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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Agriculture & Livestock Apr 1st, 2025

Agriculture & Livestock

Transcript Highlights:
  • Now that the legislature's investments are starting to pay dividends, it would be unwise to unleash an
  • We'd have four or five states for foreign animal disease to get through before it got to us and started
  • there about the challenges that we as a state have just because we have a border and the threat of foreign
Bills: HB43 , HB3364 , HB3469 , HB3479 , HB43
Summary: The second bill, House Bill 3469, was introduced to address pest control regulations concerning nuisance birds. Representative Campos explained how the bill proposes non-lethal methods to deter these birds, such as the use of laser lights and sounds, which avoids conflict with both state and federal regulations. The committee heard impassioned testimonies from members of the public who shared firsthand experiences regarding the adverse effects of these birds on property and public health. The meeting concluded with both bills being left pending, reflecting a desire for further deliberation among the committee members.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/25

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Public Safety so we're able to continue funding that project as it goes forward because it has huge dividends
  • because it project as it goes forward because it has<00:48:37.000><c> huge</c><00:48:37.319><c> dividends
  • <c> uh</c><00:48:38.559><c> folks</c><00:48:38.800><c> in</c><00:48:38.960><c> need</c> has huge dividends
  • for uh folks in need has huge dividends for uh folks in need so<00:48:39.559><c> thank</c><00:48:39.680
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

MS House Floor - 4 March, 2026; 10:00 AM

Mississippi House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill changes state banking law regarding electronic terminals, dividend procedures, bank charter
  • changes state banking law regarding electronic<03:09:01.800><c> terminals,</c><03:09:02.400><c> dividend
  • </c> electronic terminals, dividend electronic terminals, dividend procedures,<03:09:03.640><c> bank<
  • 03:09:23.480><c> also</c><03:09:24.400><c> uh</c> We're also making it easier for banks to issue dividends
  • This is for remittances, so payments made from the United States to foreign countries, foreign places
MA
Transcript Highlights:
  • told that there are, for-profit CCRCs, where does the funding come from when shareholders are paid dividends
  • And for a nonprofit, for a for-profit, the residents are paying any dividends that are paid to the owners
Summary: The commission met to review its draft final report on continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs), with most of the discussion focused on whether recommendations required unanimous consensus and how to handle disagreements in the report. Members agreed that consensus meant no stated opposition, and several participants argued that unresolved issues should still be described in the report rather than omitted. The chairs said the report would include agreed-upon recommendations, note areas without consensus, and preserve written comments or dissent letters submitted by members. The draft report’s findings and slides were reviewed charge by charge, including CCRC definitions, financial condition, entrance fee refunds, regulatory oversight, advertising practices, and closure/change-of-ownership procedures. Members suggested several factual and wording edits, including clarifying financial data sources, correcting a presenter’s name, refining language about entrance fee use and refund timing, and revising statements about Attorney General authority and CCRC advertising. There was also discussion about the need to distinguish nonprofit and for-profit CCRCs and to better explain how different care levels and licensing structures are described. On recommendations, the commission kept the proposal to advance the disclosure bill (S. 478) and update the consumer guide, but removed a recommendation for annual open board meetings after objections that it was inadequate. The group spent considerable time debating whether to recommend resident representation on CCRC boards, timely refund requirements for entrance fees, and possible state registration or definition changes for CCRCs, but no consensus was reached on those items. The chairs said the final report would be completed by the statutory August 1 deadline, with final written comments due before then and the report and meeting materials posted on the legislature website.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Postsecondary Education & Workforce Jan 27th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Postsecondary Education & Workforce

Transcript Highlights:
  • The return on investment that we do for early learning pays off in dividends down the road.
  • The return on investment that we do for early learning pays off in dividends down the road.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Juvenile Justice Mar 26th, 2025

S/C on Juvenile Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • has invested very little money into it, and I think those small investments have really returned dividends
  • . like big dividends, not only on the juvenile side but on the adult side as well.
Bills: HB1511 , HB1831 , HB1988 , HB2147 , HB2234
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 27th, 2025

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The 275 million dollars we spent on the dividends received deduction, which I still don't entirely understand
  • , but near as I can figure out is basically a tax break for big businesses who get stock dividends from
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Judiciary Feb 6th, 2026 at 04:24 pm

House Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • They're distributed to shareholders and dividends.
  • on unstable debt financing, that rely on hospital leaseback programs, that rely on unsustainable dividend
  • recapitalization to give dividends to shareholders in the short term at the expense of collateralizing
Bills: HB99 , HB49 , HB164 , SB30 , SB43 , SB50 , SB136
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Judiciary Feb 6th, 2026

House Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • They're distributed to shareholders and dividends.
  • on unstable debt financing, that rely on hospital leaseback programs, that rely on unsustainable dividend
  • recapitalization to give dividends to shareholders in the short term at the expense of collateralizing
Bills: HB99 , HB49 , HB164 , SB30 , SB43 , SB50 , SB136
Summary: The committee first took up House Bill 99, which would make changes to the Medical Malpractice Act, especially around punitive damages. The chair and sponsor said the bill would not be voted on that day and that public comment would wait until Monday, when a fuller presentation and any recommended substitute would be considered. Dr. Brooke Baker, a physician-lawyer, gave a long presentation on physician wellness, malpractice stress, and the effect of litigation on staffing and burnout, while also discussing hospital ownership structures, private equity, and rural hospital vulnerability. She argued that punitive damages are often pled too broadly in New Mexico, that the amendment language was unclear about which entities would be capped, and that better oversight and internal quality systems—not punitive damages—are the better tools for addressing bad actors and unsafe care. Committee members from both sides asked extensive questions about the patient compensation fund, indemnification, corporate structures, the effect of caps on insurance and recruitment, and whether the bill would protect physicians’ personal assets. No vote was taken on HB 99, and the committee recessed before moving to the next bill. The committee then returned to House Bill 49, a public safety measure increasing penalties for felons who possess firearms. The sponsors and law enforcement witnesses said the bill is aimed narrowly at serious violent felons who are already prohibited from having guns, and that it would align state sentencing with federal law and give police and prosecutors a stronger tool against repeat violent offenders. An amendment was offered to narrow the bill further, add destructive devices, and make the offense a second-degree felony rather than escalating to first degree on repeat offenses. The amendment was adopted without opposition. Public testimony on HB 49 was largely opposed. The Law Office of the Public Defender argued the bill criminalizes possession without a new act of violence, that current law already punishes felon-in-possession conduct, and that New Mexico has repeatedly increased penalties without evidence of reduced gun crime. The ACLU of New Mexico also opposed the bill, saying increased penalties are not a proven deterrent. The transcript cuts off as additional online opposition testimony was beginning.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee 4/15/26

Rules and Legislative Administration

Transcript Highlights:
  • First, distributions from the fund are currently limited to net interest and dividend income and exclude
  • Secondly, the constitution indicates that capital gains and, if necessary, interest and dividend income
  • First, this framework unduly restricts fund distributions to only interest and dividends and ignores
  • However, because of the constitutional limit on distributions to only interest and dividends, over that
  • ><c> that</c><00:14:03.640><c> period</c><00:14:03.880><c> of</c><00:14:04.000><c> time,</c> and dividends
Bills: HF3900 , HF1849
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee, February 18, 2026

Minerals, Business & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • they keep iterating and improving this, and it's not going away, and that consistency is paying dividends
  • And it will pay off in dividends.
  • will</c><01:05:46.640><c> pay</c><01:05:46.880><c> off</c><01:05:47.039><c> in</c><01:05:47.280><c> dividends
  • </c><01:05:48.240><c> it'll</c> And it will pay off in dividends. it'll And it will pay off in dividends
Bills: SF0021 , SF0022 , SF0054 , SF0055
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 23rd, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • resolutions report by committee: H.R. 38 by Representative Owen to memorialize Congress to reform the Foreign
  • Domangue to request the Louisiana State Law Institute to study the use and application of the term foreign
  • To request the Louisiana State Law Institute to study the use and application of the term foreign and
  • relative to child custody, public policy, arbitration of custody matters, child custody agreements from foreign
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education 2ND REVISED Apr 28th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • legislation that our legislature has put out, I believe that those policies are going to pay significant dividends
  • individuals who are not of public school age have a way to receive the gift of literacy, I think will pay dividends
Committee: Senate Education
Summary: The Extended Education Committee met to consider a long slate of gubernatorial nominations and reappointments to education-related boards and commissions. The committee heard brief introductions from sponsoring senators and remarks from nominees for the Oklahoma Lottery Commission, State Board of Career and Technology Education, Regional University System of Oklahoma, State Board of Education, Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges, the Secretary of Education, several university and college boards, the Oklahoma Student Loan Authority, the State Textbook Committee, the Oklahoma Arts Council, and the Langston University board, among others. Many nominees emphasized their backgrounds in public education, higher education, business, agriculture, health care, or community service, and several acknowledged family members or institutional leaders present in the room. A few nominations drew questions or discussion. John Wesley Nofire was asked about working with the State Board of Education and about the social studies standards process, and he explained the board followed statutory public-comment procedures and made changes before final adoption. Secretary of Education Dan Hamlin received supportive comments from multiple senators, who praised his data-driven approach and urged that he be retained by future administrations. Michael McElroy, Brian Beller, Christopher Franklin, Dr. Michael Peck, and others also answered questions about the role of their boards and their experience with the institutions they would oversee. The committee voted on each nomination, with most receiving unanimous approval and a few passing with one or two dissenting votes. Notable vote totals included David McKenzie and Michael McElroy passing 9-2 and 10-1 respectively, while the rest of the nominees generally passed 8-0, 9-0, 10-0, or 11-0. At the end of the meeting, the chair thanked members for their work on the large number of executive nominations and announced that the committee was adjourned for the year.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Ways and Means (04/30/2025)

