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• It'll be our counties: more flooding, more traffic, less clean water.
• and energy storage system installations to the list of single-trade inspections.
• Florida's forestry industry contributes $25 billion to the state economy, providing more than 124,000
• As Florida's economy, energy demands, and population continue to grow, we need to recognize energy solutions
• We want to encourage increased energy in the state of Florida.

Committee: Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government

Summary: The committee first took up SB 80, the Parks Preservation Act, which would define state park purposes around conservation-based recreation and public access, prohibit uses such as golf courses, tennis courts, pickleball courts, ball fields, and hotels, require more public notice and advisory input on land management changes, and mandate reporting on park spending and maintenance backlogs. Testimony was overwhelmingly supportive, with conservation groups, youth advocates, and other members of the public backing stronger protections for state parks. The bill was reported favorably. Members then approved SB 200, directing DEP to develop a statewide waste reduction and recycling plan, and CS for SB 496, which clarifies that timeshare facilities are governed by Chapter 721 and only need annual board meetings. CS for CS for SB 1404, dealing with illegal gambling, was amended to add reporting requirements, tighten penalties, preempt local gambling legalization, and create a process for vetting certain machines and veteran-service-organization gaming questions; the bill drew significant concern from veterans groups and others over vague machine definitions and the need for clearer standards, but it was still reported favorably. The committee also passed SB 622 to allow pari-mutuel permit holders to lease facilities across horse-racing classes. The committee next approved CS for CS for SB 712 after adopting a strike-all and amendment that covered synthetic turf rules, change-order timelines, public works scoring, elevator and alarm contractor issues, mass timber code updates, pool and spa contractor scope changes, spaceport building-code exemptions, and solar/energy-storage inspection provisions. Support came from timber, construction, and industry groups, while pool contractors objected to parts of the scope changes. The committee also reported favorably CS for CS for SB 1742, a major condominium reform bill that pauses reserve funding after milestone inspections, expands financial flexibility, adds disclosure and conflict-of-interest rules, and increases data collection and oversight; members from both parties praised the sponsor’s work on condo issues. Finally, the committee approved SB 1574 on renewable natural gas infrastructure and SB 1580 authorizing DEP coastal resiliency public-private partnerships. It also passed CS for SB 1760, which requires certain public officials and agency leaders to meet Florida residency or proximity requirements. The last bill, SB 820, would codify the Office of Faith and Community in the Governor’s office; while supporters said it would permanently support faith-based and community organizations and improve coordination, several senators raised concerns about church-state separation, the office’s ties to Hope Florida, and whether codifying it could make the program more political. Despite those concerns, the bill was reported favorably.

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• relating to energy conservation program, energy conservation standards for walk-in coolers and walk-in
• United States Code, of the rules submitted by the Department of Energy relating to energy conservation
• <03:12:38.880><c> into</c><03:12:39.200><c> a</c> economy into a economy into a ditch<03:12:41.359><c

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• This economy has grown like topsy.
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• </c><00:41:39.200><c> economic</c> It invests in a vibrant economy economic It invests in a vibrant economy

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• I think it cleans it up maybe a little bit.
• I think it cleans it up maybe a little bit.
• I think it cleans it up maybe a little bit.
• </c> get it clean on the floor with that. get it clean on the floor with that.
• </c> &gt;&gt; Thanks for that clean up. &gt;&gt; Thanks for that clean up.

Bills: HB0015 , HB0017 , HB0019

Committee: House Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources

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• A domestic worker is someone who provides services within a private home, whether that work is cleaning
• We affirm that domestic workers are essential to our families, our communities, and our economy, and
• threatening our ability to deliver public projects on time, control costs, and meet our climate and clean
• energy goals.
• housing, childcare, and health care costs that continue to rise faster than wages in many parts of our economy

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• We've seen people detained in indiscriminate raids in L.A., D.C., Chicago, and Minnesota.
• And I feel as though when I toured it, I found it to be very nice, clean, accommodating to all folks
• So we're saying that Minnesota and Florida and other states, they're overloaded with cases.
• In Minnesota and Florida and other states, they're overloaded with cases.
• New Mexicans deserve better than an economy that depends on someone else losing their freedom.

