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MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
Business and Financial Institutions - Room 210; 28 January, 2026: 2:00 PM
Business and Financial Institutions
Transcript Highlights:
- Next we'll go back up to Senate Bill 2706, professional engineers and surveyors revised code sections
- Next we'll go back up to Senate Bill 2706, professional engineers and surveyors revised code sections
- Next we'll go back up to Senate Bill 2706, professional engineers and surveyors revised code sections
- I'm happy to go section by section if y'all want me to.
- I'm happy to go section by section if y'all want me to.
Summary:
The committee took up several banking, real estate, and licensing bills. Senate Bill 20007 would remove the repeal date for Mississippi Department of Banking and Consumer Finance authority to conduct joint bank exams with the Federal Reserve, after testimony that the program has been successful; it was passed out on a do-pass motion. Senate Bill 2011, extending the repeal date for the Mississippi Debt Management Services Act by three years, was also passed out. Senate Bill 2383, a banking modernization bill, was explained as updating definitions and procedures, including treating ITMs like ATMs, allowing state banks to approve dividends without prior regulatory approval if in good standing, streamlining articles-of-incorporation amendments by making the banking commissioner the final approver, and eliminating parity-request requirements for certain public welfare investments; it was passed out as a committee substitute.
The committee then considered Senate Bill 2711, which would update residential mortgage lending recordkeeping and disclosure language under the SAFE Act to remove obsolete federal references and better fit manufactured-home lending; it was passed out as a committee substitute. Senate Bill 2706, a professional engineers and surveyors bill, was described as a reorganization and modernization of licensure statutes, with the main policy change expanding who may recommend board appointments, staggering six-year terms, and barring recent disciplinary offenders from board service; after questions about appointment advice-and-consent and term length, it was passed out as a committee substitute. Senate Bill 2713, supported by the Mississippi Association of Realtors, would codify buyer agency agreements and move the required signing deadline from before a home is shown to before an offer is submitted; it was passed out.
Senate Bill 2748 would align real estate statutes with current rules, replace certified-mail renewal notices with email notices, and extend the earnest-money submission deadline from one business day to two; it was passed out as a committee substitute. Senate Bill 2715, from the Department of Banking and Consumer Finance, would clarify the new money transmitter law, direct collected fees and penalties to enforcement of the act, add consumer notices and fraud warnings, and create data-security requirements based on a model law; senators questioned the fund balance, annual budget, and the relationship to a separate virtual currency kiosk bill, but the bill was passed out. The final bill on the agenda, 2768, was postponed to the committee’s Monday meeting, and the committee then rose and reported.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 03/12/25
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- the difference between what was coded as federal funding and what is coded as state funding.
- and your discussion to, which are sections 15 and 16.
- Senate counsel, I don't know if the specific sections that relate to our committee—um—is it only sections
- Members can turn to those sections, 15 and 16.
- The imperative actually strongly opposes this section.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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two sales tax uh exemption and a section two sales tax uh exemption and a section - The store uses a tax matrix, which is a list of sales transactions along with a product code.
- The product code is matched with our sales tax laws.
- Certain products are coded as taxable and others are exempt.
- Even so, the retailer does not change the code.
Summary:
The Senate Tax Committee first approved the minutes from the previous meeting and then took up Senate File 11 at the request of the Judiciary Committee. The bill was removed from the table, recommended to pass, and referred to Judiciary. Members explained that the request was tied to data practices language in the bill and Judiciary’s jurisdiction over that subject.
The committee then heard Senate File 268, as amended by the A1 amendment. Senator Nelson said the bill would extend a sales tax exemption for certain physician-prescribed, non-durable medical goods to publicly and privately held health plans, aligning them with treatment already given to Medicare, Medicaid, and other government-paid plans. Testifiers from Corner Home Medical and the industry said current tax rules are confusing, audits are burdensome and expensive, and providers often end up paying tax themselves because insurers do not pay retroactively. They argued the bill would reduce administrative burden and create parity in the tax code. The committee adopted the A1 amendment and laid the bill over.
