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AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- By prioritizing wage garnishment over arrest, this bill will keep people working, keep families together
- This bill streamlines the court's ability to collect debt through wage garnishment and other existing
- Our budget is so significantly small that we have to—we're considering sacrificing wage increases or
- I don't think anybody's going to get rich serving in the state legislature, but with a more living wage
- Wage for the legislature, legislators. Yes, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Márquez.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Business, Trade & Economic Development Jan 29th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- to credit unions, they turn to other less predatory products like even employer-integrated earned wage
- access. ...products like employer-integrated earned wage access or buy now, pay later products.
- Other things we know are harder to implement, like matching minimum wage to inflation, but also, I think
- We don't garnish your wages.
- We don't garnish your wages.
Summary:
The committee heard public testimony on several bills. SB 5976 would revise the Washington Commercial Electronic Mail Act by narrowing liability for misleading email subject lines and changing damages and Consumer Protection Act claims. Business, retail, hospitality, and e-commerce witnesses supported the bill, saying recent litigation has created uncertainty and exposed routine marketing emails to excessive penalties. Consumer advocates and the Washington State Association for Justice opposed it, arguing the current law protects consumers from deceptive marketing and that the bill would weaken enforcement and class actions.
SB 6111 would require age verification and parental consent for minors creating social media accounts, restrict providers’ use of minors’ data, and authorize enforcement by the Attorney General and a limited private right of action. The sponsor and several parents, medical professionals, and advocacy groups supported the bill as a response to social media harms, including addiction, depression, cyberbullying, eating disorders, and exposure to harmful content. Technology and civil liberties witnesses opposed it, warning about privacy, data security, constitutional concerns, and the difficulty of implementing reliable parental consent and age verification.
The committee also heard SB 6250, which would raise the maximum small loan amount from $700 to $1,200 and index it to inflation. The sponsor and a lender representative said the change would update an outdated limit and preserve existing consumer protections. Opponents, including legal aid, poverty, housing, labor, AARP, and community advocates, argued the higher cap would increase debt burdens and fees for low-income borrowers and older adults. Staff also briefed SB 6257, which would allow illness-related tolling for trainee real estate appraiser licensing timelines, and SB 6289, which would direct Commerce to create a statewide economic development and competitiveness strategic plan; SB 6289 drew supportive testimony from Commerce, ports, economic development groups, and business interests. The committee also held confirmation hearings for several Gambling Commission and Lottery appointees, who described their backgrounds and service, but no votes or final actions were taken in the transcript.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- Medical debt remains one of the greatest asset-stripping challenges our low-wage worker clients face.
- Clients come to us having had 20% of their net wages garnished for medical debt. [00:55:25] Clients come
- to us having had 20% of their net wages garnished for medical debt that has been reduced to judgment
- They pay interest, they face wage garnishment, they drain their savings, or never recover financially
- I have been threatened with lawsuits, wage garnishment, and court action.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Jan 12th, 2026
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Requirement four: application of actuarial adjustments for items such as consumer price index, wage growth
- Requirement four: application of actuarial adjustments for items such as consumer price index, wage growth
- represents $44 million above prior year expenditures, which is a 7.8% increase and mainly contributed to wage
- a new actuarial adjustment, something that's not embedded in a CPI, not embedded into some kind of wage
- Just like if I’m adjusting for a CPI or a wage growth or some type of regional housing factor, we want
Keywords:
child protection, medical records, investigation, abuse, neglect, healthcare, Child Protection Team, diagnosis, Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimers, dementia, related dementias, brain health, early detection, caregiver support, elderly affairs, Department of Elderly Affairs, Department of Health, public health outreach, memory loss
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum and first heard SB 624, which would codify DCF’s current practice of allowing batterers intervention programs to offer supplemental faith-based activities so long as participation is voluntary. The bill drew support from faith-based and family organizations, which argued it would restore access to effective rehabilitation options and remove discriminatory barriers. SB 624 was reported favorably after a roll call vote.
