Video & Transcript Research : 'development regulations'
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US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine the nomination of Kelly Loeffler, of Georgia, to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration. Jan 29th, 2025 at 02:30 pm
Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- You've seen that when people get in these rooms in DC and create big burdensome regulation, the truth
- Business Centers, Economic and Community Development Institute, U.S.
- But with the excessive regulations that sometimes we can put on them here from Washington, D.C.
- And as a result, I believe regulations are disproportionately hard on small businesses.
- Lutnick today at our commerce hearing, but do you support the Minority Business Development Authority
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Education (3-12-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- But the current book is about this thick of regulation.
- But the current book is about this thick of regulation.
- But the current book is about this thick of regulation.
- But the current book is about this thick of regulation.
- But the current book is about this thick of regulation.
Summary:
The Primary and Secondary Education Committee met and first considered Senate Concurrent Resolution 43, a proposal tied to the Southern Regional Education Board’s crisis recovery network. Senator West and Dr. Puit explained that, for an additional $10,000 in dues, Kentucky would help create a network of 40 trained counselors in each of the 16 Southern states to provide post-crisis stabilization and psychological first aid after events such as the Marshall County shooting. They emphasized that the effort would be complementary to local and state response, would run through the school district, would not replace therapeutic services, and would allow districts to coordinate parent notifications and other protocols as usual. Members asked about parent involvement and whether pastoral counselors could participate; the presenters said local districts would remain in charge and that pastors could be included if properly credentialed. The committee then voted, and SCR 43 passed with the expression of opinion that it should pass.
The committee next took up Senate Bill 207, the School of Innovation Act, with a committee substitute. Senator West described the bill as creating an optional path for districts to contract with an outside education service provider for a three-year school-of-innovation model, aimed at turning around low-performing schools or supporting other schools that want to innovate. He said the model would preserve core district functions such as transportation, facilities, and SEEK funding, while allowing waivers from certain statutes and regulations inside the school building. The committee substitute also added a high-quality instructional materials component, creating a vendor-supported repository of vetted instructional materials that KDE would still control, with testing data used to evaluate whether the materials were improving outcomes.
Members questioned how the proposal differed from existing district-of-innovation law and what safeguards would exist for students. Senator West said the bill would repeal the unused district-of-innovation framework and replace it with a clearer process and guardrails, including KDE oversight, attendance rules, and authority to shut down a school arrangement for financial malfeasance. He also said the model could work with local partners, including superintendents’ associations, and could be used by magnet or other schools, not only low-performing ones. The discussion also touched on whether the bill would allow more flexibility in choosing third-party providers and whether it could support longer-term recovery and even philanthropy in schools. The transcript ends during the discussion of SB 207, with no final vote shown in the excerpt.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- We're economic regulators.
- Chair and Senator Woods, the regulation that I believe you're talking about, The regulation that I believe
- This operator has a permit to develop the well.
- This operator has a permit to develop the well.
- Supply is developing brackish water.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study May 29th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- That's then pushed out in some way that technically may bypass the protections and the regulations or
- Um, why would we then be required to follow regulations that in a way don't relate anymore if they're
- Uh, we are developing a plan.
- These would be critical to developing a comprehensive plan in order to comply with the order.
- With the expertise needed for development of a comprehensive plan. Mr.
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Natural Resources and Environment May 19th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- When it comes to residential development, subdivision developments, commercial developments, and industrial
- Also... ...of our proposed rules, regulations, as well as funding.
- of the state of Louisiana or local regulations, they would allow them to have. ...in the regulations
- This is a highly regulated space.
- The witness answered yes, there would be no regulations prohibiting that.
Summary:
The committee took up public comment on a package of similar local-option bills related to carbon capture and sequestration, including House Bills 5, 6, 497, 498, 501, and 504. The bills would let parishes, or in some cases specific parishes such as Rapides and Livingston, decide by local vote whether Class VI wells, CO2 sequestration, and related pipeline infrastructure could be permitted. The chair grouped the bills together for testimony, adopted a three-minute public comment rule, and noted that the bills were not yet under consideration for a vote during the public-comment portion.
