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AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Jan 14th, 2026

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • , then the mayor can vote or not vote in either whether it's a tie or not tie, okay?
  • would give the authority to the mayor to make a vote in that one circumstance of a tie vote.
  • Now, it doesn't require him to make a vote. It's only a may, but it gives him the right to vote.
  • > whether<00:14:15.680> it's vote or not vote in either whether it's vote or not vote in
  • vote. Does that make sense? vote. Does that make sense?
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • They make recommendations on how to vote shares. A lot of Retirement systems.
  • I mean there's not enough people at those precinct voting locations currently.
  • Representative Dempsey, you'd like to vote. Please close the queue.
  • Seeing none, please open the queue for a vote. Please close the queue.
  • Seeing none, please open a queue for a vote. Please close the queue.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget 2nd Revised Apr 20th, 2026 at 04:30 pm

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you're opposed, you vote nay.
  • So, the People to vote on this.
  • can go vote yes or no on this.
  • Right, Senator Hall. 21 ayes, zero nays. 1 aye vote, zero nay votes. House Bill 4075 has passed.
  • House Bill 4073 having received 21 'aye' votes, zero 'nay' votes.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget Apr 20th, 2026 at 04:30 pm

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget

Transcript Highlights:
  • Would you care to vote? Blant said, 'I declare the vote 28 to 0.
  • More, Ii Kanei West, West, Madam Whip, would you care to vote? Declare the vote.
  • You can only vote for one.
  • Oklahoma voted on it.
  • Represented Blanett, do you care to vote? Declare the vote.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

County and Municipal Government Feb 18th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Seeing none, staff please open the vote. Any member wishing to vote or change your vote?
  • Any member wishing to vote or change their vote? Staff, close the vote. Declare the vote.
  • Any member wishing to vote or change their vote? Staff, close the vote, declare the vote.
  • Any member wishing to vote or change their vote? Staff, close the vote. Declare the vote.
  • Any member wishing to vote or change their vote? Staff, close the vote, declare the vote.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • you so much, Father, for the state of Texas, and Father, thank you that we all have the privilege to vote
  • , the honor to vote.
Bills: HB4, HB1, HB2, HB20, HB19, HB18
Summary: The House convened with a strict roll-call enforcement request, but only 95 members were present, so a quorum was not present. The chamber heard an invocation from Furman Carpenter, DPS chaplain, followed by the pledges to the U.S. and Texas flags. A member raised a parliamentary inquiry asking whether members must be present to make a motion and whether all members who requested strict enforcement were present; the Speaker said he would need to check the journal. The Speaker then announced that the House was about to receive a motion to adjourn sine die and noted that the governor might call another special session soon. Representative Garin moved that the House of Representatives of the First Called Session of the Eighty-Ninth Legislature adjourn sine die. There was no objection, and the motion carried, ending the session.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/27/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Voting is a personal responsibility for civil committed individuals.
  • <00:45:52.319> rights equal access to their voting rights equal access to their voting rights
  • district representative race, which was elected by just over 400 votes.
  • If those civil committed were to cooperate on their votes and vote together, the results would have come
  • > the on their votes and vote together the on their votes and vote together the results<00:47:04.559
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • I urge you to vote against this bill and vote to protect Texas children.
  • We urge you to vote against SB 18.
  • Or vote on issues, or do we need to have more roads, or whatever.
  • Senate Bill 18 will be left pending for a future vote. Продолжение следует...
  • You vote a lot alike, and that's good, but you don't look anything alike.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • To clarify. how electoral votes are cast and counted.
  • Thank you, Senator, and this bill did was to receive a bipartisan vote last session in the Senate, came
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/5/26

