Video & Transcript Research : 'legislative practices'
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DE
Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee Meeting Jun 25th, 2026 at 11:00 am
Elections & Government Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Warshaw worked with Representative Wilson Anton in drafting the legislation. Thank you, Senator.
- They reflect read. ...and turnout highlighted in this legislation are not just statistics.
- YWCA Delaware urges the committee to vote this legislation out. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Cato.
- And most of the time, a business's operating agreement can override this legislation. Thank you.
- I think the commissioner actually is technically the lead witness on this piece of legislation.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Science, Technology and Telecommunications Sep 23rd, 2025
Science, Technology & Telecommunications Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Knowledge of what their practices are and why they have those practices doesn't leave with them.
- and maintain those practices during the course of the engagement.
- We need to make sure the legislators do.
- Any legislator that wants—I can't really do it in this setting—but any legislator that would like to
- The first topic is: What could Virtual Power Plant legislation do?
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session May 18th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- On behalf of the Legislative Women's Caucus, I rise in support of ACR 195.
- I rise on behalf of the new California Legislative Christian Caucus.
- You see it as anti-LGBT legislation.
- I will specifically speak to the parents' rights legislation.
- AB 2059 makes CEQA implementation more practical and proportional.
Summary:
The Assembly convened after a quorum call and opened with a prayer and pledge, then held a ceremonial observance for Jewish American Heritage Month. Assembly Concurrent Resolution 195 by Assembly Member Gabriel was presented with extensive remarks from members of multiple caucuses highlighting Jewish Californians’ contributions, the importance of solidarity amid rising antisemitism, and themes of tikkun olam and tzedakah. The resolution was adopted by voice vote after 67 co-authors were added, and the chamber then recognized 14 honorees for their service in public life, philanthropy, media, faith leadership, education, and civic engagement.
The floor also featured guest introductions and a procedural vote on Assembly Constitutional Amendment 9 by Assembly Member Borrero, which would add affordability as a required consideration in CPUC rate-making, remove telecommunications from the commission’s portfolio, create an office of broadband, and expand legislative appointments. The amendment was adopted. The Assembly then moved through a long third-reading file, passing measures including AB 1697 delaying implementation of a 2025 employment law, AB 2322 on stormwater permit definitions, AB 1653 on hearing-illness education, AB 2274 closing a loophole involving secrecy in trafficking cases, AB 2512 on Anaheim Angels naming language tied to a land exemption, AB 1956 prioritizing young men and boys in suicide prevention, and AB 2273 addressing prosecutorial handling of a local sexual abuse case.
Additional bills passed included AB 1809 extending job order contracting for school and community college districts, AB 1970 banning step therapy for serious mental illness and substance use disorder medications, AB 1973 expanding practice authority for advanced practice clinicians, AB 2055 updating vessel law, and AB 2059 narrowing CEQA vehicle-mile-traveled mitigation for certain rural highway projects. The Assembly also adopted ACR 186 designating May 2026 as California Physical Fitness and Mental Well-Being Month and H.R. 11 recognizing the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia, and Transphobia after a lengthy debate that included support from several caucuses and some disagreement over the resolution’s framing of current threats to LGBTQ+ communities.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- It codifies a practical impossibility into an actual impossibility.
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way path again where the only practical way path again where the only practical - Every single person wanted to be a legislator.
- Every single person wanted to be a legislator.
- why they don't support that legislation why they don't support that legislation um<02:16:59.840>
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Rules Apr 21st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- >> THAT IS A HIPPA TERM WHICH HAS A SPECIFIED MEANING WITHIN HEALTHCARE PRACTICES, THEREFORE THAT WAS
- I RUN A MEDICAL PRACTICE.
- WHAT PROBLEM ARE WE TRYING TO SOLVE WITH THIS PROVISION IN THE LEGISLATION?
- HERE UNLESS THEY HAVE BEEN PRACTICING FOR THREE OUT OF THE LAST FOUR YEARS.
- WE HAVE THE ABILITY AS LEGISLATORS TO NARROWLY TAILOR LEGISLATION IF IT SERVES A COMPELLING GOVERNMENT
VT
Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session - 2026-05-21 - 10:00AM
Vermont Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, so it's just the practice of forestry itself.
- Um, so it's just the practice of exempt.
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for acceptable management practices for acceptable management practices for - So, our amazing legislative council did a bunch of research.
- We heard from Legislative Council.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Apr 22nd, 2026
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Good afternoon, distinguished legislators, ladies and gentlemen.
- We have to run legislation to change the world. We implement legislation.
- We have to change that legislation. This is a step. There will be more steps that follow.
