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KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • Our program is a little bit lesser known in that we are what's called a when resources allow program.
  • Uh and when resources allow program.
  • , their work through our grant program, their work through our grant program, which<00:26:20.159>
  • I think it's program is important.
  • Flood Insurance Program around 350. So Flood Insurance Program around 350.
Keywords: 958, all
Summary: The task force met with a quorum, approved the August meeting minutes, and heard a presentation from Dr. Jerry Brosky of the Kentucky Mesonet and Kentucky Climate Center. He described the Mesonet’s statewide weather network, now with 84 stations in 78 counties, real-time data used by the National Weather Service, mobile apps, and more than a billion observations. He said recent legislative funding has allowed upgrades such as soil temperature and moisture sensors, cameras at every site, and improved communications and power systems, and has enabled expansion into new counties. He also highlighted products used for flooding, drought, and heat safety, including a wet bulb globe temperature tool being developed with the Department of Public Health. In response to questions, he said counties interested in a station should contact his center, that a station typically costs about $50,000, and that the program is already considering a second Pike County site. The committee then heard from Ryan Drain of Blue Skies and Chris McGee of the American Red Cross on long-term disaster recovery and a software platform called Darcy, short for Disaster Aware and Ready Communities Initiative. McGee explained the Red Cross’s long-term recovery work, including support for recovery groups, direct financial assistance, grantmaking, and coordination with local and federal partners. He emphasized that disasters are occurring more frequently and with repeated impacts, and shared examples from Kentucky and other states showing the need for organized recovery and storm shelter support. Drain said Darcy was developed after the 2021 Mayfield-Graves tornado recovery to replace fragmented spreadsheets and PDFs with a centralized, survivor-led system for preparedness, response, and recovery, designed to improve coordination, reduce duplication, and shorten recovery time. No votes or formal actions were taken beyond adoption of the minutes.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part I) Mar 19th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • 1505 is going to expand our compassionate use program that Texas has today.
  • those efforts to expand the program.
  • What happens if a school district has a diversity program? What's the impact?
  • It appears to me that programs like that, programs like the state and federal requirements to consider
  • Floyd became deceased. programs under the guise that these particular programs just drive. division within
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part III) Mar 19th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so in this case, just to be clear, we're talking about a program. drag queen story hour that the
  • This bill simply says that if a library brings that program for children They get no money from the taxpayers
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

WLA Public Hearing 04-15-2026

Water, Land, Culture and the Arts

Transcript Highlights:
  • director of the Native<00:18:14.000> Hawaiian<00:18:14.320> Youth<00:18:14.560> Program
  • This program is so much more than just land preservation.
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  • is so much more than just a a program is so much more than just a a land<00:57:27.000> preservation
  • <01:01:57.640> is Michael Buck that the the program is Michael Buck that the the program is
Keywords: 912, senate, all
Summary: The committee took up several gubernatorial nominations, beginning with GM 640 for Juanita Rio Colón to the Commission on Water Resource Management. Public testimony and the nominee’s remarks strongly emphasized her water-system management background, Native Hawaiian stewardship values, and representation for Molokai. Committee members praised her qualifications and neighbor-island perspective, and also discussed broader concerns about reforming the Water Commission, including a separate bill to create a more independent authority and reduce politics in water decisions. Colón said she supported the restructuring effort and would serve with integrity and attention to constitutional water rights and climate resilience. The committee then heard GM 639 for Moses Haia III to the same commission. DLNR and OHA testified, and Haia described his long legal career, prior work on the Waihole contested case, and experience with Native Hawaiian rights and water law. Members asked about his ability to serve impartially given his advocacy background; Haia acknowledged that some may perceive a conflict from his prior work but said he did not believe it was a reasonable conflict and would follow the law and balance competing interests. The discussion again returned to the proposed Water Commission restructuring, which Haia said he supported as a way to provide independence and balance. Next, the committee considered GM 649 for Gilbert Coloma to the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. DLNR and other testifiers explained that this was a new interstate commission created under the 2024 act, with Hawaii joining six U.S. states to address fisheries issues across state boundaries. Coloma, a commercial fisher from Hilo, said he brought more than 40 years of industry, cultural, and traditional experience and would represent Hawaii’s fishing communities. Members asked about the commission’s structure, meeting rotation, and funding, and were told the state covers dues through special funds. The committee also briefly took up GM 692 for Riley Smith’s reappointment to the Board of Land and Natural Resources. The Hawaii Cattlemen’s Council supported him, while Sierra Club Hui raised concerns about prior decisions affecting Native Hawaiian rights and public trust resources. Smith said he supported more residential uses in East Kapolei if the necessary planning and environmental review changes were made, and he began responding to questions about prior BLNR litigation before the transcript cut off.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Children and Family Law (04/03/2025)

