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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm the owner of Marksman General Contractors.
- I'm also a proud member of ABC Texas, the Associated Builders and Contractors.
- My name is Jeffrey Tawala, and I'm the president of the Associated Builders and Contractors of Texas.
- The bill further specifies that the system may be purchased by a contractor and installed in a resident's
- homestead under a lump-sum contract, or may be purchased by or on behalf of a contractor for the owner
Committee:
Senate Finance
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session-Day 2, February 10, 2026-AM
Wyoming Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- So, this bill deals with independent contractors.
- </c> bill deals with independent contractors. bill deals with independent contractors.
- that's been in Wyoming law uh contractor that's been in Wyoming law uh for<00:48:30.079><c> quite</c
- It provides independent contractors with an opportunity to access portable benefits.
- </c><00:49:40.480><c> and</c> exist for an independent contractor and exist for an independent contractor
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- harbor for employers who have been found to have misclassified their employee as an independent contractor
- harbor for employers who have been found to have misclassified their employee as an independent contractor
- and it involves independent contractor and it involves cases<00:07:34.240><c> where</c><00:07:34.400
- so this you know independent contractor so this you know isn't<00:08:26.199><c> really</c><00:08:26.440
- If a person is tied forever as a contractor when we know it's an employee, it causes issues trying to
Committee:
Senate Taxes
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26
Higher Education Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- These projects translate directly into high-paying jobs for the constituents you represent: contractors
- These projects translate directly into high-paying jobs for the constituents you represent: contractors
- Contractors, trades people, architects, and engineers across the state.
- And when those vendors<00:35:58.800><c> and</c><00:35:59.200><c> contractors</c><00:36:00.000><c> have
- and contractors have money, they spend<00:36:01.119><c> them</c><00:36:01.280><c> in</c><00:36:01.520
Bills:
HF4266
Committee:
House Higher Education Finance and Policy
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
TOU/EDT Joint Info Briefing - Mon Jun 23, 2025 @ 10:00 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> major contractors, HBC and CHA, right? major contractors, HBC and CHA, right?
- </c> is to identify outstanding contractor is to identify outstanding contractor issues.<01:46:11.280
- </c> a group meeting of a contractor or what? a group meeting of a contractor or what?
- Can you explain the contractors? They wrote the what? Can you explain the contractors?
- Is that your external contractors.
Summary:
The joint House and Senate tourism briefing focused on the Hawaii Tourism Authority’s interim action plans, current projects, contract oversight, destination management action plans (DMAPs), and the impact of recent legislation and audit findings. Interim CEO Caroline Anderson said she accepted the temporary role to help address agency challenges, emphasized rebuilding trust, and said HTA is reviewing the state auditor’s concerns and posting its response publicly. She also described HTA’s mission and organizational structure under SB 1571, including reporting lines to the governor, the director, and the board, and outlined staff additions in finance, brand marketing, destination stewardship, and planning.
A major topic was the permanent CEO search. HTA board chair Tata Po said the goal is to select a CEO within about four months, with the search firm still engaged, the position description being revised to reflect the new law and compensation changes, and approvals still needed before the job can be reposted. Members expressed frustration that the recruitment had been paused and questioned whether HTA has sufficient qualified leadership and staff during the interim period. Board leadership said the current staff is limited by vacancies but that they have confidence in the team and will add resources if needed.
Members also pressed HTA on the role of the destination stewardship team and the CNHA/Kilohana contract, asking how staff oversight works and whether staff members were effectively wearing multiple hats. HTA explained that the stewardship team provides direction to contractors and that the work is divided among specialists overseeing projects such as tour guide certification, technical assistance, community tourism collaboratives, and a destination app. The committee also discussed whether the board can still vote on budgets under the new structure; the Attorney General’s office was cited as confirming that the board may advise, but the department director retains budget authority. HTA said it is working with CNHA and HVCB on contract and budget timing, with a goal of shifting to a calendar-year process so recipients know funding earlier.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Executive Departments and Administration (01/16/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- And the third piece over there is compliance, so that is inspections now in the OPLC.
- So cosmetology facilities are inspected, pharmacies, and then other pieces, so where there's a compliance
- And the third piece over there is compliance, so that is inspections now in the OPLC.
- with um 91a office um so any compliance with um 91a records<00:14:36.600><c> requests</c><00:14:37.079
- We represent over 65 actual contractors, about 300 employees. So we had a concern on page 11.
Summary:
The meeting was an orientation-style overview from the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification (OPLC), led by Executive Director Deana Jurus and staff. They described the office’s mission to protect public health, safety, welfare, the environment, and the public trust, and outlined the agency structure: enforcement, licensing and board administration, operations, legal counsel, board counsel, and the hearings bureau. OPLC said it currently supports 57 boards, including seven advisory boards, and has about 104 filled positions out of 120 authorized. They also noted new voluntary certifications for doulas, lactation consultants, and community health workers that are in rulemaking.
