Video & Transcript Research : 'Legislative Cooperation'

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AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Feb 11th, 2025

Alabama Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • day and from the previous legislative day and from the previous legislative day and that we adopt said
  • day taking for the fourth legislative day taking for the fourth legislative day taking precedence over
  • to support uh with different legislation to support uh with different legislation to support military
  • legislation legislation um with that I'll note one more thing um with that I'll note one more thing
  • feel like they're a part of legislation feel like they're a part of legislation feel like they're a
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Feb 11th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • On this side of the legislative building here. Yeah, the carpet's much nicer than over there.
  • remarkable friendship was further strengthened when Governor Greg Abbott signed the Statement of Mutual Cooperation
  • relationship between Texas and the United Kingdom. together in celebrating the bonds of friendship and cooperation
  • And then also, last legislative session, the legislature established the tough the Texas University Fund
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Press Conference: Senator Tan Parker Feb 11th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Today, we're excited to discuss and to announce the formation of the Texas Legislative U.K.
  • Through the Texas Legislative U.K.
  • This caucus will be at the forefront of the Texas and U.K. partnership and international cooperation,
  • in the bilateral relationship, underneath the umbrella... ...of the UK-Texas Statement of Mutual Cooperation
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Senate in Special Session C Feb 11th, 2025

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • SECTION 2 THE LEGISLATURE IS CONVENED FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF CONSIDERING LEGISLATION TO STRENGTHEN STATE
  • AND OTHER NECESSARY DIRECTIVES TO ENSURE COOPERATION AND COORDINATION WITH FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAW AND
  • SENATORS, THE LEGISLATION WE PASSED OUT OF THIS CHAMBER TWO WEEKS AGO WAS THE STRONGEST CRACKDOWN ON
  • WHILE THE MAJORITY OF THE LEGISLATION SENATOR GRUTERS HAS FILED FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION IS IDENTICAL TO
  • IN TOTAL, THIS LEGISLATION RIGOROUSLY IMPLEMENTS PRESIDENT TRUMP'S PLAN TO SECURE OUR BORDER AND PROTECT
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The legislation here is spent...
  • This bill is a very dangerous piece of anti-trans legislation.
  • And when it comes to those kinds of legislations, it just doesn't work.
  • This was in the previous legislative session. They didn't pass both.
  • Thank you, Senator Parker, for championing this legislation.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Mar 3rd, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • HB 11 is the same piece of legislation you had before you last year that passed out of this committee
  • Uh, this is the anti-cloning legislation.
  • Eventually, in 2009, this legislative body passed the Alabama Juvenile Justice Act, the revised one,
  • Eventually in<00:47:49.359> 2009,<00:47:50.319> this<00:47:50.960> legislative<00
  • legislative body passed the<00:47:52.480> Alabama<00:47:52.960> Juvenile<00:47:53.359>
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Apr 2nd, 2025

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • It strikes me as ironic in this legislation that the foreign adversaries covered by the legislation do
  • Communicates directly with one or more members of the legislative or executive branch to influence legislation
  • Thank you, Chairman and legislators.
  • But in all seriousness, incredibly important piece of legislation.
  • I urge you to consider it. legislation.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 5th, 2025

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • wish we could have talked legislation wish we could have talked legislation wish we could have talked
  • is a good place to in the legislation is a good place to in the legislation is a good place to start
  • thank Common Sense piece of legislation thank Common Sense piece of legislation thank you thank you
  • these individuals are saying legislation these individuals are saying legislation these individuals
  • that all but boilerplate legislation that all but boilerplate legislation that all but almost always
Bills: SB82, SB78, SB4, SB6, SB62, SB66, SB77, SB63, SB79, SB53, SB55, HB14
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Edfin Committee Meeting - 2025-04-01

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • By addressing the challenges faced by districts with high seasonal property ownership, this legislation
  • I’ve upped my game and become a board member over there, and I think from my job as a legislator here
  • The district that I lead is represented by both DFL and Republican legislators, and I've worked well
  • This lives up to the spirit of the historic legislation the governor and DFL majority passed in 2023,
  • I don't think that kids are going hungry today in schools because of the legislation that we passed in
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Mar 24th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so we support legislation that would promote a culture of life in Texas, and we believe House Bill
  • You know, I think that for us as legislators, we always look at the fiscal note.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 4/15/26

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • ,<00:38:21.000> judicial, titled uh 2026 legislative, judicial, titled uh 2026 legislative
  • drones outside legislators' homes. drones outside legislators' homes.
  • that you're seeing as legislators. that you're seeing as legislators.
  • with legislators last summer. with legislators last summer.
  • legislative protection. legislative protection.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources Feb 3rd, 2026 at 09:03 am

House Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • Its sources of funds are tax check-off donations and legislative appropriations.
  • The problem is legislative authorization; we have to sit and wait.
  • So, what this bill does is it gives us a pause on legislative authorization.
  • And I know this legislative body supports rural development.
  • It matters when you guys step forward and support this kind of legislation.
Bills: HM26, HB243, HB109
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Joint Appropriations Jan 21st, 2026 at 12:30 pm

