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NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Funding (04/15/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- This let that small engine program get up and running. So it's been highly successful.
- And then we auto and small engines.
- business associates in the small business associates in the small business<02:02:31.599>
communities - So, I think this very small project.
- entitlement programs, it's a very small entitlement programs, it's a very small group<04:32:39.760
Summary:
The committee first heard Senate Bill 292, which would authorize a governor’s warrant to cover special education aid shortfalls from the education trust fund, and from the general fund if needed, so local school districts would not have to absorb prorated costs or raise local property taxes. Senator Lang said the bill was prompted by a prior $15 million special education funding shortfall caused by higher-than-expected catastrophic aid claims, including more qualifying students and the recent increase in the special education age limit to 22. He emphasized that the bill is intended to ensure the state meets its funding commitment and avoid shifting costs to towns.
Members asked about how the bill interacts with House Bill 742 and House Bill 773, including whether the language should be merged or whether the state should fund 100% versus an 80% floor. Lang said he was open to improving the bill and to adding a study committee or performance audit on special education costs, but maintained that the state should not push costs to local taxpayers when it has available funds. The hearing on SB 292 was then closed, with no vote taken.
The committee then opened Senate Bill 98, which would extend for five more years a tax credit program for donations to regional career and technical education centers. Senator Waters said the program has been successful in building partnerships between CTE centers and employers, especially through equipment donations that support training and apprenticeships. He cited examples including automotive, marine trades, and advanced manufacturing programs, and said the five-year extension would let lawmakers continue to review whether the incentive is working as intended.
Several members questioned whether the credit is effectively a 100% subsidy and how the cap works. Waters and another member explained that the underlying program has an aggregate cap of $500,000 and that credits are prorated if requests exceed that amount; they also said the donations are primarily equipment, not cash. Some members raised concerns about whether businesses could also claim other tax deductions or credits, but the sponsor said the existing structure has been in place for years and has been revisited periodically. No vote was taken during the hearing excerpt provided.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select Jul 31st, 2025
Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select
Transcript Highlights:
- Simplify the grant application. application process for small counties.
- These costs deter small counties from even seeking funding.
- Our floodwaters came from a very small watershed with headwaters.
- We are a small county.
- It's a small world and it's weird how we cross paths.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Most of us come from very small towns or cities.
- Most of us come from very small towns or Most of us come from very small towns or cities. cities. cities
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Not <02:11:09.440>really <02:11:09.760>small. - Not really small. That's megawatt plant. Not really small.
- <02:26:02.960>
businesses, approximately 4,500 small businesses, approximately 4,500 small
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- operate a brew pub, small craft winery, or small craft distillery, or any combination of these.
- Alcoholic Beverages Act; to create new categories of licenses for small craft distilleries and small
- a brew pub, small craft winery, or small craft distillery, or any combination of these.
- To provide for sales by a brew pub, small craft winery, or small craft distillery at off-premise events
- To create a new license for small craft alcoholic beverage manufacturers that operate a brew pub, small
Summary:
The Alabama Senate convened with prayer, the pledge, and a roll call establishing a quorum. Senators then adopted the prior day’s journal and excused absent members. A lengthy point of personal privilege followed, in which Senator Smith criticized the prior day’s handling of the special order calendar and argued that minority-party senators were denied the chance to speak, while Senator Coleman said Senate Bill 318 had been removed from the calendar and tied that to Child Abuse Prevention Month; she also noted Senate Bill 43, which would provide civil recourse for child sex assault survivors, had not advanced. The presiding officer also recognized guests in the gallery, including staff from the Alabama Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention and members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
The Senate then received multiple committee reports, largely on a unanimous or near-unanimous basis. Finance and Taxation Education reported favorably on House Bills 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 565, 517, and 98, and Senate Bill 380, with some substitutes or amendments; Finance and Taxation General Fund reported Senate Bill 378 favorably; County and Municipal Government reported House Bills 568, 499, and 433; Education Policy reported House Bills 8 and 380; Banking and Insurance reported House Bill 545; Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development reported House Bill 586 with two nays; Healthcare reported House Bills 533 and 605; Tourism and Marketing reported House Bills 513 and 626 and Senate Bill 357; and local legislation committees reported several Mobile County and Madison County bills, including Senate Bill 379 relating to Madison County and various House bills, all advancing to the next legislative day.
