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MD

Maryland 2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session, 3/17/2026 #1

Maryland House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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  • . facility. facility.
  • emissions of these facilities. emissions of these facilities.
  • down to be able to build the facility. down to be able to build the facility.
  • <03:15:39.360> Pennsylvania, types of facilities? Pennsylvania, types of facilities?
Summary: The House opened with prayer, a quorum call showing 116 members present, and approval of the previous day’s journal. It then took up three ceremonial resolutions. One honored Robert Buchanan for his philanthropy, community leadership, and service in the greater Washington region; another welcomed a visiting delegation from County Tipperary, Ireland, and recognized efforts to strengthen Maryland-Ireland ties; and a third congratulated Dr. Miriam Rogers on her retirement as superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools and her 2026 Woman in School Leadership Award. The chamber then moved through a series of committee reports, largely adopting favorable reports on bills without objection and ordering them to third reading. Measures included House Bills 435, 954, 1087, 1470, 936, 1110, 1554, 187, 324, 688, 776, 1152, 1320, and 1348, covering topics such as movie captioning in public accommodations, procurement and finance, health care facilities, school food procurement, tax foreclosure notice requirements, agricultural electricity tax study, expungement, child support rights, intercepted communications penalties, juvenile supervision, police orders studies, victim notification, and human trafficking reporting. Several bills were amended before being advanced, including House Bill 768 on benefits for children in custody, which added a foster youth savings program; House Bill 877 on institutional debt reporting, which changed reporting dates and required a data dictionary; House Bill 1092 on child advocacy centers, which clarified continuity-of-care standards and technical assistance grants; House Bill 310 on restrictive housing for people with developmental or intellectual disabilities, which required assessment at admission; House Bill 634 on police training, which added training on intellectual and developmental disabilities; House Bill 750 on access to religious facilities; House Bill 752 on gift card valuation and forgery; House Bill 1005 on child abuse and neglect reporting; and House Bill 1105 on consumer protection limitations, which was amended to apply only to civil suits. House Bill 1105 drew additional discussion, with the minority leader asking for a special order to review the changes, and the House agreed to postpone it until the appropriate time the next day. Later, House Bill 953, which would authorize transfers from the Revenue Stabilization Account to the State Disaster Recovery Fund, prompted extended questioning about Western Maryland flooding, FEMA denials, and the state’s response; the bill was presented as a way to provide relief after federal aid was denied. The transcript ends with the House still in session and continuing through the appropriations report.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
  • I want to share the exciting most recent schematic layout of this facility.
  • Strong industry partnerships and state-of-the-art facilities.
  • The multi purpose facility.
  • They're going to renovate a wing of their facility.
  • Each trade gets together and they build a home indoors in our facility.
Keywords: 999, senate, all
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Hello, Dave Lewis, Director of Facilities. CDCR.
  • I live right next to that Lancaster facility. Life is even hotter.
  • versus tearing down and rebuilding some of these facilities.
  • We're here to talk about the CIM 50-bed Mental Health Crisis Facility.
  • So there's an existing 36 bed unlicensed. facility that will be replaced by a 50 bed licensed facility
Keywords: 988, house, all
NH
Transcript Highlights:
  • <01:36:58.800> these qualified for group two. these qualified for group two. these positions
  • , medical care facilities.
  • , medical care facilities.
  • , medical care facilities.
  • um medical care professional facilities um medical care facilities.<02:41:20.720> So<02:41:21.040
Summary: The meeting began with unanimous committee approval of amendment 2026-2021S to HB 2. Senator Lang explained the amendment corrected a drafting error so that $2.5 million in state funds, matched with federal money for a total of $5 million, could be spent during the biennium rather than lapse at the end of the fiscal year. The money is intended to stabilize Medicaid per diem rates for county nursing homes, and members agreed without objection to adopt the amendment and continue working from the bill as amended by the Senate. The committee then discussed HB 155 and a proposed amendment, 2026-201H, dealing with the business enterprise tax. The House side described the proposal as a compromise that would raise the filing threshold from $250,000 to $375,000 and create a trigger that would reduce the BET rate by 0.05% for each $100 million in combined business tax surplus, down to a floor of 0.25%. Senate members opposed lowering the rate at this time, arguing that tax relief should focus on the filing threshold, which they said would remove filing burdens for about 3,500 small businesses, and that rate cuts should be considered in a budget cycle rather than an off-year. Concerns were raised that one-time revenues, such as tax amnesty receipts or federal repatriation-related surpluses, could unintentionally trigger reductions. Representative Sweeney later offered a revised approach by moving the effective date of the trigger mechanism to January 1, 2028, and said he was also willing to carve out tax amnesty revenues or adjust the effective date to avoid using one-time funds. The Senate remained unwilling to agree to a rate reduction, though it expressed openness to raising the filing threshold further. The committee ultimately did not resolve the business tax issue and recessed to continue discussions at a later time. The final item discussed was HB 1102, concerning an increase in the research and development tax credit paired with changes to state park fees. House members supported the R&D credit increase but opposed tying it to higher park fees, citing concerns about tourism, especially at border parks, and noting that the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources had said it did not need the increase. Senate members defended the park fee changes as a fairness issue, arguing that New Hampshire residents should pay less than out-of-state visitors and that the department had not raised rates in many years. No vote was taken on this item during the discussion captured here.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 16th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • As the international sporting community has recognized the premiere facilities and passionate culture
  • Change with it and stay on the upper edge of the technology with our facilities and infrastructure.
  • So, do we have a list of qualifying COGs?
  • Able to expand their facilities. Senator Goodwin, for a follow-up, thank you.
  • Biv transgender facility for children, and we dared to hold up 40 million dollars. Dollars.
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Education Committee Apr 1st, 2026 at 09:00 am