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • I encourage a yes vote. vote. vote.
  • encourage members to vote no. encourage members to vote no.
  • that chair votes I.
  • The chair called for a vote, and the A1 amendment was adopted by voice vote.
  • would ask for a yes vote. Thank you. would ask for a yes vote. Thank you.
Summary: The committee first attempted to approve minutes from February 24 and March 3, but members identified multiple spelling errors in names, so approval was held and the motion withdrawn. The committee then took up House File 3477, a bill by Representative Long proposing a civil remedy for constitutional violations by government actors, including federal actors. An author’s amendment (A4) was adopted to remove a subdivision and clarify retroactivity. In discussion, members raised concerns about Supremacy Clause and immigration-related issues; the author responded that the bill applies evenly to state and federal actors and is meant to enforce constitutional rights, not immigration law. After debate, the motion to re-refer the bill to the general register failed on a 6-7 vote, with one member excused. The committee next heard House File 3480, authored by Representative Howard, which would commission an independent economic impact study of Operation Metro Surge. An A2 amendment was adopted to add a dollar amount for the study and clarify timing. Representative Howard said the study would help the legislature understand statewide impacts and noted reported harm to businesses, child care, schools, and local governments. Testimony in support came from Laura Santiago, reading a statement from Christopher Gomez of Willmar, who described ICE agents entering his family’s restaurant, the detention and deportation of family members, and resulting business losses. Rachel Ser, Minneapolis emergency management director, cited a preliminary city assessment estimating major impacts including food insecurity, lost wages, business revenue losses, hotel cancellations, and rental assistance needs. Some members questioned the cost and usefulness of the study, while others said suburban and greater Minnesota communities also wanted the data. The transcript ends during continued discussion of the bill.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Judiciary Feb 11th, 2026 at 05:05 pm

House Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Madam Chair, you have 10 votes yes. Zero votes no. Thank you very much. Yes, you are. Yeah.
  • Madam Chair, you have seven votes yes, three votes no. Thank you.
  • Madam Chair, you have nine votes yes, zero votes no. Bill. We're going to have an early evening.
  • I know this committee's voted on this before.
  • Madam Chair, you have seven votes yes, two votes no. All right.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

WAL Public Hearing - Tue Feb 10, 2026 @ 9:00 AM HST

Water & Land

Transcript Highlights:
  • vote by proxy? vote by proxy?
  • two-thirds vote. two-thirds vote.
  • Right chair for the vote. Right chair for the vote.
  • >> Okay, we're voting for the vote. >> Okay, we're voting for the vote.
  • . vote. vote.
Summary: The committee on Water and Land met on February 10, 2026, with Chair Mark Hashem outlining strict testimony rules and noting a time constraint because of later hearings and floor session obligations. The committee then took up several bills, hearing mostly supportive testimony on HB 1881 relating to land use, HB 2218 relating to DLNR/community management, and HB 1956 relating to freshwater waves, while HB 1845 relating to the Land Use Commission drew legal concerns and opposition. HB 2151 relating to building materials had no substantive testimony presented in the excerpt, and the committee moved through it quickly. On HB 1881, testimony focused on protecting North Shore lands from overdevelopment. A supporter described the area as valuable precisely because it remains largely undeveloped, and a member asked whether the bill’s restrictions on “finculars” would affect existing or future private residential installations; the response suggested the bill was aimed at future commercial uses and that grandfathering or personal-use exceptions might be possible, but the exact wording would need legal refinement. HB 2218 received broad support from OHA, DLNR, Kua, Sierra Club, Hui Maka Aana, the Honlay Initiative, and others, who said the measure would expand community-based co-management across DLNR divisions, build on existing park partnerships, and produce real benefits such as better stewardship, safer access, local jobs, and stronger community trust. Members asked about the bill’s five-year review structure, how multiple community groups would be handled, and whether the model could apply to ocean or nearshore areas; DLNR said the board would retain authority, agreements would be non-exclusive and subject to review, and the department was still working through how the approach would function across different divisions and marine settings. For HB 1956, the Attorney General offered technical comments, urging clearer definitions of “residing” and “freshwater way,” clearer timing for citations and arrests, and more explicit procedural safeguards and agency roles. On HB 1845, the Attorney General and Land Use Commission raised concerns that the bill could conflict with constitutional protections for important agricultural lands and could not be reconciled with existing voting requirements; the LUC also said commissioners cannot vote by proxy under sunshine law and warned that the bill could allow too few commissioners to approve major boundary changes. Members questioned how the bill would work in counties without designated important agricultural lands, and the LUC explained that Kauai is the only county to have completed the IAL process, while the broader statutory process remains county-driven and has been the subject of litigation. No votes or final committee actions were taken in the excerpt.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/04/2026 - Senate Judiciary and Elections