- We have to run legislation to change the world. We implement legislation.
- We have to change that legislation. This is a step. There will be more steps that follow.
Bills:
HB3834, HB3940, HB4346, HB2947, HB3257, HB3264, HB4326, HB4421, HB3944, HB3979, HB4118, SCR22, SB169, HB1047, HB2123, HB2650, HB3260, HB3403, SR41, HB3649, HB3742, HB3831, HB3996, HB4321, HB4339
Keywords:
HB3834, Oklahoma Breakthrough Therapy Act, ibogaine, ibogaine-based therapeutics, ibogaine analogs, clinical trials, FDA approval, breakthrough therapy designation, opioid use disorder, substance use disorder, traumatic brain injury, mental health, neurological disorders, drug development, public-private partnership, State Department of Health, intellectual property, revolving fund, research funding, medical licensing
Summary:
The Senate convened with a quorum, heard an invocation, and recognized several guests and groups in the gallery, including the Ponca City High School Poe High Steppers, the Edmond Democratic Women, family members of senators, a Grace Reform Baptist Church co-op group, and Oklahoma 4-H participants. The chamber also honored the Red Oak Lady Eagles state championship basketball team with a citation and remarks celebrating their first school basketball title and strong season.
The Senate adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 22, supporting the Lights Out Oklahoma campaign to reduce bird mortality during migration by encouraging reduced exterior lighting in peak migration months. The chamber also adopted Senate Resolution 41, proclaiming April 22, 2026, as the 27th annual 4-H Day at the Capitol, with testimony from 4-H representatives emphasizing youth leadership, civic engagement, and workforce readiness.
Several bills passed, including House Bill 169 (house amendments adopted and the bill passed as an emergency measure), House Bill 2123 on the Arkansas River bridge, House Bill 2650 on summary administration estate thresholds, House Bill 3260 on funeral director continuing education approvals, House Bill 3403 on a DEQ/OSU sewage sludge pilot study, House Bill 3649 on the Mental Health Department real property trust, House Bill 3742 on criminal discovery, House Bill 3831 on a Task Force One revolving fund, House Bill 3996 on indigent defense experts in capital cases, House Bill 4321 on limits on retroactive building rule application, and House Bill 4339 on summary administration notice timing. House Bill 1047, which would have authorized a tribal sports betting framework and related revenue distributions, drew extensive debate over gambling addiction, revenue, tribal compacts, geofencing, and NIL funding, but failed 21-27; Senator Coleman gave notice of intent to reconsider. The Senate then announced an Appropriations Committee meeting and adjourned until the next scheduled session.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Appropriations Feb 12th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- I just want to level-set expectations of the practicality of some of these things.
- I'm Kara Gross, the legislative director. Good morning.
- So this legislation is not serious about curbing illegal immigration.
- And some would be pleased, but as a practical matter. Just two other elements.
- Therefore, I cannot in good conscience support this legislation. Another life.
Summary:
The Senate Appropriations Committee met to hear SB 2-C, a major immigration enforcement bill sponsored by Senator Gruters and co-introduced by Senator Fine. The sponsor described the bill as a response to federal immigration priorities and said it replaces a single immigration officer with a State Board of Immigration Enforcement, expands local-federal cooperation, increases penalties for crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants, requires detention in certain cases, broadens information sharing, funds detention-bed expansion and law-enforcement training, and ends in-state tuition waivers for undocumented students. The bill also includes provisions related to sanctuary policies, voter fraud, transport of unauthorized aliens, and driver’s license-related offenses. The sponsor said the bill appropriates roughly $300 million overall, including $250 million for grants and $48 million for the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for interdiction and border-related enforcement work.
Committee members questioned the bill’s scope, costs, and implementation. Senators focused heavily on the tuition-waiver repeal, asking how many students would be affected and whether the bill would harm students who have long lived in Florida. They also pressed on whether the bill should include stronger E-Verify provisions, how sanctuary-policy enforcement would work, whether local officials could be penalized for policy choices, and how immigration status would be verified in court and jail settings. The sponsor and Senator Fine said the tuition waiver would be removed for undocumented students, that the bill does not address E-Verify, and that the measure is intended to make immigration status a factor in detention and sentencing. Questions also addressed detention-bed capacity, reimbursement rates, and whether corrections staff would receive bonuses or salary increases; sponsors said bonuses are included for participating law enforcement, while broader salary issues would be handled in the regular budget process.
