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TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 14th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Municipal public libraries are considered public spaces, and this bill aims to protect children while
  • I want our community public library to succeed.
  • Public Library?
  • From the public library.
  • He doesn't go to his public library.
Committee: House State Affairs
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 14th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 755 seeks to bring greater transparency, accountability, and public oversight to the use of
  • As a member of the public, it also makes it public information.
  • . oversight.
  • This is a forfeiture of public land and the local public process and will be a detriment to the tens
  • public officials as violators of the law. who, when they're reported, the public employees' jobs are
Committee: House State Affairs
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 25th, 2026 at 01:12 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Also, some people from the Bixby public school system administration here.
  • A retiree could begin receiving retirement benefits, then they can return to public employment only after
  • What is the projected actuarial impact on Oklahoma's public employees' retirement system of allowing
  • That public debt, you, for question, move for advancement and ready to take up the Store type Cookkery
  • Oklahoma's food system while supporting public health, producers, and rural communities.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 25th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • But then it also mentions that SDE is going to fund any public or private higher education.
  • Can you just talk through how those members are held accountable to the public?
  • The question is just pertaining to accountability for the public. Thank you for that question.
  • I thought OCCY was originally set up to be an oversight of this department.
  • I went on television trying to get public pressure.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • First place is Lily Lowman, 10th grader at Mustang Public Schools.
  • Second place is Aalia Carrillo, 9th grader at Elgin Public Schools.
  • To study public health. Let's give a round of applause, please.
  • buildings and public works.
  • Daniels of the Senate, an act relating to public buildings and public works.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 13th, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • But the medical review panel is set up to provide accountability and oversight, correct?
  • exterior master key boxes to be installed in public schools under certain circumstances.
  • SB 132 strengthens public safety by establishing exterior master boxes.
  • SB 132 strengthens public safety by establishing exterior master boxes at public schools, tightly integrated
  • In other words, it re-clarifies that it only applies to public sector employees.
Bills: SR116 , SR117 , SR118 , SR119 , SCR68 , SCR69 , SCR12 , HB682 , HB766 , HB769 , HB775 , HB783 , HB824 , HB926 , HB1186 , HB1201 , HB1223 , HB1245 , HB1247 , HB1253 , HB1258 , HB221 , HCR53 , HCR62 , HCR72 , HCR58 , HB54 , HB137 , HB180 , HB192 , HB310 , HB321 , HB396 , HB512 , HB552 , HB578 , HB638 , HB663 , HB708 , HB717 , HB718 , HB1009 , HB1082 , HB1104 , HB1107 , HB1194 , HB1198 , HB1246 , HB1250 , SB29 , SB30 , SB32 , SB41 , SB42 , SB43 , SB47 , SB84 , SB93 , SB113 , SB192 , SB199 , SB219 , SB220 , SB221 , SB222 , SB241 , SB253 , SB255 , SB289 , SB292 , SB306 , SB314 , SB351 , SB399 , SB404 , SB14 , SB102 , SB133 , SB151 , SB165 , SB169 , SB170 , SB200 , SB217 , SB280 , SB291 , SB300 , SB303 , SB330 , SB449 , SB489 , SB521 , SB424 , SCR9 , SB25 , SB250 , SB348 , SB405 , SB444 , SB485 , SB35 , SB65 , SB132 , SB215 , SB246 , SB249 , SB269 , SB282 , SB296 , SB323 , SB363 , SB369 , SB474 , SB490 , SB492 , SB500 , HCR26 , HCR45 , HCR61 , HCR77 , HCR31 , HB649 , HB665 , HB681 , HB721 , HB746 , HB757 , HB781 , HB835 , HB844 , HB857 , HB872 , HB886 , HB889 , HB892 , HB982 , HB987 , HB1037 , HB1068 , HB1072 , HB1078 , HB1085 , HB1132 , HB1137 , HB1167 , HB1174 , HB1232 , HB1238 , HB23 , HB136 , HB17 , HB21 , HB51 , HB55 , HB74 , HB106 , HB108 , HB133 , HB140 , HB159 , HB168 , HB215 , HB226 , HB263 , HB296 , HB299 , HB322 , HB364 , HB519 , HB535 , HB538 , HB568 , HB571 , HB622 , HB635 , HB676 , HB772 , HB784 , HB1006 , HB1018 , HB1043 , HB1070 , HB1134 , HB1239 , HB62 , HB193 , HB203 , HB210 , HB220 , HB228 , HB246 , HB420 , HB475 , HB486 , HB574 , HB584 , HB750 , HB813 , HB815 , HB826 , HB870 , HB949 , HB953 , HB1045 , HB1092 , HB1151 , HB1162 , HB1176 , HB1177 , HB1196 , HB1214 , HB1241 , HB36 , HB73 , HB119 , HB126 , HB129 , HB166 , HB211 , HB245 , HB271 , HB280 , HB337 , HB351 , HB354 , HB399 , HB677 , HB712 , HB723 , HB726 , HB728 , HB759 , HB789 , HB850 , HB956 , HB966 , HB1036 , SB149 , SB382 , SB441 , HB258 , HB842
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 11th, 2026 at 03:55 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • mandates on vaccines, which would completely bypass the program that we have right now that includes public
  • input, scrutiny from the public, through the Board of Health.