Judiciary and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • Explain your vote. Explain my vote. Thank you.
  • I vote no. I'd like to explain my vote. Yes, thank you.
  • to vote.
  • I vote aye. Thank you for coming in. I vote aye. Thank you. 5-0. And I vote aye. Thank you.
  • By our vote of five eyes, zero no's and zero not voting, two not voting.
Summary: The committee approved the minutes and then took up several election, family court, and criminal justice bills. SB 1425, the “big bill,” would move Arizona’s 2026 primary election date earlier and adjust related election administration timelines; the chair’s amendment moved the primary to July 21 and removed the shortened curing/ID deadlines. County officials testified in support, explaining the timing changes and the need to align dates, and the committee adopted the amendment and gave the bill a do-pass recommendation. SB 1289, dealing with certifications for entities providing money or resources for election administration and foreign funding disclosures, also received a do-pass recommendation after testimony from supporters arguing it would block foreign influence in election administration and ballot issue spending. The committee later heard SCR 1013, a related resolution that would more directly prohibit foreign-source money for election administration and ballot measures; the sponsor and supporters said it was similar to SB 1289 but broader, and testimony focused on foreign money flowing through nonprofit networks. The committee then considered SB 1326, which would allow courts to award attorney fees and costs to victims when a party violates or worsens a victim’s rights. A victim’s attorney testified that the bill would provide needed accountability and guidance, while opponents argued the term “exacerbates” was vague and that existing remedies already exist. The committee approved SB 1326 on a 4-3 vote. SB 1402, requiring courts to impose a fee on certain probationers to cover electronic monitoring costs, drew support from the sponsor and advocates who said offenders should pay for monitoring, and opposition from defense attorneys who warned it could burden indigent probationers and divert money from treatment; it also received a 4-3 do-pass recommendation. The most extensive debate was on SB 1330, which would allow a parent in certain custody cases to request a jury trial on parenting time or legal decision-making. Supporters, including several parents, described costly and traumatic family court experiences and argued a jury would provide a neutral check on judges and court-appointed professionals. County and court representatives opposed the bill, saying family cases require specialized judicial expertise, jury trials would delay urgent matters, increase costs, and risk confidentiality. Despite those concerns, the committee adopted the bill on a 4-3 vote. The committee also approved SB 1328, which declares state policy favoring parental rights and a child’s equal access to both co-parents, after adopting an amendment adding legislative intent language. Finally, SB 1329, which would let parents sue court-appointed professionals who deviate from professional ethics or standards in custody matters, passed 4-3 after testimony from parents and advocates who said court appointees lack accountability, while opponents said existing malpractice and licensing remedies already address misconduct.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part II) Aug 21st, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill does that, and for that, I will vote yes on this legislation and we'll have. support any other
  • It is in their name that we will vote for Senate Bill 1. Thank you, Mr. President and members.
  • There being 28 ayes and no no votes, Senate Bill 1 has passed in honor of the 27.
Bills: SB 9, SB 7, SB 17, SB 4, SB 1, HB4, HB4, SB9, SB7, SB17, SB4, SB1, SB2, SB5
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Well, we're going to take a vote here and then we'll take a vote on the floor on this matter, correct
  • We're going to take a vote here and we'll also take a vote on the floor on this matter.
  • So we really need, I know Senator Miles, I think yours has been voted out of committee in the House.
  • But it allows you to look at it, study it before you vote on the bill. What a concept, right?
  • Be voting tomorrow. You'll get the vote list. So we'll be voting sometime in the morning.