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FL

Florida 2026 4th Special Session

January 21, 2026 - 04:00 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • DUFAULT, ORANGE AND PINELLAS ALL USE APPOINTED SUPERINTENDENTS AND IT'S WORTH NOTING FLORIDA AND ALABAMA
  • FLORIDA AND ALABAMA ARE THE ONLY TWO WHO ELECT SUPERINTENDENTS AND WE HAVE THE MOST.
  • WHAT IS INTERESTING TO ME IS FLORIDA AND ALABAMA ARE THE ONLY TWO STATES IN THE NATION WITH ELECTED SUPERINTENDENTS
  • FLORIDA AND ALABAMA. WE ALSO HAVE SOME OF THE LOWEST TEST SCORES IN THE COUNTRY.
  • WE ARE DEALING WITH PROPERTY TAXES.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Senate Standing Committee on State and Local Government (2-18-26)

State & Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • exclusions in our constitution would make it complicated to implement, as states have different penal codes
  • exclusions in our constitution would make it complicated to implement, as states have different penal codes
  • Alabama disenfranchises individuals convicted of specified moral turpitude crimes, and that grew to over
  • Alabama disenfranchising offenses.
  • Alabama disenfranchising individuals<00:18:57.039> convicted<00:18:57.440> of<00:18:57.679
Summary: The committee first considered Senate Bill 70, which would modify the Public Pension Oversight Board by adding one House member and one Senate member, automatically placing the House and Senate chairs of state and local government on the board, adding the state treasurer, broadening who the Speaker and Senate President may appoint, and reducing the governor’s board appointments from two to one. After a brief procedural correction about a committee substitute, the bill was explained and then passed by a 9-0 favorable vote. The committee then heard Senate Bill 80, a constitutional amendment to restore voting rights to people with felony convictions after they complete imprisonment, probation, and parole, while excluding certain offenses such as election fraud, violent felonies, sex offenses, and crimes against children. The sponsor and Senator Herron argued that Kentucky’s current system is confusing and leaves the state as one of the few with lifetime disenfranchisement, while witnesses from the Sentencing Project, the League of Women Voters of Kentucky, and an advocacy group for people with lived experience supported restoration but urged a simpler, broader, automatic approach without offense-based carveouts. Committee members raised questions about implementation, clerk guidance, and how the proposal interacts with expungement and gubernatorial pardons; one senator specifically asked whether serious offenders, including child rapists, would regain voting rights under a broader version, and the witness answered yes. The bill passed with a favorable expression by an 8-1 vote. The transcript then began discussion of Senate Bill 127, also sponsored by Senator Hickden, but the exchange was cut off before the bill was fully explained or any vote was taken.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

Senate Session (03/05/2026)

New Hampshire Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill creates tax credits against the business profits tax for businesses that have on-site child
  • Expanding access to child care and ... creating a tax credit equal to 20% of creating a tax credit equal
  • but also by receiving an income tax but also by receiving an income tax credit<01:12:19.040>
  • And since this bill's tax address.
  • <05:18:51.920> Alabama, it in some form or another. Alabama, it in some form or another.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, March 4, 2026)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The chair now recognizes a gentlewoman from Alabama, Miss Seawolf, for five minutes. Mr.
  • , recognizes a gentle woman from Alabama, recognizes a gentle woman from Alabama, Miss<00:30:43.600
  • Beginning this Friday, March Alabama.
  • He made the trip to Alabama 18 times.
  • She attended the you can't tax them.
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee Meeting Jun 23rd, 2026

