Video & Transcript Research : 'ballot application'

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MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Combatting Antisemitism Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Transcript Highlights:
  • OGR held a competitive application process during the fall.
  • Yes, it's a competitive grant application process.
  • And we have to embed those recommendations into our application that we submit to FEMA.
  • And applicants are put in there.
  • We can't just, you know, sometimes the application that's the fanciest isn't the best.
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Special Commission on Anti-Semitism met to focus on the role of law enforcement in responding to anti-Semitic incidents. After approving amended minutes, the chair opened with remarks emphasizing that the Commission would confront anti-Semitism from any political direction and outlined the day’s agenda: extremist activity trends, hate-crime statutes, intergovernmental coordination, and security funding. The first presentation came from Ben Pott of the ADL Center on Extremism, who described rising extremist propaganda and anti-Semitic incidents nationally and in Massachusetts, highlighting groups such as NSC-131, GDL, and Patriot Front. He said these groups increasingly use anti-Zionist language, public disruptions, and online platforms to spread hate, and recommended prosecution where possible, civil litigation, education about symbols and tactics, and community reporting to law enforcement and ADL. Assistant District Attorney David Solvin then reviewed federal and Massachusetts hate-crime laws, including federal civil-rights and hate-crime statutes and state provisions for civil-rights violations, assault and battery to intimidate, religious vandalism, terroristic threats, and criminal harassment. He explained that many of these laws enhance penalties based on bias motivation, but some do not create standalone offenses or qualify as dangerousness predicates under current law. Commissioners pressed him on hypothetical fact patterns involving anti-Semitic slurs, symbols, and attacks, as well as on the limits of existing law for pretrial detention and the need for better data collection. Solvin said more training, better reporting, and possible legislative updates could improve enforcement, and he noted pending bills that would require more regular hate-crime reporting and expand protected classes. Detective Lieutenant Ryan Cepiel of the State Police Anti-Terrorism Unit and HART described the unit’s creation in 2023, its role in implementing prior hate-crime task force recommendations, and its work with local, state, federal, and community partners. He said HART has trained civil-rights officers, developed recruit and in-service curricula, created resource pamphlets and a Teams page, and is building a GIS-based reporting portal to improve tracking and victim support. Cepiel reported a year-over-year rise in reported anti-Semitic hate crimes in Massachusetts, while noting that current numbers are incomplete because reporting is inconsistent and there is no mandate for local departments to notify HART. Commissioners discussed underreporting, rural versus eastern Massachusetts coverage, the need for more officers and training, and the importance of making victims feel safe coming forward. The meeting ended with agreement that better data, training, and coordination are needed to address the rise in anti-Semitic hate and bias incidents.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Joint Appropriations Committee, January 8, 2026 - PM

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • When was that application submitted?
  • How long was that application submitted?
  • Uh, how many applications did you guys receive in, like, this last year?
  • for the large um applications overall for the large energy<00:23:21.600> fund.
  • I can get application for section 321.
Keywords: 916, all
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Finance Jul 23rd, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • Alternatively, we could look at developing an application vetting process within the legislature only
  • He can correct me if I'm wrong, is their policies for the applications for those programs.
  • So the first year could be kind of getting what applications we can from both of those categories and
  • And there's an application process.
  • That they have administered through these application-based grant programs.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - Part 1 - 04/02/25

Jobs and Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • evaluate equivalent plan applications. evaluate equivalent plan applications.
  • from employers many from applicants from employers many from applicants through<00:09:50.240>
  • Maybe one way to think about the benefits application is that it’s sort of like a tree.
  • through a lot of the applicant through a lot of the applicant experience<00:18:23.520> payments
  • Larude: Fairly, uh, the DEED has an application program that they have.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

