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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 03/10/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- In 2018, a majority of the Minnesota PSAPs purchased the Motorola MCC 7500 consoles to full participants
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- I left school talking to a social worker with a doctor. They sent me to 180 Degrees.
- I'm currently at a different school and a different foster care. I'm doing great.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Service Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Public Service
Transcript Highlights:
- I started teaching at Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School.
- But passing this bill also helps schools.
- Passing this bill would also help school districts recruit teachers.
- It will benefit schools, students, parenting teachers, and their children.
- I will note that one of them was my homeroom teacher in high school.
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on a range of public retirement and municipal health insurance bills. Mass Retirees and the American Federation of Teachers supported House 2890/Senate 1848 on transparency in municipal health insurance, arguing that broker and consultant roles should be clearly defined, commissions disclosed, and dual roles prohibited to reduce conflicts of interest and costs. They also supported House 2799/Senate 1848 on protecting municipal retirees from future premium contribution increases, House 2854 on voting rights for surviving spouses in retirement board elections, and Senate 1917 on updating the definition of veteran for retirement purposes. Committee members discussed whether the veteran definition should simply conform to the federal definition going forward.
Educators testified in support of House 2769/Senate 1921, which would allow teachers with at least 20 years of service to buy back creditable service for periods when they worked part-time while raising children. Multiple teachers described the financial and retirement penalties they experienced after stepping down to part-time work for child care, calling the current system inequitable and a “mom tax.” Sponsors and supporters said the bill is intended to correct that disparity and help retain teachers, while one committee member noted it appeared neutral on an actuarial basis.
The committee also heard strong support for Senate 1908, which would raise the cap on outside income for public pension recipients, from retired State Police troopers who said the current limit is outdated and unfair to those forced into disability retirement after line-of-duty injuries. Another State Police representative supported House 2910 on state police pensions, citing recruitment and retention problems under current pension rules. In contrast, Hampden County Regional Retirement System officials and the Massachusetts Association of Contributory Retirement Systems opposed House 2745, a bill to restructure the Hampden County system’s governance, arguing it would weaken PERAC oversight and create an unworkable local system. They instead supported House 2813, which would extend the time to fill a vacant fifth member seat on retirement boards. At the end of the hearing, the committee voted to adjourn the hearing.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Ways and Means Mar 31st, 2026
Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Transcript Highlights:
- Was it a review of the school committee?
- our public schools.
- Charter school tuition reimbursement.
- The charter school funding mechanism must be reformed to ensure that our public school system is effective
- This issue is far bigger than funding our schools.
Summary:
The hearing focused heavily on the FY27 state budget and related funding priorities across health care, housing, education, disability services, and public higher education. Multiple witnesses urged restoration or increases in funding for MassHealth Community Partners and complex care management for homeless and medically complex patients, the DMH rental subsidy program, the Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program, the DeafBlind Community Access Network, and the Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Testimony also highlighted the need for fair pay and wage equity for community college faculty and staff, as well as support for early childhood vouchers, cash assistance, and nutrition education programs affected by federal cuts.
Several witnesses described how funding gaps affect real people: nurses and care managers said patients with homelessness and severe medical needs lose coordinated care, leading to missed treatment and hospitalizations; early childhood educators said long voucher waitlists leave families without child care; community college staff said low salaries and increased workloads from MassEducate leave workers struggling to afford housing and basic expenses; and housing advocates said cuts to rental subsidies and vouchers push vulnerable people toward shelters or more expensive crisis systems. DeafBlind advocates asked for restored funding, more interpreter access, and better provider support, while a witness also supported hearing-aid coverage legislation.
Education funding was another major theme. Boston, Framingham, Triton, and other districts described Chapter 70 and other formula-driven aid as failing to keep up with inflation and actual costs, forcing layoffs, program cuts, and local overrides. Speakers also called for fully funded charter reimbursements, special education circuit breaker funding, transportation aid, school building investments, and relief tied to enrollment declines driven by federal immigration enforcement. Committee members asked several clarifying questions about program status, funding mechanics, and the meaning of terms like “death by housing,” but no votes or formal actions were taken in the transcript.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
WAM/FIN Joint Info Briefing - Fri Feb 14, 2025 @ 9:30 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- School in Waimānalo.
- School in Waimānalo.
- School in Waimānalo.
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FL
Transcript Highlights:
- membership status, may participate in a sport at any FHSAA member school as long as the student's school
- does not offer the sport. at any FHSAA member school, as long as the student's school does not offer
- An example of that is if the school, if the school, If a school offers that sport or activity, an example
- It addresses elementary school children who walk to school.
