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FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Judiciary Feb 11th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- The Florida Supreme Court delegate, some of that authority to the Florida bar to assist in regulating
- The bar operate only once again under the limited authority granted to it by the Florida Supreme Court
- So the bars, governor also by state and federal laws limiting its authority.
- The board for the court authorized the creation of 23 voluntary bar sections.
- So they're authority comes from the same place in the Constitution.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Joint Legislative Auditing Committee Jan 13th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Behind the second tab is a short summary of the committee's authority.
- Members of the legislature are authorized to submit requests to the committee for an Auditor General
- Another area the committee has enforcement authority is what we call the three PEs.
- Another area the committee has enforcement authority is what we call the three petes.
- the authority to conduct these audits.
Summary:
The Joint Legislative Auditing Committee met to receive annual overviews of its oversight responsibilities and the work of the Auditor General and OPAGA. Committee staff reviewed the committee’s authority over state and local governments, enforcement of audit-report filing requirements, repeated audit findings, Transparency Florida reporting, and lobbying compensation audits. Auditor General Cheryl Norman described her office’s independence, audit standards, quality control, and major audit areas, including the state’s annual financial and single audits, school district and university audits, operational and performance audits, and attestation work. She also noted staffing shortages, recruitment efforts, and a request for carry-forward funds to study salaries.
Members asked about whether audits can quantify recoverable dollars, how school district spending comparisons are handled, and how to raise concerns about DCF-related audits or a local city audit that has been pending for years. Norman said her office can quantify findings when possible, sometimes compares costs across districts in operational audits, and that members can bring specific concerns to the appropriate deputy auditor general or the committee. She also explained that citizen or local-government audit requests may require payment of audit costs.
OPAGA Coordinator Kara Collins-Gomez outlined OPAGA’s role as a legislative research unit that conducts studies directed by law, the presiding officers, or the committee, and described its policy areas, methodologies, contract monitoring, and recurring statutory reports. Deputy Auditor General Matthew Tracy explained how to read operational audit reports, including findings, criteria, condition, cause, effect, recommendations, and management responses. Deputy Auditor General Greg Senators explained financial audit reports, including audit opinions, required supplementary information, internal control and compliance findings, federal program compliance, and management letters. The meeting concluded with thanks to the presenters and a motion to adjourn, which passed without objection.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement - 04/22/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh we have this needs a bill author.
- I think your point legislative author.
- Asmusson has a desire to um to author Asmusson has a desire to um to author this.<01:03:14.799><
- Representative Wolgamott, the author.
- <02:35:01.600>
Um author. Representative O'Driscoll. Um author.
NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York State Senate Session - 06/01/2026
New York Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Senate Print 4571B, Harckham, an act to amend the Public Authorities Law.
- >> 146 THE 2A, SENATOR KAVANAGH, AN ACT TO AMEND THE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES LAW.
- >> 1456, 4571-G SENATOR HARCKHAM, AN ACT TO AMEND THE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES LAW.
- "This bill overrides local authority.
- AUTHORITY OVER OUR LAKE ITSELF.
Summary:
The Senate convened, approved the prior journal, and then processed a series of motions to discharge bills from committees and substitute identical Senate bills, which were so ordered. Several bills were also recalled from the Assembly, had reconsideration votes taken, and were restored to the third reading calendar after receiving 58 ayes. Amendments were received on a number of bills, and those measures retained their place on the calendar.
The main business of the day was Privileged Resolution 2318, sponsored by Leader Stewart-Cousins, honoring Senator Michael Gianaris with the President Pro Tempore and Senate Majority Leader’s Legislative Legacy Award. The resolution and floor remarks reviewed his long career in the Assembly and Senate, his role as Deputy Majority Leader and floor leader, and his work on housing, criminal justice, voting rights, labor, environmental, consumer, transit, animal welfare, and other major legislation. Members from both parties spoke at length, praising his strategic skill, mentorship, humor, and influence, while also noting his support for younger members and his commitment to family.
