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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development Apr 29th, 2026
Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development
Transcript Highlights:
- but before I do that, I want to acknowledge the members of the House who were here present for this special
- To establish a special commission to study access to unemployment insurance in the Commonwealth.
- We are here to speak in support of House 5188, an act establishing a special commission to study access
- We are here to speak in support of House 5188, an act establishing a special commission to study access
- I would just add we're all up for re-election this November.
Bills:
H5188
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/19/2026 - House Artificial Intelligence & Innovation
Artificial Intelligence & Innovation
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair and member, Senate Bill 1020 would establish the Arizona Space Commission special plates.
- December 31, 2026, a person must pay $32,000 to the Arizona Department of Transportation for the special
Bills:
SB1020
Committee:
House Artificial Intelligence & Innovation
Keywords:
special plates, Arizona Space Commission, transportation, funding, space exploration, 1182, all
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- We do post-election audits. We're members of ERIC, a nonprofit, We do post-election audits.
- Section 3 creates a new section of our election code, prohibiting interference with elections.
- The exception that's in there is if such force election through election day.
- an election: the forest fires up north in the primary election of 2022 and the Chaves County flooding
- They are independently elected officials. I'm an independently elected official.
Committee:
Senate Senate Rules
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Mar 3rd, 2026 at 05:50 pm
Washington House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The prohibition of voting in more than one place in one election.
- is on a different date than the Washington primary.
- and make elections fair, free, and good across the board.
- in Washington and an election in any other state if the election date is the same for both states.
- and general elections.
Bills:
HB2720 , HB2073 , SB5467 , SB5820 , SCR8406 , HB2487 , SB5816 , SB5919 , SB5995 , SB6278 , SB5831 , SB5915 , SB5963 , SB6025 , SB6046 , SB6084 , SB6134 , SB6136 , SB6137 , SB6188 , SB6291 , HB2689 , SB5922 , SB5944 , SB5957 , SB5988 , SB5994 , SB6011 , SB6065 , SB6103 , SB6151 , SB6244
Keywords:
behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access, mental health funding, premium assistance, funding, healthcare, subsidies, SB 5467, water-sewer district, water sewer district, surplus property, public property sale, local government, RCW 57, real property disposal, personal property, notice of intent to sell, public auction
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Mar 3rd, 2026 at 02:00 pm
Washington House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And the rural county designation opens up a lot of specialized funding, tax incentives for The designation
- opens up a lot of specialized funding, tax incentives for infrastructure, flexible land use planning
- It protects the core functions of independently elected sheriffs from being reassigned by other elected
- Madam Speaker, this underlying policy removes the discretion from the independently elected office.
- There's probably things, Madam Speaker, that I could have done better as an elected sheriff, as a police
Bills:
HB2720 , HB2073 , SB5467 , SB5820 , SCR8406 , HB2487 , SB5816 , SB5919 , SB5995 , SB6278 , SB5831 , SB5915 , SB5963 , SB6025 , SB6046 , SB6084 , SB6134 , SB6136 , SB6137 , SB6188 , SB6291 , HB2689 , SB5922 , SB5944 , SB5957 , SB5988 , SB5994 , SB6011 , SB6065 , SB6103 , SB6151 , SB6244
Keywords:
behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access, mental health funding, premium assistance, funding, healthcare, subsidies, SB 5467, water-sewer district, water sewer district, surplus property, public property sale, local government, RCW 57, real property disposal, personal property, notice of intent to sell, public auction
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Mar 3rd, 2026 at 09:00 am
Washington House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill helps to address a critical shortage in our state of primary care physicians.
- I think this does go a long way to help address the shortages in primary care.
- I think this does go a long way to help address the shortages in primary care.
- Let's let the school districts and the superintendents and the locally elected school boards make their
- Consider right now special education environments.
Bills:
HB2720 , HB2073 , SB5467 , SB5820 , SCR8406 , HB2487 , SB5816 , SB5919 , SB5995 , SB6278 , SB5831 , SB5915 , SB5963 , SB6025 , SB6046 , SB6084 , SB6134 , SB6136 , SB6137 , SB6188 , SB6291 , HB2689 , SB5922 , SB5944 , SB5957 , SB5988 , SB5994 , SB6011 , SB6065 , SB6103 , SB6151 , SB6244
Keywords:
behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access, mental health funding, premium assistance, funding, healthcare, subsidies, SB 5467, water-sewer district, water sewer district, surplus property, public property sale, local government, RCW 57, real property disposal, personal property, notice of intent to sell, public auction
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Mar 3rd, 2026
Washington House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The prohibition of voting in more than one place in one election.
- is on a different date than the Washington primary.
- and make elections fair, free, and good across the board.
- in Washington and an election in any other state if the election date is the same for both states.
- and general elections.
