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LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives May 20th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • There needs no equilibrium of agreement is needed. We don't have to rubber stamp.
  • There needs no equilibrium of agreement is needed.
  • These men need to be decorated for what they did. These men need to be decorated for what they did.
  • This man here needs to be decorated.
  • I bring to you House Resolution No. 179, which is a study commission where we're going to study the effectiveness
Summary: The House convened with prayer, pledge, and a quorum, then spent much of the day on recognitions and commemorative resolutions. Members honored coach Jeffrey Craig Whittington, tourism and the Louisiana Oil Makers Association, Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month, the Tangipahoa Parish Fair, Washington Parish festivals, ACOG’s 75th anniversary, Louisiana Tech women’s basketball, and Memorial Day. A major Memorial Day presentation commended Lane Frenchy Boudreau for helping recover the body of Army Sgt. First Class James H. Moore in Vietnam; the House observed a moment of silence and presented a flag to Moore’s family. The chamber also received Senate messages, enrolled bills, and committee reports, and introduced several new resolutions on topics including Pope Leo XIV, orphan wells, scenic rivers, Teche water quality, and the LaMelle family’s pilgrimage to Rome. The House then took up numerous resolutions and bills, often adopting them without objection. Among the measures adopted or advanced were studies on neighborhood crime prevention districts, parish solid waste and disaster resiliency in Washington Parish, the Louisiana Climate Action Plan, the Louisiana Maneuvers museum/trail, cash-rounding practices after penny production ends, residential construction costs and inspection practices, roundabout education, Taiwan relations, TSA worker loan assistance in Shreveport, human growth and development standards, and the state income tax credit for water utility customers. The chamber also adopted or concurred in several Senate amendments on bills dealing with financial disclosure, video voyeurism, personal information protections, online child safety, STEM advisory council changes, dual enrollment tuition, fleet vehicle registration, menhaden fishing rules, recording fees, amusement ride insurance, drone footage authentication, garbage and trash contracts, insurance prescription periods, retirement system changes, juror qualifications, fireworks, inspection stickers, employment discrimination, and inactive boards and commissions. Several measures drew discussion or division. H.B. 1199, requiring coverage for genetic testing and treatment for SCN2A-associated disorders, passed 94-0 after being discharged from Appropriations. H.B. 302, which would prohibit vape sales within 300 feet of schools, passed 86-4. H.B. 84, encouraging an interest-free loan program for TSA workers at Shreveport Regional Airport, passed 64-27. H.B. 1054 on self-authentication of law enforcement drone footage passed 78-12, and H.B. 1137 limiting employment discrimination protections to state employees passed 71-23. The House rejected Senate amendments on H.B. 468 (residential real property wholesaling), H.B. 1117 (insurance contractual payments and prescriptive periods), H.B. 956 (fireworks dates), and H.B. 74 (Spectrum Alert for missing children with autism), while concurring in or adopting amendments on many other bills. The session ended amid continued consideration of Senate Bill 56 on the West Bank/Lafitte levee governance structure, including an adopted amendment to ensure Lafitte-area representation on the board, with extended remarks about the history and accomplishments of the existing levee authority.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Advanced Nuclear Energy Committee Apr 22nd, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • The HALU allocation was for, like, okay, what do we need right now? Who needs fuel?
  • The HALU allocation was for, like, okay, what do we need right now? Who needs fuel?
  • Like, we need to get to where we can put this... ...we need to go.
  • We are looking at Department of War and their needs as well when we do these assessments.