Environment, Energy & Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Realty Transfer Tax.
  • Thirty-eight states offer dedicated tax incentives for data centers, ranging from sales and use tax exemptions
  • for computers and electricity to property tax abatements.
  • Thirty-eight states offer dedicated tax incentives for data centers ranging from sales and use tax exemptions
  • That creates a higher corporate tax. 14 states extend corporate tax.
Summary: The committee heard several bills focused on energy, public safety, and environmental cleanup. House Bill 455 would create a historic preservation license plate to raise funds and awareness for Delaware preservation efforts, and House Bill 471 would tighten rules and penalties for off-highway vehicles on shared private roads, with golf carts excluded. House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill 439, the Truth in E-Bike Marketing Act, would require clearer disclosures when selling electric mopeds and electric motorcycles so consumers understand classification, power, and licensing/insurance requirements. House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill 407, related to the Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act and brownfields, would shift funding for brownfield cleanup from the original realty transfer tax approach to a dedicated share of the hazardous substance cleanup fund and raise civil penalties for fraudulent acts. The committee also approved the June 18, 2026 minutes once quorum was reached. Most of the meeting centered on House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill 233, as amended, a large-load/data center bill intended to protect ratepayers from costs tied to massive new electricity users. The sponsor and Public Advocate said PJM’s warnings about a coming reliability backstop auction made it urgent to establish a Delaware framework now, requiring large energy users to sign utility agreements, cover their share of transmission, distribution, and capacity costs, and comply with curtailment and other protections. Supporters from environmental groups and some labor and business voices said the bill was needed to prevent cost shifts to households and small businesses, while opponents argued it was being rushed, could deter investment, and might unintentionally affect other industries; several asked for more time and clearer definitions. No vote was taken in the portion provided. The committee also took up House Bill 470, which would authorize Delmarva Power, with PSC approval, to build and operate utility-owned battery storage and spread costs across the customer base. The sponsor and Delmarva said the bill would improve reliability quickly and help avoid outages, while the chair expressed concern that the state had not yet fully studied whether utility-owned or competitively procured storage is the best model, noting a recent SEU storage study and broader policy questions. Supporters said utility storage could be deployed faster and help with peak shaving, while others urged a competitive process; the transcript cuts off before any final action on HB 470.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee Apr 27th, 2026

Revenue and Taxation

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill does not raise taxes.
  • -based tax policy.
  • , digital service tax.
  • They're paying their taxes. They're not able to avoid those. They're paying their taxes.
  • There are, the more spending through tax codes, the fewer resources we have to allocate in the budget
Keywords: 988, house, all
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Mobile County Legislation Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Mobile County Legislation

Transcript Highlights:
  • There is an existing law entitled the Alabama Scrap Tire Environmental Quality Act, and what HB 145..
  • That's over half the gains of the rebuild gas tax that everybody worked so hard to get approved. that
  • Basically, you got like Highway 10 up in Wilcox County near the Alabama River. Yes, sir.
Bills: SB46
Keywords: 1136, house, all
US
Transcript Highlights:
  • Billboards that are in Nevada and across the country now that say tariffs are a tax on your grocery bill
  • short-term Impacts would you agree along with Canada who has a billboard now in Nevada tariffs are a tax
  • I Believe the effect of tariffs is very different than a tax on Americans But it could lead to higher
  • Tennessee and Alabama that would be otherwise unbanked.
  • One of the things we see in Alabama is having many rural communities, sometimes that takes extra. effort
Summary: The committee meeting focused on several nominees within key financial institutions, including discussions surrounding the SEC, the Federal Transit Administration, and the Comptroller of the Currency. Notable dialogue included concerns over regulatory balance, with various members emphasizing a need to streamline regulations to foster innovation while ensuring accountability and safety for investors. The importance of the proposed 'Empowering Main Street in America Act' was highlighted as a means to facilitate access to capital for small businesses, underlining the current administration's approach towards financial regulations.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Licensing & Administrative Procedures Apr 8th, 2025

Licensing & Administrative Procedures

Transcript Highlights:
  • The penal code should read very clear.
  • You, you mentioned the tax revenue the state gets from these.
  • So they, so they're paying the alcoholic beverage taxes as well. Thank you very much.
  • In 2016, Shelby County, Alabama, voters approved the sale of liquor on Sundays.
  • It does not change the tax on spirit-based RTDs or any other spirits-based product.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Apr 2nd, 2025

