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WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Education Committee, February 16, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • When students are in electives, core teachers are collaborating in professional learning communities,
  • <00:37:59.839> communities,<00:38:00.320> reviewing<00:38:00.720> data, learning
  • My name is Mariah Learned.
  • <00:58:27.200> service<00:58:27.520> para<00:58:27.760> educator learning service
  • para educator learning service para educator positions.<00:58:28.960> In<00:58:29.119> fact
Bills: SF0059, SF0053
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (02/19/2025)

Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • They've really taken us astray and have given the whole digital area in health care a bad name.
  • digital area in healthcare<00:17:37.640> a<00:17:37.840> bad<00:17:38.120> name
  • As a result, we've learned what they are capable of.
  • So please pass this bill. learn about that but there's different learn about that but there's different
  • But, uh, I'm learning that maybe that, you know, my reading of the bill might be incorrect.
Keywords: 1189, house, all
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Transportation Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am

Joint Committee on Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • That work zone pilot will digitally map out work sites and transmit the information to Waze, Google Maps
  • I just learned about this this morning and so signed up last minute.
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The hearing focused on a broad package of traffic and roadway safety bills, with repeated emphasis on work zone safety, the Move Over law, automated enforcement, and protections for pedestrians, cyclists, and roadside workers. MassDOT Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver strongly supported a bill allowing MassDOT vehicles to use blue flashing lights in limited work-zone settings, arguing that blue lights reliably slow drivers and could help address a rise in work-zone crashes and fatalities. District Attorney Marion Ryan, State Police representatives, and police association leaders supported a separate Move Over bill that would raise penalties for repeat violations and add an education component, citing officers and workers killed or injured roadside and saying the goal is deterrence and safer driver behavior rather than revenue. A major portion of the hearing was devoted to automated enforcement bills for speed and red-light violations, including proposals for school zones, work zones, and broader local options. Senator Brownsberger and Senator Jalen argued that automated enforcement is needed because speeding and red-light running remain common while police traffic enforcement has declined, and they described the bills as civil, opt-in tools that issue tickets to vehicles rather than drivers. Supporters from WalkMass, T4MA, Safe Roads Alliance, MassBike, Medford officials, and other advocates cited fatal pedestrian crashes, neighborhood speeding, and the need to protect vulnerable road users, while also pointing to privacy and equity safeguards in the bills such as limits on photographs, data retention rules, public reporting, and local approval processes. Several local and advocacy witnesses backed targeted camera programs. Senator Lovely and Representative Cruz supported a Salem school-zone camera bill, describing repeated violations around schools and buses. Medford officials and school-safety advocates supported a similar statewide camera bill, citing recent pedestrian deaths and dangerous cut-through traffic. AAA Northeast and the Massachusetts Aggregate and Asphalt Pavement Association also supported targeted enforcement in work zones and school zones, while urging public education and warning periods. Some witnesses raised concerns about the color of lights for highway workers, with State Police representatives preferring green over blue to avoid confusion with law enforcement, and committee members asked about constitutional issues, surchargeability, and possible targeting concerns. No votes were taken during the hearing.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

