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AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Banking and Insurance Committee Feb 4th, 2026
Banking and Insurance
Transcript Highlights:
- So I'm saying that to everybody sitting in here when we deal with our budgets and stuff like that.
- So I'm saying that to everybody sitting in here when we deal with our budgets and stuff like that.
- So I'm saying that to everybody sitting in here when we deal with our budgets and stuff like that.
- So I'm saying that to everybody sitting in here when we deal with our budgets and stuff like that.
- we deal with our budgets and stuff like<00:03:43.680><c> that.
Bills:
SB170 , SB177 , SB207 , SB208 , SB215 , HB27 , SB219 , SB247 , SB232 , SB81 , SB170 , SB177 , SB207 , SB208 , SB215 , HB27 , SB219 , SB247 , SB232 , SB81
Committee:
Senate Banking and Insurance
Keywords:
health insurance, health savings account, high deductible plans, federal regulations, cost-sharing, insurance law, breast cancer, health coverage, deductible, copayment, insurance, captive insurance, captive insurer, captive insurers, insurance regulation, Alabama Department of Insurance, insurance commissioner, premium tax, capital requirements, surplus requirements
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Local Government Feb 2nd, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- and tasks to the administrative personnel of a city, town, or county rather than the legislative authority
- The bill allows a regional transit authority to apply for permits under certain conditions and construct
- caused by the acquisition of a portion of an existing lot or tract by an agency with condemnation authority
Committee:
Senate Local Government
Keywords:
city incorporation, local governance, municipalities, state law, government structure, culvert replacement, fish passage, hydraulic project approval, Department of Fish and Wildlife, stream crossing, bank stabilization, flood control, erosion control, emergency permit, expedited permit, SEPA, environmental review, local government, county authority, agricultural irrigation
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Local Government Jan 19th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- A fire protection district or authority that has assumed authority for administering and enforcing the
- The county legislative authority may appoint a coroner.
- Authority must appoint a coroner.
- That's because Washington State has a budget-based property tax system.
- I don't know if that's actually our authority or not.
Committee:
Senate Local Government
Keywords:
freight rail, rail corridor, short-line railroad, rail-dependent uses, industrial land use, growth management act, GMA, comprehensive plan, transportation element, land use planning, local government, county planning, city planning, critical areas, agricultural lands, forest lands, mineral resource lands, urban growth area, development regulations, notice on permits
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Health & Long-Term Care Jan 15th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Health & Long-Term Care
Transcript Highlights:
- welcoming our presenters this morning: Michelle Needham, Chief Policy Officer with the Health Care Authority
- ; Ross Florey, the Cost Board and Commission's Director with the Health Care Authority; and Dr.
- For the record, Michelle Needham, Chief Policy Officer for Health Care Authority.
- So it includes health care agencies like the Health Care Authority.
- So it includes health care agencies like the Health Care Authority, Health Benefit Exchange, Office of
Committee:
Senate Health & Long-Term Care
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- spirit and the letter of the Arizona parental rights law by weaponizing the parents' guaranteed authority
- 2402 give prosecutors Arizona Revised Statutes 13-2504, 13-2511, and 13-2402 give prosecutors ample authority
- Certainly something that could be put differently in the budget, but I think for appearance's sake, I
- I mean, the officer has the authority. Mr.
Bills:
SB1092 , SB1094 , SB1139 , SB1239 , SB1240 , SB1248 , SB1326 , SB1502 , SB1512 , SB1540 , SB1616 , SB1635 , SB1669 , SB1673
Committees:
House Judiciary , House House Judiciary Committee of Reference
Keywords:
probation, dangerous crimes, children, Arizona Revised Statutes, criminal justice, juvenile offenses, rehabilitation, gender reassignment, civil liability, minors, medical consent, detransition, family court, therapeutic intervention, expert testimony, parenting time, child development, sex offenders, statute of limitations, prosecution
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Veteran and Military Affairs REVISED: Links added Feb 5th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Veteran and Military Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- This change will allow the TAG to have broad authority for the use of that money appropriately.
Committee:
House Veteran and Military Affairs
Keywords:
veterans, disability benefits, federal law, Oklahoma Statutes, military service, veterans benefits, workplace poster, human resources, employment law, mental health resources, educational resources, HB3043, Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, ODVA, seasonal employees, project labor, pro rata jobs, unclassified service, state personnel law, state employee benefits
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, February 3, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:26:10.559><c> of</c> when they can't even manage a budget of when they can't even manage a budget
- According to the nonpartisan budget experts at the Congressional Budget Office, their big ugly bill added
- According to the nonpartisan budget lie.
- ><c> Congressional</c><00:42:31.680><c> Budget</c> experts at the Congressional Budget experts at the
- Let's start with defense, half of our total budget.