Children and Family Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • that are involved with the Division for Children, Youth, and Families, as well as community-based voluntary
  • that are involved with the Division for Children, Youth, and Families, as well as community-based voluntary
  • this bill really should be passed because to have an oversight committee will assist the foster care program
  • So I think that this oversight committee can really assist the foster care program, and it's very necessary
  • So I think that this oversight committee can really assist the foster care program, and it's very necessary
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, January 21, 2026)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • :32.000> to These aren't government programs to These aren't government programs to them.<00:17
  • <00:39:42.240> in funding for three critical programs in funding for three critical programs
  • our anti-hunger programs and end hunger. our anti-hunger programs and end hunger.
  • Thank you and for deny family programs.
  • ,<04:23:54.239> which crisis affecting the TANF program, which crisis affecting the TANF program
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Delivery of Government Efficiency Mar 5th, 2025

Delivery of Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • 53 agencies. and programs.
  • Our dental programs, our vision programs, we go out to bid.
  • the SNAP Program.
  • We also have a program that we call the lock-in program.
  • But do you all have a reward program, like a Crimestoppers type reward program?
Keywords: 1184, house, all
MD

Maryland 2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session, 4/10/2026 #2

Maryland House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 1181, Family Law, Children in Out-of-Home Placement, Voluntary Placement Agreements, Amendment
  • House Bill 1599, Choptank River Enhancement Program and Maryland Seafood Industry Financial Assistance
  • House Bill 107, Motor Vehicles Intelligent Speed Assistance System Pilot Program Establishment, Amendment
  • Senate Bill 742, Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Developmental Disabilities Administration Home
  • Koch completed the NASA Academy program at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.
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.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

Senate Education (03/10/2026)

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • HB 1467 is a bipartisan bill establishing a new voluntary program, the New Hampshire Seal of Civic Excellence
  • states to adopt civic seal programs states to adopt civic seal programs because<00:05:36.400>
  • compliance with um the USDA program. compliance with um the USDA program.
  • more flexibility in the program. more flexibility in the program.
  • school program?
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