Finally, the committee heard Senate File 88, also amended by an A1 technical change. Senator Klein said the bill is intended to prevent the Department of Revenue from issuing retroactive assessments when taxpayers relied in good faith on prior audit guidance, so long as there was no material change in law, court interpretation, federal adjustment, or written notice from the commissioner. Department of Revenue staff said they had no formal position but explained how the bill would affect sample audits and noted it would require more detailed written guidance; they said normal audits would not change much. Supporters from the CPA Society and several senators said the bill would provide certainty and protect taxpayers from unexpected back taxes, while one senator questioned whether the bill was needed and whether it would bypass settlement or litigation. The bill was laid over after discussion.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Special Joint Committee on Initiative Petitions Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Transcript Highlights:
- The hearing will be divided into four sections: one, experienced professionals and subject matter experts
- Each of those sections is allotted 30 minutes, and we will stick to that timetable, as we have another
- The coalition decided that there would be three codes that we looked at.
- We looked at just the sporting goods code.
- Subsection one, section one, subsection G, I think it says all of the provisions of this section shall
Summary:
The Special Joint Committee on Initiative Petitions held a public hearing on Initiative Petition No. 25-15, H.5505, “An Act to Protect Water and Nature.” Committee co-chairs outlined the Article 48 initiative process and explained that the hearing was divided into expert, proponent, opponent, and public-comment sections. The first witness, Undersecretary Stephanie Cooper of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, described current state and federal funding sources for land conservation and outdoor recreation, said existing programs are oversubscribed, and noted that the proposal aligns with the Commonwealth’s 30% land conservation goal by 2030 and 40% by 2050. She also flagged possible governance clarifications in the petition, including board structure and administrative authority, while saying the administration has the expertise to manage such a fund.
Proponents from Mass Audubon, the Trustees of Reservations, Mount Grace Land Trust, the Massachusetts Rivers Alliance, the Authentic Caribbean Foundation, and Bemis Associates argued that Massachusetts needs a dedicated, sustained revenue stream for conservation, clean water, climate resilience, and public access to nature. They said current funding is inconsistent and insufficient, cited estimates that the state may need roughly $300 million or more annually to meet conservation targets, and emphasized benefits to public health, mental health, biodiversity, flood protection, and the outdoor recreation economy. Several speakers said the measure would dedicate a portion of existing sales tax revenue tied to sporting goods, recreational vehicles, and golf courses, and that it would support both urban and rural communities, including underserved communities.
Committee members pressed witnesses on the bill’s fiscal and constitutional implications, including how much sales tax revenue would be redirected, whether the measure is constitutional, how funds would be allocated among communities, and why the proposal includes certain revenue sources but not others such as ticket sales. Proponents said the measure would likely direct up to about $100 million annually when fully phased in, that it was designed as a “subject to appropriation” mechanism, and that legal review had found it constitutional. They also acknowledged that the proposal would reduce general fund flexibility but argued it would create a long-term investment in natural resources. The hearing concluded after public testimony, and the committee announced it would accept written testimony until March 27 at 5 p.m.; no vote was taken on the petition at the hearing.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Emergency Management Committee Jul 14th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- not in use for five or more years, a comprehensive hydro test program to better identify corroded sections
- not in use for five or more years, a comprehensive hydro test program to better identify corroded sections
- of public. ...years, a comprehensive hydro test program to better identify corroded sections of pipeline
- Chapter 7A, California Fire Code Chapter 49 on requirements for wildland-urban interface areas, the
- I think I just wanted to clarify that the section that's being referred to is Section 2B6, where it mandates
Summary:
The committee met to hear seven Senate bills, first approving two consent items, SB 352 and SB 804, on motions to do pass to Appropriations. SB 542 (Limón) would require public notice and comment before issuing a financial responsibility certificate for an oil pipeline and require hydrostatic testing before restarting pipelines idle for five years or more; it was supported by the Center for Biological Diversity and passed the committee on a due-pass motion to Appropriations. SB 616 (Rubio) would create an independent community hardening commission within the Department of Insurance to coordinate wildfire mitigation and insurance-related recommendations; it drew support from the Department of Insurance and several local and industry groups, while water agencies, special districts, and the building industry raised concerns about water infrastructure standards, and it passed on a due-pass motion to Insurance. SB 429 (Cortese), which would establish a public wildfire catastrophe model and related university-based research and education program, received support from the Department of Insurance and outside groups and passed as amended to Appropriations.