March 19, 2025 - 10:30 AM

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so the complexities are—I mean, I would actually invite you to come to the digital service and see
  • hiring someone that you knew beforehand, that worked with you at the Department of Energy, and now we learn
Summary: The subcommittee heard presentations from the Department of Financial Services and the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, then returned to its ongoing budget workshop with the Department of Management Services. DFS’s Division of Risk Management described its role as the state self-insurance fund, covering about 200,000 employees and 27,000 vehicles, paying roughly $150 million in claims last year, and managing a pilot ETS treatment program for veterans and first responders that had 49 patients and 804 treatments as of the latest report. The Division of State Fire Marshal outlined its fire prevention, training, emergency response, and grant programs, including hurricane deployments, the Florida State Fire College, and several capital and grant requests for roof, courtyard, memorial, and equipment needs. The Division of Rehabilitation and Liquidation explained how it handles insolvent insurers under Chapter 631, currently administering 14 estates with $1.2 billion in assets and $3.7 billion in liabilities, and said no new receiverships had been opened since February 2023. Members asked about grant backlogs, fire truck procurement delays, memorial repairs, and whether affiliate transfers were occurring in insurer liquidations. Secretary Griffin then updated the committee on DBPR’s implementation of House Bill 1021 on community associations. He said the department had used the new authority to expand education, complaint handling, and ombudsman services, including 10 free standardized courses, a new condo website, and a four-hour board certification course that had already drawn more than 12,000 attendees. He reported that outreach to condominium communities had increased by more than 60%, that complaint filings were up 39% while jurisdictional dismissals dropped to 11%, and that about 81% to 82% of the 65 new positions had been filled. Members pressed him on whether the department had enough authority and funding, how condominium counts are determined, how self-reported structural integrity reserve study data is verified, and whether more public-facing complaint tracking and better reporting from local governments or developers would improve the system. The committee then resumed questioning Secretary Allende of DMS about outstanding budget and operations issues. Members focused on the delayed People First contract extension required by statute, with the secretary saying the delay involved technical and contractual complexity in moving a legacy hard-coded system to the cloud. They also revisited the state data team and data catalog project, asking why a statutory 2022 deadline had not been met, how the four-person team and broader data staff were organized, how many applicants were considered for key positions, and what each role was doing. The secretary said the catalog work was being simplified into six metadata fields and supported by a broader community of practice, but no firm completion date was given during the exchange.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Appropriations Committee Apr 22nd, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • city has launched implementation into a modern laser-fish public records portal, which expands the digital
Summary: The Assembly Appropriations Committee met on April 22, 2026, with a quorum present and first took up a large consent calendar. It moved a set of bills to the Assembly Floor consent calendar by unanimous vote, including AB 1773, 1785, 1828, 1873, 1918, 2001, 2085, 2173, 2412, 2536, 2644, and 2781, and separately approved another group of unanimous bills not eligible for floor consent, including AB 1544, 1555, 1614, 1621, 1637, 1704, 1816, 1933, 2529, 2559, 2663, and 2731. The committee then heard several individual bills, with each author describing the measure and witnesses generally testifying in support; no organized opposition was recorded on the bills discussed. Among the measures heard, AB 2393 would create fixed statutory damages for certain false imprisonment and arrest claims, while exempting peace officers, custodial officers, and public entities. AB 1697 would delay implementation of a recently enacted prohibition on employment contracts that require workers to repay employer debts if they leave a job, and AB 2534 would extend Domestic Violence Prevention Act restraining order protections to attempted forced marriages and survivors of forced marriages. AB 1608 would strengthen the High-Speed Rail Inspector General’s office by adding staffing and contracting authority, requiring public reports, and allowing limited temporary confidentiality for sensitive information; the bill drew questions from members about transparency and whether information could be withheld, but the author and Inspector General said the measure would increase accountability and only allow narrow, time-limited confidentiality. The committee also approved AB 1916, which would allow American Sign Language interpreters to participate in the same collective bargaining process as other certified court interpreters, and AB 1803, which would require anti-hate speech training as part of workplace harassment prevention training for employers with five or more employees. AB 1821 would change Public Records Act response timelines from calendar days to business days, with local government sponsors arguing it would better reflect actual processing time for broad and complex requests without reducing access. AB 1919 would establish election procedures to let voters decide the future of Santa Cruz Metro service funding after a one-time grant expires. Each of these bills was moved forward on due pass votes, with some members not voting on certain measures. The committee then approved a long suspense file, and the remaining suspense bills were deemed approved without further discussion.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Appropriations Committee Apr 22nd, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • city has launched implementation into a modern laser-fish public records portal, which expands the digital
Keywords: 988, house, all
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