- elementary school.
Summary:
The Education Employment Committee held its first meeting and heard three bills. Chair Kennedy opened with remarks about the committee’s work and the goal of moving Florida from “excellent to eminent.” The committee first considered PCS for CS for HB 151 on private school participation in interscholastic sports and extracurricular activities. Representative Abbott explained that the bill would let private school students participate in sports at FHSAA member schools when their own school does not offer that sport, clarify treatment of single-sex versus co-ed teams, adjust FHSAA board appointment authority, require appeals panels to include a majority of member-school representatives, set timelines for eligibility appeals, and post appeals decisions online. An amendment by Representative McFarland added FHSAA board decisions to the transparency requirement. The bill drew supportive public testimony and was reported favorably as amended by a 19-0 vote.
The committee then took up HB 549 on the “Gulf of America.” Representative Porras said the bill would align Florida’s geographic materials and academic standards with the federal designation replacing the Gulf of Mexico, with a later amendment to phase in the change only for materials adopted or acquired on or after July 1, 2025. Members questioned the timing, costs, and impact on instructional materials; the ranking member and others argued the bill was unnecessary and could burden districts, while supporters said Florida should lead in adopting the federal terminology. Public testimony included support from Florida Citizens Alliance and opposition from a speaker who called the bill a waste of time. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably with committee substitute by a 16-2 vote.
Finally, the committee considered CS/HB 85 on hazardous walking conditions. Representative Kendall described the bill as addressing elementary students who live within the two-mile walk zone but must cross interstates, freeways, highways, or ramps, and said the measure would provide bus service in those hazardous situations. An amendment clarified the language by tying it to the statutory definition of a limited access facility. Members from both parties described local safety concerns and personal experiences, while one member noted the likely added cost to districts. Public testimony listed opponents, but the chair later clarified they had submitted cards with the wrong bill number. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably with committee substitute by a 20-0 vote, then adjourned.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- This is the part of the bill that deals with limits for purchasing security equipment and changes that
- That covers purchase, installation, maintenance, and so forth of security devices.
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- from a family include services purchased from a family member<00:08:07.520><c> or</c><00:08:07.759><
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- is in our local parks and trails, with those facilities that are close to where we live and go to school
- Those close to home school and work.
- , schools, schools, churches, churches, churches, um um um local<00:04:38.040><c> libraries,</c> local
- </c> process of uh obtaining and purchasing process of uh obtaining and purchasing the<00:48:48.640><
- the new purchase of the building.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Day 26 (2-12-26)
Kentucky Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It has consumer protections in there for not making sure it's not a voluntary purchase, not a forced
- purchase.
- and as well as their prior to school and as well as their prior vehicle.<00:23:43.360><c> This</c><00
- </c><00:24:07.520><c> It</c><00:24:07.840><c> has</c> purchase, not a force purchase.
- It has purchase, not a force purchase.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- This requires retail sellers or transferors of firearms to provide purchasers with notice regarding the
- </c><00:01:03.039><c> with</c><00:01:03.199><c> notice</c><00:01:03.600><c> regard</c> provide purchasers
- with notice regard provide purchasers with notice regard regarding<00:01:04.400><c> the</c><00:01:04.640
- </c> children, youth gun violence, and school children, youth gun violence, and school shootings.<00:
- shooting survivor, and a school shooting survivor, and a grandmother.<00:05:23.039><c> I'm</c><00:05
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs met on March 19, 2025, and heard testimony on several firearms-related bills. HB 125 would require firearm sellers or transferors to provide buyers notice about secure storage laws, expand secure-storage requirements, and clarify criminally negligent storage. The Department of Law Enforcement and the Department of Education supported the bill. The Office of the Public Defender raised constitutional concerns under District of Columbia v. Heller and suggested narrowing the bill so a firearm need not be made inoperable when the lawful owner is home. Supporters, including Brady, Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action, veterans, and other advocates, said secure storage would reduce accidental shootings, youth access, theft, suicides, and school shootings. Opponents argued the bill was redundant, could criminalize victims of theft, and imposed strict liability. The committee noted 24 individuals in support and 103 in opposition.