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Page five is the interest and dividends tax.
  • Page five is the interest and<00:22:18.000><c> dividends</c> and dividends and dividends tax.<00:22:20.400
  • Seeing that interest in dividends, I think everyone should be fine with that.
  • Seeing that interest in dividends, I think everyone should be fine with that.
  • Seeing that interest in dividends, I think everyone should be fine with that.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, July 17, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:37:29.440><c> or</c> House to the highest bidder, foreign or House to the highest bidder, foreign
  • </c><00:55:18.319><c> Foreign</c> Donald Trump's net worth. Foreign Donald Trump's net worth.
  • </c> without seating ground to foreign without seating ground to foreign countries.<01:13:51.840><c>
  • Do you know what foreign government.
  • </c> opportunity to limit foreign influence. opportunity to limit foreign influence.
NE

Nebraska 2025-2026 Regular Session

Legislative Afternoon Session Apr 7th, 2026

Nebraska Unicameral Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Okay, so line two: 'Nothing in this section may be construed to prohibit a foreign national...'
  • Okay, so line 2, 'Nothing in this section may be construed to prohibit a foreign national.'
  • As I said when we talked about this bill originally, I brought the original bill to ban foreign money
  • So I brought that bill to add back in a ban on foreign money in ballot initiatives.
  • a foreign national who's here studying abroad or something like that could still go knock on doors,
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • There's a piece of the bill here around the climate dividend, making sure we get it targeted at the time
Summary: The Assembly Committee on Natural Resources heard Senator Becker present a broad energy and affordability bill focused on shifting certain utility-related costs out of rates and into a new public power fund structure. The bill’s major elements included using cap-and-trade climate credit revenues to provide larger and better-timed customer credits, especially for low-income customers; creating a fund to help cover wildfire mitigation, care and fairness, and other public-purpose costs; adjusting rate-setting and wildfire spending oversight; and streamlining permitting and CEQA review through programmatic environmental documents for similar projects. Becker said the goal was to reduce regressive costs in rates while still supporting climate and infrastructure goals. Support came from municipal utilities, community choice advocates, environmental justice and clean energy groups, and the Climate Center, many of whom said they supported the bill and wanted to continue working on amendments. Opposition came from the California Chamber of Commerce, utility companies, business groups, and labor representatives, who argued the bill would shift rather than solve cost pressures, create rate instability, and introduce reliability and investor risks. Several opponents also criticized the proposed funding structure and the inflation-capped rate-setting approach. Committee members asked Becker about the rationale for the power fund, the change from 85% to 100% of cap-and-trade revenues going to customer credits, the reduced frequency of wildfire mitigation reporting, and the adequacy of streamlined environmental review. Becker said the bill was intended to move wildfire and other public-purpose costs out of rates over time and to speed up review without eliminating project-specific environmental analysis. The committee ultimately voted to pass the bill on a due-pass recommendation, with members noting ongoing discussions on permitting and other amendments.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Natural Resources Committee Jul 17th, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • There's a piece of the bill here around the climate dividend, making sure we get it targeted at the time
