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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- . $250 in general revenue funds will provide the bingo division leverage to compete with comparable..
- These are not competing ideas but instead really work done well will be our way out of the child care
- need strategic partnerships with our ISDs to who so that we can be able to sustain because we cannot compete
- workforce data systems in Texas, Texas like many states. relies on unemployment insurance data to evaluate
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- You don't necessarily have to make people work... ...re-evaluate the methodology.
- It's always a challenge in most law enforcement agencies and licensing agencies in trying to compete
- and asking for the ability to pay for four years of experience, the other state agencies that we compete
- Obviously, we have an issue with trying to compete with the private sector, but at the same time, having
Bills:
SB 1
Keywords:
campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards
Summary:
The Senate Finance Committee heard a presentation from the Legislative Budget Board on the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Article 5 budget. LBB recommended $3.7 billion in all funds for 2026-27, a 5.2 percent decrease from the base, while FTEs would rise by 856.7. Major items included funding for driver license services, DPS facilities, troopers and recruit schools, crime labs, vehicle and aircraft operations, border security, and rider changes. The committee also reviewed DPS exceptional items not included in the recommendation, including additional staffing, technology, and facility requests.
Members focused heavily on driver license operations, criticizing long wait times, call abandonment, and repeated staffing increases without clear process improvements. LBB said the agency’s call-answer rate was about 9 percent in fiscal 2024, with average hold times around 34 minutes, later reduced to roughly 22-25 minutes. Senators questioned whether more FTEs alone would solve the problem and urged a broader efficiency study and better use of technology. DPS officials said they were pursuing process changes, including appointment-system upgrades, online pre-population of forms, and remote issuance options, while noting that Real ID requirements and population growth continue to drive demand.
DPS leadership then outlined the agency’s priorities: completion of the Williamson County training academy, recruitment and retention of troopers, capital needs for vehicles and aircraft, and expanded responsibilities at the Capitol complex and the Alamo. Officials said the new trooper funding would help address staffing shortages, public safety, and border operations, and that overtime and deployment patterns had been adjusted to reduce burnout and improve flexibility. They also discussed Operation Lone Star, saying DPS spending is largely overtime, travel, and fuel, and that the agency continues to coordinate with federal partners while awaiting clarity on possible federal reimbursement for border security costs. Senators also raised concerns about oilfield theft, cartel activity, high-speed pursuits, bilingual pay, and the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, and DPS said it would follow up on some of those issues.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- I've been on the community Advisory Board for All Phases of the Home and Community Based Services evaluation
- the Home and Community<00:53:39.680>
Based <00:53:40.040>Services <00:53:40.680>evaluation - <00:53:41.280>
of Community Based Services evaluation of Community Based Services evaluation - often prefer to care for their loved one at home when there are very few options for culturally competent
- often prefer to care for their loved one at home when there are very few options for culturally competent
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 02/05/25
Jobs and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- for ensuring the economic vitality and stability of Greater Minnesota, helping those communities compete
- for ensuring the economic vitality and stability of Greater Minnesota, helping those communities compete
- so uh<01:47:14.960>
but <01:47:15.480>let <01:47:15.639>me <01:47:15.840>evaluate - /c><01:47:16.360>
through <01:47:16.800>and <01:47:17.800>and uh but let me evaluate - through and and uh but let me evaluate through and and we're<01:47:18.000>
going <01:47:18.080
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- This would say that the department needs to have a rubric that evaluates curriculum that's only based
- to have a rubric that evaluates to have a rubric that evaluates curriculum<00:08:51.360>
that's - It says Minnesota Math Corp must use evidence-based instructional support to evaluate and accelerate
- It says Minnesota Math Corp must use evidence-based instructional support to evaluate and accelerate
- So, in the bill it says Minnesota Math Corp must use evidence-based instructional support to evaluate
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (04/16/2026)
Commerce and Consumer Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, could you explain, just so I understand, what the IBHS evaluator...
- Um, could you explain, just so I understand, what the IBHS evaluator...
- It sounds like there is an evaluator that's separate from the contractor, and the evaluator has to go
- So where is the division between what they're evaluating and what they're not in this case?
- And so the evaluator route gave fiasco.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hied Committee Meeting - 2026-04-09
Higher Education Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Right now, we're in the evaluation process.
- So, the idea that we have plants that are going to produce crops for us on the landscape and competing
- <01:17:37.200>
with <01:17:37.320>those landscape and competing with those landscape - But the repeated cutting of that helps suppress it and then they'll fill up pretty fast and compete with
- girls pretty fast and compete with it. girls pretty fast and compete with it.
