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NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Education Funding (02/06/2026)

Education Funding

Transcript Highlights:
  • What we have here is a bill now that requires the Department of Education to conduct a confidential criminal
  • criminal history record checks.
  • </c><04:22:28.880><c> history</c> school volunteer criminal history school volunteer criminal history
  • </c><04:23:08.000><c> history</c> junior year your criminal history junior year your criminal history
  • Chair. there in that background criminal check. there in that background criminal check.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/16/2026 - House Public Safety & Law Enforcement

Public Safety & Law Enforcement

Transcript Highlights:
  • The other is a criminal matter that is a matter of the state. So I'm not sure.
  • The other is a criminal matter that is a matter of the state. So I'm not sure.
  • And is there a difference between criminal law and civil law? Mr.
  • Criminal law is an entirely different line. Thank you. Mr. Chair. No, Senator Powell. Mr.
  • We have two big problems in our criminal justice system.
Bills: SB1216 , SB1391 , SB1493 , SB1520
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Transportation Committee Jun 29th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of legislative proceedings.
  • This bill ensures that even after diversion, the underlying conduct remains recognized for what it is
  • SB 953 directly responds to this failure by ensuring that fatal conduct is captured by the DMV point
  • This bill does not impact one's criminal penalties.
  • This bill does not impact one's criminal penalties.
Summary: The Assembly Transportation Committee heard several bills focused on active transportation, transit, road safety, and local enforcement. SB 569 would restrict removal or downgrading of bikeways built with state General Fund dollars for at least 20 years, require public hearings before major changes, and was supported by bicycle advocates and some local and environmental groups. The City of Encinitas opposed the bill, arguing it could limit needed safety fixes and should apply only to future projects; committee members discussed whether the bill still allowed safety-based modifications. The bill passed on a due pass vote to Appropriations. SB 741 would streamline the Low-Carbon Transit Operations Program by reducing administrative burden and giving transit agencies more flexibility to use funds for service improvements, fare programs, and other transit needs while maintaining oversight and disadvantaged community requirements. Transit agencies and advocacy groups supported the measure, saying it would help agencies respond to post-pandemic ridership and financial challenges. The committee approved the bill on a due pass as amended vote to Appropriations. The committee also heard SB 1167, which would tighten consumer protections by clarifying that high-powered e-motos and similar motor vehicles are not e-bikes, requiring clearer disclosures and labels, and improving crash reporting. Supporters said the bill would reduce confusion and improve safety for riders, pedestrians, and parents; the Motorcycle Industry Council opposed unless amended, arguing the term “e-bike” is used broadly and the bill could affect existing businesses. The bill passed to Appropriations. Later, SB 953, dealing with vehicular manslaughter cases dismissed through misdemeanor diversion, would add DMV points so fatal conduct remains reflected on driving records; the bill was supported by the victim’s family and safety advocates and passed to Appropriations. The committee then heard SB 1218, which would let local agencies boot vehicles tied to repeated unpaid illegal dumping citations instead of using DMV enforcement. Oakland officials and community groups supported the bill as a needed deterrent, while the ACLU opposed it as punitive debt collection without a sufficient nexus to the vehicle. The bill passed to Appropriations. Finally, SB 739 would revise the Clean Miles Standard for rideshare companies by allowing CARB and CPUC to adjust electric vehicle mileage targets in light of current market conditions; Uber and Lyft supported the flexibility, while clean air advocates began raising concerns about weakening climate goals as the transcript cut off.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • For your continued engagement and diligence in conducting the BRN Sunset Review.
  • The majority of our license applicants have no criminal history, and those that do really don't meet
  • This process is Or criminal processes involving the courts and the California Attorney General.
  • The BCE already oversees chiropractic education, standards of practice, and professional conduct.
  • As noted in the background paper, many Standards of practice and professional conduct.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • For your continued engagement and diligence in conducting the BRN Sunset Review.
  • The majority of our license applicants have no criminal history, and those that do really don't meet
  • This process is... ...or criminal processes involving the courts and the California Attorney General.
  • The BCE already oversees chiropractic education, standards of practice, and professional conduct.
  • As noted in the background paper, many... ...standards of practice and professional conduct.
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

