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AL
Transcript Highlights:
- Language and social cognitive skills were affected because excessive screen time is linked to language
- We added language.
- So them and they put their language in.
- not exact but the language in the bill not exact but the language in the bill in<02:44:14.640>
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NH
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HI
Transcript Highlights:
- This floor amendment makes some technical changes, removing duplicative language.
- It also moves language regarding the authority of BLNR to approve plans and permits from the OPSB planning
- And finally, it clarifies language allowing temporary erosion control measures when an emergency erosion
- also repeals the Department of Law Enforcement's authority to inspect medical cannabis use and certification
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 12, 2026 - 09:15 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- The initial training certification must be completed Representative Valdez: By July 1st of 2028, and
- And can you explain why we struck that language? Representative Valdez: Thank you very much.
- Sometimes it means different body language and that delay is not defiance.
- And also, Representative Gottlieb, I know the work that you have done to help us get the second language
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Jul 21st, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- However, there's language, restrictions, and policy around this.
- Back to community school language, what's the idea of community schools?
- know, there's nothing in the books that says that a county government that's using open to pay a certificate
- with an Anacala grant through New Mexico Highlands University with our own Querencia, with our own Language
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Insurance Committee Apr 30th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- I actually have the very first IBHS wildfire-prepared home certification, and because of that, we're
- We've worked very closely with your staff to craft some great disclosure language.
- We've worked very closely with your staff to craft some great disclosure. languages is an important very
- Languages is an important product to protect people from catalytic converter theft.
Summary:
The Assembly Insurance Committee met to consider several bills focused on California’s insurance market, wildfire resilience, and consumer protections. AB 888, the California Safe Homes Act, was heard first. Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and Alabama Insurance Commissioner Mark Fowler testified in support, describing state grant programs that help homeowners harden roofs and create defensible space, with the goal of reducing losses and improving insurance affordability and availability. Supporters from the insurance industry, local government, and the Rebuild Paradise Foundation also backed the bill, and committee members emphasized the need for more incentives for mitigation. The bill passed the committee on a do pass motion and was sent to Appropriations.
AB 290, by Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan, would require the FAIR Plan to offer automatic payments and address non-renewal grace-period issues. The author described her own experience being forced onto the FAIR Plan and facing a large premium increase, while Consumer Federation of California called the bill common-sense consumer protection. The FAIR Plan opposed unless amended, saying it was already handling major wildfire claims and other operational demands and requested more time and changes to the non-renewal grace-period language. Members across the committee supported the bill as a needed modernization measure, and it passed as amended to Appropriations.
AB 1339, by Assemblymember Gonzalez, would direct the Department of Insurance to study insurance availability and pricing for affordable housing providers and report policy recommendations. Supporters from affordable housing organizations said rising premiums were forcing providers to cut services, defer maintenance, and use reserves, threatening housing stability for low-income residents. The bill passed as amended to Appropriations. AB 646, by Assemblymember Wallace, also passed to Appropriations; it concerns disclosure related to motor vehicle protection products and catalytic converter theft deterrence, with support from auto dealers and industry groups. The committee also approved AB 1531 on consent. Members later added on to the record in support of the bills, and the hearing concluded without recorded opposition votes on the measures that advanced.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
March 12, 2025 - 10:15 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- began his career with the Osceola County Sheriff's Office and obtained his correction officer certification
- Yes, so I believe you guys heard last week Representative Robinson's bill; this incorporates her language
- Bill, this incorporates her language as well into here to fix that issue as well.
- One is the language that Representative Robinson is trying to accomplish, again, pretty unique situation
Summary:
The Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee met with a quorum present and considered five bills. The first, PCS for HB 987, was an honorary transportation facility designation bill naming several roads and an overpass for fallen officers, a military service member, and first responders. An amendment added the Sheriff Gary S. Borders Memorial Highway designation in Lake County. Members offered supportive remarks, and the bill passed 17-0.
