Video & Transcript Research : 'Water Code'

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HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

House Chamber - Wed Apr 2, 2025, 12:00PM HST - Day 44

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • you're standing on that beach in Waimea, it's as if the invisible hand of God is pushing a wave of water
  • <00:13:59.120> towards<00:13:59.360> you is pushing a wave of water towards you is
  • pushing a wave of water towards you it's<00:13:59.680> an<00:13:59.839> incredible<00:14
  • <00:14:09.839> on to have to even get in the water on to have to even get in the water on
  • Uh, you can sign up using the QR code in the elevators, or you can contact my office.
Keywords: 910, house, all
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Transportation Feb 11th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • We've got a plan for that and then really revolves around 2 features, right when and water.
  • So water accumulation in flooding, funk following heavy rainfall. That's pretty common, right?
  • So we design and build structures to withstand high winds and and water and water is a couple different
  • Water got rising water we have way for so that would be in force.
  • And so every element, every concrete, 3 asphalt is on every coding system.
Keywords: 999, senate, all
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

AEN Public Hearing 03-04-2026

Agriculture and Environment

Transcript Highlights:
  • Ag doesn't survive if we cannot have the lands to farm and ranch on and water resources.
  • That is um has been water resources.
  • water [clears throat] resources. water [clears throat] resources.
  • He's taken me up on a tour in a helicopter to tour the water systems of Kauai. He knows a lot.
  • As an example, nearly every time we bring somebody to Kauai, be it somebody from our Code L, some of
Keywords: 912, senate, all
Summary: The committee heard gubernatorial nominations for the Advisory Committee on Pesticides and the Board of Agriculture and Biosecurity. For GM 615, Matthew Liam was nominated to the Advisory Committee on Pesticides. The Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity, CGAPS, and the Hawaii Farm Bureau testified in strong support, citing his landscape industry leadership, pesticide training background, and prior service. Members asked about his experience in Australia and his approach to restricted-use pesticides; he said he avoided using restricted-use pesticides in his landscaping business but applied related safety and recordkeeping practices. Testimony was unanimous in support, with no opposition or comments. For GM 616, N. Young was nominated to the Board of Agriculture and Biosecurity. Support testimony from the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity, Hawaii Farm Bureau, and Hawaii Cattlemen's Council highlighted his experience with Lanai agriculture, Sensei, the Food Basket, Pacific Gateway Center, Kamehameha Schools, and institutional purchasing. In response to questions, he discussed balancing public and private funding, the need for adequate capitalization of agricultural projects, and using financial tools to help farmers and accelerate agricultural income streams. He also said the board should focus on making agricultural land productive and strengthening food security. The nomination drew strong support, with no opposition or comments. For GM 617, Jason Moniz was nominated to the Board of Agriculture and Biosecurity. The Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity, Hawaii Farm Bureau, and Hawaii Cattlemen's Council supported him, emphasizing his decades of veterinary and animal disease control experience, ranching background, and knowledge of biosecurity, leases, and livestock issues. Moniz said his priorities would be preserving agricultural land and water resources, improving biosecurity, supporting farmers and ranchers, and increasing food production in Hawaii. He also said he would be willing to speak up for agriculture and not let the department be sidelined. The nomination received 29 written and oral supports, with no opposition or comments.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

May 13, 2025 - 02:00 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • So here, wastewater utilities, water utilities, building permits, and water-sewer combination utilities
  • , Building permits, and water-sewer combination utilities.
  • Water sewer services came up as number two.
  • What they're doing as well, particularly because of the water management districts.
  • Back for the water management districts very strongly.
Summary: The Select Committee on Property Taxes met for a listening session focused on a presentation by Amy Baker of the Joint Legislative Office of Economic and Demographic Research on local government revenues and expenditures. Baker reviewed statewide financial data for counties, municipalities, and independent special districts, using 2018-19 as a baseline year because it was stable and pre-COVID. She explained that counties rely heavily on taxes, with ad valorem taxes making up about 73% of county tax revenue and about 24% of total county revenues statewide, while municipalities rely more on charges for services and have a lower statewide ad valorem share of about 14.7%. She also noted wide variation across local governments, with some counties and cities highly dependent on property taxes and others using them minimally or not at all. Special districts were shown to be very different from counties and cities, with hospital-related revenues and expenditures dominating many of them, while water management districts were more reliant on ad valorem taxes and focused expenditures on the physical environment. Baker also summarized expenditure patterns: counties spent the largest share on public safety, while municipalities spent the largest share on general government services, followed by physical environment and public safety. She emphasized that local government structures vary widely and that the committee should study what characteristics are associated with greater property tax reliance. She said the next research steps would be to extend the analysis through later years, including the COVID and inflation period, and to examine institutional and legal factors that shape local fiscal structures. Members asked about unfunded mandates, fuel taxes, reserves, school taxes, millage rates, and how property taxes relate to specific services such as police and fire. Baker said the current analysis did not yet account for mandates or school taxes and that further work could examine links between revenues and expenditures, commercial versus residential tax burdens, and other factors. After the presentation, members reported back on local meetings with counties and municipalities. Several described large differences in millage rates, revenue mixes, and the impact of any property tax changes on fiscally constrained counties versus larger, wealthier ones. Concerns were raised about how local governments would replace lost revenue, especially for public safety and emergency response, and members discussed the need to consider both revenue replacement and ways to rein in spending. The co-chairs said the committee would continue gathering information, send members follow-up homework and requests for panel suggestions, and invite additional input from constituents, stakeholders, and local governments. The meeting ended with no votes or formal actions beyond adjournment.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

