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LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Natural Resources and Environment Apr 14th, 2026
Natural Resources & Environment
Transcript Highlights:
- But we'd like to thank the folks in the rural parishes that would be one of the most prevalent outdoors
- This is, and I don't want to say it's specifically geared towards that, but this was a huge consideration
Committee:
House Natural Resources & Environment
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance May 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, so I'm gonna switch gears a little bit on slide nine, as the agenda and, and my understanding speak
- grant programs in um other priority investment areas like recreation, quality of life projects, uh, outdoor
FL
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Labor, Veterans and Military Affairs Feb 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- The New Mexico Department of Transportation has a corridor of approximately 100 miles, and this is geared
- Is there anyone outdoors that is wishing to speak in opposition? None. All right.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (2-20-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair: Welcome to the House Standing Committee on Tourism and Outdoor Recreation for the 2025 session
- So welcome to Tourism and Outdoor Recreation.
- So welcome to Tourism and Outdoor Recreation.
- So welcome to Tourism and Outdoor Recreation.
- So welcome to Tourism and Outdoor Recreation.
Summary:
The House Standing Committee on Tourism and Outdoor Recreation held its first meeting of the 2025 session, welcomed new members and Vice Chair Susan Tyler Whitten, reviewed committee procedures, and introduced staff. Members also introduced several guests, including family members, interns, and visitors from Kenton County. The chair noted there were no minutes to approve because it was the first meeting.
The committee then heard House Bill 552 from Judge Executive John Sims of Falmouth County, who said the bill is a joint effort supported by KLC and the County Judge/Executive Association. He explained that the measure makes minor wording changes, replacing references to “jurisdiction” with “county or city” and changing “chairman” to “chair,” with the goal of ensuring smaller communities retain representation on local tourist commissions. Chair King added that the bill would allow a mayor or judge executive to appoint a county resident to a tourism board even when the tax district or business ownership crosses city-county lines.
After brief discussion and no further questions, the committee voted on the bill. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor, with members present voting yes and Representative Whitaker explaining his support by saying tourism is a team effort in the counties. House Bill 552 passed out of committee and was sent to the House floor for further consideration.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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- </c><01:25:11.159><c> spaces</c> our environments and outdoor spaces our environments and outdoor spaces
- </c> environmental and tourism and Outdoor environmental and tourism and Outdoor Activity<01:25:34.679
- Chair. outdoor advertising Association joining outdoor advertising Association joining me<01:34:01.560
- Outdoor.
Committee:
Senate Transportation
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor May 31st, 2025 at 09:00 am
Commerce and Labor
Transcript Highlights:
- And so the outdoor... Agreed. Follow up, please.
- And so the outdoor air quality one that I voted for yesterday was referring that over to regulation.
- I'm sad that Senator Flores had to step out because, as you mentioned, he had the outdoor SB 260, which
- We understand the concerns that are about outdoor fires and so forth.
- would encompass significant areas, including pools, outdoor dining, day clubs, entertainment venues,
Committee:
Senate Commerce and Labor
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Outdoor Heritage can ask to take it in the first year because of first-year appropriation only.
- So the Outdoor Heritage Fund will take the biggest hit upfront, Mr. Hamer? Mr.
- Fund, but the Outdoor Heritage Fund only has an annual recommendation.
- Based on the February forecast, the Outdoor Heritage Fund will have $161.9 million available.
- Activities, indoor concerts, outdoor concerts.
Committee:
House Legacy Finance
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee Apr 8th, 2026
Labor, Public Employment and Retirement
Transcript Highlights:
- Outdoor workers are especially vulnerable.
- nonprofit, helping to further the state's commitment to an outdoors for all.
- nonprofit, helping to further the state's commitment to an outdoors for all.
- I am here with Outdoor Outreach, and I am a youth program, I don't know.
- Hello, my name is Jennifer Nguyen, and I'm with Outdoor Outreach.
Summary:
The committee heard several labor-related bills focused on workplace technology, data centers, staffing agencies, and environmental health. SB 947, the “No Robo Bosses Act,” would require human review before automated systems can be used in discipline, termination, or deactivation decisions and would ban predictive behavior analysis; labor groups and worker advocates supported it, while business and industry groups opposed it as overbroad and litigation-prone. After extended discussion about due process, human oversight, and private rights of action, the bill passed 3-1 and was sent to the Senate Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection Committee.
