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FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 24, 2026 - 08:30 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- That's not a function Member: of the traffic fines and I don't understand why we are deciding to raid
- We need to find a solution and fix this.
- I'm not sure how old the child was, but long story short, there are ages we need to adjust.
- But those things need to be adjusted.
- are not the people that we need to be afraid of.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- classroom instruction with hands-on, real-world experience, equipping participants with the skills most needed
- to partner with colleges and employers to create training programs tailored to specific workforce needs
- And sir, I know we'll need to get you registered in a minute, but just go ahead and state your name and
- Would the state need a right to enter the private property? and do work on these monuments?
- Who do we need here? He did a great job. What bill? That's it.
Keywords:
border region, infrastructure, economic development, government operations, education, HB 2768, Texas information technology apprenticeship, state IT credential, information resources workforce, junior college, technical institute, apprenticeship program, workforce development, state agency hiring, job classification, career ladder, bachelor's degree substitution, associate degree, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, state auditor classification officer
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- You need to contact your representative. You need to contact your local senator.
- <00:57:14.720>
to Now, the Department of Safety needs to Now, the Department of Safety needs - So, I need to pass out the licenses.
- amendment that'll need to be drafted. amendment that'll need to be drafted.
- <01:44:53.679>
Germaine I don't need a separate Germaine I don't need a separate Germaine
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration, January 22, 2026 - AM
Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration
Transcript Highlights:
- <00:57:33.760>
to <00:57:33.920>save need to buy a house, they need to save need to - We only need to guys have at the state. We only need to spend<00:57:46.480>
124. - They need the support. They need the staff to do that.
- needs, might need pharmaceutical needs, might need specific<03:03:38.479>
treatment. - insurance needs of their community. insurance needs of their community.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, June 26, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- that they need when they return home. that they need when they return home.
- needs to stop. No more secret arrests. needs to stop. No more secret arrests.
- You need a 7-day notice.'
- You need a 7-day can't come in anymore. You need a 7-day notice.
- President, you need to know this. Mr. President, you need to know this.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Revenue Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am
Joint Committee on Revenue
Transcript Highlights:
- have seen a significant rollback in their staffing through attrition and elimination of duties and functions
- Do people still have the option or opportunity to file with the EEOC, or do they need to file only with
- They need to file only with your agency?
- And then my follow-up is, in terms of the airport infrastructure, has there been any—and I don't need
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Revenue held a hybrid hearing on 10 bills covering voluntary contributions, sales tax, property tax, and economic development. Chair Adrian Madaro outlined the process, noted the July 12 reporting deadline for House-filed matters, and explained that written testimony would be accepted through July 7. Testimony was limited to three minutes per speaker, with questions from committee members after each witness.
Several local and statewide measures were presented in support. Melrose Mayor Jennifer Grigoratus supported H. 3979, which would authorize Melrose to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption tied to the state Senior Circuit Breaker credit; she said the program has helped 209 senior households and provides relief of several hundred to about a thousand dollars per household. Michael Memelow of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination supported H. 3109 and S. 2014, which would create a Massachusetts Against Discrimination Fund allowing voluntary donations, including through tax returns, to help offset uncertainty in federal funding that supports about 20% of MCAD’s operations. Tom Hurley of the Massachusetts Airport Management Association supported H. 3125, which would exempt runway and taxiway infrastructure at privately owned public-use airports from property tax, arguing it would address an economic fairness issue for 10 such airports.
Chris Gregory testified in support of H. 3037, a voluntary income tax checkoff for a least developed countries fund administered through Oxfam and the World Bank to support environmental work in the world’s poorest countries. Committee members asked follow-up questions about the number of Melrose households receiving the exemption, the scale and risk of MCAD’s federal funding, dual-filing procedures with the EEOC, the tax burden and local impact of privately owned airports, and the structure and administration of the least developed countries fund. No votes or formal actions were taken during the hearing, and the chair adjourned after testimony concluded.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Civil Judiciary REVISION 2: Links added Apr 2nd, 2026 at 10:30 am
Civil Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- It's needed because both the investor-owned utilities and the co-ops are already comprehensively regulated
- On this one, I've got 3 years of canceled meetings, and so I I just don't think it's functioning, and
- Any further questions on the Amendment seeing none, we need to adopt the amendment without objection.