April 1, 2025 - 12:30 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • Next up, we'll jump around a little bit to H.R. 661, the one-water approach toward the state water supply
  • So the one-water resolution specifies that the House of Representatives expresses support for a one-water
  • approach toward the state's water supply, managing all water, whether from the tap, a stream, a storm
  • It's different players in the overall scheme of water resources, water management, utilities.
  • But if this one-water approach is the next step to have a water committee, which I've heard on and off
Summary: The Natural Resources and Disaster Subcommittee took up eight bills focused on water policy, coastal resilience, environmental regulation, beaches, wildlife funding, and carbon sequestration. HB 7001 preserved the public-record exemption for site-specific location information on endangered and threatened species before its scheduled repeal, and it was reported favorably 16-0. H.R. 661, expressing support for a “one-water” approach to the state water supply, drew discussion about whether it implied centralized control; an amendment aligning the resolution with Senate language was adopted, and the resolution passed 16-0 with a committee substitute. The committee also advanced HB 1345 on infrastructure and resiliency, which after a strike-all amendment authorized DEP to procure coastal resiliency projects through public-private partnerships and use incentives such as revenue-sharing, expedited permitting, public engagement, and workforce training; it passed 16-0. HB 477 on weather modification was substantially amended to return to current statute and add a $10,000 fine for failing to obtain a permit; the bill drew extensive public testimony both for and against weather modification and cloud seeding, and it passed as amended with a committee substitute. HB 6043, repealing the 2018 customary-use beach statute affecting Walton County, prompted testimony about beach access, tourism losses, and private property rights; it passed 17-0. The committee then approved CS for HB 843, making clarifying changes to Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission trust funds and allowing use of the non-game wildlife trust fund for law enforcement and coordination with related agencies and landowners; it passed 17-0. HB 1169 revised water management district planning, budgeting, reporting, and procurement practices, including restrictions on lobbyist funds and updated project preference rules; two amendments were adopted and the bill passed 16-0. Finally, HB 1063 created a task force to study carbon sequestration and related ecosystem services in Florida’s natural and agricultural lands and waters; after amendments removing a fiscal component and clarifying voluntary participation and property-rights protections, it passed 15-2. The meeting adjourned after all bills were reported favorably.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, April 20, 2026)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • partner Huntington Ingalls are hard at work delivering the USS Arkansas SSN 800, which is now in the water
  • law, including section 232(c)(2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as Amended. 19 United States Code
  • After considering the Secretary's report, the factors in section 232(d)(19), United States Code 1862(
  • judgment, and in light of the Secretary's report, the factors in section 232(d)(19), United States Code
  • Address implicit bias in our health care system, and ensure that every woman, no matter her ZIP code,
ND
Transcript Highlights:
  • Right now we're using that SIP code to impact funding.
  • They say, what is it, seven years old now with the SIP codes?
  • It's like water, up and down, and then it comes out to what?
  • This formula maintains the SIP code that we currently use.
  • This formula maintains the SIP code that we currently use.
Keywords: 908, all
Summary: The Higher Education Funding Committee met to discuss possible changes to North Dakota’s higher education funding formula, with a particular focus on separating the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences MD program from the general formula. Dr. Jenkins outlined several options for the MD program, including a fixed-funding model, a hybrid model, or keeping it in the formula, and emphasized the need to preserve strong support for medical education while making future funding clearer. He also discussed efforts to increase the share of North Dakota students in the MD program through ND85, expanded recruiting, early acceptance pathways, MCAT prep, a four-plus-one program, and the Primary Care Accelerated Track, along with future cost pressures such as AI licensing and residency growth. The committee then reviewed a simplified funding model from the University System Office that would base funding more heavily on student FTE, credentials awarded, and a few incentive factors such as small institution and research adjustments. Members questioned the use of placeholder numbers, the lack of a clear methodology for the small institution and research factors, and whether the model would adequately account for differences among institutions, high-cost programs, and graduate education. Several members raised concerns that arbitrary factors would be hard to defend politically and could distort funding or create competition between schools, while others said the exercise was useful as a starting point for discussion. Alex presented a second alternative that kept the current SIP-code structure but increased CTE weighting, added a progressive economic size factor, and separated out the MD program. His model also added an on-campus face-to-face headcount component and a credentials component, with the intent of rewarding in-person enrollment and completions. Members questioned the use of headcount instead of FTE, how hybrid, online, dual-credit, and off-campus students would be treated, and why face-to-face enrollment was weighted more heavily than completion. No formal votes or final actions were taken; the committee instead continued discussion and asked members to provide direction on which elements, if any, should be developed further.
MD

