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CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 111 May 4th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, I read it as seeking civil remedies for damaging behavior. >> I don't want to call it bad behavior
- , but damaging behavior.
- , >> I don't want to call it bad behavior, >> I don't want to call it bad behavior, but
- And I fully but damaging behavior.
- thinks this is an appropriate behavior thinks this is an appropriate behavior that<02:36:53.840>
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Delivery of Government Efficiency Mar 26th, 2025
Delivery of Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- If we are serious about border security, we should be just as serious about the safety of our students
- When a school police department in my own community couldn't protect its students or get the vehicles
- The agency is currently interviewing ACC computer studies students within. and anticipated start dates
- There has been a dearth of applications from bachelor's degree students, and that the students are just
- So, one of the benefits of the apprenticeship program is these students.
Bills:
HB149, HB252, HB643, HB1442, HB1500, HB1672, HB1851, HB1893, HB2028, HB2768, HB2818, HB149, HB252
Keywords:
artificial intelligence, regulation, biometric data, ethical AI, consumer protection, AI governance, employment compensation, state agencies, salary payments, general appropriations, government efficiency, public works, contractors, payment bonds, government contracts, construction law, transparency, open meetings, government accountability, public access
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (01/14/2026)
Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- requires that all middle school students requires that all middle school students be<00:36:09.920
- consistent behavior, that's one thing. consistent behavior, that's one thing.
- >> I'm not saying that nurses are there caring for students in schools.
- . to these kinds of high-risisk behavior.
- , you are in this high-risisk behavior, you are in this high-risisk behavior, you<02:59:07.040>
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Or the students that are going to depend on the yields, that they need to have the best yield.
- We are not authorizing bullying or harassment of that student, of course.
- Maria Ramirez, in 2022, a five-year-old student in Oakland, California, told his teacher, Ms.
- And Oakland, California was reprimanded for not calling the student what he wanted to be called.
- Overdoses and the deaths of three North Texas students.
Summary:
The Senate convened with a quorum present, heard an invocation, adopted the prior day’s journal, received House messages, and adopted several resolutions and recognitions, including Senate Resolution 496 honoring Leadership Garland and resolutions 503 and 504. The chamber also recognized guests, including a North Dakota senator and the Doctor of the Day, and received gubernatorial nominations for the Texas Economic Development Corporation Board and the Nueces River Authority Board.
The Senate then took up and passed a series of bills, often by suspending the regular order and the constitutional three-day rule. Measures approved included SB 614 on Texas Forensic Science Commission referrals to the Office of Capital and Forensic Writs; SB 250 on municipal annexation across railroad rights-of-way; SB 1660 on toxicological evidence retention and destruction procedures; SB 2586 requiring property owners associations to file governing documents with the Texas Real Estate Commission; SB 1588 increasing penalties for certain failures to report child sexual abuse; HB 912 on compensation for distributed renewable generation outside ERCOT; SB 1957 setting eligibility standards for civilian oversight boards; HB 2525 clarifying a charitable property tax exemption; SB 1525 limiting repeated prior authorization for neurodegenerative disease drugs; SB 865 requiring CPR/AED training and cardiac emergency response planning in schools; SB 1212 elevating human trafficking penalties; SB 2690 on solicitations for Secretary of State documents; SB 1802 on landlord repair duties for ramps, elevators, and handrails; SB 905 on licensing rules for speech-language pathologists and audiologists; SB 2929 allowing removal of disruptive spectators at school athletic events; SB 2675 creating a narrow McAllen-specific parkland conveyance exception; SB 872 increasing punishment for burglary of a vehicle involving firearm theft; and SB 1113 clarifying sales rules for certain converter-license holders.
Several bills drew extended debate. SB 2487, dealing with crisis and mental health services for homelessness, was amended to make the county model permissive rather than mandatory and to remove state funding/assistance requirements before passing 28-3. SB 2138, barring higher education funds from contracting with firms that boycott fossil fuels through ESG policies, also passed after questions about fiscal effects and First Amendment concerns. SB 2615, restricting remote work at public institutions of higher education, advanced 22-9. The Senate also began consideration of SB 3016, which would expand enforcement tools against local governments that fail to comply with state law, but the transcript cuts off before action on that bill is completed.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- I sat with these students in a school committee meeting and watched them with... ...students.
- "Our students are not all the same.
- , not just cisgender students.
- My students think I'm a book wizard. My students think I'm a book wizard.
- These books do not serve students. These bills do not serve students. They do not serve parents.
Summary:
The hearing focused on several bills related to access to library materials, including measures addressing book bans and censorship in public and school libraries, as well as legislation on digital library collections and e-book licensing. Committee leaders said testimony would be limited to three minutes and encouraged written submissions. Early testimony from Chair Brian Murray highlighted H. 3595, which would address challenges facing public libraries and digital resource collections by limiting restrictive publisher-library contract terms, protecting patron confidentiality, and creating a special legislative commission to study the issue.