- It's all I needed. You're recognized for a follow-up. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate that.
Bills:
SB504, SB844, SB1209, SB1266, SB1303, SB1448, SB1496, SB1595, SB1597, SB1655, SB1679, SB1621, SB1716, SB1769, SB1827, SB1876, SB1944, SB2072, SB2084, SB2104, SB2112, SB2170, SB2180, SB2182
Keywords:
charitable organizations, donor restrictions, endowment gifts, Safeguarding Endowment Gifts Act, Oklahoma, donor rights, charitable contributions, forcible entry, detainer, trial period, legal notices, housing law, SB1266, notary public, notaries, legal advice, unauthorized practice of law, misdemeanor, Secretary of State, appointment revocation
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Mar 5th, 2025
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Still have more areas that we need to be out there in.
- I just need your permission to, uh, change your registration to not testify.
- Uh, um, most of these, uh, cyber, uh, facilities need to have, uh, redundancy.
- We desperately need this training, but man.
- Really upon that, you don't need me to just sit here and rattle on more.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services May 23rd, 2025
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- If I need to go into detail, I can provide further information about the bill. Looking at you, Mr.
- Members, do you all need a resource witness, or can we continue the discussion?
- I guess you'd say aggressive situations with the employees, and they need it.
- You need to make sure things are aligned well.
- I was all excited this morning, but apparently, I had no need to be.
Bills:
HB50
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 5th, 2025
County and Municipal Government
Transcript Highlights:
- We need to... ...take care of those citizens. We need to be there as a safeguard, as a parent.
- That's something that needs to be addressed.
- And you need to be at that ratio.
- But they need help; the cities need help.
- need help, Governor, can you help them?"
Keywords:
inhalants, butyl nitrite, nitrous oxide, amyl nitrite, possession, sale, misdemeanor, felony, criminal penalties, public health, school safety, resource officers, law enforcement, public schools, private schools, liability insurance, contracting, library governance, board appointment, library diversity
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- So give these leaders the strength and endurance needed today. Today courage is needed.
- Today strength is needed. Today wisdom is needed. Today compassion is needed.
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Today needed. Today strength is needed. Today needed. - <00:01:56.479>
Today needed. Today boldness is needed. Today needed. - don't need a hearing. don't need a hearing.
Summary:
The Senate convened with an invocation, confirmed a quorum, and welcomed several guests and groups, including Maryland Library Association members, Stephen Decatur High School’s boys soccer team, Clarksburg High School’s girls flag football team, NAMI representatives, Baltimore Promise, local soil conservation district representatives, and a 911 center leader. The chamber also journalized the invocation and prepared for the Governor’s upcoming State of the State address by exchanging messages with the House and appointing Senate members to escort the Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
The body then took up a series of Finance Committee bills, most of them receiving favorable reports and being ordered to third reading without objection. Measures discussed included SB 14 on small business health insurance SHOP enrollment effective dates; SB 22 on Department of Disabilities housing programs and affiliated foundations; SB 134 on Medicare supplement policy enrollment periods; SB 139 on third-party administrator enforcement; SB 199 on the Individuals with Disabilities and Service-Disabled Veterans Voting Fund; SB 205 codifying federal mental health parity requirements; SB 216 on unemployment insurance confidentiality; SB 43 on the Maryland Community Investment Venture Fund; SB 46 on state veterans cemeteries interment provisions; and SB 226 on the Maryland Heritage Area Authority.
Several bills had brief amendments or procedural issues. SB 22 received a technical amendment changing “Attorney General” to “Office of the Attorney General.” SB 199 received an amendment adding a co-sponsor, and SB 46 was briefly set to lie over under the rule after a senator requested time to review a technical clarification. The chamber also received House Bill 1, which was referred to committee, and SB 624 was reassigned to the Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee. Most committee reports were adopted unanimously or without objection, and the Senate repeatedly congratulated the honored school teams and library advocates.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- of the project cannot change uh function of the project cannot change uh over<00:40:11.880>
the <00:49:43.040>- legislative fixes that they need to help speak with or they need to speak with you all as well, so you
a sometimes you may need a sometimes you may need a modification<00:49:44.839 - encouraging them if they do need encouraging them if they do need legislative<00:50:39.520>
fixes - <00:50:41.200>
help legislative fixes that they need to help legislative fixes that they need
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Health Care Financing Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Health Care Financing
Transcript Highlights:
- and gives them the care that they need.
