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NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York State Senate Session - 05/06/2026
New York Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Last year, these players made history by capturing the first state title in program history.
- LAST YEAR, THESE PLAYERS MADE HISTORY BY CAPTURING THE FIRST STATE TITLE IN PROGRAM HISTORY.
- He did a lot of work as a Academic counselor as part of the Upward Bound program.
- This is an academic program that helps low-income first-generation students from across our state to
- This is, I think, an important program.
Summary:
The Senate convened with prayer, approved the journal, and welcomed several guest groups, including Saugerties student government officers, the Marlboro High School boys bowling state champions, a civics group, a National Guard/9-11 responder advocate, family members honoring Salvador Vizcarrondo Jr., architecture professionals, correctional officers and employees, and small business representatives. Members also offered resolutions recognizing Architecture Week, Correctional Officers and Employees Week, and Small Business Week, along with tributes to community leaders and student achievements.
The chamber then took up a series of bills on the non-controversial calendar, passing measures on education leave for incarcerated people, utility interconnection study, property tax exemption, alcohol regulation, executive law, school drill requirements, victim sentencing rights, public health, public officers, public authorities, election law, environmental conservation, veterans/homeland security, labor, and other topics. Several bills were laid aside. Some measures drew brief explanations of vote, including concerns about school safety drills, correctional staffing and safety, and a victims’ rights bill that one senator said mirrored an earlier version he had carried.
The most extended debate centered on the 21st Century Antitrust Act (Calendar 879), with supporters arguing it would modernize antitrust enforcement against dominant firms, especially big tech, and opponents warning it would create vague standards, invite private lawsuits, and harm small and rural businesses. Another debated bill (Calendar 818) would restrict sharing of utility consumption data with police; supporters framed it as a privacy measure requiring normal legal process, while opponents said it would hinder law enforcement while still allowing state regulators access. Both bills were ultimately restored to the non-controversial calendar and passed, and the Senate adjourned until the next day.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Delivery of Government Efficiency Mar 12th, 2025
Delivery of Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- Robert, do you know of other programs that y'all participate in that are... cooperative type programs
- We call it the RSB program, which can be found on page 10 of your packet.
- Rather than creating separate departments for each program, we integrate the 38 licensing programs into
- In other programs we recommend lowering barriers for out-of-state licenses. holders and in one program
- Early in 2024, we started our Unleash Texas Energy and Stop the War program.
Keywords:
regulatory reform, government efficiency, administrative law, rulemaking, agency deference, judicial review, de novo review, Texas Government Code, Administrative Procedure Act, state agencies, plain language, regulatory burden, regulatory reduction, cost-benefit analysis, fiscal note, public benefits and costs, contested case, rule challenge, Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office, advisory panel
NJ
New Jersey 2026-2027 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Appropriations Jun 24th, 2026
Senate Budget and Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- It's another extension of an existing program. It's another extension of an existing program.
- , and the program will provide financial...
- And direct CDA to establish this program.
- discounts under loyalty programs is appropriate.
- The bill clearly states it will not affect loyalty programs.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
November 18, 2025 - 08:00 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- The lines you're referring to refer to those who are entitled to recover damages throughout the entirety
- of the Wrongful Death Act, whether that's... ...entitled to recover damages throughout the entirety
- So first, with the parents of the unborn child under this statute, they could recover damages.
- This bill specifically opens damages for the parents of the unborn child and nobody else.
- Two fathers or two potential fathers who show up, and each one wants to claim the damages.
Summary:
The Civil Justice and Claims Subcommittee met to consider one measure, PCS for HB 289, which would amend Florida’s wrongful death statute to allow parents of an unborn child to recover damages for the child’s wrongful death and to include parents in the definition of survivors. The sponsor said the bill is intended to give parents a remedy when a wrongful act, negligence, breach of contract, or breach of warranty causes the loss of an unborn child, while also preserving existing protections for lawful medical care and the mother. Members questioned the bill extensively about the meaning of “survivors,” whether it could reach surrogacy situations, friends or family who assist someone in obtaining abortion care, paternity issues, and whether abusive or unqualified fathers could bring claims. The sponsor repeatedly said the bill is limited to parents, does not authorize suits against the mother or lawful medical providers, and would still require the normal wrongful death procedures, including appointment of a personal representative. He cited Duncan v. Flynn as the case holding that current law does not allow recovery for the death of an unborn child.
