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CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session Mar 28th, 2025

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Assembly met at 9 a.m. The Hon. John L. Burton, Speaker Pro Tempore of the Assembly, presiding.
  • well as the Californians with developmental disabilities who benefit from the support of local ARC chapters
Summary: The Assembly convened after a quorum call, prayer, pledge, and a moment of silence for Marysville Police Officer Osmar Rodarte. Members then handled several procedural motions, including re-referring bills and moving items on the file, with AB 567 re-referred by a recorded vote of 42-17 and the remaining referral requests approved without objection. The chamber also heard a brief personal statement from Assembly Member Macedo thanking colleagues and staff for support during a health episode. On the floor, members presented and passed several measures. AB 310 by Assembly Member Alanis, requiring youth sports organizations to have AED access, emergency response plans, and coach training, passed 56-0. AB 437 by Assembly Member Lackey, expanding CIF reporting to include sports-related injuries and medical problems, passed 59-0. ACR 55 by Assembly Member Jeff Gonzalez, commemorating the 40th anniversary of ARC v. DDS and the Lanterman Act, received 62 co-authors and was adopted by voice vote. The Assembly also adopted HR 28 recognizing Major League Baseball Opening Day 2025, with extended lighthearted remarks about the Dodgers, Giants, and Athletics, and HR 23 honoring Cesar Chavez Day, which drew broad support from caucus leaders and members speaking to Chavez’s labor and civil rights legacy. Both resolutions were adopted by voice vote after adding co-authors. The chamber then approved the second-day consent calendar, including ACR 39 on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Month and ACR 53 on Women’s Equal Pay Day, and later adjourned in memory of Ralph Miller after tributes from Assembly Members Hart and Gibson. The House adjourned until Tuesday, April 1 at 1 p.m.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

89th Legislative Session Mar 26th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It will inspire generations to come as you step into the next chapter of your life, know that you do
  • criminal offenses, providing an administrative penalty refer to the Committee on State Affairs, SB 9
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Fiscal Policy Mar 20th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • ASPIRING FOOTBALL PLAYER AND A CYBER SECURITY MAJOR LOCAL STETSON UNIVERSITY KILLED TRAGICALLY ON MAY 9,
  • THIS BILL AMENDS CHAPTERS 316 OF 327 TO INCLUDE LANGUAGE ANY IMPAIRING SUBSTANCE TO BETTER ALIGN WITH
Keywords: 999, senate, all
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • a good mood until my chief consultant just reminded me that we're doing this again in eight days at 9:
  • I have served on the AMTA's California Chapter and National Boards of Directors, as well as on the boards
  • the American Massage Therapy Association, I am the government relations chair for the California chapter
  • responsible for the administration of massage business permits pursuant to Sunnyvale Municipal Code Chapter
  • I was the GR chair of the AMTA California chapter during the 2014 sunset review, and I have participated
Summary: The joint sunset oversight hearing reviewed five regulatory entities: the Board of Behavioral Sciences, the Board of Psychology, the Physician Assistant Board, the Podiatric Medical Board, and the California Massage Therapy Council. Across the hearing, each entity described recent accomplishments, licensing and enforcement workload, workforce shortages, and efforts to modernize processes. Common themes included streamlining licensure, expanding access to care, addressing telehealth or emerging technology, and balancing consumer protection with workforce needs. For the Board of Behavioral Sciences, members discussed workforce shortages in mental health, supervision barriers, telehealth confidentiality, AI in therapy, interstate compacts, school-based services, and military spouse licensure. The board said it has expanded outreach, improved licensing processes, and created temporary practice authority tracking, while also expressing concern about counseling compacts and emphasizing California-specific law, ethics, and cultural competency. Public commenters supported the board’s work and the possible move to a national MFT exam, while also urging more resources. The Board of Psychology highlighted fee adjustments, streamlined licensure pathways, enforcement process improvements, new CPD requirements, and proposed changes including a psychotherapist-client privilege exception for investigations. Committee members and public witnesses focused heavily on that privilege proposal, with some members opposing it as too broad and privacy-invasive, while the board argued it is needed to obtain records in bias and sexual misconduct cases. The board also discussed workforce shortages, processing improvements, and the use of inactive status for psychological associates. The Physician Assistant Board reported growth in the PA workforce and education programs, SB 697 implementation, and financial pressure from rising enforcement costs. The main policy debate centered on physician-to-PA ratios and practice agreements, with board representatives and many public commenters arguing that current restrictions limit access to care, especially in rural areas, while the California Medical Association defended the need for explicit ratios and agreements. The board also discussed AI, fee increases, and tracking temporary practice authority. The Podiatric Medical Board described licensing and renewal reforms, residency expansion, enforcement support, and budget constraints, while public testimony raised concerns about a proposed fee increase and about reimbursement parity and practice recognition for podiatrists. Finally, the California Massage Therapy Council defended the certification model over licensure, citing lower costs, local government collaboration, anti-trafficking work, and its role in vetting applications and disciplining bad actors; no formal votes or final actions were taken during this portion of the hearing.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Health and Human Services - 03/06/25

