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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 7th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It says that the Commissioners of Land Office are going to get $6,514,932.
  • understand that we hear every single year that agencies are asked specifically from the governor's office
  • And so I Had a question or maybe a couple of questions about the sheriff's office funding assistance
  • While I fully support the Sheriff's office, I'm curious how were these expenses paid before we established
  • And so my office is always available and open for questions.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
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  • with the crime medical examiner's office with the crime lab<00:04:14.239> that's<00:04:14.560
  • space with 64 reserve paved ft of office space with 64 reserve paved parking<00:21:52.640> spaces
  • lesser agreed to lease 6,79 ft of office space<00:24:14.400> at<00:24:14.640> a<00:24:
  • Steve Starkweather, deputy executive director, Office of Financial Management.
Summary: The committee first handled routine business, including approval of the February meeting minutes and several information items. Those items covered university equipment purchases, school district and transportation-related debt issuances, Northern Kentucky University’s planned construction-manager/general-contractor delivery method for the medical examiner/crime lab relocation project, a lease-space advertisement, postsecondary asset preservation allocations, and lease-law compliance reports. Members then discussed the Northern Kentucky crime lab project in more detail; staff explained that the memorandum of agreement would cover the construction portion while the lease would cover operations, and members were told the project should move forward without procurement problems. The committee approved a Kentucky Community and Technical College System project to modify the fire academy maintenance building after the related dormitory project was set aside because of major cost overruns. KCTCS said the dormitory would be about $3 million over budget, so it would not be bid; instead, the maintenance building would be expanded to add showers and restroom/locker facilities, bringing that project from $2 million to about $3.2 million. The committee also approved a Transportation Cabinet project for the Hardin County I-65 southbound commercial motor vehicle station relocation, with members asking about the estimate, the lack of a direct prior example, and the fact that the loadometer equipment itself would be purchased separately and was not included in the construction estimate. Finance and Administration Cabinet lease items were then considered. The committee approved a Department of Public Advocacy lease in Christian County and a Transportation Cabinet vehicle regulation lease in Kenton County, both negotiated down from initial asking prices and both including utilities. Two lease modifications were reported without action: a Department of Revenue fit-up in Jefferson County and an expanded vehicle regulation lease in Adair County. Members also approved a package of Kentucky Infrastructure Authority items, including four loans and six Cleaner Water Program grant reallocations, covering sewer and water projects such as MSD’s Patty’s Run flood pumping station, Paducah-McCracken County’s wastewater treatment plant, Mount Washington’s lift station replacement, and Eminence’s wastewater plant expansion. Finally, the committee heard a batch of Kentucky Product Development Initiative economic development grants and approved the action items in one vote. The projects included due diligence and infrastructure work for industrial and site-development projects in multiple counties, with local match requirements and KEDFA approvals described for each. The committee also received three line-item water grants from House Bill 1 that required no action, and the meeting ended after the grant presentations and approvals.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/10/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • This will fund the prison oversight office that was implemented last year, with the recent development
  • care system, how do you think that will impact the goals and mission of the correctional oversight office
  • And you may say to yourself, how can an oversight board or office help public safety?
Summary: The committee heard House Bill 2003, which would lower the instruction-permit age for Class D, G, and M licenses from 15 and a half to 15, while increasing supervised practice requirements for minors: 50 hours for Class G with 20 at night, 50 hours for Class M, and a nine-month permit holding period before licensure. The sponsor argued the bill builds on Arizona’s graduated driver licensing system and is intended to improve teen safety, citing other states with longer permit periods and lower teen fatality rates. Questions focused on who certifies the supervised hours, with staff explaining that a parent, legal guardian, or custodial parent signs off, though driver education remains an alternative. The bill received a do-pass recommendation by a 9-1 vote. House Bill 2063, which appropriates $1.5 million from the General Fund in FY 2027 to the Corrections Oversight Fund, drew emotional testimony in support from a mother whose son died after a prison suicide, and from advocates who said the oversight office is needed given prison health care problems and federal receivership. The sponsor said the funding would support prison oversight and transparency. The committee then approved the bill unanimously, 10-0. The committee also passed House Bill 2116, appropriating $1 million to the Colorado River litigation fund, after the sponsor said the money would help Arizona prepare for possible litigation over Colorado River cuts and that the issue affects nearly every district in the state. Members discussed whether the funding should come from the WIFA fund instead of the General Fund, but the bill received an 8-0 do-pass recommendation with two not voting. The committee also considered House Bill 2210, which would prohibit the state, local governments, and private entities from using ADS-B aircraft surveillance data to calculate, generate, or collect aircraft fees. Supporters, including pilots and the Arizona Pilots Association, argued the technology was intended for safety and should not be used for billing, warning that fee collection could discourage pilots from keeping the system on. Opponents, including the Arizona Airports Association and the City of Phoenix, said airports should retain local control over fee collection methods and that the bill was a solution in search of a problem. After extensive debate about federal requirements, safety, and billing practices, the bill received a tied 4-4 do-pass recommendation. Finally, HCM 2007, a memorial urging renaming sections of State Route 69 to honor veterans of several wars, passed 5-4. The committee also briefly noted that some bills were being held at members’ request.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary Committee, March 2, 2026 AM

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • >> Oh, the governor's office—when I...
  • >> Oh, the governor's office when I Yeah.
  • >> Oh, the governor's office when I Yeah.
  • Um office of the AG promagating rules.
  • Um, we too support office here today.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Mar 19th, 2025