Keywords:
Medal of Honor, valor, Army, Nicholas Dockery, military service, James Capers Jr., Vietnam War, acts of valor, military recognition, military valor, John W. Ripley, Marine Corps, appropriations, omnibus, consolidated appropriations, fiscal year 2026, FY2026, federal spending, budget bill, defense appropriations
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 2nd, 2026 at 02:03 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- We're very excited to dive into the budget today and get the review from Director Salih and Director
- So, House Bill 2 represents just a 2.7% recurring increase over last year's budget.
- But really, I wanted to spend a little bit of time talking more thematically about what the budget does
- Not only does that make for a more transparent process, it makes. for a better budget.
- I just want to say thank you to everybody who's worked on this budget.
Committee:
House House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
general appropriation, budget, Medicaid, education funding, public safety, State Fairgrounds District, fairgrounds bonds, public financing, bond authorization, gross receipts tax, gaming tax, tax-backed bonds, infrastructure funding, Albuquerque fairgrounds, State Fair Tid, economic development, municipal bonds, revenue pledge, capital projects, New Mexico finance
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- And then the New Mexico Finance Authority, that's been approved.
- I have Ashley Leach and I have Justin Horowitz, Bonding Authority, but we're ready for questions.
- And we strongly support being clear about the authority and The structural position, the importance of
- So, we'll move on to our next line of business, which will be a unified court budget request.
- Otherwise, there weren't any additions to the AOC or the court's budgets in HAFC in non-recurring, so
Committees:
Senate Senate Finance , Senate House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
State Fairgrounds District, fairgrounds bonds, public financing, bond authorization, gross receipts tax, gaming tax, tax-backed bonds, infrastructure funding, Albuquerque fairgrounds, State Fair Tid, economic development, municipal bonds, revenue pledge, capital projects, New Mexico finance, special education, office of special education, deputy secretary, public education department, IEP
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Civil Rights & Judiciary Jan 16th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Civil Rights & Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- Second, the proposed substitute provides statutory authority for the state treasurer to distribute to
- In effect, this revision puts into statute the authority that the legislature has provided to the treasurer
- through budget bills since 2015, while still repealing the requirement for the AOC to administer these
- engage in rulemaking regarding this matter, which the Department of Licensing has the cognizant authority
Committee:
House Civil Rights & Judiciary
Keywords:
corporate filings, secretary of state, business entity filings, annual reports, foreign corporation, domestic corporation, nonprofit corporation, registered agent, trademark assignment, charities division, entity registration, foreign registration, ministerial filing duty, filing refusal, international student exchange, exchange visitor placement organization, doing business in Washington, remote worker, branch campus, notary certification
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, November 12, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Congress must assert its authority over the power of the purse.
- This is funding that President Trump sought in his budget.
- THIS IS FUNDING THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP SOUGHT IN HIS BUDGET.
- That's twice the discretionary budget.
- THAT'S TWICE THE DISCRETIONARY BUDGET.
Keywords:
Richard B. Cheney, Congress, House of Representatives, respect, resolution, continuing resolution, appropriations, fiscal year 2026, omnibus, government funding, federal budget, USDA, Department of Agriculture, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Veterans Affairs, VA health care, military construction, legislative branch, Congress funding
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, June 25, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:06:23.600><c> For</c> budget, all of that is at risk. For budget, all of that is at risk.
- This budget would impose coverage.
- </c><00:08:52.080><c> It's</c> cuts to line items on a budget. It's cuts to line items on a budget.
- </c> current budget of 47.7 billion. current budget of 47.7 billion.
- </c> NCI's budget by 33%. 37%. NCI's budget by 33%. 37%.
Keywords:
appropriations, military construction, veterans affairs, VA funding, USDA, agriculture appropriations, legislative branch appropriations, fiscal year 2026, omnibus, spending bill, rural development, rural housing, broadband, SNAP, WIC, school lunch, food safety, FDA user fees, veterans health care, toxic exposure
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- Each entity is also authorized to contract for any or all portion of their administrative services.
- Delayed times with extra processes in budgeting, staffing, and contract and grant approval processes.
- Additionally, agency budgets are often influenced by OSPI's administrative decisions, which can limit
- By removing unnecessary financial barriers and ensuring direct oversight of our budget, this bill will
- They approve budgets. They hire and evaluate the superintendent, holding that person accountable.
Committee:
House Education
US
Transcript Highlights:
- The Civil Division also uses the False Claims Act and other enforcement authorities to identify by waste
- One section one makes Congress the sole sovereign lawmaking authority within the federal government.
- There have been calls, including from the authors of Project... 2025, which I think is generally seen
- , the district court has no more authority to tell the president he can't do that than they can, speaking
- The report that I authored.