MS Senate Floor - 5 March, 2026; 10:00 AM

Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • <02:58:51.880> shall determine which of the applicant shall determine which of the applicant
  • So, you got 172 applicants. applicants. applicants.
  • And so they make application, just like these are local groups making application to this group. >> Yeah
  • c> this local groups making application to this local groups making application to this group. group
  • . applicants. applicants.
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, opened with an invocation by Dr. Ryan Wade and the Pledge of Allegiance, and then handled routine business by dispensing with the reading of the journal and committee reports. Several guests were recognized, including Leadership Jackson County, Farm Bureau members, a doctor of the day, adult educators, and other visitors in the gallery. Senator Brumfield also announced support efforts for Senator Warren Barnett, asking members to contribute to him through Ms. Anita Jackson. The chamber then considered a series of House bills, most of them taken up with strike-all amendments and passed by use of the morning roll call. Measures included HB 1390 on personal services funding allocations, HB 1571 on ARPA funds and unexpended balances, HB 1655 on the State Aid Road Construction director’s personnel status, HB 1650 on dormant state accounts and pooled investments, HB 1651 on state agencies using other agencies’ facilities and charging 50% of fair market value, HB 1345 on administrative forfeiture of illegal cigarette and vaping products, HB 1386 on allowing sidewalks as an eligible use of municipal infrastructure funds, HB 671 on alcoholic beverage delivery responsibility ending when retailers transfer possession to delivery services, and HB 1385 on eliminating paper-original homestead exemption submissions. Members asked questions on several bills, especially about whether the fairgrounds language in HB 1651 would affect youth livestock shows and whether HB 1386 or other measures would change county revenue; sponsors generally said the bills were intended to address state-agency use, municipal reporting, or administrative efficiency rather than alter those programs. The Senate also advanced HB 898, creating a sales tax diversion study committee to review misallocated municipal sales tax revenues, assess impacts, examine technology and oversight, and recommend reforms by the 2027 session; Senator Hill questioned whether counties should be included, but the sponsor said that would be a separate policy decision. Later, the Senate reconsidered HB 1265, the Mississippi Debt Management Services Act extended repealer, adopted an amendment to remove the repealer instead of extending it, and then passed the bill. The body also took up SB 2632, the local governments disaster recovery emergency loan program, and voted not to concur and to invite conference. Finally, HB 1142 on bench warrant notices was called up; the sponsor explained a strike-all that would replace certified mail with personal service or electronic transmission and include a reverse repealer for further conference work.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
  • Some of the applications come in to counties maybe through an online system, but then workers are doing
  • So, it's really inefficient, and you can imagine that each of these applications, if they have to do
  • So, counties are experiencing the need to hire more staff just to do these basic applications.
  • So, it's really inefficient, and you can imagine that each of these applications, if they have to do
  • So, counties are experiencing the need to hire more staff just to do these basic applications.
Keywords: 918, senate, all
Summary: The discussion focused on the need to modernize Minnesota’s human services software systems, especially MAXIS and related county-administered eligibility tools used for programs like SNAP and Medical Assistance. The senator described seeing a Ramsey County demonstration of the MAXIS system, saying the process was tedious, repetitive, and based on outdated green-screen technology that is difficult for workers to learn and use. The outdated systems were said to create long wait times for residents seeking basic needs assistance and to make it harder for counties to keep up with application volume. The senator said the old, siloed systems also create program integrity problems because they do not communicate well with one another, making it harder to detect fraud and more likely that errors will go unnoticed. Counties reportedly need to hire more staff just to process basic applications, and those added costs can ultimately affect county budgets and property taxpayers. The senator also said modernization is important to maintain federal funding and avoid penalties tied to error rates and compliance requirements in programs such as SNAP and Medicaid. Senate File 4719 was presented as a short-term bill to create a Human Services System Steering Committee made up of county representatives, state agencies, DHS, DCYF, and MNIT to develop recommendations and prioritize improvements collaboratively. The senator said the committee could begin meeting within a couple of months after enactment, with the goal of getting work started quickly this biennium. A longer-term proposal, Senate File 5020, would establish an IT funding account and require MNIT to develop a modernization plan for larger system investments. No vote or formal committee action was taken in the exchange.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