Keywords:
higher education, identity verification, enrollment fraud, funding, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, postsecondary education, community college, university, developmental education, remedial education, remediation, corequisite, co-requisite, English composition, college readiness, adult basic education, ABE, student placement, credit-bearing courses, noncredit courses
Summary:
The committee first approved the March 26 minutes after Representative Coulter pointed out and moved a technical correction to add a missing “T” in “Regents.” The committee then took up HF 4698, which Representative Duran said would address enrollment fraud at Minnesota State Colleges and Universities by funding an automated identity-proofing system. Testimony from Chief Information Security Officer Craig Munson described a commercial software system that would verify student identities using a selfie and a state ID image, reduce ghost students and fraud, speed enrollment, and lessen staff time spent on manual investigations.
Members focused heavily on privacy, data retention, and biometric concerns. Representative Cleveland asked what biometric data would be collected, and Munson said it would be limited to a selfie and ID images, not fingerprints or retinal scans. Chair Klippert and others urged stronger Chapter 13 protections and clearer data practices, while Chair Scott asked how long images would be stored; Munson said they should be deleted as soon as identity is validated, with possible revalidation later. Members also raised concerns about racial bias in biometric matching and the need for alternate verification methods. The bill was laid over, and Duran said he would work on the data practices with committee members.
The committee then heard HF 4608, presented by Representative Allen for Representative Koznick, on developmental education reform. Allen said too many students are placed into remedial courses that do not count toward a degree, costing time and money and reducing completion rates. Jane Groatman of the International Institute of Minnesota supported the bill, describing students who spent years in noncredit remedial coursework and arguing for a one-semester cap on remedial classes and clearer notice that such credits do not count toward a degree. Mark Grant of Minnesota State College faculty opposed the bill’s approach, saying it imposed a one-size-fits-all model, could undermine open admissions, and should not limit colleges’ flexibility to meet diverse student needs. The bill was laid over for further consideration.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development - Subcommittee on Veterans - 03/03/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development - Subcommittee on Veterans
Transcript Highlights:
- of VA claimants, be truthful in their dealings with claimants and the VA, provide claimants with competent
- provide claimants with competent provide claimants with competent representation<00:11:27.440>
- These types of claims take a high degree of sensitivity, cultural competency, a trauma-informed mindset
- high of sensitivity cultural competency high of sensitivity cultural competency a<00:21:31.880><
- The Attorney General's office is taking a look at those cases and evaluating them.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- recent example of this approach was our decision to allow organizations pursuing festival funding to compete
- ensure the applicant has a viable plan that will comply with the enabling legislation, has a plan to evaluate
- ensure the applicant has a viable plan that will comply with the enabling legislation, has a plan to evaluate
- He said the assurance that applicants are being evaluated fairly, through an open and balanced process
- He said it is important that the public be assured applicants are being evaluated fairly, through an
Bills:
HF4148
Keywords:
Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council, Outdoor Heritage Fund, executive director, natural resources, conservation, wetlands, prairies, forests, wildlife habitat, fish and game, bipartisan hiring, interview panel, legislative branch, Minnesota Statutes 97A.056, administrative expenses, nonpartisan staff, council governance, environment and natural resources
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Commerce Committee Meeting - 2026-04-07
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- each,<00:25:43.920>
you <00:25:44.040>know, <00:25:44.480>financial uh evaluate - each, you know, financial uh evaluate each, you know, financial proposal<00:25:45.640>
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be <00:25:46.360>evaluated <00:25:47.160>on <00:25:47.320>its - <00:25:47.520>
own proposal will be evaluated on its own proposal will be evaluated on its own - AI systems against measurable evaluate AI systems against measurable safety<01:34:22.160>
and
Keywords:
data broker, data brokerage, consumer privacy, personal data, data privacy, Minnesota attorney general, registration, public registry, civil penalties, enforcement, special revenue fund, privacy rights, data sales, data collection, consumer protection, chapter 325M, controller, processor, data broker registry, transparency
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/25
Public Safety Finance and Policy
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- And more importantly, I've had several very competent staff members review the minutes, and I move their
- :59.240>
statute <00:25:59.799>requires <00:26:00.360>the <00:26:00.640>evaluation - <00:26:01.640>
of <00:26:01.799>a the statute requires the evaluation of a the statute - requires the evaluation of a peace<00:26:02.320>
officer's <00:26:02.919>decision <00:26 - <00:28:46.279>
from <00:28:46.480>the Forest shall be evaluated from the Forest shall
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (02/03/2026)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- whether the offer that they're evaluate whether the offer that they're being<03:52:52.319>
given< - Our job is to evaluate their merits and say yay or nay, but it's not necessarily to fix bills.
- You don't want us competing on default service. >> You I don't think you want any to give the utility
- competing on default service. competing on default service.