The committee then heard SB 42, which would require child protective investigators and child protection teams to rely on qualified medical professionals when a child has a documented pre-existing diagnosis or when a parent requests an exam, and would require clearer notice to parents and custodians at the start of an investigation. Testimony overwhelmingly came from parents, advocates, and disability rights representatives describing cases in which medically complex children were allegedly misdiagnosed as abuse victims and families were separated unnecessarily. Members expressed sympathy and support, and SB 42 was reported favorably.
Next, the committee considered CS/SB 578, creating an Alzheimer’s disease awareness initiative within the Department of Elder Affairs to promote early detection, brain health education, research updates, and clinical trial awareness, with outreach focused on older adults and at-risk populations. An amendment was adopted to place the campaign within the Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative. A caregiver testified about the need for public education and early diagnosis, and the bill was reported favorably.
The committee also took up SPB 7018, a committee bill on child welfare that would extend the definition of “visitor” for foster homes to reduce repeated background checks, make the Step Into Success foster youth workforce pilot permanent and statewide, and create a program through the Florida Institute for Child Welfare to catalog best practices among community-based care lead agencies. The bill was approved as a committee bill and reported favorably. Finally, the Department of Children and Families presented its 2025-26 final funding methodology and rates report for community-based care. Members questioned the proposed tiered model, including insurance costs, risk corridors, prevention funding, performance measures, and regional funding disparities. No vote was taken on the presentation, but members discussed the possible need for follow-up legislation and additional stakeholder input.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Jan 12th, 2026
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Requirement four: application of actuarial adjustments for items such as consumer price index, wage growth
- represents $44 million above prior year expenditures, which is a 7.8% increase and is mainly contributed to wage
- a new actuarial adjustment, something that's not embedded in a CPI, not embedded into some kind of wage
- Just like if I'm adjusting for a CPI or a wage growth or some type of regional housing factor, we want
- Just like if I'm adjusting for a CPI or a wage growth or some type of regional housing factor, we want
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Committee on Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact Mar 24th, 2025
Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact
Transcript Highlights:
- And the good news is that over this same period, wages in California have gone up significantly.
- So overall, wage earners saw an increase of about 26% in their earnings between January 2020 and January
- Low wages went up about 30% over the same period.
- dignity of being able to provide for their families and themselves, but they also are earning good wages
- By agreeing to train new hires I received wage reimbursement for up to six months, allowing me to build
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Education Finance Committee hears HF2210 3/20/25
Transcript Highlights:
- It is getting harder and harder to stay in this position because wages make it impossible to survive,
- 22.879><c> because</c> harder to stay in this position because harder to stay in this position because wages
- 24.400><c> impossible</c><00:03:25.159><c> to</c><00:03:25.799><c> survive</c><00:03:26.799><c> but</c> wages
- make it impossible to survive but wages make it impossible to survive but the<00:03:27.080><c> unemployment
- The weeks when there was school, I received a partial unemployment benefit along with my wages.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress, including S.257, to improve the resilience of critical supply chains. Feb 11th, 2025 at 09:00 am
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Nominal wage growth has eased over the past year, and the jobs-to-workers gap has narrowed.
- I was glad to see that many of the longstanding disparities in employment and wages by sex, race, ethnicity
- It's also about wages going up and costs of materials going up.
- From 2010 to 2022, rents in Arizona increased by 72%, and I wish wages had increased to match, but they
- and unfortunately, that compounded effective inflation has not been offset by commensurate rising in wages
Bills:
SB257
Keywords:
supply chain resilience, critical supply chains, critical goods, manufacturing, domestic manufacturing, reshoring, nearshoring, supply chain security, supply chain shock, supply chain disruption, critical infrastructure, emerging technologies, semiconductors, microelectronics, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, robotics, advanced manufacturing, blockchain, cybersecurity
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- Employers can then choose to provide wage replacement benefits for either birth or adoption, caring for
- This amendment prohibits payment of benefits from being considered as wages in lieu of workers' compensation
Summary:
The House Insurance Committee met on Tuesday, March 31, with 11 members present for a quorum. The committee first took up House Bill 826, which would modernize insurance referral rules to allow referrals by website or email address rather than only by name or phone number. After adopting a technical amendment set, the bill’s sponsor’s representative said the measure had been worked out with independent agents and that prior concerns had been addressed; the committee reported HB 826 as amended without objection.
