Transcript Highlights:

• Nine years ago, a state-of-the-art research and development lab opened for the company in Savannah.
• Nine years ago, a state-of-the-art research and development lab opened for the company in Savannah.
• for the company development lab opened for the company in<01:49:16.960><c> Savannah.
• But all of the ways in which Biden and that entire administration allowed our border to be wide open
• </c><03:37:50.160><c> in</c> Muslim community center was opened in Muslim community center was opened

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Friday, December 12, 2025, 1012, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• You would open the queue. Go ahead and close the queue.
• We'll ask that they open the queue for voting. Declare the vote.
• But as such, you opened the queue for voting.
• I will ask they open the queue for voting. Declare the vote.
• But I always have an open door policy if they have any concerns.

Bills: HB3126 , HB3177 , HB3311 , HB3465 , HB3786 , HB3915 , HB4333 , HB4476 , HB3403

Committee: House A&B Natural Resources Subcommittee

Keywords: education funding, concurrent enrollment, school aid, Oklahoma State Regents, permanent school funds, higher education, revolving fund, court reporters, salaries, legislation, employment compensation, state administration, Oklahoma, community development, infrastructure, economic development, local government, financing, pooled finance, Oklahoma Emission Reduction

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• We'll open public testimony on House Bill 1393.
• We will open public testimony on House Bill 2884.
• We'll open public testimony on Senate Bill 2417.
• Covey testifies, we'll open public testimony.
• Very good, we'll open up testimony on Senate Bill 1888. Thank you.

Bills: SB1888 , SB3003 , SB2417 , SB2459 , SB3055 , HB1393 , HB2884 , SB2943

Committee: Senate State Affairs

Keywords: grand jury, jury qualifications, jury wheel, small counties, Texas legislation, age verification, obscene devices, online sales, juvenile protection, penalties, antitrust, attorney general, Texas Free Enterprise, business regulations, legal confidentiality, personal identifying information, data brokers, judicial safety, civil rights, data privacy

Transcript Highlights:

• Very well, we'll open public testimony on House Bill 2884.
• We'll open public testimony on Senate Bill 24:17.
• Covey testifies, we'll open public testimony.
• We'll open up, uh, testimony on Senate Bill 1888.
• We'll open public testimony and the chair calls Judge Shepard. Mr.

Bills: SB 1888 , SB 3003 , SB 2417 , SB 2459 , SB 3055 , HB 1393 , HB 2884 , SB 2943

Committee: Senate State Affairs

Keywords: grand jury, jury qualifications, jury wheel, small counties, Texas legislation, age verification, obscene devices, online sales, juvenile protection, penalties, antitrust, attorney general, Texas Free Enterprise, business regulations, legal confidentiality, personal identifying information, data brokers, judicial safety, civil rights, data privacy

Transcript Highlights:

• We'll now open up testimony. We'll now open up testimony to witnesses.
• I open my own business. I then have two back surgeries.
• You opened with saying this is not ideal.
• We will now open the public hearing on House Bill Oh, fuck. 67.
• So I am very open to any questions anyone may have.

Committee: House Local Government

Keywords: 959, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So our primary goal is to do essentially the same thing that the system's actuary is doing.
• So our primary goal is to do essentially the same thing that the system's actuary is doing.
• And so that's the primary reason.
• Generally, I'm not going to speak to that because the primary goal here is to focus on whether everything's
• So if you just kind of open up, you can see on page, we begin with an introduction, then we talk about