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Stanhope, an OB-GYN physician, and I have the privilege to speak today on behalf of the Minnesota chapter
  • I'm also a member of the Minnesota chapter of the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives
  • and the Minnesota chapter of the American Association of Birth Centers.
  • and the Minnesota chapter of the American Association of Birth Centers.
  • I think there was one example of 9 months. I think the national recommendation is like a day.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate Chamber Feb 5th, 2026 at 11:33 am

New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Ways away from that cap, we're spending between $8 and $9 million a year.
  • I mean, if we're doing about $9 million a year...
  • Number one, when we started, we were told we had a hard stop at 9 o'clock.
  • Senate Rules will be meeting tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. in room 321.
  • Senate Education meets tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.
Keywords: 996, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Election Law (02/21/2025)

Election Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • For scheduling purposes, I'd like to ask each subcommittee member to hold open Fridays from 9:30 to 12
  • Basically, there are two questions that the New Hampshire House of ... hold open Fridays from 9:30 to
  • 12:30 uh hold open Fridays from 9:30 to 12:30 uh excluding<00:04:22.639> next<00:04:22.919>
  • of our voters I mean is that and 9% of our voters I mean is that and that's<02:23:24.200> to<
  • Chapter 5 is Department of State, yeah, so it'll probably be a Secretary of State.
Keywords: 1189, house, all
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Minnesota Sustainable Foraging Task Force 10/8/25

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • whether and how to regulate a particular species as an invasive species under Minnesota Statutes, chapter
  • Minnesota statutes chapter 84D. Minnesota statutes chapter 84D.
  • was reduced in a.m. to 6 p.m. and that was reduced in 1959<01:21:00.239> to<01:21:00.480> 9:
  • <01:21:02.159> And<01:21:02.400> that<01:21:02.719> law 1959 to 9:00 a.m. to
  • And that law 1959 to 9:00 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Keywords: 1183, house
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Education Finance - 01/28/25

