Transcript Highlights:

• they're child headbangs out of frustration when the internet is out, or that they have to use a seatbelt lock
• If I use dry ice and a locking ice chest and a thermometer. That's great.
• Those who are housed within locked memory care units.
• This will exacerbate dementia. symptoms like wandering and exit-seeking while the automatic locks are

Bills: HB741, HB 1199, HB2070, HB2402, HB2542, HB2665, HB2789, HB3096, HB3396, HB3595, HB3747, HB4116, HB4127

Keywords: child welfare, relative caregiver, monetary assistance, Department of Family and Protective Services, child custody, family law, emergency power, nursing facilities, assisted living, generator requirements, health and safety, emergency generators, power outage, emergency generator, assisted living facilities, power source, child abuse, neglect registry, court findings, Medicaid

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• I'm going to lock it in for five years and have the right to charge whatever rate I want?
• contract for deed for 10 years<00:09:49.399><c> I'm</c><00:09:49.959><c> GNA</c><00:09:50.959><c> lock
• c> it</c><00:09:51.320><c> in</c><00:09:51.560><c> for</c><00:09:52.079><c> five</c> years I'm GNA lock
• it in for five years I'm GNA lock it in for five and<00:09:54.480><c> uh</c><00:09:55.440><c> blo</c

Bills: HF2601, HF2607, HF2027, HF2608

Keywords: financial institutions, insurance regulation, insurance holding company, group capital calculation, liquidity stress test, NAIC, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, insurer solvency, affiliate transactions, groupwide supervision, internationally active insurance group, lead state commissioner, policyholder protection, hazardous financial condition, deposit or bond, contract for deed, conventional loan, cooperative apartment loan, mortgage interest rate cap, average prime offer rate

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• window to catch up to all this stuff will allow the municipalities, particularly the towns that are locked
• c><00:28:57.360><c> towns</c><00:28:57.679><c> that</c><00:28:57.799><c> are</c><00:28:58.120><c> locked
• </c> particularly the towns that are locked particularly the towns that are locked into<00:28:58.600>

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The subcommittee first took up HB 428, with Philip Sherman of the Building Code Review Board presenting a detailed amendment intended to reorganize building-code statutes and limit local changes. He said the proposal would move code-related provisions into RSA 155-A, preserve municipalities’ ability to adopt and administer local enforcement mechanisms and additional non-state codes such as housing or property maintenance codes, but prohibit technical amendments to the State Building Code. He also explained that local administrative functions like permits, fees, certificates of occupancy, plan review, and staffing would remain local, while any local ordinance would still need BCRB confirmation. Members discussed the distinction between administrative and technical amendments, the need to keep fire-code provisions separate, and a date error in the draft’s submission deadline; Sherman suggested the effective-date language should be corrected to reference July 1, 2024. The committee did not vote on the amendment and instead agreed to circulate the draft and revisit it in a later subcommittee meeting before bringing it to the full committee. The discussion then shifted to fire-code issues, with State Fire Marshal Sean Tumi explaining that fire-code-related provisions should be cleaned up in the fire-code statutes and that the state should restrict technical local amendments while possibly allowing limited administrative local standards for transparency and operational consistency. He gave examples such as driveway access, sprinkler connections, key boxes, and other fire-system details that could benefit from local standardization if clearly disclosed. He noted that a separate Senate bill, SB 94, may be a more appropriate vehicle for some of the fire-code language. The chair again emphasized the need for further review and scheduled another subcommittee meeting before the matter would go to the full committee. The committee then began HB 244, and Sherman introduced it as a cleanup of the older municipal-building-code provisions scattered through the RSA 67X series. He said the bill would consolidate and update those references, continuing the effort to align municipal enforcement and appeals provisions with the statewide building-code structure. The transcript cuts off before any further action or vote on HB 244.

