Video & Transcript Research : 'statutory language'
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MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Minnesota House passes HF2563, the Legacy finance bill 4/25/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The state arts board receives about its statutory 47%.
- The state arts board receives about<00:02:40.319>
its <00:02:40.720>statutory And finally - The House language before us today bill.
- The House language before us today does<00:17:29.280>
not <00:17:29.600>include does not - Furthermore, we put in language, and I think you'll always appreciate this, that the arts and culture
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- My concern with this is: is there a possibility, just in this language, of maybe somebody gets with a
- Eversource helped us draft the language in the bill, and I believe that UNATIL supports it.
- Eversource helped us draft the language in the bill, and I believe that UNATIL supports it.
- The language included implies that there is no verification and no accountability.
- <05:44:43.520>
scheme free to amend the statutory scheme free to amend the statutory scheme
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Apr 14th, 2026 at 03:00 pm
Commerce & Economic Development Oversight
Transcript Highlights:
- This is substantially the same language that passed off the House floor unanimously last session.
- This is substantially the same language that passed off the House floor unanimously last session.
- towards minority shareholders, I believe in this bill, and to be clear, all fiduciary protections, statutory
Keywords:
bail bondsman, bondsman license, multicounty agent bondsman, surety bondsman, Insurance Commissioner, bail bond regulation, bond deposit, forfeiture, deposit ratio, writing capacity, license transfer, power of attorney, surety bond, bail industry, Oklahoma insurance law, financial solvency, administrative action, SB1061, Oklahoma Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act, SAFE Act
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on State Administration Mar 17th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We have a... ...very robust education and outreach unit that conducts outreach in multiple languages.
- harassment at work, when you experience discrimination in your apartment building because of the language
- So, yes, we house within our department the Commission on the State of Hate, which is a statutory body
Summary:
The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on State Administration met to hear the Civil Rights Department’s budget items, with the chair opening by emphasizing that agency directors should appear in person if they want their items heard. Go-Biz was not heard because its director was absent. The department outlined four chaptered-legislation implementation items: SB 464 on updated pay data reporting categories, AB 822 extending the Commission on the State of Hate, AB 935 expanding data collection and reporting, and SB 518 creating the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery. The Department of Finance and Legislative Analyst’s Office had no concerns with these proposals.
Members then asked about the department’s broader workload and role in responding to discrimination, hate incidents, and immigration-related fears in communities. CRD explained that it handles complaints in areas such as housing, employment, public accommodations, hate crimes, and human trafficking, but does not have jurisdiction over the federal government or landlord-tenant law generally. Officials said filings and open matters have risen sharply, with the department nearing 12,000 open matters, and described outreach in multiple languages, immigrant-serving work, and support for victims through T and U visa-related assistance. They also discussed the Commission on the State of Hate, the California vs. Hate hotline, and coordination with Stop the Hate grantees and community organizations.
The committee also heard items on ongoing workload for AB 2188, AB 1041, and AB 1949, which would convert limited-term resources to permanent positions because workload has met or exceeded initial estimates. The LAO had no concerns. A final item requested $502,000 for ongoing security guard services at CRD public counters after more than a dozen threats to staff since July 2024; the LAO again had no concerns. Members expressed support for the security request and discussed the need for safe public-facing offices. No votes were taken, and each item was closed after discussion and public comment.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Agency Performance Review and Budget Request Hearing - Office of Emergency Management Feb 16th, 2026 at 05:30 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- checking the mail and doing asset management and things that we didn't really find to be serving our statutory
- There's also a mandatory language that Representative Curbs has introduced.
- There's also a mandatory language that Representative Kerbs has introduced.
Summary:
The committee held a budget hearing for the Oklahoma Office of Emergency Management, with Director Annie Verst presenting the agency’s FY26/FY27 request and explaining the agency’s role in disaster response, recovery, preparedness, and mitigation. She said OEM remains a lean agency focused on coordinating resources for local governments, supporting recovery after disasters, and helping communities build resilience. She highlighted recent activity including wildfire response, multiple fire management assistance declarations, $83 million in public assistance payouts, use of the new state disaster revolving fund, and implementation of an Oklahoma resilient recovery strategy and ARPA-funded rural public safety grants.