  • Madam Speaker, why is it that this proposal doesn't find the right balance in public policy?
  • Madam Speaker, I put it to you that this bill doesn't... and public policy.
  • That if public policy reduces the negative effect... policy reduces the negative effects of destructive
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 11th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 2165 is about public safety, trust, and accountability.
  • Oversight, ensuring that those technologies don't compromise the privacy of Washingtonians.
  • premises rather than public school property.
  • This is a public health crisis, Mr. Speaker, as well as a public safety crisis.
  • This is also a public safety issue, as I said.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, Chair Schumacher, so just to give the public the benefit of the doubt, ...just to give the public
  • It does not support one-to-one or two-to-one staffing, awake overnight care, nursing oversight, or the
  • That ends the list of people we had registered for public testimonies.
  • Seeing none, public testimony is closed. Questions for Representative Fransen or her testifier.
Bills: HF4491 , HF4338 , HF4288 , HF4566
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, December 9, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> support public education. support public education.
  • </c> to provide important public services. to provide important public services.
  • </c> and on our public lands. and on our public lands.
  • </c><05:11:03.760><c> And</c> in this oversight committee. And in this oversight committee.
  • </c><05:19:27.600><c> Pipperado</c> services for the public. Pipperado services for the public.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, July 14, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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  • public informed.
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  • </c> who was a one-of-a-kind public servant. who was a one-of-a-kind public servant.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part III) Sep 2nd, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Rules 7.09, 11.11, 11.10, 11.18, and 11.19 to permit the consideration of referred business at a public
  • Two House companions have come over on bills that the Senate has already had public hearings on the Senate
Bills: SB 2 , SB 5 , SB 10 , SB 9 , SB 7 , SB 17 , SB 4 , HB17 , HB7 , HB7 , HB15 , HB15 , HB27 , HB1 , HB7 , HB15 , HB18 , SB9 , SB7 , SB17 , SB4 , HB17 , HB27 , HB1 , SB8 , HCR13 , SB2 , SB5 , SB10
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 12th, 2026 at 12:35 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • An act relating to expanding access to albuterol in public and private schools, amending ...
  • Also, there's going to be some oversight.
  • This proposal continues a drift, a direction in our public policy on how public school districts operate
  • Speaker, rising in opposition to this very terrible anti-public safety bill.
  • In this proposal, we have the conflict of two valid interests in our public policy.