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • They can qualify for...
  • Students who qualify for free and reduced lunch can qualify for a free dual credit class.
  • I don't have a qualified teacher in English, but I have a qualified English person in this town that
  • at the federal level, they qualify for those classes.
  • It does not qualify at the state level.
Keywords: 908, all
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • where hospitals are not receiving that funding if a hospital patient then comes back into their facility
  • where hospitals are not receiving that funding if a hospital patient then comes back into their facility
  • When we start to think about facility.
  • feed stocks in America that you qualify feed stocks in America that you could<01:29:08.719> get
  • days that are consumed at the facility. days that are consumed at the facility.
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.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Postsecondary Education Feb 10th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Postsecondary Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • They are asked to review at least annually to see if there are qualified accreditors that exist.
  • to make sure that restrooms, locker rooms, showers, and all of those places inside correctional facilities
  • You, for one more question, could we not just mandate that everyone always has to have individual facilities
  • Then to your point, how will this keep people safe if, even giving somebody an individual facility to
  • Then how will giving them a single-gendered facility keep them safe if Again, they have the offenders
WA
Transcript Highlights:
  • often provide care in clients' homes, they also work in adult family homes and assisted living facilities
  • When clients qualify for Medicaid long-term services and supports, DSHS case managers assess clients'
  • Some describe needing to fire good staff when their certification took too long, and facilities can be
  • Some describe needing to fire good staff when their certification took too long, and facilities can be
Keywords: 904, all
Summary: The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee heard a State Auditor’s Office performance audit on the Restoring Quality Home Care Initiative (I-1163), which created home care aide certification requirements, FBI background checks, and an abuse/neglect registry. Auditors said some requirements likely improve safety, especially background checks and training, but the state lacked pre-2011 data to measure outcomes directly. They also found Washington has a long-term care workforce shortage, though its workforce supply ranks better than many states, and that more stringent entry requirements do not appear to reduce workforce participation compared with other states. The audit’s main concern was that the certification process is slow and burdensome. Auditors reported that most applicants never finish certification, that only about one-third of fiscal year 2025 applicants were certified within the 200-day legal deadline, and that the average time to certification was 463 days. They identified delays between training and testing, limited testing access in some areas, and redundant Department of Health verification of FBI background checks as key causes. The audit recommended streamlining the process by accepting applications later in the process, expanding testing within training programs, and eliminating the redundant background-check verification. Department of Health and Department of Social and Health Services staff largely agreed with the audit’s findings and recommendations. They said they have already made improvements, including moving exams into more than 110 training programs, increasing credentialing staff, and reducing barriers through rule changes. DSHS noted testing is offered in 13 languages. Committee members asked about testing contract incentives, language access, and whether the agencies would seek statutory or budget changes to implement the recommendations. No public testimony was offered, and the meeting adjourned without any vote or formal action by the committee.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Transportation May 23rd, 2025

