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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/26

Energy Finance and Policy

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  • committee and state your name, please? committee and state your name, please?
  • the state? the state?
  • . state. state.
  • Four<01:26:55.920> other<01:26:56.120> states. Four other states. Four other states.
  • the entire United States. the entire United States.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Aeronautics and Transportation Feb 23rd, 2026 at 10:00 am

Aeronautics and Transportation

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  • occupies in the state.
  • of this state?
  • or we the state as the legislature?
  • And so as I'm reading it says entity of the state.
  • Yes, I suppose you could say that we are an entity of the state or we are the state, Senator Goodwin.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Tue Feb 10, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh equipment and services to the state.
  • Many state legislators chairs repaired.
  • How are the other states dealing with this?
  • debts are what they state they are, they use the credit report to verify what the application stated
  • life working to ban it here in the state life working to ban it here in the state of<00:40:05.359
Summary: The committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce met on February 10, 2026, and heard testimony on several bills. HB 1849 relating to licensing drew comments from DCCA’s Professional and Vocational Licensing Division and the Hawaii Real Estate Commission, both of which stood on written testimony. The Hawaii Coalition for Immigrant Rights testified in strong support, emphasizing that some immigrants, including DACA recipients, are already contributing in Hawaii and that the state should help create pathways for them to remain and advance professionally. No vote or final action was taken on HB 1849 during the portion shown. The committee then heard HB 2000, the wheelchair right-to-repair bill. Encart opposed the measure, arguing that repair delays are largely driven by insurance prior authorization and that wheelchair repairs involve FDA-regulated medical devices where improper repairs could create health risks. Peter Fritz testified in support, saying the bill was modeled on similar laws in other states and that he had personal experience through his sister’s use of a wheelchair. Members questioned whether repairs done outside insurer networks might not be reimbursed, and Fritz said that was a concern but that the need for timely repair outweighed it. The committee also discussed HB 1753 on social media, where DCCA’s Office of Consumer Protection supported the bill but suggested an amendment to the definition of personal information. On HB 1511 relating to consumer protection, DCCA’s Insurance Division supported the bill, while the Alliance for Automotive Innovation and the Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association offered comments seeking to preserve legitimate manufacturer and dealer communications about vehicles, warranties, recalls, and related services. The committee also took up HB 276 HD1 and HB 1513 on condominiums. The Hawaii Real Estate Commission offered comments on HB 276 HD1. For HB 1513, the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority supported the bill, but DCCA’s Insurance Division opposed it, warning that diverting HHRF funds could weaken reinsurance arrangements and raise premiums for consumers who rely on the fund. Members questioned whether the proposed condo loan program would need HHRF money and whether the amounts in the bill were necessary, and the division said it opposed using HHRF for that purpose. The committee also heard HB 2188 on housing, where OCP supported the measure and the Hawaii Association of Realtors raised concerns about conflicts with the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the use of tenant screening reports, noting that a working group is already addressing landlord-tenant issues. Members asked OCP to research how other states handle similar laws and whether additional language is needed to avoid federal conflict. Finally, on HB 1876 relating to mental health, the Department of Health’s Adult Mental Health Division supported the bill but said it remains opposed to harmful, non-evidence-based treatment modalities; Pride at Work Hawaii also testified in strong support. No final votes or committee decisions were reported in the excerpt.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Education Feb 6th, 2026 at 09:04 am

House Education

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  • academies or state options?
  • It has been well executed across major institutions, learning institutions, states, in all of our states
  • We've identified as a state, and like I said earlier, other states have also identified some issues and
  • They must comply with all state standards. They must comply with all state standards.
  • or contracted out, was this contracted-out entity, or is it within the state, utilizing the state?
Bills: HB2, SB204, SB241, HB34
AL
Transcript Highlights:
  • If fully funded, it would enhance Wall State Community College, addressing issues of resources being
  • How many states currently have NIL legislation?
  • I think we're somewhere around the high 20s to 30... 38 states. So it's growing.
  • So I got to send him out of town to another state. But I'm not asking for a vote.
  • We're representatives of the state of Alabama. What does it have to do with...
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Natural Resources Apr 23rd, 2025

