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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 1/21/26
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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conduct. - The state has a code of ethical conduct for all employees.
- Madam Chair, Representative Schultz, I am aware of, first and foremost, let me tell you that the code
- So that was sort get penalized at all.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2025-04-30 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Amendment bar code 475084 by Senator Wright, between lines 52 and 53, insert amendment.
- Amendment of our code 84260 by Senators Gates and Grohl to delete everything after the 19 clause and
- Amendment to substitute amendment bar code 662550 by Senator Bernard, delete lines 81 through 9 Thank
- The decision penalizes its sponsor, is fully removed from the Supreme Court process, the court, and the
- Senator Leek, I think minimum mandatories, which are used throughout the criminal code, do precisely
Summary:
The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including interns, Denim Day awareness, a resolution honoring Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange, and a remembrance of former Senator Karen Johnson Gendron. The chamber then moved to special order bills. CS/HB 687 on transportation offenses involving death was substituted for SB 138, amended to add warnings and penalties for refusal of breath or urine tests, and passed 37-0. CS/SB 306 on Medicaid providers, requiring broader after-hours access and network availability for Medicaid enrollees, also passed 37-0.
The Senate then took up CS/CS/HB 913 on condominium associations, a major post-Surfside reform bill. Senator Bradley explained that the measure was intended to provide financial relief and flexibility while preserving safety and accountability. The bill was substituted for SB 1742, amended several times to limit milestone inspections and structural integrity reserve studies to buildings three habitable stories or more, and then passed 37-0 after extensive debate. Senators from both parties praised Bradley, Pizzo, Garcia, and staff for years of work on condo safety and affordability, with several members describing the bill as a balance between protecting residents and avoiding financial hardship.
The final major item was CS/HB 1205, the bill on amendments to the state constitution and citizen petition drives. Sponsors Gates and Grohl argued the bill was needed to combat fraud, identity theft, and misuse in the petition process, citing a lengthy Office of Election Crimes and Security report. The House bill was substituted for SB 7016, and the chamber considered a long series of amendments and substitute amendments addressing petition circulator registration, volunteer participation, submission deadlines, invalid-signature thresholds, voter notification, and fiscal impact statements. Several amendments were adopted, while others were debated over whether they would protect access to the citizen initiative process or strengthen election integrity. The transcript ends during debate on the main substitute amendment, before final disposition on the bill is shown.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, May 14, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
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MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Sixty Nine - Wednesday, May 13
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Junior Henry, originally from Red Oak, Texas, is a first-year letterman.
- Gentlemen from Texas. Introduction of special guests, Madam Speaker.
- And I also wanted to bring up what happened in Uvalde, Texas.
- Does the gentleman from Texas yield to an inquiry? Yes. Proceed.
- Further discussion on the gentleman from Texas.
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and approval of the House Journal by a 123-0 roll call vote. Members then used points of personal privilege to recognize National Police Week, honor Rep. Prouty, and share personal remarks, followed by numerous introductions of special guests, including school groups, interns, a militia reenactment group, and student teams from the University of Missouri and Hallsville FFA.
The chamber then handled Senate messages and committee reports before taking up House Bills 1839, 2921, and 3015. Rep. from Cass explained a Senate amendment as a technical correction to House Bill 1839, which would add age-verification requirements for online pornography; the House concurred 104-30 and then finally passed the package 112-25. The House also adopted and then passed the conference committee report on House Bill 2596, which was described as modernizing pooled health plan language for small businesses and adding a provision expanding contraception insurance coverage from a six-month to a 12-month supply, while removing a Senate-added blood pressure cuff provision. The conference report was adopted 120-26 and the bill was third read and passed 119-27.
The final major item was Senate Bill 905, creating the Missouri Ranger training program and allowing school districts to optionally place highly trained rangers on campus with narrow law enforcement powers. Supporters argued it would give districts another local-control option to improve school safety, especially where school resource officers are unavailable, and emphasized that it could be volunteer-based and not require state funding. Opponents argued the bill would add guns to schools, increase trauma and liability, and fail to address underlying mental health and school safety needs. After extended debate and a successful previous-question motion, the House adopted the amendment and continued consideration of the bill.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- HB 13 by King relating to the creating of the Texas Insurability Council and the grant program administered
- 14 by Harrison Harris relating to the funding and mechanisms of the Office of the Governor and the Texas
- the oversight and financing of certain water infrastructure matters under the jurisdiction of the Texas
- Resources HB 38 by BC relating to the improvements of the Texas Information Referral Network referred
- Certain surface facilities in accordance with the National Electric Code referred to the Committee on
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Service Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Public Service
Transcript Highlights:
- I do not feel it is right to penalize a person for wanting to work and provide for their family.