In motions and resolutions, the Senate agreed to allow committee reports to be received at any time during the day. Several resolutions were introduced and referred to the Rules Committee, including Senate Joint Resolution 100 honoring Presley Skelton, SJR 101 commending Auburn University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, SJR 102 establishing the Alabama Forest Products Retention and Pulp and Paper Mill Stability Study Commission, SJR 103 mourning Norman Wendell Arnold, and SJR 104 designating Alabama as the river state. The chamber also suspended the rules to take up Senate Joint Resolution 105, commending Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth for his service; the resolution included a lengthy recitation of his background and accomplishments and was read for immediate consideration with all senators added as sponsors.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
ACT 310, SLH 2025 Nonprofit Grants Program Info Briefing - Thu Oct 30, 2025 @ 9:00 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And we've asked for a small investment so we could do public education to address changing behaviors.
- Our small team of four is help before.
- work at the moment and also our small work at the moment and also our small families<01:10:38.239
- That may seem like a small amount, but it represents one-third of the budget for that program.
- A small organization, through the arts.
Summary:
This joint informational briefing on Act 310 grants and aid focused on organizations describing how federal funding cuts, Medicaid/SNAP changes, and related policy shifts are affecting their services and budgets. Committee members explained there would be no Q&A, testimony would be limited to one minute, and in-person participants would be heard before Zoom callers. Members repeatedly asked testifiers to identify the amount of federal funding lost or at risk.
Testimony came from a wide range of nonprofits and community providers, including Aloha Care, Hawaii Bicycling League, Hawaii Literacy, Hawaii Youth Symphony, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, the Tsunami Museum, The Kohala Center, West Hawaii Community Health Center, West Hawaii Region Hospital Foundation, Sounding Joy Music Therapy, Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii, Dynamic Community Solutions, Feeding Hawaii Together, Girl Scouts of Hawaii, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Hawaii Youth Services Network, Hawaiian Lending and Investments, Homana, Honolulu Theatre for the Youth, Kids Hurt Too Hawaii, and Kokua Kalihi Valley. Most described reduced or threatened federal support and requested state funding to maintain services such as health care access, food security, disaster preparedness, literacy and digital inclusion, youth mentoring, arts education, housing, and climate or agricultural resilience.
Several speakers emphasized direct impacts on vulnerable populations, including kūpuna, low-income families, immigrants, homeless youth, and people with disabilities. Requests ranged from relatively small planning or program grants to multi-million-dollar stabilization asks, with some organizations citing specific losses such as reduced Medicaid or USDA funding, canceled EPA or FEMA support, or expiring federal grants. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the briefing.
TX
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection - 04/01/25
Commerce and Consumer Protection
Transcript Highlights:
- local operators and supporting small local operators and advancing<00:10:45.959>
Minnesota's < - This is very important for small and equity businesses in Minnesota.
- And so this is, you know, really a rather small change.
- SF 1690 is good for small businesses across our state.
- <01:39:37.800>
to collection and handling of small to collection and handling of small to
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- work in even in a state that has a small work in even in a state that has a small population<02:
- saying can't you know we have two small saying can't you know we have two small countries<02:06:
- And so, you know, it happens in small-town Wyoming.
- from becoming small disruptions from becoming full-blown<03:06:44.319>
crisis. - And this is just one anecdote, a small part probably of what they are doing.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
- apprenticeships and a couple other small apprenticeships and a couple other small things<00:15:29.519
- Uh, just a small recap of where we're at as a system.
- Uh just a small recap as we get it up.
- Our small session in Jefferson County.
- including our support for small-scale including our support for small-scale agriculture,<00:59:08.880
Keywords:
Call to Order and Roll Call – 0:00:00
Workforce Pell Grant Update – 0:03:30
Extension Office Update – 0:33:25
Kentucky Academic Standards for Social Studies – 1:07:08
Early Literacy Outcomes – 1:32:20
Consideration of Referred Administrative Regulations – 1:58:30
Adjournment 2:13:13, 958, all
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 112 May 6th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, our intrepid drafter has discovered a small mistake.
