Video & Transcript Research : 'state ethics code'

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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EDU Public Hearing 03-20-2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um Hawaii State Board >> Okay. Thank you. Um Hawaii State Board of<00:04:05.920> Education.
  • But... in the state having that same feeling in the state having that same feeling and<00:20:50.640><
  • Um and this could be state of Hawaii.
  • >> Mallerie Fujitani for the Hawaii State >> Mallerie Fujitani for the Hawaii State
  • If not, thank you. of the board of ed and the state library of the board of ed and the state library
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/26

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • please state that amendment for us? please state that amendment for us?
  • <00:13:40.000> 98% their state were tied to scams. 98% their state were tied to scams. 98%
  • Children and grow across the state.
  • <00:29:21.039> Um, state. Uh we're neutral on the bill. Um, state.
  • the code that has been reimbursed for. the code that has been reimbursed for.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/26

Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:09:14.240> government or the state government or the state government >> director
  • . in other states lake for future uses. in other states that<00:20:13.200> have<00:20:13.360><
  • Again, we're not existing state law.
  • <00:30:27.279> Uh, stated, it goes Oh, my bad. My bad. Uh, stated, it goes Oh, my bad.
  • :32:35.200> uh as Representative Johnson stated, uh as Representative Johnson stated, uh this<
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/09/2026 - House Health & Human Services

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Madam Chairman, members, 31 states to date have enacted similar legislation like this.
  • And the state system eliminated cost sharing for this current plan year.
  • Yes, I just want to find out what is the delay going through the state?
  • I think that's best for the state and protects our sovereignty, so I vote no.
  • from selling any state employees' data, period?
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Mar 5th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • Public exhibition to agents of political subdivisions, including our constitutional entities, state entities
  • contracting with the state or any of its subdivisions after the infraction.
  • I'm leaving the country or I'm leaving the city, the state.
  • There's no DA involvement, no state involvement other than the judge.
  • This impacts or modifies the criminal discovery process that we use in the state.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/16/2026 - Senate Finance

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Arizona would by no means be the first state to do this. 21 states already do, including a really interesting
  • mix of blue and red states.
  • And for most of those states, that impact estimate was between one cent and five cents, with the state
  • Every state has been somewhat different.
  • The updated language simply states diagnostic imaging.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • And like I stated, there's a. Lot of jobs that still need that.
  • The purpose of it is to invite investment by businesses and actually have businesses remain in the state
  • modernizing our corporate structure so that we can invite Those businesses here and compete with states
  • transport and why they would be exempt from the Oklahoma insurance code in this bill.
  • So, out-of-state providers Are out-of-state transport providers exempt from the Oklahoma insurance code
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ports, Waterways and Intermodal Transit Committee Jan 21st, 2026

Ports, Waterways & Intermodal Transit

Transcript Highlights:
  • Father, we thank you for this day, for this opportunity for us to get together to do the work of this state
  • Father, we thank you for this day, for this opportunity for us to get together to do the work of this state
  • Senate Bill 89 by Senator Sessions, relating to State College Commission. Representative Given.
  • Senate Bill 89 by Senator Sessions, relating to state college commission. Representative Givens.
  • So if you go to the code and look, which you know lawyers do, you'll see two code sections currently,
Bills: HB277, SB89, HB135, HB277, SB89, HB135
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Transportation Jan 12th, 2026

