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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 16th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • that fund.
  • Yes, it's on top of the roads fund, the state transportation fund, retro funds, and the Lake Industrial
  • Access funds.
  • Section 22 states that 250,000 Appropriated funds will be transferred to the Public Safety Technology
  • $5 million in private matching funds. funds.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 16th, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Of that fund.
  • Yes, it’s on top of the roads fund, the state transportation fund, retro funds, and the Lake Industrial
  • Access funds.
  • Section 22 states that $250,000 of the appropriated funds will be transferred to the Public Safety Technology
  • to this new fund.
Summary: The Senate opened with roll call, prayer, and several gallery introductions recognizing guests and honorees, including the Medford Cardinals football team for their academic and athletic success, Guthrie Day, the Oscar J. Upham post office designation, the OKC Spark professional softball team, the Elks organization, and the YMCA’s 175th anniversary. Senators also welcomed a new intern and acknowledged Senator Carl McDowell’s return to the chamber. Most of the early floor time was devoted to ceremonial citations and concurrent resolutions, all of which were adopted without recorded opposition. The chamber then moved through a series of Joint Committee Reports and third-reading votes on appropriations and related measures. HB 4031 reauthorized $41 million for previously approved ODAA projects and passed 36-8, declared an emergency. HB 4032 redirected industry fees to the Department of Mines and passed 34-11, emergency. HB 4034 appropriated $142,137 for salary increases for certified shorthand reporters and passed 45-0, emergency. HB 4036 transferred $5 million from the Film and Oklahoma revolving fund to a new sitcom-related revolving fund and passed 30-15. HB 4037 raised the Ethics Commission Fund retention cap from $150,000 to $250,000 and passed 45-0, emergency. Several transportation, health, and public safety measures also advanced. HB 4038 moved $5 million for the eight-year road plan and additional project funding, passing 28-17 and then as an emergency measure after vote changes. HB 4040 set up cash-flow funds for the State Department of Health’s $223 million federal award and passed 45-0, emergency. HB 4041 appropriated $2.25 million to the Attorney General, including $2 million for a trafficking victim pilot program and $250,000 for a public safety technology fund, and passed as an emergency. HB 4042 appropriated $500,000 for the Commerce census revolving fund and passed 35-9. HB 4043 transferred $1 million to Emergency Management for Oklahoma Task Force 1 and passed 44-0, emergency. The most extended debate centered on HB 4045 and HB 4046, which expanded and funded the Military Readiness, Innovation, Education, and Aviation program. Supporters said the measures would help military bases, schools, infrastructure, simulation training, and defense-related economic development; critics questioned the broad language, lack of detail, and whether the projects fit a broader strategy. HB 4045 passed 37-7 and HB 4046 passed 39-7, both as emergency measures. HB 4047 funded Commerce projects including housing for aged-out foster youth, the State Fair, a university upgrade, and a COG-related economic development request; it passed 30-16 and then 40-6 as an emergency. HB 4048 appropriated $13 million for transportation infrastructure, drew criticism for bypassing the eight-year plan, and passed 36-10 before being declared an emergency. Finally, HB 4030, the Education Budget Limits Bill, was explained in detail, including $43.75 million for the Strong Readers formula, $5 million for literacy coaches, and $5 million for a charter school revolving loan fund; after questions about bonds, charter schools, and the revolving fund, it passed 39-5 and was declared an emergency measure.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • It is a temporary fund that would be returned to the state once the bill sunsets.
  • Any requests for additional funding? Not related to that specific MOU that I'm aware of.
  • We funded a navigation study with San Jacinto Maritime College, setting up the model.
  • We need the help of the state and state funding.
  • The monies from that are going to go into the recycling refund trust fund.
Bills: SB410 , SB795 , SB2510 , SB728 , SB2689 , HB143 , HB143
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Transportation, Highways and Public Works Mar 16th, 2026

