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AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/05/2026 - House Artificial Intelligence & Innovation
Artificial Intelligence & Innovation
Transcript Highlights:
- from your perspective, and I'm curious about this, because I've always compared AI to this brand new highway
- , and any time you build a highway, you level the ground out, you put down the asphalt, put in the rumble
- strips, paint the lanes, put up the guardrails, and then you have a working highway.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- Out here on the Olympic Peninsula, where we have no rail and only one very winding two-lane state highway
- reached the end of its useful life and needs major renovations to keep our connection to the marine highway
- Today the state has grants for improving highways, public transit, and airports, but not so much for
Committee:
House Transportation
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Transportation Feb 27th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Out here on the Olympic Peninsula, where we have no rail and only one very winding two-lane state highway
- reached the end of its useful life and needs major renovations to keep our connection to the marine highway
- Today the state has grants for improving highways, public transit, and airports, but not so much for
Summary:
The committee held public hearings on two transportation-related bills. For Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5374, staff explained that the bill would require tribal governments to be included in Growth Management Act transportation coordination and in preparation of county six-year transportation programs, and would create a tribal traffic safety coordinator grant program through the Traffic Safety Commission. Fiscal impacts were described as indeterminate and scalable, with estimates for staffing, grants, and local government coordination costs. The Association of Counties testified in support, saying the bill would better align existing tribal consultation processes with transportation planning and would not force counties to restart plans already near adoption.
For Engrossed Senate Bill 5649, staff said the bill would create a Washington State Supply Chain Competitiveness Infrastructure Program to provide grants and loans for public and tribal ports with public operations, with DOT setting priorities and criteria in collaboration with supply chain stakeholders. Fiscal notes estimated significant staffing and program costs, but the amount would depend on appropriations; no funds were included in the current Senate Transportation budget. The Washington Public Ports Association and representatives from the Port of Everett and Port of Port Angeles supported the bill, arguing it would help ports address congestion, improve freight efficiency, and leverage federal matching funds for major infrastructure projects. The Freight Mobility Strategic Investment Board director said many proposed projects would not qualify for FMSIB funding because they are not on strategic freight corridors, which is why a separate program may be needed.
Members asked about timing, whether the tribal planning bill would require counties to start over on plans already near completion, and how the port bill would interact with existing funding sources and FMSIB eligibility. Staff and witnesses said the tribal bill was intended to work with existing coordination processes and not force counties to restart, while the port bill was meant to fill gaps where current programs do not apply. The chair then reviewed amendment deadlines for budget and committee bills, and the meeting adjourned for caucuses.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill authorizes the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, the DHSMV, to create a new
- taxes collected by the utility providers to account for the impact of electric vehicles in the state highway
- taxes collected by the utility providers to account for the impact of electric vehicles in the state highway
Committee:
Senate Transportation
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum present and heard a series of transportation-related bills, most of which were reported favorably. SB 532 would exempt 100% disabled veterans from paying Florida tolls. SB 1738 would allow certain counties that previously opted out of transportation concurrency to opt back in by maintaining current levels of service, though there were concerns about congestion and future growth. SB 1696 aimed to reduce transportation network company driver impersonation, allow transit authorities to contract with ride-share platforms, and permit those platforms to participate in state-funded paratransit trips. SB 1378, as amended, would allow courts to order restitution in standard leaving-the-scene crashes; the amendment made restitution discretionary and required that the driver caused or contributed to the crash. SB 1210 would increase penalties for red-light and stop-sign crashes and require bodily injury insurance for drivers who cause such crashes. SB 1820, via strike-all amendment, addressed dealer-manufacturer relations by requiring written explanations of performance measures, prohibiting retaliation against dealers asserting statutory rights, and limiting franchise termination or nonrenewal to substantial breaches. SB 1246 created a specialty license plate for safe coastal wildlife, with proceeds going to the Zoo Miami Foundation for conservation work and an amendment allowing up to 10% for administrative and marketing costs.