Several senators described personal experiences showing Gianaris’s mentorship and political guidance, and many referenced his Greek American identity, Queens roots, and interests such as Star Wars and the Mets. Senators also emphasized that he was leaving on his own terms to spend more time with his wife and daughters. The resolution was adopted with broad support, and Gianaris then spoke in response, reflecting on nearly 30 years in state government, the major laws passed during his tenure, and the relationships he built in the chamber.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Education Policy and Administration (01/30/2026)
Education Policy and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- giving the state library the authority giving the state library the authority to<03:04:12.399>
- granting authority to give scholarships. granting authority to give scholarships.
- <03:04:58.319>
of importantly, not just the authority of importantly, not just the authority- Now I am also the author of University.
- It undermines parental authority. It's part of their political agenda.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Questions for the bill author and the testifiers?
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MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 2/13/25
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- She says they are still working directly with the bill authors on some thoughts about changes to the
- directly on some of our the bill authors directly on some of our thoughts<00:09:40.320>
about - I do have other questions for the bill author. I don't know if you want to—we can...
- , and understanding if the bill author understands the differences between the two.
- staff um my question for the bill author staff um my question for the bill author is<01:03:43.480
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Judiciary Committee Jun 17th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Procurement authority in this agency lived in one person.
- They don't have release authority. But what they have and what they call it is placement authority.
- And that's a lot of authority, and a lot of people don't want to have legislative limits on their authority
- We put it in place, and that's under my authority, and that's confinement.
- The DOCR has had that in their authority since 1989, when we were built.
Summary:
The committee opened with a moment of silence for a deceased member, then approved the April minutes and heard a presentation from HHS on the Diversion Task Force and related youth services grants. Chelsea Florey described the $750,000 one-time appropriation from HB 1012, the five awarded grants, and how programs in Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks, and Minot are using the funds for youth diversion, including school-based groups, physical activity, and services for problematic sexual behavior. Members raised concerns about staffing shortages, family engagement, service silos, and whether diversion eligibility rules are too rigid; Florey said the task force is focused on better coordination, broader education about available services, and possible changes to diversion criteria, with the Children’s Cabinet likely to drive broader recommendations.
The committee then received a North Dakota Lottery biennium report from Director Thomas Lawler, who reviewed the lottery’s history, games, retailer commissions, player programs, and revenue distribution. He reported about $67 million in ticket sales for the 2023-2025 biennium, about $16.2 million transferred overall, including roughly $13.6 million to the general fund, plus transfers to drug task force and compulsive gambling funds. Members asked about the compulsive gambling allocation and whether it is set by statute.
Next, the Department of Corrections presented on criminal justice data sharing and reentry. Adam Anderson explained that jails, courts, DOCR, HHS, and other entities use separate systems with limited interoperability, making real-time communication largely manual. He outlined possible hub or point-to-point IT solutions, but noted cost, vendor, identifier, and data-definition challenges. Robin Schmolenberger followed with an update on a Medicaid data exchange project between DOCR and HHS to suspend and reactivate inmate Medicaid coverage automatically and improve care coordination, with full bi-directional exchange expected in fall 2026. The committee also heard from county representatives on 24-7 sobriety program fees and an AG opinion allowing local sheriffs to use cheaper testing options when courts waive fees.
Finally, the North Dakota Racing Commission reviewed a troubling audit. Bruce Johnson acknowledged serious findings involving overspending from the promotion fund, missing grant documentation, a reversed decision on breeders fund eligibility, and repeated procurement violations. He said the commission has begun corrective actions, including monthly tracking of the promotion fund cap, stricter grant documentation, written procurement procedures, and clearer eligibility rules in condition books. Members pressed him on how the overspending occurred, whether the commission board would impose consequences, and whether statutory clarification is needed on the promotion fund limit and related spending rules.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 3/12/25
Elections Finance and Government Operations
Transcript Highlights:
- question question there but the author question question there but the author did<00:34:29.480><
- the form that the author the form that the author wishes<01:04:43.760>
uh <01:04:44.359>- Author, to your bill. Thank you, Chair Quam and members.