A large number of legislators, librarians, authors, students, publishers, and advocacy groups testified in support of the free expression bills, including H. 3594 and S. 2328, arguing that book challenges in Massachusetts disproportionately target LGBTQ+ and BIPOC titles and that librarians and educators need protection from retaliation and harassment. Witnesses described local incidents of book removals, threats, and pressure campaigns, and several said the bills would create transparent challenge procedures, keep materials available during reviews, and ensure decisions are made by trained professionals rather than political actors. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley’s office also submitted support, and multiple speakers cited national trends and Massachusetts-specific censorship attempts.
Testimony on the digital access bills emphasized that e-books and audiobooks are essential for readers with disabilities, homebound patrons, students, and others who rely on accessible formats, but that current licensing terms are far more expensive and restrictive than print purchasing. Library representatives said libraries spend millions on digital content, face long wait times for popular titles, and often must repeatedly re-rent the same materials. Legal and library experts supported the proposed commission as a practical step toward fairer licensing and stronger bargaining power for libraries. The hearing ended after extensive testimony; no votes or final committee action were taken in the portion provided.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Courts, Corrections and Justice Nov 7th, 2025
Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Came to practice medicine after graduating with $200,000 in student loan debt.
- We can help these doctors with their student loan debt because student loan debt is crippling for them
- I really focused on the behavioral health that we need in our state.
- Our wait time for behavioral health services is also very long.
- old bill on page 23, where it says—I've already pointed this out—where the officers are immune from student
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- We know behavioral health is a huge topic currently.
- Students from the ranch camp in Sandoval County have gone on to earn their veterinary degrees.
- So, how many New Mexico students have gone through the WICHE and come back?
- They have a large debt; the average debt just in tuition and fees for our New Mexico students ranges
- now have 10 chairs—up to 10 chairs at Texas Tech—so now we have the opportunity to bring back 20 students
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Her long career focused on training medical students and I-M residents to care for people in the primary
- Her long career focused on training medical students and I-M residents to care for people in the primary
- For my students in Mesa Public Schools, and for my children who are now grown, I got involved in their
- There are still some outstanding concerns, Education students with more support.
- We have Liberty Elementary students over here today from Legislative District 4. Everybody wave.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education Mar 27th, 2025
S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education
Transcript Highlights:
- Hannah, Hannah's an FFA student.
- She's a hybrid student.
- He's a member of the student council.
- In Texas, gifted and talented student means a student who performs at or shows the potential for performing
- and to a lesser extent, 3-year-old students.
Bills:
HB117
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And I think just the care of the patients and the behaviors that they can change themselves will be a
- We want to create family environments that support reading and literacy among these students.
- Nau: ...students learn from the professionals at the Center for Performing Arts in Dallas.
- who was struggling behaviorally at our camp, showing little interest in most lessons.
- who was struggling behaviorally at our camp, showing little interest in most lessons.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 02/25/26
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- So we are unsure what behavior will be driven by that, but we also do know that historically our younger
- So we are unsure what behavior will be driven by that, but we also do know that historically our younger
- Normal human behavior is if they autoenroll into a plan and they just continue on with that plan if it
- <01:02:14.160>
to start young in introducing students to start young in introducing students - <01:26:03.440>
largely also 60% of the medical students largely also 60% of the medical students
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 03/10/26
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
- Senator Okstad: For the behavior of others, we need to hold those people accountable.
- which is a hands-on experience learning program operated by Friends of the Minnesota Valley for students
- The students in the 28 schools currently served receive direct classroom instruction, and that is aligned
- The students in the 28 schools fundings.
- The students in the 28 schools currently<00:46:47.080>
served currently served currently served
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (04/09/2025)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- You know, we talk about different versions of substance use disorder, whether it's a behavioral health
- and what is a person's criminal behavior and what is the<00:54:48.079>
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in <01:11:08.000>my <01:11:08.320>students <01:11: - Addiction in itself is compulsive behavior despite negative consequences unto death.
- who overstays their let's say, a student who overstays their visa. visa. visa.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Committee on Federal Funding, Policy and Accountability Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
House Committee on Federal Funding, Policy and Accountability
Transcript Highlights:
- It's unfair for the students who are going to use that, and we're going to be in a situation where we
- We also were very careful to make sure that we had databases that were aimed at students all the way
- We're still recovering from the pandemic loss of various behavior patterns and resourcing.
- The next one is arts education programming for our students in pre-K through grade 12.
- The next one is arts education programming for our students in pre-K through grade 12.