The committee also considered SB 574, which would allow Florida residents with Purple Heart license plates to pass tolls free of charge; the bill was amended to change the plate reference to a specialty plate and was reported favorably. SB 1662, the FDOT department bill, was substantially revised by strike-all amendment covering a wide range of transportation issues, including USF’s role in the Florida Transportation Research Institute Consortium, Florida Transportation Commission provisions, seaport and airport-related changes, strategic space infrastructure, sewer lines in rights of way, small county road assistance, aggregate supply chain programs, and Jacksonville Transportation Authority board appointments. Testimony on SB 1662 included support from USF and the Florida Public Transportation Association, which raised concerns about added oversight and bureaucracy for transit systems. Most bills received support from affected stakeholders, and several were amended before final favorable votes.
Roll calls were taken on each measure, and all of the listed bills were reported favorably by the committee. At the end of the meeting, senators requested to be recorded as voting in the affirmative on several bills, and the committee adjourned after a brief personal privilege remark from Chair Collins.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- should expire on August 31st, and is for $650,000 for advertising and marketing services for the State Highway
- Safety Media Plan with the State Police Highway Safety Office.
- should expire on August 31st, and is for $650,000 for advertising and marketing services for the State Highway
- Safety Media Plan with the State Police Highway Safety Office.
Committee:
All ALC-REVIEW
Summary:
The committee met to review a supplemental agenda item, procurement rule revisions, methods of finance, discretionary grants, contracts, reports, and a member disclosure. The supplemental agenda was accepted, and the Office of State Procurement’s rule revisions were approved after Jessica Patterson explained they were driven by 2025 legislative changes, including Act 782, CASO Consulting recommendations, and updates to sole source, bid, protest, and debarment provisions. The methods of finance and discretionary grants were also approved, covering a range of university capital projects, health and human services grants, historic preservation awards, and tobacco prevention and cessation programs.
The committee then reviewed RFQs and six ratifications. The ratifications included a Workforce Connections payment to ACT WorkKeys for services provided during a contract gap, a Department of Health ratification for water-leak repairs, a large Department of Public Safety ratification for Motorola’s Arkansas Wireless Information Network upgrade, a Veterans Affairs HVAC ratification, an ADFA medical services ratification, and a UA Little Rock painting contract ratification. Members questioned the Public Safety ratification at length about why the expired Motorola contract was not caught sooner and why it took months after discovery to come forward; agency officials said the work was tied to bond funding and was not tracked in ASIS, and the chair urged agencies to develop better monitoring procedures.
The committee approved a large slate of construction, intergovernmental, out-of-state, and in-state contracts, including many recurring service agreements for DHS, higher education institutions, corrections, health agencies, and state support functions. Several members asked about specific contracts, including aerial application services for correctional farms and a Southern Arkansas University custodial contract, and staff or agency representatives provided brief explanations. The meeting concluded with review of reports and approval of a member disclosure involving Representative Andrew Collins’ investment interest in a company leasing property to Arkansas Rehabilitation Services.
WV
West Virginia 2026 Regular Session
Senate in Session Mar 12th, 2026 at 03:29 pm
West Virginia Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- House when drivers fail to obey traffic control instructions or exceed the posted speed limit in highway
- construction or maintenance work zones when any worker is present. ...limit in highway construction
- penalties for drivers who fail to obey traffic control instructions or exceed the posted speed limit in highway
- penalties for drivers who fail to obey traffic control instructions or exceed the posted speed limit in highway
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session: 2025 First Special Session - part 2 Jun 9th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We were also able to get some trunk highway funding projects, and so there's a $40 million earmark for
- Republicans, House Democrats, and Senators from both sides of the aisle... said that the theft of trunk highway
- The DFL made sure that our trunk highways were funded, That the DFL made sure that metro transit was
- Our trunk highway funds are healthy.