Committee: House House Consumer & Public Affairs

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• and provides for procedures and authority of the Secretary of the Department of Conservation and Energy
• and provides for procedures and authority of the Secretary of the Department of Conservation and Energy
• across energy, manufacturing, logistics, construction, and technology.
• It is time to align our education and our workforce dollars with an economy. That's not ideology.
• House Bill by Representative Coats, renewable energy recycling of decommissioned renewable energy components

Summary: The House convened with a quorum, received and accepted multiple resignation notices from members representing Districts 37, 39, 60, 69, 97, and 100, and then recognized the election and qualification of the members-elect who filled those vacancies: Doyle Boudreau, Reese Broussard, Chasity Verrett-Martinez, and Edwin Murray. Each member-elect was sworn in, and the House also appointed committees to notify the Senate and the governor that it was ready to conduct business for the 2026 regular session. The chamber then handled a large number of procedural actions related to prefiled legislation. By motion and without objection, the House suspended rules to refer prefile bills to committee and introduced a broad slate of House bills and resolutions. Topics included the state budget and appropriations, retirement system changes, carbon capture and sequestration, criminal justice and bail, public safety, education, health care, local government matters, transportation, and several memorial or commemorative resolutions. Several resolutions and bills were noted as lying over, and some prefiled bills were withdrawn from the files. The House also received a Senate message that SCR 1 had been adopted, and the resolution was taken up without objection. The chamber then recessed for a joint session with the Senate to hear the governor’s address and a presentation honoring Technical Sergeant Adam W. Brister with the Distinguished Flying Cross. In his remarks, Governor Jeff Landry highlighted his administration’s priorities, including education, tax reform, workforce development, health and nutrition, insurance reform, transportation infrastructure, fiscal discipline, and criminal justice reform, while urging support for his agenda and several related bills and constitutional amendments.

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• We have the school of Energy as well.
• projects that have an energy component.
• We also know that energy storage.
• Provides critical flexibility for balancing energy supply and demand. Thank you so much.
• My name is Bennett Fusen, and I am the Director of Energy Storage Policy at the American Clean Power

Committee: Senate Senate Tax, Business & Transportation

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• We haven't seen the cost decrease specifically in the electrical energy and gas going towards Missourians
• lower cost of doing business without quietly shifting tax burdens onto the production side of the economy
• I'm just wondering, and this industry is pretty important to Missouri's economy.
• Now, if you're in a local mom-and-pop store on Main Street who runs a dry cleaning service, hair salon
• So I was on the fence about removing energy, such as solar farms and wind farms, from that, but we did

Committee: House Rules - Legislative

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• already know local parks, trails, and waterways are essential infrastructure supporting our health, economy
• This is why we want to join the states of Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Washington.
• Assembly Bill 1016 by Assembly Member Jeff Gonzalez and an act relating to energy. Thank you.
• Assembly Bill 1016 by Assembly Member Jeff Gonzalez and an act relating to energy.
• would maybe like to see, and maybe you would take as a friendly amendment, is that we add biomass energy

Summary: The Assembly met on May 23, 2025, after a quorum call, prayer, and Pledge of Allegiance. Members also made several guest introductions and memorial recognitions, including tributes to labor leader Louisa Blue and a Memorial Day moment of silence. The body adopted a motion to suspend Assembly Rule 63 for certain Appropriations Committee bills, and later took up a second-day consent calendar and several resolutions. The chamber adopted ACR 68, declaring July 2025 as Parks Make Life Better Month, and ACR 83, proclaiming California Maritime Day; both received broad support. On the floor file, members passed a series of bills covering child passenger safety, student financial aid, downtown office-to-housing conversion districts, rental vehicle theft prevention, fire hazard zone reviews, medical data protections, UC admissions transparency, office-to-housing streamlining, inoperable RV removal, domestic violence and child welfare, insurance classification for social service workers, sustainable aviation fuel CEQA review, UC hiring background checks, accessory dwelling units, fish and wildlife exemptions for Sutter County infrastructure, speed limit assessments, geothermal permitting, special education transfers, recorder fee adjustments, and a BIT program exemption for farmers and ranchers. Most measures passed with little or no opposition. AB 435, which would have implemented a five-step test standard for child passenger safety laws, was later reconsidered and failed on a vote of 36-12 after the call was lifted. The Assembly also adopted the second-day consent calendar, including multiple bills and resolutions, and added co-authors to several resolutions. The session ended with adjournments in memory and an adjournment until Tuesday, May 27 at 1 p.m.

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• They'd had those kids for two years, and the tribe came in from Minnesota and interjected themselves
• The kids' parents were on drugs, but the system let them take those two little kids back to Minnesota
• That we just need to clean the bad things out of the library.
• So House Bill 4274 essentially is just cleaning a few things up and streamlining it, making it easier
• House Bill 3469 is a bill request from the Oklahoma Energy Producers' Association.