SB 978, the Data Center Community Accountability Act, would require data centers to pay for new infrastructure costs, create a separate rate structure to protect other ratepayers, and impose skilled-and-trained labor standards for construction. Supporters said it would prevent cost shifts to households and ensure good jobs, while opponents argued the CPUC already has ongoing proceedings and that the bill unfairly singles out one industry. The committee discussed balancing economic growth with labor and ratepayer protections, and the bill passed 3-1 to Senate Appropriations. SB 951, the California Worker Technological Displacement Act, would expand WARN-style notice requirements for AI-related layoffs and require reporting on displaced jobs and first consideration for openings; supporters said it would improve transparency and help policymakers respond to AI-driven job loss, while opponents warned it was too broad and conflicted with existing WARN law. It passed 3-1 to Senate Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection.
The committee also considered SB 1032, which would create a licensing and registration framework for temporary staffing agencies. Supporters said it would curb fraud and protect workers from illicit staffing operators, while opponents—many from the staffing industry—said the bill was vague, burdensome, and could hinder small and minority-owned businesses. The bill passed 3-1 to Senate Judiciary. Finally, SB 1046, dealing with protections for lifeguards and park rangers exposed to transboundary pollution in the Tijuana River Valley, would direct Cal/OSHA to develop standards for exposure, PPE, training, and incident reporting. With support from park workers and community groups and no opposition, it passed unanimously 4-0 to Senate Appropriations. The committee also approved a consent calendar item and adjourned after completing the agenda.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS Senate Floor - 25 March, 2026; 10:00 AM
Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> appointment of Mississippi Outdoor appointment of Mississippi Outdoor Stewardship<00:51:13.040><
- </c><00:52:14.960><c> Uh</c><00:52:15.680><c> the</c> outdoor stewardship trust fund.
- Uh the outdoor stewardship trust fund.
- Ray is a reappointment to this outdoor stewardship fund. He's done an excellent job.
- That committee has worked exceptionally well and for outdoor stewardship in Mississippi.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Committee on Post Audit and Oversight Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Senate Committee on Post Audit and Oversight
Transcript Highlights:
- We consider habitat protections as well as different types of gear restrictions.
- We have gear regulations with a 4-inch minimum ring size.
- We have gear and crew regulations.
- These are effort controls that are designed to make We have gear and crew regulations.
- This area has been closed to all gear that are capable of catching groundfish since 1994.
Summary:
The joint hearing focused on the Massachusetts sea scallop fishery, especially the economic importance of the industry, federal scallop management, and two policy questions: reopening the Northern Edge area on Georges Bank and allowing permit stacking/permit consolidation. Chairing senators emphasized their interest in hearing both sides, their frustration with federal bureaucracy, and their view that the issue should be guided by science while protecting the long-term resource and local communities.
Dr. Kate O’Keefe of the New England Fishery Management Council and Kevin Stokesbury of UMass Dartmouth described the Magnuson-Stevens framework, annual catch limits, rotational area management, and the role of industry-funded surveys and the research set-aside program. They said scallops remain the most lucrative council-managed commercial fishery on the East Coast, but recent changes include more small scallops, lower biomass in some areas, higher natural mortality, and shifting abundance toward Georges Bank. On the Northern Edge, they explained that the council previously considered opening the area through a framework/joint action with habitat management, but discontinued the action in 2024 because of conflicting objectives involving scallop yield, habitat protection, and other species. They said the issue could be revisited through future council priority-setting.
Representatives of the Sustainable Scalloping Fund argued that the fishery needs modernization to remain economically viable. They supported reopening the Northern Edge and strongly backed permit stacking, saying it would allow two permits on one vessel while keeping ownership caps in place, reducing costs, improving safety, and helping family-owned fleets avoid financial distress and outside investment. Port of New Bedford representative John Regan stressed the port’s central role in the state economy, the need to protect working waterfront infrastructure, and the importance of any permit changes preserving local ownership and participation. No votes were taken; the hearing was informational, and members asked that the witnesses keep the committee informed as the council and federal agencies consider next steps.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Insurance Committee Apr 23rd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- This problem is particularly acute for those who work outdoors.
- Every farmworker who dies from outdoor heat...
- Every farmworker who dies from outdoor heat has a name: Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez.
- Climate change is making working outdoors in the heat extremely dangerous.
- Every employer should comply with the state's basic outdoor heat standards. They work.
