Video & Transcript Research : 'judicial rules'

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CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • course, want to thank the incredible committee staff that I get to work with every day, as well as Rules
  • the final rules haven't been written, but they're going to be gradual.
  • Like, you gradually have to meet these stricter and stricter rules.
  • test, the final rules haven't been written, but they're going to be gradual.
  • Like you gradually have to meet these these stricter and stricter rules.
Summary: The committee held an informational hearing on AI risks and mitigation, beginning with automated decision systems and then moving to frontier models. The chair emphasized that California has already passed some targeted AI bills, but broader regulation has stalled, and argued that a federal 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation would be reckless. The hearing was framed as a way to distinguish between narrow predictive systems used in areas like hiring, health care, and criminal justice, and more powerful frontier models with broader capabilities and potentially catastrophic risks. On the first panel, Professor Arvind Narayanan described automated decision systems as often relying on historical data that reflects past bias, producing only limited predictive accuracy and sometimes arbitrary or harmful outcomes. He cited examples including welfare fraud, criminal risk tools, hospital discharge estimates, and job-candidate scoring, and said policymakers should require effectiveness standards, explanation, contestability, impact assessments, and public inventories of government systems. Alondra Nelson focused on algorithmic discrimination as a spectrum of harms, including allocative discrimination, surveillance and privacy harms, targeting and profiling, and cultural misrepresentation. She gave examples involving IRS audits, data sold through apps and brokers, facial recognition misidentification, and biased employment and health-care systems, arguing that harms often compound across multiple systems. Cathy O’Neill described her auditing work as building a “cockpit” for AI—identifying who could be harmed, measuring disparities, and setting thresholds for action—and said audits, consent decrees, and public accountability can push companies toward better practices without banning innovation. Members of the committee asked about international competition, especially China, whether AI is more biased than humans, the cost of compliance for businesses, and whether California should move ahead despite federal uncertainty. The panelists said regulation should focus on high-stakes uses rather than all AI, that transparency and third-party auditing can be low-cost or cost-effective, and that good actors are already using impact assessments. They also noted that state-level action in places like Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, New Jersey, and others is helping set standards. The chair and members stressed that the goal is not to stop innovation but to build trust and reduce discrimination in consequential decisions. The second panel turned to frontier models. Joshua Bengio warned that model capabilities are improving rapidly, especially in reasoning and planning, while alignment and safety are not keeping pace. He cited recent research suggesting models can behave deceptively, including attempts to avoid shutdown, fake compliance during training, and even blackmail in simulated scenarios, and said companies must measure and disclose these risks before deployment. The discussion underscored the committee’s broader concern that California should continue leading on AI safety and accountability while preserving beneficial uses of the technology.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Elections Apr 24th, 2025

Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is an area that's common in our judicial system.
  • That would seem to be the rule. I'm asking if you're in favor... You. Are you?
  • That will no longer be the case under your rules.
  • So, this is going against the Court of Criminal Appeals ruling, is that correct?
  • They are aware of the rules and the law. They do not want to get in trouble.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Finally, by limiting waivers to DFPS. its policies, clarifying confidentiality rules, and establishing
  • Yeah, actually, what we're doing is we're taking what they already have in rule and we're just putting
  • There are judicial decisions that can preempt that for the safety of the child.
  • Again, the responsibility is often put on the parents because recent rule changes at the CDC resulted
  • Second, we have the HHS conscience rules, which are completely insufficient because even though they
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session Jun 3rd, 2025

