Bills: SB15, SB65, SB241, SB304, SB402, SB413, SB427, SB499, SB583, SB621, SB673, SB840, SB850, SB854, SB974, SB1023, SB1024, SB1025, SB1106, SB 15

Keywords: SB 15, Texas Local Government Code, zoning preemption, housing affordability, small lots, lot size, lot density, single-family zoning, residential subdivision, municipal land use, local control, state preemption, parking requirements, setbacks, infill development, missing middle housing, lot width, lot depth, homebuilders, housing supply

Transcript Highlights:

• choir's members were, quote, "incarcerated as a result of a of their involvement in the January 6, 2021 protest
• Cater protesting for election integrity? Yes or no? I don't know who that is.
• that is; I'm asking you whether, having heard the description of what he pled to, whether he was protesting
• willing to say that, but you were willing to describe this choir as consisting of people who are protesting
• chief who looked the other way when you should have been saying the people who were mostly peaceful protesters

Transcript Highlights:

• protest against police brutality. protest against police brutality.
• But a protest and dissent because we were trying to have honest conversations.
• but<02:04:05.679> a<02:04:05.920> protest<02:04:06.320> and<02:04:06.480>
• > disscent but a protest and disscent but a protest and disscent because<02:04:09.840> we<
• Um, and this is important, I know, to many families listening because that's why I filed this protest

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The House first adopted a conference committee report on House File 3426, a natural resources bill. Representative Jordan said the report largely reflected the House position, with changes including removal of the word “random” regarding DNR checks, clarification of minimum grant amount limits for trail maintenance and other projects, a two-year sunset on those caps, and repeal of obsolete language requiring DNR approval of ENRTF-funded acquisitions. Representative Heintzeman said the changes were technical and supported the bill. The motion prevailed, and the bill was given third reading. The House then concurred in Senate amendments to House File 4239, the campaign finance bill, and House File 4240, the elections bill. Representative Fryberg said HF 4239 addressed campaign disclaimers and privacy of addresses on campaign documents, with a compromise $10,000 security spending limit, authority for the Campaign Finance Board to dismiss frivolous complaints, and limits on sharing addresses with caucus leaders. HF 4240, the Secretary of State’s administrative bill, added an immediate effective date for a Three Rivers Park Commissioner disclosure requirement, removed an appropriation and related policy language, included amendments on special school district elections and betting on elections, and corrected a discrepancy with public safety language. Both bills were passed as amended by the Senate, with 118-15 and 127-6 votes respectively. The House also passed Senate File 3720, the workers’ compensation advisory council recommendations. Representatives Baker and Berg described bipartisan, unanimous council recommendations updating the workers’ compensation reinsurance process, allowing appellate judges to be assigned when needed, adding psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners as PTSD diagnosticians, updating attorney fee notice rules, increasing compensation for permanent partial disability, clarifying witness rules at employer medical exams, extending the time for employers to deny liability from 60 to 90 days, and correcting a prior error affecting DLI commissioner authority. The bill passed 132-1. Finally, Representative Long moved to suspend the rules to recall House File 5140, the comprehensive gun violence prevention package, from committee and bring it directly to passage. Long and Representative Greenman argued the Senate had already passed the bill and urged immediate action, citing the Annunciation shooting and other gun violence incidents. Representative Heintzeman raised concerns about the bill’s language, arguing a provision on protruding grips could make all handguns illegal and questioning other penalty provisions. Debate on the motion and bill continued, but no final vote on HF 5140 is shown in the transcript excerpt.

Transcript Highlights:

• From that protest came reforms, dismantling the labor system.
• , many were killed by the protesters, many were killed by the Danish<00:24:18.960> government.
• <00:24:20.000> From<00:24:20.240> that<00:24:20.480> protest Danish government
• From that protest Danish government.
• From that protest came<00:24:21.279> reforms,<00:24:22.240> dismantling<00:24:22.960>

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, September 18, 2025, 1012, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• We were greeted by protesters and advocates, about 25 folks from rural towns, sounding the alarm on the
• This year, we were greeted by well over a thousand protesters, many protesting the brutality of minimum

