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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Mar 28th, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
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- I rise in support of H.R. 23 on behalf of the Republican Caucus, which supports a secure southern border
- . is something that Cesar Chavez was a leader in supporting a secure southern border.
- Opposing illegal immigration and supporting a secure southern border.
- He fought for the rights of players and helped secure the Alexander Rule, a policy to ensure players
- Union rights, family security, wages, and benefits.
MN
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- The biggest part of the infrastructure of a system is the water well, and they last 50-plus years, often
- Go up to the border and see the rail cars that come over, get inspected; you'll see the poor pallets
- about having all the equipment you need on the site to receive the material, scale it into the site, security
- Her small social security check was her only income, but she had no partner benefits because they never
NH
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- It’s just across the border.
- The ID is good for over the borders here, you know, anything that borders the U.S. effectively.
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NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York State Senate Session - 03/23/2026
New York Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- million individuals, being otherwise slaughtered back in their home, crossed into Bangladesh, and that border
- There are much larger borders with India, with China, with Thailand, and Laos.
- INDIVIDUALS BEING OTHERWISE SLAUGHTERED BACK IN THEIR HOME, CROSSED INTO BANK BANGLADESH AND THAT BORDER
- THERE ARE MUCH LARGER BORDERS WITH INDIA, WITH CHINA, WITH THAILAND AND LAO SOTH S.
- Costs and necessary infrastructure to support a larger or full EV bus fleet.
Summary:
The Senate convened, approved the prior day’s journal, and then took up a series of previously adopted resolutions recognizing individuals, communities, and state traditions. The chamber honored Staff Sergeant Michael Ollis posthumously after his Medal of Honor recognition, with remarks from Senator Scarcella-Spanton and others praising his sacrifice and welcoming his parents. Senators also celebrated New York maple producers and Maple Weekends, Bangladesh Independence Day and the contributions of Bangladeshi New Yorkers, York Middle/High School girls varsity volleyball for winning a state championship, Pavilion/York Air Rifle for winning the state invitational championship, and Tartan Day. These resolutions were adopted, and the sponsors opened them for co-sponsorship.
The Senate then moved through the regular calendar and passed multiple bills, including measures on environmental conservation, personal property, agriculture and markets, insurance, state law, executive law, workers’ compensation, election law, correction law, public health, and parks/historic preservation. Most passed with broad support, though some drew a handful of negative votes. One bill on election law, allowing certain 17-year-olds to vote in primaries if they will be 18 by the general election, prompted supportive floor debate from several senators and passed 43-17. Another bill on correction law also passed after debate.
A notable controversy arose over Calendar 227, a Public Authorities Law bill related to school energy planning and electric buses. Senator Borrello challenged an amendment as nongermane, the Chair ruled against it, and the Senate voted 22-0 to sustain the ruling. The underlying bill then passed, despite criticism from senators who argued the state should repeal the electric bus mandate and instead study safer, more practical alternatives for school districts. The Senate then completed its business and adjourned until March 24 at 3:00 p.m.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Oct 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- And that also allows for affordable housing infrastructure.
- Destination Forward: $1.9 million will continue that infrastructure push.
- That is infrastructure money.
- It was a new program to have an infrastructure.
- Next up, we have the Border Authority. That's Agency Code 417.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Chairman and committee, the border is one of the key components of national sovereignty.
- The people of Florida and the United States have made it clear they want our borders enforced and dangerous
- the Trump Act commands everyone in the state to enforce federal immigration law and to protect our borders
- Representative McClure: Clearly seen a heightened effort at the federal level to secure our borders.
NH
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- about the infrastructure grant piece. about the infrastructure grant piece.
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about <01:06:34.880>9,000 secure home ownership for about 9,000 secure - Um we're putting we borders on abuse.
