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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:
  • particular because of the situation around Leech Lake and some of these inland harbors that are constructed
  • What are the penalties if somebody constructs, puts up a structure that's not permissible?
  • So what I'm understanding right now is the current facilities that you're working that we're addressing
  • says that it's prior to now, basically, then they would have to take them down if they were new construction
  • <00:07:31.440> Um, construction. This is a challenge. Um, construction.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/12/2026 - House Artificial Intelligence & Innovation

Artificial Intelligence & Innovation

Transcript Highlights:
  • And the bill also provides that any governmental entity in the state may provide facilities to host the
  • If they don't want to provide a facility, but they may, right?
  • If the SMR is co-located... ...improvements for the operation or construction of a small modular reactor
  • And second, the way this bill is constructed makes it really difficult to understand the actual impact
  • Chair, members, House Bill 2457 allows the utility to construct a new plant without a certificate of
Summary: The committee met in a special morning session and first heard HB 2371, a pilot proposal to allow consenting divorcing parties without minor children to use AI-assisted arbitration in simple divorce cases. Rep. Martinez described it as a voluntary, fairness-focused tool for people who cannot afford lawyers, with the judge retaining final authority. Members raised concerns about the bill’s binding-language, privacy, and the need for clearer guardrails on assets and support, but the sponsor said amendments were welcome. The committee voted 7-0 to give HB 2371 a do pass recommendation. The committee then took up HB 2311, which requires conversational AI systems to notify minors they are interacting with AI, restrict sexual content, prohibit deceptive human impersonation, and require self-harm response protocols. Google testified in support, saying its Gemini product already uses similar safeguards and that the bill would set an industry-wide floor; a speaker also noted similar measures are being considered in several other states. After adopting a committee amendment clarifying customer-service AI and limiting developer liability, the committee voted 7-0 to recommend HB 2311 do pass as amended. Next, the committee heard HB 2409, creating a voluntary statewide summer AI education program focused on digital hygiene, civic integrity, privacy, media literacy, critical thinking, and algorithmic bias. Supporters argued Arizona needs to prepare residents for AI-driven job disruption and help people use the technology to become more self-sufficient, while opponents objected to the program’s funding and potential unfunded mandate to the education department. The bill passed 4-3. HB 2410, which would treat communications with AI as privileged like communications with human professionals, also passed after testimony from the sponsor and a criminal defense advocate who argued the measure would protect sensitive legal and personal conversations; the vote was 6-0 with one member present. The committee then approved HB 4005, requiring school districts and charter schools to provide instruction on ethical, moral, and educational uses of AI, by a 4-2-1 vote after some members said schools lacked resources and should not be mandated to add curriculum without funding. Finally, the committee considered HB 2456 and HB 2457, both related to small modular nuclear reactors and utility siting/streamlining for energy development tied to large power users. Supporters framed them as necessary for future energy demand, data centers, and economic growth, while opponents raised concerns about local zoning authority and environmental oversight. Both bills were amended and advanced on 4-3 votes, and the meeting adjourned after the final roll calls.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Appropriations Committee, February 9, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Tomorrow we have scheduled for noon time or upon Senate recess: Senate File 37K to2 School Facilities
  • 53.199> school recess of Senate file 37 K to2 school recess of Senate file 37 K to2 school facilities
  • <00:14:54.079> maintenance<00:14:54.720> and facilities maintenance and facilities maintenance
Bills: HB0105, HB0107, SF0002
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Committee, February 9, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • appropriated to the school facilities appropriated to the school facilities commission<00:03:55.440
  • Line 18 of that same page, section 6, is for the construction of school building and facility projects
  • So it's an important facility. Wyoming. So it's an important facility.
  • I'd like to thank the team over at the State Construction Department School Facilities Division.
  • construction, you're in third. construction, you're in third. Okay.
Bills: HB0105, HB0107, SF0002
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Jan 20th, 2026