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session May 30th, 2025 at 02:00 pm
Nevada Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Bill 576, introduced by the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means, makes appropriations to the Nevada Highway
- Bill 576, introduced by the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means, makes appropriations to the Nevada Highway
- Bill 576, introduced by the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means, makes appropriations to the Nevada Highway
- Assembly Bill 593 makes a general fund appropriation of $53.5 million and a highway fund appropriation
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- So that just shows you the total amount of um bonding that would occur with general fund, highway fund
- occur with of um bonding that would occur with general<00:10:03.200><c> fund,</c><00:10:03.440><c> highway
- fund</c><00:10:04.080><c> and</c><00:10:04.680><c> others</c><00:10:05.680><c> of</c> general fund, highway
- fund and others of general fund, highway fund and others of 170<00:10:06.720><c> million.
Committee:
Senate Capital Budget
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on State Government. (6-23-26)
State Government
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, we are a full-service organization, which with Kentucky State Police is different from a highway
- Uh, where highway patrol, they typically deal with just law enforcement activities on the highways.
- </c> different from a highway patrol. different from a highway patrol.
- <c> they</c><00:04:54.440><c> typically</c> Uh where highway patrol, they typically Uh where highway
- </c> activities on the highways. activities on the highways.
Committee:
Joint State Government
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:42:01.400><c> So,</c><00:42:02.120><c> Madam</c> with with the major highway.
- So, Madam with with the major highway.
- Trunk Highway 71, as you know, goes all the way from Texas to Canada.
- Uh Trunk<00:45:19.320><c> Highway</c><00:45:19.560><c> 71,</c><00:45:20.160><c> as</c><00:45:20.280><
- 71, as you know, goes all Trunk Highway 71, as you know, goes all the<00:45:21.040><c> way</c><00:45
Committee:
Senate Taxes
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Committee Budget Briefing (04/08/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:16:26.720><c> fund</c> four, and you will see the highway fund four, and you will see the highway
- They're in the highway department. They're in fish and game.
- </c> They're in the highway department. They're in the highway department.
- Highway funds support turnpike funds.
- </c><01:48:29.040><c> to</c><01:48:29.280><c> be</c> The highway fund is intended to be The highway fund
Summary:
The meeting was a House budget briefing focused on the overall state budget and the first of three divisions. The presenter reviewed the size and structure of the budget, noting that the state had eliminated the interest and dividends tax and still balanced the budget. He explained the major spending categories in the general fund and total budget, emphasizing that health and human services and education remain the largest areas, while transportation is largely self-funded. He also walked through the revenue picture, including business taxes, insurance taxes, court fees, communications taxes, and Medicaid recoveries, and said the remaining interest and dividends tax revenue reflected late payments from prior assessments.
Members asked about the size of the tax cut from eliminating the interest and dividends tax, federal funding stability, and why Medicaid was being reduced if federal support was expected to remain steady. The response was that the lost revenue would have been about $200 million absent repeal, and that the budget gap was addressed through many small cuts across departments. On federal funds, the presenter said most aid is tied to multi-year grants and that core programs such as Medicare and Medicaid were expected to remain relatively stable, though some federal reductions could occur. He also said some agency reductions came from eliminating long-vacant, funded positions and from expected lapses.