- The other thing about New Hampshire is that Social Security, the average Social Security retirement check
Summary:
The Housing Committee opened with a public hearing on HB 196, which would repeal the Housing Champion program. Representative Matt Drew, the prime sponsor, argued the program is an unnecessary and poorly targeted subsidy, saying it rewards municipalities after projects are completed and may not be limited to new housing production. He questioned the transparency of the program, cited difficulty finding required annual reports, and noted a fiscal note suggesting the state could recover up to $3 million if obligations are terminated. Committee members and witnesses debated whether the program’s criteria amount to political favoritism or a standard grant process; supporters said the rubric is specific and that municipalities are evaluated against objective requirements. Representative Priest, Nick Taylor of Housing Action New Hampshire, and Karen Benfield of Stay Work Play New Hampshire all opposed repeal, saying the program encourages local zoning and regulatory changes, helps smaller communities participate, and supports housing supply and young people’s ability to stay in the state. The hearing on HB 196 was then closed.
The committee then opened a hearing on HB 1405, a bill establishing an affordable housing guarantee program within the Housing Finance Authority. Prime sponsor Representative Chris Muns said the bill would reduce lender risk by guaranteeing up to 80% of principal on qualifying loans for affordable housing, with a cap of $30 million per lender per year and $300 million outstanding at any time. He described the measure as a low-cost public-private partnership backed by the full faith and credit of the state, and said it was identical to a prior Senate bill that had received unanimous bipartisan committee support before dying later in the process. He framed the bill as one part of a broader housing package aimed at financing, infrastructure, workforce, zoning reform, and other housing-related issues.
No votes were taken during the portion of the meeting provided. The only formal actions were opening and closing the public hearing on HB 196 and opening the public hearing on HB 1405, with testimony continuing on HB 1405 at the end of the transcript.
NH
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- It's appropriating funds for water and wastewater infrastructure projects.
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and kind of uh enormous infrastructure and kind of uh enormous infrastructure - Well, it hasn't, so the cost of this, the infrastructure... yes. ...underwater, yeah, thanks.
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yes cost of this the infrastructure yes cost of this the infrastructure yes
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 1/21/25
Energy Finance and Policy
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impose <00:30 - "We look forward to working with the committee to ensure Minnesota's secure, reliable, and resilient
- She concluded by saying, "We look forward to working with the committee to ensure Minnesota's secure,
- and also our state borders as well.
- , but also our state borders as well.
Summary:
The House Energy Finance and Policy Committee met to approve the January 16 minutes and then heard House File 9, which was referred to the Committee on Taxes after the committee’s action. The bill was presented as an energy policy measure aimed at reliability and affordability. It would expand hydroelectric power’s eligibility under the state’s energy standard, delay certain carbon-free compliance requirements for utilities that do not meet a retail rate benchmark, prohibit local permits to demolish fossil fuel plants under certain conditions, state support for carbon capture and sequestration without creating a state funding obligation, end the nuclear moratorium, and expand the sales tax exemption for residential natural gas and electricity used as primary heat year-round starting after June 30, 2026. The committee also took up and adopted the A1 author’s amendment, which clarified that the carbon capture language does not obligate state spending.
The bill’s sponsor argued that Minnesota’s current energy policy is driving up costs and threatening reliability, especially during extreme cold, and said the bill would create “off-ramps” from existing mandates to protect ratepayers and businesses. He cited reliability concerns, MISO/NERC risk assessments, rising utility rates, and the need for an all-of-the-above energy approach, including hydro and nuclear. He also said the bill would reduce taxes by broadening the sales tax exemption for residential heating.
Testimony was mixed but generally focused on reliability, affordability, and the role of nuclear power. The Minnesota Rural Electric Association and the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce supported the bill’s emphasis on keeping power reliable and affordable, with both saying Minnesota needs dispatchable, carbon-free resources and noting concerns about high electricity costs and future demand from data centers and AI. The Prairie Island Indian Community opposed lifting the nuclear moratorium without a viable waste solution, describing the long-term burden of spent nuclear fuel on its community and asking for more consultation. Xcel Energy said its nuclear plants have operated safely and reliably for decades, support low-cost and low-carbon power, and could be part of the state’s energy transition, but it emphasized the need for tribal participation and said decisions about retiring fossil plants should remain within the existing Public Utilities Commission resource planning process.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- The purpose of the bill is to strengthen legal protections for critical infrastructure, particularly
- I ran water and wastewater systems, and they're critical infrastructure.
