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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Apr 14th, 2025

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Committee on Pensions, Investments, and Financial Services will come to order.
  • Banks have a hard time offering minimum standards of customer service to their own customers.
  • And would you say, to give the committee an idea, what services do most community banks or even small
  • service charges and the interest rates to make up that difference, and small businesses would be paying
  • They're either going to have to raise the prices for people who want to buy those goods and services,
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • But if they meet the qualifications, what we're going to do is try to help out our Oklahomans to have
  • that was taken from the fund would have to be repaid to the fund?
  • And honestly, until the Corporation Commission can get to the issue, they're going to have to pretty
  • to fund it each year.
  • We were going to move to make a motion to restore title without objection.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations and Budget REVISED: SB1403 - ADDED TO AGENDA Apr 14th, 2026

Appropriations and Budget

Transcript Highlights:
  • But if they meet the qualifications, what we're going to do is try to help out our Oklahomans to have
  • this really unique situation that happens to get the funding, to get...
  • from the fund, would have to be repaid to the fund?
  • And honestly, until the Corporation Commission can get to the issue, they're going to have to pretty
  • We were going to move to make a motion to restore title without objection.
Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 1319, which would create a Corporation Commission process to help residential homeowners whose homes are contaminated by brine, oil, or other substances tied to the Commission’s jurisdiction. Members discussed a subcommittee amendment that removed an appropriation because the bill had already been funded elsewhere, and several questions focused on whether the measure was a state-funded bridge for rare cases where no liable party is immediately identifiable. The bill was advanced on a 23-3 vote. The committee then approved several other measures with little or no debate: SB 1369 to create a protected revolving fund for the 988 mental health lifeline; SB 1378 to create an Olympic Fund for Oklahoma City’s 2028 Olympic preparations; SB 1379 to establish a two-year grant pilot for victims of labor and sex trafficking; SB 1309 to increase the Rhodes Fund reserve for debt service; SB 1330 to change compensation for the pardon and parole board director and members to an attendance-based structure; SB 1546 to allow private donations for the Inspired to Teach program and rename it Next Ed; and SB 1403 to update the Quality Jobs Program, including adding certain transportation-related industries and tightening eligibility if a credit is unused for three years. These bills all received due-pass recommendations, with votes ranging from unanimous to 23-2. The committee also considered SB 1481, which adds 20 minutes of daily recess, and members noted that similar bills were moving through the process and that the bill did not clearly address whether the added recess counts as instructional time. It passed 25-0. Finally, SB 1122, a broadband tax-policy cleanup bill, drew questions about its fiscal impact on local governments and counties; the presenter said municipalities would not be affected because they do not levy ad valorem taxes, though the measure could reduce revenue for other taxing entities by about $20 million statewide. That bill passed 23-1. The meeting ended with announcements about upcoming appropriations meetings and adjournment.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/10/26

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:24:21.279><c> Um,</c> have illegal access to firearms. Um, have illegal access to firearms.
  • And if they allow the offender to get access to the firearms, it's a gross misdemeanor.
  • And if they allow the offender to get access to the firearms, it's a gross misdemeanor.
  • even further to make sure the right people have access to those reports.
  • Section 6, access to those reports.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Military and Veterans Affairs Committee Mar 4th, 2026