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• Modern security systems include smart sensors and video features that can provide alerts to staff when
• I call it the upstream way: if the age is set at the operating system in the family account, it's locked

Summary: The Senate Committee on Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection heard several bills focused on privacy, AI, surveillance, and consumer protections. AB 302 would bar schools from excluding students from extracurricular activities because they do not use social media and would require schools to use at least one non-addictive means of contacting students and parents; it drew support from Common Sense Media and no opposition. AB 1705, the Reclaim Act, would require websites hosting non-consensual pornography to verify consent before upload; district attorneys and the Commission on the Status of Women supported it, while TechNet and CCIA opposed or raised concerns. AB 2007 would separate parental consent for a child’s image/likeness from general program enrollment forms in youth programs; educators supported it, while local government and parks groups raised implementation and penalty concerns. AB 2212 would update higher education sexual harassment definitions to include tech-facilitated harassment such as cyberbullying, doxing, and nudification-related abuse; students and advocacy groups strongly supported it, with no opposition. AB 1837 would extend transit agencies’ authority to use camera enforcement in bus-only lanes and at transit stops, with privacy retention limits and human review; transit agencies supported it, while some senators expressed concern about automated enforcement and surveillance, and the bill was placed on call after a split vote. AB 2392 would create an intersegmental higher education working group on generative AI training and procurement standards; it passed 5-0 after amendments removed prerequisites tying AI deployment to completion of the report. The consent calendar was also approved on call. Later, AB 1798 would prohibit life and disability insurers from using non-diagnostic genetic information in underwriting; supporters argued it protects privacy and encourages testing, while insurers opposed the bill as undermining risk-based underwriting, and it advanced on a 3-0 vote on call. Finally, AB 1883 would restrict workplace use of emotion-recognition and neural-data surveillance tools; labor and privacy advocates supported it, employers and local agencies raised safety and litigation concerns, and it passed 3-0 to Labor after narrowing amendments.

Transcript Highlights:

• I'm not that smart about it, but conceptually I try to stay on top of it, you know, and not really understanding
• work collaboratively together and come up with something much better without that council bridge or lock

Keywords: 908, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So ideally, we would like to get to a point where we can lock in especially our junior analysts to do
• those not just toward government agencies but also to the public as well—learn, you know, how to be smart

Bills: SB 1

Keywords: campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards

Summary: The committee first heard the Legislative Budget Board and Secretary of State Jane Nelson on the Secretary of State budget. LBB said the recommendation would reduce the agency’s appropriation by about $40.3 million overall, with major changes including removing federal HAVA funding and one-time business system replacement money, adjusting the agency’s base request, deleting an outdated Interstate Crosscheck rider, and directing HAVA funds to be drawn down first. Secretary Nelson and staff defended the agency’s needs, emphasizing election security, business filings, international protocol, and the Texas Register, and requested additional staff, a new website, digitization of records, IT and cybersecurity upgrades, and renovation of the Rudder Building. Senators discussed voter-roll maintenance, cross-checking data, call-center response times, and the need for online voter registration and more efficient election administration. No votes were taken. The committee then took up the Office of the Governor and trustee programs. LBB outlined a $2.4 million decrease for the office proper and a much larger decrease in trustee programs, driven by unexpended balances and the removal of one-time federal and border-security items, while noting continued funding for disaster response, victim assistance, and $2.9 billion for border security at roughly the prior level. Governor’s staff said Texas remains focused on border security, economic development, and public safety, and discussed efforts to seek federal reimbursement for prior border spending. Members asked about the National Guard’s status, possible federal assumption of border costs, the music incubator program, the Semiconductor Innovation Consortium, the Governor’s University Research Initiative, defense economic adjustment grants, and a new $5 million nonprofit security grant proposal. Staff said the semiconductor program has 12 approved projects totaling about 948 jobs and $17 billion in capital investment, and that the nonprofit security request was added late to address threats to houses of worship and other nonprofits. No formal action was taken. Finally, the committee heard the Texas Facilities Commission and lease-payment recommendations. LBB said the Facilities Commission recommendation would reduce appropriations by about $2.0 billion, mainly by removing border wall construction funding and capital complex bond funding, while adding money for higher utility costs, Rudder Building refurbishment, and additional staff. The lease-payment recommendation would decrease general revenue by $9.3 million. LBB also noted new riders related to completing the State Library and Archives building, tenant communication during disruptions, and a space-utilization report. In agency testimony, members asked about border wall maintenance responsibility, total facilities-related debt, and the status of capital complex construction. The Rudder Building renovation and related security needs were repeatedly discussed as important one-time infrastructure investments.