Summary: The Public Retirement System Actuarial Committee met on February 23, 2026, approved the December 18, 2025 minutes, and heard actuarial valuation reports and experience studies for several retirement systems. Presenters repeatedly noted strong investment performance, payroll growth, and generally improving funded ratios across the systems, with most plans showing lower minimum recommended employer contribution rates for fiscal 2027. The committee also received explanations of funding deposit accounts, frozen unfunded liabilities in some plans, and how recent legislative changes, including the move to five-year DROP periods in some systems, affected costs and assumptions. For the Clerk of Court, District Attorney, Firefighters, Municipal Employees (Plans A and B), Municipal Police, Registrars of Voters, and Sheriffs systems, the committee reviewed 2025 actuarial evaluations and, where applicable, 2025 experience studies. The actuarial reviewers reported no significant deficiencies and said the valuations were completed in accordance with applicable actuarial standards, generally accepted actuarial practice, and state statutes. The experience studies generally led to modest assumption changes, with some cost decreases from salary, mortality, withdrawal, and asset experience, while some plans saw offsetting increases from retirement or post-DROP behavior. The committee asked a brief question about mortality assumptions and was told the studies use separate male/female and safety/non-safety tables adjusted for Louisiana experience. The committee adopted each valuation and experience study without objection. Key fiscal 2027 minimum recommended employer contribution rates included 14.75% for Clerk of Court, 3.0% for District Attorneys, 25.5% for Firefighters, 20.75% for MERS Plan A, 8.75% for MERS Plan B, 26.5% for Municipal Police, 0% for Registrars of Voters with a $207,683 allocation to the Member Supplemental Savings Fund, and 7.75% for Sheriffs. The committee also recognized DROP crediting rates where applicable and adjourned after completing all agenda items.

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• Our primary concern lies in Section 5, which requires counties to... handle them for both residents and
• Our primary concern lies in Section 5, which requires counties to Would be needed.
• Our primary concern lies in Section 5, which requires counties to work with the Department of Ecology
• Amazon being the primary example.
• I'm heartened that folks are open to more negotiation. We certainly would like to do just that.

Bills: SB5965 , SB6030 , SB5975 , SB5941

Committee: Senate Environment, Energy & Technology

Keywords: environment, retail bags, sustainability, pollution, customer impact, plastic bags, retail, waste reduction, cookware safety, lead regulation, consumer protection, interstate trade, health standards, SB 5941, Washington State Energy Code, State Building Code Council, renewable energy, solar panels, school district exemption, public school construction

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• And so that is our primary presentation for today.
• And so that is our primary presentation for today.
• we're trying to accomplish, and if there's challenges, why there are challenges, and trying to be as open
• department has memorialized their classification process in 103 CMR 420 classification, with two primary
• The department has memorialized their classification process in 103 CMR 420 classification with two primary

Keywords: 1212, all

Summary: The Special Commission on Correctional Consolidation and Collaboration met with DOC leadership and UMass Chan researchers to discuss Massachusetts DOC’s objective point-based classification system, with a focus on whether inmates are overclassified and how discretionary and non-discretionary overrides affect placement decisions. DOC explained the system’s history, its goals of public safety and reintegration, the initial and reclassification tools, and the use of overrides and restrictions. Staff described several non-discretionary restrictions for minimum and medium security, the limited use of discretionary overrides, and current population breakdowns showing most classified in medium security, with smaller shares in maximum and lower security. UMass Chan presented preliminary findings from a NIJ-funded study using historical DOC data from 2019 to 2022, primarily on male reclassification cases. They said the scored custody level predicted institutional misconduct well, with stronger separation among minimum, medium, and maximum groups. They also said predictive accuracy declined after applying override-informed custody levels, and that the decline appeared to be driven mainly by non-discretionary restrictions rather than discretionary overrides. The researchers noted that violent misconduct in the sample was relatively rare and that the study was based on group-level statistics, not individual cases. Commission members and guests raised concerns about whether the data captured the effects of facility conditions, historical bias, step-down and step-up decisions, and the role of civil commitment restrictions, especially Code C. DOC and UMass Chan responded that the study did not show evidence that discretionary overrides reduced accuracy, that the non-discretionary restrictions were the main factor affecting results, and that Massachusetts’ system should not be directly compared with other states because of differences in facility structure and population. The commission asked members to send follow-up data questions to staff for transmission to DOC and the researchers.

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• </c> it being 11: a.m. exactly I will open it being 11: a.m. exactly I will open the<01:02:01.760><c>
• , how many days are you open.
• Nobody for opening the primary debate? Uh, about had a heart attack.
• </c><04:01:48.640><c> up</c><04:01:48.880><c> the</c> so I'll open up the P I'll open up the so I'll
• open up the P I'll open up the executive<04:01:49.760><c> session</c><04:01:50.120><c> for</c><04:01:

Committee: House Election Law

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> So, when Franklin lowers their opens So, when Franklin lowers their opens their<00:22:39.720><c>
• </c><00:52:09.520><c> That's</c> the primary concern. Thank you. That's the primary concern.
• We'll again open the public hearing on House Bill 1602.
• </c><01:23:46.680><c> Um</c> primary ones in the state. Um primary ones in the state.
• </c> open books. open books.