Military and Veterans Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Be glad to. Lord, we thank you again for this day that you've given us the privilege to serve.
  • Guide us and direct us and guide us for all that they are and what a great service they have given to
  • I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands
  • </c> States of America and to the republic States of America and to the republic for<00:01:10.000><c>
  • You got to deal with it. You can't you You got to deal with it.
Bills: SB216, SB229, SB216, SB229
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Mar 2nd, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • use TDT to expand our SunRail train service to full nights and weekend service.
  • use TDT to expand our SunRail train service to full nights and weekend service. ...the opportunity to
  • use TDT to expand our SunRail train service to full nights and weekend service.
  • This legislation strengthens the accessibility and timeliness of our government services to Floridians
  • This legislation strengthens the accessibility and timeliness of our government services to Floridians
Summary: The Appropriations Committee met and considered a large agenda of bills, reporting several measures favorably. Early action included SB 6, a settled claim bill involving the Department of Children and Families and the estate of Leila Estrada and Sapphire Williams, which was approved for $3.8 million. The committee also passed a cybersecurity internships bill creating a Department of Commerce program with Cyber Florida, and SB 532, which lets clerks of court retain the full amount of certain excess revenue and clarifies foreclosure-sale procedures. Veterans housing measures, CS for CS for SB 1602 and SB 1604, were approved to create a pilot program and a related trust fund for vacancy relief and risk mitigation for veteran housing. The committee also favorably reported SB 1110 on Medicaid and insurance coverage for orthotics and prosthetics, with emotional testimony from a student and family describing the high cost and importance of activity-specific prosthetics. Members also approved CS for CS for SB 1012 after adopting an amendment that removed inmate emergency and specialty medical service compensation provisions while retaining changes to the contractor-operated institutions inmate welfare trust fund. Another bill, CS for CS for SB 1614, was narrowed by a delete-all amendment to focus on limiting the use of excess fees for new building construction by local governments. All of these measures were reported favorably after brief debate, with some support testimony submitted in writing or waived. The most extensive discussion centered on CS for CS for SB 17, a major Medicaid and public assistance overhaul. The bill would create a Joint Legislative Committee on Medicaid Oversight, allow the Legislature to retain its own actuary, tighten Medicaid program oversight, update encounter-data reporting, set performance standards for managed care plans, revise pharmacy benefit manager rules, and require DCF to implement SNAP fraud-reduction and payment-accuracy reforms, including photo IDs on EBT cards and updated work requirements. It also would direct agencies to seek federal waivers for Medicaid work requirements for able-bodied adults and expanded behavioral health services. After lengthy questioning and testimony, the committee adopted amendments adding a transitional medical benefits glide path for people who gain employment and later lose Medicaid eligibility, and exempting hospice patients with six months or less to live. Supporters argued the bill would improve accountability, reduce fraud, and save money, while opponents warned it would create administrative burdens, increase paperwork, and cause eligible people to lose coverage or food assistance. The committee ultimately reported the bill favorably as amended.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • Father, we thank you for this day, the opportunity to be here and to gather and to do the state's business
  • now you're going to have to pay back all... ...now you're going to have to pay back all that money.
  • At least because they do have a consentment base they have to go back to and give answers to.
  • Given, I know I want to—if you want to try that motion again because it was going to be a motion before
  • So we expect to see you guys all there in the morning from 7 to 9.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education Apr 15th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • It doesn't restrict access to it.
  • But it has always been my intent to expand early childhood access to our three-year-olds, to put them
  • So to be clear, we support expanded access to early childhood education.
  • Our goal was never to make this overburdensome, and our goal was never to remove access for families
  • Our goal was never to make this overburdensome, and our goal was never to remove access for families
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education Mar 24th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • I have no problems with it, but I want to make sure that we address the issues and that services are
  • This bill is strictly looking at allowing a locally authorized charter school to have access to its federal
  • charter school could take on those services and we mentioned IDEA, those are dollars related to students
  • We're not going to rely on your services.
  • and struggling readers, is that they don't necessarily have access to public libraries and the ability
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/26