The committee then heard HB 703, which would require authorities such as FDOT or local governments to pay the costs when they require telecom providers to relocate infrastructure from public rights-of-way. Support came from Charter Communications, Associated Industries of Florida, and Florida Internet and Television, with discussion focused on the communication services tax and the cost burden of relocations. The bill passed unanimously 18-0. HB 1523 followed, addressing municipal utilities serving customers outside their boundaries by requiring public meetings, annual reporting, limits on transfers to general revenue, and reduced or eliminated surcharges for outside-boundary customers. Municipal utility representatives opposed parts of the bill, citing rural impacts, debt obligations, and the need for a glide path, while supporters argued for transparency and fairness to ratepayers outside municipal boundaries. An amendment changed a reporting date to January 31, 2026, and the bill passed 14-4.
HB 867 established a legal framework for commuter rail operations along Florida’s coastal corridor, including insurance and indemnification arrangements for Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties using the Florida East Coast Railway right-of-way. An amendment clarified that Florida East Coast Railway and Brightline are not state entities and do not have sovereign immunity unless expressly provided by law. The bill passed 18-0. Finally, HB 1137 clarified a prior energy preemption law by adding boards, agencies, commissions, and authorities of counties and municipal corporations to the entities covered, aimed at preventing discriminatory energy-source practices by an appointed board. Public testimony included support from the Florida Natural Gas Association and the Florida Home Builders Association and opposition from Florida Student Power. Members noted the bill was a cleanup measure, and it passed favorably.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources Feb 4th, 2025
House Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- Now, you said, so this, it should be done, this certification.
- to direct counties to implement this, but Certainly, I don't see that in this law or the existing language
- go to the bill now on page three, where it looks like you have the impetus of your bill, the new language
- As we get into Section E, I'm with you for the first couple of lines, so your new language reads that
MN
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that this is a piece of Ohei language that this is a piece of Ohei language - Section 66 uh back to agency language Section 66 uh back to agency language removes<01:47:02.320
- our our presidents and this language our our presidents and this language sets<01:58:02.000>
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Senate Bill 529 is unanimously recommended for certification.
- Senate Bill 1265 is unanimously recommended for certification.
- Senate Bill 1592 is unanimously recommended for certification.
- Senate Bill 1728 is unanimously recommended for certification.
- SCR 37 is unanimously recommended for certification.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations.(3-4-26)
Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, as Representative Doset said, it's just cleanup language.
- . said, it's just it's clean up language.
- FBI changed the way the language for the requirement of the fingerprints.
- FBI changed the way the language for the FBI changed the way the language for the requirement<00:13:16.720
- to speed with our current FBI language. to speed with our current FBI language.
Summary:
The Licensing and Occupations Committee met with a quorum and heard several licensing and regulatory bills. House Bill 565, presented by Rep. Myron Dossett with support from the Kentucky League of Cities and the Paducah Fire Department, would clarify and broaden the authority of “fire protection officials” so local fire officials, along with the state fire marshal, can enforce final orders and seek court enforcement locally. The sponsor described it as cleanup language to streamline fire code enforcement and improve efficiency. The bill passed unanimously.
The committee then considered House Bill 776, a modernization of Kentucky’s Dental Practice Act, presented by Rep. Derek Lewis and Jeff Allen of the Kentucky Board of Dentistry, with Rep. Chad Hall also speaking in support. The bill updates definitions and board authority, revises licensure and renewal provisions, clarifies supervision and training rules for hygienists and assistants, updates telehealth standards, and preserves dentists’ authority over diagnosis and treatment planning. Members also discussed a provision allowing the board to use excess licensing funds for a scholarship to attract dentists to Kentucky. After questions about Medicaid access and a promised amendment removing certain ownership-related provisions, the bill passed unanimously.
House Bill 657, presented by Rep. Stephanie Deetsz and Michelle Sanborn of the Children’s Alliance, would give five licensing boards the statutory authority needed to obtain FBI fingerprinting/ORI numbers for interstate compact compliance. The boards named were counseling, speech-language pathology and audiology, occupational therapy, social work, and psychology. Supporters said the bill simply updates Kentucky law to match current FBI fingerprint language. It passed unanimously.