A substantial portion of the discussion focused on how boards and staff divide responsibilities under RSA 310:4. Staff explained that the office handles application processing, complaint intake and initial review, records retention, 91-A requests, and rule drafting, while boards make final decisions on licensure criteria, complaint dismissals or investigations, disciplinary actions, and some hearing matters. They also described the rule structure by chapter number ranges and the distinction between full licensing boards and advisory boards. The committee asked about complaint notifications, and OPLC said it is tightening policies so complainants are told whether a matter is closed or moving forward.
The licensing process was discussed in detail, especially for nursing. Bethany Katrell explained that applicants apply through an online portal, may receive approval to sit for exams, can work under provisional authority in some cases, and then receive full licensure after exam results and criminal background checks are complete. OPLC said the portal now reduces back-and-forth paperwork and that, as of the latest biweekly report, 87% of applications were decided within the statutory 90-day period and 57% within 14 days. Members also raised questions about why some professions require board approval before taking an exam, and OPLC said that requirement varies by statute or board rule. No votes or formal actions were taken during the discussion.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- Meanwhile, if a contractor is suing for contract violation or a landlord is trying to obtain reimbursement
- Meanwhile, if a contractor is suing for contract violation or and gather the evidence.
- Meanwhile, if a contractor is suing for contract violation or a landlord are trying to obtain reimbursement
- However, the current judicial procedures allow jurisdictions to delay compliance with court orders by
Committee:
House Judiciary
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on several bills. AB 316, by Assembly Member Krell, would prevent AI developers or deployers from arguing that an AI system’s alleged autonomy absolves them of civil liability. Supporters said it is a narrow, common-sense guardrail that does not change existing burdens of proof, while opponents from TechNet and the Chamber of Progress raised concerns about possible strict-liability effects. The bill was moved on a due-pass vote to the Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee.
AB 251, by Assembly Member Kalra, would let judges apply a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard when a skilled nursing facility or RCFE intentionally destroys evidence in elder abuse cases. Supporters said the measure is needed because vulnerable victims often cannot testify and electronic records are easily altered; opponents argued existing sanctions are sufficient and warned of more litigation. After discussion about the bill’s narrow scope and the governor’s prior veto concerns, the committee passed the bill to Human Services. AB 474, by Assembly Member Ward, would encourage nonprofit home-sharing for low-income homeowners, especially older adults, through tax and housing-law changes, but it also proposed changes to the lodger law. Supporters emphasized housing stability and companionship benefits, while the California Apartment Association and some members expressed concern about removing lodger protections; the author said he would continue working on that issue. The bill advanced to Human Services.
The committee also passed AB 449, which would authorize the Civil Rights Department to run statewide media campaigns discouraging discrimination based on immutable characteristics. AB 1201, the “Reunity Act,” would give courts discretion to provide family reunification services to parents with violent felony convictions unless the offense involved force or a weapon against the child or reunification would likely endanger the child; supporters described it as a fairer, individualized approach, while some members raised concerns about domestic violence and child safety. AB 464, an anti-retaliation and accountability bill concerning sexual abuse in prisons, would extend reporting time, require 90-day monitoring, bar rehiring confirmed abusers, and strengthen reporting protections; survivors gave detailed testimony about retaliation, and the bill passed to Appropriations. Finally, AB 614 would standardize Government Claims Act deadlines at one year for all claims; the author and a civil rights attorney argued the current six-month deadline is too short for many injury and wrongful death victims, and testimony began from a parent describing a jail-related death claim.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- For commerce, the bill adds an application and approval process for owner-controlled and contractor-controlled
- approval process for ownerc<00:02:54.000><c> controlled</c><00:02:54.319><c> and</c><00:02:54.560><c> contractor
- </c> ownerc controlled and contractor ownerc controlled and contractor controlled<00:02:55.840><c> insurance
Bills:
SF1832
Committee:
Senate Finance
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 05/07/26
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- that information typically<00:35:14.520><c> from</c><00:35:14.840><c> their</c><00:35:15.680><c> contractor
- </c><00:35:16.440><c> or</c><00:35:16.560><c> their</c> typically from their contractor or their typically
- from their contractor or their engineer<00:35:17.960><c> having</c><00:35:18.360><c> it</c><00:35:18.560
- </c><00:35:52.200><c> to</c><00:35:52.320><c> assist</c><00:35:52.680><c> them</c> mechanical contractors
- to assist them mechanical contractors to assist them through<00:35:52.960><c> that</c><00:35:53.200>
Committee:
Senate State and Local Government
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Sep 10th, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I showed up to the committee hearing with a list of grantees and contractors to this...