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:21:12.480><c> to</c><00:21:12.640><c> more</c> ostensibly create easier access to more ostensibly
  • So, um, this bill was brought to me by law enforcement to try to improve service, and I'll turn it over
  • So, um, this bill was brought to me by law enforcement to try to improve service, and I'll turn it over
  • So, um, this bill was brought to me by law enforcement to try to improve service, and I'll turn it over
  • any individual's access to or obstruct any individual's access to or egress<01:46:41.960><c> from</c
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Feb 12th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • We look forward to working with our House partners and to getting the budget process underway as soon
  • Now we're going to move over to Tab 4. Thank you.
  • We're going to take up Tab 3, Senator Yarbrough's 102 on inmate services by Senator Yarbrough.
  • services to inmates in a secure unit within the community health care provider's medical facility; two
  • I just want to say with respect to this amendment, thanking the Florida Department of Corrections, as
Bills: S0760, S1012, S1536, S1582, S1792
Summary: The Criminal and Civil Justice Committee met with a quorum present and began with a notice that the committee would not present its budget that day, explaining that the budget rollout would be coordinated with House partners and Senate notice requirements, with the next opportunity expected the following week. The committee then moved to legislation, starting with CS for SB 760 by Senator McLean, the Victim Safety and Pre-Trial Release Act, which would address willful violations of court-ordered no-contact conditions for defendants on pretrial release for serious violent crimes. The bill had support from the Florida Sheriffs Association, received no debate, and was reported favorably by roll call vote. The committee next considered SB 1536 by Senator Pizzo on digital voyeurism, described as expanding the reasonable expectation of privacy to include a privately fenced yard. The transcript shows the chair moved on before questions or a vote were taken on that bill. The committee then took up CS for SB 102 by Senator Yarbrough on inmate services, first adopting a leave-filed amendment that revised provisions on inmate welfare trust funds, Medicaid supplemental reimbursement participation, emergency transport reimbursement, and negotiated rates for certain community health care providers, including telehealth and secure-unit care. Justin Senior of the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida testified in information, saying the amendment was a major positive move, and the amended bill was then reported favorably. At the end of the meeting, the chair noted that two agenda items were being temporarily postponed: CS for SB 1582 on statewide data sharing of secondhand dealer and pawnbroker transactions and SB 1792 on public records for pawnbroker transactions. No further business was raised, and the committee adjourned after a motion by Senator Simon.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 10th, 2026

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • I want to don't want to be California.
  • So either the people who are accessing the information are going to pay for it or everybody in the state
  • </c> to be uh able to access the voter role. to be uh able to access the voter role.
  • people who are accessing the information are<00:20:25.600><c> going</c><00:20:25.679><c> to</c><00:20
  • So, we had to honor it to get to that."
Bills: SB249, SB259, HB67, HB214
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Judiciary Feb 9th, 2026 at 01:36 pm

Senate Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Got to make sure the service works. That makes perfect sense. Got to make sure the service works.
  • instances of unauthorized use or access to the system.
  • instances of unauthorized use or access to the system.
  • Who would make the decision to terminate access?
  • , they need to be able to access the cameras.
Bills: SB40, SB104, SB136, SB164
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Early Learning & Human Services Jan 28th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Early Learning & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • referrals to benefits and services.
  • They need access to mental health services that are timely and trauma-informed, and educational support
  • access to EFC services by DCYF due to the current policy.
  • voucher waiting list, which made it hard to stay gainfully employed and access mental health services
  • Hello, Human Services Committee. Thank you for taking the time to listen to me.
Bills: HB2455, HB2468, HB2529
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Civil Rights & Judiciary Jan 23rd, 2026 at 10:30 am

Civil Rights & Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Another key piece of this puzzle is how to create accessibility for homes above the ground floor.
  • And one more key piece of this accessibility is HB 2304's allowance for up to four stories.
  • And I do want to appreciate the opportunity to speak to this because I probably do 80 to 90 speaking
  • to get to, and this is the only way to fill that gap is flats and try to get to $400,000 where the market
  • Stacked flats are an extremely important housing option because they are accessible to the young, old
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans Jan 21st, 2026 at 08:00 am

Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans

Transcript Highlights:
  • , is absolutely key, in my opinion, to make sure that we have access, convenient access to food."
  • "To make sure that we have access, convenient access to food that we all need on a daily basis.
  • used by seniors and those without access to a car.
  • it's accessing, which leads to fear, confusion... ...and understanding consequences.
  • it's accessing, which leads to fear, confusion, shame, and disrupts their emotional development.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Law & Justice Jan 19th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Law & Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • , and difficulty accessing services.
  • , and difficulty accessing services.
  • This bill improves affordability and access to care, and I commend it to you.
  • for patients who have no access to cash or credit.
  • for patients who have no access to cash or credit.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Jan 12th, 2026

Children, Families, and Elder Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Even with their recommendations, services continued to be denied. This is not a paperwork issue.
  • Progress is being made, but Floridians must understand their brain health in order to access these advances
  • We must do everything we can to educate the community and ensure people have access to early and timely
  • And so a lot of that is just that needs assessment that occurs to determine what level of services that
  • parent needs, that child,” “That occurs to determine what level of services that parent needs, that
Bills: S0042, S0578, S0624, S7018
Summary: The committee met with a quorum and first heard SB 624, which would codify DCF’s current practice of allowing batterers intervention programs to offer supplemental faith-based activities so long as participation is voluntary. The bill drew support from faith-based and family organizations, which argued it would restore access to effective rehabilitation options and remove discriminatory barriers. SB 624 was reported favorably after a roll call vote. The committee then heard SB 42, which would require child protective investigators and child protection teams to rely on qualified medical professionals when a child has a documented pre-existing diagnosis or when a parent requests an exam, and would require clearer notice to parents and custodians at the start of an investigation. Testimony overwhelmingly came from parents, advocates, and disability rights representatives describing cases in which medically complex children were allegedly misdiagnosed as abuse victims and families were separated unnecessarily. Members expressed sympathy and support, and SB 42 was reported favorably. Next, the committee considered CS/SB 578, creating an Alzheimer’s disease awareness initiative within the Department of Elder Affairs to promote early detection, brain health education, research updates, and clinical trial awareness, with outreach focused on older adults and at-risk populations. An amendment was adopted to place the campaign within the Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative. A caregiver testified about the need for public education and early diagnosis, and the bill was reported favorably. The committee also took up SPB 7018, a committee bill on child welfare that would extend the definition of “visitor” for foster homes to reduce repeated background checks, make the Step Into Success foster youth workforce pilot permanent and statewide, and create a program through the Florida Institute for Child Welfare to catalog best practices among community-based care lead agencies. The bill was approved as a committee bill and reported favorably. Finally, the Department of Children and Families presented its 2025-26 final funding methodology and rates report for community-based care. Members questioned the proposed tiered model, including insurance costs, risk corridors, prevention funding, performance measures, and regional funding disparities. No vote was taken on the presentation, but members discussed the possible need for follow-up legislation and additional stakeholder input.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs May 19th, 2025