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • and zoning code and building code and all those challenges.
  • and zoning code and building code and all those challenges.
  • tax relief on their donations.
  • They have federal revenues, district revenues, that includes ad valorem taxes, agriculture taxes, permit
  • They have federal revenues, district revenues that include ad valorem taxes, agriculture taxes, permit
Summary: The Appropriations Committee heard presentations on the Senate’s proposed 2025-2026 budget, SPB 25-200, totaling $117.4 billion. Chair Hooper and committee chairs highlighted major spending priorities including a 4% raise for state employees, continued health insurance contributions, investments in water quality, transportation, education infrastructure, and workforce development, along with reductions tied to long-vacant positions. Education funding was a major focus, with increases for K-12 public schools and scholarships, higher education workforce programs, nursing initiatives, tutoring, and university performance funding. Health and human services, criminal and civil justice, transportation/economic development, and agriculture/environment budgets were also outlined, including Medicaid, mental health, corrections staffing, affordable housing, beach restoration, citrus recovery, and water projects. Members then questioned several budget choices, especially K-12 funding. Senators Polsky and Smith raised concerns that the Senate’s AP and dual enrollment funding changes could disadvantage public schools, while Burgess argued the budget preserves the money in the FEFP and gives districts more flexibility rather than reducing support. Questions also addressed voucher availability, school stabilization funding, and the My Safe Florida Home program. The committee adopted 171 consent amendments and three late-file amendments, then approved SPB 2500 as a committee bill. It also favorably reported implementing and conforming bills for state employees, retirement, natural resources, judgeships, K-12 education, higher education, and health and human services, along with SB 7022 on Florida Retirement System contribution rates and elected-officer DROP options, CS/SB 1320 on the Resilient Florida Trust Fund, SB 7014 ending the Mediation and Arbitration Trust Fund, SB 7028 on cancer research, CS/CS/SB 170 on nursing home quality and oversight, CS/SB 168 on mental health diversion and behavioral health data, SB 114 creating an insurance and risk management research center at FSU, and SB 180 on emergency preparedness and post-storm recovery. Most bills were reported favorably with little or no opposition, though SB 180 drew discussion about local-government authority after storms and the need to balance recovery speed with local safety and planning concerns.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're also making sure that our building code reflects today's and future climate conditions.
  • We develop plumbing codes, mechanical codes, and water efficiency standards.
  • Because I thought with deeds excise tax that some of it is split with the county government, so I just
  • But I have to follow up with more specific information about tax policy.
  • The fiscal chaos coming out of Washington and an income tax-reducing ballot question certainly threaten
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The committee held a hearing on S.2542, the Mass Ready Act, a $3 billion environmental bond bill aimed at climate resilience, water infrastructure, conservation, and related permitting reforms. Secretary Rebecca Tepper and administration officials described the bill’s major investments in flood control, coastal resilience, DCR roads/bridges/dams and parks, drinking water and wastewater upgrades, PFAS remediation, land conservation, food security infrastructure, and expanded Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness funding. They also explained proposed streamlining measures for environmental permitting, flood risk disclosures, a Connecticut River Resilient Commission, and a new Resilience Revolving Fund to provide low-cost financing for municipal resilience projects. Committee members asked about affordability, useful life of projects, how the revolving fund would be capitalized, and how the bill would help communities such as Lawrence, Methuen, and coastal towns; officials said the fund would initially use existing trust resources, not new fees, and could later support special obligation bonds once it has a track record. Several witnesses supported the bill but urged larger authorizations or additional provisions. Boston Harbor Now asked for more funding for MVP and the state’s resilient coast plan, and supported permitting reforms for nature-based and hybrid solutions. The Massachusetts Rivers Alliance urged inclusion of drought-management language from separate bills, plus a statewide flood buyout program and a water reuse commission. Green Roots called for dedicated funding for outdoor and indoor air quality monitoring and indoor air quality improvements, especially in environmental justice communities affected by traffic and airport pollution. Conservation and forestry advocates requested more funding for urban tree canopy, local nurseries, and workforce training, while also raising concerns about PFAS impacts and the need for clearer municipal reforestation language. Agriculture and water infrastructure groups focused on food security and drinking water needs. The Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership and the Mass Food System Collaborative backed the food security infrastructure grant program and farmland protection funding, warning that the program needs continued support in fiscal 2027 and that farmland loss is accelerating. The Massachusetts Waterworks Association said the bill does not go far enough on drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure, citing large statewide capital needs and PFAS compliance costs, and asked for recurring funding and broader eligibility for climate resilience grants. A Product Stewardship Council representative also urged funding for a waste reduction needs assessment, citing growing landfill constraints and rising disposal costs. No votes were taken during the hearing."}{