Public testimony was sharply divided. Supporters and information-only witnesses, including Sheriff Bob Gualtieri and former officials, said the bill would help Florida coordinate with federal authorities, expand bed space, and close loopholes in existing immigration enforcement. Opponents from the Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU of Florida, Florida Policy Institute, labor groups, and immigrant advocates argued the bill is unconstitutional, likely to trigger litigation, and harmful to families, schools, and the economy. They warned that the pretrial detention provisions could lead to wrongful detentions and that the tuition changes would reduce access to higher education and cost the state tuition revenue. No final vote is reflected in the transcript excerpt, but the committee continued through public comment and extended the meeting to complete the agenda.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, June 29, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I urge my colleagues to support this legislation and I reserve the balance of legislation and I reserve
- This legislation Protect taxpayers.
- This legislation is This legislation is the most comprehensive, impactful children's online safety package
- I will yield four minutes to the author of this legislation, who's worked tirelessly on this legislation
- Importantly, the legislation also brings industry experts legislation also brings industry experts to
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session May 18th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- On behalf of the Legislative Women's Caucus, I rise in support of ACR 195.
- Today I rise on behalf of the California Legislative Native American Caucus.
- I rise on behalf of the new California Legislative Christian Caucus.
- I will specifically speak to the parents' rights legislation.
- AB 2059 makes CEQA implementation more practical and proportional.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Science, Technology and Telecommunications Sep 22nd, 2025
Science, Technology & Telecommunications Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- We have become eligible for funding again, and I want to say thank you to you all as legislators.
- We were appropriated around $300,000 this past legislative session for wind and CDL equipment.
- We visited with Charles Lee and members of the Legislative Finance Committee as well.
- The laboratory, where all that practical work takes place, is part of the display.
- He showed how the Pythagorean theorem is actually the practical use of math.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hied Committee Meeting - 2025-04-21
Higher Education Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- This allows OHE to consolidate mandated legislative reports for various programs into a single report
- We are hopeful that at the end of this legislative session, you may have additional resources to deal
- We are committed to clinical practice, research, and education.
- Our practice spans the spectrum of care from the most primary to the most complex.
- We also empathize with the hard decisions that you all have to make this legislative session.
Bills:
HF2312
Keywords:
higher education, college finance, student aid, financial aid, state grants, North Star Promise, scholarships, tuition relief, Minnesota State, University of Minnesota, Office of Higher Education, work-study, child care grants, Indian scholarships, tribal colleges, Hunger-Free Campus, student parents, pregnant students, parenting students, sexual misconduct
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Banking and Finance Committee Apr 21st, 2025
Banking and Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm just thinking about the practicality and the implementation of this.
- What is the practicality of them accessing these accounts?
- I'm just thinking about the practicality of the implementation.
- That's where I think we're caught up in this: the practicality of it.
- So the practicality of it is that if there's...
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Judiciary Mar 12th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- This legislation would create...
- The legislation is being pushed because some say that this affects their profits.
- I teach and practice defamation law.
- Well, I believe it is our legislative intent to find what it says.
- I am Jackson, and I'm the Legislative Director for Florida Rising.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- legislative day. legislative day.
- legislators who dined together. legislators who dined together.
- I— Is it common practice for legislators to leave capital grounds to do things like... early and drank
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AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/11/2026 - House Government #1
Transcript Highlights:
- So... ...in Arizona that they don't want these types of practices here in the state of Arizona.
- Additionally, the practice of requiring students and faculty Additionally, the practice of requiring
- I have practiced juvenile law in Pima County for over 25 years.
- I've practiced juvenile law in Pima County for over 25 years.
- I have been practicing juvenile law for over 25 years. HB 2676 corrects a conflict of law there.
Summary:
The Special Committee on Government heard and advanced three measures. First, HCR 2044, a constitutional amendment to expand Arizona’s prohibition on preferential treatment and discrimination based on race or ethnicity in public education, public spending, and hiring, drew support from the Speaker, Goldwater Institute, and other advocates who argued it would close loopholes and reaffirm merit-based treatment. Opponents argued it would chill speech, training, and discussion of race and identity in public institutions. The committee approved the resolution on a 4-3 vote.
The committee then considered HB 2671, as amended, which narrows mandatory transfer to adult court for juveniles by limiting chronic felony offender treatment to higher-level felonies and preserving judicial/prosecutorial discretion for lower-level repeat offenses. The sponsor and juvenile defense testimony said the bill would keep low-level youth offenders in juvenile court where rehabilitative services are available and reduce recidivism, while still holding them accountable. The Blackman amendment was adopted, and the bill passed 7-0.