SB 256 (Perez) would strengthen wildfire mitigation and emergency response by expanding planning, improving PSPS communication, requiring utility coordination with emergency centers, and directing removal of permanently abandoned electrical facilities; utilities and business groups were generally neutral after amendments, while the author emphasized the bill’s connection to recent wildfire losses, and it passed as amended to Appropriations. SB 509 (Caballero) would require specialized training for local law enforcement on transnational repression targeting diaspora communities; it received support from the California Police Chiefs Association and immigrant-rights advocates, but drew extensive opposition from Hindu and civil-rights organizations concerned about bias, implementation, and First Amendment issues. Committee members discussed amendments to clarify cultural competency, diversity, and constitutional protections, and the bill passed as amended to Appropriations. After the hearing, the committee took final roll-call votes on the bills, with the consent items and SB 429, SB 256, and SB 509 moving forward, while SB 542 and SB 616 were also reported out on earlier motions.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- It deletes the section so it no longer applies to projects on historic property, and it does not contain
- It would be effective July 1, 2025, with sections 2 and 3 effective July 1, 2026.
- And sections 2 and 3 are effective 2026.
- It authorizes county police officers to enforce a statewide traffic code on all public streets, roadways
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Summary:
The conference committees met several times on April 25, 2025, to resolve a number of bills, often delaying items until later in the day because of missing FIN/WAM releases or lack of quorum. Early in the day, SB 382 was discussed briefly but not advanced because finance would not release it. HB 1064, relating to the state fire marshal, was taken up and approved after conferees confirmed a $2,212,000 appropriation for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to fund eight positions in the Department of Law Enforcement. Members thanked the many agencies, staff, and advocates involved, and the bill passed by unanimous votes of those present.
Several other measures were rolled over to later conference-room meetings, including HB 423 on workers’ compensation, HB 214 on government, HB 1036, HB 1037, and HB 1039 on public employment cost items, SB 828 on workers’ compensation medical benefits, SB 717 on collective bargaining, and HB 286 on the individual housing account program, all pending FIN/WAM release or further agreement. A larger housing agenda was also postponed to 4:30 p.m. in Room 225, including bills on housing, transportation, transient accommodations development, rental housing revolving funds, dwelling unit revolving funds, and low-income housing credit.
At the later transportation and housing sessions, HB 1231 was adopted as a conference draft establishing a $5 county motor vehicle registration surcharge for the Safe Routes to School special fund and clarifying rules for automated enforcement citations and liability. HB 4209 on transit-oriented development also passed; it defined transit-oriented development, created a mixed-income subaccount in the rental housing revolving fund, and authorized HCDA to use the definition in planning. HB 1298 on housing passed with amendments to support a government employee housing program tied to a transit-oriented development site, including funding for planning and an HHFC position. HB 830 on historic preservation reviews also passed with amendments limiting third-party review to residential or mixed-use development and setting staggered effective dates. Later, SB 662 on transportation passed with amendments authorizing county police officers to enforce the statewide traffic code on public streets, roadways, and highways. Several other bills remained pending and were recessed for later consideration.
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
HB 1053 Conference Committee Apr 3rd, 2025 at 05:00 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- This is a century code that is almost a burden.
- Chairman Dressler, you know, usually I like to see things in Century Code that makes sense.
- And so we like to clutter Century Code with things that really don't make any sense.
- I just don't think it's a bad idea to keep it in the code just to keep track of this.
- But the 50-mile limit, that's a different part of code. To me, that's our new restriction.