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you, uh, members, uh, current law requires a vehicle storage facility to notify owners and lien
  • A storage facility is required to provide the notice in a local newspaper.
  • So this bill amends the code to provide an alternative notice by allowing a vehicle storage facility
  • The bill would lower the match requirements from 10% to 5% to qualify for state grant loan funding for
Bills: HB227
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

FL House Floor Session - 2025-04-23 (10:00AM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Limited access facilities are those roads where the owners or occupants of the abutting land have no
  • However, it has many additional responsibilities, and it handles all our various health care facilities
  • However, there are unique cases where the utility facility is located in one municipality but owned by
  • The owner municipality imposes a 25% surcharge on the residents where the facility is located.
  • SB 202 will ensure that a municipality operating a water facility must charge a recipient municipality
Summary: The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several introductions and moments of silence, including tributes to those affected by the Florida State University shooting and recognition of Coach Amir Abdur-Rahim, John Thrasher, student advocacy groups, conservation organizations, and visiting school groups. Members also adopted Senate Resolution 1878 honoring Coach Abdur-Rahim. The chamber then moved into special order business and considered a series of bills, many of them with House companions substituted in and passed by wide margins or unanimously. Among the measures passed were bills updating child care and early learning provider regulation, imposing costs on false swatting reports, extending protections against extraordinary hospital collection actions, expanding hazardous walking conditions for schoolchildren, creating young adult housing support for foster and homeless students, clarifying school choice disclosure requirements under the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program, adjusting interest rules for trust accounts supporting legal aid, revising transportation and traffic enforcement provisions, expanding public records exemptions for certain judicial and health care investigators and appellate clerks, changing municipal water and sewer utility rates in Miami-Dade, strengthening motor vehicle offenses involving impersonation and obscured plates, increasing trespass penalties at certain law-enforcement-controlled sites and large ticketed events, requiring refunds of patient overpayments, authorizing certain stem cell therapies, allowing relatives and direct support professionals to administer insulin in group homes, addressing rideshare impersonation and transit funding rules, and updating the Uniform Commercial Code for digital assets and emerging technologies. Several bills drew notable debate. The trust fund interest bill prompted extended discussion over legal aid funding, bank participation, and whether the measure would reduce support for legal services; it ultimately passed 28-10. The transportation bill was heavily amended, including removal of speed-limit increases and changes to school bus camera enforcement and micromobility rules, and passed 37-0. The Miami-Dade water and sewer rate bill sparked debate over fairness, fiscal impact, and accusations of racism, but passed 36-2. Public records bills protecting agency investigators and JQC employees also drew questions about accountability and transparency before passing. Most other measures passed with little or no opposition, and a few bills were temporarily postponed or set aside.
US
Transcript Highlights:
  • that we get that facility completed.
  • Can I get your commitment to continue working with me on this facility?
  • That facility is a $1.5 billion facility.
  • The facilities for ARS are not what they should be.
  • Agriculture, and we want to help you get better facilities.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means (01/28/2026)

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • revenue windfalls to improve facilities revenue windfalls to improve facilities or<00:51:17.040> invest
  • um homes out of 404,000 qualified um homes out of 404,000 qualified homeowners<01:42:58.719>
  • I think under the under the qualify?
  • ." qualify for the 3% discount to retain qualify for the 3% discount to retain that<04:04:09.040>
  • don't qualify." don't qualify." >> Representative<04:06:06.160> Brier.
Keywords: 1189, house, all
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

