Video & Transcript Research : 'water development'

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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 224 Conference AM - 04-28-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Finance<00:03:55.600> and the Hawaii Housing Finance and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development
  • <00:03:56.480> On<00:03:56.560> behalf<00:03:56.760> of Development Corporation
  • On behalf of Development Corporation.
  • Next item is HB 1740 HD2 SD2, relating to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 04-28-2026 12:00pm

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • measure, in coordination with the Department of Transportation and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development
  • <00:05:26.840> and and the Hawaii Housing Finance and and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development
  • <00:05:27.680> Corporation,<00:05:28.880> convening<00:05:29.680> a Development
  • Corporation, convening a Development Corporation, convening a working<00:05:30.400> group<00:05
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 229 Conference AM - 04-28-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • this<00:06:57.120> till Moving on to SB 2001, relating to the Banyan Drive Community Development
  • relating to the Banyan<00:07:19.240> Drive<00:07:19.520> Community<00:07:19.760> Development
  • Banyan Drive Community Development Banyan Drive Community Development District.<00:07:21.000>
  • Well, I'm on water and land, and we're... Oh, anyways, this is the conference committee meeting.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select Aug 22nd, 2025

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill builds on the 88th session with House Bill 4742, which allowed the Texas Water Development
  • I would defer to the Water Development Board for their guidance. ...and they could probably answer that
  • And in speaking with the Texas Water Development Board, the feedback that I got was they felt that this
  • Under established standards, the Texas Water Development Board will adopt rules on operation, testing
  • The Water Development Board had a number of recommendations.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development Feb 4th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development will now come to order
  • We've got Edgar Fernandez with W3C Water and Sewer Cooperative, waiving in support. ...with W3C Water
  • Then we've got Laura Donaldson with the Amockly Water and Sewer District, waiving in support.
  • Edgar Fernandez with W3C Water and Sewer Cooperative, waiving in support.
  • Edgar Fernandez with W3C Water and Sewer Cooperative, waiving in support.
Bills: S0214, S0694, S1266
Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development met with a quorum present and considered three bills. First, SB 214 by Senator McLean, a rural access bill for special districts, was amended to allow independent special districts in rural areas to receive certain state and federal financial assistance payments directly for verified work rather than relying on reimbursement. Testimony in support came from representatives of water and sewer entities and the Florida Association of Special Districts. The committee adopted the amendment and then reported CS/SB 214 favorably. Next, the committee took up CS/SB 1266 by Senator Collada on cybersecurity internships and workforce readiness. The bill was amended to create a cybersecurity experiential learning opportunity and clearance readiness program within the Department of Commerce, working with Cyber Florida at USF. A proposed amendment to the amendment was withdrawn by Senator Bernard. With no opposition noted, the committee adopted the amendment and then reported CS/SB 1266 favorably. Finally, the committee heard CS/SB 694 by Senator Bracey Davis, which provides compensation to the descendants of the Groveland Four—Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepard, and Ernest Thomas—for wrongful convictions and related harms. The bill was presented as a justice and redress measure, with supportive testimony from Delatry Hollinger and comments from Senator Smith and the chair praising the effort. The committee reported CS/SB 694 favorably, and then adjourned without further business.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government May 19th, 2025

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • of geothermal water conveyance systems.
  • HB 23 expedites the development process by providing... counties through HB 23 developer would have the
  • pay for development.
  • pay for development.
  • to pay for development.
Summary: The committee heard and left pending several local government, property tax, development, and public safety measures before later voting some of them out. Senator Birdwell explained SB 2784 for the Somerville County Hospital District, which would move the board to staggered four-year terms after a transition and was requested to be held pending until the House companion could be acted on; no public testimony was offered. HB 5084 would allow local approval for fireworks sales tied to Lunar New Year celebrations, with testimony from Hutchinson County Judge Cindy Irwin emphasizing local fire risk and the need for county discretion. HB 5534 would let county commissioners post agendas electronically instead of on a physical bulletin board. HB 4370 would expand permissible projects for certain special districts to include geothermal water conveyance systems, and HB 312 would require residential child detention facilities to enter local MOUs, report health and safety information, and conduct background checks for state-funded facilities; both drew supportive testimony and were left pending. HB 5057 would give displaced solid waste providers time to wind down after a city grants an exclusive franchise, and HB 2421 would extend the life of the Save Historic Muni District to continue work on preserving Lions Municipal Golf Course; both were left pending after supportive testimony. HB 2011 would let former owners repurchase property taken by eminent domain if the acquiring entity fails to pay property taxes for two years, and the committee substitute to SB 3065 was also laid out and left pending after a technical correction to eminent-domain language. The committee then took up additional bills on development, appraisal, and local regulation, including HB 3575, HB 4809, HB 2273, HB 247/HJR 34, HB 2464, HB 3424, HB 2013, HB 5668, HB 3788, HB 1533, and HB 23, with testimony ranging from support to opposition on issues such as appraisal procedures, historic property valuation, Galveston emergency governance, border-security tax treatment, home-based businesses, chicken covenants in HOAs, municipal utility district authority, hospital authorities’ use of assets, and third-party building review. HB 23 drew the most extensive testimony, with builders, engineers, counties, and cities split over third-party plan review and inspection authority, liability, licensing, and local code enforcement; many witnesses said the House amendments created problems and the bill was left pending. In the end, the committee voted SB 2784, SB 3065, HB 5686, HB 247, HJR 34, and HB 2011 out of committee, with the first several receiving local and uncontested calendar recommendations where applicable.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 3/3/26