Transcript Highlights:

• But I just, even if they, if we say for time, you know, that they're in prison or that they're locked
• up, that they get this good time, You know, that they're imprisoned or that they're locked up, that
• We do not lock our doors.
• It's your first 30 to 60 days, and you're basically locked within that area, because we've got to get
• And you're basically locked within that area, because we've got to get to know who you are.

Keywords: 908, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Members of the Senate, we had this discussion yesterday a little bit about locking in a hard policy and
• Members of the Senate, we had this discussion yesterday a little bit about locking in a hard policy and
• discussion uh yesterday a little bit discussion uh yesterday a little bit about<00:18:02.080><c> locking
• <c> hard</c><00:18:03.360><c> policy</c><00:18:03.919><c> and</c><00:18:04.240><c> then</c> about locking
• in a hard policy and then about locking in a hard policy and then having<00:18:05.120><c> listened</

Keywords: 916, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So, I don’t think it’s something that’s locked in.
• So, I don't think it's something<01:03:00.799><c> that's</c><01:03:01.040><c> locked</c><01:03:01.280
• </c><01:03:01.920><c> Um</c><01:03:02.160><c> and</c><01:03:02.400><c> then</c> something that's locked
• Um and then something that's locked in.
• And that's part of the reason why they didn't spring on locking the rate in 2021; it would have been

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• So, it will not be locked in at that three and a quarter. That’s correct. Okay.
• So, it will not be locked in at that three and a quarter. That’s correct. Okay.
• So, it will not be<00:18:43.840><c> locked</c><00:18:44.160><c> in</c><00:18:44.320><c> at</c><00:18:
• 44.559><c> that</c><00:18:44.960><c> three</c><00:18:45.120><c> and</c><00:18:45.280><c> a</c> be locked
• in at that three and a be locked in at that three and a quarter. quarter. quarter.

Keywords: 0:00:08 Call to Order and Roll Call 0:00:38 Approval of Minutes 0:01:02 Information Items 0:02:17 Lease Rpt from Postsecondary Institutions 0:06:42 Project Rpt from Finance and Administration Cabinet 0:15:03 Lease Rpt from Finance and Administration Cabinet 0:24:00 Rpt from OFM – KY Infrastructure Authority 0:42:55 Economic Development Fund Grants 0:53:38 Rpt from OFM – New Debt Issues 1:16:33 Remaining 2025 Meeting Dates 1:16:45 Adjournment, 958, all

Summary: The committee first handled routine business, including roll call, approval of the July minutes, and several informational reports. Those reports included a University of Kentucky restricted-fund medical equipment purchase for Chandler Hospital, debt issues for five school districts, Eastern Kentucky University’s planned model laboratory school using construction management risk delivery, a Division of Real Properties lease advertisement, Kentucky Communications Network Authority quarterly project reports, and EKU asset preservation revisions. Members then heard and approved a new UK St. Clair Urgent Care Clinic lease in Morehead and an amendment expanding space for the UK Family and Community Medicine Clinic at Turflin Clinic. Testimony explained that both properties are privately owned, the Morehead lease predated the UK/St. Clair arrangement, and the Turflin Clinic is tight on space. The committee also approved three new projects and an appropriation increase: two Department of Military Affairs projects, a Window Ford Training Center underground electric project and a Williamsburg Readiness Center interior repair project, a Fish and Wildlife property acquisition adjoining Veterans Memorial Wildlife Management Area, and an $8.113 million increase for the Department of Revenue integrated tax system (DORIS). The DORIS increase was described as needed for change orders tied to legislation and to complete the unified tax system. The committee next reviewed no-action items, including a $3 million emergency flood-damage repair project for the Bush Building and Vest-Lindsay House in Frankfort, and three pool projects over $1 million: a Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women window replacement phase 2 project, a Department of Criminal Justice Training interior refurbishment at Thompson Hall, and the Muddy Gut Branch stream mitigation project in Johnson County. The flood project was confirmed to be fully reimbursed by insurance proceeds. Finally, the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority presented six loans and nine grants. Action items included water and sewer financing for Cumberland County, Lebanon, Northern Kentucky Water District, Lewisport, and Providence, plus a major Taylor Mill treatment plant project and several cleaner water grants and reallocations. Members asked about loan rates, local rate increases needed to repay debt, and the Providence emergency water interconnect; staff explained that Lewisport had begun a rate increase process, and that the Providence project would connect Webster County Water District and the city of Providence to stabilize pressure after a systemwide failure. All action items were approved.