MA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Alabama infamously, for instance, said, if you have an intellectual disability, you wouldn't get ICU
  • Ones like that, when I mentioned in Alabama, got overturned almost immediately on this basis of being
  • This is not, in fact, a debate about waste or about tax savings.
  • This is not, in fact, the debate about waste or about tax savings. It's about whether politics.
  • In fact, the debate is about waste or about tax savings.
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Permanent Commission on the Status of Persons with Disabilities’ Long-Term Services and Supports and Health Equity Subcommittee met to hear a presentation from Colin Killick of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network on disability discrimination in crisis standards of care during COVID-19. He described how Massachusetts and other states initially used standards that prioritized longer life expectancy and, in some cases, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), which he argued devalued the lives of disabled people and older adults. He also discussed related issues such as denial of transplants, pressure on disabled patients to sign do-not-resuscitate orders, and inequities affecting communities of color. He said disability advocates, legal groups, and public officials pushed back through litigation, media, and organizing, leading to revisions of Massachusetts’ standards and the eventual inclusion of disability advocates in the drafting process. Killick also discussed vaccine rollout, saying disabled people were initially under-prioritized but later gained broader access and more accessible vaccination options such as ASL interpretation and in-home vaccination. He closed by urging support for S. 869, an act relative to preventing discrimination against persons with disabilities in the provision of health care, which he said would ban disability-based discrimination in crisis standards, prohibit QALYs in health care decision-making, and add protections against coerced DNRs. He noted the bill had been favorably reported out of the Health Care Financing Committee but still needed support. In questions, members asked why the bill had not advanced further; Killick said earlier opposition from QALY supporters had been resolved, and the main barrier now was lack of legislative prioritization. Members thanked him for the presentation and for the work on revising crisis standards. The subcommittee then completed roll call, approved the prior minutes, and adjourned, noting the next meeting would be August 31.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives May 25th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives May 25th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • by Representative Boyer to urge and request certain entities involved in medical and public health coding
Summary: The House met with a quorum, opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, and then received a series of Senate messages, conference committee appointments, and enrolled bill reports. The chamber also noted Senate concurrence in several House concurrent resolutions and the adoption of conference reports, while multiple Senate bills and resolutions were signed by the Senate President. Senate Bill 480, dealing with butterfly bottom nets and vessel use/anchorage, was referred to the Natural Resources Committee without objection. Members introduced several House resolutions, including measures to commend Arsenal Football Club, recognize Pope Leo XIV and 4-H honoree Margaret Mimi Stoker, study forensic medical exam protocols for domestic violence survivors, create a task force on second-degree murder sentencing, review miscarriage and pregnancy-loss terminology, commemorate the 250th anniversary of New Orleans, and support the National Guard Youth Challenge Program. Committee reports also moved forward bills on child welfare, water quality, scenic rivers, orphan wells, gravel mining reclamation, groundwater conservation, agricultural production, railroad hazards, and retirement system merger feasibility, along with resolutions on Pope Leo XIV and the LaMelle family. The House took up numerous Senate bills returned from the Legislative Bureau, adopting amendments and advancing many to third reading, including bills on health and welfare, education, insurance, and criminal justice. The chamber also reported favorably on resolutions condemning political violence and honoring public figures and organizations, and it scheduled several committee meetings for the following day, including Health and Welfare, Appropriations, Natural Resources, Civil Law, Transportation, and Ways and Means. The session ended with announcements about upcoming committee agendas and delegation meetings, and the House adjourned on motion to reconvene at 1:00 p.m. the next day.