Verst emphasized uncertainty in federal funding and FEMA operations, saying hazard mitigation assistance has been canceled for the first time since 1988, some obligations were delayed under DHS’s “Defend the Spend” review, and the emergency management performance grant period was shortened before later being resolved. She said OEM has restructured by eliminating obsolete administrative work, repurposing positions to regional coordinators, ending warehouse leases, and assigning fleet vehicles more efficiently. Her budget request included $3.7 million to cover a possible loss of federal operating support, $1 million for a required state hazard mitigation plan update, $3.8 million for the state emergency fund to cover anticipated 12.5% state shares and replenish prior expenditures, and $800,000 for anticipated other-needs/temporary sheltering cost share.
Members questioned her about Oklahoma Task Force One, the revolving fund, and whether OEM is shifting toward a response-focused agency. Verst said response remains local and OEM’s role is coordination, recovery, and mitigation, not replacing local emergency management. She explained Task Force One is used when local capacity is exceeded, is not currently funded by OEM for routine operations, and the revolving fund helps bridge reimbursement delays. She also said the hazard mitigation plan update would likely be done by an outside contractor or university partner. No votes were taken; the hearing ended after questions and thanks from the chair.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on County & Regional Government Mar 10th, 2025
S/C on County & Regional Government
Transcript Highlights:
- The committee substitute adds language specifying that once the hospital district is dissolved, the.
- Because the state provides no statutory process for dissolving a hospital district when no board members
- we'll have a committee, another committee sub, beyond the one provided to you that fully refines the language
Keywords:
hospital district, Cedar Creek, scholarship, dissolution, county judges, healthcare funding, grant program, rural counties, law enforcement, sheriff's departments, funding, public safety, deputy shortages, sheriff, prosecutor, salary assistance, HB 198, Wade Cannon Act, firefighter cancer screening, occupational cancer screening
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Joint Legislative Budget Commission Feb 5th, 2025
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- So, do you have the statutory power to do that?
- So, do you have the statutory >> Yeah.
- So, you didn't want to come in for a language change then?
- <01:39:43.600>
in governor and by hta did have language in governor and by hta did have language - The statutory role. I don't mind. I'm not sure what that is.
WV
West Virginia 2026 Regular Session
WV Senate Finance Committee in Session Mar 11th, 2026 at 04:01 pm
Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- It removes language that allows up to 50% of the allocation for the improvement of instructional programs
- It also removes language that allows county boards to use for the same purposes up to 50% of the allocation
- Current language states that they are reversible.
- Current language also sets a maximum fee and commission, and this language has been completely deleted
- Further language is added detailing valuation determinations when a high-impact data center or power
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Revenue and Taxation REVISED Feb 9th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Revenue and Taxation
Transcript Highlights:
- Senate Bill 1832 is just cleaned up language.
- The bill modernizes statutory references and language, and sets an effective date and includes an emergency
- So I'm welcome to add that language. Thank you. Follow up, thank you, Mr. Chairman.
- This will also clarify some definitions and modernize language in the property tax code.
- And maybe we can work on the language to tighten it up a bit. Senator Akieri, thank you, Mr. Chair.
Keywords:
excise tax, oil tax, natural gas tax, state revenue, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, income tax, tax credit, aerospace sector, employment, economic development, adaptive reuse, affordable housing, urban renewal, economic impact, program, housing, revitalization, urban development, income tax credit, manufacturing
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- work with the LBA on what that language work with the LBA on what that language would<01:56:53.040
- the case where I we changed the language the case where I we changed the language because<01:57:
- And the statutory language is already here and suggested and ready to go.
- We've we've had this language in place.
- that language? that language?
MN
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- encourage you to include that language encourage you to include that language in<00:12:56.760>
- Thank you, Superintendent language.
- I know Representative Rey language.
- <00:40:16.960>
that are we getting rid of that language that are we getting rid of that language- , reporting system language, reporting system language, unfortunately,<00:52:37.680>
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FL
Transcript Highlights:
- language, and this will be completed in early 2026.