Maryland 2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session, 4/10/2026 #2

Maryland House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • You know, during rainy seasons you could likely have standing water.
  • During rainy seasons, there could be standing water, and under the bill that standing water can be six
  • Code.
  • <00:43:05.720> And<00:43:05.840> then primarily enforces the US code.
  • And then primarily enforces the US code.
Summary: The House met with 122 members present, heard the journal read, and proceeded through a long series of Senate messages, concurrence motions, and third-reading votes on a wide range of bills. Early business included conference committee appointments on Senate Bill 159 (Emergency Medical Services Vehicles and Ambulances, Required Supplies), Senate Bill 514 (Third Degree Assault), and Senate Bill 866 (Chain Restaurants, disclosure of sodium and added sugars), along with several other bills where the House declined to recede from its amendments and named conferees. The chamber also adopted concurrence on House Bill 1181 (children in out-of-home placement) and House Bill 1219 (climate change/homeowners insurance study), and adopted a favorable committee report on House Bill 1602 (no-cost cancer screening for volunteer firefighters), which was amended to add sponsors, make technical changes, and include retired volunteer firefighters before being ordered printed for third reading. The House then took up a Rules Committee consent calendar and moved a batch of bills to the appropriate committees. On third reading, it passed House Bill 1028 (Caroline County Board of Education compensation increase) and House Bill 1599 (Choptank River Enhancement Program and Maryland Seafood Industry Financial Assistance Fund) by constitutional majorities. It also rejected Senate amendments on House Bill 107 (Intelligent Speed Assistance System Pilot Program), House Bill 153 (residential rental apartments air conditioning requirement), House Bill 1063 (hunting management), and House Bill 1067 (lead and lead-based ammunition phase out), appointing conference committees in each case. House Bill 717 (Baltimore City raffles for organizations affiliated with professional baseball and football teams) and House Bill 892 (cemeteries, actions for sale/transfer/alternate use) also had Senate amendments rejected. The chamber then passed a series of Senate bills on third reading, including Senate Bill 309 (precious metal bullion or coins sales tax exemption), 523 (vernal pools identification), 742 (Maryland Protecting People with Disabilities Act), 141 (election misinformation/disinformation and deep fakes), 298 (Maryland Capital Police statewide jurisdiction), 515 (Health Services Cost Review Commission rate setting), 638 (Maryland Heritage Areas funding and grants), 28 (state employee arbitration reform), 72 (Baltimore County off-premises alcohol sales), 361 (Baltimore City alcoholic beverages license extension), 414 (Anne Arundel County nonprofit swim club license), 601 (cybersecurity standards), 305 (incarcerated individual training and reentry grant fund extension), 331 (retired law enforcement handgun permit renewal), 516 (protective body armor requirements and reporting), 651 (transfer-on-death deed establishment), 865 (private passenger automobile insurance work group), 933 (temporary appointment to the Commission on Judicial Disabilities), 261 (money transmission act definition changes), and 823 (Parole Commission selection committee changes). Most passed with little or no debate; Senate Bill 523 drew opposition from a delegate who warned that identifying vernal pools could lead to future regulation and land-use restrictions, while Senate Bill 823 prompted questions about victims’ rights and whether state’s attorneys remained opposed, with the floor leader saying the bill added a victims’ rights advocate to the selection committee and that opposition had been limited to written testimony. Several members later changed votes on Senate Bill 638 and Senate Bill 865 before the House moved on.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 02/04/25

