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AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
05/05/2026 - House Republican Caucus Calendar #22
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
05/05/2026 - House Republican Caucus Calendar #22
Transcript Highlights:
- Well, I'm going to guess it's probably not in the budget this year because of that price tag, but I've
Summary:
The caucus began with staff presenting Senate Bill 1798, which would create a financial aid awareness program to recognize schools that offer FAFSA completion support and other financial aid awareness activities. Staff explained that schools could choose to participate by meeting specified requirements, and no substantive questions about the bill were raised.
The discussion then shifted into a joking exchange unrelated to the bill, centered on whether the State Board of Education would acquire an M1A2 tank for students to become tank commanders. A participant estimated the cost at six million dollars, and others joked about tank instruction and military branches.
No votes or formal actions were taken on the bill during the excerpt. The meeting ended shortly thereafter with light banter and adjournment.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, April 27, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We also, of course, have the highest gas prices by far in the country.
- We also, of course, have the highest<00:25:34.799>
gas <00:25:35.039>prices <00:25:35.440 - by far in the highest gas prices by far in the country.<00:25:37.760>
California <00:25:38.320 - When the government takes too long to act, whistleblowers should not be the ones paying the price.
- And if we expect whistleblowers price.
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- of homeowners insurance and price of homeowners insurance and emergency<00:34:10.240>
and <00: - Jack Fitzgerald's Price Transparency Act, favorable. >> Recognizing vice chair of the committee as a
- The bill allows dealerships to indicate on their website that the price they purchase a vehicle may be
- lower than the minimum advertised price.
- That price, and they have no return because in 10 to 15 years all deals are off.
Summary:
The Senate convened, established a quorum, and handled several ceremonial and introductory matters before moving into committee reports. The chamber welcomed the doctor of the day, recognized an intern and a guest in the gallery, extended birthday wishes to Senator Chris West, and received remarks from the Romanian Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Andre Moraru, who emphasized Romania’s strategic partnership with the United States, NATO cooperation, investment ties, energy projects, and support for Ukraine. Senators also briefly noted Maryland’s military and diplomatic ties to Romania. The ambassador’s remarks were journalized, and members were given time to meet with him off the floor.
The Senate then took up a series of second-reading bills, mostly from the Finance Committee, adopting committee amendments and favorable reports without objection. Among the measures advanced were Senate Bill 39 on behavioral health reimbursement rate methodology and a work group for certified community behavioral health clinics and outpatient mental health centers; Senate Bill 605 directing the Public Service Commission to study broadband and VoIP oversight; Senate Bill 721, Ralph’s Act, providing expedited DDA/Medicaid eligibility for certain recently relocated individuals; and Senate Bill 891 on perinatal mental health screening, coverage, training, and reporting. Each was amended in committee and ordered printed for third reading.
The Senate also advanced several House bills, including House Bill 427 extending the task force on responsible use of natural psychedelic substances and adding an HBCU representative; House Bill 480 requiring transportation network companies to maintain written deactivation policies; House Bill 532 requiring overtime pay for firefighters employed by governmental units after 168 hours in a 28-day period; House Bill 816 reducing the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund assessment cap from 3% to 1% and authorizing an affordability program; House Bill 829 requiring human trafficking awareness training for certain for-hire and rideshare drivers; House Bill 862 requiring a two-person crew for certain freight rail operations in shared corridors, contingent on similar action in neighboring states; and House Bill 999 revising Class 9 limited distillery license rules and production limits. Most of these bills were reported favorably, with no objections, and were ordered to third reading or passed for third reading as applicable.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- And we believe that the pricing is the best that we're going to get, even if we did go through any other
Summary:
The Executive Subcommittee met to consider one item: a waiver request for cooperative purchasing construction services for the Van Buren School District. Superintendent Harold Jeffcoat explained that the district is seeking a waiver because the turf project exceeds the $1 million threshold that requires approval, and he said the district wanted to use a contractor it has worked with successfully in the past, believing the pricing would be competitive even compared with other procurement methods.