- <01:06:49.440>
to <01:06:49.640>your adopted uh author to your adopted uh author to- Any other—does the author have a rebuttal to the hostile?
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Jul 21st, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- We designated the Mortgage Finance Authority as the state-specific lead entity.
- Housing New Mexico, or MFA, Mortgage Finance Authority, launched this recently.
- The Health Care Authority is using...
- , but NMFA, the New Mexico Finance Authority.
- There's a loan fund that was created out of the New Mexico Finance Authority.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, June 29, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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Its <00:11:09.600>author, pros in modern history. - Its author, pros in modern history.
- She's an accomplished author, publishing more than 500 articles and a book on essays.
- I will yield four minutes to my good friend from Florida, the author of this Florida, the author of this
- Uh, could the author explain to me... Explain to me which forces would be removed.
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Administrative Rules Committee Mar 12th, 2026 at 09:00 am
Transcript Highlights:
- That does not fall under the regulatory authority of food and lodging currently.
- Tied to that was the authorization of transport.
- And then your authority, and like you said, you don't have statutory authority.
- And then your authority, and like you said, you don't have statutory authority.
- I believe we have the authority to do that, do we not? Okay.
Summary:
The committee first approved the December 3 minutes, then heard a request from the Board of Clinical Laboratory Practice to amend its proposed rule on exempt test methods to add certain closed-system DNA/RNA tests, including rhinovirus. After testimony explaining that the board had considered late comments from BioMérieux and wanted the rule record to reflect that review, the committee agreed to a limited amendment and passed the motion unanimously.
The Department of Agriculture then outlined broad rule updates affecting dairy, eggs, poultry, pesticides, animal health, environmental mitigation, and the Egg Product Utilization Commission. The commissioner said the changes mostly clarified existing requirements, updated references, and reduced some burdens, such as easing dairy hauler training/licensing timing and clarifying out-of-state grade A milk language. Members asked about dairy industry decline, the APUC scoring system, and the rationale for the milk-hauler and out-of-state milk provisions.
The State Board of Dental Examiners presented extensive rule changes tied to recent legislation and workforce issues, including a new professional health program for dentists, expanded duties for assistants and hygienists, broader local anesthetic authority for hygienists, and fee increases to fund the program and cover administrative costs. Testimony from Dr. Edward May strongly supported the professional health program based on his own recovery experience. The committee also heard from Game and Fish on rules easing some guide/outfitter experience requirements, allowing electronic exams, and modifying boating safety equipment rules, with no public comment and no fiscal impact.
Later, Health and Human Services received approval for an extension to update tattoo/body art rules and a separate motion to repeal an obsolete nurse aide training chapter. HHS also described nursing facility rule updates, lodging sanitation revisions, and related clarifications on licensing, safety, pest control, and fire requirements. The Department of Environmental Quality received an extension for septic-system installer rules, and also presented rules for above-ground storage tanks and water/wastewater operator certification, including new fees and third-party testing options. The Industrial Commission’s oil and gas division described multiple rule changes, some withdrawn after comments, including drilling unit flexibility, site stability, wildfire authority, and streamlined transport/reporting procedures. Finally, DPI began presenting several rule packages, including school construction loan limits, school bus standards, cooperative agreements, special education rules for public charter schools, and new math curriculum and intervention requirements.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Local Government (10-21-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- So Section 181 of the Kentucky Constitution is what grants that authority for the General Assembly to
- authorize cities and counties to impose an occupational tax under the constitutional language.