The committee also heard HB 137, which would impose a mandatory prison term for violent felons who violate firearm or ammunition possession prohibitions. DLE, the Honolulu Prosecutor’s Office, and the Hawaii County Prosecutor supported the measure, arguing it targets repeat offenders and strengthens public safety. The Office of the Public Defender opposed mandatory sentencing, saying judges already have discretion to impose lengthy sentences and that mandatory terms can be inappropriate in some cases. The committee then heard HB 392, which would prohibit ghost guns and establish mandatory minimum sentencing for use of a ghost gun in a felony. DLE and the Honolulu Prosecutor supported it, while the Public Defender and several opponents said parts of the bill were redundant or could create definitional problems; the committee recorded five supporters and 70 opponents.
HB 995 would amend deadlines for annual firearms carry reporting by the Attorney General and county police chiefs. The Attorney General’s office and HPD supported the bill, with the Attorney General asking for more time for police departments to submit complete data and for the April 1 deadline to be removed. The committee also heard HB 664, which would create an Office of Gun Violence Prevention, a grant program, a resource bank, and a special fund. The Department of the Attorney General supported the concept but recommended consolidating the new office’s duties with the existing Gun Violence and Violent Crimes Commission to avoid duplication and possibly repealing the existing commission statute. DLE supported HB 664, while the Tax Foundation objected to the special fund. No votes or final committee actions were taken during the hearing.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Financial Services Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am
Joint Committee on Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- When I was a student in college and in grad school, I worked multiple jobs to help fund my education
- When I was a student in college and in grad school, I worked multiple jobs to help fund my education
- The tank itself— the ones that I've purchased have been, you know, right in the neighborhood of $50,000
- For most, pursuing graduate school is seen as a financial risk, living paycheck to paycheck for two to
- An act enhancing home buyer awareness and providing notice to persons purchasing property in a flood
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Financial Services held a public hearing with about 43 witnesses and a 1:00 p.m. hard stop, and the chair repeatedly asked speakers to keep testimony to three minutes. Much of the hearing focused on S. 747/H. 1336, which would extend paid family and medical leave and unemployment insurance to graduate student workers. Supporters included legislators, union leaders, graduate workers from MIT, Harvard, BU, WPI, UMass Lowell, and others, and legal advocates. They argued graduate workers perform full-time teaching and research work, pay taxes, and should not be excluded from basic safety-net benefits; several witnesses described personal hardships involving childbirth, serious illness, mental health crises, funding cuts, or fear of losing income. Testifiers also said the change would be revenue-neutral or revenue-generating and would not create major administrative burdens for universities, which already provide similar benefits to other employees.
The committee also heard testimony on insurance-related bills. Christopher Stock of the Massachusetts Insurance Federation supported H. 1113 on public adjusters and H. 1345/S. 753 on flood-zone notifications for homebuyers, but opposed H. 4112, which would add a $2 surcharge on home insurance policies to fund fire cistern programs. The Metropolitan Area Planning Council strongly supported H. 1345, saying flood disclosure is needed because Massachusetts lacks statewide flood-notification requirements and flooding risks are increasing. Karen Alvarado supported H. 4352 on travel insurance, and John Fielding supported H. 1186 on pet insurance; both said the bills would create uniform regulatory frameworks and consumer protections. Rep. LeBoeuf testified for H. 4061 on workers’ compensation premium fraud, describing the bill as a transparency measure to combat fraud in construction by creating a public certificate-of-insurance database and QR-code verification system. Joe Bright of the carpenters’ union also supported H. 4061, citing fraud, misclassification, and the harm to injured workers.
The hearing also included testimony on H. 4112, a bill to create a statewide fire suppression water resource fund and cistern program. Rep. Hogan and a Stowe fire chief described drought, brush fires, and the need for dedicated cisterns in communities without municipal water systems, saying the tanks provide reliable water for firefighting and are relatively low-tech once installed. Committee members asked questions about tank capacity, siting, maintenance, and funding. No votes or formal actions were taken during the hearing.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on State Government. (6-23-26)
State Government
Transcript Highlights:
- High schools, military events.
- There were 42 college visits, 26 high school visits, which I want to say the high school visits expanded
- You'd have a kid apply for a school, get into the school, pass the fitness test, and then when they get
- </c> school slots? school slots?
- </c> purchase authority. purchase authority.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- public school and the money that goes to the public school now, if I want to go to a private school,
- </c><01:57:39.040><c> and</c><01:57:39.599><c> they</c> schools and the private schools and they schools
- </c><02:04:29.280><c> to</c> around a school and cause that school to around a school and cause that
- charter schools and private schools, then they would not have to have anybody attending public schools
- </c> schools in that process. schools in that process.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/26
Agriculture Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- I really purchase them lose out.