  • So those are the things I think we need: policy, we need university, we need to socialize, we need to
Summary: The meeting opened with remarks about the value of public engagement and the quality of questions from the group, followed by a series of technical presentations from Idaho National Laboratory staff. Joe Renovitz described recent nuclear regulatory changes tied to presidential executive orders, including NRC Part 53 for advanced reactors, the forthcoming Part 57 for very small reactors, and DOE updates to reactor authorization standards. He emphasized efforts to align DOE and NRC processes, use risk-informed and performance-based licensing, support reactor deployment for AI/data centers and national security, and use AI to speed communications and crosswalks between DOE and NRC requirements. In response to questions, he said there was no plan to merge agencies, but rather to improve coordination and public outreach through groups like GAIN and NEI. David Tolman then discussed the nuclear fuel cycle, including uranium mining, conversion, enrichment, fuel fabrication, spent fuel storage, transportation, disposal, and reprocessing. He explained high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU), why it is needed for advanced reactors, and DOE’s HALEU Availability Program and related investments in enrichment, transportation, deconversion, and supply chain development. He also covered spent fuel management, the possibility of centralized storage or a fuel-cycle campus, the Center for Used Fuel Research, and ongoing work on high-burnup cask testing and reprocessing technologies. Tolman described aqueous, pyrochemical, and fluoride-volatility reprocessing approaches, noting the advantages and waste characteristics of each, and said several companies are working with INL on these technologies. Ashley Shields presented INL’s AI and nuclear work, focusing on the Genesis initiative and the Prometheus effort to use AI to design, license, build, and operate reactors with far less human intervention. She described INL’s broad use of generative AI tools, the need to manage large volumes of legacy technical data, and applications in reactor design, materials discovery, autonomous laboratories, and digital twins. Shields said AI is being used to reduce the enormous documentation burden in nuclear licensing and to support autonomous or remotely operated reactor demonstrations, while stressing that humans remain in supervisory roles. In discussion, she addressed data security, model access, and the continued need for software engineers. The session then recessed briefly and resumed with Mitch Kerman beginning a presentation on critical minerals and materials.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Edfin Committee Meeting - 2025-04-03

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Our kids need us to do that.
  • It's in reaction to the recent declines in the NAEP assessment scores.
  • Get older, they don't continue their math studies.
  • In a time when our state needs to be thinking about doing more.
  • Just being clear in the different areas that they're needing.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill addresses failures by requiring written notification, not allowing for cost assessments if
  • We need your vote. Well, I haven't had time to really go through it.
  • I've been studying coerced debt for a decade and a half, and in my research I've seen how coerced debt
  • I recently completed a major study in which we found that remedies for coerced debt were inaccessible
  • So we need to try to figure out a way. And I agree on the no-new-revenue.
Summary: The committee first took up pending business and favorably reported several House bills without opposition, including HB 11, HB 132, HB 1041, HB 1606, HB 2286, and HB 5061. Each was moved out of committee with a recommendation that it do pass and be printed, and several were also recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. The committee then heard HB 3306, which would extend existing construction-contract indemnity exceptions to electric infrastructure construction, maintenance, and vegetation management work for electric utilities and transmission and distribution utilities. The sponsor said the bill would reduce litigation and insurance costs for ratepayers, while construction industry witnesses argued it would shift liability onto subcontractors and create broad-form indemnity in a way Texas law has generally prohibited since 2011. HB 3306 was left pending. The committee also heard HB 4739, a Comptroller-requested cleanup bill to repeal an outdated Finance Code provision requiring remittance of a portion of certain delinquency charges to the state, and HB 3803, HB 3804, and HB 3806, all Department of Banking-requested cleanup bills dealing with confidentiality and supervision rules for perpetual care funds, state banks, and trust companies. Those bills were briefly explained and left pending without testimony. HB 4219, aimed at improving Public Information Act compliance by requiring timely notice when records do not exist or are being withheld, allowing complaints to the Attorney General, and imposing training and fee consequences for noncompliance, drew support from a journalist and a policy analyst and was also left pending. The committee then heard HB 4238 on coerced debt and identity theft. The sponsor explained that the committee substitute narrows the bill to court-ordered findings of identity theft/coerced debt, gives collectors seven business days to stop collection activity, and removes a section to avoid litigation over court orders. A law professor and a family violence advocate testified in strong support, describing coerced debt as a barrier for domestic violence and elder abuse survivors trying to rebuild credit and access housing, jobs, and utilities. The bill was left pending. HB 1522, which would require local governments to post meeting notices three business days in advance and make budget materials more accessible online and in physical form, also drew support, though a school business officials representative raised concerns about the timing language, proposed-budget wording, and taxpayer impact statements for school districts; the bill was left pending after discussion. Later, the committee heard additional pending bills, including a PUC background-check bill that would expand the commission’s authority to check current employees and contractors and obtain FBI criminal history information, HB 3805 updating money services business regulation, HB 431 extending HOA solar-panel protections to solar tiles, and HB 3228 and HB 3229 on wind and solar recycling financial assurance and recycler solvency. HB 3228 received support from a Sierra Club witness who said recycling and disposal plans are needed for end-of-life renewable energy equipment, and HB 3229 was described as requiring recyclers to show financial resources at 125 percent through a letter of credit or bond. These bills were heard and left pending.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
  • Prior to that assessment, there was no request for extending the season.
