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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 4th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Washington House Floor Meeting

Summary: The House convened with a quorum, recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and heard a prayer from Tammy Stamphley, a Presbyterian minister and hospital chaplain. After approving the previous day’s minutes and receiving a Senate message, the chamber moved to second and third reading of several bills, with multiple measures advanced under suspended rules. The first major vote was on Engrossed Senate Bill 5872, which establishes a pre-K-related account to support up to 10,000 additional early learning slots for three- and four-year-olds. Supporters emphasized the Balmer Group’s private funding commitment and the value of early learning and family support; the bill passed 97-0. Substitute Senate Bill 5834, a Department of Retirement Systems request bill changing the fund source for legal, medical, administrative, and fraud-prevention expenses using interest earnings from pension funds, also passed 97-0. Substitute House Bill 2689, dealing with the Working Connections Child Care program, drew the most debate. Supporters said it aligned attendance policy with federal rules, adjusted reimbursement rates, and helped balance the budget while preserving child care resources. Opponents argued it cut support in rural and underserved counties, would worsen child care deserts, and placed budget savings on the child care industry; it passed 53-44. The House then passed Senate Bill 5922, allowing school districts to transfer vehicle depreciation funds with OSPI approval, by 59-38, and Senate Bill 6065, a narrower bill for districts under enhanced financial oversight such as Prescott, by 97-0. The session ended with announcements that both caucuses would meet later in the day.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 4th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I can't imagine being on a transit train going through Washington.
  • I saw on social media somebody said, well, I bet they wish they had trains.
  • I saw on social media somebody said, well, I bet they wish they had trains.
  • labor is at the table as we move forward when we modernize the ports.
  • But I also agree that we need to take care of our labor forces. They're working in our ports.
Summary: The House received a Senate message announcing passage of Substitute House Bill 1570 and then moved several bills from Rules to the second reading calendar, including Substitute Senate Bill 5242 on anaphylaxis medications in schools and Senate Bill 6132 on Inland Port District debt. The chamber then took up a series of bills, beginning with Senate Bill 5988 on Department of Health accreditation fee authority for opioid treatment programs. An amendment to cap the fee at $17,000 was debated at length but failed, and a separate amendment was ruled beyond the scope of the bill. Senate Bill 5988 then passed 62-34. The House next considered Substitute Senate Bill 6309 on enhanced municipal permitting tools for high-capacity transit projects. Several amendments were offered to require written consent from abutting property owners, preserve setback and seismic/critical-area protections, and add transparency provisions, but the scope challenge to the transparency amendment was sustained and the other amendments failed. Supporters argued the bill would streamline permitting for Sound Transit and reduce taxpayer costs; opponents said it gave a large transit authority too much discretion and weakened property-rights and land-use protections. The bill passed 56-38. The House also passed Substitute Senate Bill 5886 on personality rights and digital likeness protections, and Senate Bill 6136 on workers’ compensation transparency, both with strong bipartisan support. After caucuses and a rule suspension to work past 10 p.m., the House took up additional second-reading bills. It passed Substitute Senate Bill 6034 to codify the Governor’s Office of Indian Affairs, Gross Second Substitute Senate Bill 5395 on prior authorization and AI in health care, Substitute Senate Bill 6248 creating the Washington Travel Insurance Act, Substitute Senate Bill 5720 on uniform consumer debt default judgments, Senate Bill 5995 on port modernization funding with labor-related concerns, and Senate Bill 6103 affecting rural hospitals and enrollment status subject to appropriation. Later, the House passed Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6110 on e-motorcycle regulation, Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5156 allowing smaller elevators in some housing, Substitute Senate Bill 6269 updating motor fuel definitions to include hydrogen, Substitute Senate Bill 6189 extending time for Thurston County to pursue an aquatics public facilities district, and Senate Bill 6134 requiring unemployment applicants to acknowledge repayment if retroactive union pay is received. Most bills passed with large majorities, though some drew dissent over labor, property rights, transit governance, or regulatory scope.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Community Safety Jan 13th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Community Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • I think they do quarterly training.
  • we won't allow training..."
  • "We will allow training with these countries, but we won't allow training with these countries.
  • Could we train with them? I don't know. The RCMP..." "Train with them. I don't know.