Housing and Homelessness Prevention

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:44:10.640> and land rent even when roads water and land rent even when roads water and
  • Many manufactured home communities rely on aging, privately owned infrastructure—water, sewer, roads,
  • for the Minnesota URL and a QR code for the Minnesota tenant<00:59:27.440> Bill<00:59:27.599>
  • um as well Statewide minimum heat code um as well as<00:59:51.280> modernization<00:59:52.280
  • I was thinking about the famous line, “Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink,” because that
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Finance Jun 24th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • The basic idea is that you use cement to isolate each underground water or hydrocarbon formation from
  • salt water that comes up alongside oil and gas.
  • However, neither New Mexico statute or code actually defines the term orphaned well.
  • This is something that had the potential to contaminate water supplies.
  • The use of the statewide price agreement is that it is compared to the rest of the procurement code,
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary (01/08/2026)

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • So like part of it, the pictures people are taking, well, they're on the water.
  • So like part of it, the pictures people are taking, well, they're on the water.
  • So like part of it, the pictures people are taking, well, they're on the water.
  • <00:18:26.720> But taking well they're on the water.
  • But taking well they're on the water.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Appropriations - Human Resources Division Apr 10th, 2025 at 02:00 pm

Appropriations - Human Resources Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • We have the Clean Water SRF program, which does provide loans for wastewater projects.
  • We have the Clean Water SRF program, which does provide loans for wastewater projects.
  • The Washburn drinking water intake, they previously had been on our intended use plan.
  • Section 8, which is also new, creates this chapter of into the Century Code, which replicates what we
  • And I'm not trying to throw—I feel like I'm throwing water on the fire a little bit—but this will take
Bills: SB2015
Summary: The committee first discussed a wastewater infrastructure bill, centered on whether state support should be provided as a grant or through the existing Clean Water State Revolving Fund as a low-interest loan program. Department of Environmental Quality official David Brushwine explained that the SRF already finances wastewater projects, can leverage federal funds with state bond proceeds, and could accommodate the Washburn, Lincoln, and Peasant projects if they are ready to proceed. Members noted that losing federal grant support would make projects harder for local residents to afford because costs would be recovered through utility rates or special assessments, but the projects would still be eligible for loans. Senator Magrum indicated he would likely concur with the budget after this discussion, and the bill was set aside for later consideration. The committee then turned to a proposed amendment for a four-plex housing project for people with disabilities or other special needs. Senator Mathern described Sections 7 and 8 as creating a design consultation appropriation and a revolving loan fund modeled on existing hospital and nursing home loan programs, while Section 9 would transfer $3.3 million from the state infrastructure fund. Members debated ownership, rent subsidies, repayment terms, and whether the state should finance the project directly or leave it to a private developer with Department of Human Services oversight. Concerns were raised that the state should not own the housing and that the proposal needed more work to be workable, but the committee ultimately reached consensus to adopt Sections 7 and 8 and leave out Section 9 for further conference committee discussion. The committee also reviewed provider inflation and long-term care rate issues, with members discussing whether to support a 2% and 1.5% inflation adjustment and how to handle the $5-per-day basic care rate. Staff explained that the $5 payment was already in the base budget, but members debated whether it should remain ongoing or be treated as one-time funding and paired with a study of rate rebasing. The committee agreed to have draft language prepared to remove the $5 from the base budget and add study language, then moved the bill forward for drafting.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Jan 28th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • Code Red Defense. Thank you, NDI, thank you, dancers, thank you.
  • been read twice by title, is ordered printed and referred to the House Agriculture, Securities, and Water
  • been read twice by title, is ordered printed and referred to the House Agriculture, Securities, and Water
  • la Cruz (member_14046), an act relating to traffic laws, amending a definition in the Motor Vehicle Code
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion

Transcript Highlights:
  • Stop passing my water, please. Pass my phone. And when you compare it, I get more to rain.
  • I don't want to call for water, but you just leave here. That's frozen. It was frozen.
  • Just brought water out.
  • That suggests existing DEI efforts will be significantly watered down, if not cut entirely.
  • What remains lawful, however, are things like race-neutral criteria such as zip codes, tying admission
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion held a hearing on the impact of federal policy on the racial wealth gap in Massachusetts, the fourth in a series on federal impacts on racial equity. Chair Bud Williams and Chair Miranda opened by emphasizing that no bills were being heard and that the committee would instead take testimony from invited witnesses; public written testimony was also accepted. The chairs and witnesses repeatedly cited long-standing wealth disparities affecting Black and brown communities, including homeownership, wages, business ownership, and access to capital, and linked those disparities to federal policy changes, housing, education, health care, and workforce development. Administration officials testified first. Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Lauren Jones described persistent labor market disparities, including higher unemployment for Black and Latino residents, lower median hourly wages, and underemployment among degree holders, and highlighted state efforts such as ESOL-for-work funding, workforce training grants, MassHire career centers, skills-based hiring, and the state equity dashboards. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kiami Mahania argued that poverty drives poor health, not the reverse, and said wealth gaps contribute to chronic disease, maternal health inequities, medical debt, and shorter life expectancy; she pointed to the Advancing Health Equity Massachusetts initiative, a health care affordability working group, and the governor’s push to bar medical debt from credit reporting. Assistant Secretary Juan Vega of EOED focused on entrepreneurship and procurement, citing technical assistance grants, founder support programs, place-based investment, the Business Front Door, and the need to broaden access to contracts, capital, and business growth opportunities. Committee members pressed the panel on the effects of the federal “big beautiful bill” on households, especially single-parent and Black women-led households, and on whether the state could develop more timely data systems instead of relying on federal numbers. Officials said the impacts were still being monitored, but warned that Medicaid and SNAP changes would likely hit lower-income households and community institutions hard. Members also asked about unions and apprenticeships, microbusiness definitions, supplier diversity, pay equity, and degree inflation; the administration said registered apprenticeships and skills-based hiring are key tools, and noted that wage equity reporting is still in its early stages. Later testimony from BECMA’s Nicole O’Bean stressed that tariffs, DEI rollbacks, immigration enforcement, capital gaps, and federal funding cuts are constraining Black-owned businesses and inclusive procurement, while Gastón Institute researchers described severe Latino homeownership and rent burdens, educational inequities, and the need for housing, labor, and education policy changes to close the wealth gap.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • 40, affirming our inherent rights to life, safety, and access to justice; the California Government Code
  • tribal consultation, ensuring engagement with all California tribal nations, and by reforming state codes
  • of PL 280 and so many times, I know my colleagues in the legislature, we hear it over and over on water
  • of PL 280 and so many times, I know my colleagues and the legislature, we hear it over and over on water
  • rights, and the legislature, we hear it over and over, on water rights, on different rights, that when
Summary: The Select Committee on Native American Affairs opened its 2025 hearing with a traditional song and remarks about the importance of Native visibility and land acknowledgment. The hearing focused on missing and murdered Indigenous people (MMIP), exploitation and trafficking in a Public Law 280 (PL 280) state, and California’s response. Members and tribal leaders emphasized that MMIP is tied to historical trauma, forced removal, undercounting, and ongoing inequities in law enforcement response, media attention, and access to resources. Several panelists urged stronger tribal consultation, better data collection, more funding, and culturally informed education and victim services. In the first panel, tribal chairpersons described personal and community impacts. Chairperson Antonet Del Rio spoke about the need to include federally and non-federally recognized tribes and to educate schools and communities, while naming long-unsolved cases from her tribe. Chairperson Cheyenne Stone connected MMIP to the history of violence in Owens Valley and to the disturbance of Indigenous remains during infrastructure projects, calling for forensic resources, mandatory consultation, and accountability. Chairperson Charles Martin described the death of Morongo citizen Amy Porter and said the Feather Alert failed her family because law enforcement did not act quickly enough; he called for reforms and better coordination, especially in PL 280 jurisdictions. Chairwoman Nelson and committee members echoed the need for equity, urgency, and government-to-government respect. The second panel examined how PL 280 complicates MMIP and trafficking cases. Professor Carol Goldberg explained that PL 280 created an unfunded mandate, reduced federal jurisdiction and funding, and contributed to under-resourced policing and mistrust; she recommended mandatory training, community-oriented policing, formal tribal-county collaboration, and possible retrocession in some cases. Yurok Chairman Joe James tied MMIP to boarding schools, trafficking, and the need to advance bills such as AB 31, SB 4, ACR 39, AB 285, and AB 1378, along with increased budget funding. Morning Star Gali argued that PL 280 enables traffickers and violent offenders to exploit jurisdictional gaps and called for tribally led public safety, housing, victim services, and stronger consultation. Dustin Contreras, a human trafficking investigator, described the overlap between trafficking and MMIP, stressed partnerships and task forces, and supported more education for law enforcement, schools, and families. In the final panel, state and county officials described current efforts and acknowledged remaining gaps. The Attorney General’s Office said it is working on MICIC outreach, tribal response planning, PL 280 training through an advisory council, and improved data systems, while supporting bills and the Feather Alert. Humboldt County Sheriff Hansel described the case of a missing woman, Emily, as an example of how people with mental illness or justice involvement can become invisible, and said counties need more consistent training and clearer jurisdictional protocols. He and other officials supported the Feather Alert, tribal police authority, and a pilot program for POST status for tribal police, which they said had been vetoed previously. Across the hearing, speakers repeatedly called for better coordination, more funding, stronger tribal authority, and sustained action rather than symbolic recognition.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Education Policy - 03/26/25

