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FL
Transcript Highlights:
- experience of each and every one of those prior republics And it was simply this: every one of them had failed
- It is not passed along in the bloodstream. It must be fought for. It must be protected.
- In the past decade, we've seen cities like Chicago and San Francisco be destroyed by failed ideologies
Summary:
The Florida House and Senate met in joint session to receive the Governor’s annual message. After opening formalities, prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the appointment of a committee to notify the Governor that the Legislature was ready, the chamber recognized special guests and then received Governor Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis.
In his address, the Governor reviewed what he described as seven years of major accomplishments in Florida, emphasizing fiscal restraint, tax relief, economic growth, education reforms, environmental restoration, disaster response, public safety, and immigration enforcement. He highlighted a larger rainy day fund, reduced debt, record job and business growth, universal school choice, higher teacher pay, Hope Florida, Everglades restoration, stronger hurricane response, and tougher laws on crime and illegal immigration. He also warned about property tax burdens, called for a constitutional path to property tax relief, urged informed consent in medical policy, and raised concerns about artificial intelligence.
The Governor pointed to several bills already filed and urged lawmakers to send him legislation eliminating DEI in local government, further discouraging illegal immigration, expanding Second Amendment rights, and blocking the spread of Sharia law. He closed by asking the Legislature to continue advancing his agenda. After the address, the joint session voted to dissolve.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- experience of each and every one of those prior republics was simply this: every one of them had failed
- It is not passed along in the bloodstream. It must be fought for. It must be protected.
- In the past decade, we've seen cities like Chicago and San Francisco be destroyed by failed ideologies
Summary:
The transcript is of a Florida Legislature joint session convened to receive the Governor’s annual message. After the House and Senate were received, a committee was appointed to notify the Governor that the joint session was ready, and the Governor and First Lady were introduced. The Senate President presided, a prayer and Pledge of Allegiance were offered, and the joint session then recessed to await the Governor’s arrival.
Governor Ron DeSantis delivered a lengthy address reviewing his administration’s record over the past seven years. He highlighted fiscal restraint, larger reserves and rainy-day funds, debt reduction, tax cuts, business and job growth, school choice expansion, education reforms, higher teacher pay, civics initiatives, environmental restoration efforts in the Everglades, hurricane response improvements, public safety and immigration enforcement, and opposition to DEI and other ideological policies. He also urged lawmakers to send him bills on issues such as eliminating DEI in local governments, further restricting illegal immigration, expanding Second Amendment rights, and addressing what he described as the creep of Sharia law.
The Governor additionally called for property tax relief through the constitutional amendment process and for legislation emphasizing informed consent in medical decision-making. He warned about risks posed by artificial intelligence and said new technologies should align with American values. No substantive votes were taken on policy matters during the session; after the Governor’s remarks, the joint session adopted a motion to dissolve.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-01-13 (11:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And it was simply this: every one of them had failed.
- It is not passed along in the bloodstream. It must be fought for. It must be protected.
- In the past decade, we've seen cities like Chicago and San Francisco be destroyed by failed ideologies
Summary:
The transcript captures a Florida legislative joint session convened to receive the Governor’s annual message. After the House and Senate formally received the Lieutenant Governor, Cabinet, and Supreme Court, a committee was appointed to notify the Governor, and the Governor was introduced and delivered a lengthy address. The Governor framed Florida as a model of conservative governance and highlighted accomplishments over the past seven years, including budget reserves and rainy day fund growth, debt reduction, tax cuts, economic growth and job creation, universal school choice, teacher pay increases, civics education, higher education reforms, Everglades restoration, hurricane response, public safety measures, immigration enforcement, and opposition to DEI and COVID-era mandates.
The Governor also outlined priorities for the coming session, urging lawmakers to send him bills on issues such as eliminating DEI in local governments, further discouraging illegal immigration, expanding Second Amendment rights, and blocking Sharia law. He additionally called for action on property tax relief, saying homeowners should not pay “perpetual rent” to government, and asked the legislature to place a tax-relief measure before voters. He emphasized emerging concerns about artificial intelligence and medical freedom, arguing for informed consent and ethical limits on new technologies.
After the Governor concluded, the joint session took up a motion to dissolve. The motion was approved, and the joint session adjourned.
FL
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-01-13 (11:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- experience of each and every one of those prior republics, and it was simply this: every one of them had failed
- It is not passed along in the bloodstream. It must be fought for. It must be protected.
