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AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Committee Jan 28th, 2026

Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry

Transcript Highlights:
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  • :10:21.200><c> changing</c><00:10:21.600><c> that</c><00:10:21.839><c> law</c> commission to look at
  • changing that law commission to look at changing that law to<00:10:22.320><c> allow</c><00:10:22.560>
  • So, it's appropriate that they be a part of the commission, and we'd ask you to consider amending it.
  • So, it's appropriate that they be a part of the commission, and we'd ask you to consider amending it.
Bills: SB125 , SB123 , SB124 , HB38 , SB125 , SB123 , SB124 , HB38
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Finance Jan 27th, 2026 at 08:00 am

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • KC Help provides DME service at no cost to our clients.
  • I'll close the public hearing.
  • services.
  • These services include custom software, custom web design, IT services, security and investigative services
  • These services include custom software, custom web design, IT services, security and investigative services
Bills: HB2175 , HB2227 , HB2528 , HB2292 , HB2257 , HB2608
Committee: House Finance
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Natural Resources May 27th, 2026

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • Concurrent Resolution 79 by Representative Butler memorializes Congress and the United States Forest Service
  • we're urging and requesting the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to work with the Federal Forest Service
  • Forest Service instead of memorializing. That's basically all it does.
  • Concurrent Resolution 54 by Representative Fontenot urges and requests the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
  • I'd like to mention that I believe exactly a week ago today, Wildlife and Fisheries had a public meeting
Bills: HCR54 , HCR79 , HCR87 , HCR94 , HCR104 , HB1209
Summary: The Senate Natural Resources Committee met on March 27 with a quorum present, approved prior minutes, and then took up several resolutions and one bill related to wildlife, water resources, and conservation. H.C.R. 79, as amended, urged the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to work together to allow the use of dogs for hunting in Kisatchie National Forest; supporters described it as a traditional hunting practice that has been restricted for years and could benefit local hunters and businesses. H.C.R. 104, as amended, asked the Department of Conservation and Energy and the Louisiana Geological Survey to study and modernize the collection, retention, and access to subsurface data, with members emphasizing the need to avoid sharing company-specific information. H.C.R. 87 was reported favorably to support correspondence from U.S. Sen. Kennedy regarding duck flyway management, H.C.R. 54 was reported favorably to study the impact of flooded corn on migratory waterfowl and restore an enforcement mechanism related to hunting over intentionally flooded crops, and H.C.R. 94 was reported favorably to require annual boating safety reports to legislative committees. The committee then heard HB 1209, which would have paused new cooperative endeavor agreements for surface water withdrawals while allowing existing agreements to continue and be renewed through December 31, 2036. The author said the bill was intended to give the state time to develop a more comprehensive, data-driven surface water strategy and to address invasive species such as giant salvinia, which he said has severely affected waterways in his district. Members and witnesses acknowledged the seriousness of the issue, but there was concern that the bill was too complex to move quickly in the session. The committee discussed converting it into a study resolution instead, and the bill was deferred without objection. The meeting then adjourned.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 4/13/26

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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  • </c><00:14:17.160><c> This</c> or duplicative services. This or duplicative services.
  • First of all, it's a service.
  • </c> neutral thing as a service to customers? neutral thing as a service to customers?
  • I submit these remarks with great respect and appreciate each of your service to the public.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Aeronautics and Transportation Apr 6th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Aeronautics and Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Doyle from Service Oklahoma here. If you'd be okay, he could maybe approach the mic.
  • I know that Service Oklahoma is the one that prepared the physical impact, so they'd probably be able
  • Jade Oyle, the director of Service Oklahoma, so there are no, there is no fiscal impact because we're
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Aeronautics and Transportation Apr 6th, 2026

