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AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/17/2026 - Senate Natural Resources
Senate Natural Resources Committee of Reference
Transcript Highlights:
- And I called Maricopa County.
- We've expanded some of their authorities, statutory authorities, kind of complying them with the federal
- authorities.
- authorities that they have.
- Chair, members, Nick Ponder for Mohave County Water Authority, in respectful opposition to 1559.
Summary:
The committee approved the minutes from February 3 and February 10, 2026, then heard two nominations. Jessica Manuel was introduced as a nominee to the Arizona Game and Fish Commission. She described a science-focused background and experience with state and multi-agency work, and members discussed wildlife management, including gray wolves and conservation. The committee voted 8-0 to recommend her confirmation. Stephen Williams was then introduced as a nominee to the Arizona Livestock Loss Board. He emphasized his experience with the State Land Department and livestock operators, and members asked about compensation claims and wolf-related livestock losses. The committee voted unanimously to recommend his confirmation as well.
The committee next considered SB 1785, which would codify ADWR’s existing one-mile safe-harbor policy for recovery wells near groundwater storage facilities. Supporters said it would provide certainty and preserve current practice, while ADWR requested clarifying language about the bill’s definitions. Opponents argued it would lock current policy into statute and could reduce flexibility. The bill received a 5-3 do-pass recommendation. SB 1082, which would impose sanitation and handwashing requirements on petting zoos and similar animal encounter exhibits, drew emotional testimony from a parent advocate describing children hospitalized with STEC HUS after a state fair petting zoo exposure, while opponents said the bill was unnecessary and overly burdensome. The committee adopted the sponsor’s amendment but then deadlocked 4-4, so the bill failed.
The committee then took up SB 1336, a continuation and reform bill for the Arizona State Land Department that also created a temporary oversight committee and, through a large amendment, added lease, notice, and committee-structure changes. Supporters from mining and agriculture backed the measure as a way to improve predictability and transparency, while some members objected to the amendment’s scope and the committee’s composition. The amendment passed 4-3 and the bill as amended was recommended 6-2. SB 1200, an emergency measure directing ADWR to revisit certain Phoenix AMA assured water supply applications using older groundwater models, was supported by the sponsor but opposed by CAP/GRD and ADWR, who warned it would add replenishment obligations and rely on outdated models; it passed 5-3. SB 1335, requiring the Arizona Water Banking Authority Commission to post its annual report online, passed 7-0-1. SB 1559, creating rural groundwater management work groups in each basin with NRCD involvement and annual reporting to ADWR, drew support from conservation district representatives and opposition from Mohave County interests concerned it would not address overpumping; it passed 5-3. Finally, SB 1761, appropriating $47.7 million to the University of Arizona for its desert agriculture, Cooperative Extension, and experiment station programs, was presented as a land-grant mission funding measure and received broad support from agriculture and several members, with some concerns about budget priorities and the size of the appropriation.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Agriculture and Wildlife Apr 13th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Agriculture and Wildlife
Transcript Highlights:
- Secondly, it opens additional counties for the bear season.
- Wanted to commend the author, number one, Noah's heart.
- I too would like to thank the author for working so hard on the bill.
- This is a bill on your county extension services, making sure that if your county extension services
- For example, in Bryan County, where we have the Bryan County free fair in the winter, the kids do donations
Keywords:
veterinary medicine, definitions, animal husbandry, board of veterinary examiners, telemedicine, veterinarian-client relationship, animal welfare, commercial pet breeders, licensing, advertising, animal cruelty, Oklahoma Agricultural Extension, local funding, financial institutions, county extension services, state funds, wildlife conservation, hunting regulations, mountain lions, black bears
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Twenty Two - Tuesday, February 17 -Morning Session-
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- in the state of Missouri, Texas County, here today.
- From the largest county in the state of Missouri, Texas County, here today.
- Charles County. I renew my motion. The gentleman from St.
- Charles County. Excuse me, Green County. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
- Louis County. Further discussion, lady from St. Louis County. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Government, Elections And Indian Affairs Mar 5th, 2025
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- River Valley, and Union County.
- , because we do have possums in Bernalillo County.
- Mark Allen, General Counsel for New Mexico County.
- Sierra County is one of the lowest income counties in the state, and there was recently an adopted zone
- I'm the Chairman of the New Mexico Border Authority.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
House Chamber Fri May 8, 2026, 10:00AM HST - Day 58
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We also give this power to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority in section... public housing authority
- This is not only about the county.