Supporters, including Speaker Pro Tem Mike Johnson, parish officials, local activists, and residents, argued that communities affected by carbon capture projects should have a direct voice through local option elections. They said the bills were about self-determination, local control, and allowing residents to decide whether the risks are worth the benefits. Several speakers said their parishes had passed resolutions opposing carbon capture or asking for local choice, while others emphasized concerns about eminent domain, aquifer protection, lack of public understanding, and the need for more information about project impacts and financial benefits. Some supporters also said a local vote would force industry to engage more directly with communities and could improve transparency.
Opponents, including representatives of the Department of Conservation and Energy, the Louisiana Chemistry Association, the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, and the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, warned that the bills would create uncertainty, undermine Louisiana’s primacy over Class VI permitting, and invite litigation under federal preemption and the Supremacy Clause. They said the state already has a strict permitting process with public input and technical review, and that allowing parish-by-parish approval could delay or block billions of dollars in investment, jobs, and export-related projects. The department testified that if the state adopted a local-option referendum system, EPA could determine Louisiana was not implementing the program consistently and could move to remove primacy. No committee vote was taken in the portion provided.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, March 6, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Federal regulators shouldn't stifle energy development.
- offshore energy development in federal waters.
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in regulates offshore energy development in regulates offshore energy development in federal - They should have more regulations put on them.
- This burdensome regulation will be detrimental to those small businesses.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Business and Professions Committee Jul 8th, 2025
Business and Professions
Transcript Highlights:
- Ochoa-Bogue, and the 8- And SB 861 by the Senate Committee on Business Professions and Economic Development
- Prior to those notices, state regulators interpreted the law to not require muralists. to meet these
- They've become part of the city's vital economic development.
- And give us insight on the best path toward regulating appraisal in the future and I'm happy to support
- And so a national compact, led in part by California, was developed called this.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee Apr 16th, 2025
Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Anytime we can enhance workforce development and training with our community colleges system, and ours
- I am very concerned and very supportive of at least some form of regulation.
- So instead of having a regulated vodka, we will have an unregulated moonshine.
- We've always said that there needs to be regulation.
- You're staying within those regulations. guidelines.
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Senate Committee on Government Affairs May 30th, 2025 at 03:30 pm
Government Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- So it would be impact fees for new development or for a single development or anything else.
- Ampeer is a global renewable energy development company, developing primarily solar and wind projects
- “So as our workforce development agencies see the needs for certain workforce development jobs in the
- They would be developed through regulation and underneath the allocation plan.
- AB 540 expedites housing development by streamlining regulations and supporting both urban and rural
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill ensures that placement is regulated.
- Let's be smart about the development.
- Developers of any kind of project need regulatory certainty.
- very little wind development on that end of the coast?
- Parks and Wildlife and its commissioners, uh, to make decisions on yay or nay for development.
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- So we have given the authority to develop the regulations to DNR.
- develop the regulations to DNR. develop the regulations to DNR.
- Development. Uh move the amendments. Development. Uh move the amendments.
- policies and regulations.
- regulations to carry out the subsection. regulations to carry out the subsection.
Summary:
The House convened with 126 members present, heard the prayer, approved the previous day’s journal, and then took up a series of Senate messages and committee reports. Senate bills on consent calendars 21 and 22 were read the first time and referred to committees. The House then adopted favorable reports, often without amendment, on a wide range of bills including workers’ compensation evaluation procedures (HB 1325), a state shark designation (HB 97), several local alcoholic beverages measures, commemorative months for Muslim American Heritage and Jewish American Heritage (HB 661), and local license commissioner changes in Anne Arundel, Worcester, Harford, Baltimore City, and Prince George’s counties.
Several bills were amended before being ordered printed for third reading. HB 121 (Baltimore County alcohol sales) was amended to change the sponsor to the Baltimore County delegation. HB 1335 on Department of Information Technology workforce recruitment and retention was amended to convert the measure into a study and recommendations report. HB 1037 on PSC oversight of broadband and VoIP was similarly amended from direct oversight to a study and report. HB 1164 on water and sewage rate consolidation and limited-income mechanisms was amended to remove rate-consolidation provisions, require a PSC study, and delay implementation. HB 1381 on stopping or parking in bike lanes added exceptions for emergency, transit, disability pickup/drop-off, disabled vehicles, loading/unloading, and construction or maintenance; HB 1504 prioritized sidewalk and bicycle pathway projects near highways with complete streets or Vision Zero policies; HB 912 adjusted community cat trap-neuter-return rules; and HB 969 clarified electric vehicle charging billing and service fees.