Judiciary

Summary: The committee considered several bills and reported each favorably. SB 624, by Senator Yarborough, would allow batterers intervention programs to offer optional supplemental faith-based activities, with no participant required to take part. Supporters said it would expand provider options and help address a shortage of certified programs; opponents raised concerns about mixing government-ordered programming with religion and about the state’s prior rule change. The bill passed 7-2. The committee also approved CS/SB 834, which repeals a 2022 restriction barring licensed insurance agents from partnering with health care sharing ministries to market or sell their programs. The sponsor and supporters argued the bill restores free speech, consumer choice, and access to faith-based alternatives, while opponents warned about consumer confusion, higher commissions, and weak protections because these ministries are not insurance. After extended debate, the measure passed 8-2. Other measures advanced unanimously or near-unanimously. CS/SB 502, as amended, would give Florida concurrent jurisdiction over certain juvenile offenses on military installations so juveniles can be handled in the state system; it passed 9-0. CS/SB 52 would exempt volunteer armed security for houses of worship from Class D or G licensing requirements, and supporters cited rising threats to churches and the need for organized volunteer security; it passed 9-0. SB 840, a cleanup bill to narrow and clarify last year’s emergency-related land-use restrictions after hurricanes, also passed 9-0, and CS/SB 758, which updates the membership of the Justice Administration Commission, passed 9-0 after an amendment restoring two public defenders to the commission.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 4341 mandates that certain critical infrastructure facilities provide standardized, detailed
  • HB4341 also includes a grant program to assist these facilities in meeting these requirements.
  • This ensures that every community has the tools they need to protect these vital facilities.
  • to which the bill applies is only required to comply if the facility receives a grant.
  • Wind farms constructed near Air Force bases and radar installations have the potential to encroach on
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Workforce Apr 29th, 2025

S/C on Workforce

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's not easy to just access the other facilities in their network, and they often don't know that they
  • Municipal construction projects where the contract amount is less than 1% of the municipality's most
  • It exempts certain small municipal construction projects from workers' compensation insurance coverage
  • few examples that we've experienced with this, such as the installation of a fence at a park, construction
  • They were wrestling with, I think it was the Code Construction Act. That's my nerdy stuff.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • In addition to regulated air pollutants, concrete crushing facilities...
  • It's very specific to the facilities listed in the original. Okay.
  • this if there was a facility within 440 yards.
  • Which would be a treatment care facility.
  • It says Chief Engineer in Construction, USACE.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management Mar 13th, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • This does include design and construction. infrastructure projects in municipal utility districts.
  • May not be able to accommodate what today's equipment and facilities need.
  • Many of our member districts also construct road infrastructure and provide parks.
  • It does not design facilities to their own standards.
  • We have the ability to partner on firefighting facilities.
Bills: HB23, HB363, HB447, HB954, HB23
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

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  • And we actually supported EMD with our engineering services, and then moved up to VP of construction
  • And then I moved up to VP of construction management and then retired again in 2021.
  • Here to talk about his experience is Willie Williams, a client of our construction program.
  • Here to talk about his experience is Willie Williams, a client of our construction program.
  • He was coming to the facility because he was coming. I got put in a 7-point restraint chair.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Tue Feb 10, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 12

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • capacity to support their employees and reinvest into capital improvements, which supports our construction
  • capital improvements which supports into capital improvements which supports our<00:18:52.640> construction
  • <00:18:54.880> Um,<00:18:55.440> so our construction and our economy.
  • Um, so our construction and our economy.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • facility policy and procedure facility policy and procedure requirements,<00:02:52.560> and
  • <00:03:07.840> for assisted living facilities for assisted living facilities for non-emergency
  • assistant facilities and so forth? assistant facilities and so forth?
  • facility declined to obtain an AED. facility declined to obtain an AED.
  • This bill ensures living facility.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health May 5th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • So this is the facilities where you would be. Transferred from the county jail to the facility.
  • It depends on the facility.
  • You said that for people that... ...are in these facilities, they're not state facilities, so I'm confused
  • To and from the facility, which is your facility? Mm-hmm. You're not inpatient? Yes, we are.
  • Not enough beds in the state facility.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 3/4/25

Capital Investment

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  • construction construction perspective<00:04:27.600> okay<00:04:27.880> great<00:04:28.639
  • treatment plant is a unique facility treatment plant is a unique facility that<00:10:38.240>
  • plant and it did not plan to construct plant and it did not plan to construct one<00:14:44.560><
  • of the water treatment facility.
  • rest of the construction of the water<00:15:47.160> treatment<00:15:47.880> facility<00
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26

Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • is, when the MPCA does a notification of a discharge that has happened upstream from different facilities
  • When the MPCA does a notification of a discharge that has happened upstream from different facilities
  • governments receive the same notification that is already being given to downstream drinking water facilities
  • 49.360> downstream<00:15:50.040> drinking<00:15:50.360> water<00:15:50.560> facilities
  • , to downstream drinking water facilities, to downstream drinking water facilities, local<00:15:51.680
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

House in Session Apr 25th, 2025

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We know construction is a big part of it; we know agriculture is a big part of it, but it is tourism
  • It's a very small but really wonderful facility here in Leon County.
  • This amendment removes licensing boards such as the Construction Industry Licensing Board, Harbor Pilots
  • transmitted diseases to any minor if the healthcare professional or facility is qualified to provide
  • It's not directly tied to that facility, but my understanding is there's at least one permit already
Bills: HB 118, HB 388, HB 114, HB 205, HB 2789, HB 2791, HB 499, HB 2960, HB 3163, HB 3135, HB 2427, HB 1618, HB 1672, HB 1722, HB 1338, HB 787, HB 2618, HB 879, HB 1126, HB 4134, HB 3513, HB 718, HB 1536, HB 1445, HB 1640, HB 1893, HB 1734, HB 3229, HB 3306, HB 1276, HB 3272, HB 3276, HB 3516, HB 4145, HB 1585, HB 4810, HB 2989, HB 2558, HB 3014, HB 2742, HB 1695, HB 29, HB 125, HB 145, HB 171, HB 255, HB 50, HB 363, HB 116, HB 491, HB 1495, HB 368, HB 1285, HB 1905, HB 2002, HB 917, HB 2723, HB 2067, HB 1238, HB 745, HB 1188, HB 1606, HB 2003, HB 2147, HB 2355, HB 2546, HB 2495, HB 2818, HB 2249, HB 3228, HB 3240, HB 1507, HB 658, HB 1748, HB 1851, HB 1922, HB 2798, HB 107, HB 1587, HB 3684, HB 118, HB 388, HB 114, HB 205, HB 2789, HB 2791, HB 499, HB 2960, HB 3163, HB 3135, HB 2427, HB 1618, HB 1672, HB 1722, HB 1338, HB 787, HB 2618, HB 879, HB 1126, HB 4134, HB 3513, HB 718, HB 1536, HB 1445, HB 1640, HB 1893, HB 1734, HB 3229, HB 3306, HB 1276, HB 3272, HB 3276, HB 3516, HB 4145, HB 1585, HB 4810, HB 2989, HB 2558, HB 3014, HB 2742, HB 1695, HB 609, HB 630, HB 420, HB 767, HB 1708, HB 1404, HB 2457, HB 140, HB 227, HB 913, HB 2198, HB 2763, HB 1261, HB 1135, HB 1318, HB 2358, HB 2765, HB 2735, HB 3307, HB 1242, HB 2842, HB 333, HB 201, HB 694, HB 2415, HB 155, HB 272, HB 405, HB 519, HB 1136, HB 1275, HB 1437, HB 1532, HB 1675, HB 1868, HB 1888, HB 1990, HB 2286, HB 2523, HB 3129, HB 3251, HB 3354, HB 3479, HB 3803, HB 3804, HB 3805, HB 3806, HB 3887, HB 4163, HB 4238, HB 1240, HB 1842, HB 2029, HB 2622, HB 3255, HB 654, HB 4643, HB 4945, HB 3611, HB 3724, HB 3623, HB 3810, HB 4127, HCR 78, HCR 12, SB 767
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 25th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, this designates the textile facility in Stark County as the Eddie.
  • Gracia Junior Area Engineering Maintenance Facility.
  • I relayed inspections and examinations by the railroad Commission of Texas a certain sites and facilities
  • inclusion of recycling or disposal provisions in certain lease agreements. of wind or solar power facilities
  • HB 1922 by Dean relating to the accrual of a cause of action for purpose governing certain construction