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • If they get here at 9:00, we'll count them present for the morning. I think 9:00 is a cutoff.
  • I think I think 9:00 is a cut off<00:54:48.839> and<00:54:49.000> then<00:54:49.760>
  • The study group saw there could be an opportunity here to clarify statutory language in Chapter 13 so
  • statutory opportunity here to clarify statutory language<01:52:52.599> in<01:52:52.840> Chapter
  • language in Chapter language in Chapter 13<01:52:54.760> uh<01:52:54.880> so<01:52
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
Summary: The Senate Education Finance Committee met on January 28, 2025, to receive updates on chronic absenteeism work funded in the 2024 education finance bill. The chair introduced presentations from districts in the student attendance pilot program—Minneapolis, Columbia Heights, Chisago, and Rochester—and noted that the committee would also hear the student attendance and truancy legislative study group report and later a bill from Senator Weber. The chair also thanked educational assistants and paraprofessionals for their work in schools. Minneapolis Public Schools described common attendance challenges across pilot districts, including inconsistent attendance coding, weak family communication, difficulty identifying interventions, and uneven responses to absences. The district said pilot districts want statewide definitions for absences, tardies, and exempt codes, as well as better internal dashboards and clearer procedures. Minneapolis also highlighted strategies such as attendance teams at each school, quarterly postcards to families after five or more absences, Promise Fellows, home visits, multilingual communication through TalkingPoints, and a morning nurse line to help parents decide whether a child should stay home. The district said its main attendance goal is to raise consistent attendance from 68 percent to 80 percent by 2026. In response to committee questions, Minneapolis said its main post-COVID absenteeism reason has been illness or medical issues, followed by transportation problems, and that it does not penalize students for transportation-related absences. The district said it counts secondary absences when students miss more than three periods in a day, with truancy beginning after seven such absences, while elementary students are counted absent for the full day. Members also asked about whether reduced truancy referrals reflected more attendance or diversionary supports; the district said its approach is to focus on understanding root causes and providing support rather than quickly referring students to truancy processes. The district reported improved communication, greater parent awareness, and fewer truancy referrals so far, and said the attendance team model should be sustainable because it uses existing staff with clearer direction.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection - 03/27/26

Commerce and Consumer Protection

Transcript Highlights:
  • We started about six months ago and went through chapter 237, and we did it under three lenses.
  • 237 and we did it under through chapter 237 and we did it under three<00:09:06.720> lenses.
  • now, not least of which is the cuts to SNAP, which grocery stores in Minnesota rely on for between 9
  • Senator France: The cuts to SNAP, which grocery stores in Minnesota rely on for between 9 and 12% of
  • A recently filed lawsuit alleged that a chatbot on Character.ai began consistently exposing a 9-year-old
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 2/17/25

Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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  • The final decision not to award by the agency may be challenged as a contested case under chapter 14
  • The final decision not to award by the agency may be challenged as a contested case under chapter 14
  • The final decision not to award by the agency may be challenged as a contested case under chapter 14
  • The final decision not to award by the agency may be challenged as a contested case under chapter 14
Keywords: 1183, house
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

89th Legislative Session May 31st, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Pursuant to House Rule 13, Section 9(f), the Chair announces the introduction of H.R. 1495, suspending
  • Pursuant to House Rule 13, Section 9(f), the Chair announces the introduction of H.R. 1496, suspending
  • Members, pursuant to House Rule 13, Section 9(f), the chair announces the introduction of H.R. 1499,
  • Pursuant to House Rule 13, Section 9-F, the chair announces the introduction of H.R. 1514, suspending
  • Pursuant to House Rule 13, Section 9(f), the chair announces the introduction of HR 1515, suspending
Summary: The House met in a late-session floor session that began with prayer, pledges, quorum, and a series of excused absences and Senate messages reporting action on numerous bills, conference committee appointments, and conference reports. Members also adopted a memorial resolution honoring Mark James Hanna, a Capitol lobbyist and advocate for nurses, and a congratulatory resolution for Rishi Tarumalasetti, an eighth-grade civics bee winner from Katy. The chamber also received and recorded a parliamentary colloquy about an unusual Senate request on SB 293, with the Chair stating the House could not recede from only part of its amendments and could not suspend the rules because the bill had not been returned from the Senate. The bulk of the session was devoted to taking up conference committee reports and related procedural resolutions, especially the state budget. The House adopted a resolution allowing the SB 1 conferees to go outside the normal bounds, then adopted the SB 1 conference report on a 107-21 vote. Debate on the budget centered on public education funding, tax relief, health care, corrections pay, and judicial compensation, with supporters calling it a responsible compromise and opponents arguing it was overly expansive and insufficient on property tax relief. The House also adopted a technical correction resolution tying judicial pay increases in SB 1 to the House version of SB 293, and members discussed at length the relationship between judicial salaries and legislative pensions. The chamber then adopted a long series of conference reports on measures covering topics such as school library review and book challenges (SB 13), SNAP restrictions on sweetened drinks and candy (SB 379), hospital price transparency (SB 331), nursing home accountability (SB 457), school district personnel compensation conflicts (HB 3372), property notice rules (HB 2011), research and development tax credits (SB 2018), and several other bills affecting elections, permits, education, and criminal justice. Most reports passed by wide margins, though some drew significant opposition, especially SB 13 and SB 379. The House also granted several Senate requests for conference committees and introduced additional resolutions to suspend conferee limits on various bills as the session moved toward adjournment.
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