The committee then considered House Bill 591, a bill creating a voluntary private-market paid family leave insurance product. The sponsor explained it would not create a state program or use taxpayer dollars, but would allow insurers to offer coverage for wage replacement tied to birth, adoption, caregiving, or military-related leave. The committee adopted a technical amendment and then a second amendment clarifying that benefit payments are not wages in lieu of workers’ compensation and do not interrupt claim prescription; after that, HB 591 was reported with amendments without objection.
Before adjourning, the committee announced that House Bill 625 would be voluntarily deferred to the following week, and House Bills 751 and 771 would also be deferred until next week or possibly the next day if the sponsor provided notice. The meeting then adjourned.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- that provision to provide for collection of attorney's fees and costs when the licensee is the prevailing
- party, along with certain circumstances when the licensee is deemed to be the prevailing party, and
- it's the suspension, if it's less than or equal to what you would have offered, I think that is prevailing
- If it's the same or equal to, then it's fulfilling; you still are a prevailing party from that sense.
- a 30-day suspension and you refused it and you got a 30-day suspension, then they would be the prevailing
Bills:
HB1163, HB1168, HR252, HR253, HCR103, HCR108, SB80, SB131, SB251, SB254, SB279, SB384, SB414, SB468, SB469, SB496
Keywords:
fireworks, retail sales, fire safety, legislation, holiday celebrations, construction standards, precast concrete, DOTD, building regulations, minimum requirements, public projects, private projects, consumer protection, credit card fees, cash transactions, rounding practices, transparency, low-income, economic impact, residential construction
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Restricting who can access license plate reader data 3/17/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The motion prevails. The A1 is adopted. So, we have the bill as amended before us.
- So there being seven eyes and seven nays, the motion does not prevail and the bill does not advance.
- c><00:32:13.680><c> not</c> nays, the bill the motion does not nays, the bill the motion does not prevail
- </c> prevail and the bill does not advance. prevail and the bill does not advance.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Health and Mental Health Apr 16th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Health and Mental Health
Transcript Highlights:
- specific carve-outs relating to information—relating to, say, strategic planning documents, certain wage
- and compensation information... ...strategic planning documents, certain wage and compensation information
- Really, that's looking at wage information. You know, we do a strategic plan.
- CEOs that have had competitors—and you don't know who it is—but people ask for all of your employee wage
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Mar 9th, 2026 at 10:45 am
Washington House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- However, I do have quite a bit of concern about the bill and the board and raising the wages of child
- care workers to the point where it's not... ...wages of child care workers to the point where it's not
- And so in order to do that, we need to provide higher wages and higher benefits and those kinds of things
- They stifle innovation, curtail new business formation, impede worker mobility, and hurt wage growth.
Keywords:
behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access, mental health funding, premium assistance, funding, healthcare, subsidies, juice grapes, agriculture, commerce, state regulation, market access, fire safety, insurance incentives, best practices, community protection, voluntary measures, mortgage modification
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee Jul 16th, 2025
Communications and Conveyance
Transcript Highlights:
- But under SB 371, they could be left with hundreds of thousands of medical bills, lost wages, and long-term
- They do not provide minimum wage, health benefits, pay payroll taxes, they do not reimburse for gas.