04/21/2026 - House Floor Session

Arizona House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • and application of foreign laws and religious sectarian law.
  • going to change that application, then they need to come to the hearings in the House and the Senate
  • before the applicable committee of jurisdiction and have a public hearing about that change.
  • If the Department of Revenue has an application of existing statute and they're going to change that
  • application, well, then they need to come to the hearings in the House and the Senate before the applicable
Keywords: 1182, all
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/28/2026 - Senate Public Safety

Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • The bill requires the alternative pathway to allow applicants to complete an abbreviated Arizona Peace
  • It requires applicants to pass the board-approved certification examination and maintain all requirements
  • The bill requires the alternative pathway to allow applicants to complete an abbreviated Arizona Peace
  • It requires applicants to pass the board-approved certification examination and maintain all requirements
  • And what better applicants than folks who served in the military What better applicants than folks who
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, we had an increase in referrals and applications for those services.
  • Uh, we had an increase in referrals and applications for those services.
  • Representatives are going to discuss the department seek application.
  • Representatives are going to discuss the department seek application.
  • . application. application.
Keywords: 958, all
Summary: The House Budget Review Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education and Workforce Development met without a quorum at first, so it did not approve minutes and instead heard agency capital requests. The Education and Labor Cabinet presented a $6.2 million reauthorization for renovation of the Charles W. McDow Center for the Blind in Louisville, which serves blind and visually impaired individuals through the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. The project would update mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC systems. Members asked about the number of students served and the facility’s location; the cabinet said it would follow up on the enrollment figure and explained that prior funding had been redirected to expanded services for people with disabilities and employment needs. The Kentucky Department of Education then presented its request to replace the SEEK system, the state’s primary school funding formula and calculation platform. Officials said the current in-house system dates to about 2008 and is increasingly difficult to maintain, especially as legislative changes require complex recalculations. They explained that a prior vendor contract was terminated after change orders and cost overruns made the project unworkable; the original contract was about $2.8 million, and the proposed change order would have more than doubled that amount. KDE said it is seeking additional funding while also trying to recover the prior vendor’s work product so it can potentially reuse parts of the code and proceed in modules if necessary. Members questioned the cost, the statewide role of SEEK, and whether state staff familiar with the system would be involved in any new procurement. KDE officials said they had already assigned internal staff and a project manager to the earlier RFP process and would do so again. They also noted that SEEK calculations, tax calculations, and attendance data all feed into the system, making it critical for accurate and timely district payments and data requests. The meeting ended with no votes taken, and the chair announced the next meeting would be held the following Tuesday, the 27th, at 10:00 a.m. in the same room.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Mar 12th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • AG 1524 by Bella Montgomery, relating to the certain definitions applicable to the Texas Commission on
  • It'd be 1596 by plus a really The cost of living adjustments applicable to certain benefits played by
  • For the Subcommittee on Family and Fiduciary Relationships, H.B. 1672 by Ashby, relating to the application
  • HP 1681 by button relating to the applicability and sales and use of taxes a certain services provided
  • Public Education, HB 1698, by Schoolcraft, relating to to the amendment of restrictive covenant applicable
Keywords: 1184, house, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Finance Division I (03/17/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • The application fee shall be $400—well, it's being changed to $600.
  • The application fee shall be $400—well, it's being changed to $600.
  • The application shall be $600.
  • <05:14:09.120> but up permitting and helps applicants but up permitting and helps applicants
  • of each permeter would each applicant of each permeter would each applicant would<05:54:13.478><
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The committee first took up a House Bill 2 amendment to remove a bail-related section that had already passed in another bill and was now considered duplicative. Members discussed the earlier change to how bail commissioners are reimbursed, concerns that the Judiciary was losing money collecting the fees, and whether the magistrate-related language would still be needed. They noted the bill had already crossed over to the Senate, that the section was obsolete, and that any remaining issue about magistrates’ five-year terms might need to be raised with the Criminal Justice Committee. Amendment 997H, deleting section one, was moved, seconded, and adopted unanimously. The committee then reviewed a package of HB 1 position transfers involving the Department of Environmental Services, Fish and Game, and the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Staff explained that several positions were being shuffled to correct position numbers and align permitting functions, including one Fish and Game position moving back to Fish and Game, one DEES position remaining funded after ARPA money ends, and adjustments to hours for permitting and environmental services positions. Members discussed whether the Fish and Game position had been intended to be temporary, but ultimately agreed to accept the first four Environmental Services items and the last two Natural and Cultural Resources items as a package; that motion passed unanimously. They then also accepted sections 2 through 8 of HB 1 with the related amendments and footnote language. The committee next turned to dredge-and-fill fee changes in section 11, where one member objected to a 50% fee increase for seasonal docks, arguing it could discourage permitted work and might apply to repairs that only require notification. Staff said the increase was intended to help cover the cost of additional positions in future biennia, but members decided to hold that section for more information, including how many seasonal dock repair fees are actually collected. Finally, the committee began discussing HB 215 and a proposed tipping-fee/surcharge structure to make a solid waste accounting unit self-funded, with members saying the fee could offset about $2.9 million in general fund costs and support the grant program, but no final action was taken on that item in the portion of the meeting provided.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Governmental Oversight and Accountability Oct 14th, 2025