  • He said that that training and the Krav Maga training that he got outside the country was the best training
Bills: HB2165 , HB2173 , HB2203 , HB2293
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 16th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • With the consent of the House, the bill will be substituted as recommended by the Labor and Workplace
Summary: The House convened with a quorum, offered the Pledge of Allegiance and prayer, approved the prior day’s minutes, and adopted House Resolution 4691 recognizing Presidents’ Day. Supporters of the resolution praised presidential leadership and civic ideals, while one member used the occasion to note the historical harms and contradictions of figures such as Washington, Lincoln, and FDR. The resolution was adopted by voice vote, and the House also recognized visiting former legislators and Black leaders in the chamber. The chamber then took up several bills, often suspending the rules to move measures directly to third reading. Second Substitute House Bill 1923, creating a local option for passenger-only ferry districts, passed 84-11 after debate over ferry reliability, local control, and possible tax “stacking.” Substitute House Bill 2475, requiring language-accessible public programs and services, passed 62-33 amid support for access and safety and opposition over unfunded mandates, overregulation, and concerns about technology and assimilation. Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2508, clarifying the Office of Independent Investigations’ authority, passed 90-6 after a technical amendment; supporters said it would improve police accountability processes, while some noted remaining concerns about investigations. House Bill 2464, requiring reporting and law-enforcement response data for incidents at private detention facilities, passed 58-38, with supporters emphasizing transparency and critics calling it political and questioning the agency chosen to collect the data. Substitute House Bill 2203, creating reckless interference with emergency barricades, passed 94-2 after testimony about flood rescues and the need for stronger deterrence. Second Substitute House Bill 2384, increasing oversight of continuing care retirement communities, passed 78-14; supporters cited senior protections and solvency, while opponents worried about duplicative costs. Second Substitute House Bill 2333, allowing certain campaign funds to be used for security and related protections for elected officials and candidates, passed 71-21 after debate over political violence and concerns about self-dealing. Second Substitute House Bill 1909, creating a Court Unification Task Force, passed 56-36, with supporters citing inconsistent court administration and opponents defending local control. The House also passed Second Substitute House Bill 1906 on water system rate transparency and consumer protection, 91-1; Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2548 on health care market standards and mergers, 53-38; Substitute House Bill 2405 establishing a PTSD pilot program with early treatment and return-to-work provisions, 90-1; and Substitute House Bill 2323 creating a Blue Envelope Program for autistic and neurodiverse drivers during traffic stops, 92-1. Throughout the day, members frequently split along lines of transparency, consumer protection, public safety, local control, and concerns about mandates or regulatory burden.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 16th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • standards as other law enforcement individuals or peace officers when it comes to training, safety,
  • The striking amendment that we are now amending already does contain the training requirement for those
  • The amendment already does contain the training requirement for those limited peace officers that will
  • They're not trained... ...you could have a situation where somebody goes to do this, they're not trained
  • violations or With local prosecutors to probe crimes such as labor violations or consumer fraud.
Summary: The House first considered House Bill 2156, which would authorize investigators in the Attorney General’s Office to serve electronic search warrants in limited economic and financial crime investigations, especially organized retail crime. Members debated a series of amendments on training standards, scope, background checks, warrant service, and definitions of covered crimes. Some amendments were adopted, including changes clarifying training and decertification standards, narrowing the scope of economic and financial crimes, and refining warrant-service language; others were rejected or ruled out of scope. The amended striking amendment passed 52-39, and the bill then passed final reading 54-43. The House then moved through several other measures. House Bill 2219, dealing with child care operational efficiency and licensing, was amended to strengthen safety language around opioids in licensed child care settings and passed 95-1. House Bill 2124, which raises the threshold for lump-sum retirement allowance payments, passed 96-0. House Bill 2266, concerning permanent supportive housing, traditional housing, and indoor emergency housing, was amended to add local-government notice, transparency, community-meeting, and siting provisions, then passed 56-40. Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1784, on certified medical assistants and telemedicine-related practice, received a cleanup amendment and passed 96-0. The House also passed House Bill 2523, which codifies the Community Reinvestment Program, after rejecting an amendment that would have redirected some funds to economic development; the bill passed 88-9. House Bill 2113, allowing certain medical supervision of diagnostic radiologic procedures in emergency settings, passed 97-0. House Bill 2632, updating state law terminology from “alien” to “non-citizen,” passed 58-39 after debate over precision versus respectful language. Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2476, expanding seating limits for theaters serving alcohol, passed 81-50. Finally, House Bill 2320, addressing firearms manufacturing involving 3D printers and CNC machines, was heavily amended to narrow and clarify language around code and additive manufacturing before the striker passed. The bill’s supporters framed it as a response to ghost-gun risks and recent incidents involving 3D-printed firearms, while opponents raised constitutional concerns about speech and gun rights. The transcript cuts off before the final vote on HB 2320 is recorded.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • going to go looking for rural law enforcement to see if they can help them with equipment, money, training
  • HB 3763 is a training bill.