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • That includes what was done this last legislative session.
  • legislation, legislators to be able to adjust to the many needs of the state.
  • The Legislative Assembly, Legislative Council, Supreme Court, and the university system are not included
  • Rough Rider will be, one of the reasons I think, can work cooperatively.
  • So maybe the department should just put all legislators on that list.
Bills: HB1623
Summary: The committee first heard House Bill 1624, the “Universal Lunch Bill,” from Rep. Mike Nathie. He argued the proposal should be placed in Century Code rather than the Constitution so future legislatures can adjust it if state finances tighten, and said the bill would start the program a year earlier with a $65 million appropriation for one school year. DPI testified that the estimate did not include nonpublic schools that do not participate, and members questioned the impact on Title I, free-and-reduced applications, private-school accountability, breakfast mandates for schools that do not currently serve breakfast, and whether the funding could come from the DPI budget or other sources. Supporters, including North Dakota United, the North Dakota Catholic Conference, a pediatrician, and the American Heart Association, said universal meals improve student health and learning, reduce family costs, and are better handled in statute than by constitutional amendment. No opposition testimony was offered, and the chair closed the hearing for later work-session action. The committee then took up House Bill 1627, introduced by Rep. Tye Dressler, which would raise the income threshold for the state-funded school lunch program from 225% to 300% of poverty, with an estimated cost of about $7 million for 2026-27. Dressler said the bill is intended as a targeted, budget-friendly alternative to the ballot measure and emphasized that the state should maximize federal meal dollars while improving participation in the current program. Members questioned whether raising the threshold would actually increase utilization, whether a dollar amount would be clearer than a percentage, and how the change would affect federal reimbursements and application rates. DPI said it could quickly calculate additional percentage levels, and the chair closed the hearing, directing DPI to prepare more numbers for the work session. Finally, the committee opened Senate Bill 2403, presented by Sen. Schiable, to create a short-term bridge-loan program for financially distressed hospitals, centered on Jacobson Memorial Hospital in Elgin. The bill would authorize up to $5 million per loan, with a $10 million appropriation available on a first-come, first-served basis, and would run only through June 30, 2027. Schiable said the hospital’s debt and operating problems threaten local health care, ambulance service, and the community’s economy, and that the proposal was designed narrowly with Bank of North Dakota review to avoid creating a broad precedent. Committee members asked whether the appropriation could be reduced and whether the bank would still apply commercial feasibility and repayment standards; Schiable said yes, the bank would still evaluate the loan and could reject it if it was not sound.
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Joint Appropriations Jan 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • legislative input into the After that meeting, legislative leadership met with Governor Armstrong on
  • Legislative Management for introduction into the special session.
  • That consideration happened with Legislative Management last week.
  • Section 6 is a legislative management report.
  • to any legislative committee on the status of the programs.
Bills: HB1623
Summary: The committee heard House Bill 1623, the appropriations bill tied to North Dakota’s Rural Health Transformation Program, which is funded through a new federal rural health care grant. Senator Bekkedahl explained the bill’s background, the interim committee process that developed it, and the federal conditions attached to the award, including spending deadlines, administrative cost limits, and restrictions on uses such as new construction, supplanting existing funding, and certain other costs. Legislative staff then walked through the seven sections of the bill, including appropriation authority, transfer authority, contingent appropriations for pass-through grants, procurement and public improvement exemptions, recipient reporting, legislative reporting, and immediate effective date. Commissioner Traynor and HHS staff described how the department plans to implement the program, emphasizing that the funding is intended to improve rural access, workforce recruitment and retention, technology and data connectivity, and community health initiatives. They said the department will rely on local applications, technical assistance, templates, listening sessions, and partnerships with providers, schools, public health units, tribal entities, and other community groups. Members asked about reimbursement timing, upfront costs, administrative expenses, sustainability after the five-year grant period, and whether CTE centers, public health units, gyms, grocery stores, and other community partners could participate; the department said yes, within program rules and with a focus on measurable outcomes and sustainability. Several supporters testified in favor. Mental Health America of North Dakota and the Mental Health Advocacy Network supported the bill and urged investment in community-based mental health, crisis response, children’s services, peer support, and mobile crisis teams. HIA Health described the grant as a chance to expand home-based and hospice care, noting that rural providers already have workable models but need funding to scale them. A cybersecurity representative also supported the bill, warning that the large amount of health data and AI-related tools will require strong data protection and professional support. The hearing was closed with no opposition testimony, and the committee announced it would return later in the day for further work on the bill and other measures.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Education Finance Committee 4/1/25

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • I understand that previous generations of legislators decided that seasonal and recreational properties
  • this legislation ensures that all<00:08:32.440> students<00:08:32.919> have<00:08:33.240
  • here I have also job as a legislator here I have also co-authored<00:20:21.720> several<00:20
  • The district that I lead is represented by both DFL and Republican legislators, and I've worked well
  • This lives up to the spirit of the historic legislation the governor and DFL majority passed in 2023,
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • As written, the current APA law does not allow for the governor, lieutenant governor, or a legislator
  • I am the executive director of the Texas Humane Legislation Network.
  • For sponsoring this legislation and Chairman Roberto for letting us discuss it today.
  • Texas will be prepared to act, regardless of whether we are in a legislative session or not.
  • What specific protections do you believe need to be included in this legislation?