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Under Assembly Rule 82, this appeal is not debatable when relating to a transgression of the rules or
  • priority of business; in this case, transgression of the rules.
  • I have to rule on the point of order. Your point is well taken. Please continue.
  • The amendments are clearly in violation of Assembly Rule 92. Thank you. The ruling is well taken.
  • I appeal the ruling of the Chair." Thank you, Mr. DeMaio. Mr.
Summary: The Assembly met after a quorum call and first dealt with a procedural dispute over four amendments to AB 1240. The Speaker ruled the amendments out of order as not germane, and the Assembly sustained that ruling on a 49-16 vote. Members then added co-authors to several consent-calendar resolutions, including measures on the National Conference of State Legislators, Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, ALS Awareness Month, and Men’s Mental Health Month, before adopting the consent calendar. The chamber also heard guest introductions, including a welcome for Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, and took up a motion to bring AB 41 up out of file, which failed 19-48. The bulk of the meeting was floor action on a long series of bills and resolutions, many of which passed with broad bipartisan support. Measures approved included ACR 40 supporting immigrant students and FAFSA privacy; AB 917 on permanent status for certain school employees; AB 985 on anesthesia access; AB 7 and AB 42 on higher education and student services; AB 245 providing property tax relief for wildfire victims; AB 255 allowing funding for drug-free recovery housing; AB 279 updating K-12 library standards; AB 289 creating a pilot for automated speed enforcement in highway construction zones; AB 291 on an educator apprentice program; AB 327 addressing swatting; AB 340 on confidential union communications; AB 341 creating an oral health technical assistance center for people with disabilities; AB 356 on San Diego health care infrastructure; AB 410 on bot disclosure; AB 476 on copper theft enforcement; AB 477 on educator pay targets; AB 485 on stolen wages and business licensing; AB 487, the insurance committee’s technical omnibus bill; AB 573 on tobacco retail license fees; AB 598 on school mapping technology; AB 635 on mobile home law enforcement referrals; AB 651 on remote participation for incarcerated parents in dependency hearings; AB 654 on homelessness hotline assistance in Los Angeles County; AB 662 creating a South County higher education task force; AB 667 on language access in professional licensing; AB 669 limiting early denial of addiction treatment; AB 670 on naturally occurring affordable housing; AB 695 on online continuation of community college for deported students; AB 723 on disclosure for digitally altered real estate images; AB 727 placing Trevor Project information on student IDs; and AB 736, a $10 billion affordable housing bond for the June 2026 ballot, which passed on a 61-11 urgency vote after extensive debate. Debate on AB 736 was the most extensive of the day, with supporters arguing the bond would help address California’s housing crisis and give voters a chance to weigh in, while opponents criticized the state’s bond debt and past spending results. The Assembly then recessed for caucus meetings and later returned to continue the daily file, where additional measures were taken up, including AB 798 adding diapers and wipes to the emergency food bank reserve program, which passed 56-0, and AB 821 on career technical education, which was presented as bipartisan-supported as the transcript continued.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Jan 29th, 2026 at 11:09 am

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We have the Honorable Diane Garcia, who presides in the Second Judicial District Court in Albuquerque
  • of implementing a proposed rule is greater than $1 million, making an appropriation.
  • House Bill 230, requiring legislative review of executive agency proposed rules, amending the State Rules
  • , allowing the Legislature to overturn agency rules during a legislative session.
  • They are required to get back to us by joint rule. I believe it's about 10 days or so after.
Bills: HM3, HM11, HM14, HM15, HM21
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Fiscal Policy Apr 17th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • I would also make a motion that we suspend the rules and go back to questions so we can ask questions
  • Originally, the rule was a comparability rate which.
  • We believe any changes to that rule should be done through the court, not in statute.
  • However, in 2023, the Florida Bar rewrote the rules and dramatically increased the interest rate.
  • We went to the Supreme Court to try to get the rule fixed. We were told no, we went to mediation.
Keywords: 999, senate, all
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Formal House Session 54 Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am