- The House stripped that language off of the bill and included language from the other child welfare bill
- The house stripped that language off of the bill and included language from the other child welfare bill
- Angelo is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian, and Venezuelan Sign Language. and Venezuelan Sign Language
- , a language he learned as a child to communicate with his mother, who's deaf.
Summary:
The Senate convened with a quorum, opening prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, and a series of introductions recognizing interns, pages, and retiring Senate staff, including Pastor Gary Austin. Leaders also noted ongoing budget talks with the House and said senators would not need to plan on being in Tallahassee the following week. The chamber then moved to third reading and returned messages from the House later in the day.
The main floor debate centered on Committee Substitute for House Bill 12.5, the citizen initiative/constitutional amendment bill. Sponsors said the measure was intended to address fraud in the petition process, citing investigations, arrests, pleas, and open cases involving paid circulators and invalid petitions. Opponents argued the bill would make citizen-led amendments far more difficult, expensive, and risky, warning it would chill grassroots participation, burden supervisors of elections, and effectively favor wealthy or corporate-backed efforts. Supporters responded that the bill preserved grassroots petitioning, placed reasonable guardrails on paid circulators and sponsors, and included a provision barring public funds from being used to advocate for or against ballot initiatives. The bill passed 28-10.
The Senate also passed several education measures unanimously, including bills tied to Bright Futures, dual enrollment, educator preparation, and broader education policy. Later, the chamber concurred in House amendments on several bills: stem cell therapy legislation clarifying permitted therapies and penalties for improper use of fetal or embryonic tissue; an EKG requirement bill for student athletes with exemptions and partnership options for districts; and a cardiac emergency response bill that renamed the school emergency plan and removed a bill title honoring Rafe McCrone. These measures passed by wide margins, generally 37-0 or 38-0.
DE
Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Capital Improvement Committee Meeting Jun 23rd, 2026
Capital Improvement
Transcript Highlights:
- And truly, that's what we're able to do because of our statutory authority and the generous funding that
- I move to adopt the epilogue language. Senator Walsh.
- I move to adopt the epilogue language that was presented by Secretary Hastings, the updated epilogue
- language at this time.
- That is boilerplate language. This is prefatory language.
Summary:
The committee met for a fiscal year 2027 capital budget writing session with all 12 members present. It first reviewed and approved the DNREC Resource Conservation and Development drainage project list, which would add projects across New Castle, Kent, and Sussex counties and bring the total eligible projects to 1,561. Members offered personal remarks thanking retiring conservation district staff, especially Kevin Donnelly, for years of work on drainage and water issues. The committee then reviewed DelDOT Rule 12 changes, including annual date updates and a reduction in the inflation markup applied to older estimates, and approved the rule as amended.
The committee next adopted DelDOT Appendix A and the FY27 paving and rehabilitation list, including the subdivision street management fund and various road resurfacing projects. DelDOT explained that paving projects are for state-of-good-repair work and that major changes from corridor studies would be handled separately. The committee also approved DelDOT epilogue changes, including updates to authorization amounts, a $25 million increase for toll infrastructure work, changes to subdivision street paving language, and an increase in the subdivision street paving management fund to $30 million. Several sections were placed on hold for later updates.
The committee then moved through boilerplate epilogue sections in the bond bill, approving a wide range of provisions affecting conservation districts, housing, economic development, corrections, DNREC, public safety, transportation, agriculture, fire prevention, education, and other agencies. Many sections were adopted in groups, while some were held for later revisions or deleted as no longer needed. The session included updates to school capital rules, transportation restrictions and reporting requirements, DNREC conservation and land-use provisions, and funding and administrative authorities across multiple agencies. The committee broke for lunch after approving the education-related sections through 147, with additional sections still pending.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- Said, and is that included in this language yet?
- We can put it In the language, but it's surface rights.
- And so you know, we look at this language that's set before us.
- I know it's stated in the language for expansions for permits, but I don't see the renewal.
- The language spells out four-foot signs.