Bills: HR1036 , HB2975 , HB3026 , HB3297 , HB2981 , HB2978 , HB4144 , HB1322 , HB1818 , HB3194 , HB3767 , HB3342 , HB3344 , HB4170 , HB3287 , HB3288 , HB4454 , HB3264 , HB3266 , HB3268 , HB4095 , HB4115 , HB4316 , HB3530 , HB3428 , HB4272 , HB4273 , HB4274 , HB3405 , HB3406 , HB3467 , HB3469 , HB3931

Keywords: Bob Wills, Western Swing, Cain's Ballroom, Oklahoma music history, country music, rock and roll, folk jazz blues, Oklahoma Arts Council, Oklahoma Film and Music Office, Oklahoma Historical Society, OKPOP Museum, commemorative resolution, day at the Capitol, musician recognition, heritage celebration, Tulsa, poultry waste, nutrient management, environmental regulations, agriculture

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• Their work reflects the efforts of the broader water, wastewater, energy, fire, law enforcement, and
• California is the fourth largest economy in the world.
• California is the fourth largest economy in the world. We help power the federal budget.
• We also will continue to have the same energy, the same passion, as we face other disasters.
• Department of Energy, where he received a commendation from then-Vice President Al Gore for his energy-saving

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• So money is truly nothing more than one's economic energy.
• People say Bitcoin mining is known for its high energy consumption.
• So the last issue here was the People think energy is an issue; it uses up a lot of energy.
• So they do consume energy, as I mentioned before.
• Most mining companies, believe it or not, now try to source their energy from waste energy.

Committee: House Investments & Pensions Oversight Committee

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• We knew it was going to take a lot of energy, and yet we didn't meet the deadline.
• So we have these bigger fees, it is always more expensive to clean the trash up than it is to not have
• We could share pictures with you, but it's a very clean operation.
• That's how it needs to work in a market economy.
• A true circular economy can be met, and ratepayers aren't burdened with the cost of doing that.

Summary: The subcommittee heard presentations on the administration’s Proposition 4 spending plans for extreme heat mitigation and outdoor access, then took up SB 54 implementation, SB 707 textile producer responsibility, and recovery needs related to the Los Angeles fires at state parks. For the extreme heat chapter, agencies described funding for the Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program, urban greening, urban forestry, fairground upgrades, and technical assistance for community-based climate programs. Witnesses emphasized that these are existing programs with strong demand, that technical assistance is important for reaching disadvantaged and tribal communities, and that the proposed funding would expand outreach and implementation capacity. Members asked for more detail on where funds have gone geographically, examples of successful projects, tree-planting totals, and how fairgrounds could better support fire staging and emergency preparedness. The LAO said the timing of the administration’s proposed funding generally made sense because the programs are already established, and no votes were taken. For outdoor access, State Parks, Fish and Wildlife, and Natural Resources described funding for new parks in underserved communities, deferred maintenance, state lands access, and several new or pending programs. State Parks said the park development program would fund roughly 48 projects and that deferred maintenance funding would address high-priority health, safety, and access needs. Fish and Wildlife said its lands program would improve visitor amenities and access on properties that often lack basic facilities. The Natural Resources Agency also outlined three newer outdoor-access proposals: expanding recreation in disadvantaged communities, enhancing natural resource values and trail access, and a nature/climate/education facilities grant program. The LAO distinguished between existing programs, which are ready to move forward, and the newer proposals, where the Legislature may want more input before funds are allocated. Members also raised concerns about park police vacancies, the need to track outcomes for accessibility investments, and whether Prop. 4 could help with wildfire-related recovery at state parks. CalRecycle then presented on SB 54, the plastics and packaging producer responsibility law, and members pressed hard on the delay in regulations. CalRecycle said it has held workshops, formed an advisory committee, selected the producer responsibility organization, and completed required baseline and covered-material reports, but needs more time to address complex comments and novel features such as source reduction and eco-modulated fees. Members expressed frustration that a statutory deadline was missed and asked for a concrete timeline; CalRecycle said it expects regulations in place by 2026, ahead of the PRO’s January 1, 2027 plan deadline. Finance said the Beverage Container Recycling Fund is currently healthy enough to support short-term loans for implementation. The committee also reviewed SB 707, the textile EPR law, which would create the nation’s first textile producer responsibility program; staff said the proposal would add positions and loan authority, and members noted the statutory deadlines for PRO approval, needs assessment, and later regulations. The hearing ended with discussion of the January Los Angeles fires’ damage to Topanga State Park and Will Rogers State Historic Park, where State Parks described extensive losses, emergency response work, and ongoing damage assessment. Members asked about FEMA eligibility, state funding sources, and community engagement in rebuilding, and the department said it is still assessing costs and will work with the public on reimagining the parks.

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• energy program.
• The dual-use solar energy pilot program or the successor dual-use solar energy permanent program can
• So instead of paying a $250 energy bill, I pay a $5 energy bill.
• So instead of paying a $250 energy bill, I pay a $5 energy bill. energy bill.
• I pay a $5 energy bill.