Senate in Session Apr 24th, 2025

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • They are the last that can remind us of the atrocities of that dark chapter in history.
  • prevention statute with current practice and will serve as the first comprehensive revision of the chapter
  • This chapter of statute sees redundancies, outdated terminology, misplaced sections, unnecessary definitions
  • put in place to ensure that no political activity is happening with individuals who are working at 9
  • The Secretary will lock the board and record the vote. 28 ayes, 9 nays, Mr. President.
Summary: The Senate convened with opening prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including guests from Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Clay County, and others. Senators also observed a moment of silence for Pope Francis. After routine announcements, the chamber moved to the special order calendar and took up a long series of bills, often substituting House companions for Senate bills before final passage. Among the measures approved were bills creating an expedited DNA testing grant program for local law enforcement, adding aggravating factors in capital cases involving gatherings for religious, school, or government activities, requiring state health coverage for fertility preservation services for cancer patients, authorizing indemnification for commuter rail providers, prohibiting abandonment of migrant vessels in Florida waters, and creating new specialty license plates. The Senate also passed bills on Alzheimer’s awareness, relocating the Council on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys to Florida Memorial University, charter schools, sex offender registration, utility worker protections, juvenile justice, student mental health reporting, foster home licensure transfers, water access facilities, Florida Virtual School, school readiness, sexual images involving children, tampering with electronic monitoring devices, certified recovery residences, the FSU Election Law Center, the Office of Faith and Community, and bonuses for county property appraiser employees. Several other bills were temporarily postponed, including measures on social media use by minors, veterans’ nursing homes, Parkinson’s disease, mental health and substance use disorders, education, educator preparation, officers injured in the line of duty, school social workers, and Brownfields. Debate was especially extensive on the Office of Faith and Community bill, where an amendment to bar political activity by office staff was offered but failed 13-23 after arguments over election-related communications and the scope of existing law. The certified recovery residences bill also drew notable debate, with supporters emphasizing housing as essential to recovery and opponents raising concerns about implementation and local control. Most other bills passed with little or no opposition, though a few drew dissenting votes, including the capital aggravating factors bill, charter schools, and the Office of Faith and Community measure.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Senate in Session Apr 24th, 2025