- In the past decade, we've seen cities like Chicago and San Francisco be destroyed by failed ideologies
Summary:
The House and Senate met in joint session to receive the Governor’s annual message. After the customary opening, prayer, pledge, and motions to notify the Governor, the Governor and First Lady were received and the Governor delivered a lengthy address reviewing his administration’s record and outlining priorities for the coming session.
The Governor highlighted what he described as major accomplishments over the past seven years, including stronger state reserves, debt reduction, tax relief, economic growth, school choice expansion, higher teacher pay, civics education, higher education reforms, Everglades restoration, hurricane response improvements, public safety measures, and immigration enforcement. He also discussed affordability concerns, especially rising local property taxes, and urged lawmakers to pursue a ballot measure for property tax relief. He called for legislation on informed consent in medical decisions, regulation of artificial intelligence, and bills already filed on issues such as eliminating DEI in local governments, further restricting illegal immigration, expanding Second Amendment rights, and blocking Sharia law.
No substantive votes were taken on legislation during the address. After the Governor concluded, the joint session approved a motion to dissolve, and the meeting adjourned.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Families & Children (2-25-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:12:12.240><c> with</c><00:12:12.400><c> favorable</c> amended passes with favorable amended passes
- The same should pass on the expression.
- We have eight votes in favor, one pass vote. Senate Resolution 18 passes with favorable expression.
- </c> We have eight votes in favor, one pass We have eight votes in favor, one pass vote. vote. vote.
- </c><00:31:36.200><c> with</c> Senate uh Resolution 18 passes with Senate uh Resolution 18 passes with
Keywords:
Roll Call - 00:10
Discussion on SCR 61 – 01:46
Vote on SCR 61 – 11:33
Discussion on SR 18 – 12:30
Vote on SR 18 - 30:01
Discussion on Ky Residential Autism Services – 32:34
Questions & Comments – 56:56, 958, all
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum and first considered Senate Concurrent Resolution 61, sponsored by Senator Shelley Funke Frommeyer and Representative Matt Lockett. The resolution, as amended by committee substitute, would create a legislative task force tied to the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) framework to study Kentucky health policy, including Medicaid drug approvals, preventive and alternative therapies, holistic health education, oversight and transparency in health care, and research into integrative approaches. Supporters said the goal was to address chronic disease and reduce over-medication, while emphasizing the effort was not intended as an attack on agriculture or the pharmaceutical industry. The resolution received favorable expression and passed the committee 9-0.
The committee then heard Senate Resolution 18 from Senator Neal, urging Kentucky to maximize participation in the federal SNAP Employment and Training (SNAP E&T) program. Testimony from Jessica Klein of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy and Secretary Eric Friedlander explained that SNAP E&T provides job training, education, and support services for SNAP participants, and that the program is federally matched and does not require additional General Assembly funding in the normal course. Members discussed how the program works, whether it could create new state costs, and how it fits with efforts to connect food assistance, workforce development, and local agriculture. Questions also focused on whether SNAP spending can be steered toward healthier foods and farmers markets, including Kentucky’s Double Dollars program, which was described as helping participants buy produce, meat, and dairy at participating markets and some retailers.
Several members expressed support for the workforce goals but asked for more information on fiscal impacts and purchasing data. Secretary Friedlander said the SNAP E&T funds are separate from nutrition benefits, and that the state match generally comes from employer, university, or workforce partner contributions rather than new state appropriations. Senator Herron explained her vote in favor by saying the program could help people gain education and employment and reduce reliance on SNAP over time. Senate Resolution 18 was then adopted by the committee.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Congressional Redistricting, Select Aug 1st, 2025
Congressional Redistricting, Select
Transcript Highlights:
- McQueeny, would you mind passing that to the Congress?
- When you pass the toughest voter ID laws in the country.
- Members of Congress will pass legislation.
- Please pass this bill. Thank you for your testimony.
- Session after session, this chamber has failed to give quorum to the issues of working families by failing
Bills:
HB4
Committee:
House Congressional Redistricting, Select
Keywords:
district composition, congressional election, Texas, legislature, voting districts, 997, house, all
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- property if the governing body of a taxing unit does not act within 30 days of receiving notice or fails
- Since we passed this out unanimously, we're likely to do so again. So Chris, don't blow it.