FIN Info Briefing - Fri Jan 16, 2026 @ 9:00 AM HST

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • . facilities. facilities.
  • Other facilities we're learning that we may need for DOE includes a breaking facility, slaughter facilities
  • Um other facilities existing facilities.
  • , um includes a breaking facility, um includes a breaking facility, slaughter<01:33:30.800> facilities
  • Correctional Facility.
Keywords: 910, house, all
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

LBT-GVO, LBT, LBT Public Hearings 02-11-2026

Labor and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • We've got the rehabilitation of this facility here that's going to involve possibly the Kinhali site
  • We've got the rehabilitation of this facility here that's going to involve possibly the Kinhali site
  • We've got the rehabilitation of this facility here that's going to involve possibly the Kinhali site
  • done in order to be in order to qualify done in order to be in order to qualify for<00:07:23.360
  • <00:08:18.000> here rehabilitation of this facility here rehabilitation of this facility here
Keywords: 912, senate, all
Summary: The committees heard testimony on several personnel and employment bills. SB 2119 would require the state or counties to reimburse public officers and employees for approved work-related travel costs within 30 days; testifiers from the State Procurement Office, UPW, HGA, the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly, and others supported the measure, citing delayed reimbursements. SB 3131 would update state position titles by changing “private secretary” to “executive assistant” and “secretary” to “administrative assistant” where applicable, and it drew support from DEED and comments from the State Librarian. SB 3069 would permanently exempt a limited number of specialized positions in DAGS Public Works and the Comptroller’s office from civil service; DAGS, HCDA, and DEED supported it, while UPW opposed it. Committee members questioned whether the exemption should be narrower and whether the positions should be consultants or actual employees, and DAGS said the roles were narrowly tailored, highly specialized, and intended to help manage complex projects such as Aloha Stadium, the convention center, and other major redevelopment work. The committee then heard SB 3180, which would repeal the limit on temporary employment in a single position for two 89-day terms. Testimony included support from the Procurement Office, DOE, DHRD, the State Librarian in opposition, UPW written comments, HGA, the Grassroots Institute of Hawaii, and others. Discussion focused on whether the bill was needed to address abuse of repeated 89-day hires and whether it would affect recruitment and career pathways. Finally, SB 2137 would allow departments, divisions, and agencies to assume hiring and recruitment functions from DHRD under certain conditions. DHRD opposed the bill, saying existing law already allows delegation and that agency-level recruitment often lacks the expertise and staffing to do the work; UHPA supported it, and UPW submitted written support. In questioning, DHRD said it had reduced backlog and was now current on screening, while also offering programs like Operation Hire Hawaii for faster agency-led recruitment.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Health Committee Meeting - 2025-04-02