Ethics and Elections Jan 28th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • will oversee state practices related to AI and other new advanced technologies, including promoting digital
Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 1178, the Foreign Interference Restriction and Enforcement Act. Senator Grohl explained that the bill expands state restrictions and disclosure requirements related to foreign countries of concern and designated foreign terrorist organizations, including foreign-agent registration, gift bans for public officials, ethics training, procurement limits for IT and critical infrastructure, restrictions on sister-city/sister-state affiliations, changes to linkage institutes and in-state tuition provisions, and new criminal penalties for certain offenses committed to benefit foreign governments or terrorist organizations. Senator Polsky raised questions about higher education, election technology, federal FARA overlap, and whether the bill would affect candidates or events involving CARE; the sponsor responded that the bill focuses on foreign countries of concern, ownership/control, and gifts, and does not prohibit speaking at events. An amendment clarifying definitions, willful violations, and ethics-training content was adopted, and after supportive testimony from Kelly Curry and Robert Pierce, the committee reported CS for SB 1178 favorably. The committee then considered Senate Bill 1622, which provides a one-time waiver of the automatic fine for a late-filed financial disclosure if the filing is made before the maximum fine accrues and the filer has not previously received such a waiver or accrued the maximum fine in prior years. Carrie Stillman of the Commission on Ethics testified that the bill supports transparency and makes the fine and appeals process more efficient, noting it was a commission recommendation. The bill was reported favorably. Finally, the committee held confirmation hearings on appointments in Tabs 3 through 26. No senator requested separate votes on any appointee, no public testimony was offered, and the block of appointments was approved and recommended favorably to the full Senate.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Economic Development May 12th, 2025

Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • and career changers while strengthening Texas's capabilities in cybersecurity, data management, and digital
Summary: The Senate Economic Development Committee met without a quorum, so no votes or formal actions were taken. The chair laid out several bills and resolutions for explanation and public testimony, with each item left pending subject to the call of the chair. Early items included House Bill 1240, a cleanup measure to create a single uniform definition of the Texas-Mexico border region across state law, and House Bill 2768, which would establish an IT apprenticeship credential through junior colleges and technical institutions to help fill state government technology jobs. The committee also heard House Concurrent Resolution 90, which would encourage establishing a Texas trade and investment office in Jerusalem. Testimony on the resolution was sharply divided: one witness opposed it on foreign policy and values grounds, while a Texas Association of Business representative strongly supported it, citing Israel’s innovation and trade potential. Another major item was House Bill 4187, a committee substitute for legislation affecting the Texas Historical Commission; the sponsor described changes expanding use of trust fund money for historic sites, allowing more affiliated nonprofits, clarifying retail operations, and creating a framework for training and consistent interpretation at historic sites. A Texas Historical Commission witness explained that the bill would shift responsibility for maintaining many state-owned historical markers and monuments, including markers on private land, to the commission. Additional measures included House Bill 2788, which would shield Texas Workforce Commission fraud-prevention methods from public information requests; House Bill 5032, directing state agencies to plan for public display of the Texas Declaration of Independence, Texas Constitution, and the Victory or Death letter at the Capitol Complex; House Bill 3146, which would eliminate outdated memoranda-of-understanding requirements for certain State Office of Administrative Hearings arrangements; and House Bill 4815, a cleanup bill modernizing economic development statutes, revising the Made in Texas standard to 51% Texas-origin content, repealing the Governor’s Broadband Development Council, and making other conforming changes. The committee ended by recessing, with members indicating they would likely vote on pending business later when a quorum was available.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • I just have one request, actually: if you haven't already, please send us the digital copy of that map
  • My second question is: Seaside Sustainability, I actually learned about you yesterday. Good.
  • I'm currently taking a college course at Bennington College on plastics and human health, so I'm learning
  • But as I'm learning in my class, the fact that kids being born these days are surrounded by plastics
  • I share these thoughts because, in making the decision to grow this enterprise, we learned important
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources held a heavily attended hybrid hearing focused primarily on plastics reduction bills, along with a few local and related waste-management measures. Chair Rauch and Chair Barber outlined strict testimony rules because of the large number of speakers. Before the plastics docket, the committee heard support for a local Sharon sewer-extension bill for a Sunrise Senior Living project, and the bill’s proponents said the project would help address senior housing needs and would still require MWRA and local approvals. The chairs also noted a separate local matter involving Sharon and the MWRA. A major portion of the hearing centered on the Plastics Reduction Act and related bills addressing single-use plastics, including plastic bags, polystyrene, black plastic, plastic beverage bottles, non-flushable wipes, skip-the-stuff provisions, and truth-in-labeling. Sponsors and supporters said the bills would reduce litter, microplastics, greenhouse gas emissions, and municipal waste costs, while creating statewide consistency and supporting environmental justice communities. Several speakers cited local bans already adopted by many Massachusetts cities and towns, and many urged the committee to advance comprehensive statewide action. The committee also heard testimony on a boat wrap recycling bill, a mattress recycling bill, and a bill to prohibit hotels from providing small plastic toiletries. Municipal officials and waste professionals supported extended producer responsibility for paint and labeling for non-flushable wipes, saying these measures would shift costs away from cities and towns and reduce strain on wastewater systems. The Massachusetts Municipal Association, Mayor Ruth Ann Fuller of Newton, and a Franklin County waste official all backed paint EPR and wipes labeling. Fire Chief Brian Nardelli testified for the Fire Chiefs Association in support of lithium-ion battery legislation, citing fire safety and disposal concerns. Other speakers, including environmental groups, local activists, and business representatives, supported bag and polystyrene bans, though the Retailers Association of Massachusetts urged any bag policy to be truly statewide and said any bag fee should be retained by retailers. No votes were taken during the hearing.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Municipal and County Government (01/13/2025)

