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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Apr 7th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Haven't received seven aye and zero nays that declare House Bill 3972 has advanced. Thank you, Mr.
  • Henry sees seven ayes and zero nays that declare House Bill 3264 to have advanced. Thank you.
  • Henry received seven ayes and zero nays that declare House Bill 265 to have advanced.
  • And received seven ayes and zero nays that declare House Bill 3497 to have advanced.
  • Having received seven ayes and zero nays, I declare House Bill 4421 to have advanced.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Declare the vote.
  • Declare the vote. Thank you. Declare the vote.
  • Declare the vote. 25 yeas, zero nays.
  • Declare the vote. Declare the vote. With 23 aye and 2 nay, we'll report that out with the due pass.
  • Declare the vote. All right. Declare the vote: 23 aye, one nay.
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Feb 23rd, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I declare the bill to be advanced.
  • I declare the bill to be advanced.
  • I declare the bill to be advanced.
  • I declare the bill to be advanced.
  • Having received 34 'ayes' and 13 'nays', I declare Senate Bill 2143 to have passed.
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education 3RD REVISED Feb 24th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Having received 11 ayes and zero nays, I declare Senate Bill 1632 to have passed.
  • Having received 10 ayes and zero nays, I declare Senate Bill 1262 to have passed.
  • Having received nine ayes and zero nays, I declare Senate Bill 1292 to have passed.
  • Having received seven ayes and two nays, I declare Senate Bill 179 to have passed.
  • I declare Senate Bill 1437 to have passed.
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee Feb 16th, 2026 at 10:00 am

A&B Education Subcommittee

Transcript Highlights:
  • Declare the vote: nine aye, one nay.
  • Declare the vote. Mr.
  • Declare the vote. ...here. Members wishing to vote or change your vote? Declare the vote.
  • Declare the vote. Close the vote. Declare the vote.
  • Declare the vote. Close the vote. Declare the vote.
Keywords: 914, all
MD

Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session, 4/13/2026 #2

Maryland Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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Summary: The Senate reconvened with a quorum and first honored Nancy Crawford with a resolution recognizing her 46 years of state service, including 20 years as Senator Pam Beidle’s chief of staff. Senator Beidle then spoke at length about her own retirement plans and public service, reflecting on her career in the House and Senate, her work on the Finance Committee, and thanking her staff and colleagues. The chamber unanimously journalized the remarks. The Senate then moved into business on House and Senate messages, including House Bill 139 and Senate Bill 311, and adopted a conference committee report on House Bill 1532, the Utility Relief/Reducing Energy Load for Inflation measure. The report was described as a broad energy and utility package that had already passed the Senate 38-4 and was said to address short-, medium-, and long-term issues, including rate relief, in-state generation, data center policy, consumer transparency, and low-income utility assistance. During debate on the conference report, the majority leader explained several changes from prior versions: no legislative ban on forecast test years, instead deferring to the Public Service Commission; removal of gas programs from Empower to avoid inequities across service territories; modest opening of the retail supply market with guardrails; and rejection of some floor amendments, including a gas line extension provision and a study amendment. The minority leader argued the bill offered only limited relief, focused too much on talking points and short-term savings, and said many bipartisan amendments were not retained. The majority leader responded that the bill would save ratepayers real dollars through provisions on utility adders, executive bonuses, FERC-related returns, and new generation, and urged adoption of the conference report.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Legislative Session Day 11 (1-21-26)

Kentucky House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Being 94 members indicating their presence, a quorum is declared in the House.
  • <00:07:24.800> an working group and declaring an working group and declaring an emergency.
  • House Bill 280, an act relating to health care and declaring an emergency.
  • therefore, and declaring an emergency. therefore, and declaring an emergency.
  • to individual income tax and declaring to individual income tax and declaring an<00:30:30.559>
Summary: The House convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, established a quorum, excused absent members, and approved the journal. The Senate then communicated passage of Senate Bills 10 and 28 and requested concurrence. The House also received second-reading reports for several bills, including measures on custody, human sexuality instruction in schools, tax increment financing, death benefits, postsecondary education, and disabled veterans, along with committee reports advancing bills on agriculture, criminal trespass, concealed firearms, human trafficking, sexual performance material involving minors, reading and writing in schools, and educators. The chamber then took up and passed three health-related bills. House Bill 176, on prior authorization, was explained as a bipartisan effort to reduce insurance-related delays and bureaucracy in patient care; it passed 90-1. House Bill 178, on the psychiatric collaborative care model, was presented as a budget-neutral way to expand timely mental health access through primary care settings; it passed unanimously, 93-0. House Bill 280, a Kentucky Board of Nursing cleanup bill and school rescue-medication update, was amended by House Committee Substitute 1 to restore language allowing investigations involving abuse and to update school medication provisions; the substitute and the bill as amended both passed 94-0. House Resolution 35, recognizing January 21, 2026 as Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Day in Kentucky, was introduced, taken from committee, and adopted. During announcements, members noted upcoming committee meetings and events, including a reception for highway contractors and related groups, and several committee cancellations. One member also spoke about a catastrophic fire in Williamsburg, asking for prayers for the community and first responders. The Committee on Committees and Rules then reported referrals for numerous newly introduced bills to standing committees and made changes to the 2026 Committee on Impeachment, removing Representatives Marzian and Donworth and appointing Representatives Watkins and Gentry. The House then adjourned until 2:00 p.m. Thursday, January 22, 2026.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Legislative Session Day 1 (1-6-26)