Bills:
HB2720 , HB2073 , SB5467 , SB5820 , SCR8406 , HB2487 , SB5816 , SB5919 , SB5995 , SB6278 , SB5831 , SB5915 , SB5963 , SB6025 , SB6046 , SB6084 , SB6134 , SB6136 , SB6137 , SB6188 , SB6291 , HB2689 , SB5922 , SB5944 , SB5957 , SB5988 , SB5994 , SB6011 , SB6065 , SB6103 , SB6151 , SB6244
Keywords:
behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access, mental health funding, premium assistance, funding, healthcare, subsidies, SB 5467, water-sewer district, water sewer district, surplus property, public property sale, local government, RCW 57, real property disposal, personal property, notice of intent to sell, public auction
Summary:
The House received several messages from the Senate announcing passage of engrossed or substitute versions of House Bill 2294, House Bill 2472, Senate Bill 606, Senate Bill 6335, engrossed substitute Senate Bill 6266, and engrossed substitute House Bill 3. The chamber then moved through second and third reading on a series of measures, often suspending the rules to advance bills to final passage.
A major floor debate centered on Senate Concurrent Resolution 8406, which would reestablish the Joint Select Committee on Civic Health and expand its membership. Amendment 2131, offered to keep the committee at its current size rather than expanding it, was rejected after debate over fiscal restraint, committee scope, and whether the body functioned like a “proxy legislature.” The resolution then passed 83-10. The House also passed engrossed substitute Senate Bill 6200 on portable cooling devices for renters and mobile home occupants, Senate Bill 6084 on clarifying the prohibition on voting in more than one election, second engrossed substitute Senate Bill 5105 on sexually explicit depictions involving minors, and Senate Bill 6046 authorizing the Civil Air Patrol to be used by the governor in emergencies; each drew debate over policy scope, enforcement, and state-federal authority, but all ultimately passed.
The House next passed substitute Senate Bill 6054, limiting HOA and common-interest community restrictions that conflict with wildfire-hardening measures; substitute Senate Bill 6091, requiring greater transparency in real estate broker practices; Senate Bill 6291, giving more time to train and certify on-site wastewater inspectors; substitute Senate Bill 6081, creating a Public Records Act exemption for sex designation information to protect transgender people from doxxing and harassment; Senate Bill 5963, automatically enrolling certain vulnerable students in the Washington College Grant; and substitute Senate Bill 6226, addressing audiology scope-of-practice and telemedicine concerns. Most of these bills passed with broad bipartisan support, though some drew dissent over added regulation, privacy, or scope-of-practice issues.
The final portion of the transcript focused on Senate Bill 6106, which the Speaker ruled had an out-of-scope amendment related to agricultural seasonal workers; the bill itself passed 75-18 after debate over layoff notices and tribal sovereignty. Substitute Senate Bill 6014, dealing with pregnancy accommodations and related public records issues, saw a failed amendment to replace gender-neutral language with “pregnant woman” and then passed 68-25. The House also debated Senate Bill 5820, with multiple amendments concerning freight rail, greenhouse gas calculations, county planning, property rights, and rail safety; the excerpt ends amid that amendment debate before final action on the bill is shown.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Pro Forma Floor Session Mar 2nd, 2026 at 09:55 am
Washington House Floor Meeting
Bills:
HB2720 , HB2073 , SB5467 , SB5820 , SCR8406 , HB2487 , SB5816 , SB5919 , SB5995 , SB6278 , SB5831 , SB5915 , SB5963 , SB6025 , SB6046 , SB6084 , SB6134 , SB6136 , SB6137 , SB6188 , SB6291 , HB2689 , SB5922 , SB5944 , SB5957 , SB5988 , SB5994 , SB6011 , SB6065 , SB6103 , SB6151 , SB6244
Keywords:
behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access, mental health funding, premium assistance, funding, healthcare, subsidies, SB 5467, water-sewer district, water sewer district, surplus property, public property sale, local government, RCW 57, real property disposal, personal property, notice of intent to sell, public auction
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- It's an elective treatment.
- election integrity.
- election by all-mail.
- We have fair elections.
- And one is we could fund election security and cybersecurity for election integrity.
Bills:
SB1015 , SB1049 , SB1066 , SB1081 , SB1092 , SB1133 , SB1134 , SB1139 , SB1147 , SB1148 , SB1168 , SB1189 , SCR1001 , SCR1002 , SCR1005 , SCR1010
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Elections
Keywords:
gender transition, detransition, healthcare liability, medical malpractice, youth protection, legal action, Arizona law, spousal maintenance, court guidelines, self-sufficiency, financial support, marriage dissolution, child safety, dependency cases, attorney regulation, foster care, legal representation, probation, dangerous crimes, children
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee, February 18, 2026
Minerals, Business & Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- /c><00:02:46.560><c> Those</c><00:02:46.800><c> are</c><00:02:46.959><c> the</c><00:02:47.200><c> primary
- </c> Those are the primary changes in the bill and then some changes in numbering.
- And all it does is allow a banking entity, a state-chartered bank that is chartered as a SPDI, a special
- </c><00:36:47.599><c> uh</c> SP55, Special Purpose Depository Institution Amendments.
