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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/26

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Protecting our cultures means protecting life itself.
  • Protecting our cultures means protecting life itself.
  • Protecting our cultures means protecting life itself.
  • Protecting our cultures means protecting life itself.
  • Protecting our cultures means protecting life itself.
Bills: HF3898 , HF3957 , HF4372 , HF4350 , HF3692 , HF4085
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session May 14th, 2026 at 08:00 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Section 10, we're approving all of the Oklahoma New Motor Vehicle Commission rules.
  • House Bill 1370 by Senator Grant Green, Corporation Commission Plugging Fund.
  • So, we protected that local control of those approved courses.
  • Also, they accepted some language from the Corporation Commission.
  • Why are those two being omitted when it comes to protecting the public?
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Jan 28th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • May God bless and protect this chamber and the National Guard of Washington State. Amen.
  • state's call in response to emergency efforts, including the recent flood response operations to protect
  • Our story begins way back in 1855 when a small territorial militia was formed to protect the early settlers
  • , rescuing families, evacuating communities, and working around the clock to reinforce levees and protect
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 17th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Major oversight, and we did not recognize the great work of the Universal Health Care Commission that
  • So this is to make sure that the expertise involved with the Universal Health Care Commission ...is to
  • make sure that the expertise involved with the Universal Health Care Commission is incorporated into
  • We need to do more to protect people from these horrible events.
  • And tenants may not damage property and landlords are protected from liability related to installation
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 16th, 2026 at 05:20 pm

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • relating to extending an existing hazardous substance tax exemption for certain agricultural crop protection
  • What this bill does is just extend the hazardous substance tax exemption for agricultural crop protection
  • This bill puts Washington on equal competitive footing with Oregon and Idaho for storing crop protection
  • We can access it much quicker for our farms to protect the crops that are growing there.
  • Let's vote no on this and just protect our businesses. There are no further remarks.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 16th, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • creating a non-disciplinary pathway for relinquishing licenses issued by the Washington Medical Commission
  • The Washington State Medical Commission asked that we create a non-disciplinary pathway such that doctors
  • practice of medicine, relinquishing their license, which had been issued by the Washington Medical Commission
  • . ...relinquishing their license, which had been issued by the Washington Medical Commission.
  • It’s something we cultivate, something we protect and grow. And when we punish it, we shrink it.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 16th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I pray that you would direct them in their deliberations, protect them, provide for them.
  • our children and in recommitting ourselves to truly listening to them, encouraging their growth, protecting
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education Mar 31st, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • I think we did need to protect our teachers, staff, and students.
  • So where is the protection for that teacher?
  • We must protect our teachers. Yes. That, that, we need a, We must protect our teachers. Yes.
  • because they have greater protections under their special population law.
  • You know, you guys are tasked with protecting our students and protecting our athletes.
Bills: HCR10 , HB195 , HB283 , HB319 , HB325 , HB407 , HB448 , HB482 , HB992
Committee: House Education
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 12th, 2026 at 05:30 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I have to do some obligatory things like talk about what this budget does, which protects the people
  • This is a tool for justice and protecting vulnerable communities against cyberattacks or attacks from
  • This bill is regarding a tax exemption for agricultural crop protection products.
  • A tax exemption for agricultural crop protection products.
  • It's homes repaired and protected from floods, from rising sea level, even nitrates in the soil getting
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 12th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 11th, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is what the Voting Rights Act is there to protect. Of voter dilution.
  • There are protections.
  • Let's protect the homeowners and the small businesses on their property.
  • There are protections. system on its head.
  • Let's protect the homeowners and the small businesses on their let's protect the homeowners and the small
Summary: The House began by signing several bills and receiving messages from the Senate that multiple House bills had passed there or that Senate bills had been signed. It then took up third reading and concurrence on a series of bills, often with sponsors explaining that Senate amendments were technical, clarifying, or improved the bills, while opponents argued some amendments broadened exemptions, weakened election protections, or created tax increases and other unintended consequences. Among the most debated measures were bills related to election administration and voting rights, utility and energy programs, local government finance, tourism promotion, and public safety. House Bill 2215 failed to concur in Senate amendments after concerns that an exemption was too broad. House Bill 1710, dealing with voting rights/election procedures, passed 57-39 after a roll call vote despite objections that it could complicate elections and reduce local control. House Bill 1750 and House Bill 1916 also passed after roll calls, with supporters describing them as technical or protective of election integrity and opponents warning about voter dilution, local authority, and access issues. Other bills passed with varying levels of support: House Bill 1903 on utility assistance passed 70-26 after supporters said it would help small counties and make the program voluntary and state-funded; House Bill 2532 on nitrous oxide sales passed unanimously as a public health and youth safety measure; House Bill 1974 on housing/conservation-related policy passed 59-37 amid debate over nonprofit advantages and county revenue impacts; House Bill 2296 passed 95-1 after supporters said it would help renters and utilities with energy efficiency; House Bill 2325 passed 91-5 with added transparency for tourism oversight; House Bill 2442 passed 51-45 despite sharp disagreement over property tax and levy implications; and House Bill 2594 passed 95-1 as the state version of McKinney-Vento protections for unhoused students. The House also transmitted or received several bills and ended the session briefly at ease.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 11th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • the state's toolkit additional means to ensure that consumers, workers, and small businesses are protected
  • Speaker, we have a duty to make sure that the Article I constitutional protections to people and small
  • business owners in this state... ...protections to people and small business owners in this state to
  • Speaker, to protect their privacy, are staunchly defended. We need to be the check, Mr. Speaker.
  • You don't protect constitutional right A by restricting constitutional right B.
Summary: The House convened, established a quorum, approved the previous day’s minutes, heard Senate messages on several bills, and then took up a series of third-reading and concurrence votes. The chamber also received notice that the Senate had concurred in House amendments to several other bills and that the Senate President had signed Engrossed Senate Bill 5068. Members then considered a slate of bills dealing with climate commitment account revenue, court administration, attorney general investigative authority, inmate funds, health care facility transactions, ferry governance, gun violence prevention and 3D-printed firearms, and renewable energy tax treatment. Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1170, Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 2251, Engrossed House Bill 2445, Substitute House Bill 2334, Engrossed Third Substitute House Bill 1960, Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1500, Second Substitute House Bill 1909, Engrossed House Bill 2156, Substitute House Bill 2539, Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2548, Engrossed House Bill 2588, and Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2320 all received final passage after Senate amendments, with several members speaking in support or opposition. Supporters generally described the measures as clarifying revenue accounts, improving court access, protecting consumers, updating inmate account limits, addressing hospital consolidation, enabling local ferry management, and strengthening gun-violence prevention or renewable-energy tax policy. Opponents raised concerns about reduced transparency, expanded bureaucracy, shifting costs, attorney general overreach, limits on local control, and First Amendment or property-rights issues. Recorded votes showed passage on each of those bills, with margins ranging from narrow to broad: 55-38 on HB 1170, 54-40 on HB 2251, 66-29 on HB 2445, 80-15 on SHB 2334, 86-9 on ESHB 1960, 61-34 on ESHB 1500, 57-38 on SSB 1909, 54-41 on EHB 2156 after reconsideration, 57-38 on SHB 2539, 55-41 on ESHB 2548, 56-40 on EHB 2588, and 58-38 on ESHB 2320. The House also agreed to retransmit Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1408 to the Senate after deciding not to concur in the Senate’s fourth amendment. The meeting ended with both caucuses called and the House at ease.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 10th, 2026 at 01:45 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It protects working Washingtonians. It protects our constitutional obligations.
  • Today I fought to protect Washington State citizens from a progressive income tax.
  • Today I fought to protect Washington State citizens from a progressive income tax.
  • It fails to preserve and protect our consequences. It fails our people.
  • It fails to preserve and protect our constitution.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 10th, 2026 at 06:30 am