- His tragic passing highlighted a critical gap in safety measures across Texas schools.
- Why didn't it get passed?
- If passed, our firm's clients would be obligated to provide the information.
Bills:
SB434 , SB844 , SB898 , SB1177 , SB1214 , SB1454 , SB1920 , SB1927 , SB1935 , SB1965 , SB2010 , SB2046 , SB2068 , SB2073 , SB2183 , SB2260 , SB3034 , SB907
Committee:
Senate Local Government
Keywords:
SB 434, Harris County Hospital District, hospital district police, peace officers, commissioned officers, law enforcement authority, Health and Safety Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, public safety, hospital security, county hospital district, local government, Texas criminal procedure, district police, armed security, SB 898, low income housing tax credits, LIHTC, affordable housing, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - Part 1 - 03/13/26
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> have failed our children. have failed our children.
- </c> laws failed to prevent this tragedy. laws failed to prevent this tragedy.
- Um, and family we passed this law.
- Florida passed it immediately.
- </c><01:51:14.159><c> Um</c> Florida passed it immediately. Um Florida passed it immediately.
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Public Safety
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Military and Veterans Affairs Committee Jun 22nd, 2026
Military and Veterans Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- The recently passed budget is projected at $355.9 billion.
- I keep forgetting the due pass. The motion is due pass to the Committee on Appropriations.
- AB 2531 puts our veterans first where the federal government has failed them.
- This bill is due pass to the Committee on...
- Bill is due pass to the Committee on Appropriations. Senator Archuleta, aye.
Committee:
Senate Military and Veterans Affairs
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services Feb 12th, 2026
Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- We ask you to pass Senate Bill 1016. We are not expanding dependency.
- This is why Florida must pass SB 844.
- Pass SB 844. Pass it for the children having their first pain crisis before they can speak.
- Pass it for the patients whose pain has been questioned instead of treated.
- Pass it for the warriors who have already lost.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Apr 7th, 2025
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- With the recommendation that it do pass and be printed, the clerk will call the roll. Lambert? Aye.
- 3474. ...as substituted be reported favorably to the full House with the recommendation that it do pass
- I certainly look forward to working with this committee to get this bill passed.
- Representative Hayes, in the past, has any of the cemeteries failed?
- I'm sorry, was your question, has any perpetual care cemetery failed in the past?
Keywords:
HB 3803, Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter 712, perpetual care cemetery, perpetual care trust fund, cemetery regulation, financial confidentiality, confidential records, regulatory examination, Texas Department of Banking, commissioner disclosure, interagency information sharing, state agency enforcement, federal agency disclosure, trust fund oversight, burial services, cemetery trust, consumer protection, state banks, Texas Finance Code
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Mar 10th, 2025
Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- The negative impacts of Mexico failing to meet its water obligations cannot be understated.
- I'm going to Passed the book and we're going to go back and vote 740. It's pending business.
- The report do not pass, but the committee substitute, adopt it in lieu thereof, do pass and be printed
- There being seven ayes and no nays, the Senate bills 1248 does pass.
- Hancock moves that SCR 13 do pass to be printed. Clerk will call the roll. Perry? Aye. Hancock?
Committee:
Senate Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Keywords:
water rights, treaty compliance, Rio Grande, agriculture, drought, international water, Texas water supply, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, TPWD, harvest reports, wildlife harvest data, public information act, open records, confidentiality, hunter privacy, angler data, game animals, game birds, fur-bearing animals, nongame animals
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services (01/13/2026)
Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:05:10.400><c> that</c> that the legislation that we pass that that the legislation that we pass
- We're not going this bill were passed.
- I can pass more providers to testify.
- pass House Bill<04:19:40.880><c> 1352.
- </c> that if an insurance carrier has failed that if an insurance carrier has failed to<05:15:10.638>
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/26
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Minutes are passed from March 17th. We'll now move on to March 12th.
- I passed the bill or the photos of the boat structures along.
- <00:37:49.599><c> 23</c><00:37:50.000><c> passed</c><00:37:50.160><c> a</c> products.
- The legislature in 23 passed a products.
- Refunding permit fees and costs if an agency fails to act on time is not a new concept.
Keywords:
boat storage structures, public waters, natural resources, rule amendments, watercraft canopy, PFAS, environmental regulation, manufacturers, public health, product safety, groundwater, water appropriation, water-use permit, water permit, aquifer test, aquifer, well construction, groundwater permit, Department of Natural Resources, DNR
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- The bill is passed and will be re-referred to Higher Education.