- KRS 68.197, the county home rule statute, I believe, authorizes counties to do that and then has some
- Grants that authority for the General Assembly to authorize cities and counties to impose an occupational
- the<00:43:27.119>
Secretary commission and authorized the Secretary commission and authorized
Keywords:
Meeting Start: 00:00:13
Roll Call 00:00:24
Approval of Minutes from September Meeting 00:02:10
Presentation of Special Purpose Governmental Entities Report 00:03:19
Presentation of Kentucky League of Cities Legislative Platform for the Upcoming 2026 Session of the General Assembly 00:15:37
Discussion of Centralized Collection of Net Profits and Occupational License Taxes 00:37:05
Adjournment 00:55:53, 958, all
Summary:
The committee received reports on special purpose governmental entities from the Department for Local Government and the Fire Commission. DLG staff described SPGEs as limited-jurisdiction political subdivisions and reviewed the department’s registry, reporting portal, compliance monitoring, and planned system upgrades such as a two-way message center, automated noncompliance notices, and tracking for new entities and board expirations. They reported that, as of October 10, 2025, 69% of SPGEs were active and discussed compliance data by cycle, fiscal year, and district type. The Fire Commission reported that fire department mergers have reduced the number of departments by 16 since last year, largely because of volunteer staffing shortages, while financial disclosure compliance had risen to 94%. The commission also noted 509 compliance reviews, 19 in-house inquiries, seven referrals to outside agencies, and one recent federal prison sentence in a theft case.
Members asked whether DLG advises SPGEs on tax rates; staff said it only performs calculations and the entities set their own rates. Questions to the Fire Commission focused on whether department reductions meant station closures; officials explained that most changes were mergers that keep physical buildings in place while combining personnel and finances to meet minimum staffing requirements. They said the trend is spread across the state but is especially pronounced in rural areas.
The Kentucky League of Cities then presented its 2026 legislative agenda. Its priorities included modernizing city revenue options, increasing equity in road funding, fixing tax increment financing issues, addressing transient room tax collection from web-based platforms, strengthening emergency response coordination, clarifying massage parlor regulation preemption, correcting unintended consequences of House Bill 606, improving newspaper publication rules, and modernizing procurement statutes. KLC also said it supports allowing all cities to collect restaurant tax revenue, wants cities to receive a larger share of road funds and EV-related revenues, and seeks state collection and remittance of any future local sales tax to comply with the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement. Members asked about best-value bidding, road-fund equity, Airbnb tax litigation, EV prevalence, and disaster funding applications; KLC said cities currently must accept the lowest bid, the road split should better reflect city street costs, the Airbnb tax case remains pending, EV data by locality has not been studied, and allowing cities to apply directly for disaster funds would reduce reliance on county officials. No votes or formal actions were taken beyond approving the September meeting minutes.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- They have the authority of a district judge.
- Uh, so we, we are given specific rulemaking authority in specific areas.
- Uh, the authority establishing a central counting station makes that call.
- I was a little, and I, I apologize to the author who's my very good friend.
- Valid for work only with DHS authorization.
Bills:
HB304
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- sufficient bonding authority sufficient bonding authority um<00:09:12.800>
so <00:09:13.040 - know perhaps that bonding authority know perhaps that bonding authority could<00:09:23.040>
be - Authority. Authority. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.
- mightily to increase the the authority mightily to increase the the authority there.<02:00:53.199
- through the housing finance authority through the housing finance authority and<02:01:50.080>
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Authorizing a funding activities.
- <00:31:48.320>
forward <00:31:48.640>these authors who have brought forward these authors - I acknowledge that authorizing does not mean mandating.
- I acknowledge that authorizing does not mean mandating.
- I acknowledge that authorizing does not mean mandating.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 03/16/26
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- Authorities noted video temple grounds.
- wondering uh to the author, did AI draft wondering uh to the author, did AI draft this<01:14:33.280><
- <01:45:48.239>
by House File 3407 is authored by House File 3407 is authored by Representative - Prior authorization is the top again.