Summary: The House took up several bills on second and third reading, beginning with House Bill 2360 on expanding access to albuterol in public and private schools. A motion to recommit the bill to the House Health Care and Wellness Committee failed on a roll call vote, 38 yeas to 56 nays. Supporters said the bill would help school nurses respond to students in respiratory distress and reflected input from nurses, OSPI, and the Department of Health. Opponents raised concerns about training, drug interactions, follow-up care, costs to districts, and schools making medical decisions without a diagnosis. The bill then passed 60-34. House Bill 2467, clarifying measurement rules for fifth-wheel travel trailers, passed 94-0 after sponsors said it would help Washington dealers and consumers. House Bill 1983, relating to timberland tax treatment when land is sold to DNR, passed 68-26 amid debate over whether it would help forest management or make it easier for DNR to acquire timberland. House Bill 2531, updating ambulance transport fund quality assurance rules to align with federal regulations and preserve matching funds, passed unanimously 94-0. The House also passed Substitute House Bill 1390, which phases out the Community Protection Program for certain developmentally disabled individuals with high-risk histories and transfers participants to other waiver programs. Supporters said the program was overly restrictive, out of compliance with federal law, and had trapped people in long-term confinement-like conditions; opponents argued it would weaken public safety and move dangerous individuals into community settings without adequate safeguards. The bill passed 52-44. House Bill 2367, eliminating a preferential treatment related to the former TransAlta coal plant in Centralia, passed 63-33 after supporters framed it as closing the book on coal and opponents warned about energy reliability, jobs, and an emergency clause. Substitute House Bill 2133, making a property tax exemption for certain senior centers permanent, passed 96-0. Substitute House Bill 2355, establishing labor protections for domestic workers, passed 57-39 after supporters emphasized dignity and long-standing worker abuse concerns, while opponents cited fiscal impacts. The House then passed Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2534, with a technical amendment, to improve educational stability for children in military families; it passed 96-0. Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1974, creating a land banking framework to support affordable housing, passed 59-37 after an amendment reduced fiscal impact by striking some tax preference sections. House Bill 2223, allowing certain irrigation district board service by farmers with spouses employed by the district, passed 93-3. Substitute House Bill 2239, allowing family burial grounds on private property, passed 96-0 after supporters cited rural needs, cultural traditions, and personal family stories. The session also included a brief congratulatory recognition for Representative David Stuebe after his first bill passed the House.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 12th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • That is true for our capital projects and public works as well.
  • For our capital projects and public works as well.
  • small works rosters are that entry point for our small and diverse businesses to get access into public
  • now you've got to figure out how you are going to get yourself in an area without great access to public
Summary: The House convened with a quorum present, the Pledge of Allegiance and prayer were offered, and the chamber approved the previous day’s minutes. Members then caucused briefly before moving into second reading and third reading action on several bills, with the day also marking the start of the three-minute debate rule through House of Origin cutoff. The House passed House Bill 2338, which expands the low-income home weatherization program to support community-scale weatherization projects, especially for multifamily housing. It also passed House Bill 2353, raising the threshold for requiring predesign work on public projects from $10 million to $15 million, and Substitute House Bill 2363, a trailer bill allowing music therapy students to practice under supervision while exam scores are pending. Members described these as efficiency measures and consumer or workforce improvements. The chamber also approved Substitute House Bill 2525 to establish the Heritage Orchard Program and a registry at Washington State University to preserve rare and heritage apple varieties, with sponsors emphasizing the importance of Washington’s apple industry and agricultural history. Additional bills passed unanimously included Substitute House Bill 2420 on increasing small works roster thresholds, Substitute House Bill 2428 on preventing unintended lapses in life insurance by allowing third-party designees, House Bill 2604 allowing electronic signatures for transferring salvage vehicles to insurers, and Substitute House Bill 2107 making permanent a pilot requiring Labor and Industries to notify employers of identified job-site hazards within 10 days. Finally, the House adopted Amendment 1517 and passed Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2247, which updates veterinarian-client-patient relationship rules to allow telehealth between required physical visits and requires annual veterinarian oversight for certain animal production, commercial, and breeding operations. All of the listed bills received overwhelming support, with each final passage vote recorded at 94 yeas and 0 nays, except House Bill 2338, which passed 93-1.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence May 21st, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • The chair moves to correct the minutes for the public hearing on Wednesday, May 14.
  • acknowledges a digital exclusive right; it can be licensed, it's personal, it can be used by the public
  • Before we do, members, this is our last public hearing.
  • Senate Bill 2903 amends the Estates Code to strengthen oversight, transparency, and guardianship proceedings
Bills: SB1960 , SB1730 , SB766 , SB2342 , SB2501 , SB2903