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WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session-Day 4, February 12, 2026-PM

Wyoming House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Your joint standalone legislation.
  • <01:48:07.440> stabilization fund or the legislative stabilization fund or the legislative
  • <01:49:39.440> concluded<01:49:40.320> legislature legislation concluded legislature legislation
  • Below that you're legislative logo.
  • position from the economic analysis position from the economic analysis division<03:42:25.600>
Keywords: 916, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection - 03/26/26

Commerce and Consumer Protection

Transcript Highlights:
  • 26:05.960> to<00:26:06.040> see legislation I'm very proud to see legislation I'm very
  • hasn't completed the legislation hasn't completed the legislation necessary<00:30:50.600> to<
  • <01:17:10.160> last Thank you for passing legislation last Thank you for passing legislation
  • <01:18:07.160> showing there's been pre past analysis showing there's been pre past analysis
  • > on<01:35:48.200> this A brief legislative history on this A brief legislative history
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Limiting access to child care center facilities discussed 3/4/26

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you for your cooperation and participation in our legislative process.
  • Thank you for your cooperation and participation in our legislative process.
  • Thank you for your cooperation and participation in our legislative process.
  • Thank you for your cooperation and participation in our legislative process.
  • urge your support for this legislation urge your support for this legislation and<00:40:56.000><
Keywords: 1183, house
Summary: The committee took up House File 3415, a bill aimed at limiting immigration enforcement activity at child care centers. House Research explained the DE1 amendment, which defined key terms and barred child care employees from consenting to civil immigration enforcement entry without a judicial warrant, while requiring officials to identify themselves and state their purpose; the amendment also clarified that it would not block officials administering child care programs. After brief debate, members adopted the DE1 amendment. The bill author, Representative Sensor Mura, said the measure was intended to address fear and disruption in child care settings caused by recent immigration enforcement activity and to keep those spaces safe for children and families. Supporters, including a pastor, a Children’s Defense Fund representative, parents, child care workers, and an ACLU policy counsel, testified that immigration enforcement near daycares has caused fear, staff absences, lockdowns, and emotional harm to children. They argued the bill would not stop lawful enforcement but would require warrants and basic identification before entry, protecting children from witnessing raids or arrests and giving providers clear rules. Several witnesses described specific incidents involving ICE activity near Spanish immersion daycares in Minneapolis and St. Paul, including staff members being detained, parents organizing safety watches, and children showing distress. Testimony emphasized that many affected children are U.S. citizens in immigrant families and that visible enforcement can create toxic stress and separation anxiety. No final action on the bill was taken in the portion of the meeting provided beyond adoption of the DE1 amendment and continuation of testimony.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • If it comes back hazardous, then doing additional laboratory analysis to determine what is hazardous
  • If it comes back hazardous, then doing additional laboratory analysis to determine what is hazardous
  • If it comes back hazardous, then doing additional laboratory analysis to determine what is hazardous
  • <01:38:29.040> to appropriate environmental analysis to appropriate environmental analysis
  • That's an ongoing analysis and conclusion, and that information is possibly forthcoming. Yes.
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The House Special Committee on Red Hill held an informational briefing at the State Capitol focused on updates from the Navy Closure Task Force Red Hill and NAVFAC Hawaii. Members and Navy officials opened by noting the meeting format, providing public links to tank closure supplement 4 and environmental remediation resources, and thanking Admiral Barnett for attending before his transition. The Navy emphasized that the Red Hill closure effort and the PFAS/PAS environmental remediation effort are separate but coordinated, and that both are long-term undertakings. For the closure effort, Navy officials reported progress on tank cleaning, ventilation, sludge removal, groundwater monitoring, and preparation for pipeline removal. They said supplement 4 to the tank closure plan was submitted in May and outlines the overall closure strategy, post-closure monitoring, and the decision to proceed with closure rather than wait for beneficial reuse decisions. They described completed ventilation of tanks 3 through 8, the start of tank 2 ventilation, removal of 283 gallons of sludge from the first six tanks, and plans to begin pipeline pigging and removal later this year. Officials also said all sludge samples tested so far were non-hazardous and that air monitoring has not shown elevated volatile organic readings during operations. NAVFAC Hawaii