- And so the driver would be protected for medical costs and lost wages through occupational accident insurance
- could address it just opening up a conversation on what is this dynamic pricing what is algorithmic wage
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Press Conference: POCI Caucus Discusses Budget Targets Affecting Undocumented Minnesotans Healthcare May 16th, 2025
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
LBT, LBT Public Hearings 02-07-2025
Transcript Highlights:
- through the state longitudinal data system, allowing Dox and other state agencies to provide certain wage
- state tax to provide uh uh and other state agencies<00:03:34.120><c> certain</c><00:03:34.640><c> wage
- </c><00:03:36.439><c> okay</c><00:03:36.720><c> up</c><00:03:37.000><c> first</c> agencies certain wage
- data okay up first agencies certain wage data okay up first we<00:03:37.560><c> have</c><00:03:38.120
Summary:
The Committee on Labor and Technology heard testimony on several measures. SB 338, relating to taxation, would temporarily reinstate the Act 221 technology infrastructure renovation tax credit and expand eligible technology-enabled infrastructure to include data servers; Tax Department said it had no requested changes, SurfPAC supported the bill, and the Tax Foundation offered comments. Members later advanced SB 338 with amendments, including a report to the Legislature before the 2029 session and technical changes. SB 1491, on departmental data sharing, would add the Department of Taxation to the state longitudinal data system to share aggregated wage data; UH, Hawaii P20, and the Tax Foundation supported it, and Taxation said it could comply as written. The committee amended the bill to also include DBEDT and then passed it with amendments.
The committee also considered SB 1156 on sexually explicit deepfakes, SB 853 on an immigration services trust fund, SB 436 on limiting State Fire Marshal service to three terms, and SB 1034 on rest periods in the food service industry. The Attorney General said SB 1156 was unnecessary because existing law already covers AI-created deepfakes, and the committee deferred the bill. SB 853 drew support from DLIR/Office of Community Services and civil rights advocates, but opposition testimony noted substantial public opposition; the committee deferred the measure, saying existing resources from Act 7 made the trust fund premature. SB 436 drew concerns from the State Fire Council representative that term limits would add complications, but the committee passed it with amendments. SB 1034 drew mixed testimony: DLIR stood on comments, the restaurant association supported the intent but suggested changing the five-hour threshold, and the Hawaii Food Industry Association opposed it over the lack of a definition of food service industry; the committee amended the bill to add that definition and passed it with amendments.
At the later 3:15 p.m. decision-making-only agenda, the committee deferred SB 730 indefinitely after conferring with the PSM chair, saying it was special legislation needing further work in the interim.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/23/26
Agriculture Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- The motion prevails and the amendment is adopted.
- The motion prevails. For future consideration. Nothing dies until... Yes. Yes.
- The motion prevails and the A3 amendment is adopted.
- The motion prevailed and the amendment as amended was adopted.
- There being seven ayes and seven nays, the motion does not prevail.
Keywords:
eggs, donation, quality assurance, food assistance, charitable programs, agriculture, grain indemnity, financial security, crop insurance, Minnesota agriculture, farm assistance, down payment, state funding, loan modification, rotational grazing, grazing management, livestock, pasture management, soil health, erosion control
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Opposed, nay.<00:04:22.800><c> Motion</c><00:04:23.120><c> prevails.
- Motion prevails. Thank you. nay. Motion prevails. Thank you. >> All<00:04:24.400><c> right.
- Motion prevails. You're on your way to finance. Thank you so much.
- Motion prevails. You're on your way to finance. Thank you so much.
- Motion prevails. Senator Farnsworth: Thank you, Madam Chair.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 03/05/26
Housing and Homelessness Prevention
Transcript Highlights:
- The motion prevails. Your bill is on the way, Senator Boldon. To your next bill, Senate File 3614.
- The<00:59:18.320><c> motion</c><00:59:18.640><c> prevails.
- Your bill is on the The motion prevails.
- The Chair called for a vote, and the motion prevailed.
- The motion prevails and your >> Opposed?
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 03/04/26
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- The amendment or the motion does prevail. The amendment is adopted. Thank you, Madam Chair.
- </c> prevail. The amendment is adopted. prevail. The amendment is adopted.
- The motion prevails.
- The<01:36:27.720><c> motion</c><01:36:28.160><c> prevails.</c> The motion prevails.
- The motion prevails.