JHA Public Hearing - Wed Mar 18, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • programs and stabilization facilities? programs and stabilization facilities?
  • costs. to improve how the program functions in to improve how the program functions in practice. practice
  • <02:13:39.440> more would help make the program more would help make the program more practical
  • It simply overall program costs.
  • <02:17:58.800> Um participate in the program. Um participate in the program.
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 3123, which would treat free tuition or school-conditioned enrollment at private educational institutions as a conditional gift rather than a contractual obligation unless otherwise agreed in writing. The Office of the Governor supported the bill, and Kamehameha Schools and the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools strongly backed it, saying it would protect donor intent, preserve school-ohana relationships, and help maintain tuition assistance and educational access for families. A committee member commented favorably on the unity among school organizations, and there were no objections raised before the committee moved on. The committee then took up Senate Bill 2438, which creates a civil cause of action for interference with constitutional and statutory rights through threats, intimidation, or coercion, with private and government enforcement options and protections for constitutionally protected speech. Testifiers from the Community Alliance on Prisons and a know-your-rights educator supported the measure as a civil rights protection grounded in the Hawaii Constitution. No opposition testimony was presented during the hearing, and the measure appeared to receive general support from those who testified. Finally, the committee heard Senate Bill 3142, which establishes offenses for dangerous and habitual dangerous intoxication and allows civil protective custody and emergency examination in lieu of arrest in certain cases. The Attorney General, Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Department of Health, and Department of Human Services supported the bill as a treatment-oriented diversion tool for people who are dangerously intoxicated and at risk to themselves or the public. The Office of the Public Defender opposed the measure, warning it could expand police discretion, burden emergency rooms, and function as a loss of liberty without sufficient treatment resources, while committee members questioned whether the bill would simply cycle people through emergency rooms and back onto the street. No vote or final action was taken in the portion provided; the chair said decision-making would occur at the end of the agenda.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Natural Resources Jul 15th, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • I mean, most districts do have monitoring programs.
  • The board adopted rules for this program at its April 2025 meeting.
  • and supporting community-to-community programs.
  • and supporting community-to-community programs.
  • , non-regulatory water protection through the Texas Forestry Best Management Program.
Summary: The committee held a hearing on high-capacity groundwater wells proposed in Anderson, Henderson, and Houston counties, with members framing the issue as one of local water supply, fairness, and the need to modernize groundwater law while protecting private property rights. Opening remarks focused on the scale of the proposed Redtown Ranch and Pine Bliss projects, the potential export of tens of thousands of acre-feet of groundwater annually, and concerns that the applications lacked sufficient technical detail and could harm nearby landowners, cities, agriculture, and manufacturing. Members also noted the broader context of the recent flooding tragedy in central Texas and the Legislature’s intent to address water-related loss of life in the upcoming special session. Witnesses from the Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts and the Texas Water Development Board explained the current groundwater management framework. They described groundwater conservation districts as the state’s preferred management method, the role of groundwater management areas and desired future conditions, and how the Water Development Board uses those conditions to calculate modeled available groundwater. They emphasized that districts rely on local data, monitoring wells, and planning processes, but that information is often more limited in areas without a district, where the rule of capture applies. Members pressed witnesses on recharge rates, export permits, subsidence, the effect of pumping on nearby wells, the age and real-time availability of model data, and whether the proposed project would exceed modeled available groundwater in some counties. TCEQ explained its limited oversight role over groundwater conservation districts, including inquiries, compliance actions, and, in extreme cases, dissolution authority. Water Development Board staff also outlined funding programs, saying the New Water Supply for Texas Fund is limited to projects such as brackish desalination, reuse, ASR, and other new-supply projects, and does not fund fresh groundwater exports alone. They said the project at issue had not applied for board funding. A water lawyer then testified on the rule of capture, ownership in place, and district regulation, arguing that districts must use permitting and other tools to manage production within modeled available groundwater and that the Legislature could consider additional authority over groundwater exports under current law.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - Part 1 - 03/21/25

Judiciary and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • will be required to be on the program. will be required to be on the program.
  • AG office also involved in this program AG office also involved in this program and<02:08:52.480
  • the first episode of psychosis program the first episode of psychosis program and<02:12:32.000><
  • :33.679> know and bipolar program because we know and bipolar program because we know again<02
  • grant programs that are included here. grant programs that are included here.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 23rd, 2026 at 09:30 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We are so proud of him and the program that he has built at Deer Creek. I'm so proud of you guys.
  • I'm really honored to be able to work on this pilot program with my work in dyslexia and trying to ensure
  • the classroom with a 3.9 weighted GPA and a dedicated volunteer within his church in local youth programs
  • House Bill 3372 creates a revolving loan fund program for charters charter School capital expenditures
  • This is the program that you've seen in the budget limits bill for the Department of Education.