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Transcript Highlights:
  • One of the things he had a lot of sayings, and one of them was, "silence is a green light."
  • Between January of 2019 and January of 2024, the Texas Rangers investigated a total of 733 custodial
  • ... ...of 887 reported custody deaths in our jails between 2017 and April of this year, the manner of
  • As defined in the Texas Penal Code, a person commits an offense... ...causes the death of an individual
  • And we're missing a lot, you know, thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of samples of DNA.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Justice (Part II) Apr 29th, 2025

Criminal Justice

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  • Texas is currently solving 55% of murders, 43% of assaults, and 16% of sexual assaults.
  • I'm here on behalf of Prison Fellowship Ministries in support of Senate Bill 2177.
  • Every day in the state of Texas, survivors of human trafficking are convicted of crimes or traffickers
  • and elongated context of the coercion that victims of human trafficking face.
  • Senate Bill 1278 seeks to amend the Texas penal code by allowing survivors of human trafficking to present
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

State Affairs Apr 25th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • Of this, of this. Aye Chair lays out as pending business House Bill 2844.
  • of distribution.
  • Yeah, it's usually right at the end of the, of the first, um, of the first trimester.
  • Of one of these drugs.
  • You've, you've, you've correctly identified the operative language of, of the, of who the bill is targeting
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Elections Apr 24th, 2025

Elections

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  • Also, making sure that the birth certificate, if it's similar, as we find in other parts of the code,
  • And now we have a lot of the code dealing with the Whitley purge, and I don't see any of those protections
  • I mean, it's something that's across other parts of the election code.
  • The Chair calls Cecilia Flores representing the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas. Thank you.
  • I am the current Tribal Council Chairwoman of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Transportation May 14th, 2025

Transportation

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  • I was aware of that.
  • cost of freedom.
  • The report of favor of the full Senate.
  • of color roll.
  • Call of the chair.
Summary: The Senate Transportation Committee heard testimony and took action on a series of transportation-related bills. Early in the meeting, Senator Hagenbuch presented HB 647, which would let drivers who have had corrective eye surgery update their licenses by submitting physician verification without an in-person DMV visit; he argued it would reduce DMV lines, though a fiscal note estimated setup costs. The committee also heard HB 2029, a cleanup bill clarifying that travel trailers are not subject to safety inspections after prior legislation removed inspections for trailers and all vehicles, and HB 4804, which would remove Texas’s CDL appeals hearing process to align with federal law and avoid jeopardizing highway funds, while also authorizing DPS action related to the terrorist offender registry. All three bills were left pending after testimony, along with HB 2003, which would require annual public reporting by entities with projects in the Texas Rail Plan, especially in light of the Dallas-Houston high-speed rail project and landowner concerns; supporters said it would improve transparency, while opponents warned it would force disclosure of proprietary financial information from a private project. The committee also heard HB 2775, adding Ector County and Odessa to the I-27 Advisory Committee, and HB 791, authorizing a specialty plate for Central Catholic High School in San Antonio; both were left pending after brief discussion and no opposition testimony. The committee then heard several local or commemorative measures. HB 1242 would designate part of U.S. Highway 281 in Brooks County as the Ernesto Solis-Cantu Memorial Highway, and HB 2061 would name a bridge on State Highway 242 in Montgomery County for Lance Corporal Armando Hernandez. Hernandez’s mother testified emotionally in support, describing his military service and the family’s wish to have the bridge mark his return home; members responded supportively. The committee also heard HB 1729, which would impose term limits on Freeport commissioners, and HB 3751, transferring a DPS commercial vehicle enforcement office building in Woodville from TxDOT to DPS. HB 3611, the “bandit sign” bill, was presented as a targeted enforcement measure against illegal commercial signs in medians and right-of-ways, with added safeguards to avoid affecting political signs and to require written notice before fines. All of these bills were left pending after testimony. At the end of the meeting, the committee took up pending business and voted out multiple bills favorably. HB 3751, HB 261/HB 2061, HB 647, HB 791, HB 1242, HB 1729, HB 2003, HB 2029, HB 2775, HB 3611, HB 4804, and HB 2522 were each reported favorably to the full Senate, generally on unanimous or near-unanimous votes. Most were also sent to the local and uncontested calendar, though HB 2029 was ultimately not placed there after an objection. The committee then recessed.
TX
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  • HB2775 is kind of sort of quasi related.
  • It reminds us all of the true cost of freedom.
  • June of 2021.
  • of Transportation.
  • We're in the middle of the vote. I'm showing a vote of eight to zero now.
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Committee Meeting Jun 17th, 2026

