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KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Budget review Sub. on Postsecondary Education. (1-29-26)
Transcript Highlights:
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- Chair and committee, we hope that they continue in some fashion into the next biennium.
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Summary:
The House Budget Review Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education met to hear from Morehead State University President Jay Morgan, who outlined the university’s budget and capital priorities. He described Morehead as a Kentucky-serving, largely low-income student institution with an aging campus, and said the university’s long-term plan is to renovate existing facilities, decommission older buildings, and replace outdated space with more efficient construction. He thanked the General Assembly for prior support, especially asset preservation funding, fire and tornado insurance premium support, and a prior university inflationary adjustment.
On the operating side, Morgan asked that insurance premium support continue, that the earlier inflationary adjustment roll forward, and that the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education’s request for a minimum distribution in the performance funding formula be supported. He noted Morehead has received little or no performance funding in recent years and said that if no additional formula funds are added, the university would prefer a line-item appropriation. On the capital side, he requested continued asset preservation funding and outlined several construction priorities: a new applied science building, a new agriculture science building, a new space science technology building, and a cost-share replacement for the aging Maze Hall residence hall, with the state covering $10 million of a $20 million project and Morehead matching the rest.
Morgan also discussed the Craft Academy, saying the current appropriation supports 200 students and that the university would like to increase the line item to expand enrollment by about 20 students. In response to questions from Chairman Tipton, he said Morehead had previously explored but ultimately rejected a public-private partnership model for housing, preferring to own and control its residence halls to keep housing costs manageable for students. He also explained that the land surveying courses in the applied science proposal are a popular part of related programs and that Morehead’s space science program is a major research-and-contracts-driven operation with about 250 students, federal and private research ties, and graduates working both in Kentucky and elsewhere. The committee then approved the prior meeting minutes and discussed that upcoming postsecondary budget meetings would continue over the next several weeks to gather input on the new budget process.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Environmental Quality Committee Apr 15th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- and the committee.
- All right, so we will bring it back to the committee. Any committee questions or comments?
- I hope it's not limited.
- We hope we can continue to work with the committee on refining the amendments to make sure they're implementable
- Great, we'll now move to the committee. Great, we'll now move to the committee.
Summary:
The committee heard SB 1375 by Senator Cortese, which would streamline environmental review for certain transit and rail projects that have already undergone extensive prior review. Supporters, including VTA, San Jose transportation staff, BART, Caltrain, MTC, and Climate Reality Silicon Valley, said the bill would reduce duplicative analysis, save time and money, and help advance projects like the Diridon Station modernization in San Jose. Committee members emphasized the bill’s narrow scope and the added amendments requiring displacement planning, legal services for displaced residents, construction-impact mitigation, and natural resources planning. The bill was approved on a 5-0 vote and sent to Transportation as amended.
The committee also took up SB 1031 on compostable plastics labeling and waste-stream impacts. The author and supporters such as Californians Against Waste argued the bill would reduce greenwashing, clarify labeling, cut contamination in compost and recycling streams, and direct OEHHA to study health and environmental effects. Opposition from manufacturers, BPI, retailers, and others focused on concerns that the bill would effectively ban compostable products in California, create costs, and fail to fix a separate federal/NOP labeling problem. After extensive discussion about composting capacity, labeling clarity, and costs, the bill passed 3-2 to Appropriations.
SB 958 by Senator Weber Pierson addressed the Midway Rising redevelopment project in San Diego. The bill, as amended, would no longer create a full CEQA exemption but instead clarify CEQA treatment of building-height impacts in the project’s future EIR. Supporters said the project would deliver thousands of housing units, including affordable housing, along with parks, a new arena, and economic benefits on underused city land. The committee voiced support for the project’s housing and revitalization goals, and the bill passed 3-0 to Local Government as amended. The committee also heard SB 1075 on strengthening AB 617 community air protection plans, with environmental justice supporters backing stronger enforcement and local implementation while local governments, business groups, and air district representatives warned it could create uncertainty, raise costs, and function as a land-use mandate; the bill was held on a 2-2 vote after the author accepted several amendments and continued negotiations.
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor May 30th, 2025 at 12:00 pm
Commerce and Labor
Transcript Highlights:
- This committee should oppose SB 63.
- This has also already been through both a policy committee and a money committee on the other side.
- Chair, committee members. Dr.
- This bill gives hope.
- The committee will come back to order. The committee will come back to order.
Committee:
Assembly Commerce and Labor
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Sep 2nd, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Every child born embodies our hope for humanity's future.
- One, we hope he will have good health. Two, we hope that he will have good health.
- One, we hope he will have good health. Two, we hope that he will have a kind and caring heart.
- Three, we hope that he will have a bright and curious mind.