Committee: Senate Ways and Means

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Admin's primary role is to help government best serve Minnesotans.
• Um, in the opening remarks, we talked about the disinvestment in the office for the previous 20 years
• What I would like to do is allow Deputy Commissioner Blake Chaffee to give a few opening remarks, and
• Um so we included the full um three-person primary leadership of the majority party, but we didn't do
• </c><01:30:04.760><c> leadership</c> recognize the primary leadership recognize the primary leadership

Bills: HF2783 , HF2603 , HF2846 , HF2354 , HF1836 , HF2713 , HF1198 , HF1389

Committee: House State Government Finance and Policy

Keywords: state government finance, biennial budget, appropriations, Minnesota Management and Budget, Healthy Aging Subcabinet, Office of Healthy Aging, older adults, aging policy, long-term care, caregivers, public health, Medicaid fraud, medical assistance fraud, attorney general subpoena power, fraud enforcement, business filing fraud, Secretary of State, deceptive mailings, consumer protection, certified public accountant

Transcript Highlights:

• We're going to allow for two primary witnesses, each for support and opposition.
• We'll leave the roll open on that bill for absent members.
• And we'll ask the assistant to call the open items at this time. Yeah.
• Valadares, Wiener... 11-0 will leave that open.
• We'll leave it open and then consent. We did get consent.

Committee: Senate Transportation

Keywords: 987, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• The public hearing is open for attendance.
• Great, thank you and no primary witnesses in support.

Committee: House Appropriations

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Uh, we're going to open the hearing Uh, we're going to open the hearing, a continued hearing on HB 1287
• vibrant primaries, more which means more vibrant primaries, more competition,<00:41:46.000><c> and</
• </c><01:32:03.679><c> the</c> best way, uh I'm going to open the best way, uh I'm going to open the hearing
• It opens the doors to future resolutions targeting others.
• Uh, we open the hearing great stamina.

Committee: House State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• It was Senator West about open records.
• We opened our doors in September 2017.
• When I opened the refrigerator door I preached for...
• When I open the refrigerator door, I preached for five.
• My own child is an open district transfer student.

Summary: The Senate Committee on Education K-16 convened with a quorum, adopted its committee rules, and heard opening remarks from members introducing staff and outlining priorities for the session. Several senators emphasized support for public education, teacher pay and safety, parental choice, and the combined K-16 jurisdiction of the committee. The chair also reviewed hearing procedures, including public testimony registration and time limits. The main item was Senate Bill 2, the Texas Education Freedom Act, laid out by Chairman Creighton. He described the bill as an education savings account program intended to expand school choice, with a $200 million universal eligibility pool and an additional $800 million targeted to students with disabilities and lower-income families. He said the bill includes anti-fraud safeguards, criminal background checks for vendors, reporting requirements, data protections, and annual testing for participating students, while not imposing STAAR on private schools or homeschoolers. He also said the bill removes a prior hold-harmless provision for public schools and is separate from public school funding and teacher pay legislation. Members questioned the bill’s income threshold, lottery and priority structure, treatment of homeschoolers, microschools, charter schools, religious freedom protections, citizenship/lawful presence language, cybersecurity, open records, and disability-related issues, including whether 504 students and foster children should be included. Creighton said the bill is designed to prioritize former public school students with disabilities or lower incomes, while also allowing universal eligibility within the program’s first funding tier, and that the Comptroller would oversee vendor screening and cybersecurity rules. He said the bill does not direct curriculum or interfere with religious beliefs and that amendments may be offered later on citizenship and other issues. After member questions, the committee began invited testimony, starting with EdChoice representative Robert Inlow, who testified in support of SB 2 and cited national growth in school choice programs and studies he said show positive effects for students and public schools.

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• I'm going to urge a no vote for many reasons, but the primary one is that we've already done studies
• They open businesses, they teach our children, they care for our elders.
• one is that we've already the primary one is that we've already done<00:25:31.160><c> studies</c><00
• </c><00:25:42.920><c> They</c><00:25:43.080><c> open</c> in the state of Minnesota.
• They open in the state of Minnesota.