Members asked no questions on the request. A motion to approve was made by Senator Rice and seconded by Speaker Evans. The committee voted in favor, and the motion carried. The meeting then adjourned.
AL
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Transportation and Energy Committee Apr 23rd, 2025
Transportation and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- Senator Kitchens, Senator Livingston here, Senator Price here, Senator Sessions here, Senator Stewart
Bills:
HB443
Keywords:
HB443, Underground Damage Prevention Program, One-Call Notification System, 811, utility locate, dig law, excavation safety, damage prevention, underground utilities, pipeline safety, public utilities, buried facilities, excavation notice, demolition notice, Alabama Public Service Commission, sunset extension, utility protection, locate request, call before you dig, gas pipeline
VT
Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session - 2026-05-08 - 11:30AM
Vermont Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Even with the price of gas that we pay today, which seems high, still on an inflation-adjusted basis,
- So even with the 2%, we're not getting any more because of inflation on gas prices because they've been
- with the increases in diesel fuel right now is around $6 a gallon, it will mean that we have to do a price
- > have<01:42:19.920>
to <01:42:20.080>do <01:42:20.239>a <01:42:20.480>price - mean that we have to do a price mean that we have to do a price adjustment<01:42:21.440>
this
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/26
Transportation Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- And so what you have, folks, is not only dramatically increased prices, but you have people paying at
- And so what you have folks is not only dramatically<01:26:48.480>
increased <01:26:48.960>prices - increased prices, but you have<01:26:51.040>
people <01:26:51.440>paying <01:26:51.760> - opposite direction, where we made it so individual people with their individual cars are getting priced
- getting priced out of the state. getting priced out of the state.
Keywords:
transportation, tow trucks, variable message signs, road safety, emergency service, optometrist, window glazing, motor vehicle regulations, medical prescriptions, transportation safety, infrastructure, construction, appropriation, state project, motorized bicycles, motorcycles, electric vehicles, transportation regulations, safety standards, dealer license
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection - 03/17/26
Commerce and Consumer Protection
Transcript Highlights:
- Due to rent increases annually, he is being priced out of the home he's owned for 44 years and facing
- Due to rent increases annually, he is being priced out of the home he's owned for 44 years and facing
- I ask that you vote in favor of this bill to stop the unfair pricing, price gouging, and unfair practices
- priced out.
- This predatory behavior of these companies who are price gouging residents, homeowners who don't have
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection - 03/10/26
Commerce and Consumer Protection
Transcript Highlights:
- We are going backwards, and the price of health insurance isn't coming down.
- We are going backwards, and the price of health insurance isn't coming down.
- Because we keep doing things that are going to drive the price.
- going<01:37:47.880>
to <01:37:47.960>drive <01:37:48.320>the <01:37:48.400>price - Now, I'm not going to drive the price.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Each year we look at the consumer price index, and if that goes up 2 or 3%, so does that number.
- c><00:34:53.200>
at <00:34:53.359>the <00:34:53.520>consumer <00:34:54.000>price - each year we look at the consumer price each year we look at the consumer price index<00:34:55.040
- And that was something that this legislature decided to do, even though it's a big price tag, wasn't
- tag wasn't in it's a big big uh price tag wasn't in the<01:51:12.320>
governor's <01:51:12.800
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force (9-17-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- the adjusted annually based upon the adjusted annually based upon the consumer<00:21:04.559>
price - consumer price index. consumer price index. um<00:21:06.559>
the <00:21:06.880>community - of them work with those regional cooperatives to assist with contract management and to get better prices
- of them work with those regional cooperatives to assist with contract management and to get better prices
- We want them to get a good price, but oftentimes that can be a barrier trying to navigate.