Summary:
The Assembly Committee on Insurance met as a subcommittee and heard several bills related to workers’ compensation, insurance access, climate resilience, and farmworker protections. AB 815 would prevent social service workers who use personal vehicles to transport clients from being misclassified as commercial or for-hire drivers under personal auto policies; supporters said the current practice leads to unaffordable premiums and denied claims, while no opposition testified. AB 1329 would revise the Subsequent Injury Benefit Trust Fund to reduce litigation and medical-legal costs and lower employer assessments; insurers and business groups opposed unless amended, citing concerns about eligibility standards and the QME process, but the bill advanced after amendments were discussed. AB 1048 would allow disputed unauthorized payment reductions for medical providers to be reviewed through independent bill review; supporters framed it as a transparency measure, while opposition argued IBR is the wrong forum and existing contract dispute processes should control, though the bill also passed. AB 1236 would create a Department of Insurance grant program for climate and sustainability risk-reduction projects, with broad support from the department, environmental groups, and insurers, and it passed unanimously.
The committee also heard AB 1336, the Farmworker Heat Illness Prevention Act, which would create a rebuttable presumption that a heat-related injury arose out of employment when an agricultural employer fails to comply with heat illness prevention standards. Supporters, including United Farm Workers, argued the bill would help protect farmworkers amid extreme heat and enforcement gaps; opponents from the workers’ compensation and agricultural sectors said the measure improperly uses the compensation system to enforce OSHA rules and could create unclear adjudication and delay issues. Members discussed Cal/OSHA enforcement limits, undocumented workers’ reluctance to report violations, and the relationship between the bill and existing workers’ compensation procedures. Despite opposition, AB 1336 passed on a divided vote.
The committee also took up a consent calendar including AB 1125, AB 1293, and AB 1398, which were approved together. Roll calls were held open and later completed, and the bills that advanced were sent to the Committee on Appropriations. The meeting concluded with the committee adjourning after final votes were recorded.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Mar 5th, 2026
California Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Their loss is being felt throughout the mountain communities and among outdoor enthusiasts across the
- A close-knit group of six Bay Area moms who bonded together through their love for the outdoors and their
- The women... ...who bonded together through their love for the outdoors and their children.
- Many of the victims of this tragedy knew the Sierra Mountains as their home or cherished outdoor retreat
- Many of the victims of this tragedy knew the Sierra Mountains as their home or cherished outdoor retreat
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/5/26
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> again, the DNR does administer outdoor again, the DNR does administer outdoor heritage<00:21:20.240
- For instance, I just described the sampling method with outdoor heritage funds.
- </c> have, which is obviously outdoor have, which is obviously outdoor heritage.<00:45:57.200><c> We're
- </c><00:47:20.000><c> We</c><00:47:20.240><c> also</c> outdoor heritage fund.
- We also outdoor heritage fund.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Environment committee hears HF1012 3/20/25
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:20:05.039><c> recreation,</c> economies, enhance outdoor recreation, economies, enhance outdoor
- on outdoor tourism to survive.
- riders, hunters, and outdoor enthusiasts.
- riders, hunters, and outdoor enthusiasts.
- </c> dirt bike riders and other outdoor dirt bike riders and other outdoor enthusiasts.<00:23:40.720>
Summary:
The committee heard House File 1012, as amended by the A1 amendment, and the author moved the bill to be laid over for possible inclusion in a future bill. The amendment, adopted on a voice vote, changed the timing for public input in trail planning, removed language on decommissioning trails, and combined the measure with another ATV-fee bill. The author said the bill would unify ATV trail signage policy statewide, align statute with DNR best practices, and not affect the forest trail inventory, existing ATV-accessible miles, or hunting exemptions.
Testimony was sharply divided. Supporters, including representatives of the Minnesota Public Lands Coalition, tribal officials from the Max Band and Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, a retired DNR conservation officer, a retired wildlife manager, and the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board, argued the bill would better protect wetlands, wildlife habitat, and culturally significant areas, improve transparency and tribal consultation, and make trail planning and enforcement more workable. The EQB said the amended bill’s rulemaking timeline was more workable, and the DNR described its existing multi-step trail review and consultation process.