Transcript Highlights:

• As a person who does criminal defense, it's really hard even when your client is locked up for them to
• Chairman: If it was a phone, like a locked phone, Chairman: you would need a search warrant for that?
• If the most someone can get is 180 days in jail, they shouldn't be locked up for two or three years waiting
• I have a cousin who got locked up Committee Member: and when he finally did parole out, he's never been
• It makes no sense to keep children locked up for 40 years.

Bills: HB200

Keywords: HB 200, emergency communication, backup communications, satellite phone, portable satellite equipment, radio, floodplain, 100-year floodplain, FEMA, natural disaster, disaster preparedness, emergency preparedness, vulnerable populations, children, elderly, seniors, people with disabilities, care facilities, residential care, assisted living

Transcript Highlights:

• It's really hard, even when your client is locked up, for them to be able to describe scenes or things
• If it was a phone, like a locked phone, you would need a search warrant. for that. That is correct.
• If the most someone can get is 180 days in jail, they shouldn't be locked up for two or three years waiting
• I have a cousin who got locked up, and when he finally did parole out, he had never been in trouble and
• It makes no sense to keep children locked up for 40 years before they can ever even be looked at for

Bills: HB285, HB795, HB1795, HB1871, HB2407, HB2461, HB2695, HB3507, HB4911, HB200

Keywords: animal cruelty, nonlivestock, prosecution, veterinary defense, animal welfare, aggravated assault, penal code, public servant, deadly weapon, mass shooting, Penal Code, penalties, felony, Texas Penal Code, felony enhancement, first-degree felony, second-degree felony, violent crime, assault punishment, serious bodily injury

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• And this package makes smart, responsible investments in public safety, energy reliability, our public
• If a policy costs families more than it saves them, it is not a smart policy.
• It locks in the law's original intent and ensures that future leftist administrations cannot weaponize
• It locks in the law's original effort.
• It locks in the law's original intent<08:36:43.600><c> and</c><08:36:43.920><c> ensures</c><08:36:44.318

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• It opens real financial opportunity for people who have been locked out for far too long.
• It opens real financial opportunity for people who have been locked out for far too long.
• </c><00:56:51.760><c> I</c> have been locked out for far too long.
• I have been locked out for far too long.
• And that's a really good way for bringing folks who have been locked out of the financial system into

Bills: HF4207, HF3639, HF3981, HF3064, HF2123

Keywords: housing aid, local housing trust, funding projects, income provisions, technical changes, landlord regulations, tenant rights, minor children, lease agreements, eviction, privacy protection, housing, lease termination, medical care, death, infirmity, landlord obligations, St. Paul, public housing, Minnesota Housing Finance Agency

Transcript Highlights:

• Simply, the teachers were locked in the classrooms with the kids for almost four hours.
• The teachers were locked in the classrooms with the students for more than four hours, and we didn't
• things down, and also the conversation of the student... ...remote access plan to lock things down,
• or school counselor, that you can apply for an alternative funding plan to pay for infrastructure, locks
• key on campus... ...of turning them over was being kept with a locking key on campus so that the word

Keywords: 1182, all

Transcript Highlights:

• But we're locking them into one way, and when you dig down into it, it doesn't make sense because of
• But we're locking them into one way, and when you dig down into it, it doesn't make sense because of
• But we're locking them into one way, and when you dig down into it, it doesn't make sense because of
• But we're locking them into one way, and when you dig down into it, it doesn't make sense because of
• But we're locking them into one valued.