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Senate took up a long series of FY26 budget amendments during debate on the Ways and Means budget bill. Early on, an amendment on debt service and the Debt Affordability Committee was rejected. A major education amendment offered by Senator Lewis and supported by Senator Comerford was then adopted; it directs DESE to begin a public process, with $200,000 in funding, to review and recommend updates to the Chapter 70 municipal contribution formula and related school funding structures as the Student Opportunity Act nears full implementation. Senators argued that school districts across the Commonwealth are under severe fiscal strain, citing rising special education, transportation, health insurance, and Proposition 2 1/2 pressures, and that the current formulas are increasingly out of alignment with local needs. The chamber also considered and voted on many other amendments, with several adopted and several rejected. Adopted amendments included measures on public payroll transparency, regional EMS, a small business group purchasing cooperative pilot, simplifying Medicaid eligibility determinations, and early education background checks. Rejected amendments included proposals on first-time homebuyer savings accounts, population change studies, competitiveness studies, emergency contract reform, natural gas cost containment, a $200 per pupil aid increase, regional school reimbursement increases, a Foundation Budget Review Commission-related study, special education service studies, welfare benefit audits, short-term capital gains, and an MBTA sustainability plan. Senator Durant also spoke in support of Amendment 766, which would create a crumbling concrete assistance fund for homeowners affected by pyrrhotite, with tax-exempt aid, federal funding applications, audits, and a stakeholder working group. Near the end of debate, Senator D. DiDomenico praised the Shannon Grant program for gang violence prevention, and the Senate adopted a final corrective amendment containing technical fixes and local earmarks. The bill was then ordered to a third reading and, after a roll call on engrossment, passed to be engrossed by a vote of 38-2. The Senate also approved a motion to adjourn to the following Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. and recessed in memory of Yaron Lashinsky, Sarah Lynn Milgram, and Leslie A. Feeney.

Transcript Highlights:

• that we're paying, I'd like to know it's going to something other than underwater basket weaving and protest
• Because she doesn't get the protest at the school she's at.
• it's not to learn and get something that will help you become a productive citizen, unless you think protest

Bills: HF2634, HF2241, HF2649, HF2520, HF2610

Keywords: North Star Promise, scholarship, higher education, Minnesota Office of Higher Education, in-demand jobs, workforce development, career training, job market, high-demand occupations, high-demand industries, college aid, state financial aid, FAFSA, student eligibility, program of study, degree program, certificate program, community college, university, labor market data

Transcript Highlights:

• The fall of the government started with the student-led protest to reform the job quotas reserved for
• with the student lad protest with the student lad protest to<04:02:14.760> reform<04:02:15.279
• And the student protest was just a protest, just something that was sincere, and the government didn't
• They started protesting like that.
• like that the you know the protesting like that the you know the protesting like like like that<

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• We know that ALPRs have been used to identify people who attended the protests at the Capitol on January
• 6th and the No Kings protests.
• We know that ALPRs have been used to identify people who attended the protests of the Capitol at January
• 6th and the No Kings protests.
• But if I am at an anti-ICE protest and I wanted to use drones to make sure that we're not coming in contact

Bills: SB40, SB104, SB136, SB164

Keywords: SB40, Driver Privacy and Safety Act, automated license plate reader, ALPR, license plate reader, vehicle surveillance, privacy, data sharing, law enforcement data, immigration enforcement, reproductive health care, gender-affirming care, civil liberties, surveillance, public records, Inspection of Public Records Act, New Mexico State Police, Department of Public Safety, data sovereignty, vehicle tracking

Transcript Highlights:

• nonviolent protesters nonviolent protesters has<03:00:58.640> instead<03:00:59.040> been
• , environmental protesters, pro-life protesters, they want to cut down on that form of association and
• ,<03:31:45.279> environmental<03:31:45.920> protesters, protesters, environmental protesters
• , protesters, environmental protesters, pro-life<03:31:47.439> protesters.
• um in an anti-ICE protest for example. um in an anti-ICE protest for example.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, May 14, 2026, 1012, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Tibetans, they all went to San Francisco to protest against Xi Jinping, and you know what?
• The San Francisco police force rarely execute or try to do any kind of law enforcement. to protest the
• dissident, including U.S. citizens, on those protests. residents are being beaten up in San Francisco
• , not being protected by San Francisco law. enforcement, and then they will be beaten up by protesters
• For sure, but on the website, there are so many things, like people are protesting.

Bills: HB17, HB34, HB41, HB 118, HB 119, HB 127, HB 128, HB 129, HB 130, HB132, HB133, HB17, HB41, HB118, HB119, HB127, HB128, HB129, HB130, HB132, HB133

Keywords: foreign ownership, real estate, national security, designated countries, Texas property law, lobbying, foreign adversaries, compensation prohibition, transparency, civil penalties, higher education, foreign adversary, research security, trade secrets, academic partnerships, HB 128, sister city, sister-city agreement, international exchange, municipal diplomacy

Transcript Highlights:

• With a school's policy on campus protests or free speech or whatever it is, or I disagree with how they're
• Protestants and Catholics differ on the order of the commandments; the language used in those commandments
• Catholics number them differently from Protestants.
• So, why is it important to include Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant versions of the Ten Commandments
• The state will, in effect, be promoting one specific religion, whether that be the Protestant tradition