Transportation, Highways & Public Works

Transcript Highlights:
  • . ...things, starting with safety factors first.
  • working brakes and safety chains, if recommended, by... ...having working brakes and safety chains,
  • Also, if they do have safety chains, again, that's a secondary safety device that can be used.
  • DeWitt looking at the issues of safety.
  • I see you've got that big safety pin.
Summary: The House Transportation Committee met on March 16 with a quorum present and first deferred three local bills at the sponsor’s request: HB 590, HB 679, and HB 873. The committee then advanced HB 503, which cleans up prior local language for Golden Meadow by removing a reference to electric golf carts and updating the definition of utility terrain vehicles; the technical amendment set was adopted and the bill was reported with amendments. HB 720, dealing with tacit dedication of roads and preserving historic public access to waterways and related access points, was reported favorably after members agreed to continue working on the amendment language before floor debate. The committee spent substantial time on HB 309, which originally made it a crime to walk in a crosswalk while looking at a cell phone. After amendments converted the proposal to a $25 civil fine and added a rebuttable presumption of liability for damages, members from both parties raised concerns about enforceability, tourism and urban pedestrian patterns, free-will and overreach arguments, and the lack of data tying the conduct specifically to crosswalk crashes. The author argued the measure was intended to promote situational awareness and reduce pedestrian injuries and fatalities, but after opposition testimony the bill was voluntarily deferred. Members then reported HB 856, which expands DOTD’s use of indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity construction contracting and adds the Office of Louisiana Highway Construction, after technical amendments clarified the contracts are for construction-phase work. HB 487, increasing penalties for drivers who use shoulders or turning lanes to bypass red lights, was reported with a technical correction after police support testimony. HB 846, prohibiting license plate coverings or films that obscure plates, was reported favorably after law enforcement support and discussion of clear frames versus obscuring covers. HB 733 and HB 875, both tied to OMV fee and lapse-of-insurance recommendations from the Legislative Auditor, were reported with amendments adjusting grace periods and offense timing. The committee also took up HB 695 on consensual non-commercial towing permits. After extensive questioning about whether the bill applied to multiple vehicles, interstate travel, OMV implementation, and the practicality of an honor-system QR code permit, the sponsor agreed to amend the bill to cover multiple vehicles and then voluntarily defer it for further work with OMV and State Police. HB 777, requiring a driver’s license renewal knowledge exam, was amended at the department’s request and then voluntarily deferred for further review. HB 868, prompted by a fatal trailer accident involving a farmer’s wife, would require trailers to meet safety-chain and braking standards consistent with manufacturer specifications or federal standards; after concerns from members and the Agriculture Commissioner about impacts on older farm equipment, the bill was reported with amendments. Finally, HB 707 moved the LPG Commission’s marketing functions to the Department of Agriculture and Forestry and was reported with a technical amendment, HB 693 on legislative district highway signs was voluntarily deferred after amendments, and HB 746 on local oversized trucking permits opened a broader discussion about parish-by-parish permit disparities, with the sponsor proposing a one-year moratorium on new local standards while stakeholders work toward a more uniform system.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 13th, 2026 at 05:31 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • We are on a prior year funding cycle, so that happens all the time. But again, Your funding cycle.
  • We are presenting House Bill 255, which streamlines separate public safety workforce funding by consolidating
  • existing funds into one unified public safety workforce capacity building fund.
  • Just wanted to thank the legislature's continued support for public safety and funding public safety
  • Previous public safety funding bills, there is a far greater need than what we were able to fill.
Bills: HB253 , HB153 , HB255 , HB287 , HB371 , SB151 , HB8 , SB177
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 13th, 2026

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • When do you anticipate doing the bill for the university fund? I don't know, we'll see.
Bills: HB253 , HB153 , HB255 , HB287 , HB371 , SB151 , HB8 , SB177
Summary: The committee first corrected its action on Senate Bill 151, noting that the earlier motion had been made incorrectly after the committee substitute was amended. Members then moved to do not pass the Senate Finance Committee substitute and do pass the same committee substitute so it could be sent to the floor. The only change identified in the substitute was an adjustment to the sunset date. A roll call vote followed, with several members voting yes and a few voting no or being excused, and the motion to report the committee substitute out with a due pass recommendation carried. After the SB 151 vote, the chair said the committee was essentially finished and expected to meet on the floor the next day, likely around noon, with a plan to come in earlier and handle a few more bills. The discussion then shifted to House Bill 2 and the broader issue of state employee compensation. One member argued that over the past several years the state had already provided substantial pay raises and benefits, citing roughly $1.3 billion in raises, about $184 million annually for health care costs, and $116 million annually for employer pension costs, for a total of about $1.6 billion over four years. That member said the state had done enough on employee compensation and that a proposed 1% increase did not make sense given competing priorities such as child care and other needs. The committee then adjourned, and there was a brief question about when the university fund bill would be heard, but no firm timing was given.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