Opponents, including ATV Minnesota, county commissioners from northern counties, and a representative of the Minnesota Trappers Association, argued the bill would burden or restrict existing trail systems, increase costs, and threaten tourism and local economies. They said current trail development already involves DNR and local review, and that the bill could reduce access for riders, trappers, and other users. In member questions, the author and a Minnesota Association of Townships representative said the bill was intended to codify DNR best practices and bring local governments into the process earlier, while confirming that hunting exemptions were not removed.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The more time we spend on our phones, the less time we spend outdoors.
- I've always known how important the outdoors is to our identity and our well-being, but today our connection
- I can speak from my own experience; I grew up on a piece of land north of San Antonio, and the outdoors
- Oftentimes, the only time we're reminded of the outdoors is when we see it on Instagram.
- You know, they really are a lot of fun, and it gets the kids outdoors, keeps them active, and keeps them
Committee:
House Culture, Recreation & Tourism
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Part of the Bureau of Traffic is the Office of Outdoor Advertising Control.
- Joining me here is Sher King, the supervisor of that office of outdoor advertising control.
- </c> agreement and the office of outdoor agreement and the office of outdoor advertising<01:25:13.120
- </c> among the many provisions of the outdoor among the many provisions of the outdoor advertising<01
- /c> obligation to control outdoor obligation to control outdoor advertising,<01:28:45.360><c> many</c
Committee:
Senate Transportation
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
EDN Public Hearing - Tue Apr 7, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST
Transcript Highlights:
- And also shaded outdoor environments encourage physical activity.
- which means that children can play outside longer, get more physical activity, and remain active outdoors
- And also shaded outdoor environments encourage physical activity.
- And also shaded outdoor learning.
- </c><00:21:02.080><c> for</c> to remain out active out outdoors for to remain out active out outdoors
Summary:
The Committee on Education heard three tandem resolution packages. HCR 13 and HR 15 sought collaboration among the Department of Education, the State Public Charter School Commission, and DLNR to develop a student coral stewardship program. DOE said it was willing to work with DLNR, and DLNR supported the measure but said it did not want to be the lead agency for reporting or curriculum development because of existing reporting burdens and because it was already active in school outreach. Testimony in support was received, and the committee later amended the measure to restore DLNR as the lead for the report while keeping DOE and the Charter School Commission as collaborators. The committee then voted to pass HCR 13 HD1 and HR 15 HD1 with amendments.
HCR 91 and HR 83 proposed a long-term collaborative program between DLNR and DOE to expand and sustain tree canopy coverage at public schools statewide. DLNR strongly supported the measure, DOE offered comments, and the Boys and Girls Public Health Institute testified in support, citing research on heat reduction, student health, and academic impacts of shade trees. Additional supportive testimony came from the Kaululu Nani Urban and Community Forestry Program Advisory Council and others. The committee voted to pass HCR 91 and HR 83 unamended.
HCR 183 and HR 183 addressed guidance and protections related to immigration enforcement in schools. DOE said it supported the resolution but noted it already had guidance in place; the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, the Boys and Girls Public Health Institute, Roots for Warren Maui, ACLU, 50501 Hawaii, General Strike Hawaii, and others testified in support, emphasizing student safety, attendance, and the effects of enforcement-related fear. A committee member asked about a reported Konawaena Elementary incident, and DOE clarified that the student was not deported and the event occurred off campus, with some newspaper details said to be inaccurate. After discussion, the committee deferred HCR 183 for further work with DOE and the Board of Education on definitions, enforcement, and guidance.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks - Room 210, 25 March, 2026; 1:00 PM
Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks
Transcript Highlights:
- Allison Cruise from Canton, Mississippi, for the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Outdoor Stewardship
- And I'm assuming you want to hear about me, for what I know about wildlife and outdoors. Outdoors.
- So, basically, I live to hunt and fish and spend time outdoors and take other people with me as much
- guidelines for making sure that they gives a lot of people access and that they're projects that are outdoor
- That's the heart of it is that we can get people out outdoors to actually hunt and fish and enjoy.
Committee:
Joint Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 01/23/25
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
- Perfect, thank you. the outdoor Heritage fund um so that's the outdoor Heritage fund um so that's the
- I'm the executive director for the Outdoor Heritage Council. Mr.
- </c><01:27:05.719><c> Heritage</c> see uh the uh staff of outdoor Heritage see uh the uh staff of outdoor
- I'm the executive director for the Outdoor Heritage Council. Mr.
- </c> projects that come out of the outdoor projects that come out of the outdoor Heritage<01:33:47.119
Committee:
Senate Environment, Climate, and Legacy