Senate in Session Feb 26th, 2026

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • consent, detailing the unapproved nature of the treatments and the risks, including disciplinary and criminal
  • service-related issues such as PTSD, traumatic brain injury, or substance abuse that contributes to criminal
  • Traumatic brain injury, or substance abuse that contributes to criminal behavior.
  • You conducted yourself with dignity and grace as the president, and I am so proud that we women step
  • with violence carries a higher sentencing score and more accurately reflects the severity of the conduct
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, opening prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, several introductions, and an announcement that there would be no weekend conference. The chamber then took up a long special-order calendar of bills, generally moving each measure through third reading and final passage, often by substituting House companion bills. Early measures included trust law modernization (SB 786/HB 895), military affairs changes and Guard retirement corrections (SB 474), rounding rules for cash transactions as pennies phase out (SB 1074), podiatric medicine regulation and informed-consent requirements (SB 1092), veterans court expansion (SB 50/HB 199), RV park special assessment clarification (SB 118), concurrent jurisdiction for juvenile offenses on military installations (SB 502/HB 351), alcoholic beverage loss deductions (SB 678/HB 1137), and bail bond/pretrial release revisions (SB 600). Most passed unanimously or near-unanimously; SB 600 passed 36-1 after questions about charitable bail bonds and an amendment aligning with the House version and prosecutors’ concerns. The Senate also considered bills on portable electronics and eyewear insurance (SB 772), the linking industry to nursing education fund and health science workforce programs (SB 1246), recovery residences and behavioral health licensing (SB 1030, with a technical amendment on background checks and probationary licenses), felony battery enhancements for repeat offenders and offenses against law enforcement (SB 436), and child welfare changes including foster-home visitor screening, a permanent statewide Step Into Success program, and a best-practices repository (SB 1718). These measures were explained by sponsors as efforts to streamline regulation, improve workforce and health-care training, strengthen public safety, and reduce administrative burdens while preserving safeguards. Votes on these bills were overwhelmingly favorable, with final tallies typically 36-0 or 37-0. A major portion of the meeting was devoted to a farewell tribute to Senator Lori Berman. Members from both parties praised her leadership, collegiality, policy work, and advocacy on issues including voting rights, women’s rights, Israel and antisemitism, school safety, breast cancer, and family law. Berman delivered a lengthy farewell reflecting on her 16 years in the Legislature, her caucus leadership, and the importance of dignity, respect, and public service. The Senate adopted a motion to spread her remarks upon the journal and then recessed before returning to continue the calendar.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Senate in Session Feb 26th, 2026

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • service-related issues such as PTSD, traumatic brain injury, or substance abuse that contributes to criminal
  • Traumatic brain injury, or substance abuse that contributes to criminal behavior.
  • You conducted yourself with dignity and grace as the president, and I am so proud that we women step
  • with violence carries a higher sentencing score and more accurately reflects the severity of the conduct
  • March 4th, or upon the call of the President for the purpose of holding committee meetings and conducting
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, opening prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, and several introductions, including guests from the press, Florida State women’s soccer, and former Senator Janet Cruz. Members also announced there would be no conference that weekend. The chamber then moved to the special order calendar and began taking up a series of bills, often substituting House companions and proceeding quickly to third reading and final passage. Among the measures approved were bills modernizing trust settlement and trustee discharge procedures; revising military affairs laws, including leave protections, retirement eligibility, and assistance programs; creating uniform cash-rounding rules as Florida prepares for the end of the penny; refining podiatric medicine rules on cellular/tissue-based products and informed consent; expanding veterans’ court access statewide; clarifying RV park special assessments; establishing concurrent state-federal jurisdiction for juveniles on military installations; reauthorizing alcoholic beverage loss deductions; and revising bail bond and pretrial release laws, including training, electronic notices, forfeiture timing, and related procedures. Members also passed bills on eyewear insurance licensing, expanding the Linking Industry to Nursing Education Fund into health science education, streamlining recovery residence regulation, enhancing felony battery penalties, and updating child welfare rules to reduce repeated background checks, make the Step Into Success program permanent, and create a best-practices program. Several bills drew brief supportive remarks, especially those affecting veterans, the National Guard, foster youth, and military families. One bail bond bill prompted questions about charitable bail bonds, with the sponsor stating the current statute would remain unchanged. Most bills passed unanimously or near-unanimously; the bail bond measure passed 36-1, while the others noted here passed with no or minimal opposition. The Senate also adopted an amendment to the military affairs bill and a delete-all amendment to the military-installation jurisdiction bill before final passage. A major portion of the meeting was devoted to honoring Senate Democratic Leader Lori Berman on her farewell. Members from both parties offered extended remarks praising her leadership, preparation, collegiality, advocacy on issues such as voting rights, women’s rights, Israel, anti-Semitism, breast cancer, school safety, and family law, and her effectiveness in committee and on the floor. Berman delivered an extended farewell speech reflecting on her 16 years in the Legislature, her family, her district, and her legislative priorities, and the Senate ordered her remarks spread upon the journal before recessing and later returning to continue the calendar.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Human Committee Meeting - 2025-04-03