Municipal and County Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am a retired digital design engineer and technical instructor.
  • <00:14:38.399> retired Worcester Mass and I am a retired Worcester Mass and I am a retired digital
  • design<00:14:40.360> engineer<00:14:40.920> and<00:14:41.199> Technical digital
  • design engineer and Technical digital design engineer and Technical instructor<00:14:42.759> I
  • <00:27:58.279> a<00:27:58.399> lot as their administrator and learned a lot as their
Keywords: 1189, house, all
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House debate on MN emergency powers bill Feb 28th, 2025

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We need to learn the lessons of the past.
  • Yes, we're talking about the past, but we have to learn from the past.
  • Yes, we're talking about the past, but we have to learn from the past.
  • Yes, we're talking about the past, but we have to learn from the past.
  • Yes, we're talking about the past, but we have to learn from the past.
Keywords: 1183, house
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/25

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • They have seen premiums increase by 60%, when they used to see only single-digit year-over-year increases
  • They have seen premiums increase by 60%, when they used to see only single-digit year-over-year increases
  • They have seen premiums increase by 60%, when they used to see only single-digit year-over-year increases
  • I'm open to learning more, and that's why I'm curious who all does it affect.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Session (01/07/2026)

New Hampshire House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Keene State College, civic engagement has been an explicit college-wide learning outcome of Keene
  • Considered the same report the learning.
  • . learning. learning.
  • She had recently learned more about grants and acknowledged that the bill needed work.
  • capacity to learn. capacity to learn.
Keywords: 1189, house, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session 4/29/25 - Part 2

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Some learned English, and women became nurses to tend to the wounded.
  • Some learned lives.
  • Some learned English<01:28:37.360> and<01:28:37.679> women<01:28:38.080> became<
  • battle with cancer that I really learned battle with cancer that I really learned about<01:39:58.239
  • I learned a lot, but I have a lot to learn is what I learned from the Commerce Committee.
Keywords: 1183, house
VT

Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Session - 2026-05-27 - 2:30PM

Vermont Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • been discussing the Wi-Fi for the prisons for years and we were able to include ADS, the Agency for Digital
  • were able to include ads, the<01:46:38.639> agency<01:46:39.040> for<01:46:39.199> digital
  • <01:46:39.600> service<01:46:40.800> services the agency for digital service services
  • the agency for digital service services in<01:46:42.080> those<01:46:42.880> uh<01:46:
Keywords: 927, senate, all
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session-Day 3, February 11, 2026-PM

Wyoming Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • entities to accept cash alongside other methods, giving payers flexibility without forcing anyone into digital-only
  • flexibility without forcing<00:09:38.560> anyone<00:09:38.960> into<00:09:39.400> digital-only
  • forcing anyone into digital-only forcing anyone into digital-only systems. systems. systems.
Keywords: 916, all