Summary:
The conference committee on House Bill 1053 met to resolve Senate changes concerning a statutory cap on state highway mileage. Members discussed the history of the mileage limit, which was set in 1933, and whether keeping the cap in Century Code still served a useful purpose. House members were split between viewing the cap as an accountability and educational tool for future legislators and seeing it as unnecessary clutter because DOT already reports highway mileage and is separately limited by the 50-mile-per-year rule. DOT Director Ron Hanky testified that the department already tracks and reports mileage for budget and federal purposes, that the 7,700-mile cap is not especially useful to DOT, and that the department would prefer the cap be removed. He also explained how mileage is measured and noted several potential road additions that could be affected by the cap.
The committee ultimately could not reach agreement. Representative Dressler moved that the House reject the Senate amendment, and the motion was seconded, but the roll call failed with a split vote: Dressler, Johnston, and Freilich voted yes; Hogan, Rommel, and Corey voted no. With no further motion, the committee adjourned and planned to reschedule another meeting.
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Government Finance Committee Mar 19th, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Government Finance Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- The first section is the taxable sales and purchases information.
- And you can see the two pieces of code listed there.
- We split the spreadsheet... ...pieces of code listed there.
- Because I remember in budget section years ago, I was in the middle of that discussion. Mr.
- The rental rates are also established according to Century Code.
WV
West Virginia 2026 Regular Session
WV Senate Education Committee in Session Mar 10th, 2026 at 08:30 am
Education
Transcript Highlights:
- It simply repeals the section of code that allows students to transfer schools and retain athletic eligibility
- The bill simply repeals the section of code that allows students to transfer schools and retain athletic
- Is that code or is that rule? I believe that that is in rule, I think.
- I don't recall that being in code any place.
- And so we have followed state law for three years in state code.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Our report also includes a questions-and-answers section that provides information on the development
- This section also explains key changes to the compact since it was first established.
- This section also explains key changes to the compact since it was first established in 1992, including
- we found that the Boxing and MMA Commission issued licenses to some applicants who did not sign a code
- Boxing and MMA Commission modified its online application to require applicants to submit a signed code
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Transportation Apr 1st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- . >> Let's go ahead and move to bar Code 7, 7, 7, 2, 7, 2, >> Okay. Lets place you're recognized.
- And those found in state requirements for education facilities of the Florida building code prohibits
- Sunrise specifically section goals to Miramar.
- Lucie, for example, that's established by class size, which you all do established by the fire code and
- So the zoning is actually covered in a in a different section of statute.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm probably going to put an amendment on here that says this definition is only for this section and
- That was pulled from another section. So, just so... Pulled from another section.
- In our code, we use the term... In our code, we use the term express consent.
- Talking about just the sequencing codes and the data that should be medical records rather than property
Keywords:
preliminary hearing, criminal procedure, Aniah's Law, pretrial detention, defendant rights, property rights, law enforcement, removal procedures, unauthorized occupancy, trespassing, liability, off-roading, parks, participant safety, risk management, DNA, genetic testing, privacy, consent, criminal penalties
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- I do not see that in the high-quality materials section in this bill.
- The high-quality materials section in this bill also does not recognize that for Indigenous languages
- D. ...of the bill, section D, and let's see if I can find it.
- Chair, on page four, section D.
- And then the next presentation had to do with changes to code, specifically in MAC 6.64.10.
Keywords:
foster children, school transportation, education funding, public education, child welfare, New Mexico Highlands University, soccer field, women's sports, infrastructure improvement, funding allocation, student athletes, appropriation, New Mexico State University, nutrition, travel support, funding, education, university support, financial assistance, parenting students
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Appropriations Apr 2nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- 201.15, your dock stamp statute, or Section 380.095, your gaming statute, shall be transferred to the
- of $400 million per fiscal year, which were distributed to the trust fund, pursuant to Section 201.15
- We do have remaining concerns with respect to the provisions in Section 18, lines 997 through 1050.
- and zoning code and building code and all those challenges.
- Senators, that's bar code 651904 by Senator Kaladde.