Representative Gottlieb offered an amendment modeled on criminal-law protections, aimed at expanding explicit immunity for a pregnant woman and for persons providing medical care or abortion-related conduct with consent. Supporters of the amendment said it would better align civil law with criminal protections; opponents argued it was overly broad and could shield unlicensed conduct. The amendment failed on a voice vote. Public testimony was divided, with supporters from pro-life and Catholic organizations backing the bill and some asking to remove the health care exemption, while opponents from ACLU, Equality Florida, Planned Parenthood affiliates, Florida Voice for the Unborn, Voices of Florida, and others warned the bill could chill reproductive health care, increase liability for doctors and hospitals, and invite lawsuits involving surrogates, family members, and abortion-related care.
In debate, supporters said the bill simply recognizes the value of unborn children and gives parents a remedy for wrongful loss, while opponents argued it could create unintended consequences in family law, surrogacy, IVF, and medical practice, and could empower abusive partners or rapists. After closing remarks, the committee voted 13 yeas and 3 nays to report PCS for HB 289 favorably. The meeting then adjourned.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- Sideshows disrupt neighborhoods with noise, property damage, and prolonged roadway closures.
- Sideshows disrupt neighborhoods with noise, property damage, and prolonged roadway closures.
- They are families devastated by preventable accidents.
- They are families devastated by preventable accidents.
- So many of those cities have just begun their programs.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/23/26
Agriculture Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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that < - how people utilize the program as well. how people utilize the program as well.
- This program came just in time for her to be able to buy it with the support of this program.
- This is a powerful program.
Keywords:
eggs, donation, quality assurance, food assistance, charitable programs, agriculture, grain indemnity, financial security, crop insurance, Minnesota agriculture, farm assistance, down payment, state funding, loan modification, rotational grazing, grazing management, livestock, pasture management, soil health, erosion control
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- The bill aligns two key state programs more closely with the SCS.
- The bill aligns two key state programs more closely with the SCS.
- There's ways to cure it, and I think this is a good program.
- We've been supporters of the smog check program.
- program.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 03/23/26
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- have been prevented.
- The science is clear. prevented. And if there was something prevented.
- The threat of Parkinson's exposure is damage neurons. damage neurons.
- benefit from this program. benefit from this program.
- a program that we Our CSA program is a program that we purchase<01:23:27.240>
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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 03/24/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- screenings, and preventive services. screenings, and preventive services.
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services recommendation for preventive services recommendation for preventive - Uh the bill programs is important.
- Program students are Maryland.
- does with its other loan programs.
Summary:
The Senate convened with 38 members present and a quorum, then began with an invocation and several ceremonial introductions. The chamber recognized pioneering women of the Maryland State Police for Women’s History Month, including the original six female graduates and other firsts in the department, and also introduced the day’s doctor and a student intern. The Senate agreed to journalize the remarks honoring the Maryland State Police guests.
The body then took up several Finance Committee bills, adopting committee amendments and favorable reports without objection on Senate Bills 385, 387, 389, 753, 469, and 608, each of which was ordered printed for third reading. SB 385 concerns immunization, screening, and preventive-service recommendations and pharmacist administration; SB 387 restricts predatory pricing and use of personal data by food retailers and delivery services; SB 389 makes transit-oriented development changes; SB 753 addresses financial exploitation protections for seniors and vulnerable adults; SB 469 authorizes a Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund affordability program; and SB 608 requires coverage for pharmacogenomic testing.
Senate Bill 626, dealing with birth certificate sex designation changes and related identification documents, was briefly set aside at the request of a senator seeking possible amendments, with the presiding officer agreeing to hold it until the next session. Senate Bill 739, a climate change, homeowners insurance, and emergency management study bill, was also introduced with one amendment and sparked debate over its scope and funding, including discussion of a $150,000 Strategic Energy Investment Fund allocation and whether the study would examine the General Assembly’s own climate policies. The transcript ends during that discussion, before any final action on SB 739.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tax panel hears bill to create agricultural water quality property tax credit, HF363 3/19/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- discussing it more because this program discussing it more because this program if<00:37:58.400>
- things we're conflating the program things we're conflating the program itself<00:40:52.440>
- When a similar program at the federal level, like maybe the Conservation Reserve Program, that's about
AL
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee Jul 1st, 2025
Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- to move forward with the program.
- For us, this is a really great program.
- our pipeline programs.
- We continue to engage in that program. WITCNM is really expanding the number of tech programs.
- and then customizing programs.
DE
Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
House of Representatives Legislative Session - Session 2 - 42nd Legislative Day- REASSEMBLE Part 1 Jun 30th, 2026 at 02:00 pm
Delaware House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The Farm to Community Program began in 2023 through the USDA.
- I was out there at 10:30 at night, trying to save our trees from all the damage.
- This is a pilot program.
- But I really urge DOE to exercise extreme caution with this AI program.
