Video & Transcript Research : 'legislative testimony'

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TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 29th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • This legislation clarifies the definition of contraband to include property linked to serious crimes.
  • "This legislation clarifies the definition of contraband to include property linked to serious crimes
  • And thank you, Representative Cook, for filing this legislation.
  • So just thumbing through it during your testimony?
  • So just thumbing through it during your testimony?
Bills: HB115
Summary: The Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence reconvened with a quorum present and announced it would likely not vote that night because of confusion over the bill list; members were told a definitive list would be circulated the next morning and a formal meeting would be scheduled later. The chair then heard a series of bills, generally taking testimony and leaving each pending without action. House Bill 1847 would set maximum caseload standards for private attorneys handling indigent criminal appointments through the Texas Indigent Defense Commission; House Bill 2417 would expand compensation eligibility for some wrongfully imprisoned people; House Bill 2813 would require earlier and more specific victim notice of scheduled court proceedings; and House Bill 2309 would expand state and local authority in certain civil asset forfeiture cases involving human trafficking, health care fraud, and organized crime. Each bill was laid out by its author or a member, with no opposition witnesses registered, and each was left pending. The committee also heard House Bill 4733, which would require sealing records for people acquitted of charges when they were not convicted on the related allegation; House Bill 2328, which would modernize expunction service by encouraging electronic notice, setting a standardized fee when electronic service is unavailable, extending clerk retention of expunction orders, and preserving certain mental health commitment orders; and House Bill 115, which would revise Texas’s “junk science” post-conviction writ law by providing counsel, changing the relief standard, requiring written decisions, and easing procedural barriers. Testimony on HB 2328 was mixed: county clerks supported the bill as a cost-saving modernization, while legal advocates warned that permanent retention of expunction orders could undermine true expunction and create privacy risks. HB 115 drew support from innocence and defense organizations, with some concern about a provision affecting subsequent writs. All were left pending after testimony. Later, the committee heard House Bill 2046, which would allow affirmative family-violence findings for any Penal Code offense rather than only Title V offenses; testimony from a Dallas County prosecutor and a committee member emphasized that family violence can involve arson, burglary, fraud, and other non-Title V conduct, and the bill was left pending. House Bill 1765 would tighten restrictions on no-knock warrants by requiring higher-level approval, judicial review, and identifiable officers; members discussed the dangers highlighted by the Harding Street raid and similar incidents, and the bill was also left pending. The meeting ended with the chair noting that some bills had been removed from the agenda at the author’s request and that members should be prepared to finalize the vote list the next day.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Senate in Special Session B Jan 28th, 2025

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am sure they appreciate that type of protection with these legislative actions.
  • And so they are just opting out of the current legislation.
  • What I am asking you is, yes, you gave the legislated grace in 2014.
  • I believe this legislation will pass today.
  • When I read this piece of legislation, nobody is telling me to say this.
Bills: SJR36, SR8, SR14, SR15, SR17, HCR54
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Jan 28th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you, Senator Menendez, for your important legislation to educate our students.
  • Thank you, Senator Menendez, for your important legislation to educate our students.
  • No state, and certainly no legislative body, has done more in support of Israel.
  • During Texas's 86th legislative session, I was honored to author House Bill 2298 to establish...
  • And so, I look forward to working with y'all on that kind of legislation.
Bills: SJR36, SR8, SR14, SR15, SR17, HCR54
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/23/2026 - Senate Federalism and Family Law

Federalism and Family Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you very much for your testimony. Oh, don't run off.
  • On behalf of your friend, your testimony is very powerful and very important.
  • to decide, do I trust that testimony?
  • Representative Justin Olson from Legislative District 10, for the record.
  • Their testimony can come in.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - House International Trade

International Trade

Transcript Highlights:
  • We stand here in respectful opposition to this legislation for various reasons.
  • This legislation like this has led to litigation in other states.
  • We don't need this legislation. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you.
  • Chair, I have a comment, not a question, to his testimony. Okay, sure. Sit down, Brian.
  • That's from our legislative website. Could you please?
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee Jan 21st, 2026

Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
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Bills: HB59, SB15, SB96, SB104, SB137
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Jan 15th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Bills: SR1, SR2
Summary: The Senate reconvened from recess and received a message from the House stating that the House was organized and ready to conduct business. The House also reported passage of SCR 7, which directs the State Preservation Board to begin steps to replace the Children of the Confederacy plaque with a plaque honoring victims of Texas’s convict leasing system. The Senate then took up and adopted Senate Resolution 1, the caucus resolution offered by Senator Zaffirini, which sets recommendations for Senate operations. The officers of the Senate were then sworn in. Next, the chamber considered Senate Resolution 2, the Rules Resolution, offered by Senator Hughes; it was adopted by a 31-0 roll call vote and makes only limited changes to committee structure while retaining prior rules. The Senate also authorized the President to appoint a five-member committee to notify the House that the Senate was organized and ready to transact business. Senator Eckhardt introduced the Doctor of the Day, Dr. Liu, a family medicine physician from Austin. With no further business, the Senate recessed until 1 p.m. Wednesday, January 22.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Public Safety Feb 17th, 2026 at 08:30 am

Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • And that is that this bill just simply will allow a human trafficking expert testimony in these cases
  • a lot of impact when you're in a court of law and trying to prove and trying to have that expert testimony
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Health and Welfare May 26th, 2026

Health and Welfare

Transcript Highlights:
  • Please find your seats as we call the last meeting of this legislative session to order.
  • representatives step out of committee and into the ante room, they're still able to see and hear testimony
  • The legislative auditor's existing audits don't really give us any meaningful insight into policy impact
  • So this is a very important piece of legislation.
  • And then that turns into legislation.
Bills: HR290, HR298, SB405, SCR61, HR318
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

State Committee Meeting - 2026-03-26

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Education Feb 11th, 2026 at 09:06 am

Senate Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 8 or similar legislation.
  • Chair, Senator, right now this legislation creates the fund and this initial influx of $300 million,
  • I'm concerned when we put in legislation and then it sets up a fund for universities and all to apply
  • Depending on how much you've got legislated power on Finance to do it, I don't understand. Mr.
  • Could they use capital from legislators as part of the match? It's still state match? State monies?
Bills: SB234, SB210, SB243, SB244, SM16, HB8
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Education Feb 11th, 2026 at 08:39 am

House Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Pueblo cannot support this legislation at this time.
  • Thank you all for public testimony. We will come to committee.
  • We strongly support this legislation.
  • Language like this matters in legislation. Intent does not.
  • Language like this matters in legislation. Intent does not.
Bills: SB234, SB210, SB243, SB244, SM16, HB8