- Maui County Department of Here is some perspective on county attitude on permitting.
- There is no good reason why Maui County There is no good reason why Maui County should be exempt from
- to Maui County.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- She is a friend of Travis County who has served on the County Medical Society's Public Health Committee
- Question to the author. Senator Miles, for what purpose? Question to the author.
- And again, I think this is going to differ from county to county because different counties are set up
- authority to intervene.
- that have the authority to regulate roadside vending in unincorporated areas of the county.
Summary:
The Senate opened with an invocation by Senator West, approved the previous day’s journal, and then adopted several recognitions, including Senate Resolution 625 honoring the McLennan Community College Dance Team for winning two 2025 National Dance Alliance national titles. The chamber also recognized University of Texas Rio Grande Valley interns, the doctor of the day, and the San Antonio Coalition for Veterans and Families. The governor’s withdrawal of a Texas Lottery Commission nomination was received and the nomination was returned, and the Senate appointed numerous conference committees on pending bills.
The body then took up and passed several measures, often by suspending the rules and the constitutional three-day rule. Senate Bill 4 and Senate Bill 23 were concurred in House amendments as part of property tax relief, with supporters emphasizing homeowner savings. House Bill 20 creating the Applied Sciences Pathway Program passed after a floor amendment and was described as a way to expand career and technical education and help students earn industry certificates in high-demand trades. House Bill 2594 passed to expand venue options for prosecuting certain theft and cybercrime cases, and House Concurrent Resolution 167 was adopted to correct a typo in House Bill 1314.
The Senate also concurred in House amendments to Senate Bill 9, Senate Bill 40, Senate Joint Resolution 5, and Senate Bill 6. SB 9 and SJR 5 were presented as major bail-reform measures, with supporters saying they would strengthen public safety, clarify appeal procedures, and give judges and prosecutors more tools in serious cases; the debate included questions about records, counsel, and the standards for denying bail. SB 40 dealt with nonprofit bail-bond funding, and SB 6 addressed electricity and data-center growth. The chamber also passed House Bill 423 on digital asset service provider reporting and auditing, with amendments adding protections for cryptocurrency kiosks and a technical correction.
Additional bills passed included House Bill 4690 on motor fuel standards, House Bill 1094 on transportation protection agreements, Committee Substitute for House Bill 2731 on roadside vendors and solicitors in certain border counties, Committee Substitute for House Bill 127 on protecting higher education from foreign adversaries and trade secret theft, and House Bill 549 on airway clearance devices at public school campuses. The Senate granted or requested conference committees on a long list of other measures, including HB 4, HB 145, HB 493, HB 2974, HB 3071, HB 3372, HB 3556, and multiple Senate bills. The session ended with adjournment until the following Friday morning.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee Apr 6th, 2026
Revenue and Taxation
Transcript Highlights:
- Danielle Batista, authorized on behalf of United Way of Fresno and Madera County. Good afternoon.
- Danielle Batista, authorized on behalf of the United Way of Fresno and Madera County, to share their
- I have a question for the author.
- I'll thank the author for appearing before the committee.
- I'd like to be considered for a co-author. Thank you.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee Jun 18th, 2025
Communications and Conveyance
Transcript Highlights:
- We have, well, I think the authority that we have is the authority that we use to do the regulation.
- in San Francisco County.
- My name is Drew Cooper and I am here on behalf of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority.
- The Transportation Authority is the designated county congestion management agency for San Francisco
- For San Francisco, your county has a special statute that authorizes attacks on TNC trips originating
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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- </c> against their county. against their county.
- </c> our jails, hurts our county. our jails, hurts our county.
- </c> and his county. and his county.
- </c> he was in the county jail. he was in the county jail.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Audit Commission 1/29/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- /c><00:09:57.040><c> can</c> instance, Minnesota's 87 counties can instance, Minnesota's 87 counties
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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jun 22nd, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I want to thank the author of the resolution. Be very joyous.
- Speaker, ask for the first roll to be open for co-authors.
- Carter is the Sonoma County Superintendent of Schools.
- Long before I served as county supervisor, chairman...
- This is for co-authors. All members vote who desire to vote. This is for co-authors.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Local Government Committee Jun 3rd, 2026
Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- Since we have an author here, we'll get started.
- Since we have an author here and we do not have a quorum yet, we'll get started with the testimony.
