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US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, September 11, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Gilmer Elementary School, Gilmer High School, Gilmer Intermediate School, and the Early Childhood Center
- School, Gilmer Intermediate School, and School, Gilmer Intermediate School, and the<02:43:01.040>
- been to school in years now. been to school in years now.
- bridges, schools, hospitals. bridges, schools, hospitals.
- of the school day.
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Energy Development and Transmission Committee Jul 22nd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I think it's a good program.
- I think it's a good program.
- program and we don't have any funding for it.
- What do we do for our schools, our roads, our bridges?
- If there are other forms Programs, Jason's back there.
Summary:
The committee met at the Coteau Freedom Mine in Mercer County, approved the June 2 minutes, and heard an overview of the mine from Coteau Properties president Andrew Hawbaker. He described the Freedom Mine as the largest lignite mine in the United States, supplying coal to Dakota Gasification, Antelope Valley Station, and Leland Olds Station. He emphasized the mine’s scale, safety record, reclamation work, workforce needs, community involvement, and economic impact, including payroll, taxes, royalties, scholarships, and local hiring. Members asked about how long land stays in production, how quickly it returns to agriculture after reclamation, labor shortages, and how mining affects groundwater and water wells. Hawbaker said most tracts are mined for about three to five years, reclamation is coordinated with landowners, and the company continues to struggle to find electricians, welders, mechanics, operators, and engineers.
The committee then heard from Public Service Commission Chairman Randy Christman on coal mining reclamation and permitting. He reviewed North Dakota’s coal mining history, the state’s reclamation laws, federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act primacy, bonding, permit renewals and revisions, prohibited mining areas, inspection and enforcement, and contemporaneous reclamation requirements. Christman stressed that North Dakota’s program is professional and thorough, with frequent inspections, financial assurance, and a 10-year revegetation monitoring period before bond release. He also discussed federal coal ownership issues that can delay mine plans, the treatment of prime farmland, and how reclamation differs for wind and pipelines. In response to questions, he said one challenge is sometimes releasing land too soon before long-term compaction issues are fully understood, and he noted that data centers do not currently have a comparable reclamation model because they typically own the land.
In the afternoon, the committee received an update from Lignite Energy Council president Jonathan Fortner on the lignite industry. He said North Dakota’s lignite sector supports five commercial power plants, four mines, about 12,000 direct and indirect jobs, and more than $5.5 billion in economic activity, while helping keep the state’s electricity rates among the lowest in the nation. Fortner reviewed coal severance and conversion tax revenues, the lignite research fund, federal regulatory rollbacks, carbon capture policy, and the industry’s legal costs fighting federal rules. He also highlighted a study on large-load development, saying new data centers and critical mineral processing facilities could create major local tax revenue and help justify new baseload generation. Members asked whether new gas pipelines would crowd out coal plant development and whether the economic study included jobs and broader local impacts; Fortner said the industry sees room for both and that the study did include construction, operations, jobs, and tax effects.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- School of Nursing program, we have 240 slots.
- It seems like we start with a school like a graduate program.
- We're home to 18 colleges and schools, 156 undergraduate degree programs, and 237 graduate degree programs
- . ...including 42 graduate schools and specialty programs ranked in the top 10 in the country.
- . and graduate degree programs through our five colleges and three schools.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The test of choice is a post-mortem test to definitively say that that animal has it.
- So part of that test part of the way they test milk is through PCR polymerase chain reaction testing
- federal program at USDA NRCS called the Watershed Rehabilitation Program.
- We do have other programs.
- to our rural program.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Local and County Government REVISED Mar 3rd, 2026 at 02:00 pm
Local and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
- Commissioners may solicit sealed bids from qualified financial institutions to provide a' county card program
- It does not eliminate the current program, which is currently handled through OEMS.
- Guardrails for the current state ecard program. This program will align with that.
- A town of Keys, Oklahoma, and Cimron County had called me, and they are trying to get grants.
- I just pulled up a list of the towns in Oklahoma, there are 500 and less.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (01/28/2026)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- . program. program.
- Schools got the Eddie Eagle program got such a bad rep from all of the people saying, "Oh, we don't want
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and <02:20:00.880>invite programs back up in schools and invite programs - <02:20:13.680>
got schools got the Eddie Eagle program got schools got the Eddie Eagle program - schools? schools?
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Financial Institutions Jan 14th, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Financial Institutions
Transcript Highlights:
- The requirements around being a notary are there's a test...
- The requirements around being a notary are: there's a test, you have to have a bond, and you have to
- Just one question: How many recorders across the state participate in this program of notifying their
- With this proposal, we would remain one of the lowest in the contiguous states, similar to Kansas, Oklahoma
NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York State Senate Session - 05/04/2026
New York Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- He actually was a Golden Eagle from Bethpage High School.
- He's a graduate of Honeoye Falls-Lima High School.