Education

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  • the Delaware Code relating to child care. ...and an act to amend Title 14 of the Delaware Code relating
  • to changing certain sections of the code, that DOE felt to enforce.”
  • That would then have to form the student discipline code of conduct.
  • There’s not an inkling of a code in our student discipline that isn’t a fraction of a beverage, so it
  • amend Title 14 of the Delaware Code relating to school-based occupational therapists.
Bills: SB293, SB279, SB293, SB279
Summary: The House Education Committee met and first heard Senate Bill 293, the Youth Camp Licensing Act, which would amend child care licensing rules for youth camps. The sponsor said the bill, with amendments, would remove accreditation language, clarify shelter requirements for outdoor camps, and eliminate limits that had restricted the number of children camps could serve, especially for families using purchase-of-care assistance. YMCA and school representatives testified in support, saying the measure would expand access to safe, affordable summer care for low-income working families. The committee voted to release the bill. The committee then approved Senate Bill 328, which would require the Department of Education’s school facility evaluation instrument to be established by regulation and to include lead-based paint hazards in the standard of good repair. The Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Advisory Committee supported the bill, explaining that lead had not been included in the original evaluation tool and that the new language would improve transparency and public comment. Senate Bill 318, updating the Delaware State Education Association special license plate program, also passed after DSEA testified that proceeds support scholarships for educators and students pursuing education careers. House Bill 443, dealing with background checks for education volunteers and mentors, passed as well. The sponsor said it would allow DOE to continue receiving wrapback reports for mentors in the state mentoring program and ensure state and federal criminal background checks remain in place. The committee also released Senate Joint Resolution 15, which directs DOE to reevaluate Delaware’s use of the SAT, modernize the accountability framework, and develop additional measures of student achievement and readiness; supporters argued the SAT does not capture career and technical pathways or other indicators of success. House Bill 459, which prohibits the sale of energy drinks on public middle and high school campuses during school hours or events, passed after discussion focused on whether the bill would affect possession versus sale and whether it could lead to student discipline; DOE said the bill only bans sales, and the sponsor said an amendment would clarify intent. Finally, House Concurrent Resolution 137 passed, directing DOE to review math instruction and MTSS supports statewide; testimony emphasized low math proficiency and the need for stronger, more coherent interventions. The committee also began hearing Senate Bill 279 on occupational therapist salary placement, with discussion centered on aligning OT compensation with other specialist roles and broader salary regulation updates, though the transcript cuts off before final action is shown.
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Education Committee Meeting Jun 17th, 2026

Education

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  • It's an act to amend Title 14 of the Delaware Code related to child care. House Bill 447.
  • It's an act to amend Title 14 of the Delaware Code related to child care.
  • It's an act to amend title 14 of the dollar code related to child care.
  • It's an act to amend Title 14 of the Delaware Code relating to the establishment of a Title IX coordinator
  • And so when we had about half of schools with gaps of 6%, and some with gaps of upwards of 15%, that
Bills: SB293, SB279
Summary: The Senate Education Committee approved the June 10 minutes and then heard House Bill 447, which would create a framework for voluntary child care cost-sharing partnerships among the state, employers, community sponsors, and families. Supporters said the bill is meant to help make child care more affordable and support workforce participation by using the existing Interagency Resource Management Committee to coordinate planning and funding. Committee discussion focused on how the tri-share model would work, who would participate, and whether it would reach lower-income families; no public comment was offered on the bill. The committee then took up House Bill 300, as amended, which would establish a statewide Title IX coordinator within the Department of Education to provide training, technical assistance, data collection, and oversight for interscholastic athletics in grades 6 through 12. The bill’s sponsor and supporters said the position would help schools comply with Title IX, improve consistency, and make athletic participation and spending data more transparent; opponents or skeptics questioned whether a new DOE position was needed and whether districts were already meeting their obligations. The sponsor and witnesses responded that existing federal data are delayed and incomplete, that some Delaware schools have participation gaps, and that a state-level coordinator would provide needed support and accountability. Public comment on HB 300 included testimony from the Delaware State Education Association, the Delaware Association of School Administrators, the Delaware School Sports Network, and the Office of Women’s Advancement and Advocacy, all generally supporting the bill or its goals. DASA noted it remained neutral but appreciated changes made in House Amendment 1 to reduce reporting burden. After public comment, the chair asked members to sign the bill release forms for the two bills heard, and the committee adjourned.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Feb 18th, 2026