- Speaker and members, AB 1510 is the Assembly PERS Committee bill.
Summary:
The Assembly met after a quorum call, prayer, and pledge, then moved through a heavy floor schedule with several procedural motions and unanimous-consent actions, including withdrawing AB 362 from Appropriations, moving SB 494 to the inactive file, and rescinding prior action on SB 400. Members also adopted a motion suspending the rules to withdraw AB 362 from Appropriations and place it on second reading, with the roll showing 41 ayes and 13 noes.
The chamber then took up ACR 70, proclaiming September 2025 as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Assembly Member Pellerin presented the resolution with a personal account of losing her husband to suicide and urged use of the 988 lifeline, safe firearm storage, and open conversations about mental health. Many members from both parties and caucuses shared personal stories and support. The resolution was adopted by voice vote, Senate amendments were concurred in, and suicide awareness pins were distributed.
Members next concurred in Senate amendments to AB 977 on Native American human remains, with broad support and a 68-0 vote, and to AB 1510 on public employees, which passed 66-1. HR 65, designating October as Filipino American History Month, drew extensive remarks on Filipino American history, labor, public service, and community contributions; it was adopted by voice vote with 63 co-authors added. The Assembly also passed SB 81 and SB 98, both urgency measures aimed at protecting immigrant communities in health care facilities and schools from immigration enforcement activity, and both were sent immediately to the Senate after 54-10 and 54-8 votes, respectively. Finally, the chamber debated SJR 9 condemning immigration raids; supporters described fear and family disruption, while one Republican member argued for secure borders and criticized the bill and related policies. The transcript ends during that debate without showing a final vote on SJR 9.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 2/17/25
Transportation Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- be joining committee sometimes again.
- He said he hoped the committee would view it as a friendly amendment, even though it includes some things
- </c><00:30:05.720><c> and</c> get you back to your committee and get you back to your committee and committee
- </c><00:30:16.399><c> can</c> committee and then the committee can committee and then the committee can
- Chair and committee members.
Committee:
House Transportation Finance and Policy
Keywords:
HF198, shared time pupils, shared-time enrollment, nonpublic school, private school, public school, career and technical education, CTE, secondary credit, school funding, state aid, education finance, Minnesota Statutes 126C.01, compulsory attendance, school district, education policy, HF269, Spicer, Minnesota bonding bill, capital investment
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- Good afternoon, committee.
- Good afternoon, committee.
- The committee will also consider rules proposed by the NMFA. The committee...
- The committee hopes to closely follow the federal action as it moves forward.
- There are too many committees, too many members on too many committees, and committees are having a difficult
Committee:
House Legislative Council
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Elections Finance and Government Operations Working Group 1/15/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- I think the committee, or that was put on the registry, the journal today, and so I'm hoping in the next
- I think the committee, or that was put on the registry, the journal today, and so I'm hoping in the next
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Meeting Minnesota's Healthcare Needs / Relieving Undue Medical Debt / Encouraging New Volunteers Mar 30th, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Well, I have been on the health committees for probably 10 years or more.
- Well, I have been on the health committees for probably 10 years or more.
- Well, I have been on the health committees for probably 10 years or more.
- Well, I have been on the health committees for probably 10 years or more.
- So, I really hope that we can continue to work on that this session.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- , Joint Committee, but also as this Appropriations Committee... ...Legislative Research Committee, Joint
- Committee, but also as this Appropriations Committee, to make sure that the data that they are providing
- The members of the committee aren't employees of the joint committee; only the employees work for the
- joint committee, including the director, which is who the joint committee hires and fires, and then
- Denominated by the joint committee.
Committee:
House Budget
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair and members of the committee.
- We're working with the comptroller's office on perfecting the language and hope to have a committee substitute
- This committee substitute has a sunset date of January 1, 2027, and my hope and expectation...
- I hope we move this bill forward.
- Thank you, Vice Chair and committee.
Bills:
HB249 , HB 1186 , HB2313 , HB2408 , HB2508 , HB2730 , HB2974 , HB3045 , HB3232 , HB3336 , HB3710 , HB4044 , HB4236 , HJR133 , HB249
Committee:
House Ways & Means
Keywords:
ad valorem taxes, property taxes, homestead exemption, disabled veterans, senior citizens, tax payments, installment payments, municipal tax revenue, hotel, convention center, tax code, economic development, local government, municipality, tax revenue, qualified projects, municipal taxation, hotel project, municipality funding, veteran
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Senate in Special Session E May 29th, 2026
Florida Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm hopeful for next session as well.
- Senator Garcia, we sat through a lot of great committee hearings in your committee where we heard from
- Senator Garcia, we sat through a lot of great committee hearings in your committee where we heard from
- The bill is amended by the conference committee report.