- Uh, our intrepid drafter has discovered a small mistake.
- We meant to change the small mistake.
- businesses, which I believe are a small businesses, which I believe are a small minority,<02:08:
- there even though only a small there even though only a small percentage<03:02:53.279>
were
Summary:
The Senate convened with a quorum, approved the previous day’s journal, and received several committee reports and conference committee permissions. It also adopted a Senate resolution recognizing the 125th anniversary of Western Colorado University (SR 8) by a 35-0 vote, with remarks highlighting the university’s history, workforce role, mountain rescue team, athletics, and ties to Gunnison and the Western Slope. The resolution was adopted and co-sponsors were added.
The chamber then took up third reading and final passage on several bills. Senate Bill 152, concerning automated vehicle identification systems, was amended on the floor with a technical correction and passed 32-3. House Bill 1322, creating civil actions related to conversion therapy efforts, prompted emotional testimony from Senator Mullica about his mother and passed 23-12. House Bill 1123, addressing sexual abuse prevention in jails, passed 27-8 after a technical amendment. House Bill 1226, reducing emissions from certain electric generating units, passed 22-13. House Bill 1076, modifying transportation statutes, passed 28-0, and House Bill 1207, requiring employer disclosure of demographic workforce data, passed 23-12.
Senate Bill 115, a postconviction relief measure for certain older incarcerated people, was amended and debated at length. Supporters described it as narrowly tailored to a small number of eligible inmates and emphasized victim-rights protections and exclusions for serious offenses; opponents remained opposed. The bill ultimately passed 18-17. The Senate then approved a Committee of the Whole report advancing Senate Bill 181 and several House bills—1338, 1344, 1336 as amended, 1227, 1314, 1028, 1282, and 1317 as amended—to third reading and final passage, and later adopted the consent-calendar bills in special orders without objection.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 093 Apr 17th, 2026
Colorado House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- 56-hour threshold applicable to small 56-hour threshold applicable to small and<01:36:29.800>
- <02:32:47.920>
minority it was not a small minority it was not a small minority that<02:32 - So, when supporters say small farms are suffering, I believe them.
- I hail from a small farm town in rural Western Colorado.
- the small farmer and rancher? the small farmer and rancher?
Summary:
The House convened with 58 members present and seven excused, establishing a quorum, and approved the April 15, 2026 journal as corrected. The chamber then moved through announcements recognizing visiting railroad workers, LIUNA Local 720, Colorado West Christian Schools, Religious Freedom Day, and several school and community groups, along with birthday acknowledgments and committee schedule notices. The House also adopted a motion to remove House Bill 1245 from special orders and returned it to the general orders second reading calendar, and set House Bills 1290, 1312, and 1321 as special orders.
The House adopted Senate Joint Resolution 18, recognizing Nowruz and expressing support for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the Iranian people, including the Women, Life, Freedom movement. Supporters described Nowruz as a holiday of renewal and resilience and tied the resolution to solidarity with Iranian communities. Representative Zokaie also spoke at length about the personal impact of war on Iranian families and urged a vote. The resolution passed 59-2 with four excused.
The chamber then considered several bills in committee report. House Bill 1290, concerning assault and clarifying sentencing, was amended in Judiciary to remove the medical professional provision and passed after testimony emphasizing strangulation as a serious warning sign in domestic violence cases; it then passed the House. House Bill 1312, dealing with peace officer participation, POST Board composition, academy training, and related grants, was amended for clarity and passed the Judiciary report and then the bill. House Bill 1321, modifying the School Security Disbursement Program, had the Education Committee report defeated, but amendments were adopted to broaden eligible service providers and adjust funding language; the bill then passed as amended.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 03/02/26
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- If I’m a small business owner, I have no earthly idea what that means.
- Other businesses are going to be really small.
- And so they may small business owner.
- Because I've worked in small businesses my whole life. I own them.