- Delaware is the only mid-Atlantic state without a freshwater wetlands programs.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Natural Resources Subcommittee - Morning Session Dec 17th, 2025
A&B Natural Resources Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- Oh, I'm sorry, we've implemented the new program in about 72% of our licensing programs in our consumer
- USDA programs, but how many acres?
- It provides over $100 million a year in benefits to the state of Oklahoma and prevented damage.
- It provides over $100 million a year in benefits to the state of Oklahoma and prevented damage.
- as active a program.
Summary:
The meeting began with a budget presentation from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. Secretary Blaine Arthur and Deputy Commissioner Jan Lee described the agency’s divisions and recent efforts to improve efficiency, including expanded online licensing, electronic veterinary inspection certificates, and a new laboratory information system. They highlighted youth and workforce programs, local food initiatives for schools, market development efforts, and ongoing animal health concerns such as avian influenza, equine herpesvirus, and the threat of New World screwworm. They also discussed staffing, turnover, and uncertainty around federal cooperative agreement funding, while noting they were not requesting new or additional appropriations for the upcoming fiscal year.
Members asked about meat inspection staffing, the use of one-time forestry firefighting funds, biosecurity and national security coordination, and agency staffing levels. The department said meat inspection was currently in good shape but dependent on federal funding stability, and explained that prior firefighting dollars had been used for equipment purchases. They also said they work with state and federal partners, including DHS and FBI, on threat preparedness and have reduced turnover by adjusting salaries and maintaining staffing at or below prior levels.
The Oklahoma Conservation Commission then presented its budget and program overview. Staff described the agency’s long history and current work in water quality, flood control, soil health, unpaved roads, wetlands, and woody species control, especially eastern red cedar removal. They emphasized data-driven, voluntary conservation practices, citing stream cleanups, flood-control dam benefits, pond cleanouts during drought, and the Cherry-Peach watershed project as examples of programs that improve water resources and reduce wildfire risk. The agency said its workload has grown significantly and requested funding for critical dam repairs, local conservation district staffing, continued unpaved roads work, and expansion of woody species control statewide.
Members asked about county matching for road and dam projects, who to contact about flooding roads, sediment removal from pond cleanouts, and the effectiveness of county training programs. Commission staff explained that county in-kind work can count as match, local conservation districts are the first point of contact, and the road training has produced measurable savings and better maintenance practices. They also clarified that “high hazard” dams are those where failure could threaten people or infrastructure downstream, not necessarily dams that are structurally failing.
DE
Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
House of Representatives Legislative Session - Session 2 - 38th Legislative Day Jun 18th, 2026
Delaware House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This act does not prevent a government.
- , punitive damages, and other relief permitted by law.
- Its purpose is prevention.
- Its purpose is prevention.
- This would provide a check-and-balance system with this program.
Summary:
The House received a series of Senate communications and committee reports, then took up a long consent calendar and several individual measures. Early actions included passing consent calendar items, recognizing Freedom of Speech Week and Juneteenth, and hearing numerous introductions and tributes, including remarks honoring House fellows, Father’s Day, and Representative Mara Gorman. The chamber also adopted several procedural motions and recesses, with roll calls recorded throughout.
Among the bills considered, the House passed House Bill 134 on animal cruelty, increasing penalties for repeat offenses; House Bill 131 with Senate Amendment 1 on pet stores and animal welfare; House Substitute 1 for House Bill 320 on technical corrections to the Delaware Constitution; House Substitute 1 for House Bill 407 on technical updates to the Hazardous Substance Control Act; House Substitute 1 for House Bill 425 on salary supplements for certain school employees; House Substitute 1 for House Bill 450, the Road Delaware Act, on land use and permitting reform; House Bill 459 on restricting energy drink sales in schools; House Substitute 1 for House Bill 439 on electric moped and motorcycle disclosures; and House Bill 444, the Delaware John Lewis Voting Rights Act, after amendment delaying its effective date to July 1, 2027. House Amendment 1 to House Bill 459 was adopted, and House Amendment 1 to House Bill 444 was adopted before final passage.
The House also rejected House Amendment 1 to House Substitute 1 for House Bill 425 after debate over salary supplement policy for school-related certifications, then passed the substitute bill itself. House Bill 407 prompted questions about the increase in civil penalties, which DENREC said was intended to update outdated fines and align the penalty structure with other laws. House Bill 444 drew floor speeches emphasizing voting rights protections and concerns about voter suppression and dilution. The session ended with the House moving to recess after continuing consideration of House Bill 355, the Speaker Truth Act, which had just adopted an amendment changing damages language to attorney’s fees and costs.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Apr 9th, 2025
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- The bill works to prevent that as well.
- This includes programs related to identity management and digital identity credentials.
- What is to prevent somebody, Like these bad actors.
- This duty carries the statutory responsibility of preventing.