Finally, HB 2676 was heard to reduce the age for restoring firearm possession rights for certain juvenile offenders from 30 to 25 and to broaden restoration eligibility for other juvenile felony convictions. Supporters said it would align firearm-rights restoration with juvenile record-destruction timelines and help rehabilitated individuals move forward without unnecessary barriers. The committee approved HB 2676 unanimously, 7-0.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It bans practice tests and non-curricular benchmark tests.
- We know with certainty that that's a bad instructional practice.
- So we do not change the blueprint of the test, barring legislative action.
- that legislative mandate.
- I do want to say that in classroom practice.
Bills:
HB8
Keywords:
HB 8, Texas public school accountability, school accountability, public school transparency, STAAR, state assessments, instructionally supportive assessment program, Student Success Tool, Texas Education Agency, TEA, accountability ratings, A-F ratings, through-year assessment, benchmark testing, norm-referenced assessment, college career military readiness, CCMR, local accountability plan, school district performance, campus turnaround
Summary:
The House Committee on Public Education met to hear House Bill 8, which would replace STAAR with a new assessment and accountability system beginning in the 2027-28 school year. The chair described the bill as reducing testing time, limiting benchmark tests, adding beginning-, middle-, and end-of-year assessments, requiring faster score turnaround, involving Texas teachers in test development, and tightening accountability timelines and transparency rules. Members also discussed provisions on A-F ratings, cut scores, CCMR, local accountability plans, and TEA reporting requirements.
Committee members and invited witnesses split sharply on the bill’s approach. Supporters, including the chair, TEA Commissioner Mike Morath, and Ed Trust’s Nicholas Munyon Penny, argued the bill would reduce high-stakes pressure, provide quicker and more actionable data, limit over-testing, and better align assessments to Texas standards while preserving criterion-referenced accountability. They said the new system would help teachers and parents intervene sooner and would improve transparency, including parent access to student responses and automatic rescoring in some writing cases.
Opponents, including Rep. Hinojosa and student witness Ella Moran, argued the bill still increases testing and replaces one high-stakes test with multiple TEA-created tests. Moran testified that STAAR creates anxiety, disrupts instruction, and does not reflect real learning, while Hinojosa said the House had previously passed a better bill based on a nationally norm-referenced model and criticized the new proposal as a concession to the Senate. Questions also focused on AI scoring of writing, rescoring rates, and whether the bill’s new accountability rules would be reliable and fair. The committee did not take a final vote during the portion provided, but the chair said a vote on HB 8 would be called after public testimony later in the day.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House DFL Press Conference 3/27/25
Transcript Highlights:
- One of our top legislative priorities at the foundation is housing. The city of St.
- program would not only make Minnesota's roads safer but would also help cut this discriminatory practice
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NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York State Senate Session - 06/02/2026
New York Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I use acupuncture for migraines; it is really a great practice.
- So today, we’re passing legislation that will save lives.
- FROM THESE USUROUS AND EXPLOITIVE PRACTICES.
- This legislation is certainly well intentioned.
- I want to thank Senator Bynoe for the legislation.
Summary:
The Senate convened, approved the prior day’s journal, and then processed a large number of motions to discharge bills from committees and substitute identical Senate or Assembly versions for third reading. The chamber also adopted the resolution calendar with exceptions and took up several resolutions and ceremonial recognitions, including a resolution mourning Hudson Talbott, a Dairy Month resolution highlighting New York’s dairy industry, and introductions honoring Niskayuna academic teams, Gabriella Scheer for receiving the Liberty Medal, the Hartstein family’s civic engagement, and Diana Cochran’s advocacy for safe firearm storage.
The Senate then moved through the calendar and passed many bills on topics including insurance, public health, education, labor, social services, banking, local government, veterans, public service, consumer protection, criminal procedure, cannabis, parks, taxation, election law, and highway matters. Several members explained votes on notable measures: support for acupuncture insurance coverage, consumer protections for doorbell-camera data sharing, expanded protections in debt collection cases, trauma-informed procedures for sexual assault survivors, a Legionnaires’ disease awareness program, changes to mandatory minimum sentencing, and universal safe storage of firearms. A number of home rule and local authorization bills were also approved, including parkland alienation measures and local tax exemption authorizations.
Most measures passed with broad bipartisan support, though some drew recorded opposition. Notable roll calls included the consumer debt uniformity bill, the mandatory minimum sentencing bill, the safe storage/firearms bill, and the public housing and public health measures, each with more divided votes. The chamber also accepted a lengthy Rules Committee report sending many additional bills directly to third reading, and then began the supplemental calendar, passing at least the first items before the transcript ended.
VT
Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session - 2026-05-13 - 10:00AM
Vermont Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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