- provide legal authority for them, prevent the unilateral rise in the cost, create a hearing process
- so that the county treasurer could then make sure that all of the departments throughout county government
- And so I thought that was kind of a cool way to do it, but we need authority, legal authority, for local
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- Currently, county fish and game commissions can use revenue generated from violations of the Fish and
- Currently, county fish and game commissions can use revenue generated from violations of the Fish and
- Even after the doctor, bridge, right care, and health care plan authorizes, families often cannot fully
- This is about aligning practice with the original intent of authorization, ensuring that approved care
- It's simply ensuring that authorized care is accessible throughout the authorization period.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee Jun 29th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- County already.
- Chris McAley here on behalf of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
- County impacted by the fires.
- Second, on behalf of the Urban Counties of California, the rural county representatives of California
- Second, on behalf of the Urban Counties of California, the rural county representatives of California
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review heard the 2026-27 budget package, including AB 111 and AB 112 plus 16 trailer bills and two policy bills. Chair Laird described the budget as balanced over two fiscal years, with about $351.7 billion in total spending, $251.5 billion General Fund, and record reserves, while emphasizing investments in child care, homelessness, housing, Medi-Cal, education, courts, and other core programs. The Department of Finance presented each bill, outlining major items such as Medi-Cal adjustments tied to federal H.R. 1, child care and early learning funding, education and higher education investments, human services, developmental services, health, skilled nursing, resources, energy, transportation, housing, labor, state government, courts, taxation, and two policy bills on education governance and ballot measure placement. The LAO said it had no additional comments but was available for questions. The committee later achieved quorum and moved to member questions and comments, with no votes taken in the portion provided.
Members largely focused on the budget’s fiscal structure and policy implications. Several senators praised staff and noted the compressed timeline, while Vice Chair Niello criticized the process as overly complex and burdensome. Senator Smallwood-Cuevas supported the budget but raised concerns about Medi-Cal changes for people with unsatisfactory immigration status, asking about access to care, the number affected, and county eligibility support; Finance said about two million people would transition to fee-for-service and that $39 million was included for care coordination, along with additional county eligibility funding. Senator Durazo said the agreement delayed, but did not resolve, cuts to immigrant health coverage, dental, and clinic payments, and argued that the budget did not create a true restoration mechanism. Senator Richardson highlighted hospital funding, public hospital definitions, DMV data protections, and court construction and maintenance needs, while Senator Grove questioned the sustainability of spending, the Medi-Cal savings assumptions, distressed hospital funding, Planned Parenthood transparency, developmental services changes, high-speed rail costs, and the property tax postponement program.
Other members emphasized different priorities. Senator Blake Spear praised climate and parks investments, support for HAP homelessness funding with accountability, transit stabilization, and Care Court referral funding, while expressing concern about the lack of wildlife coexistence funding and long-term transit operating support. Senator Weber Pearson raised a technical concern in the health trailer bill regarding menopause language, arguing that the bill should refer to perimenopausal symptoms and should not narrow provider participation through contracting language. Throughout the hearing, Finance repeatedly explained that many of the budget’s savings came from reduced caseloads or delayed implementation of prior proposals, while some new spending was added to mitigate impacts and support administration of the changes. No final committee action or vote was shown in the excerpt.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Special Committee on Rural Issues Apr 1st, 2026
Special Committee on Rural Issues
Transcript Highlights:
- So we had a county health officer.
- The county health officials are appointed and effectively serve at the discretion of the county commission
- the physician or the county health officer.
- Many of our counties don't have a physician practicing in the county.
- So is, I'm trying to think on ours in my county, one of my counties.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- What this amendment does is it allows a city or county to enforce city and county laws regulating the
- I do remember at Snohomish County, going to work at Snohomish County and seeing people...
- I do remember at Snohomish County, going to work at Snohomish County and seeing people camping on public
- and counties a lot of money. ...of lawsuits on cities and counties, which is going to cost cities and
- counties a lot of money, which really isn't the cities and counties that are going to have to pay the
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session May 22nd, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It puts us on a collision course with federal authorities.
- And as a proud co-author of SB 73, I'm a co-author for a very simple and real reason, and that is that
- It's my belief as a co-author that state... 73 will address this.
- Members, please give your respectful attention to the authors.
- For more than 15 years, this authority has worked well.