Natural Resources

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  • Entire state of Texas.
  • resources of the state.
  • This is what the state water plan has deemed feasible for many years, as stated before, over 50 years
  • And to think that this state...
  • state water for use.
Summary: The Committee on Natural Resources heard House Bill 2109, which would remove certain long-proposed reservoir projects from the state water plan after 50 years without progress. Chairman Van Deaver and many landowners, local officials, timber interests, and conservation advocates testified in support, arguing that the Marvin Nichols Reservoir has burdened Northeast Texas landowners for decades with the threat of eminent domain, depressed property values, and uncertainty over homes, farms, ranches, schools, churches, and cemeteries. Supporters also said the project would flood tens of thousands of acres, require extensive mitigation, harm timber and agriculture, and that Texas now has better alternatives such as conservation, reuse, aquifer storage and recovery, and desalination. Several members expressed sympathy for the affected families and questioned whether a project could remain in the plan indefinitely without progress. Opposition came from North Texas water interests, including the North Texas Commission, Tarrant Regional Water District, and the Texas Water Association, who argued that the bill would interfere with the state’s long-term water planning process and remove needed future supply options for a fast-growing region. They said Region C faces major projected shortages by 2070, that conservation and reuse have already delayed the need for new supplies, and that reservoirs remain one tool in the state’s water-planning toolbox. TWDB staff explained the existing inter-regional conflict process and noted that the substitute would affect several unique reservoir sites, not just Marvin Nichols. After testimony, Chairman Van Deaver closed by urging passage of the bill, but the committee withdrew the substitute and left HB 2109 pending. The committee then took up House Bill 5188, a brackish groundwater bill. The author said the bill would reduce permitting burdens for wells in designated brackish groundwater production zones, and the committee substitute added requirements on monitoring, groundwater-rights ownership, and allocation of pumpage limits while removing some exclusions and export-fee provisions. Texas Wildlife Association testified against the bill, warning that the exemptions could weaken groundwater conservation districts’ ability to protect freshwater resources and surface-owner rights. San Antonio Water System testified in favor, saying brackish groundwater is a key future supply and that the substitute would help speed development of desalination and brackish projects. The Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts testified neutrally but raised concerns about reduced district oversight, especially around injection-well exclusions and the loss of export fees, and said discussions on the bill were ongoing.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Natural Resources Apr 23rd, 2025

Natural Resources

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  • water plan or the state water plan because it does not protect. ...our natural resources of the state
  • This is what the state water plan has...
  • So how do we serve the entire state of Texas?
  • state water for use.
  • If you could please state your name.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Natural Resources Apr 23rd, 2025

Natural Resources

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  • However However, this financial assistance can only come if the project is consistent with state and
  • the county is going through the process of amending the desired future conditions, the DFC, for the state
  • Members, I would really appreciate your help on this. areas of the state because they are so important
  • Securing a safe and reliable water supply is. crucial for the economic prosperity of our state.
  • ASR is an essential part of the state water plan and Austin's 100-year water plan.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Transportation Funding Apr 14th, 2025

S/C on Transportation Funding

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  • Please state your name briefly.
  • Many other states have short-line grant programs.
  • remains one of the few states without such a program.
  • To the state highway fund.
  • Texas has over 628 miles of toll roads across the state.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Mar 12th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

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  • The Texas Association of Business, we're the state chamber for the state of Texas.
  • And the opportunity the reforms proposed for by this bill can create for our state.
  • We believe there is a significant value in having our legal state of incorporation in a state where we're
  • That's why this bill is going to wind up bankrupting the state of Delaware.
  • SpaceX is headquartered in the state of Texas.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Mar 12th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

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  • a state prosecutor's state annual salary.
  • state annual salary.
  • Across the state, or just in?
  • For all the reasons stated, it's... stated here today.
  • Every state has one. Every state has a summary of eviction.
TX
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  • the United States of organized retail theft.
  • What is that impact to the state of Texas?
  • It costs the state millions of dollars every year.
  • The number one complaint of our banks across the state.
  • And who are now in their states committing the crimes.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Feb 20th, 2025

Alabama Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'd like to thank you for your service to our state.
  • I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands
  • Thank you all for everything you do for our state. All right, now we move on to motions.
  • Ladies and gentlemen of the Alabama State Senate, this is a Community Development District bill.
  • Good job today, everyone in the Alabama State Senate.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