The discussion then moved into Division One, which covers smaller and miscellaneous agencies. The division made cuts to the governor’s office, eliminated a temporary position at the Governor’s Commission on Disability, reduced Department of Information Technology spending through a back-of-budget cut, and found savings in Administrative Services. It also delayed maintenance at the Sununu Youth Services Center, stopped advertising for paid family medical leave, changed retiree health insurance funding, and consolidated several personnel-related boards into one. The division eliminated the Commission on Aging and the Office of the Child Advocate, made a temporary special education advocate position permanent, reduced the Secretary of State’s budget, kept municipal rooms-and-meals distributions flat, and made changes to the retirement system, including $55 million to improve Group 2 retirement benefits and a new retirement structure for future state hires. The judicial branch was also asked to find savings and received two additional judges because of expected caseload increases from other eliminations.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><04:03:49.359><c> funds</c><04:03:49.520><c> or</c> federal or state highway funds or federal or
- state highway funds or turnpike<04:03:50.080><c> funds</c><04:03:50.319><c> to</c><04:03:50.560><c> be
- </c> and I know there's state and highway and I know there's state and highway funds<04:09:06.399><c>
- We have highway right-of-ways and things in Cheshire County, and they're 8,000 feet long and 100 feet
- We have highway right-of-ways and things in Cheshire County, and they're 8,000 feet long and 100 feet
Committee:
House Housing
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Fifty - Monday, April 13
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- They're not currently issuing any permits for this, so it's really just some cleanup language to the
- They're not currently issuing any permits for this, so it's really just some cleanup language to the
- So it's just some cleanup language to help protect the department and farmers from potential litigation
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Feb 25th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- It sounds like an Assemblymember Wicks cleanup bill to me.
- Generally, thank you again, Assemblymember Wicks, for your leadership and your commitment to do these cleanup
- And we look forward to our continued collaboration to strengthen this important tool with some cleanup
Summary:
The hearing was an outcome review of AB 2011, the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, focused on whether the law is being used as intended to speed housing production on commercially zoned land while maintaining labor and affordability standards. Chair Haney and Assembly Member Wicks emphasized that the point of the review was not to relitigate the bill, but to assess implementation and results. The first panel of researchers and policy experts said AB 2011 has had real but still limited uptake so far, with roughly 5,800 homes proposed, entitled, or permitted under the law through 2024, concentrated mainly in San Francisco and Los Angeles counties. They also noted that the broader housing market remains constrained by high construction costs, interest rates, and flat rents, making it hard to isolate the bill’s effects from overall market conditions.
Witnesses generally agreed that AB 2011 has been most effective for 100% affordable projects and for projects already using public subsidies or prevailing wage, where the ministerial process and CEQA streamlining help move developments forward. Several speakers described the law as a useful bargaining tool that can push jurisdictions to rezone or approve projects more quickly even when AB 2011 is not formally invoked. At the same time, developers and advocates said the mixed-income pathway is much less usable in most of the state because prevailing wage and the 15% affordability requirement add significant cost, especially in lower-rent markets. They also pointed to implementation issues such as narrow site eligibility rules, the “substantially surrounded by urban uses” test, industrial-use exclusions, and confusion about whether the law applies to homeownership projects.
The second panel, made up of practitioners using the law, described specific projects that moved forward under AB 2011, including affordable housing developments in the San Joaquin Valley and large mixed-use projects in San Francisco. They said the law’s biggest benefit is certainty: projects that once took years to entitle can now move in months. However, they repeated calls for changes such as clarifying homeownership eligibility, loosening density and site restrictions, narrowing the industrial-use exclusion, and making the law easier to understand for developers and local staff. Members also raised concerns about uneven use across regions, especially the relative lack of AB 2011 activity in Los Angeles and Santa Clara County, and about the accuracy and lag in annual progress report data. The final panel, including the original sponsors, said they remain supportive of the law but are open to adjustments to reduce costs and improve usability while preserving labor protections and affordability goals.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Feb 19th, 2026 at 08:53 am
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Well, House Bill 34 is a cleanup bill to tweak a couple of issues that came up in the implementation
- House Bill 43 is what is called the para cleanup bill. Mr.
- This is a cleanup bill.