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • , juvenile probation officers, and certain hired law enforcement officers into criminal liability for
  • taking a weapon from certain of those officers.
  • We had 36 officers of DPS the first year.
  • DPS officers there today.
  • I mean, not every officer is.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • Office of the Attorney General, Office of Regulatory Relief. 40 KAR 12:300, 12:310, 12:400, 12:420, and
  • I'm the executive director of the Office of Sales and Excise Taxes with the Department of Revenue.
  • <00:07:46.480> of executive director of the Office of executive director of the Office of
  • Finance and Administration Cabinet, Office of the Controller. 200 KAR 38:080.
  • Office of the Controller. 200 KAR Office of the Controller. 200 KAR 38:080. 38:080. 38:080.
Summary: The subcommittee met with a quorum present, approved the minutes without objection, and then reviewed a series of administrative regulations from multiple agencies. Most of the regulations received staff-suggested amendments and were approved without objection, including fish and wildlife rules on fishing limits and deer hunting on local government property, veterinary board changes to responsible party and veterinary manager requirements, election procedures for safe-at-home voters, attorney general regulatory relief rules, emergency gasoline tax pricing, public pensions updates, controller fraud-prevention policies, physical therapy licensure and English proficiency standards, school nutrition and fee-waiver rules, public health conference procedures, and Medicaid waiver regulations. Several agencies briefly identified themselves and answered procedural questions, but most items drew no substantive opposition. The Board of Veterinary Examiners regulation included an agency amendment that removed a proposed limit on the number of facilities a veterinary manager could oversee. The Department of Education regulations updated fee waiver and meal program procedures, while the Department of Public Health regulation clarified notification and conference-request procedures. The Department of Revenue and Kentucky Public Pensions Authority items were largely technical or conforming changes, including a special-needs trust definition added for consistency with Senate Bill 85. The most extensive discussion involved the Department for Medicaid Services’ 1915C child waiver regulations. Kentucky Protection and Advocacy testified in opposition to the waiver’s lack of participant-directed services, arguing that consumer-driven services such as respite and community living support are required and especially important in rural areas and for higher-acuity children. Cabinet representatives responded that the waiver is intended to provide wraparound services to keep children in homes and communities, that it has CMS approval, and that the program is limited to 100 slots with about 21 participants already enrolled. Members did not move a deficiency motion, and the chair indicated the regulations would continue through the process. The meeting adjourned after setting the next meeting for Tuesday, August 11 at 1:00 p.m.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure

Transcript Highlights:
  • The rule shall provide for the hearing to be conducted by a driver license hearing officer or other hearing
  • officer appointed by the secretary.
  • Following the hearing, the hearing officer shall issue a final order.
  • Following the hearing, the hearing officer shall issue a final order. Section 15.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • In 2019, the Texas Judicial Council recognized Webb County Court of Law II as a Judicial Center of Excellence
  • I know that last year at the Annual Judicial Conference we had Judge D.C.
  • Good morning, Phillip Ashley with the Comptroller's Office, here as a resource.
  • These bills are by the Comptroller's Office.
  • And second, the bill will eliminate three committees from the Comptroller's office.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

PBS Public Hearing - Fri Feb 6, 2026 @ 8:30 AM HST

Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • Third, I want to be very specific that our office is a state office, right?
  • Um, our office sees extingencies.
  • and community relations office uh title. and community relations office uh title.
  • We are a officer at Worth Rises.
  • Office of Wellness and Resilience. Office of Wellness and Resilience.
Bills: HB676
Summary: The committee heard three public safety bills. HB 2235 would appropriate $1.3 million for the Military Affairs and Community Relations Office to strengthen coordination on military and defense issues. Supporters, including the Hawaii National Guard and DBEDT’s military relations office, said the office helps Hawaiʻi understand federal contracting, USA Jobs, and military-related economic impacts. One member questioned why the state should fund a DoD-related office while Hawaiʻi remains under-reimbursed on impact aid; supporters responded that the office serves Hawaiʻi communities and helps prepare residents for federal jobs. The chair said she intended to recommend the bill pass with a HD1, a blank appropriation to be filled in the committee report, technical amendments, a defective effective date, and updated office title language. HB 2263 would expand Hawaiʻi family leave law to cover qualifying military exigencies. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, DBEDT’s military relations office, and the Hawaii National Guard supported the measure, saying military families often face short-notice deployments, relocations, briefings, and urgent family arrangements that require time away from work, and that aligning state law with federal standards would provide clarity and consistency. The chair said she would recommend passage with a HD1, a defective effective date, and technical amendments. HB 2291 would clarify that certain National Guard Youth and Educational Programs employees are excluded from collective bargaining, rename the program, and codify its Hawaiian name. The Hawaii National Guard said it was a housekeeping bill with no appropriation, but requested an amendment to align the bill with updated authorities and program references; the chair asked for proposed language before the later decision-making. She said she would recommend passage with a defective date and the requested amendment if provided, and then recessed the hearing until 11:30 a.m. for decision-making on all three bills.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/25

State Government Finance and Policy

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  • <00:21:46.240> especially goal in creating this office especially goal in creating this office
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Bills: HF1, HF2
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Finance May 21st, 2026

Finance

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  • to fund pay increases for correction officers working for prison enterprises.
  • for 56 T.O. positions; Office of Risk Management, $304 million for 43 T.O. positions; Louisiana Property
  • Office of State Procurement, $13.4 million with 99 T.O. positions.
  • Office of Aircraft Services, $3.2 million and four T.O. positions.
  • Ancillary Enterprise Fund, which is an agency working capital fund authorized for use in covering office
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Mar 17th, 2026

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, ladies and gentlemen, this removes the prohibition against municipal officers serving on a municipal