Summary:
The task force met with a quorum, approved the minutes from the August 20 meeting, and then heard testimony from Representative Steven Doan on House Bill 439, a school nutrition bill aimed at restricting certain ultra-processed foods in schools. Doan said the bill was inspired by his own health journey and his work in agriculture, and he described the measure as targeting specific chemical additives in foods served during the school day, not concession sales or after-hours activities. He said the bill would phase in later to give schools time to adjust and noted that the list of restricted additives was drawn from efforts in other states and advocacy groups. Members asked about the chemical abstract numbers, fiscal impact, summer meal programs, fundraisers, and whether the bill would affect parent-provided items; Doan said he had not done a fiscal note and explained that the bill was intended to apply only during instructional time on school property.
Committee members generally reacted favorably, with some raising practical concerns about cost and implementation. One member asked about high fructose corn syrup, which Doan said was not included because it is too pervasive in the food system. Another member noted that schools already limit some homemade items and asked about the line between school-provided and parent-provided food. Doan also said the list was based in part on Turning Point USA materials and similar laws in other states, and he referenced federal efforts to define ultra-processed foods.
The committee then heard from Kentucky Department of Education officials Matt Ross, Lauren Moore, and Katie Embry on school meals and nutrition programs. They outlined Kentucky’s school lunch, breakfast, summer meals, and other USDA child nutrition programs, including participation and reimbursement figures, and explained how community eligibility provision schools, meal patterns, offer-versus-serve, smart snacks, and local wellness policies work. They said USDA and FDA are currently seeking public input on a uniform definition of ultra-processed foods, that there are no current USDA requirements specifically on ultra-processed foods, and that schools already operate under federal and state rules governing competitive foods, including a state time restriction on smart snacks. They also discussed local purchasing, noting its benefits but also the procurement and staffing challenges schools face. No votes or final actions on the bill were taken in the portion provided.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- It is done by either his instant auction or auction, not by some top-down pricing of advertising.
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is did not refer to is how advertising is did not refer to is how advertising is priced - priced from the social media companies. priced from the social media companies.
- by some uh auction an auction not um by some uh top-down<02:06:32.800>
um <02:06:32.960>pricing - of um of uh of top-down um pricing of um of uh of advertising.<02:06:37.760>
Um <02:06:38.480>
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/25
Agriculture Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Prices for fertilizer peaked in 2022 due to the effects of the Ukraine-Russia war.
- > billion in 2020 to over 6 billion in billion in 2020 to over 6 billion in 2022<00:20:52.400>
prices - for<00:20:52.960>
fertilizer <00:20:53.520>peaked <00:20:53.840>in 2022 prices - for fertilizer peaked in 2022 prices for fertilizer peaked in 2022<00:20:54.600>
due <00:20:54.760 - of eggs of getting baby chicks price of eggs of getting baby chicks with<00:48:47.040>
a <00:48
Keywords:
HF1621, CelluComp, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, appropriation, grant, commercialization, fiber-based barrier packaging, packaging materials, PFAS, perfluoroalkyl substances, polyfluoroalkyl substances, plastic reduction, sustainable packaging, environmental health, materials innovation, bio-based packaging, food packaging, agriculture finance, one-time grant, state subsidy
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 02/17/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- in the '80s, so I have intentionally chosen to farm this way, to have control over setting my own price
- It's an incredible program that allowed me to sell my meat at my asking price to Twin Cities Food Justice
- And so while I'm able to set my own price and make sure that I'm covering at least my cost of production
- I'm able to set living um and so while I'm able to set my<01:29:33.520>
own <01:29:33.880>price - and make sure that I'm my own price and make sure that I'm covering<01:29:36.639>
at <01:29:36.800
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
AGR Public Hearing - Wed Feb 12, 2025 @ 9:30 AM HST
Agriculture & Food Systems
Transcript Highlights:
- ><00:33:36.360>
think <00:33:36.480>the <00:33:36.639>asking <00:33:37.000>price - <00:33:37.559>
and million is I think the asking price and million is I think the asking price - They have to pay for the infrastructure, but the land is covered in their price.
