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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 21st, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, we are grateful for Marlon Linscom's dedication to the nursing profession and for her service
  • Donwn for her 41 years of service to the state Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
  • linemen for their dedicated service and swift response to restore power during emergency situations.
  • Affairs to address gaps in the youth services program.
  • of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to address gaps in the project to replace capacity of Griffin
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 21st, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, we are grateful for Marla Linscombe's dedication to the nursing profession and for her service
  • on April 21, 2026, for its dedication to education, service, leadership, and ongoing resolve to leave
  • That the Oklahoma Legislature extends its sincere gratitude to linemen for their dedicated service and
  • the Office of Juvenile Affairs to address gaps in the Youth Services Program.
  • Health and Substance Abuse Services to address gaps in the project to replace capacity at Griffin Memorial
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, offered the daily prayer, and recognized a series of guests and special introductions, including Langston University Day, Moore Public Schools cheer and pom squads, a student shadow, former Senator Connie Johnson, Brazilian missionaries, and a long-serving mental health employee. The chamber also heard introductions from the day’s pages. The Senate adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 18, recognizing April 21, 2026, as National Lineman Appreciation Day, and House Concurrent Resolution 1024, designating Route 66 Day at the Capitol and honoring the highway’s centennial. Senators then advanced Senate Joint Resolution 49, which revokes a Wildlife Department rule requiring oil and gas companies to post a surety bond, after discussion clarified the measure was intended to eliminate duplicative regulation; the resolution advanced on a 42-3 vote. The Senate also passed House Bill 4486, authorizing the State Capitol Preservation Commission to arrange a privately funded Gold Star Family Monument near the Capitol Square Arch, and approved several appropriations measures tied to ARPA interest or excess funds. These included Senate Bill 1130 for the University of Oklahoma Hospital Trust Authority’s Child Behavioral Health Project, Senate Bill 1131 for the Office of Juvenile Affairs’ Youth Services Program, Senate Bill 1132 for the Rural Hospital Rebuild Program, Senate Bill 1133 for Griffin Memorial Hospital replacement capacity, Senate Bill 1134 for the Human Performance Project and Pharmaceutical Expansion Project, and Senate Bill 1142 for grants to the Boys & Girls Club and YWCA. Most of these bills were adopted with emergency clauses after roll-call votes, with some members changing votes before final emergency passage. The Senate then announced committee meetings and adjourned until the next scheduled session.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
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  • So, thank you for that. >> Proud to have you and your service to the citizens of Montgomery County, to
  • Proud proud to have you and your service &gt;&gt; Proud proud to have you and your service to<00:29:
  • a</c> need to be able to come up with a need to be able to come up with a solution.<00:30:43.760><c>
  • Uh, Judge, welcome to Senate Judiciary and thank you for your service to the state, Senator Smitherman
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 28th, 2026

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • we continue to fix our election system and make it accessible to all.
  • Substitute House Bill 2360, the Secretary will read: An act relating to expanding access to albuterol
  • Therefore, this amendment only serves to cause confusion and stigmatize the services that are meant to
  • When a health care provider doesn't want to provide the abortion services or pregnancy services, this
  • This would be a tremendous benefit to the county, to our schools, to the services that are provided.
Summary: The Senate opened with ceremonial items, then moved through gubernatorial appointments and a series of floor votes. It confirmed Acacia E. Ingram to the Evergreen State College Board of Trustees, Ashland J. Tibbet and David S. Frockt to the Western Washington University Board of Trustees, and Christine Rolfes to the Olympic College Board of Trustees. Members spoke in support of the appointees’ public service and ties to higher education. The chamber also heard a personal privilege statement honoring a Colfax basketball coach who died of pancreatic cancer, followed by a caucus break. The Senate then considered several bills, passing measures on derelict vessels (SHB 2199), radiologic technologist supervision (HB 2113), nitrous oxide retail sales (ESHB 2532), ambulance transport fund alignment (HB 2531), EMT recertification (HB 2540), affordable housing on religious property (2SHB 1859), factory-built housing standards (SHB 2151), social housing public development authorities (EHB 1687), the Washington Voting Rights Act and voter suppression claims (ESSHB 1750), privacy and data protection reporting and AI use (HB 2606), military family school stability (ESHB 2534), coal-fired utility treatment (HB 2367), and school access to albuterol (SHB 2360). Most passed on strong bipartisan roll calls, though the voting-rights bill and coal-utility bill drew the most debate and partisan division. Several bills were amended on the floor. The Senate adopted changes to the nitrous oxide bill, the factory-built housing bill, the social housing bill, the albuterol bill, and the 3D-printer/firearm-manufacturing bill (ESHB 2320), while rejecting some proposed amendments on the voting-rights and 3D-printer bills. Debate centered on whether the voting-rights bill set too low a threshold for lawsuits and whether the coal-utility bill gave improper treatment to coal generation; supporters framed both as needed protections or transition measures, while opponents warned about litigation and policy overreach. The chamber also discussed tribal consultation in energy siting (SHB 2496), ultimately passing it after a close vote, and later returned to the 3D-printer bill, which advanced after amendments narrowed exemptions for gunsmiths and dealers and clarified the bill’s focus on digital files used to manufacture firearms.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Senate in Session Mar 27th, 2025