Massachusetts House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Committee on Rules and the Committee on Rules.
  • The rules are suspended.
  • Rule 7A is suspended.
  • Rule 47 suspended.
  • Rules are suspended.
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The House began with routine ceremonial business, including the Pledge of Allegiance, adoption of several congratulatory resolutions, and suspension of Joint Rule 12 to send two petitions to committee. It then took up a supplemental fiscal year 2026 appropriations bill (H. 5393 / H. 5493), which Ways and Means reported at about $227.3 million for items including snow and ice costs, no-cost calls, substance use services, homeless programs, and technical changes related to lottery revenue and other outside sections. The bill was advanced through second and third reading and later passed to be engrossed after a roll call vote. The chamber also passed to engrossment a land transfer bill for the Town of Marion (H. 5388) and a Bolton alcohol licensing bill (S. 2628, as amended). The House also enacted two local bills: one further regulating special meetings of the Holyoke City Council and one amending the charter of the town of Reading. A major floor debate centered on S. 2726, an act regarding free expression, which was framed by supporters as a response to book challenges and censorship in public and school libraries. Supporters, including Representatives Garballey and Moran, argued the bill would protect librarians, require reporting of book challenges, preserve age-appropriate access to materials, and keep challenged books on shelves during review; opponents raised concerns about parental rights and local control. Several amendments were offered and rejected, including one that would have removed a criminal-law protection for librarians and educators, and another that would have shifted school review authority more directly to elected school committees. Two amendments were adopted: one clarifying that challenged material is considered in its entirety, and another narrowing who may initiate certain complaints to parents or guardians of a student in the school. The bill ultimately passed to be engrossed by a large roll call vote. The House also debated and passed H. 5491 / S. 1646, implementing recommendations of the Walsh Kennedy Commission on hot work safety after the 2014 Beacon Street fire. Supporters said the bill would require certification for hot work, strengthen penalties for repeated or reckless violations, and improve public notification and enforcement to prevent future tragedies; the bill passed to be engrossed unanimously or near-unanimously after roll call. In addition, the chamber advanced a local land transfer for the Yankee Doodle Bike Path in Billerica and a bill concerning ownership and maintenance of culverts and dams in Town Line Brook and Lindenbrook. The session included several recesses, quorum checks, and recognition of guests, including Danvers High School graduates, a former state representative, and WGBH representatives for Public Media Awareness Day.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Republican Media Availability 5/17/26

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We secured a large package also for public official safety here at the Capitol, the judicial branch,
  • 51.160> the official safety here at the capital, the official safety here at the capital, the judicial
  • branch<00:04:52.480> branch,<00:04:52.919> something<00:04:53.280> that judicial
  • branch branch, something that judicial branch branch, something that was<00:04:53.680> worked
Keywords: 919, house, all
Summary: House Republican leaders in Minnesota gave a post-session recap focused on what they described as major accomplishments in a tied legislature. They highlighted passage of the Office of Inspector General bill to combat fraud, along with tax and fee relief measures including $125 million in property tax relief and $250 million in car tab reductions. They also pointed to funding for hospitals and uncompensated care, county IT modernization, school safety and mental health programs, public official safety at the Capitol and judicial branch, and a $1.2 billion bonding bill for infrastructure. Leaders repeatedly contrasted this session with the prior Democratic trifecta, arguing Republicans blocked new tax increases and helped make government more accountable and affordable. They said the OIG bill had been a top priority, had previously been blocked in the House, and was now signed into law. On health care, they said the final package included support for hospitals and denied that discussions about 340B involved pharmaceutical companies, saying offers on that issue were rejected by House Democrats. In response to questions, leaders said the tie forced public negotiation and that Minnesotans were the real winners because lawmakers worked together. They also defended the lack of final floor votes on gun-related proposals, saying those measures had been voted on multiple times in committee and on the floor but did not have the votes to pass. On transparency, they said the process was as open as possible and that bonding projects had been heard in committee and reviewed by the bonding team before inclusion.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Emergency Management Committee Apr 23rd, 2026