- They have to pay for the infrastructure, but the land is covered in their price.
- They have to pay for the infrastructure, but the land is covered in their price.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
AGR/TOU Joint Public Hearing - Wed Feb 5, 2025 @ 8:45 AM HST
Transcript Highlights:
- We raise prices this year from independent growers, so I would say that the price is higher on the market
- continue to farm 4,000 Acres<01:50:35.639>
we <01:50:35.800>raise <01:50:36.199>prices - <01:50:36.560>
this <01:50:36.679>year <01:50:36.840>from Acres we raise prices - ><01:50:40.639>
industry <01:50:41.239>the <01:50:41.440>the <01:50:41.639>price - <01:50:41.880>
is um grew the industry the the price is um grew the industry the the price
Summary:
The joint House Agriculture and Food Systems and Tourism hearing focused on HB 189 and HB 966, both dealing with agricultural tourism. HB 189 would require counties to adopt ordinances governing review and permitting of agricultural tourism as secondary uses on working farms, require the principal agricultural use to pre-exist any tourism-related permit, and limit ag tourism to land where productive agriculture is occurring. HB 966 would create statewide uniform standards for agricultural tourism, require county registration of activities, require ag tourism to coexist with agricultural activity on a farming operation, and end the tourism use when agricultural activity ceases.
Testimony on HB 189 was mixed. The Department of Agriculture and Kualoa Ranch opposed the bill, arguing that the proposed restrictions and income-based limits could burden bona fide farms and ranches, reduce flexibility for counties, and harm food production, jobs, and diversification efforts. Kualoa Ranch said ag tourism supports its food sales and community market and warned the bill could cost more than 350 jobs. The Hawaiʻi Cattlemen’s Council also opposed the measure for similar reasons. The Hawaiʻi Farmers Union supported the bill with suggested amendments, including clearer language around agricultural dedication. The Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau supported the intent of the bill but urged caution, saying ag tourism should remain tied to actual agricultural production and that counties need flexibility to address abuses without imposing overly rigid standards.
Members discussed how to define a bona fide agricultural operation and whether property tax agricultural dedication could serve as a clearer qualifier. They also raised concerns about how counties would enforce revenue thresholds or separate accounting for tourism and farm income, and whether state law should better target clearly non-agricultural uses such as gondolas or other abusive developments. The Department of Agriculture and Farm Bureau said counties already have authority to regulate ag tourism through ordinances, but that any new standards should avoid unintended burdens on true farmers and ranchers.
HB 966 was then introduced, and initial testimony again reflected support for the bill’s intent from some agricultural groups and opposition or caution from others. Kualoa Ranch said ag tourism can help educate visitors and support agriculture, the Hawaiʻi Farmers Union supported county flexibility, and the Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau reiterated concerns about the bill’s income comparison provisions and the need to distinguish legitimate agricultural tourism from misuse. No votes were taken during the hearing.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- It would be a higher price for nonresidents and their helpers for providing assistance.
Keywords:
elk population, wildlife management, Oklahoma State University, veterinary medicine, ecosystem health, habitat assessment, waterfowl hunting, crane hunting, hunting guide, hunting outfitter, wildlife conservation, commercial hunting, outfitter license, guide license, hunting services, licensed guide, licensed outfitter, game and fish, hunting for compensation, waterfowl guide
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, January 12, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Success by President Trump, with all the above energy, are the lowest gas prices since 2021.
- c><02:09:36.159>
the <02:09:36.400>lowest <02:09:36.719>gas <02:09:36.960>prices - <02:09:37.360>
since energy are the lowest gas prices since energy are the lowest gas prices - The program has resulted in millions of American households enjoying lower prices for cocoa, coffee,
- apparel that helps keep cost priced apparel that helps keep cost affordable<05:55:13.520>
for