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

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Bill before and with a growing population and growing safety concerns, Senate Bill 2143 will allow assessors
  • to use existing state-funded aerial images taken by fixed-wing piloted aircraft.
  • President, members, Public Safety will meet at 9:00 hours, room 230, tomorrow morning, Tuesday morning
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Feb 23rd, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We've seen this bill before, and with a growing population and growing safety concerns, Senate Bill 2143
  • will allow assessors to use existing state-funded, fixed-wing piloted aircraft aerial images to visually
  • Members, Public Safety will meet immediately after session. Thank you, Mr. President.
  • Members, Public Safety will meet immediately after session. Thank you, Mr. President.
  • Members, Public Safety will meet at 0900 hours, 0900, in Room 230 tomorrow morning, Tuesday morning.
Summary: The Senate convened, established a quorum, and opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including introductions of the psychologist and nurse of the day, a citation for Diesel Fritz’s All-State Choir achievement, and a gallery introduction highlighting fine arts advocates from Norman Public Schools. Members also marked birthdays and read excerpts from George Washington’s first inaugural address in honor of the first president. On floor business, the Senate laid over item number three and then considered several bills. Senate Bill 1191 repealed the unused Oklahoma Energy Initiative Low Carbon Initiative Board and passed 48-0. Senate Bill 1258 clarified open-carry law to expressly allow firearms on boats and vessels on Oklahoma waters and passed 41-7. Senate Bill 1920 raised the salvaged title threshold from 60% to 70% to reflect repair costs and align more closely with neighboring states; it passed 48-0 after brief questioning about consumer benefits. Senate Bill 1936 added falsely impersonating a law enforcement officer, including federal officers, to the list of Class D1 felonies and passed 48-0. Senate Bill 2143, after an amendment restoring the title, authorized assessors to use state-funded aerial images to inspect property changes and included language intended to ensure fair treatment of builders and consistency with assessing standards; it passed 34-13. The chamber then heard announcements about upcoming committee meetings and adjourned until Tuesday, February 24, 2026, at 1:30 p.m.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Leg Committee Meeting - 2025-04-09

Legacy Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you turn to the fourth page, you'll see the clean water fund, and the clean water fund is largely
  • Fund.
  • . fund.
  • The DE1 amendment would shift funding to the Parks and Trails Fund, which presents a number of challenges
  • It's tough for us to fund everybody.
Bills: HF2563
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Legacy Finance Committee 4/9/25

Legacy Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is the Parks and Trails Fund.
  • This is the Parks and Trails Fund.
  • Uh in of those each of those funds.
  • Fund.
  • funding for can reconsider the funding for children's<00:35:32.960><c> museums</c><00:35:33.760><c>
Bills: HF2563
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Children, Youth and Family Services REVISED: HB3637 - Added Feb 18th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Children, Youth and Family Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • And then, in terms of increasing funding, you know, what we're really, we're really, we're...
  • And then in terms of increasing funding, you know, we're made up of 101 members.
  • health safety in homeless shelters.
  • It is to set minimum standards for very specific things: transparency, public safety, and health safety
  • Public safety and health safety. So those three areas.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Children, Youth and Family Services REVISED: HB3637 - Added Feb 18th, 2026