Keywords:
environmental permitting, Oklahoma, Department of Environmental Quality, public participation, regulatory framework, administered applications, energy, wind energy, financial assurance, property restoration, environmental regulation, mining, blasting, residential protection, buffer zone, Department of Mines, public utilities, electric transmission lines, landowner rights, payment regulations
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- SB 2201 removes conflicting language from Chapter 67 regarding the suspension of validation during incarceration
- While reasonable suspicion is already required by law enforcement officers, this statutory addition places
- My concern with this bill is that it adds language that self-admission to membership in an organization
- We're concerned that this language is vague and gives law enforcement too much discretion that could
Keywords:
overweight vehicle, vehicle weight limits, hazardous materials, hazmat, cargo tank, fuel transport, trucking, commercial vehicle, Transportation Code, criminal penalty, second-degree felony, loading violation, truck weight, axle weight, gross weight, public safety, commercial carrier, Texas, commercial truck, truck route
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- And the statutory redemption period would apply in a new subsequent foreclosure.
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And <00:29:20.960>the <00:29:21.040>statutory to that foreclosure - And the statutory to that foreclosure.
- And the statutory redemption<00:29:22.159>
period <00:29:22.679>would <00:29:22.880> - Um now, he felt that the language was unclear, and he wouldn't no longer be able to do that.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (01/15/2026)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, when I first saw the language, um, I was excited.
- <04:10:10.399>
provides but the remaining language provides but the remaining language provides - ,<04:18:25.840>
you're above in the existing language, you're above in the existing language - So I have some language to deal with that.
- additional language in this bill. additional language in this bill. >> Yeah.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Education Committee Sep 12th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- I will point out that the reason why we put that language in is because that is almost verbatim language
- to revisit that language.
- So let me ask you again: Did you ever discuss this language with me, this specific language?
- So I know that the intent language that this bill was passed in this committee based on intent language
- I can get the language to you.
Summary:
The Assembly Education Committee held an informational hearing on AB 715, followed by discussion of SB 48. AB 715 was presented by Assembly Members Zbur and Addis as a response to rising anti-Semitism in California schools. They described incidents involving harassment, swastikas, biased classroom materials, and students feeling unsafe, and said the bill would create an Office of Civil Rights with coordinators to address anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination, provide prevention resources, and support school districts. Witnesses in support, including a rabbi and a student who described personal experiences with anti-Semitic harassment, urged immediate action to protect Jewish students.
Opposition testimony came from the California Teachers Association, county superintendents, school board groups, labor organizations, civil liberties advocates, ethnic studies educators, and many community members. Their main concerns were that the bill was rushed, had not been fully vetted in the Assembly Education Committee, and could chill classroom speech or create constitutional problems, especially around language requiring instruction and materials to be “factually accurate” and not based on advocacy, bias, or partisanship. Several opponents argued that anti-Semitism should be addressed through education, training, and restorative practices rather than new statutory restrictions. Some witnesses also raised concerns about the bill’s impact on ethnic studies and free speech.
Committee members then debated the bill’s process and substance at length. The authors said the bill had been narrowed through negotiations with education stakeholders and the Senate, that some disputed provisions would be revisited in cleanup language, and that the urgency of anti-Semitic incidents required action now. Several members expressed support for the bill’s goal but criticized the late release of the final language and the lack of consultation with the Assembly committee. Others emphasized the need to protect Jewish students immediately and argued the bill was a necessary response to a real crisis. The transcript does not show a final vote on AB 715 in the portion provided.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee, February 20, 2026
Minerals, Business & Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- , better place to insert that language, better place to insert that language, I'm<00:43:44.560>
- Chairman, about the due process language. I understand the due process language.
- So that's what's in the language right now and we support that.
- You'll see that this language begins on page four on line 12.
- This language is page four on line 12.
Keywords:
pari-mutuel wagering, simulcasting, historic horse racing, HHR terminals, horse racing, gaming commission, Wyoming Gaming Commission, local control, city approval, county approval, municipal approval, permit renewal, gaming permit, wagering regulation, racetrack, live pari-mutuel event, district court appeal, public notice, land use, public safety