Bills: SB37, SJR84, SJR87, SJR27, SB8, SB10, SB227, SB261, SB15, SB12, SB25, SB57, SB127, SB293, SB441, SB3059, SB512, SB241, SB1718, SB140, SB2055, SB2075, SB2018, SB1534, SB1567, SB785, SB1233, SB1580, SB1663, SB413, SB447, SB519, SB467, SB1579, SB1191, SB1021, SB1838, SB2807, SB2835, SB546, SB2121, SB2167, SB2035, SB2024, SB1032, SB1049, SB1266, SB1400, SB1302, SB401, SB1596, SB1281, SB1242, SB1343, SB310, SB1346, SB2753, SB2703, SB2221, SB1719, SB2177, SB800, SB790, SB748, SB571, SB1957, SB1923, SB1896, SB1760, SB1335, SB2368, SB2477, SB2587, SB2972, SB2986, SB2965, SB1563, SB1467, SB1164, SB1137, SB614, SB705, SB961, SB918, SB955, SB869, SB850, SB863, SB1610, SB1055, SB2206, SB457, SB2337, SB1362, SCR9, SB2405, SB2406, SB2407, SB2166, SB2148, SB535, SB777, SB827, SB1141, SB1330, SB1352, SB1664, SB1862, SB1936, SB1453, SB1448, SB1398, SB2137, SB2111, SB53, SB226, SB1677, SB1723, SB1839, SB36, SB38, SB815, SB1856, SB552, SB646, SB37, SJR84, SJR87, SJR27, SB8, SB10, SB227, SB261, SB15, SB12, SB25, SB57, SB127, SB293, SB441, SB3059, SB512, SB241, SB1718, SB140, SB2055, SB2075, SB2018, SB1534, SB1567, SB785, SB1233, SB1580, SB1663, SB413, SB447, SB519, SB467, SB1579, SB1191, SB1021, SB1838, SB2807, SB2835, SB546, SB2121, SB2167, SB2035, SB2024, SB1032, SB1049, SB1266, SB1400, SB1302, SB401, SB1596, SB1281, SB1242, SB1343, SB310, SB1346, SB2753, SB2703, SB2221, SB1719, SB2177, SB800, SB790, SB748, SB571, SB1957, SB1923, SB1896, SB1760, SB1335, SB2368, SB2477, SB2587, SB2972, SB2986, SB2965, SB1563, SB1467, SB1164, SB1137, SB614, SB705, SB961, SB918, SB955, SB869, SB850, SB863, SB1610, SB1055, SB2206, SB457, SB2337, SB1362, SCR9, HB5560, HB762, HB 107, HB 114, HB300, HB138, HB4386, HB2495, HB581, HB3348, HB5323

Keywords: higher education, curriculum review, governing board, faculty council, ombudsman, tax exemption, property tax, homestead, fire damage, constitutional amendment, bail reform, criminal justice, felony offenses, public safety, judicial conduct, state commission, judicial misconduct, commission membership, immigration enforcement, ICE agreements

Transcript Highlights:

• Just I I'm just wondering, uh, does this prohibit, um, let's say there's a protest at city hall or at
• town hall, uh, for more arts for the schools, uh, and a fire truck drive and beeps at that protest?
• >> Right. >> Again, it's, you know, that's why we have judges and courts. drive and beeps at that protest
• . is that drive and beeps at that protest. is that um<00:28:22.240> you<00:28:22.399> know<

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Most cases in which officers are prosecuted for excessive force have nothing to do with the protests
• And, therefore, they had found, prior to the protests in 2020, that these weapons were... causing undue
• However, they had not addressed this issue prior to those protests.
• They were not lawfully ordered to wantonly fire tens of thousands of rounds into mostly peaceful protesters

Bills: SB552, SB1099, SB1124, SB1208, SB1372, SB1506, SB1667, SB1804, SB1806, SB1870, SB1936, SB1937, SB2180, SB2405, SB2569, SB2570, SB1646

Keywords: community supervision, criminal justice, illegal alien, deferred adjudication, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, SB 1099, undocumented immigrant, unauthorized immigrant, immigration status, felony sentencing enhancement, criminal penalty increase, Texas Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, affirmative finding, judgment finding, deportation, public safety, immigration enforcement, sentencing reform, felony offense

Transcript Highlights:

• What happens is that at any given point in time, we have something like 1,400 protests open, very few
• ...that at any given point in time, we have something like 1,400 protests open.
• And what is intended is that if it had at least one, maybe more than one, I think one or two protests

Keywords: 996, all

Transcript Highlights:

• labeled “Seeds of Resistance” promotes the liberated ethnic studies abolitionist agenda and features protest
• 42.000> there get a good job versus being out there get a good job versus being out there protesting
• and and resisting it's not so protesting and and resisting it's not so flawed<00:19:45.400> that<
• We see our campuses in protests, and recently we saw the U of M in disarray.
• failing we see our campuses in protests failing we see our campuses in protests and<01:43:53.080

Bills: HF29, HF921, HF922, HF1048, HF1049

Keywords: railroad, infrastructure, transportation funding, environmental remediation, capital investment, HF921, tax increment financing, TIF, excess tax increment, school district aid, levy adjustment, property tax levy, education finance, Minnesota education aid, decertification, local government finance, school funding formula, state aid reduction, referendum equalization aid, debt service equalization

Transcript Highlights:

• So just a little protest vote that lobbying to say eat more beef is not the best use of our tax dollars
• So just a little protest vote that lobbying to say eat more beef is not the best use of our tax dollars

Keywords: 1182, all

Summary: The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, attendance, and approval of the prior journal. Members then recognized several guests and issued proclamations, including honors for the Maryvale High School basketball program and Maryvale’s gifted and talented micro school, a Black History Month proclamation, and a remembrance for Emily Pike, with Senator Hatathlie urging continued attention to missing and murdered Indigenous people and to changes in the turquoise alert law. The chamber also marked Arizona’s statehood anniversary with cake for members and staff. The body then moved through Committee of the Whole and third-reading action on several bills. SB 1107, relating to peace officer certification pathways, was amended in committee and passed 27-2-1. SB 1032, appropriating money to the Corrections Oversight Fund, passed 29-0-1 after supportive explanations from senators. SB 1083 on condominiums and planned communities, SB 1252 on assignment for benefit of creditors, and SB 1259 on campaign-related provisions all passed 29-0-1. SB 1198, relating to the Arizona Beef Council, passed 23-6-1 after debate over whether the council used tax dollars or industry checkoff dollars. SB 1020, relating to special plates, initially passed 26-3-1 but was later reconsidered at Senator Bolick’s request and then passed again 25-4-1. The Senate also requested the House return SBs 1333 and 1368 for reconsideration. Committee meetings were announced for the following Monday, and the chamber adjourned until February 16, 2026.

Transcript Highlights:

• People who film the police or protest are often charged with this offense.
• Protesting and recording police officers are both protected speech under the First Amendment and should

Keywords: 1184, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• But a protest and dissent because we were trying to have honest conversations about what the Annunciation
• <01:40:43.440> and<01:40:43.600> descent but a protest and descent but a protest and
• Um, and this is important, I know, to many families listening because that's why I filed this protest
• read from the Annunciation shooters' manifesto, platforming that shooter in their own words. this protest
• Um, and what this protest and descent.

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The House took up a motion to suspend the rules so House File 5140 could be recalled from committee, given second and third readings, and placed on passage. Representative Long and Representative Greenman argued the bill was an urgent, comprehensive gun violence prevention package that had already passed the Senate and should be acted on immediately in response to recent shootings, including Annunciation School, Burnsville, and Accent Signage. They said families, students, survivors, doctors, and community members had been pressing legislators to act, and Greenman described the bill as including mental health, intervention, anonymous threat reporting, bans on weapons of war, ghost guns, and binary triggers. Representative Heintzeman opposed the urgency motion and focused on specific bill language, arguing that parts of the proposal were unclear or overly broad. He questioned whether the language on protruding grips would effectively ban all handguns, whether the penalties section could turn lawful gun owners into felons for possessing multiple noncompliant items, and whether the firearms assembly language could criminalize routine cleaning and reassembly of guns. He said these issues should have been addressed in committee and argued members needed clearer answers before voting on urgency. Greenman responded that the language was intended to target additional protruding grips, not ordinary handgun grips, and said she was willing to adopt an amendment to clarify that point. On the penalties and assembly questions, she said the bill was aimed at certifying existing weapons, banning ghost guns, and preventing harm, and repeatedly urged members to vote for the urgency motion so the full bill could be considered. The exchange remained focused on the motion to suspend the rules and on the substance of the gun violence prevention package; no final vote or other action is shown in the transcript excerpt.

Keywords: 916, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Then RSA 675:5 is about zoning protest petitions, when citizens can get together and protest a zoning
• <01:36:07.800> zoning<01:36:08.159> ordinance<01:36:08.600> protest zoning protest
• zoning ordinance protest zoning protest zoning ordinance protest petitions<01:36:09.520> when
• a zoning amendment together and protest a zoning amendment that<01:36:14.920> has<01:36:15.040
• <01:36:30.119> petition change via a a zoning protest petition change via a a zoning protest

Keywords: 1189, house, all