  • That there will be a need to increase the weights of OHVs, as my colleague said.
  • House Bill 1250 failed previously, and he just does not see the need for this.
  • There does need to be teeth in the penalties; otherwise it's just an expense to them.
  • that um Dees uh needs um more leverage that um Dees uh needs um more leverage against<00:45:04.520>
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The committee began with housekeeping about report deadlines and bill scheduling, noting that reports should be submitted as soon as possible, ideally by Friday night, so they can be reviewed and filed on time. The chair explained the process for Democratic and Republican reports, reviewed the timing sheet for early bills, and said the committee was trying to stay on schedule to avoid hearings during vacation week. He also shared his contact information for questions. The committee then moved into executive session on 10 bills. On HB 13, relative to OHRV operation on certain highways in Windsor, the committee voted unanimously to retain the bill after the prime sponsor asked that it be held for possible local action. On HB 127, extending the closing date of OHRV trails on the Connecticut River headquarters property from September 30 to Columbus Day, members debated economic benefits for Pittsburgh versus concerns about local control, conservation easements, and hunting impacts. The committee voted 11-5 ought to pass; the chair noted it would not go on consent and would have a fiscal note. On HB 174, increasing the maximum weight of a utility terrain vehicle to 3,500 pounds unladen dry weight, supporters argued the change could help accommodate electric vehicles and heavier equipment, while opponents raised concerns about undefined terms, enforcement, private landowner rights, and unintended consequences. The committee voted 8-7 ought to pass. On HB 203, requiring C-COT approved personal flotation devices while on New Hampshire state waters, the committee heard a split between members who emphasized personal responsibility and those who said the bill would improve safety and education and could reduce drowning deaths. The motion to ITL failed 11-5, meaning the committee rejected the motion to kill the bill and advanced it instead. The transcript then moved on to HB 332, allowing for the establishment of a village district, but the discussion of that bill was not included in the provided excerpt.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
  • We live by the motto that a community does not need a ballpark, but a ballpark desperately needs its
  • We've conducted a market feasibility study and venue assessment and have been working with an internationally
  • We've conducted a market feasibility study and venue assessment and have been working with an internationally
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Keywords: 1183, house
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 224 Conference AM - 04-28-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 016 Conference AM - 04-28-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • employee for the examination without first obtaining permission from the employee's employer, nor to assess
  • Okay, so we'll review that, and we also need to get FIN release.
  • <00:21:57.040> I'll<00:21:57.160> make also need to get FIN release.
  • I'll make also need to get FIN release.
  • <00:28:14.240> release and two that we still need release and two that we still need release
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 224 Conference PM - 04-28-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:11:31.240> We We need your conference draft. Oh, you don't have it yet.
  • And then we still need to secure Ways and Means and Finance approval. So, let's roll till tomorrow.
  • This bill allows smaller condominiums to waive reserve studies.
  • Uh not every You waive reserve studies.
  • reserve [clears throat] studies. reserve [clears throat] studies.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 229 Conference PM - 04-28-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • If we can roll it over till tomorrow, we don't need release. >> You folks need release. You need...
  • We don't need release, but we don't have Wooley here. Okay. No, we don't need to.
  • We don't need release. I'll just stick around for a while.
  • which we still need to resolve. Okay. which we still need to resolve. Okay.
  • So we just need to get final releases. So we just need to get final releases.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

RM 329 Conference AM - Tue Apr 28, 2026

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • that we are only asking for federal assistance, the military, with regards to infrastructure in any needs
  • You remember when we needed to at least ask the military to open up that road along the mountainside.
  • You remember when we needed to at least ask the military to open up that road along the mountainside.
  • This bill is a needed bill as we're trying to make our roads that much safer.
  • You don't need this one. >> Yes. Okay. It is pending release. Thank you, Senator. Okay.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 229 Conference AM - 04-28-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, we want to roll this to tomorrow since we also need Fin WAM. Okay.
  • So, you just need to get clearance on your side. discussion with uh OPSD and uh the discussion with uh
  • <00:02:31.040> since<00:02:31.240> we<00:02:31.320> also<00:02:31.480> need
  • roll this to tomorrow since we also need roll this to tomorrow since we also need Fin<00:02:31.920
  • Yeah, and I need to call on it. Oh, we got it. We're good. That's fine. Me, too. Okay. Great.