Summary:
The hearing focused on the impact of recent federal policy and budget actions on Massachusetts libraries, humanities organizations, arts institutions, and tourism. Testimony from library leaders described the loss or jeopardy of Institute of Museum and Library Services funding, including statewide databases, local grants, staff positions, E-rate/hotspot support, and digital equity programs. Witnesses said the cuts have already forced reductions in services, canceled grants and workshops, and in some cases left schools, students, job seekers, and low-income patrons without access to key resources. Members of the committee asked for lists of affected communities and databases, and several witnesses said they would provide additional written detail.
Arts and humanities witnesses said federal terminations from the NEA, NEH, and IMLS have hit organizations across the Commonwealth, including Mass Cultural Council, Mass Humanities, Mass MoCA, and local museums and historical societies. They described canceled or rescinded grants, layoffs, reduced programming, and a chilling effect on future applications and on artistic and scholarly work, especially where federal awards had already been matched with local or private funds. Several speakers also raised concerns about executive-branch DEI conditions attached to funding and about book challenges and book banning, saying these trends threaten intellectual freedom and public access to culture and history. Committee members emphasized the economic importance of the sector and the need to publicize the impacts.
Tourism officials from Meet Boston and the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism testified that federal cuts and broader geopolitical and tariff issues are hurting international visitation, especially from Canada and Western Europe, and could affect major upcoming events such as the 2026 World Cup and Sail Boston. They said reduced funding for Brand USA and Discover New England will weaken long-term marketing efforts and international partnerships, with downstream effects on hotel tax revenue, jobs, and workforce recruitment. No votes were taken; the hearing was informational, with members mainly asking questions and requesting follow-up written testimony and data.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Formal House Session 33 Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Please welcome these five students to the chamber. Philippines.
- We provide a few exceptions for students, such as those who need a device for medical reasons, students
- What works for an elementary school student is not what works for a high school student.
- We built in accommodations for students with disabilities.
- We owe our students more than constant distraction.
Summary:
The House first recognized several student athletes and teams, including East Bridgewater cheerleaders, Medway athletes and teams, and the Housatonic Valley basketball team, and adopted a resolution congratulating the William Diamond Jr. Fife and Drum Corps on its 25th anniversary. Members also suspended Joint Rule 12 to advance a petition concerning an extension of a lease authorization for conservation land.
The chamber then took up Senate 2581, as amended, a major education and youth technology bill. The bill was rewritten to promote safe technology use and distraction-free education, including restrictions on personal electronic devices in public schools and limits on social media access for children. Members debated whether the policy should be bell-to-bell or allow more local flexibility, and several amendments were offered. An amendment from Attleboro to preserve district-specific policies was rejected, while a consolidated amendment tightening social media restrictions and related protections was adopted.
The House also considered and passed several other bills, including measures amending the Sandwich charter, authorizing Springfield to help certain residents with local tax obligations, authorizing charity alcohol auctions, and directing the Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for a specific police applicant. In addition, the House rejected concurrence on a Senate version of a higher education infrastructure bill and instead appointed a committee of conference. Later, the House accepted a conference report on modernizing cannabis laws after debate focused on regulatory streamlining, equity, ownership caps, and hemp regulation. The report was adopted by roll call, and the House then passed the amended education bill to be engrossed before adjourning to the next day.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (02/13/2026)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, and the seriousness of a felony conviction for stupid behavior, um, albeit dangerous behavior, I
- I just don't think dangerous behavior.
- The motion is ought to pass. misdemeanor behavior that's similar to misdemeanor behavior that's similar
- Have to go to law school. >> Yeah, exactly. >> Or be your student.
- >> Or be your student. >> Or be your student.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Sep 23rd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm going to stay here; behavioral health is still...
- Investments that you all as the legislature have made in behavioral health.
- We have 429 new physicians and 469 new behavioral health workers.
- In the behavioral health trust fund? Mm-hmm. Two hundred and some million.
- They've got pretty big increases, oddly enough, for behavioral health.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Appropriations Mar 2nd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And let's imagine that it has a thousand students.
- And let's imagine that it has a thousand students.
- money followed the student to the charter school.
- No, but this is different than the $8,000 or so per student.
- I think that that's not good policy, and we ...exchange students.
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee considered a large agenda of bills and reported several measures favorably. Early action included SB 6, a settled claim bill involving the Department of Children and Families and a trust for Leila Estrada and Sapphire Williams, and CS/CS/SB 1266, which creates a cybersecurity experiential learning and clearance-readiness program through the Department of Commerce and Cyber Florida. The committee also approved SB 532 on clerks of court funding, allowing clerks to retain all excess Article V revenue rather than returning half to the state and clarifying foreclosure sale procedures. In addition, the committee passed CS/CS/SB 1602 and CS/CS/SB 1604 to create and fund a pilot housing program for veterans through the Florida Housing Finance Corporation, and CS/SB 1110 to expand Medicaid and private insurance coverage for medically necessary orthotics and prosthetics, including testimony from affected families and advocates. The committee also adopted an amendment and then favorably reported CS/CS/SB 1012 on inmate services, removing the bill’s medical-services compensation provisions while retaining changes to the inmate welfare trust fund and related facility uses. It also adopted a delete-all amendment and then favorably reported CS/CS/CS/SB 1614, which was narrowed to remove a provision allowing local governments to use excess fees to construct new buildings.