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 3088 authorizes the Parks and Wildlife Department to procure goods and services related to
  • And this bill is trying to make sure that they have access to things that can allow them to continue
  • We also learned that 41% of survey respondents said that finding access to capital to grow their business
  • Relating to the authority of the Parks and Wildlife Department to procure goods and services related
  • Relating to the authority of the Parks and Wildlife Department to procure goods and services related
Summary: The Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs met with only four members initially present, so quorum was not established until later in the hearing. The committee heard several agriculture-, wildlife-, and food-labeling-related bills, including HB 3479 on expanding the Rio Grande vegetative management program beyond carrizo cane to other noxious vegetation, SB 823 on shrimp origin labeling and restrictions on misrepresenting imported shrimp as Texas or Gulf shrimp, HB 3088 on giving Texas Parks and Wildlife more flexibility to procure resale goods for park gift shops, HB 1275 on permits for non-bovine dairy farms in certain TB-affected areas, HB 519 on honey production and packaging rules, HB 609 on cleaning oyster cages in-bay with bay water only, HB 1592 on a voluntary AgriLife pest and disease alert system, HB 2842 on targeted urban deer depredation permits, and HB 4163 on limiting city requirements that agricultural operators maintain roadside rights-of-way. Testimony generally came from industry groups, agency resource witnesses, and affected producers, with most witnesses supporting the bills and several bills drawing questions about enforcement, labeling responsibility, and the scope of local authority. The most extensive discussion centered on SB 823, where Vice Chair Hancock and others questioned why wholesalers would be covered if they cannot relabel products. The bill author and restaurant association witness said the measure was intended to improve transparency and allow enforcement against intentional mislabeling, while preserving a good-faith defense and clarifying that the bill does not create a private cause of action. HB 519 also drew supportive testimony from beekeepers and a family farm, who argued that current rules treat honey extraction and bottling too much like food manufacturing and burden small operations. HB 609 was presented as a way to save time and resources for cultivated oyster mariculture by allowing cage cleaning in the bay without soaps or chemicals, and HB 1592 was described as a voluntary opt-in alert system for pests and diseases coordinated through AgriLife and other state agencies. HB 43 generated the most detailed policy debate. The bill would restructure and expand the Texas Agricultural Finance Authority, update grant and loan programs, and create a pest and disease control depredation program. The committee substitute reduced some funding caps, changed references from predators to depredating animals, and made the financial provisions contingent on appropriations. Supporters from Texas Farm Bureau, cotton growers, grain and feed interests, and young farmers described severe drought, inflation, land loss, rising input costs, and shrinking infrastructure as major threats to agriculture, while one witness urged preserving priority for young farmers. After testimony, the committee adopted the committee substitute and reported HB 43 favorably. The committee also voted HB 519, HB 609, HB 1275, HB 1592, HB 3088, HB 3479, HB 2842, and HB 4163 favorably, with several recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. SB 823 was reported from committee on a 6-2 vote after adoption of the committee substitute. The meeting ended with notice that the committee would tentatively reconvene Friday morning and then recessed subject to the chair's call.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence May 14th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • to cause you to exercise the same option that's given here.
  • what the language is, should be, but it seems to me that if you attempt to pay, that ought to cause
  • the single-source continuum contractor to provide community-based care or child welfare services. ...
  • contractor to provide community-based care or child welfare services.
  • persons evidencing mental illness, and to court-ordered inpatient and extended mental health services
Bills: SB1015, SB2933
Summary: The Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence heard testimony on Senate Bill 1015, which would clarify that the comptroller is responsible for distributing excess judicial fund payments back to statutory probate courts. Judge Guy Herman testified in support, saying the bill would help ensure probate courts receive funding they are entitled to, while Ed Heimlich testified against the bill with broad criticism of probate courts and judicial practices. The committee then heard Senate Bill 2933, which would add elder abuse training to required judicial education for several categories of judges and judicial officers; Dr. Bruce Hargrave supported the bill, citing the prevalence and underreporting of elder abuse and the need for judges to recognize warning signs. No votes were taken on either of those bills, and SB 2933 was left pending. The committee then reconsidered Senate Bill 38, an eviction-related bill, and Vice Chair Hayes described two agreed floor amendments: one limiting the summary disposition procedure to forcible entry and detainer cases involving squatters, and another requiring a notice to pay rent or vacate for tenants who had been timely payers but missed a payment. After discussion, the committee voted 6-4 to report SB 38 without amendments. The committee also adopted or advanced a series of other bills and resolutions, including SB 293, SB 1141, SB 1448, SB 1536, SB 1558, SB 1838, SB 1940, SB 2127, SB 53, SB 251, SB 311, SB 387, SB 441 (with a substitute), SB 1164, SB 1335, SB 1574 (with a substitute), SB 1719, SB 1760, SB 1839, SB 1923 (with a substitute), SB 2807, and SJR 27 (with a substitute). Most measures were reported favorably on largely party-line or near-unanimous votes, with a few close votes on SB 942, SB 311, SB 2807, and SJR 27. SB 942, relating to retroactive child support beginning at conception, initially failed 5-5 but was reconsidered and then passed 6-5. The committee adjourned after completing its agenda.