- I showed up to the committee hearing with a list of grantees and contractors to this multi-million dollar
- I walked in with the list of grantees and contractors.
- The rest of the beauty industry has been given a permanent exemption to work as independent contractors
- , so a cosmetologist can paint nails as an independent contractor permanently in statute.
Summary:
The Assembly convened, initially lacked a quorum, then returned to session with prayer, pledge, and a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk following news of his shooting. Members then handled a series of procedural motions, including suspending rules, moving several bills to the inactive file, re-referring bills to committees, and authorizing committee meetings. The chamber also observed adjournments in memory for several individuals, including Ermilo Don Rodas, John Burton, Nina Chomsky, and Barbara “Bobby” Samperey.
On the floor file, members considered and passed a long list of Senate bills, largely on bipartisan or unanimous votes. Topics included consumer protection and transparency for self-storage contracts (SB 709), adoption jurisdiction (SB 450), privacy and name/image protections (SB 683), an audit of the February 2025 bar exam (SB 47), data broker transparency (SB 361), used-car buyer protections (SB 76), state parks land acquisition streamlining (SB 630), cemetery work group deadlines (SB 777), financial enforcement authority (SB 825), utility outage reporting and reliability planning (SB 292), vital records confidentiality (SB 313), health care coverage and hormone therapy access (SB 418), workplace outreach (SB 578), Holocaust and genocide education (SB 472), county jail treatment for misdemeanor incompetency cases (SB 820), and AI companion chatbot safeguards for minors and self-harm risks (SB 243). Most measures passed with little or no opposition, though SB 578 drew sharp debate over the workplace outreach program and its funding.
The Assembly also took up concurrence items and approved numerous Assembly bills with Senate amendments. These included transparency in legislative nondisclosure agreements (AB 1370), affordable faculty/staff housing provisions at community colleges (AB 648), tribal youth foster care reforms (AB 1378), EV charger payment regulations (AB 1423), technical Political Reform Act changes (AB 1511), diacritical marks on vital records (AB 64), reproductive health protections with urgency (AB 260), union and collective bargaining protections (AB 288), bench trial statement-of-decision streamlining (AB 515), agricultural land stewardship (AB 524), geothermal exploratory project rules (AB 527), Medi-Cal field medicine changes (AB 543), tobacco-related provisions (AB 573), social media platform rules (AB 656), state parks transaction reporting (AB 679), professional licensing changes (AB 742), and child care staffing and assistant teacher pathways with urgency (AB 753). Votes were generally strong, with several measures passing unanimously or near-unanimously.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Labor & Workplace Standards Feb 25th, 2026 at 08:45 am
Labor & Workplace Standards
Transcript Highlights:
- the union plumber organizations and the open shop organizations, making sure that our plumbing contractors
- the union plumber organizations and the open shop organizations, making sure that our plumbing contractors
- are safe and performing work in a manner Plumbing contractors are safe and performing work in a manner
Bills:
SB6134
Committee:
House Labor & Workplace Standards
Keywords:
unemployment insurance, UI benefits, striking workers, strike, labor dispute, retroactive wages, overpayment assessment, overpayment recovery, Employment Security Department, ESD, claimant notice, benefit recoupment, Washington unemployment law, worker notice, federal unemployment tax credit, state unemployment fund
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Sixty Five - Thursday, May 7
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It deals with the practice for third-party contractors, such as roofers, It deals with the practice for
- third-party contractors, such as roofers, auto repair shops, and so forth, taking over insurance claims
- Yeah, so in the contractor space, it's mostly out-of-town contractors that'll come in and convince a
- In the contractor space, it's mostly out-of-town contractors that'll come in and convince a homeowner
- There's a lot of tricks that these out-of-town contractors have when they approach our citizens.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Children and Family Law (01/30/2025)
Children and Family Law
Transcript Highlights:
- the public and private child- and youth-serving organizations who provide direct services under contractor
- private agencies, it is only relating to the services that they're providing for children under those contractor
- the public and private child- and youth-serving organizations who provide direct services under contractor
- private agencies, it is only relating to the services that they're providing for children under those contractor
- the public and private child- and youth-serving organizations who provide direct services under contractor
Committee:
Senate Children and Family Law
TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education Mar 5th, 2025
S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education
Transcript Highlights:
- Vicky, we show you Russia as Vicky Van Est on behalf of the Plum Heating Cooling Contractors Association
- The Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling Contractors Association represents plumbers and... across the state
- . and HVAC contractors.