Housing Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • housing and green field developments. housing and green field developments.
  • for-profit development.
  • for-profit development.
  • for-profit development.
  • for-profit development.
Bills: HF3902, HF3895
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26

Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:07:04.040> in state land bordering public water in state land bordering public water in
  • comes from a directly impacted water body.
  • And especially those<00:15:21.320> whose<00:15:21.480> drinking<00:15:21.880> water<
  • > water<00:15:24.160> body.
  • directly impacted water body. directly impacted water body.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 6th, 2026 at 04:27 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • My home county has actually been prohibitive to economic development.
  • My home county has actually been prohibitive to economic development.
  • Now, now, So much water coming down the watersheds.
  • Let's rehabilitate the floodplain so we can just let the water flow.
  • Let's rehabilitate the floodplain so we can just let the water flow.
Bills: HB2, SB193, SB132, SB35, SB145
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • district the company that has developed district the company that has developed this<00:02:09.119
  • <00:10:22.240> a take a lead position on developing a take a lead position on developing a
  • > river<00:21:30.400> is frequency of low water on the river is frequency of low water
  • hauling watering hauling daily water hauling watering hauling daily water hauling added<00:43:01.599
  • <01:41:14.040> of uh pushing the economic development of uh pushing the economic development
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/26

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • And it says we've developed, and abuse.
  • 00:09:39.839> workforce<00:09:40.240> development engages with workforce development engages
  • development programs.
  • Thank you. that work to develop threat assessments that work to develop threat assessments and<01:06:
  • , growing their economic development, growing their economic development, their<01:18:44.239>
Bills: HF4072, HF3691, HF4613
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development Feb 18th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • He developed economic hubs along them.
  • He developed economic hubs along them.
  • with the state's own guidance on transit-oriented development. ...oriented development to be exactly
  • It's about unchecked and unplanned development.
  • This bill does not mandate development.
Summary: The committee first heard CS for SB 1342 on transit-oriented development by Senator Rouson, which seeks to expand housing near fixed transit corridors by updating TOD definitions and applying Live Local-style land-use principles to those areas. An amendment narrowed definitions, limited the bill to land-use and development regulations, removed a private cause of action, and added exclusions for environmentally sensitive areas, historic properties, and military installations. Supporters said the bill would increase housing supply near existing infrastructure and maximize the state’s transit investments, while local government groups and city leagues opposed it as a sweeping preemption of local zoning authority that could force high-density development without public hearings or adequate infrastructure planning. The committee adopted the amendment and then reported the bill favorably. The committee then took up CS for SB 1334 on elections by Senator Grall, which would require documentary proof of citizenship in voter registration and related election processes, update how citizenship is verified through REAL ID and the SAVE database, clarify that paper ballots are the primary voting method, and add other election-related changes such as candidate eligibility rules and timelines. Two technical amendments were adopted. During extended questioning, senators raised concerns about how documents would be submitted and stored, whether voters without Florida IDs or REAL IDs—especially students, disabled voters, seniors, and homeless Floridians—could be flagged or burdened, and what fiscal and workload impacts the bill would have on supervisors of elections and state agencies. Supporters argued the bill would streamline verification and reduce duplicate paperwork, while many public speakers and some senators said it would create barriers to voting, increase costs, and risk disenfranchising eligible voters. The transcript ends during debate on the bill, before a final vote is shown. Later, the committee considered CS for SB 1362 on advanced air mobility by Senator Harrell. A strike-all amendment aligned the bill with the House version and added vertiports and charging systems as eligible projects for public-private partnership funding, with FDOT authorized to fund certain vertiport costs within available resources. The bill drew support from industry and local representatives, and the committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably. The committee also heard SB 174, which designates a portion of State Road 985 in Miami-Dade County as Charlie Kirk Memorial Avenue and directs FDOT to install markers at an estimated cost of $2,400. The bill prompted significant debate over whether Kirk’s legacy warranted a state road designation, with opponents citing his controversial statements and arguing the honor was political and divisive, while supporters said the designation recognizes civic engagement near FIU and is symbolic rather than regulatory. The transcript ends during debate on SB 174, before any final action is shown.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Workforce Apr 8th, 2025

S/C on Workforce

Transcript Highlights:
  • strength by amending the labor code to add TEAS to the list of eligible entities for the Skills Development
  • The Skills Development Fund is the state's premier job training program designed to help businesses partner
  • may not use the funding from this program; they may or may not qualify, but including the Skills Development
  • or police officer can stay financially stable during treatment for one of the diseases that was developed
  • You know, it stands to reason that, the way cancers and other serious diseases develop, you're not...
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Conservation Feb 12th, 2026 at 09:03 am

Senate Conservation

Transcript Highlights:
  • of both water and wastewater.
  • of both water and wastewater.
  • At the same time, we are trying to provide basic safe drinking water because safe drinking water has
  • water coming into the river.
  • We wanted to ensure that our people have clean drinking water, and of course the water and the reuse
Bills: SB22, SB310