then outlined the PFAS/PAS remedial investigation under CERCLA, explaining the cleanup process, the nature of PFAS, and the role of aqueous film-forming foam as a source. The presentation said the Navy began investigating PFAS releases in 2014-2015, that the 2021 Red Hill fuel release led directly into remedial investigation work, and that current activities include quarterly groundwater sampling at 42 monitoring wells, installation of new shallow and deep wells, soil sampling where exceedances were found, fate-and-transport modeling, and human health risk assessments. Officials said data are publicly available on the Red Hill environmental website and that the next restoration advisory board meeting is scheduled for August 27. The Navy also gave a water resiliency update, saying it is upgrading the joint base drinking water system with pump, tank, and cybersecurity improvements and is installing treatment systems for the inactive Navy Aiea and Red Hill shafts ahead of EPA drinking water standards taking effect in 2029. No votes or formal committee actions were taken, as the meeting was informational only.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • The commission's IFSAC staff's analysis.
  • provide an update on the legislative provide an update on the legislative oversight<01:12:11.360
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  • > investigative legislative oversight and investigative legislative oversight and investigative
Summary: The Legislative Oversight and Investigation Committee met without a quorum, so no votes were taken. Staff presented a study of the Kentucky Fire Commission focused on firefighter minimum training standards and administrative spending. The presentation explained that Kentucky’s training standards are built from NFPA guidelines, that the commission currently requires 115 hours for volunteer firefighters and 300 hours for paid firefighters, and that those reduced hours were adopted by removing electives and other non-NFPA content. Staff also said the commission’s IFSAC certification testing for firefighter 1 and firefighter 2 aligns with NFPA standards, but the commission cannot require local departments to train or certify firefighters. Staff recommended that the commission formally promulgate regulations establishing the reduced training hours and work with KCTCS to better separate administrative costs for certain programs so compliance with the statute can be demonstrated. The finance portion of the report said the commission is funded by general fund appropriations for State Fire Rescue Training and by an insurance premium surcharge that supports the Firefighter Foundation Program Fund. Staff reported that the commission stayed within the 5% administrative cap tied to the overall surcharge allotment, but could not confirm compliance with a separate 5% cap for specific programs because KCTCS accounting does not break out those costs in enough detail. Staff suggested the General Assembly may want to clarify what counts as administrative cost in statute. Members asked about investment returns, local fire department funding, and whether training documentation is required; staff said some of those topics were outside the study scope and that IFSAC testing relies on chief certification that a candidate is ready to test. Representatives from the Fire Commission then responded, saying they agreed with the report’s recommendations and would work to clarify the 5% issue with legislators and KCTCS. They explained that the reduction in training hours was intended to remove electives, better align with NFPA standards, and address the difficulty volunteer departments have in getting members to complete lengthy training. Commission officials said training is documented through rosters and annual compliance reviews, and that IFSAC-certified firefighter testing is based on demonstrated skills rather than a required number of training hours. They also said the difficulty in tracking the second 5% cap stems from the way KCTCS’s PeopleSoft system records reimbursements as single transactions, making it hard to isolate administrative costs by program.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Economic and Rural Development Aug 11th, 2025

Economic & Rural Development & Policy Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's great to bring them to the country, but we're all New Mexico legislators and we're trying to build
  • Phase one was legislation to help us expand known existing sources of geothermal energy.
  • A little more about the report: the actual data analysis showed that this state has 163 gigawatts of
  • One of the things that also occurs to me is on the legislative side.
  • That is a program that is for you, for legislators, for staff of state agencies and federal agencies,
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Finance May 13th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, In the early 70s, Congress Passed legislation to try to reform how it did, uh, budgeting.
  • The House Speaker has said he wants legislation wrapped up and out of the House by the end of this month
  • So, not as much legislative deliberation as normal uh when they've got this budget reconciliation process
  • Um, Way before he was a legislator, and yeah, the, yeah, the one with my title on it is, is that what
  • and myself passed a lot of good legislation this year that the governor did sign and I'm just waiting
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy and Administration (02/02/2026)