Aeronautics and Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 3015 authorizes Service Oklahoma to issue electronic credentials for driver's licenses.
  • Doyle from Service Oklahoma here, if it'd be okay. He could maybe approach the mic.
  • I know that Service Oklahoma is the one that prepared the fiscal impact, so they'd probably be able to
  • Adewill, the Director of Service Oklahoma.
  • Bill 3323 removes the notarization requirement for documents submitted in an electronic format to Service
Summary: The Senate Aeronautics and Transportation Committee met and first laid over House Bills 3148 and 3982. It then heard and advanced several transportation-related measures, including HB 1411, which establishes the True Grit Trail to promote tourism in southeast Oklahoma; HB 2980, which lets tag agencies accept alternate proof of insurance when the online verification system is unavailable; HB 3015, which authorizes Service Oklahoma to issue electronic driver’s licenses; and HB 3147, which creates a Route 66 Centennial specialty license plate. All of those bills were reported out with unanimous or near-unanimous support and no stated fiscal impact in the cases discussed. The committee also advanced HB 3277, allowing vendors to use the National Insurance Crime Bureau for vehicle inspections when Highway Patrol staffing is limited, and HB 3323, which removes notarization requirements for certain electronic documents submitted to Service Oklahoma. HB 3443, which raises oversized and overweight permit fees to help fund weigh stations and reduce pressure on the roads fund, drew questions about prior funding and was estimated by ODOT to generate about $15 million; it advanced on a 9-1 vote. HB 3882, creating a dedicated revolving fund for industrial access and lake access improvement projects, also advanced on a 9-1 vote. Testimony was generally supportive, with authors explaining the bills as administrative efficiencies, tourism promotion, or funding adjustments. ODOT and Service Oklahoma officials answered questions on fiscal impact and implementation, including that the electronic credential system would be integrated with manufacturers like Apple and Google at no state cost. The committee noted it had several more House bills to hear in coming weeks and then adjourned.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 2/23/26

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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  • So now we can move to public testifiers. Any members of the public wishing to testify?
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  • services provided.
  • services provided.
Bills: HF362 , HF2590 , HF2760 , HF3444
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Human Services May 13th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Committee on Human Services will come to order. The clerk will call the roll.
  • CCRCs are adding services like memory care, hospice, and home-based services, but many are reducing nursing
  • home or skilled nursing services at each location.
  • Different locations may have different services offered.
  • It's important Texas seniors understand what services a community provides.
Bills: SB500 , SB1522 , SB1137 , SB1266
Summary: The Committee on Human Services met with a quorum and first voted out Senate Bill 1589, relating to contract requirements between a single-source continuum contractor and DFPS. The motion to report the bill favorably to the full House with a recommendation that it do pass and be printed prevailed on a 7-0 vote. The committee then heard Senate Bill 500, which would set deadlines for providing foster care adoption records, including health, social, educational, and genetic history reports, to speed adoptions. The bill’s author and witnesses from Addie’s Hope Social Services supported it, saying delays in redacted files can take months, slow permanency for children, and increase costs to the state. Members asked about redactions and sibling/family information, and witnesses explained the bill would mainly speed the preliminary file used to decide whether to proceed with placement. SB 500 was left pending. Members also heard Senate Bill 1266, which would require regular reevaluation of the Medicaid provider support team and add written notice of provider disenrollment at least 30 days in advance. There were no witnesses, no questions, and the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 1522, concerning continuing care retirement communities, was then laid out and supported by LeadingAge Texas and counsel, who said it updates outdated definitions, clarifies licensing and disclosure rules, and strengthens consumer protections for seniors. It was also left pending. After a brief recess, the committee heard Senate Bill 1137, which would prohibit group home consultants from referring people to unlicensed or unpermitted group homes except in limited circumstances, require disclosure of complaints, and create a Class B misdemeanor for violations. Members discussed whether consultants are regulated and noted concerns about unlicensed referral practices. The bill was left pending, and the committee adjourned after completing its agenda.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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  • extensive services.
  • extensive services.
  • , cleaning services, home care, maybe some transportation services.
Bills: HF1380 , HF1166 , HF487 , HF1553 , HF1472 , HF258 , HF1911
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Like I said, it can be county, municipal, or State, any one of those public entities. OK.
  • Is that the reason for the exemption or the deletion of the wording about a public hearing?
  • >> Yes, so the public hearing, I'm sorry, thank you for your question, Representative.
  • Um, the dairy Services program falls under, we help regulate that.
  • There's no way for the wrecker services to deal with it.
Committee: House Agriculture
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Agriculture REVISED: SB722 - Link added Apr 6th, 2026