- OK, Shannon, we show you registered as Shannon Noble. on behalf of the Texas Air Conditioning Contractors
- Shannon Noble, representing the Texas Air Conditioning Contractors Association. Association.
Keywords:
applied sciences, career education, high school diploma, certificate program, work-based learning, job placement, high-growth jobs, technical training, career readiness, education reform, workforce training, public schools, financial aid, fraudulent solicitation, disaster relief, nonprofit organizations, criminal penalties, consumer protection, fraud prevention, charitable donations
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We also have 27 contractors. that are beginning today there in this outbreak area to assist local public
- where they they needed to be I can I'm here to tell you today that we have approximately a 90% compliance
- like in the private sector that is not that's the legislative you know compliance but I'm just asking
- caught it because of the. processes we put in place, but we brought on our first chief compli- compliance
- Our Chief Compliance Officer makes a report at every oversight committee about all.
Committee:
House Public Health
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee on S.F. 4760 - Omnibus Public Safety policy provisions - 05/08/26
Transcript Highlights:
- requirement to inquire whether victims have been notified of the plea and sentencing hearings for compliance
- cost of providing the venue and the labor rates for the inmates who are providing the labor to the contractor
- inmates who are providing the labor to inmates who are providing the labor to the<01:10:42.760><c> contractor
- > and</c><01:10:43.360><c> then</c><01:10:43.480><c> disclose</c><01:10:43.920><c> that</c> the contractor
- and then disclose that the contractor and then disclose that information<01:10:44.640><c> in</c><01:
Summary:
The Public Safety Policy Conference Committee met on May 8, 2026, with all conferees present. The chair opened with decorum instructions, explained that the meeting was policy-only, and noted that no public testimony had been signed up. Members then introduced themselves, with several noting they were retiring at the end of the session or year.
The committee adopted a series of provisions, mostly by unanimous voice vote, including House language on identity theft and financial crimes updates, supervision abatement and restitution considerations for corrections, protective-order enhancements for murder penalties, prediction markets, victim-notification requirements for plea and sentencing hearings, research data privacy, ignition interlock and impaired-driving license changes, DOC licensing and sanctions for juvenile/adult community-based residential facilities, criminal-conviction employment and licensing standards, jail medication procedures, domestic abuse law changes, and a grant-use extension for dual-status/crossover youth funding. Several items were described as technical or clarifying changes, while others updated law to address AI-related identity theft, foreign protective orders, victim privacy, and corrections oversight.
The committee also heard discussion on a Senate provision allowing victims of domestic violence to petition for wireless account and phone-number transfers. A witness supported the concept but urged changes to better align the state language with existing federal law; members noted the issue might need another vehicle or further work. For the domestic abuse item, staff explained that an A15 amendment would later adjust the warrantless-arrest window from 28 days to 14 days. On the jail-medication item, a member emphasized the changes were clarifying and not an admission that last year’s law was flawed. All adopted provisions passed by voice vote without opposition.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Water and Natural Resources Sep 11th, 2025
Water & Natural Resources Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- ESCO means an ESCO contractor helps pay for the high upfront costs, and the community center or town
- We have the contractor. We've already met with the different communities.
- have to bring in extra resources from either our other operating divisions or we have to bring in contractors
- we move to develop new segments of trail, we want to make sure that we are doing Rigorous NEPA compliance
- environmental monitoring by the New Mexico Environment Department because the mine Either Chevron has hired contractors
Committee:
House Water & Natural Resources Committee
MS
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 338 sets up a construction training assistance fund by diverting a portion of the contractor
- Contractor tax is 3.5% on the total cost of the job, profit, overhead, everything.
- Contractor tax is 3.5% on the total cost of the job, profit, overhead, everything.
Committee:
Joint Finance
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 13, February 24, 2026-PM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- There are 65,000 independent contractors in Wyoming that this bill is designed to benefit.
- Independent contractor means an individual who performs services for another individual.
- Independent contractor means an individual who performs services for another individual.
- Independent contractor means an individual who performs services for another individual.
- It's totally voluntary on both the part of the independent contractor and the employer.
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- This is about what you just said is just about bar exam ADA compliance, those types of things.
- </c><00:46:53.040><c> those</c><00:46:53.280><c> types</c><00:46:53.520><c> of</c> exam ADA compliance
- those types of exam ADA compliance those types of things.<00:46:54.000><c> Correct,</c> things.
- So, this is all about ADA<00:47:04.400><c> compliance</c><00:47:05.119><c> and</c><00:47:05.680><c> uh
- </c><00:47:06.560><c> my</c><00:47:06.800><c> understanding</c> ADA compliance and uh my understanding
Committee:
Joint Appropriations