Summary:
The Assembly convened, initially lacked a quorum, then completed the roll call and prayer, adopted routine procedural motions, and moved through the daily file with many bills passed and retained or passed outright. Early measures included AB 2417 on community college faculty retirement information, AB 1579 expanding the Children’s Crisis Pilot Program, AB 2041 on emergency medical services reporting, AB 1547 on a UC medical school feasibility study in Kern County, and AB 1552 directing higher education segments to report on civic engagement and democracy education. The body also took up SB 73, an urgency elections-security bill, where supporters argued it would protect ballots, voting systems, and election workers from interference, while opponents said it could be unconstitutional, partisan, and overly restrictive of local and federal investigations. SB 73 passed with urgency and immediate transmittal to the Senate.
The Assembly then approved a long series of policy bills, many with unanimous or near-unanimous votes, including AB 1554 on California Earthquake Authority transparency, AB 1584 on civil rights duties at the Air Resources Board, AB 1592 on the California Indian Cultural Center, AB 1629 on direct payment to dentists, AB 1645 on prison visitation physical-contact rules, AB 1688 on foster care notice and accountability, AB 1699 on prescribed and cultural burns, AB 1738 on virtual final inspections for single-family homes, AB 1741 on charging sexual battery during a residential break-in as a wobbler, AB 1802 on mitigation lands endowments, AB 1813 on community renewable energy program changes, AB 1899 creating a youth homelessness prevention office, AB 1904 on a credentialing apprenticeship program, AB 1941 on organized metal theft, AB 2043 on drone-attack prevention for mass gatherings and critical infrastructure, AB 2054 on paid family leave for military relatives, AB 2081 on home-based Medi-Cal care, AB 2116 on predatory lending, AB 2122 limiting bench warrants for vehicle-code infractions, AB 2176 on student housing coordination, AB 2187 on tribal public-contract exemptions, AB 2221 on charitable fundraising processing deadlines, AB 2232 on advance parole hearing reporting, AB 2235 on confidentiality of judges’ home addresses, AB 2250 on cannabis/hemp enforcement cleanup, and AB 2266 on electricity. Most measures were described as support or bipartisan bills and passed with little or no opposition.
A few bills drew notable debate or recorded opposition, including AB 1813, AB 2122, and SB 73, though all ultimately passed. After finishing 35 items, the Assembly announced it would return the following week with a much larger file, noted upcoming floor amendment deadlines, and adjourned until Tuesday, May 26 at 1 p.m. A post-adjournment vote change was also recorded, changing Assembly Member Dixon’s vote on AB 2041 from aye to no.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session - Part 2 - 05/18/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- that</c><00:48:16.400><c> don't</c> counties, especially those that don't counties, especially those
- Go now to the author for final comments. close. There are counties that are going close.
- Any response from the author? Mr.
- </c> Any response from the author? Any response from the author?
- </c><01:58:10.800><c> in</c><01:58:11.119><c> your</c> my counties in your my counties in your counties
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- SB 1668, disposition remains authorization and legal decision-making. RAGE.
- SB 1738, Coconino County juvenile services appropriation.
- SB 1760, ASDB capital improvements financing authority.
- SB 1799, Commerce Authority tax incentive certification.
- and Cochise County Sheriff's Offices, and the community they serve.
Summary:
The Senate convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a recorded roll call showing 30 members present. The journal was approved, no guests were introduced at first, and the Governor’s signed bill HB 2022 was reported. The President also announced temporary committee substitutions for the Rules Committee on February 9.
Senator Shamp introduced licensed naturopathic physicians in the gallery and highlighted SB 1178, which would expand their authority to administer certain intravenous drugs, including antibiotics, antivirals, and antifungals. The chamber then read a lengthy calendar of first- and second-reading bills and resolutions covering elections, education, health care, water, criminal justice, housing, taxation, and other topics, with no floor action taken on those measures during the reading.
The Senate recessed to recognize law enforcement personnel involved in the rescue of an eight-year-old boy from a human trafficking situation. A proclamation commended Deputies Gregory Sanders and Jacob Montoya, along with Cochise County and Border Patrol personnel, for their courage and professionalism. After returning to order, members made personal privilege remarks urging the Joint Legislative Budget Committee to review $2.85 million in election-related funding for the Secretary of State, and another senator spoke about water security and the need for long-term planning.
Additional announcements included caucus and committee meeting notices, an invitation to Arizona Aerospace Day, and a motion to adjourn until Tuesday, February 10, 2026, at 1:15 p.m. The transcript ends as the chamber was considering adjournment.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- and Medina counties.
- Authority.
- And they range from Orange County up to Hunt County where the reservoir, the river basin starts.
- Growth in, in Orange County all the way up to Hunt County and Sabine County, Trent County, Saint Augustine
- , Newton County.