Agriculture

Transcript Highlights:
  • Any one of those public entities. Okay. I believe we have an additional question.
  • So the public hearing— I'm sorry, thank you for your question, Representative—the hearing that it is
  • Representative Newton, what is the rationale behind deleting the language about having a public hearing
  • The Dairy Services Program falls under the... we hope, The Dairy Services Program falls under the...
  • There's no way for the wreck services to deal with it.
Committee: House Agriculture
Summary: The committee began by introducing new member Rep. Dylan Travis, who was elected in a special election and will represent District 35. The first measures taken up focused on water policy. HB 1346, as amended, would create a revolving fund for water and wastewater infrastructure loans through the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, with the amendment removing population-based language so infrastructure needs can be considered more broadly; it passed 9-0. SB 1509 would make well-spacing standards apply uniformly across the state by aquifer rather than waiting on maximum annual yield studies, and OWRB staff explained that domestic wells are not affected and existing rules still protect landowners; it passed 6-3. SB 1928 would establish a five-year flex allocation for groundwater use, allowing producers to shift unused water from one year to another, and it passed 7-2. The committee also considered several agriculture and food-related bills. SB 2028 would authorize the sale of raw milk products without consumer notification or container labeling beyond indicating the product is unpasteurized; it passed 8-0. SB 2071 would align Oklahoma’s Grade A milk regulations with federal standards and increase the dairy inspection fee from 1 cent to 2 cents per hundred pounds, but after concerns from members and testimony from ODAF about the fee burden, the committee adopted an amendment restoring the 1-cent rate; the bill then passed 8-1. SB 2110 would allow sale of ungraded eggs off-farm at farmers’ markets or directly to consumers, including unwashed eggs, and passed 9-0. SB 2117 would clarify that the Department of Agriculture can stop the sale of contaminated grain and direct remediation or destruction in a current contamination event involving sewer leakage into a field; it passed 9-0. Other measures addressed livestock transport, crop protection, hemp, and a proposed reimbursement scheme. SB 2134 would create procedures for wreck services and emergency management to handle livestock involved in transportation accidents, with the Department of Agriculture setting humane handling policies; members discussed whether the bill should explicitly address state or county emergency management and rail incidents, and it passed 8-0. SB 2127 was described as a work in progress to address crop protection and nontraditional producer practices, especially amid difficult conditions for row-crop producers, and it passed 8-1. SB 722, after the committee rescinded a prior referral, was presented as a new section requiring ODAF to reimburse agricultural operations for economic losses caused by agency actions enforcing court-ordered rules from an attorney general suit; after extensive questioning about scope, valuation, and legal effects, the author laid the bill over for further work. Finally, SB 3, on a newly adopted PCS, was reframed from a biosolids bill into a hemp-definition bill intended to align state law with the new federal definition and reduce youth access to marijuana-like hemp products; it passed 8-0. The meeting then adjourned.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/25/2026 - Senate Judiciary and Elections

Judiciary and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • I believe my experience in public safety, as well as my work with victim services...
  • I believe my experience in public safety, as well as my work with victim services, incarcerated people
  • disclosure under public records law.
  • There is a university in Florida.
  • Government exists, in my opinion, to protect public safety.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/10/26

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • I call this meeting of the House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee to order.
  • So, we will public sign up to testify.
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  • </c> that nexus between the military service that nexus between the military service and<01:21:08.719
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