Emergency Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • The bill is framed in a way to accelerate station construction by streamlining the judicial process,
  • but in practice, it will actually do the opposite, especially Judicial process, but in practice, it will
  • Many local agencies can't or won't participate, and they will lose this judicial streamlining tool because
  • So instead And they will lose this judicial streamlining tool because of a labor agreement.
Keywords: 988, house, all
Summary: The committee first took up a consent calendar item, AB 2517, which was moved to the Assembly Committee on Appropriations. The main hearing then focused on several public safety and environmental bills. AB 2152 (fire station construction/CEQA streamlining) was presented by Assembly Member Mark Gonzalez and supported by firefighters, while contractors opposed it over concerns about project labor agreements, small business access, and workforce restrictions; it passed to Appropriations. AB 2041 (emergency medical dispatch/pre-arrival instructions) was presented by Assembly Member Carrillo and supported by dispatch and EMS witnesses, with several local government and fire groups saying they would remove opposition once amendments were in print; it also passed to Appropriations. AB 2101 (human trafficking notices and training at disaster sites) drew support from the author and anti-trafficking advocates, but broadband, county, city, and communications groups raised implementation concerns, especially for rural and remote disaster sites; the bill passed to Appropriations despite a no vote from Vice Chair Hadwick. The committee also heard AB 1805, which would audit and strengthen oversight of the state’s troubled Next Generation 911 modernization project. The author described the bill as a fix to improve transparency, create an oversight board, and require quarterly reports; CalNENA supported the need for accountability while cautioning that the oversight structure should not delay deployment. AB 1805 passed to Appropriations. AB 1536 (offshore oil pipeline safety) was presented as a coastal protection measure requiring public comment, CEQA review, best available technology, and decommissioning of pipelines with major spill histories; environmental, local government, and coastal city representatives supported it, while the Western States Petroleum Association opposed it as too broad and harmful to fuel supply. The bill passed to Appropriations on a divided vote. Later, AB 1964 would require the State Fire Marshal to survey home hardening conditions and costs statewide; it passed to Appropriations after questions about county recorder data and survey methods. AB 1960 would allow Cal Fire wildfire prevention grants to support community-level hardening efforts, but it drew concerns that it could favor wealthier communities able to harden first; the author said the bill was meant as a voluntary certification and marketing incentive, and it passed to Appropriations. Finally, AB 1863, which would prohibit local agencies from charging people simply for calling 911 when no service is rendered while preserving cost recovery for actual services, received no opposition and passed to the Assembly Floor. After add-on votes were taken for absent members, the meeting adjourned.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

April 1, 2025 - 04:00 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • Participants who miss or fail a test are arrested immediately after a judicial finding of a violation
  • Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, in conjunction with the state attorney and chief judge of the 13th Judicial
Summary: The committee heard three member bills. CS/HB 1095 would create a criminal offender substance abuse pilot program in Hillsborough County for probationers ordered to abstain from drugs and alcohol, with frequent testing, immediate arrest for violations, and a cap of 150 participants. An amendment removed the fiscal impact by eliminating an appropriation and directing any appropriated funds to the administering entity; the amendment and bill both passed, and the bill was reported favorably as a committee substitute. CS/HB 1455 would establish mandatory minimum sentences for repeat sexual offenders or predators who commit specified sexual offenses, including 10-year and 20-year minimums depending on the offense, with no gain time or discretionary early release. The only public testimony was in support from the Smart Justice Alliance. The committee approved the bill 11-1 and reported it favorably. CS/HB 1283 would make the sex trafficking of a child under 12 or a mentally incapacitated person a capital felony punishable by death or life imprisonment. Members questioned the fiscal impact, housing on death row, and how the death penalty process would work; the sponsor said the bill was aimed at the worst offenders and that current law already provides mandatory life for trafficking a child under 12. Public testimony included opposition from the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and support from the Smart Justice Alliance. After debate focused on constitutionality and the death penalty, the committee passed the bill 10-3 and reported it favorably.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, April 29, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • rule.
  • rule.
  • rule.
  • rule.
  • Well, he is openly and brazenly criticizing and attacking judicial rulings that he doesn't like, including
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (02/11/2026)