Education Policy and Administration

Transcript Highlights:
  • attempt at legislating? attempt at legislating?
  • So, we risk spending legislation.
  • legislate. Thank you. legislate. Thank you.
  • discuss this legislation. discuss this legislation.
  • Um, and I am curious to know whether or not... legislation that was on the books that legislation that
Keywords: 1189, house, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Capital Investment - 03/05/26

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • During the review, we appreciated the opportunity to meet with key legislators and legislative staff
  • opportunity to meet with key legislators opportunity to meet with key legislators and<01:04:15.280
  • and legislative staff and solicit and legislative staff and solicit feedback<01:04:17.680> on
  • Um, the 38% and 68% were developed based on some modeling that we did and some scenario analysis.
  • Um we modeled some different analysis.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
NM
Transcript Highlights:
  • We'll also get a preview of legislation that may come up in the next legislative session or before one
  • We'll also get a preview of legislation that may come up in the next legislative session or before one
  • legislator.
  • Or any individual legislator.
  • As the chair mentioned, we don't endorse legislation.
Summary: The committee’s final day focused first on a historical overview of New Mexico tax packages by Pam Stokes of Legislative Council Services. She described how tax packages have alternated over the decades between tax relief, revenue raising, and tax reform, with examples ranging from the creation of the gross receipts tax in 1966 to major packages in 1981, 1986, 1991, 1994, 2005, 2019, 2022, 2024, and the vetoed 2025 package. Members discussed how tax policy often tracks revenue conditions, how packages can combine increases and decreases, and how local government gross receipts taxes and hold-harmless distributions have affected communities differently. Several members reflected on past packages, especially the 2004 food tax repeal and the 2013 film tax and manufacturing changes, and noted that tax policy can have major economic and political effects even when it is not “sexy” legislation. The committee then heard a proposal to expand the health care practitioner gross receipts tax deduction to include co-insurance, and to extend the sunset date. Sponsor Senator Figueroa said the bill was intended to help recruit and retain medical providers and build on prior deductions for co-pays and deductibles. Testimony explained that co-insurance is the patient’s share after the deductible, that providers currently absorb the gross receipts tax on those payments, and that the proposal would cost about $30 million to the state plus about $20 million to municipalities and counties, with the exact fiscal impact likely to be updated. Members raised concerns about the effect on local governments, whether insurers could be required to reimburse providers, whether the bill would actually attract doctors, and whether better evaluation measures and sunsets should be added. The sponsor said the bill was part of a broader set of efforts to address provider shortages and that the discussion would continue. Representative McQueen then presented a bill to update the Land Conservation Incentives Act. He and conservation partners said the program has protected more than 500,000 acres but has not kept pace with rising land values, especially for irrigated agricultural land in the Middle Rio Grande. The proposal would increase the percentage of conservation value eligible for the credit, raise the per-transaction cap from $250,000 to $2 million, and make the credit refundable rather than only transferable. Testimony emphasized that the program is voluntary, keeps land in private ownership and production, and helps land-rich, cash-poor landowners preserve farmland and water rights. Members asked about average credit amounts, how easements work, whether landowners could effectively buy land and then use the credit, and whether there should be inflation indexing or a statewide cap. The discussion also touched on water rights, fencing, and the role of conservation easements in protecting agricultural land and compact water deliveries. Finally, Senator Sharer previewed his 2% tax proposal with a historical presentation on New Mexico tax law, using props to illustrate the evolution from early territorial tax codes to the modern tax system. He argued that the state’s current tax structure is overly complex and that recent federal changes have disrupted the personal income tax base. The committee did not take any votes on the day’s presentations; the meeting was primarily informational, with members offering feedback and raising policy concerns for future sessions.