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This did have a small modification on 32.8; it just stops at an Internal Revenue Code, I think.
  • I think the bill as it came Revenue code I think the bill as it came before<00:29:25.880> the
  • This is just moving some language to a part of the code where it makes more sense to keep it.
  • <00:58:28.280> of<00:58:28.440> federal to the code of federal to the code of federal
  • and even use that know sparkling water and even use that to<01:10:52.960> put<01:10:53.120>
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations - Room 216, 24 February, 2026; 1:30 PM

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • In many times, these code sections hadn't been touched in several decades.
  • In many times, these code sections hadn't been touched in several decades.
  • And so we are taking, I think it's 2.6 million lines of code, have to be refactored.
  • <00:41:47.119> have<00:41:47.359> to<00:41:47.520> be million lines of code
  • bath water, which is essentially<01:09:17.120> what<01:09:17.359> we<01:09:17.520>
Summary: Legislative leaders opened the hearing by focusing on statewide technology issues affecting agencies, including rising IT costs, cloud migration, cybersecurity risks, procurement delays, and the need for better coordination across government systems. They said the meeting was intended to hear from agency directors about current challenges and possible legislative solutions. The ITS director described the state’s IT structure as decentralized but increasingly moving toward shared services. He highlighted recent legislative and executive actions on cloud computing, artificial intelligence, procurement modernization, and data sharing, including House Bill 1491, Senate Bill 2426, Senate Bill 2267, House Bill 958, and an executive order on AI. He said ITS has worked with large agencies on a cloud center of excellence, a procurement modernization advisory council, and a state data exchange, and noted plans for a master contract, potentially with OpenAI, that could be available to all public entities. He also emphasized cybersecurity, saying the state is seeking a secure operations center and a broader “cyber maturity” approach after recent incidents. On procurement, he said the goal is to speed up purchasing while keeping it safe, and on optimization he pointed to potential savings from consolidating duplicate agreements, such as multiple Microsoft enterprise contracts. In response to questions, he said exceptions to centralization would be based on business and technical architecture and regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, CISA, or FERPA, rather than ad hoc decisions.
FL

Florida 2026 4th Special Session

February 16, 2026 - 03:30 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • Water and Wastewater Revolving Loan Programs for $569.2 million.
  • Restoration, $348.7 million; water quality improvement grant program and local water projects totaling
  • Could you talk about that decision to reduce the local water projects?
  • For local water projects this year, we allocated $175.4 million.
  • Strike all bar code. You're recognized to introduce that amendment.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate Chamber Feb 9th, 2026 at 11:18 am

New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Unanimous consent to allow for a relaxed dress code to allow jeans worn by our guests, not our members
  • . ...for a relaxed dress code to allow jeans worn by our guests, not our members, our guests.
  • He actually went to Guatemala to help implement a portable water system for a community of 1,500 people
  • submission of Senate Bill 149, a bill amending the definition of residential property in the property tax code
  • They had to go through 100 feet of water and mud to get to the bottom of the bay: concrete, explosions
Keywords: 996, all
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

House - Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Jan 28th, 2025

House Energy, Environment & Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • line 14, and then through sections six to ten, it's pretty much reformatting the way that this tax code
  • instance, aerospace and space, biosciences, advanced computing, and other types of clean energy and water
  • Finally, the National Electric Code has been. provided for safety measures to address risks of fire.
  • In the public comments, there are new energy codes to update that, and there are a lot of safety features
  • You cannot put that out by even putting it in water; that continues to burn.