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The professionals who may conduct a substance use disorder comprehensive assessment.
  • This set of sections is the DHS illegal remuneration or anti-kickback proposals and the criminal penalty
  • every three years, if you're not familiar, or if you are, it's a reminder that the Wilder Research conducts
  • I will also say that for a DHS grant, it's very well managed; they conduct great site visits and provide
  • Additionally, the Improv Group conducted an evaluation between 2021 and 2023 that found approximately
MN
Transcript Highlights:
  • part of the calculated risk: Do I have any contraband in my vehicle, which could lead to further criminal
  • guess my first question is, would you be open to taking a closer look at exactly the kind of driving conduct
  • guess my first question is, would you be open to taking a closer look at exactly the kind of driving conduct
  • guess my first question is, would you be open to taking a closer look at exactly the kind of driving conduct
  • guess my first question is, would you be open to taking a closer look at exactly the kind of driving conduct
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Mar 26th, 2026

Revenue and Taxation

Transcript Highlights:
  • We'll also get somebody who just graduated with a degree in criminal justice and they're in their early
  • We'll also get somebody who just graduated with a degree in criminal justice and they're in their early
  • Chair: We will conduct a roll call vote. Question. Secretary, at your convenience.
  • We will conduct a roll call vote. Question.
  • We will conduct a roll call vote. Chairman Cannon? Yes. Representative Weber? Yes.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Government Oversight Feb 26th, 2026

Government Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • So I'm looking specifically at the definition and expansion of unprofessional conduct, which begins,
  • that a physician can lose their ability to practice here in the state of Oklahoma for unprofessional conduct
  • on page 8, now says that a physician can be charged with and lose their license for unprofessional conduct
  • this bill became law, if you're following your code and you are not turning a blind eye to certain criminal
  • this bill became law, if you're following your code and you are not turning a blind eye to certain criminal
Summary: The committee opened with prayer and then took up several bills, beginning with HB 3057, a government efficiency cleanup measure that removes more than 50 obsolete statutory report requirements. A member raised a concern that the bill might inadvertently remove language related to a child abuse response team, and the sponsor said that would be corrected before floor consideration. HB 3057 was then approved 14-0 and sent to the floor. Members then debated HB 313, which prohibits state funds from being used for gender reassignment surgeries. The sponsor said the bill is intended to ensure taxpayer dollars are not used for such procedures, while opponents argued it goes beyond funding restrictions and could affect adults, referrals, private conversations, and medical judgment. Supporters framed it as protecting children and public funds. After debate, the bill passed 16-3. The committee also approved HB 4113, clarifying that people with felony convictions regain voting rights after completing incarceration, parole, supervision, and probation, and HB 3310, the Agency Accountability and Budget Transparency Act, both by 15-0 votes. The committee next considered HB 3314, a county-option marijuana public safety impact fee allowing a 15% tax on retail marijuana sales. Questions focused on the 5% petition threshold and who should initiate the tax request, and the sponsor said he was open to changes. The bill passed 12-3. Members then debated HB 3985, which would create a private cause of action against certain large municipalities, mainly in the two largest metro areas, for failing to enforce laws related to issues such as camping, loitering, and panhandling. Opponents said it intrudes on municipal home rule and could raise constitutional issues; supporters said it would encourage cities to enforce their own laws. It also passed 12-3. Finally, the committee approved HB 4486, authorizing a Gold Star Family Memorial Monument funded by the Woody Williams Foundation, after discussion about how it fits with existing veterans memorials at the Capitol. The bill passed 14-0. The chair announced the committee would meet again on Tuesday and then adjourned.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Select Committee on Gaming, May 14, 2026 - AM