- </c> the requirements for an approved special the requirements for an approved special purpose<00:41:
Keywords:
stable token, liquidity, trust account, Wyoming, fund distribution, financial regulation, state commission, decentralized, nonprofit association, merger, conversion, liability, membership, governance, indemnification, banking regulation, special purpose depository institution, conversion process, Wyoming state laws, financial services
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee, February 18, 2026
Minerals, Business & Economic Development
Keywords:
stable token, liquidity, trust account, Wyoming, fund distribution, financial regulation, state commission, decentralized, nonprofit association, merger, conversion, liability, membership, governance, indemnification, banking regulation, special purpose depository institution, conversion process, Wyoming state laws, financial services
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections Jan 20th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections
Transcript Highlights:
- , and recruitment of election officers.
- The Secretary of State must approve any portal prior to use in a primary or general election and adopt
- The Secretary of State must approve any portal prior to use in a primary or general election and adopt
- I'm the elected King County Director of Elections.
- I'm not sure if this bill addresses it or not, but the state releases primary presidential election preferences
Keywords:
SB 6081, Washington privacy, sex designation, gender marker, nonbinary, transgender, vital records, birth certificate, death certificate, fetal death, stillbirth, driver license, ID card, Department of Licensing, public records exemption, confidential records, record sealing, data sharing, government records, privacy
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Our primary purpose is to provide support, business leadership, and economic opportunity for our members
- After the November election in even-numbered years, the Secretary of State is required to select four
- About following their randomized post-election audits.
- Simply put, what Senate Bill 1541 allows is for the Secretary of State to continually monitor elections
- There must be House elections going on at the same time.
Bills:
SB30 , SB517 , SB1313 , SB1314 , SB1316 , SB1541 , SB1698 , SB1845 , SB1860 , SB2420 , SB2429 , SB 30
Committee:
Senate State Affairs
Keywords:
gambling, criminal offenses, penalties, defense, electronic devices, tobacco advertising, youth protection, public health, criminal offense, retailer regulation, e-cigarettes, nicotine products, health, public safety, regulation, advertising restrictions, health and safety, elections, election audit, county elections
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- Codifying the Office of Special Education matters.
- So, and also I've made an error: it's not the Bureau of Special Education, it's the Office of Special
- Office of Special Education. Thank you.
- special education are met with excellence.
- Voting yes on the Special Education Act will provide all stakeholders with support of all special education
Committee:
Senate Senate Education
Keywords:
special education, office of special education, deputy secretary, public education department, IEP, individualized education program, students with disabilities, IDEA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, dyslexia, dyslexia screening, structured literacy, reading intervention, multilayered system of supports, MTSS, student assistance team, free appropriate public education, FAPE, special education compliance, charter schools
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Press Conference: HB 2081 Jun 1st, 2025 at 11:06 am
Transcript Highlights:
- That's what frustrates me—that we in this building have for years treated special education and public
- There are severities, and this state needs to recognize that not everyone with special needs is exactly
Keywords:
special education, legislation, Texas, personalized education, families testimonies, education reform, committee meeting
Summary:
The committee meeting featured strong dialogues focused on improving educational provisions for special needs students in Texas. A key highlight was the discussion around legislation aimed at personalizing educational programs to cater to individual needs, which included testimonies from families who have benefited from similar initiatives. The overall sentiment was one of urgency to rectify past shortcomings in the education system and to foster an environment where every student is given the chance to thrive. Members also expressed frustration over delayed bills and a commitment to continue fighting for progress as the session approached its end.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- There is $1.5 billion in new special education funding.
- A very special thank you to my friends who have joined us from some of the best school districts across
- We have woefully funded special needs kids in Texas for years. House Bill 2 seeks to correct that.
- For example, we talked about the special education piece.
- And if any of you know or have children with special needs, you understand that the term "special needs
Keywords:
public education, HB2, teacher salaries, special education, emergent bilingual programs, Texas legislature
Summary:
The meeting primarily revolved around the discussion of HB2, which aims to increase funding for public education in Texas. Key points included enhancements to teacher salaries, special education funding, and initiatives to support emergent bilingual programs. Legislators highlighted the need for collaboration and leadership in addressing the challenges faced by public schools, noting the vital role that education plays in the state's future. Speaker Burroughs expressed confidence in achieving significant improvements for Texas students through this legislation, which has been deemed one of the most consequential bills of the session.
MN
Bills:
HF2433
Committee:
House Education Finance
TX
Bills:
SB2 , SB3 , SB5 , SB 9 , SB10 , SB14 , SB16 , SB18 , SB34 , SB6 , SB7 , SB8 , SB11 , SB12 , SB13 , SB15 , SB 17 , SB 4
Keywords:
disaster relief, flood preparedness, emergency funding, local government support, meteorological forecasting, school assessment, public education, accountability, transparency, education standards, impact fees, water conservation, reuse projects, builders, developers, local government, real property theft, real property fraud, criminal offenses, restitution
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee, February 25, 2026
Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions
Transcript Highlights:
- The turnout for the primary election for the past 20 years has only been 30%.
- The turnout for the primary election for the past 20 years has only been 30%.
- The turnout for the primary election for the past 20 years has only been 30%.
- The turnout for the primary election for the past 20 years has only been 30%.
- The turnout for the primary election for the past 20 years has only been 30%.
WY