The committee spent substantial time on CS/SB 17, a Medicaid oversight and transparency bill. The sponsor said the measure would create a joint legislative Medicaid oversight committee, authorize the Legislature to retain its own actuary, modernize Medicaid statutes, strengthen managed-care performance standards, and increase accountability for pharmacy benefit managers and related entities. After amendment, the committee adopted changes removing several PBM-related provisions while retaining the broader oversight framework. Testimony from supporters emphasized transparency, fraud prevention, and cost control, while a PBM trade association asked to continue working on affiliate-manufacturer, network, and payment issues. The bill was reported favorably.
The most extensive discussion centered on CS/SB 1758, which proposes major changes to Medicaid and SNAP. The sponsor described five reforms: stronger fraud and overpayment recovery authority, a Medicaid work requirement for certain able-bodied adults, expanded behavioral-health services through Medicaid waivers, pharmacy-program changes to obtain rebates and reduce institutional costs, and SNAP/EBT reforms including photo IDs and work requirements. The committee adopted two amendments: one adding a transitional “glide path” for people who gain employment but risk losing Medicaid, and another exempting hospice patients with six months or less to live. Supporters argued the bill would reduce fraud, improve accountability, and encourage work, while opponents warned it would increase administrative burdens, push eligible people off coverage, and conflict with federal law or guidance. The bill remained under debate with extensive public testimony from advocates, providers, and affected families, and the transcript ends before final disposition on the measure.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
HSH Info Briefing - Fri Nov 7, 2025 @ 1:30 PM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, public schools lose vital partnerships to improve attendance, behavior, and student success.
- Um, public schools lose vital partnerships to improve attendance, behavior, and student success.
- Um, public schools lose vital partnerships to improve attendance, behavior, and student success.
- Um, public schools lose vital partnerships to improve attendance, behavior, and student success.
- Um, public schools lose vital partnerships to improve attendance, behavior, and student success.
Summary:
The House Committee on Human Services held an informational briefing on the impacts of federal funding cuts, inflation, labor shortages, and chronic underfunding on Hawaii’s nonprofit social safety net. Hawaii Community Foundation opened with a story about a federal worker family relying on food pantry support, then described a “perfect storm” facing human services nonprofits: historically high demand, rising costs, staffing challenges, federal cuts, and state and county contracts that do not cover true service costs. The foundation said it has reactivated its Hawaii Resilience Fund, launched strengthened service grants, and is tracking policy changes and data to help nonprofits respond.
Trey Gordner of UHERO presented research on the vulnerability of Hawaii’s nonprofit sector, explaining a framework that assessed political, financial, and structural risk. He said about 8,200 501(c)(3) nonprofits are active in Hawaii, but only about 200 receive direct federal funds; 74 grants to 59 organizations were flagged as politically at risk, totaling about $126 million in unpaid obligations. He said about 68 of the direct-funding recipients rely on federal funds for more than 20% of annual revenue, and that human services nonprofits are among the most exposed subsectors because they serve vulnerable populations and depend heavily on federal support.
Catholic Charities Hawaii and the Hawaii True Cost Coalition said community-based organizations were already under strain before the current crisis, with most contracts not covering full costs and many groups depending on private philanthropy to fill gaps. They reported that half of surveyed organizations expect to reduce programs, more than a third may decline future contracts, and some are waiting months for reimbursements. Examples included reduced shelter admissions, fewer case management hours, and cutbacks in kūpuna services. The coalition urged higher contract rates, regular inflation and cost-of-living reviews, and timely reimbursement; no votes or formal actions were taken.
Partners in Development Foundation described the loss of Native Hawaiian education funding as especially damaging, saying the federal Department of Education has zeroed out support that creates a roughly $46 million gap, including about $20 million for early childhood programs. The speaker shared a family story from the Nā Pono program to illustrate how early learning services support both children and parents, and warned that the organization’s federal funds make up 72% of its budget. The briefing ended with a call for continued emergency funding and longer-term structural changes to sustain nonprofits statewide.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
House of Representatives Second Regular Session of the 60th Legislature Day 9 Feb 16th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Oklahoma House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- architect with more than two decades of experience spanning public education, state government, behavioral
- Fleming's current work centers on addressing the long-recognized transition gap faced by students with
- Transition gap faced by students with intellectual and developmental disabilities as they exit the public