- or less than an Olympic high jumper competes with the bar.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, April 15, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Our ability to compete globally, especially in critical industries like semiconductors, is put at risk
- Projects that will help us compete with our adversaries in industries like AI and advanced manufacturing
- Projects that will help us compete with our adversaries in industries like AI and advanced manufacturing
- It means these entrepreneurs can invest in their workers, plan for their future, and compete in a more
- compete in a more dynamic marketplace. compete in a more dynamic marketplace.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (02/18/2025)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- As part of that case, there was a settlement in which Eversource agreed to evaluate this possibility
- <00:36:54.520>
um <00:36:54.960>this agreed uh to evaluate um this agreed uh to evaluate - Suppliers who compete with utilities cannot offer their customers accurate value for net-metered energy
- going to be competing with each other<01:18:28.600>
and <01:18:28.800>that <01:18:29.040 - Frequently, when I'm trying to evaluate complex legislation like this, I ask questions of my old pal
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, September 17, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- They need competent people who would be prepared to move forward.
- They need competent people who judges.
- It means building new factories and production capabilities that can compete in the 21st century.
- It means building new factories and production capabilities that can compete in the 21st century.
- production capabilities that can compete production capabilities that can compete in<08:57:44.798
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Cmte on Rules - Subcommittee on the Federal Impact on Minnesotans and Economic Stability - 01/15/26
Transcript Highlights:
- We were very pleased in evaluation.
- This is an incredibly complex grant with extensive reporting and evaluation requirements.
- extensive reporting and evaluation extensive reporting and evaluation requirements.<00:26:53.440
- understand and track um our evaluation understand and track um our evaluation and<00:37:02.480><
- Our hospitals do have to compete.
Summary:
The Select Subcommittee first took up adoption of three previously prepared nonpartisan committee summary reports dated October 15, November 13, and November 21. Senator Rasmusson objected to the lack of advance notice about the day’s testifiers and criticized the practice of having nonpartisan staff summarize what he described as a partisan agenda. The chair responded that the committee’s purpose is to gather information, not hear bills, and that the summaries were intended as neutral resources for the Senate. Senator Coopek moved adoption, the motion was opposed by Rasmusson and another member, and the motion passed.
The committee then turned to the day’s hearing on federal impacts on Minnesota, with the chair focusing on federal funding threats and the effect of congressional budget actions on health care, especially in greater Minnesota. The first presentation came from the Minnesota Department of Health on the state’s rural health transformation work. Assistant Commissioner Carol Broom introduced the team and described the rural hospital transformation program as a major opportunity to invest in rural health, while acknowledging longstanding challenges such as demographics, transportation barriers, and the financing of care. Nitha Moibi outlined the state’s rural health chart book and data showing an aging population, workforce shortages, and many health professional shortage areas, and described proposed strategies including workforce pipelines, bridge payments for low-volume birth hospitals, telehealth access points, mental health urgent care, and chronic disease prevention.
Acting Assistant Commissioner Anna Ashby of the Minnesota Management and Budget office explained the state’s application to CMS for the Rural Health Transformation Program, which was created in federal law and awarded Minnesota just over $193 million for federal fiscal year 2026. She said the application was shaped by public comments, stakeholder meetings, and legislative outreach, and included initiatives on preventive care, workforce, care access, behavioral health, and provider financial stability. She also reviewed implementation constraints, including a January 30 revised budget deadline, limits on administrative spending, restrictions on using funds to offset Medicaid losses, and the need to show measurable progress to remain eligible for future funding. The presentation noted that most year-one funding would go to rural hospitals, with additional support for federally qualified health centers, community mental health centers, tribal partners, and technical assistance.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Environment and Agriculture (03/11/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- If you know, I have a well in bedrock, the bedrock under my house is pretty competent.
- If you know, I have a well in bedrock, the bedrock under my house is pretty competent.
- Maine are not the only two that you can send out to; there are other process reviewers that will evaluate
- process reviewers that will um evaluate process reviewers that will um evaluate products<02:03:03.360
- you know beneficial use uh evaluation you know beneficial use uh evaluation and<02:13:29.840>
Summary:
The meeting covered two main items. First, the solid waste subcommittee reviewed draft language for HB 707, focusing on landfill siting and permitting standards. Members and the Department of Environmental Services discussed replacing repeated references to “aquifer” with “drinking water well,” clarifying that aquifer is a broad term, and considering whether a statutory definition was needed. They also debated the bill’s setback and time-of-travel provisions, including the 10^-5 standard, a 1,500-foot distance, and whether the bill should rely more on performance-based criteria than prescriptive distances. Another major topic was permit denial language tied to applicants with significant histories of repeated serious violations or landfill-related litigation; the department said it already has related authority in current rules, but noted some wording was still too vague and could be tightened. No vote was taken, and the chair closed the hearing with plans to continue work later.
