, and Hawaii Farmers Union backing the measure; one witness asked for a definition of “affordable” to guard against misuse of farm housing. For HB 1604, the Department of Agriculture, Hawaii Farm Bureau, Housing Hawaii’s Future, Hawaii Farmers Union, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs supported the bill, with OHA requesting disaggregated data and a seat on the working group. Committee discussion focused on housing shortages, possible misuse, affordability, and whether innovative housing models such as modular, tiny, and container homes should be considered. The committee then took action on both measures. HB 1737 HD3 was recommended to pass with amendments that would limit farm employee housing to agricultural employees and their immediate family members actively engaged in the farm operation, add a grandfathering provision for existing permitted housing, preserve county zoning authority, clarify that ag tourism must be secondary and not occur in employee housing, delete a square-footage-per-acre ratio, and defer the effective date to July 1, 2050. HB 1604 HD2 was also recommended to pass with amendments adding OHA and a housing-shortage organization to the working group, expanding its scope to include modular, tiny, and container homes and permitting/zoning streamlining, and deferring the effective date to July 1, 2050. Both motions were adopted unanimously by the members present. The joint hearing then moved to HB 1736, which would establish a spay and neuter special fund and require sterilization and declaration provisions for cats, with some discussion of dogs. DLNR and the Hawaiian Humane Society supported the bill, while Pacific Pet Alliance objected to the broader requirements and the inclusion of dogs; the Hawaiian Humane Society and American Bird Conservancy supported cat-focused sterilization and the special fund, while some testifiers opposed mandatory sterilization as too costly or intrusive. Members raised questions about toxoplasmosis, trap-neuter-release, enforcement, neighbor-island access, and funding needs, and DLNR indicated additional funding and third-party contracting would likely be needed. The transcript then began HB 1620 HD2 on energy, which would increase the environmental response energy and food security tax and shift funds from the hydrogen fueling subaccount to EV charging infrastructure; state agencies generally stood on written testimony in support, while the Tax Foundation objected to special fund earmarks and noted the bill raises only one part of the barrel tax structure.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband Apr 16th, 2025

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband

Transcript Highlights:
  • It wasn't that families couldn't afford internet; it's just that the infrastructure didn't exist.
  • We must ensure that infrastructure investment is not bypassing communities simply.
  • They have the infrastructure in them.
  • We are already challenged by the high cost of maintaining and expanding our infrastructure.
  • Infrastructure improvements.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/10/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • program for blunder pumps infrastructure program for blunder pumps it<00:07:50.639> is<00:07:
  • payments uh bof Fields infrastructure payments uh bof Fields infrastructure which<00:15:23.000><
  • Subdivision 1 is the total appropriation.
  • Subdivision 4 is for the agency admin and specified pass-through grants.
  • Subdivision 4 is for the agency admin and specified pass-through grants.
Bills: HF1704
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • already require to be trained and licensed in emergency management have a voice when critical infrastructure
  • State Flood Plan was adopting. in strengthening statewide building codes to ensure that Texas infrastructure
  • HB 3 by King relating to the interoperability of emergency communication equipment and infrastructure
  • HB3 by King, relating to the interoperability of emergency communication equipment and infrastructure
  • This legislation expands the allowable uses. of the Broadband Infrastructure Fund do include emergency
Bills: HB1, HB 2, HB 3, HB 5, HB20, HB 22
Summary: The committee meeting primarily focused on the discussion and passage of several key bills, including SB5, which pertains to supplemental appropriations for disaster relief. This bill was passed unanimously, highlighting the committee's commitment to addressing disaster preparedness. HB20, aimed at reducing fraudulent charitable solicitations during disasters, also saw significant debate, with positive sentiments expressed by its sponsor, Mr. Darby. Additionally, HB22, which expands the authority of the comptroller to fund emergency communication systems, was passed with overwhelming support, indicating a consensus on improving emergency response capabilities within the state. The session concluded with discussions about future legislative measures aimed at strengthening infrastructure against disasters.