- Are there restrictions on food shelves as far as who they purchase from or what food they purchase with
- or what food they who they purchase or what food they purchase<00:42:26.800><c> with</c><00:42:26.960
- ><c> most</c><00:56:44.559><c> part,</c> Veterinarian schools, for the most part, Veterinarian schools
- </c><01:05:25.839><c> is</c> Minnesota's veterary medical school is Minnesota's veterary medical school
Keywords:
agriculture, livestock, retailers, ownership interest, exclusive contracts, meat packing companies, dominant retailers, state law, Department of Agriculture, appropriation, funding, agriculture policy, state budget, animal welfare, cat declawing, animal cruelty, therapeutic procedures, civil penalties, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, aquatic life
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Information Technology Committee Jul 8th, 2026
Information Technology Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- or subdivisions or schools do those first two, the endpoint detection and the vulnerability scanning
- , so like cigarette purchase, and that also did not pass last session.
- Coordinator as a service offering that is still helping schools and being funded then through those schools
- So now we're probably five or six weeks from the start of school. Yep.
- The next big event, obviously, is the start of school.
Summary:
The Information Technology Committee approved the March 26 minutes and received a series of reports from NDIT on major IT projects, the annual report, mainframe modernization, and cybersecurity services. The project portfolio was reported at 116 major projects with a baseline cost of $546 million, overall under budget but modestly behind schedule. Several projects that had been in variance status last quarter were said to have closed, including HHS bed management, vital records modernization, and DOT roadway capital planning. New startup reports were mostly HHS efforts tied to refugee data management, technical debt cleanup, and legacy application decommissioning, while closeouts included HHS, OMB, DPI, and DOT projects with mixed budget and schedule results.
In the annual report discussion, NDIT described its service-fund financials, peer-state rate comparisons, records management reporting, and customer satisfaction efforts. Members asked about how revenues and grants flow through the service fund, how NDIT charges agencies for services, and whether customer satisfaction or CSAT scores are tracked and could be reported more regularly. NDIT said it does track service-team CSAT and survey data, and committee members encouraged more regular reporting of those metrics. The committee also discussed application portfolio management, statewide IT planning, and whether agencies should slow new system replacements while the state pursues an ERP system.
The mainframe update focused on the state’s ongoing effort to retire legacy systems by about 2030. NDIT and HHS said the work is being managed as a tech-debt program, but progress is slowed by data cleanup, integration complexity, staff retirements, vendor capacity, and federal requirements. Members asked whether there is a coordinated commitment and whether additional vendor support or consultants are needed; NDIT said it is working jointly with HHS and is seeking an RFP to help accelerate modernization. The cybersecurity presentation then shifted to statewide maturity assessments and services. NDIT said it provides endpoint protection, vulnerability scanning, security awareness training, threat briefings, and penetration testing, and that assessments are based on CIS controls. Members raised concerns about low participation in the self-assessment process, the lack of mandatory reporting or audit authority, and whether insurance incentives through Enderf or possible State Auditor involvement could improve compliance. No formal votes were taken beyond approval of the minutes.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Purchased services that DFPS purchases on behalf of clients include family therapy, which is an example
- of a kind of purchased service.
- For example, family therapy is a kind of purchased service.
- **Senate Bill 379** prohibits the purchase of certain items with SNAP funds.
- We find that oftentimes out-of-state purchases are a symptom of skimming.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division III (02/18/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
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- </c> schools are this is specific to schools schools are this is specific to schools in<00:21:55.520>
- </c> Sheltering in um a public school Sheltering in um a public school chartered<00:22:22.400><c> public
- school public Academy chartered public school public Academy or<00:22:24.440><c> institution</c><00:
- </c><00:25:39.600><c> in</c> could say how about private schools in could say how about private schools
Summary:
The meeting began as a Division 3 work session on HB 71, but much of the early discussion focused on whether a previously discussed non-germane amendment could be considered or voted on that day. Members and the chair debated process and notice requirements, and the clerk’s guidance was that the amendment needed a separate public hearing before the full Finance Committee. The amendment was described as requiring DHHS contracts and addenda to include compliance with the Patient Bill of Rights, with a repeal date so the requirement would expire on November 30, 2026. The motion to move OTP on HB 71 with the amendment was withdrawn, and the committee agreed the amendment would be scheduled for a future full Finance hearing instead.