Committee: Senate State and Local Government

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• </c><00:12:04.800><c> competition</c><00:12:05.519><c> that</c><00:12:05.839><c> is</c> fair, and open
• competition that is fair, and open competition that is essential<00:12:06.800><c> to</c><00:12:06.959
• So those are the primary areas I've been hearing from.
• Um so those are<00:21:33.360><c> the</c><00:21:33.520><c> primary</c><00:21:33.840><c> areas</c><00:21
• been hearing are the primary areas I've been hearing from.<00:21:35.760><c> Um</c><00:21:36.080><c>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This hearing is open until 1 p.m. today, so your brevity in your comments and sticking to time is most
• We have this hearing open until 1 p.m. today, so your brevity in your comments and sticking to time is
• While 7-OH is present in the raw kratom plant in small amounts, it's also a primary metabolite produced
• It's also a primary metabolite produced in the body after ingesting kratom's main compound, mitragynine
• When I first opened my kava bar, I did not serve kratom. I was just purely kava.

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Public Health

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Public Health held a lengthy hearing to take testimony on a wide range of bills related to environmental health, PFAS, medical device chemicals, food access, lead poisoning, air quality, oral health, and school food additives. Chair Driscoll and Chair Decker emphasized that the hearing was for testimony only, no decisions would be made that day, and that written testimony could still be submitted. They also noted the high volume of speakers and asked witnesses to keep remarks brief. A major portion of the hearing focused on PFAS-related legislation, including bills to restrict PFAS in products and food packaging and to create a PFAS remediation trust fund. Municipal officials and advocates described the high costs of PFAS cleanup, especially for drinking water systems, citing Easton’s multimillion-dollar treatment investments and rate increases. Testimony from legislators and advocates argued that Massachusetts should act despite federal uncertainty, and that the state should stop PFAS at the source rather than leaving municipalities and residents to pay for remediation. The committee also heard strong support for a bill banning DEHP in medical devices, with physicians, nurses, and a bill sponsor saying the chemical can leach from IV bags and tubing and that safer alternatives already exist. The committee also heard testimony on bills to establish statewide food truck permitting, with food truck owners and a senator describing the current system as costly, duplicative, and inconsistent across municipalities. Another set of witnesses supported the “Bean New Deal,” which would expand plant-based food options in public institutions, senior nutrition programs, and WIC, citing health, equity, and cost savings. On lead poisoning, housing advocates and a representative backed bills to expand lead-safe housing requirements to all rental units, arguing the current law contributes to discrimination against families with children and leaves too much pre-1978 housing uncertified. The committee also heard support for an outdoor air pollution bill that would create an advisory committee, identify pollution hotspots, expand monitoring, and set reduction targets, with testimony from environmental justice groups, pediatricians, and legislators describing disproportionate asthma and other health harms in overburdened communities. Later testimony addressed oral health bills to create dental therapists and allow dental hygienists to administer nitrous oxide, with supporters saying the measures would expand access, reduce costs, and help underserved patients. The committee also heard testimony on a bill to prohibit harmful food dyes in competitive school foods, with parents describing behavioral and health concerns tied to synthetic dyes. No votes or formal actions were taken during the hearing.

Transcript Highlights:

• And the third component is, at the moment, trade offices can be closed or opened by the Commerce Authority
• without... ...trade offices can be closed or opened by the Commerce Authority without approval from
• We're adding language that mentions opening and closing trade offices are subject to the approval of
• to 14 the minimum number of days before an election that a county board of supervisors must mail primary
• The primary objective section contains a delayed repeal date of January 1, 2030.