- No, no, to clarify, because that's, you know, our water supplies are critical infrastructure.
- It deals with the same definition of critical infrastructure. Okay.
- We have had some issues at the company that I work for on critical infrastructure.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 4 on Climate Crisis, Resources, Energy, and Transportation Apr 23rd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- But wildfire prevention is about securing immediate and long-term viability for California's residents
- Utility infrastructure management has certainly been a big contributor to some of our fires, and also
- It's 800 miles from the Oregon border to Mexico.
- We need, of course, to increase our capacity for our infrastructure, sawmills.
- They already have the infrastructure. They already have the infrastructure.
Summary:
The hearing focused on California wildfire resilience, with the first panel discussing statewide funding, policy, and strategic priorities, and the second panel shifting to home hardening and defensible space. The LAO outlined the state’s wildfire risk, the large increase in resilience spending in recent years, and the fact that most funding has been one-time rather than ongoing. Testimony emphasized that wildfire risk varies greatly by region, that the state must balance response spending with prevention, and that success should be measured more carefully than by acres treated alone. Witnesses also noted the importance of local, federal, utility, and Proposition 4 funding sources, as well as the need for long-term maintenance and strategic prioritization rather than scattered projects.
Cal Fire leadership and other witnesses stressed that California’s wildfire problem is not uniform: forested areas, chaparral, and wildland-urban interface communities require different strategies. In Northern California and forested watersheds, speakers emphasized fuels reduction, prescribed and cultural burning, strategic fuel breaks, watershed protection, and maintaining forest health. In Southern California, testimony focused on wind-driven fires, ember intrusion, ignition prevention along roads and power lines, and the limits of large-scale vegetation clearing. Several witnesses argued that the state should invest where it can leverage local and regional partnerships, support capacity-building programs like Regional Forest and Fire Capacity, and improve data systems to track treatment effectiveness and project outcomes.
Members repeatedly pressed witnesses on how to prioritize limited funds, asking what should be done more of, less of, and first. The chair argued that protecting homes and communities through hardening and defensible space should be a major priority, especially near structures, while also acknowledging the need for broader landscape work and watershed protection. There was discussion of incentives such as insurance discounts, property tax treatment, and community certification for hardened homes, along with the need for multiple payers rather than relying on the state alone. Cal Fire reported new and expanding data tools, including treatment trackers, defensible space inspection dashboards, and a fuels treatment effectiveness program that evaluates whether nearby treatments affected wildfire behavior. No votes were taken because the hearing was informational only.
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Higher Education Institutions Committee Jun 19th, 2026 at 09:00 am
Higher Education Institutions Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- On page 1, row 12, this particular change in here adds within 50 miles of the state border for...
- The year adds within 50 miles of the state border for the MSN students.
- the Assembly added the ability for individuals to reside within the state or within 50 miles of the border
- opened up... ...oversight last session when we opened up the residency to within 50 miles of the border
- So some of the situations we've run into is individuals move across the border to establish that residency
NM
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- So we'll have sanitary and we'll also have security with it.
- Recently, through the Board of Finance, we were able to secure 2.9 million to go ahead and start building
- coming out of the Community as far as general obligation bonds or other kinds of bonds to build infrastructure
- The ones who didn't transfer, we went into either Border Patrol Police Academies or Fire Academies or
- I do have a request in, and I'm trying to go and secure a minimal amount through again, that 4-17 appropriation
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OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee REVISED: Agency presentation times revised Jan 20th, 2026 at 09:00 am
A&B Education Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- New Mexico distributes a lot because of just the two counties, Eddy and Lee, that just crossed the border
- We're looking at IT infrastructure and hardware. A lot of our stuff is out of date.