- I own small businesses my whole life.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Resources, Recreation and Development (01/28/2026)
Resources, Recreation and Development
Transcript Highlights:
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- <05:06:55.280>
but This bill addresses a small but This bill addresses a small but important - <05:14:42.240>
lot mentioned something about the small lot mentioned something about the small - where possible to consolidate very small where possible to consolidate very small water<05:24:43.680
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- negative impact for all the small negative impact for all the small businesses<01:44:40.800>
- Marty's bill this bill takes away small Marty's bill this bill takes away small businesses<01:46
- success this bill would harm small success this bill would harm small businesses<01:47:00.239>
- <01:47:07.280>
businesses <01:47:07.840>across small businesses across small businesses- though they advertise for small though they advertise for small businesses<01:54:19.639>
that - <01:47:07.280>
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session 5/17/26 - Part 5
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And then also a small difference that I should mention is an appropriation of $80,000 for the agricultural
- And<00:01:25.960>
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Summary:
The House received a message from the Senate announcing concurrence in the conference committee report on Senate File 2077, an environment and natural resources appropriations bill. Representative Heintzeman explained that the report incorporated language from the Legacy and Lands bill, an extension of unemployment insurance benefits for miners, and an $80,000 appropriation for the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute. Representative Vang urged adoption, noting the bill had already passed earlier in the day with strong support.
Several members spoke in favor of the conference report and the bill, emphasizing its outdoor heritage and conservation provisions, support for the Iron Range miners’ UI extension, and the related land and water protection measures. Representative McDonald and Representative Gilman highlighted the bill’s legacy and conservation benefits, while Representative Fischer and Representative Igo praised the work of the authors and the inclusion of the miner unemployment insurance extension.
The House adopted the conference committee report and then took up third reading of the bill as amended by conference. After further supportive remarks, the clerk called the roll and the bill was repassed as amended by conference by a vote of 111 ayes and 22 nays, with the title agreed to. The chamber then adopted a motion to recess to the call of the Speaker.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Business and Insurance 2ND REVISED Feb 26th, 2026 at 09:30 am
Business and Insurance
Transcript Highlights:
- It is an issue that we continue to see rising costs in, and we continue to see our small.
- Of this in the healthcare industry, personally, with my wife and a small business owner.
- Very strongly in Oklahoma, we are losing the small business owner, not only in healthcare but everywhere
- something I've been in this body and this since this topic comes up, and it's really shocking that the small
Keywords:
prosthetics, health insurance, medical necessity, patient rights, insurance liability, pharmacy benefits manager, healthcare providers, claims processing, reimbursement, insurance regulation, employees insurance, contract awarding, certifications, state procurement, insurance plan, mental health, substance use disorders, utilization review, benefit coverage, pharmacy
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
November 18, 2025 - 03:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- But these good folks are trying to do things from the not-for-profits from the small local folks that
- opposition to a because as written as good as there the attempted to be enforced under the current laws, small
- establishments such as small those lodges and things like that, which I'm a part like that, which I'm
- lodges that are I creating recreational activities, but also, of course, general revenue for what our small
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
On Sovereign Ground Sep 22nd, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- So, it might seem like a small piece when you’re just walking by, but each one of those benches weighs
- might look<00:05:07.800>
seem <00:05:07.960>like <00:05:08.080>a <00:05:08.160>small - <00:05:08.480>
piece <00:05:08.880>when <00:05:09.000>you're look seem like a small - piece when you're look seem like a small piece when you're just<00:05:09.360>
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TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband May 2nd, 2025
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband
Transcript Highlights:
- $10 million is not an insignificant amount, nor is it, I think, in our purview to say that it's a small
- This was something that she was working on in a very small town at the northern end of the Chihuahuan
- It really did... to be sort of a blueprint for a small-town broadband project.
- pride in the community taking this on so that it could be a model that could be exported to other small
Keywords:
broadband, internet access, digital equity, tax reduction, government funding, rural counties, fiber-optic, state funding, infrastructure, digital divide, economic development, fiber-optic cable, excavation, utilities, civil penalties, municipal regulations, video services, regulation, public right-of-way, franchise authority
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, June 26, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- Patrick's Day is no small task.
- This very small matter in a small number of cases where nobody is injured. Somebody.
- This very small matter in a small number of cases where nobody is injured.
- This very small matter in a small<02:57:00.960>
number <02:57:01.359>of <02:57:01.600>