Kentucky House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 19, an act relating to school district employees and declaring an emergency.
  • and declaring an emergency. and declaring an emergency. Representative<00:29:00.320> Burke.
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Summary: The Kentucky House convened for the opening of the 2026 regular session, with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, roll call, and a declared quorum of 100 members present. The House then excused absent members and suspended the rules to allow co-sponsorships and vote modifications to be filed. It also elected House staff constitutional officers by acclamation, including the chief clerk, deputy clerk, sergeant at arms, chief doorkeeper, enrolling clerk, cloakroom keeper, and janitor, followed by the oath of office. Members introduced and adopted House Resolutions 1, 2, and 3. House Resolution 1 established the 2026 House membership. House Resolution 2 adopted the House rules for the session, with changes reflecting the new temporary building, removal of COVID-related provisions, elimination of remote and alternative voting, shortening motions/petitions/communications time from 30 to 15 minutes, deleting guest introductions and gallery references, requiring only one signed jacketed bill copy, clarifying billbook co-sponsorship procedures, deleting consent orders and pairing rules, and updating chamber-access and lobbying restrictions. Some members objected that the changes reduced transparency and public access, and one member asked that the 15-minute limit be kept at 30 minutes, but the resolution was adopted. House Resolution 3 invited pastors of Frankfurt churches to open sessions with prayer; one member asked that it be broadened to include people of all faiths and beyond Franklin County, but it was also adopted. The House then reported interim communications, including citizen impeachment petitions filed against Supreme Court Justice Pamela Goodwine and Ballard County Jailer Eric Cppus. Members were reminded of a mandatory ethics meeting the next day. The clerk reported the first batch of filed bills and resolutions, including House Bill 11 on independent school districts and House Bills 12 through 34 on topics such as legislative privacy, income tax, rural hospital funding, Medicaid and Medicaid expansion, school employee payments, firearms, reproductive health and privacy, employment schedules, cancer treatment coverage, workers’ compensation for first responders, savings accounts, education opportunity accounts, leave from employment, criminal procedure, home purchases, FNF devices, data privacy, and death benefits, along with House Resolutions 4 through 6. The House then adjourned until 2 p.m. on January 7, 2026.
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session - Session 2 - 41st Legislative Day Jun 25th, 2026

Delaware Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Vitola is declared confirmed in the Senate. The nomination of Christy N.
  • Vitola is declared confirmed in the Senate. Congratulations, Your Honor.
  • House Bill No. 89, with House Amendment 1, is declared passed by the Senate.
  • House bill 381 is declared passed to Senate. Senator Townsend. Thank you, Madam President.
  • Having received its required majority vote, HCR 152 is declared passed in the Senate.
Summary: The Senate reconvened, received House communications and committee reports, and then took up several bills and a resolution. Committee reports covered measures on composting, volunteer background checks, campaign finance, the Delaware John Lewis Voting Rights Act, publication of Public Integrity Commission reports, Cheswold’s territorial limits, child support, alcohol and marijuana, salary supplements, certified registered nurse anesthetists, land use, school taxes, and a constitutional elections amendment. House Bill 344 and House Bill 444 were referred to the Senate Finance Committee. The Senate also confirmed the nomination of Christy N. Vitola as Commissioner of the Family Court by a 21-0 vote. The chamber then recognized several fellows and Girls’ State delegates, with tributes to the Legislative Fellows Program and the Communications Fellowship, followed by House Concurrent Resolution 152 honoring the 2026 Delaware Girls’ State participants. The resolution passed unanimously. Senators and guests spoke about the civic value of the program and introduced the Girls’ State leadership team and delegates. On legislation, the Senate passed House Bill 89, creating a dispute-resolution process for home improvement fraud and strengthening consumer protection enforcement; House Bill 381, requiring notice to the Attorney General of computer security breaches; House Substitute 1 for House Bill 407, making technical and penalty updates to the Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act; House Substitute 1 for House Bill 150, limiting civil arrests at courthouses and Industrial Accident Board offices; and House Substitute 2 for House Bill 94, restricting state and local participation in civil immigration enforcement at sensitive locations such as schools, houses of worship, and health care facilities, with emergency exceptions and reporting requirements. The Senate also began consideration of House Substitute 1 for House Bill 368, which would limit use of state and local resources for federal civil immigration enforcement while preserving exceptions for serious offenses and judicial warrants, but the transcript cuts off before final action on that bill.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Elections Apr 17th, 2025

Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • If a candidate violates this rule, they will be declared ineligible for the general primary election
  • A military ID, a citizen certificate, or they may sign a declaration of Reasonable impediment, a DRI,
  • This bill requires the registrar to note in the voter's file each time a declaration is used.
  • After a voter uses a declaration.
  • And then one of the valid reasons for reasonable impediment declaration is if you lost your ID.
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Mar 3rd, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Commerce & Economic Development Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • Declare the vote. If 1 nay, we will declare your bill out of committee.
  • Preparing to close, declare the vote. If 1 nay, we would declare your bill out of committee.
  • Preparing to close, declare the vote. If 1 nay, we would declare your bill out of committee.
  • Preparing to close, declare the vote. 16 ayes, 1 nay. We will declare your bill out of committee.
  • We will declare your bill out of committee. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, members.
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Business and Insurance 2ND REVISED Feb 19th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Business and Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Having received seven yeses and two noes, I declare Senate Bill 1287 has passed.
  • Having received nine yeses and zero noes, I declare Senate Bill 1061 to have passed.
  • Having received nine ayes and zero nays, I declare Senate Bill 1916 to have passed.
  • I declare Senate Bill 1589 to have passed. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
  • Having received nine ayes and zero nays, I declare Senate Bill 2178 to have passed.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Jan 26th, 2026 at 11:12 am

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Providing protest procedures and procedures to claim the exemption and declaring an emergency.
  • Act, creating the Environmental Product Declaration Program, enabling the Department of Environment
  • to receive and analyze environmental product declarations, creating the Environmental Product Declaration
  • Act, creating the Environmental Product Declaration Program, enabling the Department of Environment
  • to receive and analyze environmental product declarations, creating the Environmental Product Declaration
Keywords: 996, all
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session - Session 2 - 42nd Legislative Day Jun 30th, 2026 at 02:00 pm

Delaware Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Joint Resolution No. 22 is declared passed by the Senate. Senator Townsend.
  • House Bill No. 133 with House Amendment 4 is declared passed by the Senate.
  • House Substitute 2 for House Bill 218 is declared passed to the Senate.
  • Consent Agenda U is declared passed by the Senate. Senator Townsend. Senator Townsend.
  • House Bill 75 with Senate Amendment 3 is declared passed by the Senate. Senator Townsend.
Keywords: 1064, all
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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Summary: The committee held a joint hearing recognizing the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and focusing on civic education, free speech, voting, and Minnesota’s America 250 commemorations. Opening remarks emphasized the importance of education, Indigenous land acknowledgement, and the idea that democracy depends on informed and engaged citizens. The chair then invited student debaters from the Minnesota High School League to testify about how debate, free speech, and evidence-based reasoning have shaped their education and civic participation. The students argued that debate teaches critical thinking, helps young people engage with difficult issues, and should be protected as part of a healthy democracy; one also urged lawmakers to move beyond empty promises and take action on issues such as eviction moratoriums, ICE collaboration, and protest protections. Commissioner Willie Jett of the Minnesota Department of Education testified that public education is where citizenship first becomes real, and that schools, libraries, and educators help students learn to listen, question, debate respectfully, and understand both the ideals and failures of American history. He said democracy is something each generation must learn and strengthen, and thanked the committee for convening the hearing. Former students Sarah Griffin and Charlie Crocker then offered tributes to Senator Swedzinski, describing how his teaching encouraged civic engagement, disagreement, and action, and how his classroom shaped their lives and public service. Their remarks emphasized that democracy is not a spectator sport and that ordinary people build it through small, courageous acts. Secretary of State Steve Simon followed with testimony on Minnesota’s civic culture and voter participation. He said Minnesota has long ranked near the top nationally in voter turnout, including youth turnout, and attributed that to a combination of good election laws and a strong pro-voting culture. He highlighted school-based civic education efforts such as pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds and the Students Vote mock election program, and noted that Minnesota’s congressional delegation was unanimous in supporting the Voting Rights Act in 1965 as an example of the state coming together on major moral questions. The Minnesota Historical Society then began its presentation on America 250, with Kent Whitworth describing the organization’s role, the new edition of the Northern Lights curriculum, and broader commemorative activities; Dr. Bill Convery introduced historical context about how Americans have celebrated independence and how the semiquincentennial can leave a legacy for future generations.
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session - Session 2 - 39th Legislative Day Jun 23rd, 2026