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The bill to be entitled an act relating to. To utility terrain vehicles.
  • it may be, there is no funding for providers, servicers, or educators that need to be supported and trained
  • to get involved through an earlier process after service takes place, to this new method.
  • TO BE CLEAR, WE DON'T WANT TO ENCOURAGE ANYONE TO RESIST ARREST.
  • TO USE FORCE TO RESIST LAW ENFORCEMENT. WE DON'T WANT TO ENCOURAGE ANYONE TO DO THAT.
Bills: SJR37, SJR57, SCR8, SB8, SB108, SB125, SB251, SB318, SB378, SB379, SB396, SB472, SB487, SB503, SB533, SB565, SB583, SB608, SB650, SB686, SB689, SB707, SB710, SB763, SB854, SB875, SB916, SB924, SB925, SB958, SB961, SB965, SB987, SB988, SB1006, SB1019, SB1021, SB1024, SB1026, SB1038, SB1146, SB1185, SB1194, SB1202, SB1252, SB1253, SB1330, SB1343, SB1362, SB1497, SB1498, SB1499, SB1527, SB1547, SB1596, SB1697, SJR36, SJR12, SJR57, SJR37, SCR22, SCR12, SCR8, SB925, SB1362, SB565, SB765, SB62, SB666, SB707, SB888, SB687, SB847, SB1248, SB504, SB857, SB305, SB296, SB284, SB1497, SB1499, SB1498, SB241, SB304, SB621, SB1023, SB1024, SB686, SB371, SB204, SB609, SB670, SB850, SB854, SB413, SB1346, SB1033, SB1220, SB1073, SB810, SB1539, SB447, SB875, SB406, SB985, SB965, SB1119, SB1505, SB1194, SB1253, SB1215, SB1302, SB856, SB583, SB673, SB681, SB1172, SB1252, SB378, SB608, SB955, SB957, SB988, SB1019, SB1021, SB1120, SB251, SB541, SB379, SB1737, SB266, SB1415, SB1527, SB125, SB599, SB1330, SB53, SB916, SB1352, SB785, SB710, SB472, SB1450, SB1502, SB1566, SB414, SB1062, SB961, SB1038, SB578, SB711, SB746, SB942, SB1404, SB1448, SB1738, SB108, SB8, SB318, SB507, SB533, SB689, SB1026, SB1349, SB1355, SB1433, SB1434, SB1596, SB1403, SB1146, SB763, SB667, SB1059, SB617, SB1567, SB503, SB16, SB310, SB311, SB396, SB505, SB1209, SB1210, SB1470, SB264, SB924, SB1029, SB1185, SB1202, SB1358, SB1364, SB1569, SB1697, SB1376, SB1228, SB519, SB878, SB1350, SB462, SB1535, SB827, SB1585, SB207, SB1207, SB1619, SB1396, SB920, SB1484, SB1273, SB1741, SB7, SB927, SB1227, SB1229, SB1353, SB1366, SB1464, SB1709, SB1729, SB1733, SB1744, SB1772, SB1816, SB1841, SB2188, SB1147, SB879, SB1008, SB378, SB710, SB916, SB1019, SB1146, SB1194, SB1253, SB1499, SB213, SB925, SB1362, SR263, SR311, SR333, SCR8, SB2407, SB2722, SB2949, SB2407, SB2722, SB2949
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Banking and Insurance Committee Feb 4th, 2026