- Just want to they have the authority.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- House No. 4815, pertaining to the town of Arlington, third reading of the bill: an act authorizing the
- Third reading of the bill: an act authorizing the Commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance
- Third reading of the bill: an act authorizing alternative members for the Conservation Commission of
- House No. 4438, pertaining to the town of Swampscott, third reading of the bill: an act authorizing the
- That's House No. 438 amended, and House No. 4815, an act authorizing the select board of the town of
Summary:
The Senate took up several local bills out of the orders of the day and advanced them through third reading and engrossment. These included a bill for Arlington allowing a town ballot question to increase off-premises liquor licenses, a Brookfield land conveyance bill amended by a substitute draft, a Beckett bill authorizing alternative members for the Conservation Commission, and a Swampscott bill authorizing a fall annual town meeting. The Senate also ordered to a third reading and then engrossed a bill clarifying call firefighter rights, after accepting a third-reading committee report recommending a new draft.
The chamber also acted on a House bill concerning teacher preparation and student literacy. After the House disagreed with a Senate amendment, the Senate insisted on its amendment and agreed to a conference committee, naming Senators DiDomenico, Lewis, and O'Connor as conferees. In addition, the Senate suspended Joint Rule 12 to refer several concurrent Senate petitions to committees, including a House petition on manufactured housing community accommodations in Attleboro, which was sent to the Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government.
The Senate adopted resolutions congratulating Owen Kirby and Jonathan Rothwell on attaining Eagle Scout rank. Later, the Senate gave final passage to two bills: the Agawam charter amendment striking a reference to the Board of Appeals, and the Arlington liquor-license bill. The session ended with adoption of an order to reconvene the following Thursday at 11 a.m. and to dispense with printing a calendar, followed by adjournment.
NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Civil Service and Pensions - 05/18/2026
Civil Service And Pensions
Transcript Highlights:
- The committee director will read the title: An act to authorize the widow of William James Middle Roots
- The committee director will read the title: An act in relation to authorizing Tina Rousseau to receive
- The committee director will read the title: An act in relation to authorizing Michael O'Brien to take
- An act in relation to authorizing Michael O'Brien to take the competitive civil service examination for
- An act to authorize Christopher Walzer to take the competitive civil will reach title an act to authorize
Summary:
The Senate Standing Committee on Civil Service and Pensions met on May 18, 2026, with a quorum present and 10 bills on the agenda. The committee considered measures affecting retirement and pension benefits, civil service rules, and public safety personnel, including bills to raise the mandatory retirement age for certain NYPD uniform members, provide a heart disease presumption for fire alarm dispatchers, authorize a widow to file a retirement option election, create an optional 25-year retirement plan for certain deputy sheriffs, and adjust retirement or disability benefits for specific individuals or groups.
The committee also advanced bills allowing named individuals to take civil service or police officer examinations and be placed on eligibility lists, and a bill prohibiting falsely impersonating an employee organization or representative. One bill concerned notification requirements for public employers before procuring or deploying new AI-related technology. Members asked a few clarifying questions, including the location of the Village of Leroy, but there was no substantive opposition recorded.
Most bills were approved unanimously, with reported votes of 7-0 and no abstentions or with recommendations. The committee reported several bills to the floor, others to the Finance Committee, and the AI notification bill to the Internet and Technology Committee. The chair then adjourned the meeting after noting there were no further speakers.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Transportation and Energy Committee Jan 22nd, 2026
Transportation and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- And we're opening this bill would allow the Oil and Gas Board the authority to reopen those for the purpose
- And this would allow a geothermal company to come in and open that under the authority of the Oil and
- And this would allow a geothermal company to come in and open that under the authority of the Oil and
- And this would allow a geothermal company to come in and open that under the authority of the Oil and
- And this would allow a geothermal company to come in and open that under the authority of the Oil and
Keywords:
business taxes, annual reports, Alabama Tax Tribunal, tax appeals, local government, SB174, alternative energy, alternative energy wells, alternative energy facility, geothermal, geothermal energy, subsurface energy, energy storage, energy capture, energy generation, hydropower, solar energy, oil and gas well conversion, well conversion, plugging and abandonment