Governmental Oversight and Accountability

Transcript Highlights:
  • timeframe, including the website address where the rule development may be found, a citation to the applicable
  • Section 120.521, Florida Statutes, defines a rule as each agency statement of general applicability that
  • Section 120.521, Florida Statutes, defines a rule as each agency statement of general applicability that
  • This information relates to the volume, handling, and outcomes of all license applications that the agency
  • This information relates to the volume, handling, and outcomes of all license applications that the agency
Summary: The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability met for its first meeting of the session, took roll, and heard a presentation from Ken Plant of the Joint Administrative Procedures Committee on SB 108, the 2025 law overhauling Florida rulemaking. The presentation focused on new deadlines for agencies to begin and publish rules, limits on automatic sunset provisions, changes to emergency rule procedures, expanded public input on statements of estimated regulatory costs, a five-year review cycle for existing rules, and new licensing-reporting requirements. Members asked about the review timeline and emphasized the need to keep agencies accountable for meeting the new requirements. The committee then reviewed the Department of Management Services’ response to Auditor General Report 2025-1096 on fleet management. DMS said the audit found 10 issues, most of which it believes it has addressed, and described the statewide fleet system as tracking about 27,000 assets with limited staff. DMS highlighted two major improvement ideas that would require funding: an enterprise telematics system to automate vehicle data and improve tracking, and centralized fleet procurement to reduce duplication and save money. Members questioned the status of FleetWave implementation, missing vehicle records, integration with other state systems, and access controls for separated employees. DMS explained that FleetWave is fully implemented but still relies on manual data entry, that discrepancies with the state accounting system largely reflect mismatched or inconsistent entries, and that policies and procedures were updated after the audit. The department said it now works more closely with People First to deactivate access when employees leave. After discussion, no further business was raised, and the committee adjourned without objection.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Apr 16th, 2025 at 08:30 am