  • Mandatory two-hour domestic violence training will not increase the 24-hour training that law enforcement
  • has, but it will go toward the continuing education training such as sexual assaults and sexual assaults
Bills: HB2993 , HB3850 , HB3595 , HB3763 , HB3760
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Postsecondary Education Apr 7th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Postsecondary Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • into the part of the Bill that deals with the Oklahoma Free Speech Committee forming a free speech training
  • have a really phenomenal group at the Free Speech Committee that does a great job on free speech training
  • Senate Bill 1726 will Establish a training course or a base level of training for graduate student instructors
  • Representative, is there no onboarding training for our faculty?
  • On that, I guess it's somewhat analogous to the requirements of base-level training for our K-12 instructors
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Apr 2nd, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • strengthen support systems around notaries public also to maintain their records for longer, some training
  • I'm required to have paternity testing, I'm sorry, affidavit of paternity. training and seizures training
  • This is not intended for the well-meaning… well-intentioned, well-trained notary public loan signing
  • HB 3704 is related to the education, training, and practices of notaries but at the end of the day it
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Apr 2nd, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • In Texas, implicit bias training is required for new police officers.
  • What should we expect the outcome of this training to be?
  • And so, having this training where perhaps...
  • Bias training for judges is not radical. This concept is not radical.
  • So more training, better training, training on implicit bias makes us all better, our judiciary, and
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/26

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm calling to order this meeting of the House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and
  • </c><00:25:38.000><c> So</c> they're training at the hospital. So they're training at the hospital.
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  • We're talking about train derailments or aviation emergencies, severe weather.
  • There's formal training at a bachelor's, master's, and doctorate level.
Bills: HF4072 , HF3691 , HF4613
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, May 14, 2026)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And more must be done to combat this practice of forced labor.
  • So let's put an end to forced labor and pass this bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
  • That's why we... the tools, the technology, the training, the tools, the technology, the training, and
  • put training, and the willingness to put others<01:29:10.719><c> first.
  • </c><02:17:16.240><c> mightily</c> committee member, has labored mightily committee member, has labored
Bills: HB8365 , HB5625 , HCR75 , HB6260 , HB8469
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Ways & Means Feb 26th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • 2471 moves employers and employee groups that are currently collectively bargained under the National Labor
  • The version before you is a striking amendment from the Committee on Labor and Commerce.
  • This bill comes to you from the Labor and Commerce Policy Committee.
  • Labor and Industries also indicates an indeterminate impact.
  • ABC is very concerned about the project labor agreement that is in this bill.
Committee: Senate Ways & Means
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm Jane Boutai, Director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.
  • ><c> to</c><00:41:11.119><c> adopt</c> labor industrial relations to adopt labor industrial relations
  • HB 287 relates to labor.
  • Reconvening the House Committee on Labor for decision making.
  • Moving on to the last item in the agenda, HB 287, relating to labor.
Committee: House Labor
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Tax, Business and Transportation Feb 7th, 2026 at 06:52 pm

Senate Tax, Business & Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Creates a new gross receipts tax deduction for receipts from the sale of construction materials and labor
  • Creates a new gross receipts tax deduction for receipts from the sale of construction materials and labor
  • requirements without providing workforce support or a reasonable transition period to get us all trained
  • answers, slowing development with litigation and stop orders, increasing costs, deepening the skilled labor
Bills: SB12 , SB36 , SB92 , SB120 , SB133 , SB151 , SB18 , SB96
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Feb 6th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • They also use hydropower for electric trains everywhere, and they fully transitioned to electric cars
  • infrastructure requested by WSDOT this session to make transport more efficient for more riders and faster trains
  • infrastructure requested by WSDOT this session to make transport more efficient for more riders and faster trains
  • requested by WSDOT this session to make transportation more efficient for more riders and faster trains
  • It advances economic justice by requiring high labor standards and directing projects to maximize those
Bills: HB2588 , HB2722 , HB2727
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Feb 4th, 2026

Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Transcript Highlights:
  • And I look at New England as a kind of a labor radius.
  • However, if that sort of training was part of Massachusetts' scope of practice, if that sort of training
  • MassPack is also the primary provider of beverage alcohol training for off-premise retail.
  • Under current law, manufacturers pay the dealer that dealer's same hourly labor rate that it charges
  • Manufacturers pay the dealer that dealer's same hourly labor rate that it charges the retail public,
Bills: S2636 , S2628 , S2913 , H4907 , H4877 , H4661 , H4662 , H4597 , H4719 , H4019 , H559 , H4588
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Labor & Commerce Jan 26th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Labor & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • We are in Labor and Commerce today. We are having a potpourri of bills on a variety of topics.
  • Good morning, Chair Saldaña, members of the Senate Labor Commerce Committee.
  • I think we would like to just have labor and issues. I see Tammy there.
  • Members of the committee, Tammy Fallon, with Labor and Industries. Let me unpack a little bit.
Bills: SB6196 , SB6204 , SB6195 , SB5882 , SB6134