Committee: Senate Senate Budget and Appropriations

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• </c><00:10:50.399><c> and</c> work down in southeast Minnesota and work down in southeast Minnesota and
• across Minnesota are different.
• across Minnesota are different.
• </c> The uh cost of housing in Minnesota The uh cost of housing in Minnesota continues<00:55:01.119><
• </c><01:30:29.040><c> gains</c> able to own a home in Minnesota gains able to own a home in Minnesota

Bills: HF4319 , HF3295 , HF3589 , HF3587 , HF3588 , HF4295 , HF3571 , HF3895

Committee: House Elections Finance and Government Operations

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• Jody Monolero with energy.
• Jody Monolero with energy.
• Florida, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois have similar laws already on the books.
• Florida, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois.
• I know Energy will be here.

Bills: HB267 , HB478 , HB617 , HB659 , HB800 , HB922 , HB924 , HB947 , HB1166 , HB1223

Committees: House Commerce , House Commerce, Consumer Protection, and International Affairs

Keywords: home inspectors, board membership, licensing, term limits, Louisiana State Board, utility, reimbursement, overcharges, consumer protection, economic relief, hidden fees, junk fees, drip pricing, price transparency, mandatory fees, surcharges, unfair trade practices, advertising disclosures, total price, service fees

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• I am their director called Yatco Energy.
• > longstanding</c><03:20:30.479><c> uh</c> Minnesota has had a longstanding uh Minnesota has had a longstanding
• What is Lake Winnipesaukee worth to the economy? $17 billion.
• What is Lakewagi worth the economy? $17 What is Lakewagi worth the economy?
• </c> um is a huge huge part of our economy um is a huge huge part of our economy and<03:24:51.920><c>

Committee: House Ways and Means

Summary: The committee heard testimony on House Bill 1596, which would raise New Hampshire’s cigarette excise tax from $1.78 per pack to about $2.80, using an inflation-based adjustment since the rate was last set in 2008. Representative Jerry Stringham, the bill’s sponsor, said the measure would keep New Hampshire competitive with neighboring states, generate revenue, and help offset other budget pressures. He also described the bill as repealing an income-based premium charge in Medicaid/CHIP-related programs and restoring cuts to the University System of New Hampshire, arguing that the combined package would still leave the state in a positive fiscal position. He said the tobacco tax increase would likely have some cessation effect but would remain low relative to other New England states, and he cited prior testimony from health groups supporting a larger increase. Members questioned the sponsor about how the new rate was calculated, the prior tobacco tax reduction and restoration, whether tobacco companies would absorb or pass on the tax, and the fiscal note’s estimates for Medicaid premium revenue and UNH funding. Stringham said he used Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation data, that the earlier 10-cent reduction did not produce the expected sales increase, and that the current bill would eliminate the premium charges now in the budget. He later clarified that the Department of Medicaid Services had updated the revenue estimate, but said the bill still showed a surplus overall. He also said the federal government already imposes a $1-per-pack tax and that New Hampshire would remain below neighboring states even after the increase. Two public witnesses testified in opposition to the tax increase. Anna Bettincourt, a tobacco category manager, argued that higher tobacco taxes would unfairly target smokers, reduce New Hampshire’s tax advantage, and likely shift purchases to other states or illicit markets rather than reduce use. She said tobacco companies generally do not lower prices and that Massachusetts’ flavor restrictions had not eliminated sales. In response to questions, she maintained that a smaller increase would still be harmful and that enforcement problems make bans ineffective. The sponsor and some members countered that smokers impose higher health costs and that tobacco taxes are a policy tool for both revenue and public health. No vote or final committee action was taken in the portion of the meeting provided.

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• The ability to recover expenses, win or lose, is essential for cities to maintain a balanced economy.
• Is the clean drinking water standard—that's our standard, right?—that goes into the faucets.
• I would allow them to achieve that end goal in the economies of scale.
• Bats are vital to Texas' environment and the economy.
• Heath Armstrong, on behalf of Larrow Energy.

Bills: SB1169 , SB1285 , SB1583 , SB1611 , SB1898 , SB1976 , SB2160 , SB2161 , SB2658 , SB2661 , SB2662 , SB2692 , SB1055 , SB1359 , SB2660

Committee: Senate Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

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• </c><00:02:11.680><c> and</c> miles across the state of Minnesota and miles across the state of Minnesota
• So the highlights there include $75 million for Minnesota State and the University of Minnesota, $54
• </c> State and the University of Minnesota. State and the University of Minnesota.
• </c> 47% of facilities in greater Minnesota 47% of facilities in greater Minnesota and<00:10:04.800><
• Minnesota. Minnesota. &gt;&gt; Chair<00:25:06.000><c> Lily.</c> &gt;&gt; Chair Lily.

Committee: House Capital Investment