- HE ACTUALLY WAS A GOLDEN EAGLE FROM BETHPAGE HIGH SCHOOL.
- In 2024, he left home and headed to Oklahoma to join the U.S.
- done outside the school.
Summary:
The Senate convened with ceremonial opening proceedings, approved the prior journal, and then moved through a series of calendar actions, including discharging and substituting identical companion bills from committee and restoring several bills to the Third Reading Calendar after reconsideration. The chamber also took up a supplemental budget calendar and a controversial supplemental budget extender, with Senator O’Mara questioning the delay in final budget negotiations, the size of the extender, table targets, and unresolved policy issues such as auto insurance reforms, SEQRA, New York for All, and CLCPA changes. Senator Serrano responded that negotiations were ongoing and that the extender was a clean measure to keep state government functioning. The budget extender bills were then passed, with Senator Weik voting in the negative on one of them. The Senate also adopted a resolution memorializing May 4, 2026, as 10th Mountain Division and Fort Drum Day, and hosted Major General Scott Naumann and other Fort Drum leaders and soldiers for remarks on the division’s deployments, readiness, economic impact, and requests for continued state support on items such as microreactors, health care, DMV services, dining facilities, airports, and mineral-related development.
The Fort Drum resolution drew extensive bipartisan praise from Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins, Minority Leader Ortt, Senator Scarcella-Spanton, Senator Ashby, Senator Walczyk, and others, who emphasized the division’s military history, its role as a major employer and economic driver in Northern New York, and the sacrifices of service members and their families. Several senators highlighted individual soldiers in attendance and their service records, while the resolution was opened for co-sponsorship and adopted. The Senate also recognized a visiting child author, Thomas Ortiz, who was introduced for publishing a book encouraging kindness and friendship.
After the ceremonial segment, the Senate returned to regular business and passed a series of bills on the calendar, including measures affecting environmental conservation, executive law, public service, education, public authorities, real property tax, criminal procedure, election law, and civil rights. Some bills drew negative votes from a bloc of senators, particularly on the environmental, criminal procedure, election, and civil rights measures, but all listed bills were ultimately passed. The Senate then adjourned until the next day.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
911 Management Authority Mar 9th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- Welcome everybody to the Oklahoma 911 Management Authority special meeting.
- A special meeting of the Oklahoma 911 Management Authority has been convened in accordance with the Oklahoma
- Not support or be neutral and also make recommendations for changes for Oklahoma House Bill 2710, Oklahoma
- bill as it's written today basically has the Nolan Management Authority instead of us reporting to Oklahoma
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, the bill relates to career and technology education programs in public schools, the financial
- The Rural Pathway Excellence Partnership, and a high school advising program, including funding for those
- programs under the foundation school program and to the instructional facility allotment, and the permissible
- uses of funding under the foundation school program.
- Program for active school employees.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Apr 16th, 2025
Ways and Means General Fund
Transcript Highlights:
- We filled a lot of these schools with school resource officers, but we had an adverse impact on higher
- ed because they were locked in at a much lower amount than they could make and they moved into the schools
- So, what this moved into the schools.
- ERS) and have separate years of service for that, and then also are vested under the supernumerary program
- Um, Texas, Utah, Oklahoma, New Hampshire have passed similar bills out of one house. Um, Ohio ...
Keywords:
firefighter benefits, occupational disease, line of duty, disability pension, death benefits, retirement benefits, hypertension, heart disease, respiratory disease, cancer presumption, HIV, hepatitis, municipal firefighters, state firefighters, fire districts, workers' compensation, public safety employees, post-retirement benefits, benefit eligibility cutoff, occupational illness
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Sep 2nd, 2025
Radioactive & Hazardous Materials Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Blood testing for military.
- I will say that, for instance, our methane capture program.
- And I think increasing testing and tracking.
- Program testing flowback water in a random set of wells to see if the chemical disclosure was accurate
- that type of chemical testing.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- But you get in Oklahoma or, say, Tulsa County. Oklahoma County has 284, I believe, precincts.
- Oklahoma County has 284, I believe, precincts.
- So really, your motivation is Oklahoma and Tulsa counties? Is that it?
- So, but like I said, this mostly affects Oklahoma and Tulsa County, but it should not negatively impact
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/25
Housing Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Similar legislation has been signed into law across the country, including in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri
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FL
Transcript Highlights:
- In their schools.
- And I think children have to go to school. They have to go to public school, if that's the school.
- I went to public school, and I went to Hebrew school after school. And that was that.
- When we get to school settings, I've sat on school boards where we... ...leave.
- I'm a former high school teacher and the parent of a child in Florida schools.