Committee:
Senate Senate Judiciary
Keywords:
John Eisenberg, assistant attorney general, national security, China Initiative, Department of Justice, judicial authority, executive actions, nomination hearing
Summary:
The committee meeting primarily involved discussions around key nominations and pressing legal issues pertaining to the Department of Justice. Notable discussions included the nomination of John Eisenberg for assistant attorney general for national security, where concerns over the revival of the China Initiative were raised. Senators expressed significant apprehensions regarding previous actions taken under this initiative and its implications for national security. Additionally, there were critiques of the broader implications of executive actions that challenge judicial authority, aligning with ongoing dialogues about the integrity of the judiciary and executive oversight.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Business meeting to consider an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee during the 119th Congress. Feb 19th, 2025 at 09:00 am
Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- The budget resolution authorized the expenditures by our committee from March 1st, 2025 until February
- It's been two years since the FCC lost auction authority and three years would restore FCC auction authority
- Since Congress authorized the FCC to conduct auctions in 1993, it held 100 auctions that generated $233
- And so I think that it's just important to have Congress. when it reauthorizes FCC auction authority
- Now as you know, the Spectrum Pipeline Act that I've authored requires a pipeline of full power, not
Keywords:
spectrum policy, FCC auction authority, national security, innovation, technology development, 9-1-1 modernization, adaptive technologies, China competition
Summary:
The meeting centered on the critical examination of spectrum policy and its implications for innovation and national security. The committee discussed the lapse of the FCC's spectrum auction authority, which has been in effect since March 2023, emphasizing the urgency of restoring this authority to maintain U.S. technological leadership against competitors like China. Witnesses provided testimony regarding the need for adaptive and reconfigurable spectrum technologies to enhance communication capabilities for both civilian and military applications. Senator Klobuchar highlighted the importance of modernizing 9-1-1 systems and ensuring robust emergency communication frameworks leveraging new spectrum innovations.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Transportation May 28th, 2026
Joint Committee on Transportation
Transcript Highlights:
- It also provides clearer authority for law enforcement, ensuring officers can apply consistent rules
- We want new authority for the RMV to respond quickly to new technologies so we can update safety rules
- It also supports first-mile and last-mile connections to the MBTA and to regional transit authorities
- Whoever owns the path can retain the authority to lower the limit.
- The bill, as it's written, provides the RMV the authority to create insurance requirements.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Transportation
Keywords:
Boston, easement, highway improvement, Woburn, Burlington, public safety, transportation, land transfer, vessel transportation, Marston Mills, Osterville, Barnstable, state highway, traffic safety, maritime regulation, local legislation, Hyannis Transportation Center, Thomas S. Cahir, Cape Cod, commemorative designation
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- It would authorize a new county-imposed public utility tax.
- It would authorize a new county-imposed public utility tax.
- We know that things are tough, budget-wise, in so many areas.
- This does authorize some new taxes.
- The state just authorizes them to do it. We did not authorize that we would pay for it.
Committee:
House Finance
Keywords:
affordable housing, sales tax, housing programs, tax incentives, economic development, property tax, senior citizens, tax exemption, local government funding, permanent legislation, adaptive housing, disabled veterans, tax preferences, housing affordability, retail sales tax, governmental transfer, agriculture, land use, local government, tax authority
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- CERA is used in the transportation budget for things like public transit, electric ferries, and electric
- should go into the account, the amounts that go into Aquadilla have been decided in the operating budget
- I'm also not expecting significant new costs driven by this bill, although the amounts that each budget
- budgets are counting on money that is more than is actually coming in through auction revenue.
- But we think that this is an important conversation worthy to have in a supplemental budget year.
Committee:
House Appropriations
Keywords:
climate change, commitment act, emission reductions, sustainability, environmental policy, HB 2254, Washington, Health Care Authority, partnership access line, psychiatric consultation line, first approach skills training, behavioral health, mental health, assessment, administrative costs, health insurance, health carriers, self-funded plans, multiple employer welfare arrangement, MEWA
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee Mar 18th, 2026
Public Safety and Homeland Security
Transcript Highlights:
- So the what we worked out with the sponsor was to give the legal authority here to allow us to meet with
- So the what we worked out with the sponsor was to give the legal authority here to allow us to meet with
- So the what we worked out with the sponsor was to give the legal authority here to allow us to meet with
- So the what we worked out with the sponsor was to give the legal authority here to allow us to meet with
- So the what the we worked out with the sponsor was to give the legal authority here to allow us to meet
Committee:
House Public Safety and Homeland Security
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26
Housing Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- The statute authority employees.
- Housing and redevelopment authorities Housing and redevelopment authorities are<00:03:29.760><c> tasked
- We are the Redevelopment Authority.
- I'm here to testify in Authorities.
- </c> authoring this bill. authoring this bill. >> Uh<00:16:11.360><c> Mr.
Committee:
House Housing Finance and Policy