- The conference committee report.
Summary:
The Senate took up the conference report on House Bill 501E, the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2026-27, with Chair Hooper and the appropriations chairs walking through the $114.5 billion budget. Major highlights included pay increases for state law enforcement, firefighters, park rangers, and correctional officers; funding for teacher salary increases and K-12 enrollment stabilization; workforce and university funding in higher education; major Medicaid, nursing home, waiver, and opioid-related investments in health and human services; corrections and prison-capacity funding; transportation, housing, and emergency management spending; and large environmental appropriations for Florida Forever, Everglades restoration, and water quality projects.
Members then asked detailed questions about specific items. Senators pressed on the Hamilton Center at UF, the difference between assistant state attorney and public defender pay, declining student enrollment funding, private school scholarship vouchers, mental health funding in schools, the lack of preeminence funding, APD’s iBudget waiver wait list and provider rates, ADAP premium assistance and the return of Biktarvy to the formulary, prison staffing and air conditioning, Florida Forever land-buying versus easements, SNAP and Sun Bucks funding, Hope Florida, election audit funding, and the IDD managed care program. Chairs generally explained the negotiated compromises, noted where funding was flat or omitted, and in several cases said items would be revisited next year or depended on agency implementation.
Several senators used debate to praise the budget while also criticizing major policy choices. Leader Berman argued the state should have expanded Medicaid, invested more in public schools instead of vouchers, and accepted federal summer EBT funds. Other senators highlighted local wins such as Biscayne Bay restoration, Tri-Rail, housing assistance, ADAP funding, and declining enrollment support. The transcript ends with debate remarks thanking Chair Hooper for his work on the budget; no final vote is shown in the excerpt.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jan 5th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Committee.
- Committee.
- Committee.
- Committee.
- Development Committee to the Judiciary Committee.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Environmental Quality Committee Apr 15th, 2026
Environmental Quality
Transcript Highlights:
- and the committee.
- All right, so we will bring it back to the committee. Any committee questions or comments?
- I hope it's not limited.
- We hope we can continue to work with the committee on refining the amendments to make sure they're implementable
- the committee amendments.
Committee:
Senate Environmental Quality
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate - Tax, Business and Transportation Jan 29th, 2026 at 02:36 pm
Senate Tax, Business & Transportation
Transcript Highlights:
- So out of respect for the committee, This committee also sees we have a lot of bills that are assigned
- to this committee.
- Now I go to the committee. All right. Thank you so much. Now I go to the committee.
- I hope that helps me out.
- I want to From the committee.
Committee:
Senate Senate Tax, Business & Transportation
Keywords:
tax credits, municipality, county property, industrial revenue bonds, economic development, qualified expenditures, solar energy, tax credit, renewable energy, photovoltaic, solar thermal, New Mexico, economic incentive, energy independence, SB40, Driver Privacy and Safety Act, automated license plate reader, ALPR, license plate reader, vehicle surveillance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I want to, again, thank the committee staff.
- Well, that is our hope that that's done, but, you know, so yes, we hope that happens, but for the purpose
- And so the committee will officially keep the committee substitute to Senate Bill 2570 pending here in
- committee at this time.
- We're really hopeful that we can address this issue while the bill is still in committee.
Bills:
SB552 , SB1099 , SB1124 , SB1208 , SB1372 , SB1506 , SB1667 , SB1804 , SB1806 , SB1870 , SB1936 , SB1937 , SB2180 , SB2405 , SB2569 , SB2570 , SB1646
Committee:
Senate Criminal Justice
Summary:
The committee heard a series of criminal justice bills, beginning with SB 1870 and SB 1727, both of which were adopted as committee substitutes and reported favorably to the full Senate. SB 1870 would bar local governments from adopting policies that decriminalize controlled substances or direct officials not to enforce state drug laws, with civil penalties enforced by the Attorney General for violations. SB 1727 was described as a technical change to make the draft a formal Legislative Council version of a TDCJ-related assault bill; both bills were also sent to the local and uncontested calendar.
The committee then took up SB 2405, the major Sunset bill for TDCJ, the Board of Pardons and Paroles, Windham School District, and the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee. Senator Parker explained that the bill continues and modernizes those agencies, requires a 10-year facilities and staffing plan, expands rehabilitation and reentry programming, improves parole-board consistency and training, and codifies various cleanup and inspector general recommendations. Sunset staff and agency witnesses discussed the bill’s data-sharing, program coordination, and projected savings from reducing delays in parole-voted programming; public witnesses generally supported the post-secondary education and reentry provisions, while some urged stronger statutory direction for Windham and more reform to medically recommended intensive supervision. The bill was left pending.