- </c> Senate File 3128 be recommended to pass Senate File 3128 be recommended to pass and<00:25:41.919
- The bill is passed and will be This.
- ,</c><01:23:33.760><c> this</c> many, many times and failed, this many, many times and failed, this reduction
- </c> for students, but we are facing a failed for students, but we are facing a failed bond<01:25:28.639
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee Feb 25th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And I don't think anybody—I think if that measure were to be put into the Legislature, it would fail
- That was 2019 when that statute was passed.
- Second of all, last year we supported your bill, Madam Chair, co-sponsored it to create Pass.
- since we ultimately the Legislature passed this bill in the first place.
- I think what we've learned from the pilot projects that we've built are, one, the dramatic failings of
Summary:
The Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy held an oversight hearing with leaders from the CPUC, Public Advocates Office, CAISO, the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety, and the Energy Commission. Chair Petrie-Norris framed the hearing around high utility bills, wildfire risk, grid reliability, clean energy buildout, and the state’s long-term decarbonization goals, and also noted it was CPUC President Alice Reynolds’ final week at the commission. Each agency gave an update on its role: the CPUC described efforts to reduce rate increases while maintaining reliability and clean energy procurement; the Public Advocates Office focused on affordability and the need to control underlying utility costs; CAISO discussed transmission planning, market operations, and the upcoming extended day-ahead market; Energy Safety reviewed wildfire mitigation oversight and inspections; and the Energy Commission highlighted clean energy growth, EV adoption, storage, efficiency, and gasoline price monitoring.
A major theme was affordability versus the costs of the clean energy transition. Reynolds said the CPUC has lowered utility revenue requests, reduced utility returns, adopted a base services charge, and reworked net metering, while also continuing to manage wildfire-related costs and support resource adequacy and demand flexibility. Sarazawa argued that recent rate decreases may not be durable because billions of dollars in wildfire and other utility costs are still pending or unbilled, and she urged tighter use of general rate cases, lower-cost financing, program reform, and more equitable rate design. Members pressed the agencies on whether state policy is sufficiently accounting for labor, local economic development, and the cost impacts of transmission and procurement decisions, especially where out-of-state resources are being considered.
CAISO and the Energy Commission emphasized that the state’s planning and market reforms are helping lower costs and improve reliability. CAISO said the Western Energy Imbalance Market has produced billions in benefits, the extended day-ahead market is on track to launch, and transmission planning is being aligned with long-term resource needs while reducing queue delays. The Energy Commission said California is now getting roughly two-thirds of its power from clean sources, has added massive amounts of storage and renewables, and is seeing strong EV and charger growth that can help spread fixed grid costs. Energy Safety reported thousands of inspections, hundreds of notices of non-performance, and a decline in reportable ignitions, while noting that major fires show more work is needed. Members also raised concerns about the SB 100 report delay, memo and balancing accounts, the future of battery storage, and whether decarbonization zone pilots will affect residential and commercial customers.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee Feb 25th, 2026
Utilities and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- And I don't think anybody, I think if that measure were to be put into the legislature, it would fail
- That was 2019 when that statute was passed.
- Second of all, last year we supported your bill, Madam Chair, co-sponsored it to create Pass.
- So the bill passed, and then in September of 2020, I partnered with 20 of our legislative colleagues
- since we ultimately, the Legislature passed this bill in the first place.
Committee:
House Utilities and Energy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on State and Local Government - Part 2 - 03/27/26
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- Senate File 3625 is recommended to pass. Uh, and to pass to Education Finance.
- But I just like we are spending time on deadline day to pass a law we shouldn't have to pass.
- </c><01:44:19.600><c> I'm</c> being passed out right now. Okay. I'm being passed out right now.
- passed around, would you like to passed around, would you like to describe<02:19:28.599><c> it?
- So, if they fail to act. properly. So, if they fail to act.
Committee:
Senate State and Local Government
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs (02/20/2026)
State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> motion passes 16 to zero. motion passes 16 to zero.
- The motion passed 15 to 1.
- </c><00:40:02.079><c> I</c> uh, I just had a bill myself fail. I uh, I just had a bill myself fail.
- When we failing, which they are not.
- And the motion passes 13-3. >> All right. And the motion passes 13-3. 13 to three.