Video & Transcript Research : 'transparency in voting'

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LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House & Governmental May 19th, 2026

House and Governmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • So people standing in line trying to figure out, can I vote this? Can I vote that?
  • So people standing in line trying to figure out, can I vote this? Can I vote that?
  • They have to come in Monday. No, they go and vote. They have to come in Monday?
  • pull that vote once it is in a machine.
  • In 2007—I'm sorry, in 2006—the turnout statewide for in-person early voting was 43,184.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 2/27/25

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:03:22.200> this is in the bill uh is or is in this is in the bill uh is or is in this
  • support established in 2005 the house support established in 2005 the house voted<00:43:11.160> 112
  • The county is committed to transparency in local government, and as we look to improve chapter 13, we
  • Transparency in government starts with data retention, and this is the only way in a democracy for all
  • Transparency in government starts with data retention, and this is the only way in a democracy for all
Bills: HF25, HF1, HF428
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Finance May 21st, 2026

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • In May, the Revenue Estimating Conference reduced the estimates by $112 million in current year collections
  • The reductions in revenue estimates require reductions in recurring expenses in the budget proposal.
  • Yes, in these amendments, you'll see the Senate made investments in significant infrastructure projects
  • Deposits $56 million of excess funds in the various funds, mainly in the State Emergency Response Fund
  • in OGB.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs (Part I) Feb 27th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, in 2022, uh, Congress passed the Election Count Reform Act to clarify how electoral votes are cast
  • , in December.
  • So it's used in instances, let's say in my experience in residency in the ER, it would often be used
  • in any manner.
  • And this bill, uh, did, uh, was, uh, received a bipartisan vote, uh, last session in the Senate, uh,
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 4/28/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're not voting on that yet, are we? No.
  • We're not those in favor? Wait a minute.
  • All those in favor of in favor of that All those in favor of in favor of that motion<00:02:16.319
  • All those in favor of that motion 3045.
  • All those in the will of the committee.
Bills: SF3045, HF2783, HF1943
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Feb 17th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Last one got disrupted, having received eight votes in favor and zero opposed.
  • If you faith in wrote a post-session vote, nay clerk will call a roll.
  • Seeing no debate, vote will now occur. If in favor of the measure, say 'aye.'
  • Would you believe that when I registered to vote in Tillman County, Tipton, Oklahoma 1985 or 1984, I
  • The vote will now occur. Very measure vote. I pose measure vote in a clerk will call the roll.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • million in Hawaii. million in Hawaii.
  • <00:46:32.640> in cannabis specifically, but in in cannabis specifically, but in in substance
  • Chair votes I. Vice Chair amendments. Chair votes I. Vice Chair votes<01:15:53.600> I.
  • Any members voting with reservations? >> Any members voting? No vote. >> Thank you, members.
  • >> Any members voting? No. No vote. >> No<01:21:29.760> vote. >> No vote.
Summary: The House Committee on Health held its first hearing of the session and opened with housekeeping notes, introductions of members, and an explanation that the agenda would be taken out of order to accommodate a sign language interpreter. The committee first heard HB 469, relating to parking for disabled persons. Testimony from the Disability and Communications Access Board and the State Council on Developmental Disabilities supported the bill, explaining that a travel placard would help people with disabilities who must travel interisland or to the mainland for medical care. Members asked about emergency travel, misuse prevention, and how to distinguish the travel placard from existing disabled parking placards; witnesses said the bill would need to be tied to administrative rules, and agreed the placard should clearly show an expiration date and likely be a different color. No vote was taken. The committee then heard HB 218, relating to hospital surgical smoke. The Department of Health supported the measure, and the Healthcare Association of Hawaii supported it with amendments, saying hospitals already follow existing standards but that any new policy should account for different procedures and provider safety. A committee member questioned the proposed amendment language and whether it was too flexible; the witness explained the intent was to allow case-by-case application because some procedures generate only brief exposure. Members also asked what surgical smoke is, and the witness explained it is produced when electrical or cauterizing tools are used on tissue and creates vapor or fumes. The bill remained under discussion with no final action reported. The committee next took up HB 814, which would fund a public information campaign and related services on cannabis use among youth. The Department of the Attorney General said the bill should be amended to clarify whether the funding would be used for contracts or grants and to include proper grant standards if grants are intended. The Department of Health supported the bill and said the funds would expand prevention, treatment, recovery, and public education efforts, including social media outreach, PSAs, and school-based youth services. Multiple organizations and individuals testified in support, emphasizing the harms of youth cannabis use and the need for prevention and treatment resources. Members asked what the department currently does, whether it is fulfilling existing law on science-based cannabis information, and what kinds of treatment would be provided; the department said services would mainly be intensive outpatient, outpatient, counseling, and related youth-focused supports. No vote was taken during the hearing.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Legislative Session Day 1 (1-6-26)