The most extended debate centered on HB 639, the Transportation Aviation Passenger Health and Safety Act. After amendments turned it into a reporting measure for fixed-base operators and aviation service companies regarding flights carrying detained individuals, warrants, refueling, and emergency-response documentation, members questioned its practical operation, safety implications, and possible federal preemption issues. The floor leader explained the bill as amended was intended to gather information for Maryland safety and emergency planning. On motion of the committee chair, the House agreed to special order HB 639 until the end of the session for further clarification. The House also amended and advanced HB 1063 on hunting management, including deer damage permits and Sunday hunting rules, and heard a brief statement from an Eastern Shore delegate about the Rural Caucus’s approach to offering amendments rather than opposing bills outright. The session ended with HB 972, creating the Maryland Fair and Agricultural Education Promise Fund, amended to rename the bill in honor of the late Delegate Charles Otto and to replace lottery funding with an annual appropriation; the House adopted the amendments and the favorable report.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency - Room 210, 3 March, 2026; 2:30 P.M.
Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency
Transcript Highlights:
- can implement a framework to hopefully prevent as much of these events from happening but also to regulate
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matters. - rules and regulation procedural rules and regulation procedural authority. authority. authority.
- What this bill would do is create the energy development fund within the Mississippi Development Authority
- As it stands now, there are potential development sites and development sites in our state that may not
Summary:
The committee first took up House Bill 1596, which Senator Johnson explained as a companion to another crypto-kiosk bill. He said the measure was being used to open the code and remove new kiosk language temporarily while lawmakers work on a regulatory framework for crypto kiosks, which are being used in scams involving callers posing as law enforcement and directing victims to deposit cash into kiosks. Members discussed the lack of reporting and registration data, the estimated number of kiosks in the state, and whether regulation might require identification and registration of the devices. The committee adopted the motion for title sufficient, do pass as amended, and reported the bill out.
The committee then considered House Bill 859, which would eliminate the in-person absentee voting envelope while keeping the 45-day in-person absentee voting period and existing excuse requirements. Senator England said voters would still complete an affidavit and cast the ballot directly into an OMR machine, and he noted that circuit clerks preferred this version. The committee asked a few clarifying questions and then passed the bill, reporting it out.
Next was House Bill 925, the CLEAR Act, which Senator McMahan described as a revised PEER-related bill that had been worked on with the governor’s office after a prior veto. He outlined provisions creating a PEER review program for agency rules, Medicaid transportation evaluations, a State Board of Health Professions, changes to the corporation work initiative program, and PEER subpoena and enforcement language. An amendment was adopted to delete the subpoena-related sections that had raised constitutional concerns and to retain the reverse repealer. After questions about the advisory role of the new board, the committee passed the bill as amended.
The committee also heard House Bill 1171, a strike-all that Senator Sparks said would mirror a Senate bill on grant transparency. The measure would require clearer grant objectives, objective eligibility criteria, disclosure of conflicts and board relationships, reporting by grantees and subgrantees, and signed documentation under penalty of perjury with CPA review. Members asked about enforcement, and Senator Sparks said improper reporting could lead to loss of funds, audits, and possible criminal consequences. The committee adopted the strike-all and reported the bill out. Finally, the committee considered House Bill 1393, which would create an energy development fund at the Mississippi Development Authority for long-term infrastructure planning tied to large industrial energy users. Members asked whether the fund would cover water resources as well as electricity; the sponsor said it was intended for energy infrastructure, not water, and was aimed at large industrial projects such as steel mills. The committee adopted the strike-all and moved to report the bill out.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Formal House Session 33 Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- and the best regulations to ensure... ...effective and efficient regulator and the best regulations
- Lastly, this bill in the House version did include language that looked at the regulation of illicit
- that closed the... ...has enacted new hemp guidance and new hemp regulations that closed the loophole
- Children under the age of 14 are still developing emotionally and psychologically.
- It wasn't long before Jane had developed an eating disorder.