Keywords: 1182, all

Summary: The meeting covered a long series of bills, mostly in health, education, commerce, federalism, and government. In health, members discussed radiology technology updates (HB 2050), a tribal Medicaid waiver/drawdown measure with no state cost (HB 2177), an emergency medicine study committee (HB 2183), fetal death certificate and remains-transfer requirements (HB 2184), a physician assistant licensure compact (HB 2190), dementia care telemonitoring funding (HB 2202), SNAP error-rate reduction and fraud/eligibility oversight bills (HB 2206, HB 2442, HB 2797), child welfare protections like credit freezes and recorded interviews (HB 2321, HB 2322), and podiatric licensure compacts (HB 2438). Several of these were described as consent-calendar items, while HB 2206 and the SNAP-related measures drew discussion about fraud reduction, administrative burden, and work requirements. In commerce and finance, the committee heard bills on mobile food vendors and local permits (HB 2118), earned wage access services with fee caps and disclosure rules (HB 2309), CPA licensure changes (HB 2476), cash acceptance for retail purchases under $100 (HB 2555), drone delivery and unmanned aircraft guardrails (HB 2875), timeshare salesperson licensing (HB 2877), and a prohibition on state-mandated social credit scoring in lending decisions (HB 2903). The tax and retirement-related items included 529 plan conformity and Roth IRA transfer rules (HB 2477), annual tax conformity to the Internal Revenue Code (HB 2785), ASRS technical and disability-related changes (HB 2089, HB 2090, HB 2092), and a bill on employee health insurance definitions (HB 2089). The Arizona Commerce Authority bill (HB 2754) would add legislative members to the board and shift more control over trade offices and Arizona Competes Fund spending to the legislature. The education section focused heavily on school governance and finance. Bills included patriotic youth group presentations in schools (HB 2312), school board term limits (HB 2318), mandatory training for governing board members (HB 2379), independent municipal advisors for bond elections (HB 2320), restrictions on districts buying operating charter/private school sites to game enrollment formulas (HB 2376), conflict-of-interest limits for school facilities board architects and engineers (HB 2378), public meeting and travel transparency rules for districts (HB 2380), limits on long-term school property leases and reporting requirements (HB 2384), tighter bidding rules for school construction job orders using Building Renewal Grant funds (HB 2482), and a voluntary computer science proficiency seal (HB 2764). Sponsors repeatedly framed these as transparency, accountability, and anti-abuse measures, while some opposition centered on local flexibility, housing use, and existing training providers. In federalism and government, the committee heard bills to give counties more time to mail sample ballots (HB 2006), require courts to identify veterans at first appearance for possible veterans court referral (HB 2226), study veterans’ awareness of benefits (HB 2406), broaden military leave protections (HB 2663), require SAVE verification for voter registration and certain state services (HB 2806), require U.S.-sourced voting machine components by 2029 (HB 2901), affirm the Electoral College (HB 2902), and establish due process protections for justice of the peace courts against outside administrative action (HB 2976). Government committee items included a later deadline for library trustees’ annual reports (HB 2129), a two-year limit on certain adult protective services reports to the Attorney General (HB 2228), and an exemption for public and semi-public cold plunges from ADEQ spa rules (HB 2439). Several bills were reported as consent-calendar items, and a number of sponsors noted committee votes, fiscal neutrality, or favorable testimony in support of the measures.

Transcript Highlights:

• Senators and guests in the gallery, please rise for the opening prayer to be delivered today by Pastor
• As of late 2024, approximately 50 open criminal investigations related to petition gatherers...
• As of late 2024, approximately 50 open criminal investigations related to petition gatherers or initiatives
• President's pollster asked primary voters this year about this plan to restrict the citizen-led amendment
• Specialty care is even more devastating, and that is where so many—well, other than OBGYN in the primary

Summary: The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a series of member introductions recognizing interns, pages, and a retiring Senate employee. Leadership also announced that budget talks with the House were continuing and that senators should not plan to be in next week, with hopes of sharing more budget news soon. The chamber then moved to third reading and took up a major bill on citizen initiatives and constitutional amendments, with sponsors saying it was needed to address documented petition fraud and to protect the integrity of the process. That bill drew extensive debate. Supporters argued that recent investigations showed widespread fraud in petition gathering, that the measure would add reasonable guardrails, and that it would prevent taxpayer-funded government messaging from being used to influence ballot measures. Opponents said the bill would make it much harder for ordinary Floridians to place amendments on the ballot by adding costs, deadlines, registration requirements, fines, and felony exposure, and they warned it would chill grassroots participation and effectively favor wealthy or corporate-backed campaigns. After debate, the Senate passed the bill 28-10. The Senate then adopted several House amendments and concurred on a series of education and public-safety measures, including bills on stem cell therapy, student-athlete electrocardiograms, cardiac emergency planning in schools, school safety, Bright Futures and other education policy items, and educator preparation. Most of those measures passed unanimously or with overwhelming support, and the chamber also recognized additional interns and a long-serving education advocate before recessing and returning to continue with House messages.