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • This creates a recurring risk that the plate could fail to meet state requirements and be discontinued
  • Again, just reiterating what she said, it's not costing the state anything.
  • Unfortunately, you start to see them come up. in our state. It is only a matter of time before.
  • Unfortunately, you start to see them come up in other parts of our state. So that is the bill, Mr.
  • States.
Summary: The Transportation Committee heard and advanced several bills, mostly related to honorary roadway designations, specialty license plates, and Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles administration. SB 628 designated a portion of South Navy Boulevard in Pensacola as “Warrior Sacrifice Way” to honor Ensign Joshua Watson and Petty Officers Muhammad Hatham and Cameron Walters, who were killed in the 2019 Naval Air Station Pensacola attack. The bill passed favorably with no debate or opposition. The committee also considered SB 174, naming a portion of State Road 985 in Miami-Dade County as Charlie Kirk Memorial Avenue. Senator Arrington opposed the bill during debate, citing Kirk’s public statements as inconsistent with the honor, while Senator Rodriguez argued the designation was an honorary roadway naming that did not require agreement with Kirk’s views. The bill was reported favorably. SB 388, which raises the annual use fee for the Florida Wildflowers specialty license plate from $15 to $25 while keeping the lower fee for owners with more than 10 vehicles, also passed favorably after a support-only public comment. Members then approved SB 470, which opens the Fraternal Order of Police specialty plate to the general public and allows redesigns to help sustain sales and increase funding for law enforcement memorial efforts. Public testimony from the FOP supported the change. SB 584 authorized DHSMV to enter agreements allowing county tax collectors to enforce certain commercial driving school provisions, aimed at addressing fraud and licensing abuses, and it passed favorably with support. Finally, the committee approved SB 488, the DHSMV agency package updating IFTA compliance, online filing, crash reporting thresholds, registration procedures, email communications, and tank vehicle definitions, along with SB 490, the companion public records exemption for email addresses used under SB 488; both were reported favorably, with SB 490 noted as requiring a two-thirds vote.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • While all states have 988, not all states provide the necessary support and funding for it to reach its
  • Our state has the second highest call rate in the nation, with over 220,000 calls made within our state
  • And so many states have enacted, as I mentioned, 17 other states have enacted these guarantees.
  • By a simple fix, putting a definition into the state insurance code that defines an entity... such that
  • state of Texas.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services May 14th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • On average, they answer 18,000 in-state calls per month, with an average of 84% in-state answer rate,
  • On average, they answer 18,000 in-state calls per month, with an average of 84% in-state answer rate,
  • They may have 100 covered lives in a particular state or in a particular area of the state, and they
  • What about across the state?
  • That issue could have been addressed by a simple fix: putting a definition into the state insurance code
Summary: The committee heard testimony on a series of health and human services bills and left each one pending after public testimony. HB 4655 would expand financial literacy instruction for youth aging out of foster care to include credit scores, predatory lending, scams, banking, budgeting, and related consumer topics; the sponsor and Buckner International described the need to protect foster youth from financial pitfalls. HB 923 would add three public members and one physician to the Texas Medical Disclosure Panel; supporters said it would improve informed consent and patient voice, while a witness raised concerns about a House amendment requiring a physician majority for decisions and senators questioned scope-of-practice limits. HHSC said the panel is an independent body and the bill expressly bars it from changing scope of practice.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Rules and Administration - Subcommittee on Ethical Conduct - Part 1 - 03/13/25

Rules and Administration - Subcommittee on Ethical Conduct

Transcript Highlights:
  • ethical conduct. ethical conduct.
  • ethical standards. ethical standards.
  • ethics.
  • ethics committee trial. ethics committee trial.
  • ethical conduct. ethical conduct.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Republican Media Availability 4/7/26

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • people that has filed an ethics people that has filed an ethics complaint.<00:07:36.480> He'd
  • <00:08:31.400> of mimics federal policy in the state of mimics federal policy in the state
  • to lobby the state of Minnesota. to lobby the state of Minnesota.
  • response to the other ethics complaint? response to the other ethics complaint?
  • >> Um, the way that the ethics work is we receive those ethics complaint.
Keywords: 1183, house
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Jan 20th, 2026

Alabama House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:15:45.519> to where she was charged from the state to where she was charged from the state
  • title and the first act from the state title and the first act from the state of<00:24:23.840>
  • rest of the state. rest of the state.
  • I just wanted to ask you, um, right now the county have to be consistent with what state law and state
  • exempt from paying state exempt from paying state >> exactly<01:56:14.159> taxes.
Keywords: 1136, house, all
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • It noted policies in other states.
  • state revenue. state revenue.
  • salaries and benefits for some states. salaries and benefits for some states.
  • So then the state total comes from what number? >> The state total can be reported.
  • of ethics.
Summary: The subcommittee opened its first meeting with roll call and procedural business, including elections of co-chairs. The House elected Representative Truett as House co-chair, and the Senate elected Senator Denine as Senate co-chair. After the organizational votes, the committee heard the Office of Educational Accountability’s annual report, beginning with Brian Jones and Deborah Nelson describing OEA’s investigations and research divisions and recent staffing turnover. On the investigations side, OEA said it handled complaints only when submitted in writing and generally opened cases only when it had enough facts to evaluate. Jones reported complaint volume declined from 805 in 2023 to 738 in 2024, with 325 in the first half of the current year. He outlined the kinds of matters OEA investigates, including school-based council issues, open meetings, board eligibility, nepotism, conflicts of interest, certification, activity funds, and surplus property, while noting that routine personnel matters, bullying, child interviews, and cases tied to litigation are generally handled locally or referred elsewhere. He also said OEA refers special education, assessment/testing, discrimination, and serious misconduct matters to the appropriate agencies, and that he did not see a need for statutory changes to improve OEA’s work, though he said cases should move more quickly. The research division presentation focused on OEA’s district data profiles and annual research agenda. Nelson explained that OEA reviews KDE-reported data and underlying datasets to verify accuracy, analyze trends, and produce reports for the General Assembly. She highlighted 2024 publications on district governance models and student achievement, and said this year’s agenda includes district data profiles, student discipline analysis, and a review of early childhood regional training centers. She also noted OEA received an NCSL notable document award for its 2023 staffing shortages report, its 10th such award. Sabrina Smith then walked through the district data profiles, which compile demographic, staffing, finance, and performance data for all 171 districts, plus statewide and comparative data. She noted changes in the report format, the continued availability of an online interactive version, and several trends: adjusted average daily attendance declined statewide from 2015 to 2024; the counselor-to-student ratio has improved but has not yet reached the statutory goal of one counselor per 250 students; the share of teachers moving from rank three to rank two has declined; special education identification has risen from 13% to 16%; and starting teacher salaries vary widely by district, with Kentucky’s average starting salary around $40,000 ranking near the bottom compared with surrounding states and the nation. Members asked about the history of the research division and whether the paper copies of the district profiles would continue, and staff said the printed versions would continue unless legislators asked otherwise.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Friday, January 9, 2026)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • States.
  • states for solutions. states for solutions.
  • to state prisons. to state prisons.
  • the state. the state.
  • You have a state of the state yesterday.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