- I do not feel it is right to penalize a person for wanting to work and provide for their family.
- I think retirees want to work; they just are worried about being penalized, always watching that upper
- increases in health insurance cost sharing so that those who retired before any future increases are not penalized
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Public Service heard testimony on a wide range of bills affecting public employees, retirees, and public safety personnel. Early testimony focused on House Bill 2859, which would make Massachusetts Department of Correction industrial instructors permanent civil service employees after years of provisional status, and House Bill 2995, which would reduce the Boston Fire Cadet Program service requirement from two years to one year. Supporters of the Boston fire cadet bill argued it would improve equity, expand opportunities for Boston residents, and help diversify the Boston Fire Department; committee members asked about the current makeup of academy classes and the effect of a hybrid model, and the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association was described as neutral on a separate age-related police bill.
The committee also heard several proposals related to post-retirement earnings and civil service rules for police and fire retirees. Testimony supported bills including H. 2903 and H. 2966, which would loosen earnings limits for retired public safety workers returning to work, and related measures affecting civil service exemptions and professional services for retirement boards. Speakers argued the current limits are confusing, discourage experienced workers from filling needed municipal jobs, and can create safety issues on public works and construction sites. One witness from Worcester Police supported raising the police academy age limit from 32 to 39 to improve recruitment, especially in BIPOC communities, while Boston City Councilor Gabriela Coletta Zapata supported a separate bill to raise the Boston Police Academy age cap from 39 to 45.
A substantial portion of the hearing was devoted to H. 2812 and S. 1817, which would increase the pension COLA base from $13,000 to $18,000 and freeze certain retiree health insurance contribution rates, with additional testimony about capping out-of-pocket health costs for some retirees. Educators and union representatives said the current COLA structure has eroded pension value and leaves retirees struggling with rising costs, while one witness described long delays and confusion in navigating retiree health coverage. The committee took no substantive votes on the bills during the hearing and adjourned after hearing all testimony.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on State & Local Government (3-3-25)
Transcript Highlights:
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Summary:
The Senate State and Local Government Committee met and first took up Senate Bill 193, described as a simple measure to restore a wallet card for jailers to carry when outside the jail. The chair noted the fiscal impact was essentially zero, there were no questions, and the committee voted to pass the bill 9-0.
The committee then heard Senate Bill 9, a proposal focused on the Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS). The sponsor argued TRS remains underfunded despite large state contributions, cited rising unfunded liability and negative cash flow, and said the bill is intended to standardize and limit what sick leave, personal leave, and annual leave can count toward retirement calculations. The bill would generally cap TRS retirement credit at 10 sick days and 2 personal days per year, prevent annual leave from being rolled into sick leave, require more uniform reporting and oversight from participating districts and agencies, and shift costs to districts that offer benefits beyond TRS limits. The sponsor also said the bill would add 30 maternity leave days, allow voluntary supplemental contributions for Tier Four teachers, and include a floor amendment directing the state auditor to audit TRS and report on agency leave policies.
During the presentation, the sponsor emphasized fairness, transparency, and accountability, and used a hypothetical high-salary administrator to illustrate how leave payouts can increase retirement benefits and create additional unfunded liability. Senator Mills thanked the sponsor and said members had been working to understand the issue, but no committee action on Senate Bill 9 was completed in the portion provided.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Keep Texas competitive.
- Keep Texas competitive.
- It has to be coded manually.
- Here on where debt is in Texas.
- for Texas state employees. ...compensation costs under control in Texas for Texas state employees, right
Bills:
SB 1
Keywords:
campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards
Summary:
The committee first heard the Legislative Budget Board and Secretary of State Jane Nelson on the Secretary of State budget. LBB said the recommendation would reduce the agency’s appropriation by about $40.3 million overall, with major changes including removing federal HAVA funding and one-time business system replacement money, adjusting the agency’s base request, deleting an outdated Interstate Crosscheck rider, and directing HAVA funds to be drawn down first. Secretary Nelson and staff defended the agency’s needs, emphasizing election security, business filings, international protocol, and the Texas Register, and requested additional staff, a new website, digitization of records, IT and cybersecurity upgrades, and renovation of the Rudder Building. Senators discussed voter-roll maintenance, cross-checking data, call-center response times, and the need for online voter registration and more efficient election administration. No votes were taken.