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  • It’s just the state of the industry across the state and across the country, so we’re not unique.” creates
  • > country across the state and across the country across the state and across the country so<00
  • <00:47:31.640> schools to grow more RNs with the state schools to grow more RNs with the state
  • then share it broadly across the state then share it broadly across the state about<00:51:51.480
  • <01:07:28.520> of important areas of the state of important areas of the state of Minnesota
Bills: HF110, HF111, HF263, HF105
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • It also increased the small school adjustment for Kentucky State University and Morehead State University
  • school adjustment for Kentucky State school adjustment for Kentucky State University<00:05:14.320
  • University and Morehead State University University and Morehead State University so<00:05:15.880>
  • <00:34:27.720> States allowing reciprocity in state States allowing reciprocity in state States
  • Nathan Day, Kentucky State Police. Angela Parker, Kentucky State Police. Thank you so much.
Summary: The subcommittee met with a quorum, approved the minutes, and welcomed new members before taking up Council on Postsecondary Education regulations 13 KAR 2:120 and 13 KAR 2:130. The regulations, as amended by staff and agency amendments, update public university and KCTCS performance funding models to conform to 2024 Senate Bill 191 and the performance funding work group’s recommendations. Changes discussed included replacing the underrepresented minority metric with an underrepresented students metric defined as first-generation students, adding an adult learner metric, increasing the low-income degree premium, adjusting small-school and nonresident credit-hour weights, revising data aging and progression metrics, and adding STEM+H criteria in 13 KAR 2:120. Travis Pal of the Council on Postsecondary Education explained that the changes reflect the work group’s three-year review process and that the work group ultimately voted to define underrepresented students as first-generation students and to apply half-weighting between research and comprehensive universities for the new metric. Michael Frasier of the Kentucky Student Rights Coalition and Eastern Kentucky University student government opposed 13 KAR 2:120, arguing that the regulation improperly applies weights where the statute does not clearly authorize them and that the funding changes disadvantage comprehensive universities and vulnerable students. He asked the committee to find the regulation deficient or, alternatively, recommend legislative clarification and a revised fiscal analysis. Pal responded that weighting has been part of the model since 2017, that CPE was following the statute and work group recommendations, and that the model could be changed by future legislation. Members asked about the timing of the broader performance funding review, and Pal said the full model is reviewed every three years, with the next work group cycle beginning in 2026. No motion to find the regulation deficient was made, and the committee allowed the regulations to proceed to the committee of jurisdiction. The committee then approved a staff amendment to Teachers’ Retirement System regulations 102 KAR 1:195 and 102 KAR 1:340, which require annual reporting of accumulated sick leave, leave policies, and salary schedules to TRS and make technical changes to the final average salary calculation and related definitions.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 01/30/25

Housing and Homelessness Prevention

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  • Those are clearly stated.
  • <00:03:24.840> fourth those are clearly stated fourth those are clearly stated fourth subdivision
  • it could also include city and state it could also include city and state inspectors<01:08:42.239
  • affordability issues across the state affordability issues across the state home<01:36:58.119>
  • <01:38:09.119> is would help showcase how the state is would help showcase how the state is
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
Summary: The committee heard Senate File 558, a bill to create a formal process for removing unauthorized occupants from real property, often described as a “squatters bill.” The author presented an A2 amendment, which was adopted, and explained that the bill would give sheriffs a structured complaint and verification process, allow fees, provide immunity when the process is followed, and impose civil remedies for wrongful removal and criminal penalties for false complaints. The bill also includes a provision on holdover situations, clarifying that certain unauthorized guests of tenants are unlawful occupants rather than tenants, and a use-of-excess-force provision was mentioned. Supporters said the measure is intended to give property owners and law enforcement a clearer, faster, and more consistent way to handle situations where people occupy property without a lawful basis, especially in rural or seasonal properties and in some landlord-tenant disputes. Senator Uty read a letter from Hubbard County Sheriff Corey Oas describing recurring problems with rental issues, couch hopping, and subletting without landlord knowledge, and a testifier from Pine Island described several local examples of prolonged and costly occupancy disputes, including a restaurant tenant who stopped paying rent and a rural property trespass incident. Committee members in support emphasized the need to balance tenant rights with property rights and to avoid leaving sheriffs to make ad hoc decisions. Michael D. from Homeline opposed the bill, arguing that existing trespass and harassment restraining order laws already address unlawful occupants and that the proposal creates due process concerns by allowing removal without a court hearing. He also warned that the bill’s definition of unlawful occupant could jeopardize oral leases, which are allowed under Minnesota law. In response, supporters said the bill is meant to distinguish true landlord-tenant relationships from trespass situations and to provide a workable process consistent with Minnesota law. At the end of the discussion, the chair announced that Senate File 558 would be laid over for possible inclusion. He also said Senate File 222 would be laid over, Senate File 559 would be moved with a recommendation to pass to the Judiciary Committee, and the fourth bill on the agenda was informational only.