- and gives them the care that they need.
- My hospital depends on adjustments to those patients. they need and gives them the care that they need
- We need a health care system where access to care does not mean sacrificing dignity, joy, or basic needs
- PBMs and all of that, but I think, is there a need?
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Health Care Financing held a public hearing on a broad set of health care bills focused on cost, market oversight, pharmaceutical access, transparency, hospital closures, and pharmacy access. Chairs John Lawn and Cindy Friedman opened by emphasizing recent health care reforms and the need for further action on the drug supply chain, PBMs, private equity, and affordability. The committee heard testimony on several measures, including a Betsy Lehman Center bill to make technical changes and create a permanent trust account for federal and private funding, and bills on hospital profits and fairness, hospital closures and health planning, pharmacy deserts, and health care market oversight and pharmaceutical access. No votes were taken during the hearing.
On the hospital profits bill, physicians and labor advocates strongly supported capping hospital CEO compensation at 50 times the lowest-paid worker, requiring greater financial transparency, and directing penalties from high-margin public hospitals into a Medicaid reimbursement fund. Testifiers argued that executive pay is excessive while frontline staff and safety-net services are under strain. Committee members raised concerns about unintended consequences, including whether hospitals might shift workers to contract status or lose executive talent, and whether the bill would actually direct money to the safety net. Supporters responded that the measure is one piece of a larger effort and that the bill’s Medicaid reimbursement provisions would help underserved hospitals.
Testimony on market oversight and pharmaceutical access centered on rising health care and drug costs, PBM practices, and the proposal to give the Health Policy Commission authority to set upper payment limits for certain drugs. Consumer advocates, disability advocates, an independent pharmacist, the Attorney General’s office, and others supported stronger oversight, citing premium increases, affordability problems, and the impact of high drug prices on patients and community pharmacies. Pharma and some industry witnesses opposed parts of the bill, warning that upper payment limits could disrupt access, create legal issues, and fail to address the broader supply chain. The committee also heard support for stronger hospital closure notice and public hearing requirements, and for a pharmacy deserts bill aimed at identifying and addressing closures like the one in Roxbury that affected thousands of patients.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Apr 30th, 2026 at 09:00 am
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- He said it was a good bill but needed changes.
- It doesn't need any more editorializing.
- And what pregnant women need when they're in that crisis is they need the confidence to know that they
- So they needed housing, they needed health care, they needed to be...
- You need to come see us at all.
Bills:
HB1168
Keywords:
abortion, abortion-inducing drugs, medication abortion, mifepristone, misoprostol, methotrexate, pro-life, pro-choice, reproductive health, unborn child, trafficking, felony, contraception, pharmacist, pharmacy, Title 63, Oklahoma statutes, abortion pill, drug distribution, criminal penalty
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Apr 3rd, 2025 at 01:00 pm
North Dakota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I think we all need to face it. We need more prison space in North Dakota.
- That will meet part of the need for the women population.
- This bill needs to die, and Division A needs to pass. Thank you. Representative Kameen. Mr.
- That's the function of the transition centers.
- But we need to pass these amendments that we've got.
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a quorum present. Representative Hoverson offered remarks recognizing World Autism Day, and the House then handled conference committee motions on several bills, including House Bills 1460 and 1248 and Senate Bills 2262, 2070, 2294, and 2297, with the Speaker appointing members to each conference committee. The chamber also set aside Senate Bill 2200 for re-referral to Appropriations and moved to amendments on Senate Bill 2128, which was the main subject of the day.