Kentucky House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • So you will see many changes by deleting Rule 67A, by removing remote voting in 68A and alternative voting
  • in 68A and alternative voting in their entirety, as well as relevant changes to Rules 2, 3, 21, 51,
  • Seeing none, those in favor signify by voting<00:16:57.839> I.
  • >> All in favor signify by voting I. >> I. >> All oppose, nay.
  • >> All in favor signify by voting I. >> All in favor signify by voting I.
Summary: The Kentucky House convened for the opening of the 2026 regular session, with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, roll call, and a declared quorum of 100 members present. The House then excused absent members and suspended the rules to allow co-sponsorships and vote modifications to be filed. It also elected House staff constitutional officers by acclamation, including the chief clerk, deputy clerk, sergeant at arms, chief doorkeeper, enrolling clerk, cloakroom keeper, and janitor, followed by the oath of office. Members introduced and adopted House Resolutions 1, 2, and 3. House Resolution 1 established the 2026 House membership. House Resolution 2 adopted the House rules for the session, with changes reflecting the new temporary building, removal of COVID-related provisions, elimination of remote and alternative voting, shortening motions/petitions/communications time from 30 to 15 minutes, deleting guest introductions and gallery references, requiring only one signed jacketed bill copy, clarifying billbook co-sponsorship procedures, deleting consent orders and pairing rules, and updating chamber-access and lobbying restrictions. Some members objected that the changes reduced transparency and public access, and one member asked that the 15-minute limit be kept at 30 minutes, but the resolution was adopted. House Resolution 3 invited pastors of Frankfurt churches to open sessions with prayer; one member asked that it be broadened to include people of all faiths and beyond Franklin County, but it was also adopted. The House then reported interim communications, including citizen impeachment petitions filed against Supreme Court Justice Pamela Goodwine and Ballard County Jailer Eric Cppus. Members were reminded of a mandatory ethics meeting the next day. The clerk reported the first batch of filed bills and resolutions, including House Bill 11 on independent school districts and House Bills 12 through 34 on topics such as legislative privacy, income tax, rural hospital funding, Medicaid and Medicaid expansion, school employee payments, firearms, reproductive health and privacy, employment schedules, cancer treatment coverage, workers’ compensation for first responders, savings accounts, education opportunity accounts, leave from employment, criminal procedure, home purchases, FNF devices, data privacy, and death benefits, along with House Resolutions 4 through 6. The House then adjourned until 2 p.m. on January 7, 2026.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Children and Youth Health Committee Feb 27th, 2025

Children and Youth Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • They're not in the content... via Google, they're not in the content business; they're in the device
  • In the hypothetical that the good Senator gave in opening... gave in opening remarks: if you send your
  • There's another committee trying to meet in here before we go in session, so in here before we go in
  • That's passed in Florida, and I heard it just passed in Virginia.
  • Knox argued in a subtext that Alabama should not be... In a subtext, Mr.
Bills: SB186, SB187
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 2/19/26

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • To be clear, a vote against this DE would be a vote against a focus on preventing fraud in the first
  • And that is a significant reason why we voted no, because we didn't have a chance to actually weigh in
  • And that is a significant reason why we voted no, because we didn't have a chance to actually weigh in
  • That is a significant reason why we voted no, because we didn't have a chance to actually weigh in on
  • vote in a future hope I can earn your vote in a future hearing.<01:41:43.600> Fraud<01:41:44.040
Bills: HF1338
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Judiciary Jan 21st, 2026

Senate Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Now, that doesn't mean that it will happen; it just Means that they have a responsibility to vote in
  • Number 29 is on line 19, and all we did is add in 'by a vote' because before it said 'a later date' as
  • And so we just added in the language 'determined by a vote.' A couple of words got added in.
  • And in both cases, the doctors in Michigan and Pennsylvania said no, because New Mexico is not in the
  • in.
Bills: SB1, SB3
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • We've rolled them out kind of in a staggered way in terms of we have 15 of them now, but we started with
  • I assume that those students are in community colleges.
  • They would have some report back in terms of...
  • Chairman, just in closing, as I think about this, I'd like to...
  • We have some members headed to Senate Finance in four minutes.
Bills: SB2847, SB3039