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chair, so in our application process, there's going to be a scoring mechanism, and we do have that in
  • our application.
  • Chris, can you expand a little bit on the scoring of the application, other than the fact that the city
  • So as they come in, you would score them against other applications within those buckets.
  • Just scoring them against other applications.
Keywords: 908, all
Summary: The committee met to work on three remaining policy bills. On HB 2225, members discussed an amendment reducing the Strategic Investment and Improvements Fund housing grant program from $50 million to $30 million, lowering the maximum grant amount, and clarifying that existing lots can qualify after a certificate of occupancy is issued so the program can help communities like Watford City and Williston use prepared lots. Members also discussed the matching requirements, tribal eligibility, and how Commerce would score applications to ensure the money lowers lot costs rather than being absorbed by political subdivisions. The amendment and the bill as amended both passed 22-0, and Representative Murphy was assigned to carry the bill. The committee then took up SB 2200, which funds the 988 crisis hotline. After discussion, members agreed to strip out the proposed phone-line charge approach and instead provide a $500,000 appropriation from the Community Health Care Trust Fund, consistent with the Senate version, to supplement existing funding for increased staffing and texting-related demand. The amendment and the bill as amended both passed 22-0, and Representative Nelson will carry the bill. Finally, the committee considered SB 2342, which creates a value-added milk processing facility incentive program. The amendment reduced the proposed line of credit from $10 million to $5 million, with the program intended to support dairy-related processing infrastructure such as utilities, roads, water, wastewater, and rail access. Members noted the program would be administered through the Agriculture Diversification and Development Committee, could potentially support one or multiple facilities, and sunsets June 30, 2027. The amendment and the bill as amended both passed 22-0, and Representative Brandenburg will carry the bill. The committee then adjourned, planning to reconvene the next morning to take up additional bills and budget adjustments.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources & Energy.(7-2-26)

Natural Resources & Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, we typically start taking applications in November, ending in December.
  • Um, we typically start taking applications in November, ending in December.
  • We typically start taking applications in November, ending in December.
  • But one of the questions application.
  • ><01:14:26.920> want long-term application, you may want long-term application, you may want bigger
Bills: SB8
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/03/2026 - House Commerce

Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • DHS to create a certificate of necessity application portal allowing applicants to track the status of
  • Getting some good clear data and some reporting and some transparency on applications.
  • Getting some good clear data and some reporting and some transparency on applications.
  • The department still has to look at the application and verify that it's legitimate.
  • The department still has to look at the application and verify that it's legitimate.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Higher Education Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • The intention was to favor applicants whose fathers fit their desired...
  • rate for the general population of applicants remains around 3%.
  • Population of applicants remains around 3%.
  • universities provide this arbitrary advantage toward legacy applicants.
  • They have parents who know the application process and the schools.
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on Higher Education held its first hearing and heard testimony on a wide range of bills, including hunger-free campuses, FAFSA completion, early college/college-in-high-school programs, banning legacy preferences, AP credit consistency, and tuition equity for the Stockbridge School of Agriculture. Committee leaders opened by outlining the hearing process and noting the three-minute testimony limit. Legislators and advocates generally framed the bills as equity and access measures aimed at improving college affordability, student success, and workforce development. Representative Vargas testified for H. 1466 and H. 1467, arguing that hunger-free campus should be codified because many public college and community college students face food insecurity, and that FAFSA completion should be improved through individualized outreach and an opt-out or completion requirement. Senator Lovely, the Greater Boston Food Bank, and other advocates supported the hunger-free campus bill, citing data that 44% of public university and community college students experienced food insecurity in 2023 and that food insecurity harms graduation rates. Femi Stoltz and Shanti Lopez Toro backed the FAFSA bill, saying many students miss out on Pell grants and need direct support; they pointed to state examples such as Louisiana and to recent state action requiring FAFSA awareness. Committee members asked about the federal FAFSA rollout, regional equity in food access, and the need for long-term funding and data collection. A large panel supported H. 1455 on college and high school/early college, including former Chair Roy, the Massachusetts Alliance for Early College, a student graduate, MBAE, and Tripp Jones. They described early college as a proven model that helps low-income and first-generation students, improves degree attainment, and supports workforce needs; witnesses said the goal is to scale from about 9,000 students and 55 partnerships toward 22,000 to 25,000 students by 2030, with possible future growth beyond that. Members raised questions about funding, public-private partnerships, parental involvement, faculty development, and whether the bill should include data review and more standardized policies across institutions. Representative Garcia also testified for H. 1432 on AP credit, saying students should receive consistent credit for AP scores of 3, 4, or 5. Senator Edwards and James Murphy testified for the legacy preference ban, arguing it is unfair and rooted in exclusionary history; they said some states have already banned legacy preferences in public and private institutions. Finally, UMass Dean Michael Fox, alumnus Dan Mayer, and student Jake Rasmussen supported S. 920 to include Stockbridge associate degree programs in MassEducate, saying tuition equity would help enrollment and support Massachusetts agriculture and green-industry jobs.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • So the applicant has to secure county money the way it was structured.
  • This is a typical applicant or veterinarian who graduates vet school, goes and works in a veterinary
  • So the applicant has to secure county money the way it was structured.
  • So we have another veterinarian application to an animal care veterinary center from Dair County.
  • > animal<00:20:51.360> care veterinarian application to animal care veterinarian application
Summary: The committee met on September 18, 2025, approved the July 10 minutes, and received Brandon Reid’s monthly report on Kentucky agriculture development and finance activity for July and August. Reid emphasized the long-running structure created under House Bill 611 and Senate Bill 28, the role of county agriculture development councils in all 120 counties, and the importance of the program as a national model for supporting Kentucky agriculture. He also introduced new staff and interns, including a new loan programs manager, Rachel Coward, and project manager Kylie Davis. For July, the development board reported $3.4 million invested in agriculture and the finance corporation reported $3.1 million in loans. Highlights included 11 county council meetings, site visits, program reviews, and 18 project reports. July approvals included county agriculture incentive programs, deceased farm animal removal programs, youth incentive programs, county/state projects, infrastructure loans, an agriculture processing loan, and beginning farmer loans. Staff also noted that all 120 counties had submitted their required five-year comprehensive plans on schedule. Bill McCloskey then highlighted several funded projects, including Dino’s Farm LLC in Jefferson County, which received support to purchase a meat processing facility and equipment, with the goal of creating market opportunities for goat, sheep, and cattle producers and establishing Kentucky’s first halal meat processing facility. Other projects included a veterinarian facility project to address large animal vet shortages and Grow Appalachia at Berea College, which provides technical assistance and market support for small-scale and eastern Kentucky producers. Members discussed the need for programs such as high tunnels and other small-scale opportunities in rural areas, and staff noted related resources such as CAPE and NRCS funding. For August, the board reported $500,000 in development board investments and just over $3 million in finance corporation loans, along with fewer staff activities than July but continued county council, site visit, and project review work. August approvals included county agriculture incentive programs, deceased animal removal programs, youth incentive programs, county/state projects, agriculture infrastructure loans, beginning farmer loans, and a horticulture incentives loan. Additional project updates included another veterinary equipment purchase, emergency safety equipment in Graves County, and a food safety and efficiency incentive for Jared Cornet.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships Apr 22nd, 2025 at 02:04 pm

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

Transcript Highlights:
  • A pathway for applicants and witnesses to request remote participation in order proceedings.
  • To the witness or the applicant. and any other witnesses involved in the case. All right, okay.
  • Specifically, every fact situation is applicable to every fact situation.
  • They need to go through all the processes the same way that the applicant did.
  • I think that is a very difficult application.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships Apr 22nd, 2025

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's a default protective order; the applicant appears... but the respondent, who's a father, doesn't
  • The way the bill is drafted, it says the applicant or the witness.
  • To the witness or the applicant. And more any other witnesses involved in the case.
  • It's applicable to every fact situation.
  • They need to go through all the processes the same way that the applicant did.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary (03/18/2025)

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • <01:00:23.400> regardless requirements are applicable regardless requirements are applicable
  • <01:07:00.200> in<01:07:00.359> the standards applicable in the standards applicable
  • You agree with me that the application of the law wouldn't change.
  • You agree with me that the application of the law wouldn't change.
  • You agree with me that the application of the law wouldn't change.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all