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee met for Budget Day and heard presentations on the Senate’s proposed 2025-2026 budget, SPB 25-200, totaling $117.4 billion. Chair Hooper said the plan reduces overall spending from the prior year, keeps strong reserves, includes a 4% pay raise for state employees, maintains employee health care contributions, and makes major investments in water quality, transportation, and education infrastructure. Committee chairs then summarized their budget silos, including K-12 education, higher education, health and human services, criminal and civil justice, transportation/tourism/economic development, and agriculture/environment/general government. Members asked questions mainly about school funding, AP and dual enrollment support, voucher and scholarship impacts, and the My Safe Florida Home program.
The committee adopted a large consent package of amendments and then approved three late-file amendments: funding virtual college tours for high school students, funding the FSU Sunshine Genetics program, and providing money for the Port of Fernandina customs facility. The committee then voted to report SPB 2500, the General Appropriations Bill, as a committee bill. It also favorably reported SPB 2502 (implementing bill), SPB 2504 (state employees placeholder), SB 7022 (Florida Retirement System contribution rates and DROP changes), CS/SB 1320 (recreating the Resilient Florida Trust Fund), SPB 2506 (gaming compact revenue distributions, including water projects and rural lands), SPB 2508 (29 new judgeships), SB 7014 (ending the court mediation and arbitration trust fund), SPB 2510 (K-12 conforming bill), SPB 2512 (higher education conforming bill), and SPB 2514 (health and human services conforming bill).
The committee also took up several policy bills. It approved SB 7028 on cancer research, creating grant parameters, reporting requirements, a five-year pediatric cancer research incubator, and the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute VisionGen Initiative. It approved CS/CS/SB 170 on nursing home quality, adding resident satisfaction surveys, medical director standards, safety culture reviews, electronic health record requirements, financial reporting penalties, and a study of best practices. It approved CS/CS/SB 168, the Tristan Murphy Act, which expands mental health diversion options, adds Hillsborough County to a forensic hospital diversion pilot, expands grant uses, and creates a behavioral health data repository. It also approved SB 114 creating the Florida Center for Excellence in Insurance and Risk Management at FSU and moving the public hurricane loss model there. The committee then began considering SB 180 on emergency preparedness and response, including a late-file amendment, but the transcript cuts off before final action on that bill.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- It tells us how many policies have been issued by zip code.
- What we found is that in some of the impacted zip codes in St.
- I mean, the penalty section is ridiculous because it's pegged at 1975, not 2026.
- It was just how it was coded when it was entered in the FY26 budget.
- I think it's page 12, Program description book, I believe in this section.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Feb 13th, 2026 at 11:25 am
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And it's taking out Section 3 because Section 3 was adding language to And it's taking out Section 3
- Section 3, we just amended out on a unanimous vote. We just amended Section 3 out.
- Section 3 is current law.
- But for tomorrow, the dress code still remains as usual.
- Dress code, but for tomorrow, the dress code still remains as usual.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Senate Health and Human Services (01/08/2026)
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- In other words, we can have a code that is used by different parties.
- Other words, we can have a code that is used by different parties.
- It is coded similarly to behavioral health case management.
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the that is defined the same and coded the that is defined the same and coded
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs (02/04/2025)
Election Law and Municipal Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- open-source software so that anybody that has the technical ability and the desire can look at the code
- Desire can look at the code to see how it was counting, how it was programmed to count the ballots.
- <01:15:23.840>
hopefully and rewarding those sections hopefully and rewarding those sections - some extra Clarity around that section some extra Clarity around that section that<01:23:34.360>
- So this is a wipe and replace of section one to clean up a particular issue.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- And that's reflected in sections two through N of the bill.
- And that's reflected in sections two through N of the bill.
- And that's reflected in sections two through N of the bill.
- And that's reflected in sections two through N of the bill.
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two and that's reflected in sections two and that's reflected in sections two
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- of title 8 of the code of Alabama 1975. of title 8 of the code of Alabama 1975.
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- And because the Rome section of<01:10:36.320>
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