SB 1804, SB 1099, SB 2569, and SB 2570 were also heard. SB 1804 would allow restitution for tattoo removal for human trafficking survivors and remove the age restriction so adult survivors can qualify; it was reported favorably and sent to the local calendar. SB 1099 would increase penalties for certain felony offenses when committed by a person determined to be unlawfully present in the country; immigration and civil rights witnesses opposed it as overbroad and difficult to administer, but it was reported favorably. SB 2569 would modernize unmanned aircraft reporting by requiring law enforcement agencies to post reports on public websites; it passed unanimously and was sent to the local calendar. SB 2570 would create a defense to prosecution for peace officers and correctional guards using less-lethal force weapons within the scope of their training; law enforcement witnesses supported it, civil rights and prosecutor witnesses raised concerns that it was too broad and could weaken existing use-of-force standards, and the bill was left pending for further work.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Environmental Quality Committee Apr 22nd, 2026
Environmental Quality
Transcript Highlights:
- And with that, we would hope to be able to work with the author and work with the committee as this bill
- Seeing none, we'll bring it back to the committee. Any committee comments?
- We ask that the committee continue to see Kings County as a thoughtful partner and what we hope will
- Welcome to the committee.
- But, of course, this was just the first committee hearing that we're hoping to work on this bill.
Committee:
Senate Environmental Quality
Summary:
The committee heard presentations on several energy, environmental, and consumer protection bills while operating at times without a quorum. Senator McNerney presented SB 925, which would direct the California Energy Commission to develop a statewide roadmap for fusion energy, and SB 1350, which would expand the use of green hydrogen in the power sector by allowing renewable portfolio standard credit for power plants using hydrogen. Supporters said both bills would help California maintain leadership in emerging clean-energy industries, attract investment, and create jobs. Opponents of SB 1350 raised concerns about greenwashing, resource shuffling, and increased NOx emissions from hydrogen combustion, while supporters said committee amendments added guardrails against those outcomes. Senator Ashby presented SB 1010, a manufacturer-funded extended producer responsibility program for refrigerants in appliances; supporters said it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve recovery, while opponents argued existing laws already regulate refrigerants and that the bill could raise costs and disrupt recycling markets. Senator Grayson presented SB 1145 to streamline CEQA and federal reuse procedures for qualifying projects in the Concord Reuse Project Area, which supporters said would help deliver long-planned housing, jobs, and open space, while one housing group sought stronger affordable-housing guarantees. Senator Cabaldon presented SB 1341, which would give CalRecycle authority to reduce processing fees for wine and spirits bag-in-a-box containers when fee collections exceed program needs; supporters said the current fee increase was abrupt and excessive, while opponents warned against giving the agency too much discretion. Senator Padilla presented SGR 13, urging the U.S. to secure enforceable commitments to eliminate transboundary sewage pollution in the Tijuana and New River watersheds during the 2026 USMCA review, and SB 1033, which would require testing and disclosure of heavy metals in protein products; SGR 13 drew strong support from border and environmental justice advocates, while SB 1033 drew support from consumer and health groups and opposition from industry groups concerned about labeling burdens and scope. Senator Caballero presented SB 1183, requiring a state study of the environmental, land-use, and economic impacts of industrial solar in the Central Valley; farm and land-use advocates supported the bill, while solar industry groups opposed unless amended, saying it should better reflect solar’s benefits and existing state analysis. After testimony, the committee took roll and adopted several measures on a 4-0 or 3-0 basis, with bills including SJR 13, SB 925, SB 1350, SB 1145, SB 1341, SB 1033, and SB 1010 advanced on call to Appropriations or, in the case of SB 1010, already voted with a 3-1 result before being held on call.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm hoping that the Finance Committee listens to the people in the gallery today, especially to us kānaka
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- I'm hoping with [Collie Watson?]
- I hope you support it. Thank you.
Committee:
House Finance
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (03/19/2025)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, just kind of a little bit of a recap: we passed this bill out of the committee.
- I do believe that the committee was split on exactly if it should pass or if it should not.
- committee, and another voice agreed that it was a second committee and that they had a regular hearing
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Committee:
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you, Chair Gomez and committee members.
- Wendy Paulson: Thank you, Chair, members of the committee.
- Tanner Fritzinger: Chair and members of the committee.
- You know, I've said this on other committees on other bills.
- They're not popular here in this committee.
Committee:
House Taxes
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Business and Professions Committee Apr 14th, 2026
Business and Professions
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair and members of the committee.
- the committee, go find your boss.
- I would like to begin by accepting the committee amendments and thanking the committee staff for their
- I'd like to begin by accepting the committee amendments and thanking the committee staff for their hard
- Chair, members of the committee.
Committee:
House Business and Professions