Finally, the committee took up House Bill 273, presented by Rep. Mike Klein and the Kentucky Board of Barbering. A committee substitute was adopted first. The bill reduces barber training hours from 1,500 to 1,200, allows 10-hour school days, shortens out-of-state licensure experience requirements from three years to one year, and makes other cleanup changes, including moving board compensation to regulation. Supporters said it would reduce barriers to entry and help address workforce shortages. The amended bill passed unanimously, and the committee adjourned.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Service Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Public Service
Transcript Highlights:
- action and produced I want to thank House Counsel as well, who jumped right into action and produced language
- I want to thank House Council as well, who jumped right into action and, you know, produce language that
- Kasner and I have the honor of attending every year the chief's luncheon where he hands out certificates
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Public Service held its 21st hearing and took up late-filed bills, with testimony focused mainly on firefighter and police personnel matters. The committee heard strong support for H.5429/H.6138, Governor Healey’s bill to provide injured-on-duty compensation and full pay and benefits to Chelmsford firefighter Nicholas Spinelli after he was seriously injured while instructing at the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy. Testimony from Rep. Simon Cataldo, Rep. Rodney Elliott, PFFM leaders, Chelmsford Fire Chief Gary Ryan, and others emphasized that Spinelli was performing public service training work, that the incident exposed gaps in coverage for firefighters serving in academy roles, and that the bill should be a prompt, statewide fix. Several speakers also urged future legislation to address broader policy gaps for DFS support-branch and part-time personnel.
The committee also heard testimony on a Topsfield home rule petition, H.54435, to allow Police Chief Neil Hovey to continue serving until age 68 or retirement. Rep. Kristen Kasner and local officials praised Hovey’s leadership, training, regional coordination, and management of public safety at the Topsfield Fair, and asked for favorable passage. In addition, Sen. Ryan Fattman and Rep. Joe McKenna testified for S.3051, a bill to provide certain retirement benefits to the surviving spouse of fallen Uxbridge Police Officer Stephen LaPorta, describing his death while assisting a stranded motorist in a snowstorm and the town’s support for honoring his family.
PFFM and other police/fire union representatives generally supported the firefighter and LaPorta bills, while PFFM also stated opposition to H.5389, a separate bill authorizing continued employment of the Upton police chief. After testimony concluded, the committee adjourned without taking a recorded vote during the hearing.
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs May 6th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We'll license those industry folks that will be doing those inspections for us, and they will get a certificate
- Section 1361, after deleting all the language, it removes the provisions that abolish the state plumbing
- It may need some clarification in the language about the Department of Corrections reentry, but that
Summary:
The Senate Commerce Committee met on May 6, 2026, with five members present and approved the prior meeting minutes. The committee first heard HB 750, a “click-to-cancel” consumer protection bill requiring subscription cancellations to be as easy as sign-up and to be available through the same method used to subscribe. An amendment was adopted, testimony included support from labor and consumer advocates and opposition from some business groups, and the bill was reported favorably as amended.
The committee then took up SB 414, which was narrowed to cap interest on medical debt at 3%. After reconsidering and replacing prior amendments, the committee adopted the new amendment set and reported the bill favorably as amended. HB 799, concerning inspection licensing for elevators, escalators, and boilers, was presented by the State Fire Marshal and reported favorably with little discussion.
The longest discussion centered on HB 953, a major plumbing workforce and licensing reform bill. The bill was amended substantially: the original proposal to move plumbing oversight to the Contractors Board was removed, the plumbing board remained in place, apprenticeship and journeyman/master plumber hour requirements were revised, penalties and reporting requirements were added, and language was included to support workforce development and reentry training. The committee heard both support and opposition, including clarification from the State Plumbing Board that it already has an appeals process through the courts, and HB 953 was reported favorably as amended.
Finally, HB 220, the “PROTECT Act,” was heard to require covered online platforms to maintain a clear and usable mechanism for reporting child sexual abuse material and exploitation. An amendment was adopted to account for platforms that require registration to access content, testimony was supportive, and the bill was reported favorably as amended. HB 952 was deferred, and HB 827, a related plumbing workforce bill, was amended to align more closely with HB 953 but then failed a motion to defer by roll call vote, allowing it to remain pending. The committee then adjourned.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Apr 30th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- In this group, we have founders of organizations, individuals with paralegal certificates, political
- California and one from Southern California, who are Vietnamese American, whose English is a second language
- because our first language was Vietnamese, and who continued to carry the culture and the tradition.