Keywords:
SB273, appropriations, general fund, hold harmless, local government finance, municipal revenue, county revenue, correctional facility, jail contract, private prison, detention facility, immigration detention, revenue bonds, clawback, child welfare, juvenile justice, protective services, school improvement, New MexiCare, aging services
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select Aug 5th, 2025
Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select
Transcript Highlights:
- and we shouldn't be pulling those elements out and burning them, as is sometimes practiced during cleanups
- Cleanup now would be less expensive if we did not have those houses, trailers, and vehicles that Kenneth
- the disaster zones up in Leander, we got to see volunteer groups assisting with search and recovery cleanup
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- As for some of the cleanup that this does, I reserve the right to close and am happy to answer any questions
- He laid it out so well, I will just expound a little bit more to say basically, we did a lot of cleanup
- To take any questions, good cleanup, good jury will, good policy. With that, I close.
Bills:
HB 1239 , HB1990 , HB1748 , HB1749 , HB2578 , HB2986 , HB1970 , HB3163 , HB2733 , HB1922 , HB 113 , HB 1088 , HB1938 , HB3004 , HB2637 , HB2960 , HB113
Committee:
House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
Keywords:
public health, access to healthcare, insurance reforms, medical expenses, healthcare providers, mental health, protective custody, preliminary examination, detention period, emergency circumstances, emergency detention, legal framework, detention, healthcare, liability, landowners, nonagricultural land, trespassing, public safety, interpreters
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/25
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- the management of human<00:04:24.000><c> leftovers</c><00:04:24.520><c> and</c><00:04:24.720><c> cleanup
- </c><00:04:25.360><c> efforts</c><00:04:25.720><c> to</c> human leftovers and cleanup efforts to human
- leftovers and cleanup efforts to local<00:04:26.680><c> communities</c><00:04:27.680><c> state</c><00
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- They do not obstruct highways. They do not endanger neighborhoods.
- They generate electricity. highways they do not endanger neighborhoods they generate electricity labeling
- Council thinks, okay, well, while we've got it, let's do some technical corrections and language cleanup
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, attendance, guest introductions, and several ceremonial proclamations, including recognition of Dr. Joseph Torkelson for his service in pediatric oncology and military medicine. Members also introduced guests connected to Arizona Bleeding Disorders, charter schools, and a suicide-prevention effort tied to HB 2665 (“Cade’s Law”). The chamber then moved through multiple Committee of the Whole calendars, considering a large number of bills and resolutions.
On the first calendar, the House gave do pass recommendations, mostly as amended, to HB 2117, 2744, 2751, 2917, 2939, 2957, 2970, and HCR 2038. The amendments addressed topics such as natural resource conservation district boundaries, manufacturing and jobs, Real ID/non-Real ID data privacy, and Colorado River conservation and tribal/community representation. The House then adopted the Committee of the Whole report and sent the measures for engrossing; a later motion to amend the report to include the defeated Villegas amendment on HB 2667 failed by roll call vote, 22-32 with 6 not voting.
In the next calendars, the House advanced HB 2015, 2129, 2327, 2439, 2533, 2667, 2793, 2873, HCR 2044, and others, with several floor or committee amendments adopted. Debate focused on homelessness coordination in HB 2533, homebuyer assistance and corporate ownership concerns in HB 2667, annexation and local control in HB 2793, and a proposed constitutional referral in HCR 2044 aimed at closing loopholes for discrimination in public programs. The House also considered HB 2044 and HB 2076 in the Judiciary calendar, with debate over the scope of a homicide-disposal statute in HB 2044 and school safety/teacher firearms issues in HB 2076; both bills advanced as amended.
The final calendar covered natural resources, energy, and water bills. The House advanced HB 2014, 2055, 2145, 2185, 2267, 2340, 2428, 2696, 2798, 2955, 2975, and 2986, with amendments on drought definitions, emissions permitting, mineral district mapping, and environmental enforcement authority. HB 2267 drew the sharpest debate, with opponents arguing it would hinder solar and wind development and supporters arguing for diversification toward coal, gas, and nuclear; after a division vote, the bill still received a do pass recommendation. The session concluded with the Committee of the Whole rising and reporting, and the House adopting the report and assigning the measures accordingly.