The committee then took up the Office of the Governor and trustee programs. LBB outlined a $2.4 million decrease for the office proper and a much larger decrease in trustee programs, driven by unexpended balances and the removal of one-time federal and border-security items, while noting continued funding for disaster response, victim assistance, and $2.9 billion for border security at roughly the prior level. Governor’s staff said Texas remains focused on border security, economic development, and public safety, and discussed efforts to seek federal reimbursement for prior border spending. Members asked about the National Guard’s status, possible federal assumption of border costs, the music incubator program, the Semiconductor Innovation Consortium, the Governor’s University Research Initiative, defense economic adjustment grants, and a new $5 million nonprofit security grant proposal. Staff said the semiconductor program has 12 approved projects totaling about 948 jobs and $17 billion in capital investment, and that the nonprofit security request was added late to address threats to houses of worship and other nonprofits. No formal action was taken.
Finally, the committee heard the Texas Facilities Commission and lease-payment recommendations. LBB said the Facilities Commission recommendation would reduce appropriations by about $2.0 billion, mainly by removing border wall construction funding and capital complex bond funding, while adding money for higher utility costs, Rudder Building refurbishment, and additional staff. The lease-payment recommendation would decrease general revenue by $9.3 million. LBB also noted new riders related to completing the State Library and Archives building, tenant communication during disruptions, and a space-utilization report. In agency testimony, members asked about border wall maintenance responsibility, total facilities-related debt, and the status of capital complex construction. The Rudder Building renovation and related security needs were repeatedly discussed as important one-time infrastructure investments.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- HB 300 by Wilson-Early. to the scholarships under the Texas Armed Services Scholarship Program for the
- The authority of the railroad commission of Texas and the public utility commission of Texas to address
- Taxes to Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, Texas Fair Plan Association with the Committee on Insurance
- Driving Texas Families Program for the Committee on Public Health.
- Senate and the Texas House of Representatives for the committee. on redistricting.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- HB 13 by King relating to the creating of the Texas interability council in the grant program in ministry
- And the Texas public utility commission to support the deployment of advanced nuclear reactions in the
- in the public utility Commission of Texas to address a failure of the operator to maintain electric
- A silver billion for the state to hold in the Texas billion dispository.
- HB 1147 by Gomez relating to the establishment by the Texas Workforce.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- levels, and that, frankly, is helping the state of California's revenues with our progressive tax code
- There's a lot of unjust application of our tax code, loopholes, and other areas that could have provided
- so that we can all live up to a commitment that I've heard expressed many times to right-size our penal
- Program; on behalf of the LA Public Defenders Union for the inclusion of continued funding for the Penal
- Code Revision Committee and the California Policy Lab to continue their partnership; and on behalf of
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V Feb 25th, 2025
Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill created the Texas State Buildings Preservation.
- The Capital Fund and the Texas State History Museum Fund.
- Thank you. be talking about the Texas Veterans Commission.
- Goal B allows the Texas the TBC's Fund for Veteran Assistance.
- As you may know, Texas now have a Trauma Recovery Center.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The Texas-Mexico border.
- Texas imports 11 billion of fresh produce from Mexico every year, and according to Texas A&M, these imports
- Texas cannot afford this program to go away.
- Uh, representing Texas farmer, ranchers.
- Of what we've dealt with just in North Texas.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Taxation and Revenue Feb 4th, 2026 at 08:32 am
House Taxation & Revenue
Transcript Highlights:
- However, to land the next generation of high-paying jobs, we must modernize our tax code to match how
- And Texas does have a very robust R&D credit.
- We are allowing for these entities that have already used New Mexico's tax code with decision makers
- We've decided in our tax code to enact this lab small business tax credit, which gets to that, as well
- And you're looking at Texas, you're looking at Arizona, and then here we are in the middle.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- estimates are that we're talking about probably close to 200,000 students in the, in the state of Texas
- Jennifer Deakins on behalf of the Texas Optome Optometric Association and yourself testifying for the
- We are a Title One school and more than one third are considered at risk by the Texas Code of Education
- Laurie LaChance, uh, on behalf of the Texas School Nurses nurses Organization and yourself testifying
- And the size of, um, of Texas students, but 80% of learning for young people is visual.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Under current law, all Texas licensed dentists may administer.