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Number one, The amount of money involved with paying for people who live in another state, do not qualify
  • billion a year just on the Medicaid side that the federal government says is for folks who don't qualify
  • legislative auditor estimated that 80,000 Minnesotans were signed up for plans that they did not qualify
  • However, we need to make sure that we are covering folks that live here, qualify, and are still alive
  • Subsection 8 talks about qualifying measures on that.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • means is that um the student qualifies means is that um the student qualifies for<00:21:28.559><
  • Um, but you have some pre-qualifiers.
  • then the whole school I guess qualified then the whole school I guess is<00:35:16.960> qualified<
  • Um but is qualified into the program.
  • SNAP, they're automatically qualified. SNAP, they're automatically qualified.
Keywords: 958, all
Summary: The task force met with a quorum, approved the minutes from the August 20 meeting, and then heard testimony from Representative Steven Doan on House Bill 439, a school nutrition bill aimed at restricting certain ultra-processed foods in schools. Doan said the bill was inspired by his own health journey and his work in agriculture, and he described the measure as targeting specific chemical additives in foods served during the school day, not concession sales or after-hours activities. He said the bill would phase in later to give schools time to adjust and noted that the list of restricted additives was drawn from efforts in other states and advocacy groups. Members asked about the chemical abstract numbers, fiscal impact, summer meal programs, fundraisers, and whether the bill would affect parent-provided items; Doan said he had not done a fiscal note and explained that the bill was intended to apply only during instructional time on school property. Committee members generally reacted favorably, with some raising practical concerns about cost and implementation. One member asked about high fructose corn syrup, which Doan said was not included because it is too pervasive in the food system. Another member noted that schools already limit some homemade items and asked about the line between school-provided and parent-provided food. Doan also said the list was based in part on Turning Point USA materials and similar laws in other states, and he referenced federal efforts to define ultra-processed foods. The committee then heard from Kentucky Department of Education officials Matt Ross, Lauren Moore, and Katie Embry on school meals and nutrition programs. They outlined Kentucky’s school lunch, breakfast, summer meals, and other USDA child nutrition programs, including participation and reimbursement figures, and explained how community eligibility provision schools, meal patterns, offer-versus-serve, smart snacks, and local wellness policies work. They said USDA and FDA are currently seeking public input on a uniform definition of ultra-processed foods, that there are no current USDA requirements specifically on ultra-processed foods, and that schools already operate under federal and state rules governing competitive foods, including a state time restriction on smart snacks. They also discussed local purchasing, noting its benefits but also the procurement and staffing challenges schools face. No votes or final actions on the bill were taken in the portion provided.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs Apr 14th, 2025

S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • installations when they're considering closure or reduction in the mission of the, of a particular facility
  • Um, it looks like you are qualified to do electrical work and supervise, um, and then look at our state
  • At the same time, Texas veterans identify not knowing what benefits they um qualify for or where to go
  • Veterans commission can use to connect more veterans to the services and opportunities that they are qualified
CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 112 May 5th, 2026

Colorado House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Carter. facilities. And I think that he should facilities.
  • And if you make these facilities And if you make these facilities have<03:51:29.280> to<03
  • <04:43:20.160> they recovery facilities decide whether they recovery facilities decide whether
  • facilities near us. facilities near us.
  • . facilities. facilities.
Keywords: 981, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Finance Division II (03/07/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • You know that a family that gets food stamps qualifies for SNAP also qualifies for free and reduced lunch
  • Okay, because you have to qualify for that annually.
  • You know that a family that gets food stamps qualifies for SNAP also qualifies for free and reduced lunch
  • to continue qualifying for free and reduced lunch.
  • <04:20:24.239> professional diagnosis from a qualified professional diagnosis from a qualified
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The Finance Division 2 work session first took up HB 506, a bill dealing with the return of seized firearms. Members discussed how the measure would shift background-check processing for firearm returns through the Department of Safety, while the physical firearms would still remain with local police unless State Police had taken custody. The department said the bill would change which cases come to it, and members clarified that the bill concerns the background-check decision rather than possession of the firearms. The committee then voted OTP on HB 506 FN by a 7-0 roll call. The committee next discussed HB 671, establishing a kindergarten literacy readiness program. Department of Education staff explained that the bill grew out of a COVID-era Waterford contract that provided home-based early literacy support for families using federal relief funds, at a cost of about $600,000 per year, but that the program ended when those funds expired. Members raised concerns that the bill’s $1 appropriation was not realistic, that the prior program lacked sufficient outcome data, and that the references to ESSA tier-one benchmarks were unclear. The department said it was conducting a broader literacy needs assessment and updating the state literacy plan, including data from the zero-to-five range, K-5, and dyslexia-related work. Waterford representatives described the program as an early-literacy, pre-K readiness service for children ages zero to five, originally designed to work in homes with computers and internet provided where needed, and later expanded in some settings such as daycares and pre-K classrooms. They said the program used assessments at the beginning and end, had served hundreds of children, and was intended to support family engagement and kindergarten readiness. Despite that testimony, members remained concerned about funding and the lack of clear results, and one member moved to retain the bill for more information. The discussion ended with the bill retained rather than advanced.