Banking and Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
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  • They need the access to those banks.
  • </c><00:53:49.520><c> dental</c> expands access to necessary dental expands access to necessary dental
  • go to the services that you need.
  • go to the services that you need.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select Aug 5th, 2025

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select

Transcript Highlights:
  • The bill requires campgrounds to make their approved flood disaster plans accessible by posting them.
  • The legislation also requires campgrounds to share their plans with local emergency services, emergency
  • that solicit and accept donations to provide the desired relief services during a declared disaster.
  • Some of the issues that we saw led us to bring in the Department of State Health Services and some of
  • It's fairly distributed, so there's concern about how it is decided who gets access to the resources.
Bills: HB2, HB1, HB18, HB19, HB20, HB1, HB 2, HB18, HB19, HB20
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Public Health Feb 11th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • to a longer date.
  • I'm going to turn the chair over to Representative Newton, and I'm going to present House Bill 4430 and
  • to close.
  • They're ready to start now, but since it's a Class 1 drug, we have to make it available to them to study
  • having to go to Mexico.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Public Health Feb 11th, 2026

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • to.
  • I'd like to go to A and B, and we'll have to discuss it there.
  • If you will come up to the table, to a microphone, and introduce yourself. to the table to a microphone
  • And we as veterans, thousands of veterans across America, have access to this treatment, but they're
  • having to go to Mexico.
Summary: The committee first announced several bills would be laid over because sponsors were absent, then took up House Bill 4423, which would require Medicaid applicants to be legal U.S. citizens. After adopting a PCS, members asked whether Medicaid already had citizenship limits, and the bill passed 4-1. House Bill 3342 followed, revising the Health Care Authority audit process; the sponsor said it was based on an Arkansas model, had no fiscal impact, and was intended to be fairer after prior problems. It passed 5-0. House Bill 3645, allowing physicians or other independent doctors to authorize hospice referral when a patient lacks next of kin or is not coherent, also passed 5-0. House Bill 3647, creating an all-payer claims database through the state HIE for greater transparency in medical costs, passed 5-0 after a question about which entities would be included or excluded. House Bill 3887, which removes the requirement for a physician referral every 30 days for continued physical therapy, drew the most discussion. The sponsor said therapists would refer patients back to a physician if treatment was not helping or was outside their scope, while a member raised concerns about delayed diagnosis and suggested adding a timeline; the sponsor said he would be open to further discussion. The bill passed 4-1. House Bill 4430 extended tort claims protection to certain state-employed providers who work for entities such as FQHCs, and House Bill 4431 did the same for nurse practitioners working for state agencies; both passed 5-0. Later, House Bill 2964 changed medical-record copying language from “shall be charged” to “may be charged,” giving facilities discretion on whether to charge patients for copies of their records; it passed 5-0. Finally, House Bill 3834 was heard for research funding on ibogaine therapy for PTSD and related conditions among veterans, firefighters, and police officers. The sponsor said the goal was to allow Oklahoma research, not to remove the substance from controlled status, and a witness described the treatment as a monitored oral session used in Mexico and supported by some studies. The bill passed 5-0, and the chair adjourned the meeting, noting the laid-over bills would likely be heard the following week.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Elections Apr 30th, 2025

Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • Actually, more accessible to those who need to use that option rather than imposing additional burdens
  • It’s to allow people who cannot physically enter the polling place to access their legitimate right to
  • Our members are committed to helping curbside voters and want to help all voters who need this service
  • Ensuring that people have access to vote and that it doesn't impede on their right to participate in
  • Approximately 30% were related to disability access issues.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Elections Apr 30th, 2025

Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • We'd like to offer several suggestions to enhance this bill.
  • pay the fees to the Secretary of State or county, or to pay filing fees directly to their political
  • is to keep them... money there to help them put on their process the way we use our money to put on
  • You have to be there to be chosen as a delegate.
  • to be required to play the same game.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Delivery of Government Efficiency Apr 9th, 2025

Delivery of Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • Okay to make it difficult for the public to be able to access that information releasing data in its
  • Format accessibility needs to be clearly addressed in the Texas Public Information Act to aid governmental
  • service subject to disclosure.
  • We want that information to be accessible.
  • they could go and get access to how that dollars are being spent.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Higher Education Apr 8th, 2025