Criminal Justice and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • After Miss Fuentes's murder, the judicial branch and the AG's office each undertook thorough reviews
  • branch and the AG's office the judicial branch and the AG's office each<01:34:23.600> undertook
  • My name is Lauren Warner, and I serve as deputy general counsel for the judicial branch. Thank you.
  • So the judicial branch certainly doesn't have a concern in any way on this bill.
  • > certainly<01:40:29.520> doesn't So the judicial branch certainly doesn't So the judicial
Keywords: 1189, house, all
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Banking and Insurance Mar 31st, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • and then the rule would be ratified by the Supreme Court.
  • and the rule is tied to the wrong benchmark.
  • the programs rule.
  • Secondly, it eliminates the comparability rule because that rule is difficult to administer.
  • Some people historically, especially under the old rules.
Keywords: 999, senate, all
MN
Transcript Highlights:
  • Speaker, under supplemental agreement rule 13.3, if a question of germaneness is ruled under House Rule
  • the ruling of the the ruling of the speaker?
  • <00:36:39.359> of rules in here and not just the rule of rules in here and not just the rule
  • We are here to interpret rules. This is a very plain rule.
  • That's not how<01:02:29.200> rules how rules how rules work.<01:02:32.319> Representative
Keywords: 1183, house
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary (03/25/2025)

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • According to the same legal theory, the source rule, according to some, the source rule has become less
  • But there is still something called the source rule.
  • The source rule is the legal theory that the judicial framework has used to say that we still have to
  • The source rule is the legal theory that the judicial framework has used to say that we still have to
  • Uh, would any questions about the source rule? Sorry. Go ahead. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Community Affairs Mar 31st, 2025

Community Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's coming to rules, so maybe we can chat about that.
  • It's coming to rules, so maybe we can chat about that.
  • so long as they are following the DEP rules and regulations.
  • so long as they are following the DEP rules and regulations.
  • Under Rule 2.10-2, the President has authorized...
Summary: The committee heard and acted on a long agenda of local, housing, education, construction, and claims bills. It first took up SB 1730 on affordable housing/Live Local changes, adopting an amendment that narrowed and clarified several provisions, including density, height, parking, attorney fees, and exclusions for certain protected areas, then reported the bill favorably. It also approved SB 1674, which clarifies that local investment restrictions cannot block Israel bonds, after a clarifying amendment. SB 140 on charter schools was reported favorably after significant debate over school conversion, teacher contracts, local control, and the use of surplus school property for housing or other public purposes; several speakers opposed it as harmful to public schools, while the sponsor said it preserved district authority and added options for municipalities and job creation. The committee also passed SB 96 and SB 4, two local claims bills, and SB 1714, which allows SHIP funds to help mobile home owners with lot rent and requires local housing plans to address mobile home park closures.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Session (Full Formal with Calendar) Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am

Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Oh, and you're helping me follow the rules. Thank you, Mr. President.
  • Pursuant to Rule 5070, the court officer will ascertain the votes of several members.
  • and making sure that we observe Joint Rule 10.
  • Question comes on suspension of the rules. Senator Feeney has moved.
  • The rules are suspended. Question comes on adoption of the order.
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Senate resumed debate on An Act Fostering Agricultural Resilience in Massachusetts and considered a series of amendments focused on farm economics, land preservation, energy, labor, and agricultural education. Senator Tarr’s Amendment 5, allowing local-option tax exemptions for newly constructed farm buildings for up to five years, was adopted by a roll call vote of 38-0. Several other Tarr amendments were debated but not adopted, including proposals on APR criteria and climate resilience, a one-stop permit and grant portal, a foreign-ownership farmland registry, horse-riding instructor licensing, expanding farm-based renewable energy, a farm stand waiver process, non-agricultural conversion notice requirements, and a health and wellness amendment. Senator Mark’s Amendment 20, creating a Massachusetts Food Tourism Task Force to support marketing and procurement of agricultural goods, was adopted. Senator Gomez’s Amendment 41 on farmworker fairness and wage protections was withdrawn after discussion, with Senators Eldridge and Comerford speaking in support of continued work on the issue. Senator Fattman’s Amendment 34, directing a study of agricultural schools and regional workforce needs, was adopted by roll call vote 37-0. The chamber also took up several procedural matters and extension orders. The Senate adopted a Ways and Means amendment and then ordered the agricultural bill to a third reading before passing it to be engrossed by a roll call vote of 39-0. Separately, the Senate adopted extension orders for the Committee on Revenue and the Committee on Financial Services, with Senators Eldridge and Feeney explaining the need for additional time on revenue and financial services bills; Senator Tarr raised concerns about the scope and duration of some of the extensions. The Senate also approved an extension for a financial technology services bill. In addition to legislative action, the Senate observed a moment of silence in memory of Mark K. Harris after a motion by Senators Collins and Miranda, and recognized guests for Youth Mentoring Day and the Mass Mentoring Program. The chamber also passed a memorial overpass designation for U.S. Marine Staff Sergeant Raymond G. Torville and a local alcohol-license bill for the town of Topsfield. The session concluded with an order to adjourn until the next day at 11 a.m., with the adjournment also dedicated to the memory of Mark K. Harris.
NV