Summary:
The House first recognized several student athletes and teams, including East Bridgewater cheerleaders, Medway athletes and teams, and the Housatonic Valley basketball team, and adopted a resolution congratulating the William Diamond Jr. Fife and Drum Corps on its 25th anniversary. Members also suspended Joint Rule 12 to advance a petition concerning an extension of a lease authorization for conservation land.
The chamber then took up Senate 2581, as amended, a major education and youth technology bill. The bill was rewritten to promote safe technology use and distraction-free education, including restrictions on personal electronic devices in public schools and limits on social media access for children. Members debated whether the policy should be bell-to-bell or allow more local flexibility, and several amendments were offered. An amendment from Attleboro to preserve district-specific policies was rejected, while a consolidated amendment tightening social media restrictions and related protections was adopted.
The House also considered and passed several other bills, including measures amending the Sandwich charter, authorizing Springfield to help certain residents with local tax obligations, authorizing charity alcohol auctions, and directing the Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for a specific police applicant. In addition, the House rejected concurrence on a Senate version of a higher education infrastructure bill and instead appointed a committee of conference. Later, the House accepted a conference report on modernizing cannabis laws after debate focused on regulatory streamlining, equity, ownership caps, and hemp regulation. The report was adopted by roll call, and the House then passed the amended education bill to be engrossed before adjourning to the next day.
NH
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VT
Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session - 2026-05-12 - 10:00AM
Vermont Senate Floor Meeting
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Currently, the law allows municipalities to regulate ADUs, but these regulations vary widely, creating
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HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
HHS-AEN, HHS-HOU, HHS Public Hearings 03-12-2025
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- So how are we going to regulate that?
- So how are we going to regulate that?
- Next, we have Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation in support.
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Summary:
The joint hearing covered several bills focused on environmental protection and wastewater management. HB 26 HD 2, relating to environmental protection, drew support from the Department of Health, Reworld, and Energy Justice Network. Supporters said it would preserve existing standards for waste-to-energy facilities, including H-Power, even if federal EPA rules are weakened, while Energy Justice Network urged the state to go further and require stronger pollution controls on older burners at the plant.
HB 734 and HB 735, both relating to wastewater systems, received broad support from state agencies, county representatives, realtors, environmental groups, and others. Testimony emphasized reducing the cost of cesspool upgrades, updating rules, and improving coordination between the Department of Health, counties, and the University of Hawaiʻi. Members raised concerns about whether some areas, such as Ewa, should be treated differently if they are not near aquifers or the ocean, but the department said the existing prioritization process already considered statewide conditions and that cesspools generally still affect water resources. On HB 735, the committee discussed the current bedroom-based limits for individual wastewater systems and whether the bill would allow more flexibility for housing configurations, with the department explaining the limits are tied to density and system capacity.
HB 879, relating to cesspool conversions, was also supported by the Department of Health, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, and several advocacy groups. Testimony said the bill would help low- and moderate-income homeowners in priority areas by increasing grant assistance for cesspool upgrades, but the Department of Health noted it would need three full-time positions to administer the program. Members asked for clarification on the grant amount and staffing costs, and the department indicated the grant cap should remain at $20,000 unless changed. HB 918, relating to labeling of non-flushable wipes, drew support from wastewater and industry groups, including the Association of Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, which said similar laws have passed in other states and that the bill reflects cooperation between manufacturers and wastewater officials. The Department of Health and county officials supported the concept but said enforcement and outreach would require additional staff, and senators questioned whether the state could effectively enforce the labeling requirement without a national standard.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Corpus Christi is a breeding ground for that economic development.
- Um, so you have self-reported water loss reports to Texas Development Water Development Board.
- You know, the Water Development Board, I saws.
- We're doing all kinds of economic development things.
- for all their infrastructure within their development, correct?
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- um process of program development um process of program development identification<00:40:01.200>
- SB578 also develop self-awareness.
- with which helps regulate energy. with which helps regulate energy.
- regulated behaviors in the classroom. regulated behaviors in the classroom.
- It helps them with a lot of cognitive development, problem solving, um, soft skills development that
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 02/17/25
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- We regulate and oversee over 40 industry areas to protect consumers and ensure a strong, competitive,
- Back then, it was to regulate railroads and warehouses.
- <01:16:35.280>
most investors puc does not regulate most investors puc does not regulate most - This proposal was developed in partnership with Minnesota IT Services.
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not storms so this was developed not storms so this was developed not contemplating