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MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

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AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Mar 5th, 2025

Ways and Means General Fund

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  • Alabama Code Section 17-162 outlines how our state conducts recounts.
  • One last thing: we're the last state in the United States to not conduct post-election audits.
  • The $335,000 would cover all of the counts across the state of Alabama.
  • It also states that the tobacco industry... ...also states that the tobacco industry has designed, engineered
  • But this also has huge financial implications for the state.
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  • As such, we oversee the implementation of a number of federal and state-funded programs.
  • The services block grant comes from the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
  • It comes to the state of Oklahoma by formula. My...
  • In addition to those 17 CSBG contracts, we touch a wide variety of state and federally funded community
  • I am proud to publicly state my appreciation. Our leadership also appreciates it.
Bills: SB80, SB1101, SB1813, SB1966
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/12/26

Taxes

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  • staff, our state auditors.
  • staff, our state auditors.
  • Um means that there is an impact on, um, our state revenues and our state auditors.
  • staff, our state auditors.
  • state.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/26/2026 - House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

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  • I am State Representative Teresa Martinez.
  • State Representative Stephanie Hamilton.
  • state or tribe that has a wolf population.
  • I don’t work in other states.
  • I have a list of 21 states here that are moving on labeling, and I have another 18 states here that are
Summary: The House Committee on Land, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs met for its first session, with members and staff introducing themselves before taking up committee-of-reference business and several bills. The committee first heard a presentation from the Arizona Beef Council, which described its checkoff-funded promotion, education, and research work for Arizona beef producers, including classroom materials, nutrition outreach, and ranch tours. After questions about how the program is funded and whether the state would lose its Arizona-retained share if the council were not continued, the committee voted to recommend continuing the council for eight years, until July 1, 2034. The committee then considered HB 2155, which also continued the Arizona Beef Council for eight years, and advanced it on a 7-1 vote. HB 2156, which appropriates money to the livestock compensation fund for wolf depredation losses, was amended to set the appropriation at $250,000 from the general fund in fiscal year 2027 and then passed 5-2, with supporters emphasizing rancher compensation and opponents questioning use of general funds and noting unused prior funding. HB 2162, which would require at least one Arizona Game and Fish Commission member to be a cattleman or rancher, drew testimony for and against but was ultimately held by the chair after discussion about representation, existing appointment structures, and rural interests. The committee also advanced two cell-cultured protein bills. HB 2762 would require a disclaimer on packaging for food derived from cultivated cells; supporters argued for consumer transparency and opponents said federal labeling rules already apply and state-specific requirements could create confusion. It passed 5-3. HB 2791 would prohibit the sale of cell-cultured protein for human consumption and make violations a felony; supporters raised safety, innovation, and agricultural concerns, while opponents argued it would criminalize federally approved products and restrict consumer choice. That bill also passed 5-3. The committee adjourned after completing its agenda.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Tue Feb 10, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 12

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

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  • We had opposing testimony from the AG's office and the state procurement office stating such.
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  • >> Please state your potential conflict. >> Please state your potential conflict.
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  • This talented group recently earned the 250ssAA6A 1 act play state championship along with the outstanding
  • They also have three speech and debate state champions.
  • expand housing opportunity, benefiting homeowners, neighbors, employers. and communities across the state
  • I am honored to have this team that went 33-8 and won their state's very first state championship in
  • Though trans people make up less than 1% of our state, we've spent at least one day in this building
OK
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  • Of Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Roberts State University, University of Oklahoma, Northeastern
  • She is a three-time state qualifier for golf.
  • She is a three-time state qualifier for golf.
  • She was a freshman state qualifier for tennis.
  • She is a two-time 5A state champion for cheerleading.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Insurance Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Insurance

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  • If you see line 27 on page one, it's the section code 40-18 that...
  • It's the section code 40-18 that has a comma after 18, which is supposed to be a dash.
  • . ...to go out of state.
  • brokers unless they do most of their business in the state, which is not the case very often.
  • Other states don't charge, so this fixes that and takes away where we will not be charging bonds to out-of-state
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services May 20th, 2025

Health & Human Services

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  • Under 161.103B10 of the Family Code... Under 161, or 103B10 of the Family Code.
  • We're licensed in 19 states, including this great state of Texas.
  • In pro-life states, this is national data, but we don't have data broken out by state.
  • Assisted living communities are state-licensed, state-regulated health care facilities.
  • Hello, I'm Patty Duquay-State. State long-term care ombudsman.
Summary: The committee met without a quorum at first, then established a quorum with five members present. Members heard and left pending several House bills, including HB 4743 on allowing hospitals to license mobile stroke units under a hospital license, HB 4129 on earlier DFPS enforcement tools for single-source continuum contractors in community-based foster care, HB 4903 creating a Quad Agency Child Care Initiative to coordinate child care regulations across state agencies, HB 3812 revising the gold card/prior authorization process for physicians, HB 4535 requiring written informed consent before COVID-19 vaccination and a standardized state information sheet, and HB 4666 reducing the frequency of some HHSC reports to the legislature. The chair also noted HB 35 would be voted on later after a subcommittee back was received, and that a large number of bills would be heard the next day. Most of the testimony focused on HB 4535 and HB 4730. On HB 4535, supporters argued the bill would strengthen informed consent for COVID vaccination by requiring written consent and clearer state-level information about risks, manufacturer liability protections, and adverse-event reporting; opponents, including a pediatrician and medical groups, said existing federal and state informed-consent materials already cover these topics and warned the bill could create duplicative paperwork and penalties. On HB 3812, the Texas Medical Association supported changes that would extend the gold-card evaluation period to one year, raise transparency, and make prior authorization exemptions easier to administer, while health plans said they were neutral and viewed the bill as a balance between reducing burden and preventing fraud or unsafe care. HB 4730 drew extensive testimony from adoption professionals, birth mothers, adoptive parents, and child welfare advocates. The bill would require DFPS to create a relinquishment form, train child-placing agency staff, and extend the minimum waiting period for voluntary relinquishment from 48 hours to seven days. Supporters of the current law argued the 48-hour period aligns with hospital discharge, allows informed decisions, and helps birth parents and adoptive families begin healing and bonding without pushing children into foster care or creating legal and Medicaid complications. The author said the bill would be revised and that the seven-day provision was a work in progress. No votes were taken on the bills during the meeting; each bill was left pending after public testimony closed.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Intergovernmental Affairs Apr 22nd, 2025

Intergovernmental Affairs

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  • So currently, the unamended code says a fire department may not compensate... ...state reimburse or provide
  • If you would please state your name.
  • Texas is one of only three states in the United States that allows this practice.
  • So yeah, the cost to the state is zero. So then, the cost to the state is zero. Very good.
  • state or of a governmental subdivision of the state.