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services May 30th, 2025 at 12:00 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- Section 2 amends NRS 432B.5917 to ensure youth continue to be under court oversight and adds language
- This is new language adding in collaboration with the young adult.
- For example, I'm a physician, and I never received any certification that said that I could diagnose
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Mar 19th, 2025
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- We develop the fire preparedness standards for certification consistent with national standards set by
- you remember HB 1 during the special, this one was, this one's way better, cleaned up a lot of the language
- So, uh, we're still working on that 70 million, and there was some language that when we put it in there
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V Feb 25th, 2025
Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V
Transcript Highlights:
- Writer modifications for writers 4 and 5 include additional language that clarify the use of the interest
- Chapter 6 has new language that requires notification only to the LVB of increases from other funds.
- address the critical needs across the state and to produce a streamlined approach to training certification
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Service Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Public Service
Transcript Highlights:
- And from our understanding, in the same chapter language, the police have that as well, and theirs says
- setting up the... ...three years initially negotiating an initial contract and setting up all the language
- foundation is what allowed me to assist in the development of the intensive reading and written language
- watch engineers, boiler operators, and their supervisors are specifically named in the statutory language
- Massport Police, who were specifically named in the POST statute, come under the oversight and certification
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Public Service held a hearing on a wide range of credible service and retirement-related bills, with testimony largely focused on allowing public employees to buy back prior service time or receive more appropriate retirement classifications. Bills discussed included retirement buyback for Joint Base Cape Cod firefighters (H. 4317), clarification of call firefighter buyback rights (H. 2883/S. 1915), veterans’ buyback (H. 2957), a Bridgewater State University police death-benefit/heart-law issue (filed by Rep. Gallagher), unpaid parental leave buyback for municipal employees (H. 2946), school nurse creditable service (H. 2887/S. 1787), former private/parochial school teacher buyback (S. 1900/H. 2873), Massport police retirement classification (S. 1888), contract employee buyback (H. 2795), Retirement Plus late entry (H. 2792), CVTE/teacher-related buyback issues (H. 2762), Peace Corps/AmeriCorps creditable service (H. 2927), and institutional school teacher retirement fairness (H. 2757). Several speakers also referenced related bills for teachers and nurses that had been heard previously or were filed in parallel in the other branch.
Testimony was overwhelmingly in support of the bills. Speakers argued that the measures would correct inequities, recognize prior public service, and help recruit and retain workers in hard-to-fill public jobs. Firefighters described the unique federal-to-state transition at Joint Base Cape Cod and said some members were left out of earlier buyback opportunities. Veterans, teachers, school nurses, correctional educators, and Massport police all described service requirements, administrative gaps, or outdated statutory language that they said unfairly limited retirement credit or placed them in the wrong retirement group. Several witnesses emphasized that the proposals were fiscally responsible because employees would pay the cost of the buybacks, and some noted that similar bills had been filed repeatedly in prior sessions.
Committee members asked a few clarifying questions, mostly about why certain employees had been excluded under current law or how the retirement provisions would work. No opposition testimony was presented. The hearing concluded after all scheduled witnesses testified, with the chairs thanking participants for their service and the committee voting to adjourn.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The committee substitute simply aligns the bill with text dot standard naming language and then registers
- identification and access to various services, specifically driver's licenses, personal identification certificates
- the existing animal-friendly license plate and to design a second one. distinct plate bearing the language
- So I'm just a little concerned regarding the language of the bill.
- So I'm just a little bit concerned about the language of the bill and how it defines that.
Keywords:
education, funding, school districts, local control, equity, digital identification, identity verification, Department of Public Safety, Texas legislature, wireless communication, Texas, technology, identification program, fee structure, wireless devices, public safety, hunting license, handgun license, fingerprinting, dealer license
NE
Nebraska 2025-2026 Regular Session
Health and Human Services Committee - Room 1510 Jun 30th, 2026
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- To have the PRTF certification, you need to have the MoSU license before you can apply for the PRTF certification
- If it were to lose its certification, then that would in fact occur.
- So you're probably at like six months just from licensing and to get the PRTF certification.
- But in order to get the PRTF certification, you have to have the staff hired. Is that right?
- That staffing has to be in place to... ...you can apply for your federal certification.