September 23, 2025 - 09:00 AM

Transcript Highlights:
  • As an ICMA member, I follow a strict nonpartisan code of ethics and can assist, guide, and provide feedback
  • As an ICMA member, I follow a strict nonpartisan code of ethics and can assist, guide, and provide feedback
  • , it's a federal-state...
  • But it's just a policy decision for the state of Florida, like some other states.
  • The state of Florida hardly competes with our fellow states.
Summary: The Select Committee on Property Taxes heard first from city representatives through the Florida League of Cities, who argued that property taxes are a stable local revenue source that funds core services such as police, fire, parks, public works, and stormwater work. Casey Cook emphasized that cities are optional governments with widely different tax bases and service levels, that exemptions shift the burden to fewer taxpayers, and that transparency already exists through TRIM notices, public budgets, and local hearings. Sarah Campbell of Fernandina Beach, T. Michael Stavris of Winter Haven, and Stephen O’Kee of Port St. Lucie described their budget processes, the share of general-fund revenue coming from property taxes, reserve policies, debt and capital planning, and the impact of inflation, minimum wage increases, and personnel costs. They all said local governments need predictable revenue and that any property tax changes would require careful consideration of replacement funding or service reductions. Members questioned the city panel about whether homebuyers are clearly informed about city versus county taxes and services, the role of HOAs, how many lobbyists cities employ, reserve levels, average salaries, and whether utility revenues are used only for utility purposes. The panel said TRIM notices, realtor listings, and city websites provide tax information; HOAs generally do not provide emergency services; lobbyists help local governments track Tallahassee legislation; reserves vary by city and fund; and utility revenues are generally restricted, though some cities use limited transfers. Members also asked about revenue replacement if ad valorem taxes were reduced or eliminated, and the panel said options would likely include user fees, service cuts, or other local revenue shifts. The chair also asked about public safety consolidation, and the response was that such decisions are local and may shift costs rather than create true savings. The committee then heard from county representatives after an overview by the Florida Association of Counties’ Davin Suggs, who framed counties as shared partners with the state and emphasized the gap between rising market values and the shrinking share of taxable value after exemptions and assessment limits. He said counties face a mismatch between revenue based on taxable value and expenses driven by real-world costs, and noted that most counties either held millage steady or lowered it without reaching rollback rates. He also highlighted that property taxes are only one part of county revenue, with charges for services and intergovernmental revenue often larger in some counties, and that public safety at the county level includes more than law enforcement, such as EMS, emergency management, inspections, and corrections. Deborah Manzo of Okeechobee County described a fiscally constrained rural county with limited staff, a county-supported airport, heavy reliance on property taxes for the general fund, and major cost pressures from inflation, insurance, retirement, and state and federal mandates. She said the county lowered millage slightly over recent years but still depends on multiple revenue sources and special assessments, and she flagged Medicaid, medical examiner costs, and possible firefighter workweek changes as significant concerns. Bay County Administrator Mark McQueen said his county’s budget is shaped by Hurricane Michael recovery, non-discretionary obligations, and rapid growth; he described ongoing FEMA reimbursement delays, substantial borrowing to cover disaster costs, and continuing interest expenses while the county waits for reimbursement. The county panel was still in progress when the transcript ended.