Summary: The Assembly Committee on Natural Resources heard Senator Becker present a broad energy and utility bill focused on affordability, wildfire costs, climate credits, rate setting, and permitting/CEQA streamlining. Becker said the bill would move more wildfire mitigation and public-purpose costs out of utility rates through a proposed power fund, direct more cap-and-trade climate credit money to customers—especially low-income customers—and create programmatic environmental review to speed utility project approvals. He also said the bill was intended to improve the “bang for the buck” on wildfire spending and other infrastructure investments. Support came from the California Municipal Utilities Association, California Community Choice Association, Union of Concerned Scientists, California Environmental Justice Alliance, and the Climate Center, with some supporters asking to continue working on amendments. Opposition came from the California Chamber of Commerce, Utility Workers’ Unions of America, California Business Roundtable, PG&E, SDG&E/SoCalGas, and Ellis Power, who argued the bill would shift rather than solve costs, create rate instability, reduce utility financial certainty, and introduce reliability risks. Committee members asked about the power fund, climate credit changes, wildfire reporting, and whether the bill would streamline transmission corridors; Becker said transmission corridor streamlining was not specifically included. After discussion, the committee voted to send the bill out with a due pass recommendation. The roll call showed ayes from Muratsuchi, Pellerin, Schultz, and Wicks, with Zbur not voting. The chair noted the committee was sending the bill forward before recess because of the author’s commitment to continue working on amendments and related conversations between the houses.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 12th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Private entities that outsource jobs to foreign countries. Ms. Davis, thank you, Mr. Speaker.
  • socialization of carbon... carbon in the atmosphere, place the tax on it, and then use that money to pay a dividend
  • very conservative approach. that will allow us to reduce carbon in the atmosphere and then pay a dividend
  • As I said, more than 5 million foreign nationals have come into this country over the last few years.
  • SB 2340 by Sortner relating to the examination of records of filing entities and foreign filing entities
Bills: HB46 , HJR35 , HJR47 , HJR182 , HB 113 , HB983 , HB4847 , HB1449 , HB3833 , HB5151 , HB265 , HB1845 , HB782 , HB 108 , HB1960 , HB158 , HB1954 , HB1955 , HB2512 , HB605 , HB2581 , HB2803 , HB627 , HB2667 , HB1738 , HB636 , HB3679 , HB2638 , HB2655 , HB871 , HB2438 , HB 1107 , HB1765 , HB1822 , HB2153 , HB4099 , HB3732 , HB3171 , HB3178 , HB3182 , HB3749 , HB2814 , HB3977 , HB4204 , HB4207 , HB4449 , HB1820 , HB1876 , HB1939 , HB1347 , HB2593 , HB2136 , HB2132 , HB2658 , HB2413 , HB2757 , HB2080 , HB3154 , HB3063 , HB3009 , HB3448 , HB3006 , HB2844 , HB3241 , HB3680 , HB3169 , HB2078 , HB2507 , HB4559 , HB3946 , HB3460 , HB3405 , HB475 , HB3463 , HB3441 , HB3520 , HB2060 , HB4731 , HB4991 , HB1991 , HB5596 , HB2014 , HB2142 , HB2673 , HB2731 , HB2417 , HB2399 , HB2301 , HB3335 , HB3234 , HB3320 , HB5573 , HB4848 , HB4748 , HB4769 , HB4795 , HB2086 , HB2234 , HB2203 , HB4916 , HB5624 , HB4505 , HB139 , HB5093 , HB5302 , HB5402 , HB5606 , HB2333 , HB4630 , HB4701 , HB2583 , HB2983 , HB4924 , HB3339 , HB3793 , HB3631 , HB4882 , HB5509 , HB5499 , HB5430 , HB5561 , HB5611 , HB5043 , HB5064 , HB3733 , HB3781 , HB3219 , HB32 , HB4515 , HB5348 , HR559 , HB4506 , HB1646 , HB3185 , HB3388 , HB2761 , HB3233 , HB1534 , HB5129 , HB5394 , HB3619 , HB2867 , HB3672 , HB2434 , HB4903 , HB3687 , HB3675 , HB4609 , HB4582 , HB3866 , HB4534 , HB2446 , HB3984 , HB700 , HB4088 , HB229 , SB2419 , SB842 , SB1257 , SB2550 , SB996 , HB 1186 , HB4327 , HB3221 , HB2588 , SB552 , HB4870 , HB2494 , HB3940 , HB4838 , HB3177 , HB1441 , SB1841 , HB3962 , HB2225 , HJR112 , HB897 , HB2695 , HB4670 , HB3602 , HB3317 , HB3717 , HB3138 , HB3704 , HB1403 , HJR218 , HB4921 , SJR37 , HJR138 , HJR144 , HB3892 , HB4 , HB46 , HJR35 , HJR47 , HJR182 , HB4234 , HB722 , HB4136 , HB4105 , HB4413 , HB170 , HB551 , HB2858 , HB3053 , HB3142 , HB3180 , HB3722 , HB2200 , HB1794 , HB1784 , HB1581 , HB2530 , HB4308 , HB1896 , HB2974 , HB3359 , HB4580 , HB2458 , HB2215 , HB3332 , HB2278 , HB3015 , HB3151 , HB1368 , HB40 , HB 101 , HB 112 , HB146 , HB168 , HB214 , HB413 , HB1523 , HB493 , HB521 , HB594 , HB557 , HB305 , HB549 , HB854 , HB 1057 , HB 1052 , HB842 , HB3174 , HB3311 , HB2486 , HB3196 , HB824 , HB 1039 , HB2529 , HB2713 , HB4936 , HB4995 , HB4830 , HB4864 , HB5219 , HB5263 , HB5154 , HB2674 , HB5525 , HB5623 , HB2545 , HB2587 , HB2625 , HB5520 , HB5436 , HB4926 , HB1573 , HB5165 , HB4811 , HB5081 , HB4755 , HB3179 , HB4310 , HB4611 , HB2159 , HB4626 , HB3637 , HB3153 , HB3066 , HB2786 , HB2966 , HB638 , HB640 , HB876 , HB497 , HB5539 , HB4809 , HB5308 , HB4687 , HB4070 , HB4421 , HB4412 , HB3284 , HB3369 , HB3420 , HB3449 , HB4098 , HB4281 , HB4120 , HB4504 , HB4370 , HB 1106 , HB2370 , HB2404 , HB3863 , HB2407 , HB2253 , HB2273 , HB2040 , HB1586 , HB3788 , HB3993 , HB4690 , HB4309 , HB4696 , HB2308 , HB 1142 , HB1533 , HB1621 , HB2242 , HB2012 , HB2193 , HB2442 , HB2464 , HB2348 , HB2313 , HB2289 , HB1942 , HB2011 , HB1629 , HB2993 , HB3592 , HB3824 , HB4076 , HB4535 , HB4623 , HB4773 , HB 1091 , HB5115 , HB5515 , HB3372 , HB5659 , HB 127 , HB386 , HB 115 , HB2868 , HB 1249 , HB4766 , HB3720 , HB4656 , HB4879 , HB 105 , HB5383 , HB4621 , HB5431 , HB5678 , HB5534 , HB4174 , HB4212 , HB3954 , HB3966 , HB3636 , HB3918 , HB1422 , HB4765 , HB4732 , HB4742 , HB5122 , HB4518 , HB5084 , HB3986 , HB4045 , HB4144 , HB3911 , HB3976 , HB4473 , HB3425 , HB3641 , HB3642 , HB3475 , HB3509 , HB3424 , HB3383 , HB4744 , HB4531 , HB4539 , HB3159 , HB5228 , HB5370 , HB4359 , HB4398 , HB4443 , HB4466 , HB3861 , HB3849 , HB4240 , HB4706 , HB4685 , HB5354 , HB5141 , HB5686 , HB3629 , HB3554 , HB3567 , HB2015 , HB3575 , HB5381 , HB1431 , HB3514 , HB4614 , HB4546 , HB4683 , HB5681 , HB5673 , HB5663 , HB4271 , HB4350 , HB4035 , HB3807 , HB3812 , HB3552 , HB3540 , HB3715 , HB3710 , HB3664 , HB4196 , HB4233 , HB4173 , HB1998 , HB3333 , HB3510 , HB4222 , HB2070 , HB2854 , HB2347 , HB 113 , HB983 , HB4847 , HB1449 , HB3833 , HB5151 , HB265 , HB1845 , HB782 , HB 108 , HB1960 , HB158 , HB1954 , 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HB5348 , HCR76 , HCR127 , HCR9 , HCR40 , HCR118 , HR559