The committee then turned to HB 71 itself and heard testimony from DHHS representatives John Williams and Jenny O’Higgins on the fiscal note and policy implications. Members questioned the estimate that the bill could put $12 million to $18 million per year in federal funding at risk, including HUD and Office of Refugee Resettlement funds. DHHS explained that the estimate was based on a broad reading of the bill’s term “specified alien,” which they said was not clearly defined in the bill, so they analyzed it using the federal definition of “alien” and assumed the bill could affect lawfully present non-citizens as well as undocumented individuals. They said the figure represented a worst-case scenario and that they were not claiming the loss was certain.
Members also pressed DHHS on whether the bill could affect emergency sheltering in schools, public academies, or institutions of higher learning during disasters. DHHS said the language could create conflicts with federal funding conditions because emergency shelter programs generally cannot impose barriers on who may be sheltered, and they warned that excluding certain people could affect refugee-related and HUD funding. Questions were raised about whether the bill’s language would apply to private institutions as well as public ones, and whether the state could still use schools in short-term emergencies. DHHS said the language was broad, that they could not answer every legal question definitively, and that they would need input from public health and legal staff. No final vote on HB 71 was taken in the portion provided; the committee remained in discussion/work session mode after the amendment motion was withdrawn.
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Mar 23rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- The solution at the time was House Bill 304 to purchase the ground so that Fish and Game would own that
- Fish and Wildlife Service thought they had to have a completely clean piece of ground to purchase.
- So they wanted, in order for the purchase to happen and to use Pittman-Robertson monies, they said we
- cleaned and have all the lead removed to a very light degree, even though the very next day after the purchase
- It's kind of like going back to school, isn't it? We learn something new every day, Mr. Chairman.
Summary:
The House Resources and Conservation Committee met with a quorum and heard four measures. House Joint Memorial 21, sponsored by Rep. Furness, expressed legislative support for development of the IMA tungsten mine in Lemhi County, emphasizing its importance as a domestic source of a critical mineral used in defense and aerospace; the committee moved it to the House with a do pass recommendation. Senate Bill 1348 as amended, presented by Sen. O'Connowicz, would allow Idaho Fish and Game to take over the lease for the Coeur d'Alene Gun Club property to keep the club operating until it can be relocated to adjacent Fish and Game property near Farragut State Park, using Pittman-Robertson funds and capping spending at the original 2003 appropriation unless the Legislature approves more; it was sent to the House floor with a do pass recommendation, and Rep. Redman was named as floor sponsor.
The committee also considered Senate Concurrent Resolution 123, introduced by Rep. Raymond, recognizing 2026 as the International Year of Pastoralists and highlighting the role of ranchers and rangeland users in Idaho's history and economy. Testimony in support came from Gretchen Hyde of the Idaho Rangeland Resources Commission and Morgan Lutkin of the Idaho Cattle Association, both stressing the importance of rangelands and stewardship; the resolution was advanced to the floor with a do pass recommendation. Finally, Senate Joint Memorial 115, carried by Rep. Nelson, urged federal action regarding pelican predation on Idaho fisheries and suggested federal support for mitigation costs; after discussion and supportive comments, it was also sent to the floor with a do pass recommendation.
At the close of the meeting, the chair indicated the committee would likely meet again the next day to hear a bill related to Fish and Game rules, with scheduling to avoid conflicts as much as possible. The committee then adjourned.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This relocation placed a busy Greyhound terminal near homes, schools, restaurants, and small businesses
- We've, you know, after we got purchased, our leases are expiring, and we're being pushed out of those
- A vehicle can be purchased by a recycling entity if certain information on the vehicle and the seller
- When they purchase non-titled vehicles, the vehicles disappear.
- These vehicles are purchased solely for parts dismantling or scrapping.
Keywords:
memorial highway, U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, Archer County, highway designation, vehicle weight, ports of entry, Texas Transportation Code, truck regulations, load limits, Adopt-a-County Road, funding, road maintenance, county partnership, public recognition, memorial designation, highway, Sergeant Mark Butler, transportation, Brazos County
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
S/C County & Regional Government Apr 7th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- district, the entire school district for policing, which is roughly 30 deputies.
- police officers wanted to move out of the school district.
- We've also got 15 independent school districts operating within Bear County, as well as 27 charter schools
- We joke that we are a victim of our purchasing agents success in getting our surplus property sold off
- Commissioner's court makes that decision to purchase, sends it over to them to do that.
WY