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • shared coursework to expand credential access for students.
  • Members, this bill relates to student access to certain academic records, authorizing a fee.
  • Every student doesn't have the same access to resources, but when you do have access to those resources
  • I want the counselor to have the exact same access to say her document. as the parent might.
  • a path for them to do that through Applied Texas or... to access the credentials to a community college
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Higher Education Apr 8th, 2025

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • At the federal level, laws have been made to make it easier to qualify for qualified public service to
  • Access to health care, particularly access to a primary care physician, should not be aspirational.
  • to access any existing programs.
  • But to circle back to the women's service.
  • a very valuable service to these communities.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Finance and Taxation General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Department of Corrections and Youth Services can handle that and report that way we don't have to
  • At companies with fewer than 10 employees, 78% of staffers lack access to a retirement plan, according
  • So, I'm going to have to be...
  • I told you, not even half of employers have access to a retirement plan.
  • Again, I want you to understand that we're in crisis. People do not have access. Crisis.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 15th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Resolution by Representative Hilferty to commend Robert Bob Smith Lupo for his service to Lakeview
  • House Resolution 138 by Representative Hilferty to commend Martin Landrieu for service to the Lakeview
  • House Resolution 145 by Representative Marcel to commend Carolyn Hill for her service to East Baton Rouge
  • It provides relative to points awarded to veterans in competitive fire and police civil service employment
  • It is about redirecting these individuals to services.
Summary: The House convened with a quorum, opened in prayer, and led the pledge. The bulk of the early portion of the meeting consisted of personal privileges and recognitions, including ARC Appreciation Day, Teach for America, Film Louisiana, the Child Care Association of Louisiana, Textron Systems, Iberville Parish Day, AARP Louisiana Family Caregiver Day, and several visiting groups and honorees. The chamber also received Senate messages, enrolled and introduced resolutions, and referred a number of Senate bills to committee. The House then took up a long series of bills, many of them local or technical measures, with most passing by wide margins. Among the bills adopted were measures on municipal and teachers’ retirement systems, retired clerk insurance funds, fire and police civil service, a local Cameron Parish insurance program, specialty courts, jury bond filing by paper check, non-compete limits for interns and apprentices, a memorial bridge naming for Lance Cpl. Justin D. McLeese, veteran points in civil service exams, provisional fire/police appointments, special masters in complex litigation, judicial and court-cost funding measures, aerial applicator safety rules, cell-cultured food labeling, wine and spirits container standards, nonprofit eligibility to appoint economic development commissioners, a homeless diversion pilot program in Orleans, animal shelter standards, a Fort Oge police chief appointment change, retirement benefit calculations for divorced firefighters, an alcohol-permit moratorium in Shreveport, waste-collection contract renewal authority, and a backdrop retirement option for certain judges. There was one notable defeat: House Bill 444, which would have added legislative seats to the East Baton Rouge Recreation and Park Commission, failed on a 37-49 vote after debate over whether legislators should appoint themselves to the board and whether the proposal had adequate stakeholder support. House Bill 284 on expropriation also failed earlier by a 48-47 vote and was returned to the calendar. Several other measures were temporarily returned to the calendar or held over, and some bills were referred or received amendments before final passage. Most final votes were unanimous or near-unanimous, and the House repeatedly adopted titles and motions to table after passage.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 15th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Resolution by Representative Hilferty to commend Al Petrie for his service to the Lakeview Civic
  • House Resolution 140 by representative Hilfriety to commend Freddie for more than 30 years to service
  • House Resolution 145 by Representative Marcelle to commend Carolyn Hill for her service to East Baton
  • It is about redirecting these individuals to services.
  • The bill appears to create Thank you. to access the homeless court program.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 3/25/25

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:13:48.160><c> of</c> services to victims and survivors of services to victims and survivors of
  • We need to do something different if we want to change the trajectory of crime victim services.
  • services to our clients instead of the emergency approach currently undertaken due to limited funding
  • </c> Administration and auditing have access Administration and auditing have access to<00:35:19.599>
  • </c><01:42:53.239><c> access</c><01:42:53.480><c> to</c> have quick and easy access access to have quick