Select Committee on Gaming

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> I'll just follow up with this to conduct I'll just follow up with this to conduct business<01:59
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  • </c> state of Wyoming as you're conducting state of Wyoming as you're conducting your<01:59:53.840><c
  • Um, and other than that, people that are criminals are always going to be criminals, and they'll try
  • </c> investigated now as criminal gambling. investigated now as criminal gambling. &gt;&gt; Yep.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • knowledge gaps and provide basic understanding, which will assist municipal staff with helping to conduct
  • way that protects animals while providing pathways for prevention and education, ensuring that the criminal
  • way that protects animals while providing pathways for prevention and education, ensuring that the criminal
  • way that protects animals while providing pathways for prevention and education, ensuring that the criminal
  • than a dozen listening sessions around the city held public information sessions at city hall and conducted
Summary: The committee held a lengthy hybrid hearing of the Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government, with testimony spanning local board training, animal welfare and enforcement, municipal charters, water district dissolution, and other home rule matters. Chairs Rausch and Lewis set strict time limits because of the large number of speakers and explained that written testimony would also be accepted. Members heard from local officials, advocates, municipal employees, and residents, with many bills receiving broad support from municipal and advocacy witnesses. Several speakers supported bills requiring or expanding training for local boards and commissions, including pre-service training for planning, zoning, and other land use boards. Supporters said training would help volunteers understand complex laws, improve consistency, reduce legal challenges, and speed up housing and development decisions. Related testimony also backed a bill to modernize historic district commissions and another to allow associate planning board members to serve more broadly when needed to maintain quorums. A major portion of the hearing focused on animal legislation. Witnesses supported bills to expand citations for cruel conditions beyond dogs, update dangerous dog procedures, improve animal health inspections and breeder oversight, strengthen tethering rules, and protect pet consumers. Animal control officers, humane organizations, and some victims of dog attacks described enforcement gaps and the need for clearer standards, while several dog trainers and the American Kennel Club opposed parts of the dangerous dog bill and tethering restrictions, arguing they would limit humane training tools and professional discretion. The committee also heard strong support for a bill to create a statewide pet shop and consumer protection framework. The committee also heard testimony on several local home rule petitions. Medford officials and residents strongly supported a new city charter that would replace the current at-large council with ward-based representation and periodic charter review. Wayland representatives supported a bill to preserve the library’s Millennium Fund as intended, Cambridge officials backed creation of an employment and job training trust, and Carver officials supported dissolving the North Carver Water District due to compliance and financial problems. No votes were taken during the hearing, and the chair repeatedly invited written testimony and follow-up materials.
VA

Virginia 2026 Regular Session

March 10, 2026 - Regular Session

Virginia House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • lien holder of a vehicle for the cost of towing, impounding, or storage of vehicles involved in criminal
  • lien holder of a vehicle for the cost of towing, impounding, or storage of vehicles involved in criminal
  • recovery operators from employing tow truck drivers who are not registered with the Department of Criminal
  • recovery operators from employing tow truck drivers who are not registered with the Department of Criminal
  • House Bill 1518, which would direct the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to conduct
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Education Policy

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  • Background checks are allowed, so the sponsor entity may conduct criminal history background checks for
  • adds that the sponsor entity entity that adds that the sponsor entity entity may<00:09:09.279><c> conduct
  • </c><00:09:09.680><c> criminal</c><00:09:10.160><c> history</c><00:09:10.560><c> background</c> may conduct
  • criminal history background may conduct criminal history background checks<00:09:11.279><c> for</c><
Bills: SB209 , SB248 , HB122 , SB99 , SB209 , SB248 , HB122 , SB99
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session May 19th, 2026

California Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The California Attorney General's office recently completed a criminal investigation of Californians
  • Senate Bill 1056 by Senator Grayson, relating to criminal procedure.
  • SB 1056 requires courts to issue protective orders in a criminal case in which the defendant is being
  • Senate Bill 1056 by Senator Grayson, relating to criminal procedure.
  • SB 1056 requires courts to issue protective orders in a criminal case in which the defendant is being