Delaware Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • With House Amendment 1, House Bill 300 is declared passed in the Senate.
  • The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we bring forth this bill.
  • The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we bring forth this bill.
  • House Bill 63 with House Amendment 1 is declared passed by the Senate.
  • House Amendment 1 is declared passed. Senator Townsend: Thank you, Madam President.
Summary: The Senate received House communications listing numerous House-passed bills, substitutes, amendments, and concurrent resolutions, and then took up committee reports and a consent calendar. Consent Calendar 65 passed unanimously with 20 yes votes and included Senate Resolution 26 recognizing Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, House Concurrent Resolution 131 on apprenticeship programs for school-based mental health professionals, House Concurrent Resolution 137 on mathematics instruction review, and House Concurrent Resolution 148 on a statewide menopause education strategy. Later, Consent Agenda N also passed with the required two-thirds vote and included a large group of bills on evidence and witnesses, Family Court jurisdiction, theft by impersonation, realty transfer tax, auto insurance practices, child services and educational services, STD prevention, agricultural and forestry matters, menstrual disorder materials, a Smyrna charter change, massage/body work, dry needling, and lead poisoning screening. Several substantive bills were debated and passed. Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 314, modernizing Delaware’s rape shield law and clarifying how courts handle evidence of prior false sexual assault allegations, passed 21-0. Senate Bill 347, a cleanup bill to the Medical Debt Protection Act that expands prohibited collection actions and requires disclosure when a collector is a large health care facility, also passed 21-0. House Bill 300, creating a statewide Title IX coordinator in the Department of Education to support compliance and data collection for interscholastic athletics, passed after debate; Senate Amendment 1 to the bill, which would have required athletes to compete according to biological sex, was defeated 6-14 with one absent, and the underlying bill then passed 20-0 with one absent. The Senate also passed House Substitute 1 for House Bill 84, which limits mandatory employee attendance at meetings where employers convey political or religious views, after questions about employer, union, and exemption coverage; House Substitute 1 for House Bill 301, which clarifies criminal penalties for violence, threats, and intimidation at polling places and election-related sites, passed after discussion of what conduct it would cover; House Bill 63, addressing fireworks disclosures and related regulation, passed 19-2 after senators discussed enforcement and impacts on veterans, children, and pets; and House Bill 348, updating the electric vehicle rebate program to give DENREC more flexibility and expand eligibility, passed 16-5. The chamber then recessed until the next day.
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Retirement and Government Resources REVISED Feb 17th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Retirement and Government Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • I declare Senate Bill 1722 passed. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you.
  • They declare Senate Bill 1639 to have passed. Mr.
  • They declare Senate Bill 1639 to have passed. Mr.
  • I declare the same to have passed.
  • I declare the same to have Passed. Senator Paxton, thank you. Thank you, Mr.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • I close the queue and declare the vote with 11 yes, zero nays.
  • The queues declare the vote. The 11 eyes zero nay. I declare your bill to a passer. Thank you.
  • Let us close the queue, declare the vote. With 9 in favor, I declare your bill to have passed.
  • I declare your bill to have passed.
  • With 10-1-8, I declare your bill to be passed.
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 2nd, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I declare the bill to be advanced.
  • I declare the bill to be advanced.
  • I declare the bill to have passed. Mr. Leader, Thank you, Mr. President.
  • I declare the bill to have been advanced.
  • I declare the bill to be advanced.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Legislative Session Day 5 (1-12-26)

Kentucky House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • There being 95 members present, quorum is declared.
  • House Joint Resolution 25, a joint resolution declaring Kentucky a food as medicine state and directing
  • House Joint Resolution 25, a joint resolution declaring Kentucky a food as medicine state and directing
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Summary: The House convened with an invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance, then established a quorum with 95 members present. The journal from Friday, January 9, 2026 was approved, absent members were excused, and House Resolution 21 was taken from the Committee on Committees and brought to the floor without objection. Several committee and meeting announcements were made, including cancellations for various standing committees and notices that the Government Contract Review Committee and Oversight Investigation Committee would meet upon adjournment. The House also adopted House Citation 4, a citation of adjournment honoring Bill Nickel, with remarks describing him as a respected community member and friend. After the citation, members continued making committee announcements, including that the House Budget Review Subcommittee on Personnel, Public Retirement, and Finance would meet at noon the next day. The clerk then reported the introduction of numerous new bills and resolutions, covering topics such as grand jury service, criminal trespass, postsecondary admission and funding, sex crimes, cultured meat products, railroad crossings, firearms and concealed weapons, property tax exemptions, name/image/likeness rights, landlords and tenants, child care, child welfare investigations, government social media accounts, peace officer training, economic development incentives, residential safety, pre-trial release, and several resolutions on highways, property taxation, Medicaid waiver withdrawal, and food-as-medicine initiatives. The Committee on Committees and Rules met and referred House Bills 164, 176, 184, and 265 to Banking and Insurance, and the House adjourned without objection until 2 p.m. Tuesday, January 13, 2026.