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Protecting, putting a statutory protection like this amendment tries to do on a constitutional privilege
  • , that there will be no— ...codify what is already constitutionally protected, that there will be no
  • And on our first day, when we were sworn in, we took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution,
  • and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed and are established to protect
  • Without those constitutional protections, the promises in the underlying bill and the statute, one, circumvent
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 9th, 2026 at 05:40 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This amendment simply provides common sense protections.
  • And most of those people are commission-based.
  • We need to protect our small housing providers with this amendment.
  • This amendment seeks to protect Washington citizens and taxpayers.
  • And that area, about two-thirds of it, is permanently protected.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 9th, 2026 at 10:45 am

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I think that it protects workers so that they can move about and pursue other career paths.
  • By eliminating it, we are literally eliminating protections for the community.
  • myth that once in the Community Protection Program you never get out of it.
  • The problem is that the Community Protection Program is, yes, protection for the community, protection
  • The bill helps protect tribal sacred sites from destruction and development.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 9th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • By eliminating it, we are literally eliminating protections for the community.
  • myth that once in the Community Protection Program that you never get out of it.
  • The problem is, is the Community Protection Program is, yes, protection for the community, protection
  • Also, the Community Protection Program is also protection for these offenders who also have disabilities
  • The bill helps protect tribal sacred sites from destruction and development.
Summary: The House convened with a quorum, the flag was escorted by the Muckleshoot Veterans Color Guard, and the day opened with a prayer from Dennis Anderson Sr. The House approved the previous day’s minutes, welcomed representatives from the Urban Native Education Alliance, and then moved through caucuses and Senate messages before taking up a long series of third-reading votes on bills that had returned from the Senate. Several measures drew debate over Senate amendments. House Bill 1069, concerning bargaining over supplemental retirement benefits for certain public employees, passed 78-17 after supporters said it would help correctional workers and critics said the Senate changes weakened the bill. Second Substitute House Bill 1128, creating a child care workforce standards board, passed 68-27 amid arguments over child care shortages, wages, and affordability. Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1155, banning non-compete agreements, passed 62-33; supporters framed it as pro-worker and pro-entrepreneurship, while opponents said contracts should be voluntary and important in business sales. The House also passed Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1187 on ambulance billing and collections (93-2), Substitute House Bill 1390 phasing out the Community Protection Program (51-44), Engrossed House Bill 1501 on housing-related local requirements (58-37), House Bill 291 on bargaining communication rights (92-3), Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2110 on ambulance staffing/training (95-0), Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2165 on impersonating peace officers (66-29), Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2219 on child care regulations and opioid-related safety language (67-28), Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2266 on housing siting and local flexibility (56-39), Substitute House Bill 2350 on notice and accountability for developmental disability services (95-0), Substitute House Bill 2360 allowing schools to keep and administer albuterol with parental-notification changes (79-16), Second Substitute House Bill 2384 on financial transparency for continuing care retirement communities (78-17), Second Substitute House Bill 2429 on behavioral health planning and appropriations (95-0), Substitute House Bill 2496 protecting tribal sacred sites (71-24), and House Bill 2510, on which the House did not concur in Senate amendments. The chamber also granted conference requests on Engrossed Substitute Senate Bills 5998 and 605 and appointed conferees for each.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

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

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, known as the Elks Lodge, is a civic organization founded
  • What it does is it increases the caps on fees that the Ethics Commission fund may retain each year from
  • If we do not protect free speech in this country, and if these kids do not have a free place to have
  • Or protections?
  • I just want to make sure that members know that the Oil and Gas Commission will be in here later today