Children, Youth and Family Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • I wanted to make sure that we protected all of our DHS funding we get federally, and so I worked with
  • And then in terms of increasing funding, you know, what we're really...
  • And then in terms of increasing funding, you know, we're made up of 101 members.
  • health safety in homeless shelters.
  • It is to set minimum standards for very specific things: transparency, public safety, and health safety
Summary: The committee first considered House Bill 3552, which would let child care providers bridge the gap between subsidy reimbursement rates and tuition rates. An amendment was adopted unanimously to make the bill subject to approval by the Administration for Children and Families, with the author explaining it was intended to protect federal DHS funding. The bill then passed on a 4-1 vote. Members then heard several child welfare and human services measures. House Bill 3380, on foster care reform and DHS transparency, passed 5-0 after questions about how public input and scoring would be documented. House Bill 3502, the parental rights and child welfare bill, passed 4-1 after debate over whether the bill addressed a real problem and whether resources would be better spent recruiting foster parents. House Bill 3849, updating and broadening a mentoring program for children and youth, passed 5-0, and House Bill 3886, requiring Health Department personnel to remain on site after an immediate jeopardy finding at a nursing home until a removal plan is accepted, also passed 5-0. The committee also approved House Bill 3907, which would prohibit certain facilities serving vulnerable juveniles and adults from being staffed through temporary staffing agencies, on a 5-0 vote. House Bill 4201, changing master teacher requirements in licensed child care from license capacity to actual enrollment, passed unanimously after discussion of how staffing ratios would work in practice. House Bill 4302, as amended, passed unanimously after removing subpoena language and instead allowing the Office of Juvenile System Oversight to disclose a complainant’s identity to law enforcement when needed to protect safety. House Bill 3448, requiring umbrella insurance coverage for certain child care caregivers, and House Bill 3409, streamlining recertification for five-star child care providers, both passed unanimously. House Bill 4095, reauthorizing and clarifying the 211 collaborative as the state lead entity for hotline services, also passed 6-0. The most extensive debate came on House Bill 3131, which would establish statewide baseline standards for transparency, public safety, and health safety in homeless shelters and create an advisory board. Members raised concerns about local control, rural county burdens, agency workload, and whether the bill duplicated existing requirements, while the author said he was open to further changes, including strike title and possible population-based exceptions. Despite objections, the bill advanced to the Oversight Committee on a 4-3 vote. Before adjournment, the chair said the committee would begin a deeper review of OCCY multidisciplinary teams and CAC child advocacy groups in upcoming meetings.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • of monies from the fund.
  • Uh, they have this advanced tech fund.
  • The next $500,000 general fund.
  • ,</c> receiving those fun those federal funds, receiving those fun those federal funds, the<00:16:52.000
  • And every year we have committed general fund dollars in a separate line item to fund that commission
Bills: HB304 , HB285 , HB312 , HB311 , SB60 , HB304 , HB285 , HB312 , HB311 , SB60
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/02/2026 - Senate Finance

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • for how the state government funds all its operations.
  • And do you... ...of funds for how the state government funds all its operations.
  • And so there the agency... ...fund operations while still keeping it as low as we can.
  • But really the bigger issue is why can't we fund government?
  • where we were one of many investors in that investment fund.
Committee: Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • unanimously. and the 2021 87th legislature, 1615 created new funding. funding model for subchapter G
  • However, an omission in the bill left out a key funding tier, leading to funding shortfalls. for adult
  • Because of these two factors, charter schools are experiencing a decline in funding. facilities funding
  • uses that school districts have available for their INS funds, such as compliance with school safety
  • safety grants.
Committee: Senate Education
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • To ensure that there's adequate funding for ADA, for full funding for the child care, for co-enrollment
  • And that funding has been depleted.
  • However, an omission in the bill left out a key funding tier, leading to funding shortfalls. for adult
  • safety grants.
  • For legacy facility funding would help us.
Committee: Senate Education
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 4/1/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • c> mobility</c><00:07:54.080><c> in</c> toot to promote safety and mobility in toot to promote safety
  • Bolstering safety and access in the area will help pave the way for vibrant redevelopment, and TIF funding
  • Bolstering safety and access in the area will help pave the way for vibrant redevelopment, and TIF funding
  • </c> vibrant Redevelopment and Tiff funding vibrant Redevelopment and Tiff funding will<00:09:49.959>
  • </c> investment fund and job creation fund investment fund and job creation fund and<00:21:12.279><c>
Committee: House Taxes
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Mar 18th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Because it's impacting our funding because we are one of the few states that still funds per.
  • And if it's a funding Virtue of more funding for testing coordinators, then that's something we need
  • That if put in a virtual setting what we need to do is fund student fund fund teachers and in school
  • ESSER funds and private philanthropy. Federal ESSER funds are no longer available.
  • Test fund on behalf of Texas Business Leadership Council test fund for the bill. Is that correct?
Bills: HB6 , HB27 , HB 123 , HB210 , HB213 , HB222 , HB610 , HB 1085 , HB1481 , HB6 , HB27 , HB123 , HB210 , HB213 , HB222
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Mar 18th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Bill 222 by Representative Tallarico, relating to the permissible uses of the school safety allotment
  • To use the school safety allotment for classroom. management training.
Bills: HB6 , HB27 , HB 123 , HB210 , HB213 , HB222 , HB610 , HB 1085 , HB1481 , HB6 , HB27 , HB123 , HB210 , HB213 , HB222