The second item was a work session on HB 424, which would direct the Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food to create forms for businesses to request information about service animals and establish a study committee on fraudulent or untrained service animals. Several members said the problem raised by the bill was real but expressed concern that the legislature may be limited by the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. Others argued that a study committee would likely not produce a workable solution and might conflict with leadership’s direction to avoid unnecessary study committees. Members discussed whether the bill should be retained, amended, or instead replaced with a letter or resolution to the federal delegation. The committee appeared to lean toward ITL and possibly pursuing a letter to federal officials, but no final vote is reflected in the transcript.
DE
Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session - Session 2 - 41st Legislative Day Jun 25th, 2026 at 02:00 pm
Delaware Senate Floor Meeting
DE
Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session - Session 2 - 41st Legislative Day Jun 25th, 2026
Delaware Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- But he also had a talent for scouting out the lunch spread, carefully evaluating the options and making
- Senator Sturgeon, and others, an act to amend Title 14 of the Delaware Code relating to reading competency
Summary:
The Senate reconvened, received House communications and committee reports, and then took up several bills and a resolution. Committee reports covered measures on composting, volunteer background checks, campaign finance, the Delaware John Lewis Voting Rights Act, publication of Public Integrity Commission reports, Cheswold’s territorial limits, child support, alcohol and marijuana, salary supplements, certified registered nurse anesthetists, land use, school taxes, and a constitutional elections amendment. House Bill 344 and House Bill 444 were referred to the Senate Finance Committee. The Senate also confirmed the nomination of Christy N. Vitola as Commissioner of the Family Court by a 21-0 vote.
The chamber then recognized several fellows and Girls’ State delegates, with tributes to the Legislative Fellows Program and the Communications Fellowship, followed by House Concurrent Resolution 152 honoring the 2026 Delaware Girls’ State participants. The resolution passed unanimously. Senators and guests spoke about the civic value of the program and introduced the Girls’ State leadership team and delegates.
On legislation, the Senate passed House Bill 89, creating a dispute-resolution process for home improvement fraud and strengthening consumer protection enforcement; House Bill 381, requiring notice to the Attorney General of computer security breaches; House Substitute 1 for House Bill 407, making technical and penalty updates to the Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act; House Substitute 1 for House Bill 150, limiting civil arrests at courthouses and Industrial Accident Board offices; and House Substitute 2 for House Bill 94, restricting state and local participation in civil immigration enforcement at sensitive locations such as schools, houses of worship, and health care facilities, with emergency exceptions and reporting requirements. The Senate also began consideration of House Substitute 1 for House Bill 368, which would limit use of state and local resources for federal civil immigration enforcement while preserving exceptions for serious offenses and judicial warrants, but the transcript cuts off before final action on that bill.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Health Care Financing Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Health Care Financing
Transcript Highlights:
- So you can't evaluate, you can't purchase ahead, you have no way to manage your business.
- Blue Cross's job is to strike an appropriate balance between those three competing constituencies.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Health Care Financing held a public hearing on a broad set of health care bills focused on cost, market oversight, pharmaceutical access, transparency, hospital closures, and pharmacy access. Chairs John Lawn and Cindy Friedman opened by emphasizing recent health care reforms and the need for further action on the drug supply chain, PBMs, private equity, and affordability. The committee heard testimony on several measures, including a Betsy Lehman Center bill to make technical changes and create a permanent trust account for federal and private funding, and bills on hospital profits and fairness, hospital closures and health planning, pharmacy deserts, and health care market oversight and pharmaceutical access. No votes were taken during the hearing.
On the hospital profits bill, physicians and labor advocates strongly supported capping hospital CEO compensation at 50 times the lowest-paid worker, requiring greater financial transparency, and directing penalties from high-margin public hospitals into a Medicaid reimbursement fund. Testifiers argued that executive pay is excessive while frontline staff and safety-net services are under strain. Committee members raised concerns about unintended consequences, including whether hospitals might shift workers to contract status or lose executive talent, and whether the bill would actually direct money to the safety net. Supporters responded that the measure is one piece of a larger effort and that the bill’s Medicaid reimbursement provisions would help underserved hospitals.
Testimony on market oversight and pharmaceutical access centered on rising health care and drug costs, PBM practices, and the proposal to give the Health Policy Commission authority to set upper payment limits for certain drugs. Consumer advocates, disability advocates, an independent pharmacist, the Attorney General’s office, and others supported stronger oversight, citing premium increases, affordability problems, and the impact of high drug prices on patients and community pharmacies. Pharma and some industry witnesses opposed parts of the bill, warning that upper payment limits could disrupt access, create legal issues, and fail to address the broader supply chain. The committee also heard support for stronger hospital closure notice and public hearing requirements, and for a pharmacy deserts bill aimed at identifying and addressing closures like the one in Roxbury that affected thousands of patients.