- And you are with the Texas Academy of General Dentistry, Texas Dental Association, and yourself, and
- I'm representing myself, the Texas Academy of General Dentistry, and the Texas Dental Association, which
- together represent more than 11,000 member dentists in Texas.
- Thank you for serving Texas. Yes, thank you.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Higher Education Committee and Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee Aug 26th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Does the CSU know the model weights embedded in the code?
- Some professors openly encourage AI literacy and integration within their classrooms, while others penalize
- on retaining knowledge and demonstrating their learning rather than feeling as though they may be penalized
Summary:
The Assembly Committee on Higher Education and the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee held an oversight hearing on the California State University’s AI-empowered initiative, including the systemwide rollout of ChatGPT EDU and broader AI integration across CSU campuses. Opening remarks emphasized both the promise of AI for student success, workforce preparation, and access, and the need to address risks such as bias, privacy, misinformation, environmental impacts, and mental health harms. CSU representatives said the initiative grew out of Academic Senate recommendations and a systemwide generative AI committee, and that the goal was to provide equitable access, training, governance, and workforce alignment across the 23-campus system.
CSU officials described systemwide contracts for AI tools, the AI Commons training hub, and faculty grant programs supporting AI-related curriculum innovation. They said more than 93,000 ChatGPT EDU accounts had been activated, over 4,300 faculty had taken voluntary training, and $3 million had been awarded to 63 faculty-led projects from more than 400 submissions. San Jose State University highlighted its own AI-focused programs, courses, orientation training, faculty fellows, student ambassadors, and interdisciplinary efforts to build AI literacy and responsible use into instruction and co-curricular programs. CSU also said it was tracking metrics on adoption, academic outcomes, workforce outcomes, and environmental impacts.
Faculty, staff, and student representatives welcomed the educational potential of AI but raised concerns about the rollout, saying it had moved quickly and without enough consultation or consistent systemwide policy. They urged stronger protections for academic freedom, intellectual property, privacy, equity, and worker input, and warned about bias, surveillance, job displacement, and the environmental cost of AI. Legislators pressed CSU and OpenAI representatives on training requirements, data privacy, bias reporting, discipline for misuse, liability, sycophancy, and safeguards against harmful uses such as non-consensual imagery or self-harm-related interactions. CSU said interactions in the licensed tool are private, data are not used to train models, and campuses retain their own conduct processes; members also asked CSU to follow up on systemwide training, policy consistency, and additional safeguards.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Business and Professions Committee Jul 1st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- and Insurance Code to the Business and Professions Code.
- and Insurance Code to the Business and Professions Code.
- However, after conversations... ...and the Health and Safety Code and Insurance Code along with the mandate
- provisions from the Health and Safety Code and the Insurance Code to the Business and Professions Code
- provisions from the health and safety code and the insurance code to the business and professions code
Summary:
The Assembly Business and Professions Committee heard several measures, including SB 402 by Senator Valadares, which would move existing qualification requirements for qualified autism service providers and related professionals from the Health and Safety Code and Insurance Code into the Business and Professions Code without changing the standards. Supporters said it was a technical cleanup that would improve consistency and legislative oversight, while an opponent argued the bill was unnecessary and could create access issues; another witness urged inclusion of the QABA credentialing board. The committee approved SB 402 on a due pass motion to the Committee on Health.
The committee also heard SB 378 by Senator Wiener, aimed at online platforms that facilitate sales of illicit cannabis and intoxicating hemp products. Supporters, including labor, local government, and cannabis industry representatives, said the bill would help protect consumers, minors, legal businesses, and tax revenue by creating accountability for online marketplaces. Opponents from the hemp industry and TechNet argued the bill was overly broad, could sweep in legitimate platforms and payment services, and should better distinguish bad actors from compliant hemp businesses; members discussed implementation, enforcement through a private right of action, and coordination with AB 8. The committee passed SB 378 to the Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection.
Senator Arreguín presented SB 779, which would establish minimum enforcement fines for Contractors State License Board citations where minimums are currently very low or absent, and would raise the board’s reserve cap from six months to 12 months. The sponsor said the changes would better match penalties to violations and help support consumer protection and board operations during economic downturns. There was no opposition, and the committee approved SB 779 as amended to the Committee on Appropriations.
The committee also approved the consent calendar, which included SB 344 and AB 652, both sent to Appropriations. SB 508 was not heard because it had been pulled by the author.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Friday, March 27, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- >> The gentleman from Texas is recognized.
- >> The gentleman from Texas is recognized.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Senate Health and Human Services (01/08/2026)
Health and Human Services
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