Boards, Agencies and Commissions

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  • Get up, say who you are, that you're proud of your parents. You're proud of you.
  • I am a senior at the University of Alabama. >> All righty.
  • So hair definition of cosmetology.
  • The athletic trainer compact right now in the state of Alabama is doing a lot.
  • The athletic trainer compact right now in the state of Alabama is doing a lot of jobs to make it easier
Bills: SB183, SB160, SB183, SB160
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Constitution, Campaigns and Elections Committee Feb 4th, 2026

Constitution, Campaigns and Elections

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  • of Alabama where I from the University of Alabama where I and<00:06:07.840> I<00:06:08.000>
  • I would argue that you are looking right now at the future of the state of Alabama.
  • How many of you want early voting for the state of Alabama? Am I putting you on the spot?
  • Uh, really, this piece of legislation is a result of an enormous amount of work by the Alabama Press
  • the passage of Rebuild Alabama in 2019. the passage of Rebuild Alabama in 2019.
Bills: HB272, HB272
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part II) May 7th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • When the code is being read to tell what kind of protein to make, it leads to a third of abnormal immune
  • side effects of all of this.
  • In front of you is an anthology of what we've known.
  • A family code has 20. protecting families from needless destructions at the hands of the state.
  • The termination of parental rights is the death penalty of civil cases, and the State of Texas should
Summary: The committee first reopened testimony on House Bill 2216, which would strengthen child welfare requirements by expanding “active efforts” to help families avoid removal and support reunification, while also raising standards related to removals and terminations. Supporters from child welfare and family defense groups said the bill would better protect families and align Texas more closely with ICWA-style principles, but several warned it would require significant new funding, staffing, and community services such as mental health care, housing, child care, and substance use treatment. The committee then left HB 2216 pending. The committee next heard Senate Bill 1782, aimed at boarding and group homes. Senator Miles said the bill closes enforcement gaps left by prior law by requiring retention of background-check records and creating misdemeanor penalties for failing to conduct or keep them, or for knowingly hiring people with serious convictions. Harris County sheriff’s investigators testified in support, describing illegal boarding homes, operators who evade permits and background checks, and exploitation of vulnerable residents; the bill was left pending. The committee also took up Senate Bill 481 on emergency preparedness for nursing facilities and assisted living facilities, adopted a new committee substitute that softened some requirements and removed the fiscal note, and left the bill pending. The committee then heard House Bill 388, which would require the Texas Department of Insurance to create a single standardized coordination-of-benefits form for dual health plans to reduce errors and surprise bills; it was left pending. Senate Bill 1590 would move paternity registry searches for adoptions to an electronic process with a 10-day target, and House Bill 2809 would track child suicide attempts in managing conservatorship and require related reporting and parental notice; both were left pending. The committee also heard Senate Bill 1887, which would prohibit administering mRNA-containing products for immunization for 10 years, with exceptions for cancer and genetic disorders. Supporters argued the bill was needed for safety, informed consent, and medical freedom, while opponents from the medical, research, and public health communities said mRNA vaccines are well-studied, save lives, and that the bill would harm access, research, and Texas’s biotech economy. The bill remained under discussion as testimony concluded.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part I) May 7th, 2025