Bills:
S0212, S0218, S0442, S0460, S0532, S0554, S0644, S0686, S0692, S1054, S1106, S1128, S1134, S1138, S1338, S1434, S1506, S1620, S1748
Keywords:
sexual offender, sexual predator, sex offender registry, child protection, residency restriction, loitering, proximity restriction, public swimming pool, school safety, child care facility, day care center, park, playground, conditional release, probation, community control, warrantless arrest, background check, registry screening, minor victims
Summary:
The committee first considered SB 1434 on infill redevelopment. A late-filed strike-all amendment narrowed eligibility criteria, including environmental and adjacency requirements, density and intensity limits, and exclusions for certain lands and military areas. The amendment was adopted without opposition, and the bill then passed favorably on an 8-0 vote, with testimony both for and against from advocacy groups.
Members then heard several bills related to criminal justice, land use, and local government operations. SB 212 on sexual offenders and sexual predators was amended to add public swimming pools and related restricted-location provisions; the committee heard extensive opposition testimony arguing the bill lacked empirical support and could worsen homelessness and burden families, while supporters said it would reduce temptation and improve safety. The amended bill passed 8-1. SB 686 on agricultural enclaves also received a strike-all amendment clarifying development allowances near interstates and protected-area non-preemption; after opposition from a county Republican committee and support from housing and business groups, it passed 10-0. SB 554 updating nonprofit corporation law, SB 1338 on charitable giving and endowment restrictions, SB 532 on court fee retention by clerks, and SB 218 on land use regulations after hurricanes all passed favorably, each with little or no opposition.
The committee also approved SB 692 on cybersecurity standards and liability after debate over whether the bill created enough compliance incentives and whether its liability presumption should apply retroactively; supporters said it would encourage adoption of cybersecurity frameworks, while opponents warned it could weaken local standards and create litigation issues. The bill passed 9-2. SB 1138 on qualified contractors was amended to preserve local government authority while allowing licensed professionals to conduct limited pre-application reviews, and it passed 11-0. Finally, SJR 1104 on religious expression in public schools passed 8-3 after extensive public testimony and debate, with supporters saying it would enshrine existing protections in the Constitution and opponents warning it would favor majority religions and increase bullying and litigation. The committee then took up SB 1106 on requiring state agencies and instructional materials to use “Judea and Samaria” instead of “West Bank,” with the sponsor arguing it reflected historical truth and opponents saying it erased Palestinian identity and inserted the state into an international naming dispute; the transcript ends during public testimony on that bill before any vote is shown.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Again, this will be a voluntary program for citizens who opt in, and I appreciate the opportunity to
- Oh, I'd say I had to pass 12 tests to become a registered.
- They now needed for that program 11.6 billion dollars.
- Also, to be clear, I strongly disagree with the conjectures. that Project Connect Program of Safe Multimodal
- Representative Rick Noriega and School Superintendent Kay Stripling in HISD.
Bills:
SB3038, SB3045, SB3065, SB3069, SB3071, HB2025, HB2149, HB3370, HB4205, HB4506, HB5424, HB5652, HB24, HB3687, HB24
Keywords:
Fort Bend County, Municipal Utility District, MUD, special district, Rosenberg, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, TCEQ, ad valorem tax, bond issuance, assessments, fees, taxes, eminent domain, road district, storm drainage, infrastructure financing, development agreement, municipal consent, temporary directors, public utility district
TX
Bills:
HB24, SB3038, SB3045, SB3065, SB3069, SB3071, HB2025, HB2149, HB3370, HB4205, HB4506, HB5424, HB5652, HB24, HB3687
Keywords:
groundwater, conservation, water permits, sustainability, resource management, Fort Bend County, Municipal Utility District, MUD, special district, Rosenberg, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, TCEQ, ad valorem tax, bond issuance, assessments, fees, taxes, eminent domain, road district, storm drainage
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Public school districts are no different.
- I do see if there's anyone which test on again.
- In fact, several school districts, including my high school alma mater, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, but also
- That is $1.3 billion of tax savings for the school districts.
- Usually, I get the complaints on schools, actually.
Bills:
SB467, SB325, SB867, SB994, SB1052, SB1237, SB1449, SB1531, SB2063, SB2172, SB2173, SB2520, SB2529, SB2538, SB2541, SJR46, SJR84
Keywords:
SB 467, Texas property tax, ad valorem tax, homestead exemption, residence homestead, fire damage, house fire, destroyed home, temporary tax relief, appraisal district, chief appraiser, local taxing unit, tax rollback, tax refund, Tax Code Chapter 11, prorated exemption, homestead improvement, disaster relief, property tax exemption, residential property
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/26
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- transformation program application. transformation program application.
- . program. program.
- Um uh with existing programs.
- fellowship programs.
- the rural health transformation program. the rural health transformation program.
Bills:
HF1925
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I referenced in my testimony the promise programs that we have, and all the A&M systems schools have
- Presently Texas Southern operates a summer of success program. to serve as a bridge from high school
- What was State Graduate Program? Is that in the Bauer School? Yes, that's in Bauer School.
- Any other schools that have this real estate master's program?
- I am not aware... of other schools that have a master's program like that, but I could be remiss.