- All historical observation, the president who secured the commission for the land office and the Louisiana
- One Computing school for security guard schools and others. So that includes court reporting.
- We awarded $450,000 to 84 school districts to support secure storage for cellphones and smart devices
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Turning to page seven. $6.5 billion provided for border security operations across 13 state agencies.
- Slide 9 shows the non-maximum security forensic waitlist.
- In our case, we had some employees. who changed pin numbers and looked at social security. security numbers
- Is it for just building physical infrastructure or service infrastructures? What does that mean?
- It's for them to build the service infrastructure.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Higher Education Committee Apr 22nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- California is facing the challenge of aging infrastructure in dire need of renovation and replacement
- We need to tackle the urgent infrastructure and housing challenges facing public higher education.
- online portal... ...they can provide this on a secure online portal or printed statements.
- They have the ability to create infrastructure to account for this.
- They also, teachers don't have Social Security, right?
Summary:
The committee hearing covered several higher education bills, with extensive testimony on student aid, affordability, and institutional debt. AB 587 would add veteran representation to the California Student Aid Commission; the author said the change would bring lived experience from the veteran community to student aid policy, and members raised a concern about keeping the commission’s membership odd-numbered, which the author said would be addressed by amendment. AB 791 would standardize cost-of-attendance housing calculations using objective data and improve notice of the adjustment process; supporters said current budgets often underestimate students’ real living costs, while UC, CSU, and independent colleges opposed or had concerns about the bill’s prescribed methodology, fiscal impact, and a 14-day turnaround for adjustments. AB 850 would create a one-term grace period for students with institutional debt to re-enroll while arranging repayment, bar reporting that debt to credit agencies, and require more transparency; proponents described students being blocked from continuing school over debts, while CSU, UC, and private-college representatives said they already use holds and payment plans and worried about added liabilities and budget pressures. AB 537 would extend the California College Promise Program to part-time community college students; supporters said most community college students attend part-time and should not be excluded from fee waivers, while the committee noted fiscal concerns but ultimately advanced the bill. AB 7 would allow universities to consider whether an applicant is a descendant of American chattel slavery in admissions as a reparative measure; supporters framed it as lineage-based reparative justice, while opponents argued it would function as a racial proxy and conflict with Proposition 209 and equal-protection principles. The committee took roll-call votes on the measures, advancing AB 587, AB 791, AB 850, and AB 537 to Appropriations, with AB 850 and AB 537 receiving fewer votes and the roll left open for additional members.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 02/12/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
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- It implicates things like securities laws. It implicates what we used to write called checks.
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one <00:21:25.760>of - Everything from getting secure access to the internet, establishing security controls, getting an email
- there's also a small Lake that borders there's also a small Lake that borders my<00:46:53.599>
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2025-01-27 (10:30AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The border is one of the key components of national sovereignty.
- The people of Florida and the United States have made it clear they want our borders enforced and dangerous
- the TRUMP Act commands everyone in the state to enforce federal immigration law and to protect our borders
- Over the last week or so we have very clearly seen a heightened effort at the federal level to secure
- our borders.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, February 4, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- SPEAKER, I RISE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY.
- Musk has plans for Social Security and Medicare.
- And more than 70 million Social Security recipients. I hope, Mr.
- MUSK HAS PLANS FOR SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE.
- -Canadian border has been hard-fought, not exploitative.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- purchases, and possessions of firearm, creating criminal offense referred to the Committee on Homeland Security
- prohibiting the transfer of firearms to certain recipients referred to the Committee on Homeland Security
- HB 344, HB 354 by Kane relating to measures to ensure the safety and well-being for the border region
- Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, Public Safety and Veterans Affairs for 397 Lilani.
- HB 462 by gain relating to the armed security officers required to be present in public schools and the