ECD Public Hearing - Wed Feb 18, 2026 @ 9:30 AM HST

Economic Development & Technology

Transcript Highlights:
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  • Uh, as Hawaii Public Health Institute.
  • I'm Chris Coff from the Hawaii Public Health Institute.
  • I just want to care service tax credit.
  • And that's where I it out to the public.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several measures, beginning with HB 2410 relating to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Testifiers from HTDC and the Hawaii Food Industry Association stood on written testimony, and members discussed the funding request, which was described as $1 million each for three programs, for a total of $3 million. The measure appeared to have broad support, with no opposition noted. The committee then took up HB 2235 HD1 on the military and community relations office, where Lori Moore of MACC asked for additional funding to support local businesses and education-to-career initiatives statewide. Members asked about the amount, and the request was identified as $1.3 million total. HB 904 on space operations followed, with three supporters and one opponent, though no substantive testimony was captured beyond the vote counts. HB 2201 on state enterprise zones drew testimony from Georgia Skinner of DBEDT’s Creative Industries division, who said the measure would build on a well-run enterprise zone program and help make Hawaii’s film industry more competitive. Tom Yamashita of the Tax Foundation also provided comments. The committee then considered HB 2349 relating to DCCA and DBEDT coordination; DCCA explained it already provides links and information to DBEDT programs, while DBEDT argued that direct data sharing would allow more proactive outreach. Members raised privacy and cost concerns, and DBEDT said it would consider opt-in collection and acknowledged system changes and possible funding needs. The committee also heard two tax credit bills. HB 1972 HD1, on a caregiver tax credit, received strong support from AARP, the Hawaii Public Health Institute, the Hawaii Children’s Action Network, and others, who described caregivers as an “invisible workforce” and argued the credit would help families keep loved ones at home and reduce financial strain. The Tax Foundation suggested a grant or subsidy program might be more efficient than a tax credit and raised concerns about debarment provisions. HB 20007 HD1, on the household and dependent care services tax credit, also drew strong support from public health and family advocacy groups, who said Hawaii families face some of the nation’s highest child care costs and that the bill would better reflect current expenses; the Tax Foundation again raised technical concerns about complexity and debarment. Members asked about fiscal impacts, and testimony indicated the current credit costs about $6 million, with the bill expected to increase that amount. The committee then moved on to HB 2385 HD1 on housing, where the Deputy Attorney General began presenting written comments on whether the bill limits county authority.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/10/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • And I will be letting the public know what this bill does and what this system does because the public
  • It simply provides data through public-facing license plates.
  • and the providers should be paid for the services they do.
  • We're talking about employment in group home services and home services, day programs, respite services
  • An unassigned authorization means the individual has been authorized for service, but the service hasn't
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • And I was trying to wrap my head around some of the things that I've seen in a very few of our public
  • You for the question This is a vote in Bixby public schools that went to a vote of 3 to 2 to pass to
  • You're simply saying that they're not going to get it from our taxpayer-funded public.
  • We've lost out on $118 million in our public schools just on those schools.
  • But this has the ability to add several million dollars back into our public schools of money that we
Bills: HB4359 , HB4115 , HB3467 , HB2978 , HB3026 , HB3032
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Human Services Apr 15th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill simply adds one FTE to HHSC, one full-time employee at Health and Human Services Commission
  • Texas has a robust array of public facing services.
  • Think about Teetum, Emergency Disaster Response, HHSC, and the public health services that they offer
  • As I've mentioned previously, Health and Human Services Commission reported an increase in the use of
  • Additionally, we get high, high marks from the Health and Human Services Commission and the Office of
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Apr 15th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • . welfare services.
  • The Health and Human Services Commission, Office of the Inspector General, Department of Veterans Affairs
  • We have previous calls for service at this location.
  • Would that be Health and Human Services? Yes.
  • So we're growing and expanding our services.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Apr 15th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill adds one FTE to HHSC, one full-time employee to the Health and Human Services Commission.
  • Texas has a robust array of public-facing services. Think about T-DOM.
  • Emergency Disaster Response, HHSC, and the public health services that they offer are public-facing.
  • So we are required, with our state funds, to go through the Health and Human Services Commission.
  • Batiste, Health and Human Services Commission is neutral on the bill. Is that all correct?