- This grant program would be administered by the governor's, uh, public safety office.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
December 2, 2025 - 08:30 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- or what exactly is civil damages?
- those damages would be to talking about what the damages for an unborn child would be.
- I think that the way that damages would be qualified and the nature of damages available if you were
- somebody can get and quantifying those damages.
- Quantifying those damages is going to be up to the courts.
Summary:
The committee first heard HB 133, which would lower the minimum age to purchase a long gun from 21 to 18. The sponsor said the bill restores the rights of law-abiding 18-year-olds. Public testimony was sharply divided, with supporters from Gun Owners of America and Florida Carry arguing that adults 18 and older should have equal Second Amendment rights and that current law is inconsistent with other adult responsibilities, while opponents, including gun violence prevention advocates, students, parents, and Parkland-related speakers, said the bill would reverse a post-Parkland safety measure and increase risks of suicide, accidental shootings, and school violence. Several members debated the bill, with opponents emphasizing Parkland, the Florida State shooting, and public polling showing broad opposition; supporters stressed parental responsibility, mental health, and constitutional rights. HB 133 was then reported favorably on a roll call vote of 13 yeas, with several members voting no.
The committee then took up CS/HB 289, which would revise Florida’s wrongful death law to allow parents to recover damages for the death of an unborn child. The sponsor said the bill is intended to let grieving parents seek civil remedies, and members questioned how it would apply in situations involving surrogacy, rape, ectopic pregnancy, medical care, and damages calculations. The sponsor said the bill would not allow suits against the mother, would not apply to lawful non-negligent medical care, and would be handled through ordinary wrongful death damage proof before a jury. Public testimony was again split: supporters from pro-life and faith groups said the bill recognizes unborn children and aligns Florida with many other states, while opponents from civil liberties, reproductive rights, and advocacy groups warned it could be used to target abortion providers, helpers, and even families or businesses in miscarriage-related cases, and could be weaponized by abusive partners. The transcript ends during testimony on HB 289, with no final vote shown in the excerpt.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Press Conference: Reproductive Freedom Caucus Present 2025 Priorities - 02/17/25
Transcript Highlights:
- suspension of critical research programs suspension of critical research programs research<00:08
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has research and patient care but damage has research and patient care but - damage has already<00:08:39.519>
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unfortunately <00:10:45.480>attacks <00:10:45.839>on preventable - that support Black birthing people, and these programs also help everyone.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session (Full Formal with Calendar) Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:06 am
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Tarr, pilot program for small business group purchasing cooperatives. Member number 397 by Mr.
- Tarr, pilot program for small business group purchasing cooperatives.
- The damage slowly emerges, but it is relentless. The damage slowly emerges, but it is relentless.
- This program funds gang violence prevention programs and provides critical support for communities across
- Thank you all for the program. Thank you. Chris Stewart and Christina Sam Dee.
Summary:
The Senate took up a long series of FY26 budget amendments during debate on the Ways and Means budget bill. Early on, an amendment on debt service and the Debt Affordability Committee was rejected. A major education amendment offered by Senator Lewis and supported by Senator Comerford was then adopted; it directs DESE to begin a public process, with $200,000 in funding, to review and recommend updates to the Chapter 70 municipal contribution formula and related school funding structures as the Student Opportunity Act nears full implementation. Senators argued that school districts across the Commonwealth are under severe fiscal strain, citing rising special education, transportation, health insurance, and Proposition 2 1/2 pressures, and that the current formulas are increasingly out of alignment with local needs.
The chamber also considered and voted on many other amendments, with several adopted and several rejected. Adopted amendments included measures on public payroll transparency, regional EMS, a small business group purchasing cooperative pilot, simplifying Medicaid eligibility determinations, and early education background checks. Rejected amendments included proposals on first-time homebuyer savings accounts, population change studies, competitiveness studies, emergency contract reform, natural gas cost containment, a $200 per pupil aid increase, regional school reimbursement increases, a Foundation Budget Review Commission-related study, special education service studies, welfare benefit audits, short-term capital gains, and an MBTA sustainability plan. Senator Durant also spoke in support of Amendment 766, which would create a crumbling concrete assistance fund for homeowners affected by pyrrhotite, with tax-exempt aid, federal funding applications, audits, and a stakeholder working group.
Near the end of debate, Senator D. DiDomenico praised the Shannon Grant program for gang violence prevention, and the Senate adopted a final corrective amendment containing technical fixes and local earmarks. The bill was then ordered to a third reading and, after a roll call on engrossment, passed to be engrossed by a vote of 38-2. The Senate also approved a motion to adjourn to the following Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. and recessed in memory of Yaron Lashinsky, Sarah Lynn Milgram, and Leslie A. Feeney.