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• from getting my stuff stolen from a tent in the woods to gaining security in a home where my door locks
• from getting my stuff stolen from a tent in the woods to gaining security in a home where my door locks
• from getting my stuff stolen from a tent in the woods to gaining security in a home where my door locks
• Now I have four walls, a locked door. I can relax. I can be fully present, and I can be myself.
• </c> Chrissy now I have four walls a locked Chrissy now I have four walls a locked door<00:44:38.280>

Bills: HF1051, HF16

Keywords: sacred communities, micro units, religious institutions, housing regulations, homelessness, conditional use permits, immigration enforcement, sanctuary policies, sanctuary city, noncooperation ordinance, ICE, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, federal immigration authorities, deportation, undocumented immigrant, undocumented person, immigration status data, data sharing, preemption, local government

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• of our fans and students, including trainings on safety pouring regulations, ensuring the proper locked
• of our fans and students, including trainings on safety pouring regulations, ensuring the proper locked
• of our fans and students, including trainings on safety pouring regulations, ensuring the proper locked
• I usually go by Senator Frentz around here, but I appreciate it very much. ensuring the proper locked
• supply of ensuring the proper locked supply of storage<00:08:33.959><c> uh</c><00:08:34.080><c> of</

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• It locks up that land in perpetuity.
• Can we kind of lock in our focus on our questions?
• </c> people want to ask can we kind of lock people want to ask can we kind of lock in<01:20:38.960><c
• So we'll see what 2.0 looks like, but we're going to lock arms with you in just gratitude.
• So we'll see what 2.0 looks like, but we're going to lock arms with you in just gratitude.

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Attendance Roll Call 00:01:00 Approval of Minutes 00:02:31 Kentucky Farm Bureau 00:02:42 Kentucky Department of Agriculture 00:28:18 Kentucky Cattlemen's Association 01:48:13, 958, all

Summary: The committee heard first from Kentucky Farm Bureau leaders, who outlined the organization’s current priorities and recent work on farmland transition. Eddie Melton said Farm Bureau is working through 983 county and advisory committee resolutions and highlighted support for the updated selling farmer tax credit, now law through House Bill 775, as well as Senate Bill 28’s agriculture economic development provisions. He said Farm Bureau’s likely priorities include maintaining the 50% share of the tobacco settlement fund for agriculture, protecting funding for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, preserving sales tax exemptions on farm inputs, keeping property taxes controlled, and exploring additional tools to keep farmland in active farmers’ hands, including possible loan or inheritance-tax changes. He also raised concerns about eminent domain transparency, nuisance deer permits, and access to agricultural inputs and crop protection products. Alita Bots described the farmland transition initiative in more detail, saying the revised state tax credit is generating strong interest and that a new federal tax provision now allows eligible land sales to actively engaged farmers to spread capital gains taxes over time. She said the initiative has reached 22 counties and more than 1,300 people this year through outreach and meetings, and that Farm Bureau is pairing policy work with resources to help farm families plan transitions and prepare wills and other estate documents. Drew Graham added that the effort is also meant to bridge the rural-urban divide and support rural communities, and Farm Bureau invited members to its annual meeting in early December. Members asked about rising insurance costs and deer damage. Farm Bureau representatives said severe convective storms, inflation, and higher repair and material costs have driven insurance rate increases, citing five major storm events since 2021 and a recent Owensboro hailstorm that caused about $350 million in losses; they said the company is moving toward percentage deductibles to help moderate increases. On deer, they said crop-loss totals are hard to quantify but acknowledged the problem and discussed possible coordination with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and Hunters for the Hungry. Commissioner Jonathan Shell then began the Department of Agriculture presentation, reporting gains from the department’s school agriculture outreach program, including a 23% increase in county participation between March and September and improved teacher-reported student learning, before continuing into the department’s legislative priorities.

Transcript Highlights:

• The door was a large door, 3/4 in thick, a big lock.
• Um, I was in thick, a big lock.
• And I'm talking about, for example, United Hospital, the mental health locked ward.
• He was locked alone in a room at 11:00.
• That feels better than being in the locked mental health unit at United Hospital.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all