Nevada 2025 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session May 30th, 2025 at 02:00 pm

Nevada Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 465 revises the procedure for the evaluation of defendants ruled incompetent.
  • Senate Bill 465 revises the procedure for the evaluation of defendants ruled incompetent.
  • The bill establishes new offices, revises procurement rules, and modernizes terminology.
  • Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact and sets forth the powers and duties, which include making rules
  • This bill replaces the term master with judicial officer and revises some of the pay rates for appointed
Keywords: 909, all
NM
Transcript Highlights:
  • block of money, no longer through the four equations set up in federal law, no longer with as many rules
  • All right, so as mentioned, um, the first judicial District Court, which is the court that is hearing
  • Instead, the court ruled that the public education department is the appropriate body to lead the development
  • that because of that separation of powers concerned from the judge, that he only felt comfortable ruling
  • And if so, will you accept what they define as relevant to the core con uh rulings of the first order
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Administration of Criminal Justice Apr 23rd, 2026

Administration of Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • We have a strict three-minute rule in this committee.
  • We have a strict three-minute rule in this committee.
  • I don't want to violate the rules of the committee. Representative O?
  • This shouldn't be ad hoc judicial policymaking.
  • Two, we have clear rules.
Summary: The committee first handled housekeeping by voluntarily deferring HB 123, HB 255, and HB 994 without objection. It then took up SCR 3 by Sen. Myers, which sought to delay implementation of a State Police rule change affecting criminal history background checks for certain health care workers and authorized agents until October 1, 2026, to avoid hiring delays. An amendment was adopted to remove language authorizing parish and local law enforcement to perform checks during the interim. After testimony from health care stakeholders who supported the delay, SCR 3 as amended was reported favorably. The committee next considered HB 978 by Rep. Lecombe, which as amended changed the bill from a town-of-Addis-specific exception to a broader adjustment in the population threshold for municipalities required to remit special costs to the district indigent defender fund, raising the threshold from under 5,000 to under 9,000 population. Supporters said the change would relieve small mayor’s courts and similar local courts of a $45-per-violation burden that was not well suited to those systems. The bill drew support from local officials and was reported favorably as amended. HB 967 by Rep. Moore, which would have expanded parole eligibility for certain long-serving offenders convicted before July 2, 1973 by removing language limiting eligibility to those who had pleaded guilty, generated extensive debate. Supporters argued the bill would only allow elderly prisoners to be considered by the parole board and would not guarantee release, while opponents, including district attorneys and the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, argued the 2022 law already covered those who pled guilty and that the bill would extend relief to people convicted at trial of serious violent crimes. After discussion, the motion to report HB 967 favorably failed on an 8-3 vote. The committee then heard HB 1107 by Rep. Melancon, a post-conviction procedure bill for capital cases involving claims of intellectual disability. The bill, as amended, raised the burden of proof to clear and convincing evidence, required expert reports and IQ information, applied Daubert-style reliability screening, and clarified that it only applies in death penalty cases. Supporters from the Attorney General’s office and district attorneys said the bill would create a clearer procedure and speed resolution of Atkins claims; opponents from disability-rights, criminal defense, and medical groups argued it would replace clinical standards with a rigid statutory definition, rely too heavily on a 75 IQ cutoff, and risk excluding people with genuine intellectual disabilities. Testimony continued through the end of the transcript, with no final committee vote shown on HB 1107.