Health & Human Services

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  • of need.
  • There I served as a professor of medicine and radiology, and as the director of the Dalu Institute of
  • of the 10.
  • House Bill 2216 seeks to incorporate the principles of ICWA directly into the Texas Family Code.
  • I'm very much in favor of the intent of this bill.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services met with a quorum and took up several House and Senate bills, with public testimony limited to two minutes per witness. The committee first heard HB 2358, a cleanup bill requested by HHSC that would repeal outdated training and conference requirements for long-term care facility surveyors and certain providers; there were no witnesses, and the bill was left pending. The committee then heard HB 18, the rural hospital stabilization bill, which would create financial assessment tools, a rural hospital finance office at HHSC, an academy for rural hospital officers, multiple grant programs, enhanced Medicaid reimbursement tied to average cost, OB/GYN add-on payments, expanded pediatric telehealth connectivity, and a rural pediatric mental health program. Senator Perry and witnesses from TORCH, a rural hospital, AARP Texas, and ARCHI strongly supported the bill as a way to stabilize rural hospitals, improve OB access, and address workforce and financial pressures. Committee members discussed rural hospital closures, low-volume quality metrics, system affiliation, and the need for predictable monthly reimbursement; the bill was left pending after testimony and questions. The committee next heard HB 37, which would create a perinatal bereavement care initiative for families experiencing stillbirth, neonatal death, or intrauterine fetal demise, including counseling, staff training, and access to cooling devices, with possible grants and a recognition program for hospitals. Senator Huffman explained the bill, and several witnesses testified in support, sharing personal stories about infant loss and the importance of time with the baby, trained staff, and cuddle cots or similar devices. A neonatologist also supported the bill while suggesting clarification that hospitals should not be penalized if state funding is unavailable and recommending use of regional advisory councils to help implement training. Public testimony was then closed and the bill left pending. The committee also heard HB 879, which would create a streamlined licensing pathway for veterans with medical or nursing experience to practice in Texas, and HB 913, which would add new state hospitals to statute and split the North Texas State Hospital into two separate hospitals with their own superintendents; both bills had no opposition testimony and were left pending. Later, the committee heard SB 2744, a heart disease screening bill that would update the 2009 Texas Heart Attack Prevention Act to require insurance coverage for coronary CT angiography with plaque analysis, including soft plaque detection, as a preventive screening tool. The author and invited witnesses argued the technology is more effective than calcium scoring alone, can identify patients before symptoms appear, and could save lives at a cost comparable to or lower than colonoscopy. An insurance industry witness opposed the bill, arguing the technology has not been recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for universal screening and that the mandated coverage and payment level would raise costs; the bill was left pending after testimony. Finally, the committee heard HB 1151, a parental rights bill clarifying that refusing psychotropic medication or psychiatric treatment is not neglect unless the child is harmed. Supporters, including parent advocates and attorneys, said the bill would protect parents from CPS overreach and preserve medical decision-making authority, while one witness urged broader attention to physical causes of behavioral issues. Public testimony was closed and HB 1151 was left pending.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Licensing & Administrative Procedures Mar 25th, 2025

Licensing & Administrative Procedures

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  • Several years ago, and they had a certificate of registration that they ended up doing in this last one
  • keep that if they got a waiver, and they have that waiver all the way through. through until the end of
  • hold the licenses have now been cut out, and this just extends for that group. 10 years now instead of
  • My name is Carla Jackson, and I'm a registered interior designer in the state of Texas.
  • us which speak for or against one of the bills.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Financial Services Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Financial Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • You'll note there's a fiscal note in your package as well, which is positive for the state of Alabama
  • What this... ...for the state of Alabama.
  • tax purposes under Chapter 16 and Chapter 18 of Title 40, Code of Alabama 1975, shall not... ...Code
  • of Alabama 1975 shall not follow the provisions of 26 U.S.C.
  • Chairman, and all of you.
Bills: HB163
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Baldwin County Legislation Committee Jan 20th, 2026

Baldwin County Legislation

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  • . >> The jerking of the head. >> Yeah. >> And that is so the a lot of folks were not for it last time
  • It's either AL channel or Alabama channel.
  • But if you just Google Alabama channel will be one of the first things because I'm sure as you know even
  • >> HB 82 is an exact version of the bill that was filed last year for annexation of the city of Daphne
  • Of course. I wanted to first? Of course. I wanted to See?
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Health Committee Apr 23rd, 2025

Health

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  • I'm president of the Alabama Birth Coalition.
  • the type of midwives that you license here in Alabama. midwives that you license here in Alabama.
  • The Alabama Board of Education supports this bill.
  • Pepper bottlers here in the state of Alabama.
  • HB491 would place the state of Alabama in an unprecedented position of regulating food and beverage..
Bills: SB87, HB491, SB43, SB101
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry

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  • I'm general counsel for the Alabama Forestry Commission. I'm kind of the architect of this bill.
  • >> Uh, one thing is, for whatever reason, a lot of these code sections we're dealing with haven't been
  • Some of it is removing outdated code sections related to when we had law enforcement.
  • > outdated<00:03:41.840> code<00:03:42.159> sections of it is removing outdated code
  • sections of it is removing outdated code sections related<00:03:42.879> to<00:03:43.040> when
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Transportation Mar 20th, 2025

Transportation

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  • If not, just tell one of the people, the staff, and we'll take care of it.
  • of vehicles in a variety of ways such as and not limited to.
  • And so If, if you leave it up to the discretion of the, of the contractor.
  • And I'll kind of back up a little bit on, on some of that, some of those questions.
  • However, Committee sub for HB 1126 amends Section 547.613B of the Transportation Code, allowing vehicles
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Mar 12th, 2025

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

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  • For the opportunity to lay out House Bill 626, currently the Code of Criminal Procedures granted.
  • The rules in the Texas Administrative Code point to... this same list of investigators in the Code of
  • the Code of Criminal Procedures and that list all the the federal agencies that Mr.
  • The Code of Criminal Procedures.
  • But I would, the, again, the current administrative code, uh, Department of Public Safety.