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • They are the last that can remind us of the atrocities of that dark chapter in history.
  • prevention statute with current practice and will serve as the first comprehensive revision of the chapter
  • This chapter of statute sees redundancies, outdated terminology, misplaced sections, unnecessary definitions
  • put in place to ensure that no political activity is happening with individuals who are working at 9
  • Secretary will lock the board and record the vote: 28 yeas, 9 nays, Mr. President.
Summary: The Senate convened with an opening prayer by Rabbi Moshe Umatz, the Pledge of Allegiance led by pages, and several introductions and recognitions, including guests from Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Clay County, and a moment of silence for Pope Francis. The chamber then moved to the special order calendar after a motion to reconsider SB 1080, which was temporarily postponed. Several bills were also set aside during the day, including measures on social media use by minors, veterans’ nursing homes, Parkinson’s disease, mental health and substance use disorders, education, educator preparation, and school social workers. The Senate passed a series of bills, often substituting House companions for Senate bills. These included funding for expedited DNA testing grants for local law enforcement (SB 1072/HB 847), additional aggravating factors in capital cases involving religious, school, or government gatherings (SB 984/HB 693), fertility preservation coverage for cancer patients (SB 924/HB 677), commuter rail indemnification for Miami-Dade and Broward counties (SB 916/HB 867), restrictions on disposing of migrant vessels in Florida waters (SB 830), specialty license plates including Miami Northwestern and several colleges and institutions (SB 824), an Alzheimer’s and dementia awareness campaign (SB 398), relocation of the Council on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys to Florida Memorial University (SB 364), charter school changes allowing parent conversion and municipal job-engine charter schools (SB 140), sex offender registration reporting changes (SB 1654/HB 1351), penalties for assaulting utility workers (SB 1386), juvenile justice revisions and truancy process updates (SB 1344), reporting of student mental health outcomes (SB 1310/HB 969), foster home license transfer simplification (SB 1174/HB 989), water access facility funding and boating industry incentives (SB 1162/HB 735), Florida Virtual School operational changes (SB 1122), school readiness program support for children with disabilities (SB 1102), sexual image offenses involving minors (SB 1180/HB 757), age-related defenses in child sex offense cases (SB 1136/HB 777), tampering with electronic monitoring devices (SB 1054/HB 437), certified recovery residences and local zoning accommodations (SB 954), and the FSU Election Law Center (SB 892). Most of these bills passed with strong bipartisan support, though SB 984 and SB 140 drew some opposition. One of the most extensive debates centered on SB 820, codifying the Office of Faith and Community. Senator Polsky offered an amendment to bar political activity by office staff, citing emails and campaign-related communications tied to Amendment 4; the amendment failed on a 13-23 vote. Senators then debated the bill’s relationship to state election law, free speech, and the role of faith-based outreach. Supporters emphasized the office’s service network and reported benefits to children and families, while some senators raised concerns about interfaith representation and political use of government resources. The bill was then read a third time and the Senate proceeded toward a final vote as the transcript ended.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, February 27, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Joint Resolution 20, a joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8
  • House Joint Resolution 20, a joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8
  • Third reading of the joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of Title
  • 8 of Title 5 United States under chapter 8 of Title 5 United States code<00:56:21.440> of<00:
  • The gentleman has 9 minutes. Oh, okay. Well, that was more time than I thought.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 16th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you for watching. 5 You You 8 9 10 11 12 The house will come to order.
  • to remind you that we'll We'll have a special Passover Easter study at lunchtime right up here in 3W.9,
  • In fact, it has grown 9% even after adjusting. inflation. That is correct.
  • Representative Tallarico, section 9 of the bill.
  • Section 9 of the bill has a severability clause, correct?
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Protection and Victim Services Committee May 13th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Protection and Victim Services Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • So if you look to section two, this is in the obscenity control chapter.
  • So getting kind of to the meat of the bill that is in section 8, and we're now moving into chapter 27.1
  • So getting kind of to the meat of the bill that is in section 8, and we're now moving into chapter 27.1
  • So getting kind of to the meat of the bill, that is in Section 8, and we're now moving into Chapter 27.1
  • we're using, and we're not having to page through 13 different chapters in order to determine which
Keywords: 908, all
MD

Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session, 4/8/2026 #2

Maryland Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The bill alters the behavioral health rate-setting study required under chapters 571 and 572 of 2017
  • study behavioral health rate-setting study required<00:02:44.640> under<00:02:44.840> chapters
  • 5 71 and 572 of required under chapters 5 71 and 572 of 2017<00:02:48.720> by<00:02:48.840>
  • established under Chapter 419 of 2022. established under Chapter 419 of 2022.
  • Recognizing the senator from District 9 as the floor leader. Thank you, Mr. President.
Summary: The Senate reconvened with a quorum present and proceeded through a series of committee reports and floor actions, mostly on House bills. Several measures were advanced without opposition, often after brief floor explanations and unanimous adoption of committee amendments. Topics included behavioral health rate-setting modernization (HB 772), expedited Medicaid eligibility for relocated individuals with developmental disabilities (HB 1015), perinatal behavioral health screening and coverage (HB 1118), mammogram notices about breast arterial calcification (HB 1364), menopause provider training and coverage (HB 1365), cannabis licensing and training changes (HB 622), cemetery sale and transfer oversight (HB 892), travel services insurance requirements (HB 994), cash transaction rounding authorization (HB 1026), specie as legal tender (HB 1312), menstrual hygiene product ingredient labeling (HB 1357), health care quality reporting and a health centralization commission (HB 1372), special pediatric hospital transfer and review procedures (HB 1376), telehealth continuity of care for out-of-state counselors (HB 1483), and child placement protections for unlicensed settings and pediatric overstay patients (HB 1559). Most of these bills were ordered passed for third reading after the chamber adopted the committee amendments and favorable reports. The Senate also considered environmental and consumer-related measures. HB 146 would delay implementation dates for onsite wastewater system regulation and licensing requirements, while striking provisions on inspections and pumping for rental properties and sales. HB 254, a Department of Natural Resources bill, was described as facilitating community engagement in planning and development of departmental projects. HB 969 on retail electric vehicle fuel sales and charging equipment requirements was also taken up and reported favorably. In each of these cases, members noted no committee opposition and no fiscal impact, and the bills were advanced. Two bills were set aside rather than immediately acted on. HB 1037, concerning a Public Service Commission study on broadband and voice over internet protocol service, was special ordered until Friday at the request of a senator. HB 1312, the specie/legal tender bill, prompted questions about the definition of specie and was also special ordered for consideration the next morning. No roll-call votes were recorded in the excerpt; actions were taken by unanimous consent on amendments and committee reports, with multiple bills ordered to third reading.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Transportation Committee Jul 14th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • climate research as a visiting scholar at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and co-authored two chapters
  • And on the document, the legislation on page 24, Chapter 6, line 20, subsection C, if that can be very
  • includes such things as our Communications Center, Records Division, Homeless Response, WATT, and K-9,
  • Current vote count: 9-1. Hoover is no. Macedo is no. Ward is aye. And to three.
  • Current vote count: 9. Aguiar-Curry, aye. Harabedian, not voting. Hoover, aye. Macedo, aye.
Summary: The committee first took up SB 712, which would expand California’s smog-check exemption for classic vehicles by adding model years 1976 through 1986 in phases, with a sunset in 2032. The author and supporters, including lowrider advocates and the Specialty Equipment Market Association, argued the bill would preserve car culture, support a small class of rarely driven collector vehicles, and reduce burdens on owners who struggle to find equipment for older smog tests. Opponents, including air district officials, the American Lung Association, and other environmental groups, warned the bill would weaken an important emissions-control program and increase pollution. After discussion, the committee adopted the motion to do pass as amended to Appropriations on a roll call vote of 10-0, with the roll held open for additional votes. The committee then heard SB 800, which requires Caltrans, working with local governments, to assess mitigation measures for suicide prevention on locally owned overpasses crossing state highways. The bill was presented as a response to recent tragedies in Rancho Cucamonga and was supported by local officials, health organizations, and suicide-prevention advocates, who said the measure would help identify high-risk locations and lead to life-saving interventions. There was no registered opposition. The committee members expressed support, and SB 800 was passed to Appropriations on a unanimous roll call vote, with the roll held open. Next, the committee considered SB 30, which would prohibit California public entities from selling, donating, or transferring decommissioned diesel locomotives and railroad equipment with Tier 1 or older engines unless the engine is removed, while allowing Tier 2 and newer transfers under certain conditions. The author and supporters framed the bill as a climate and public-health measure to prevent older, dirtier locomotives from continuing to pollute elsewhere, while transit agencies opposed it, arguing it could limit useful transfers of equipment that still supports passenger service and could be better handled through case-by-case air-quality review. After debate, the committee voted 6-4 to pass SB 30 as amended to Appropriations, with the roll held open for later additions. The committee also heard SB 791, which replaces the flat dealer document processing charge cap with a 1% fee capped at $350, along with new disclosure requirements. Dealers and industry groups supported the bill as a way to recover costs and improve transparency, while consumer advocates opposed it as an unjustified increase that would burden buyers. The committee approved SB 791 on a 8-? roll call vote and held the roll open. The meeting then moved on to SB 34, a port-air-quality bill presented by Senator Richardson, but the transcript ends during testimony and debate on that measure.