Senate Bill 2128, a major criminal justice and corrections bill, drew extensive debate over truth-in-sentencing, mandatory minimums, parole, transitional facilities, work release, electronic monitoring, and the fiscal impact of longer incarceration. Division A of the amendments removed mandatory minimums for resisting arrest and felony simple assault while keeping consecutive-sentence language; supporters said this preserved judicial discretion and reduced costs, while opponents argued it weakened public safety. Division A was adopted 70-23.
Division B proposed broader changes to preserve transitional programming, add penalties for tampering with electronic monitoring and escape, limit some work-release restrictions, create a parole board study, and fund electronic monitoring with a $600,000 appropriation. Supporters framed it as a compromise that balanced rehabilitation and public safety; opponents said it undercut the bill’s intent and left dangerous offenders with too much access to transitional release. Division B failed on a 46-46 tie. The House then took up the bill itself, with the Judiciary Committee reporting a do-not-pass recommendation as amended, and debate continued over whether the amended bill should advance, with members split between concerns about victims and public safety versus rehabilitation, prison capacity, and recidivism.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Executive Departments and Administration (01/28/2026)
Executive Departments and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
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you. - and that brings into account needing and that brings into account needing more<01:05:38.000>
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to <03:31:09.600>be RSAs that needed to be RSAs that needed to be uh - Um it's also need for the state.
- /c><05:05:05.360>
one <05:05:05.600>in need to um if we need to stick one in need to um
DE
Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session - Session 2 - 41st Legislative Day Jun 25th, 2026 at 02:00 pm
Delaware Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- So I needed to confirm, and I believe I have confirmed that that's exactly right.
- I need to hear from you. Is there any risk?
- If you're unsure the status, that's what I need to know.
- And so that's what we need to fix.
- I just think that these discussions need to be happening.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- So I need a second. So we only need one motion. So I think we're okay without a second.
- And so you need to be truthful about the crime, the impact on the victim.
- All those factors need to play a role when you're going before the board.
- I don't need to indeed... Went through all of the details of those letters.
- I don't need to, and details matter, but I won't waste your time.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (05/13/2025)
Energy and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- I think this makes that functional.
- I think this makes that functional.
- kind of particular reason we might need kind of particular reason we might need it<00:18:29.280>
- the bank for later in case we need it. the bank for later in case we need it.
- So recognize the need for some money.
NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development - 04/20/2026
Housing, Construction, and Community Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Is there a reason why the sponsor believes this workforce in particular is more deserving or needs it
- Understanding sick building syndrome and the need to have circulated air and fresh air, we just need
- But again, this is not just saying you don't need to do windows.
- So in order to amend this portion, we need to amend it in the city of New York.
- And they would need to meet the standard.
Summary:
The Housing, Construction and Community Development Committee met in Albany and considered a series of housing and homeownership bills. Early actions included reporting S.852 (Homebuyer Renovation Property Tax Exemption Act) to Finance, S.955 on smart access systems to Internet and Technology, and S.7933A on registrations of residential mortgages in default. The committee also advanced S.8675, the CAREforce First-Time Homebuyers Act, after a lengthy discussion about whether the bill inappropriately targets a specific workforce; supporters said it addresses a documented shortage of human services workers and includes existing SONYMA income eligibility, while opponents raised concerns about favoring one occupation over others. The bill was reported with some members in the negative and others voting to advance without recommendation.
Members then reported S.9650, which would prohibit landlords from including incorrect rent decontrol information in certain leases and standardize notices for Affordable New York Housing Program units, and S.9679, which would codify the Block-by-Block Home Ownership Program in state law. Both had prior Senate history and drew some negative or AWR votes. The committee also discussed and advanced S.9742, which would allow residential units in multiple dwellings to omit openable windows if they meet ASHRAE ventilation standards; supporters said the change is needed to facilitate office-to-residential conversions, while members raised questions about maintenance, egress, and the bill’s limited application to localities under the multiple dwelling law.
Finally, the committee reported S.989, establishing the vacant rental improvement program, after noting it had previously passed the Senate and was being reintroduced. Throughout the meeting, several bills were described as reintroductions or prior Senate measures, and multiple motions were made to report bills either to Finance, the floor, or another committee, with several members voting in the negative or to advance without recommendation on selected measures.