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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee Apr 21st, 2026
Natural Resources and Water
Transcript Highlights:
- SB 1393 is an omnibus update to California's Fish and Game Code with several key provisions covering
- The Australian Code of Practice was The Australian Code of Practice was developed after years of research
- Organizations involved in the development of the Code of Practice included the Australian Veterinary
- It also found that there are not adequate systems to monitor compliance with the code of practice at
- California has been adding species to Section 6530 of the Penal Code, including seven species, which
Summary:
The committee heard SB 1393, an omnibus update to the Fish and Game Code covering steelhead trout and Dungeness crab management. The author and supporters said the bill would strengthen the steelhead trout report card program, extend and refine Dungeness crab management, and clarify vessel transit rules in closed crab fishing areas. The Nature Conservancy, Trout Unlimited, and other supporters said the measure implements long-standing task force recommendations and supports both conservation and coastal fishing communities. There was no opposition, and the bill was moved forward on a 4-0 vote to Appropriations.
The committee also heard SB 1250, which would require Caltrans to incorporate wildlife connectivity into transportation planning and asset management, set performance targets, and coordinate with wildlife agencies. Supporters from conservation, animal welfare, land trust, and local government groups said the bill would reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions, improve public safety, and better integrate crossings, culverts, and fencing into routine highway projects. The California Building Industry Association moved to a neutral position after amendments clarified the bill would apply to transportation right-of-way planning and not create exactions on private property. Members discussed the bill’s relationship to Caltrans planning authority and existing funding, and it was passed to Appropriations on a 4-0 vote.
Senator Gonzalez’s SB 1268, which would codify the state’s Outdoors for All initiative, also received broad support from environmental justice, conservation, parks, and recreation groups. Testimony emphasized inequitable access to parks and nature, especially for low-income communities and communities of color, and said the bill would make the initiative more durable by placing it in statute. The chair and members spoke in favor of expanding outdoor access, and the bill was approved on a 3-0 vote with some members not yet voting.
The committee then heard three Western Joshua tree bills from Senator Ochoa Bogh. SB 1061 would streamline relocation of limited numbers of trees without fees in certain cases; SB 1062 would require proportionate or tiered mitigation fees for public utilities and agencies; and SB 1063 would create an expedited, fee-free permitting path for basic residential utility and wildfire-hardening projects. Supporters, including local water agencies, counties, and farm and business groups, said the current law imposes heavy costs on desert residents and ratepayers. Opponents, including wildlife and conservation organizations, argued the bills would weaken protections for a species they said is threatened by climate change and habitat loss, and noted that existing administrative processes are already addressing fees and permitting. After amendments, opposition was withdrawn on SB 1061 and SB 1062, and both bills advanced on 3-0 votes to Appropriations; SB 1063 remained under discussion in the portion provided.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband Mar 31st, 2025
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 3448 addresses this by amending the utilities code to add Chapter 254.
- So this bill creates a new chapter in the code applicable to certain telecom entities.
- regulate MUY, but Texas chose to apply the FCC formula as a cap for MI poll rates in Texas utility code
- Maintenance, administrative and overhead, depreciation, return, and tax for non cooperatively owned.
- And in fact, Chapter 253 of the Utilities Code specifically recognizes those those limited rights of
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 29th, 2026 at 01:49 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- For Agency Code 805, the Department of Transportation. Yes, Mr. Chair, members of the committee.
- The motor, so the tax, the gas tax, right, that we talk a lot about how hybrids and electric vehicles
- I'm just wondering about Tax and Revenue. They had asked for a lot of different things.
- I'm just wondering about Tax and Revenue. They had asked for a lot of different things.
- So $38.1 million for those enhanced federal premium tax credits.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
October 15, 2025 - 11:30 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- You got to bring that up to code with to all connections are hurricane straps in clips.
- So the cabin is structured as a tax isn't trust fund.
- We have a tax exemption from the IRS, the annual premiums, the insurance companies pay each year for
- We also have a tax exemption on the revenue bonds that we would issue after hurricane occurs if our cash
- So as I mentioned, the bonds can be issue on a tax isn't basis, but we can also issue those pass on the
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee Jun 18th, 2025
Communications and Conveyance
Transcript Highlights:
- we navigate is folks feel as though TNCs are not a part of the transportation ecosystem by way of taxes
- data on location of a particular incident, and that includes census block, census track, and a zip code
- Average in California per ride for insurance alone, plus other government taxes and fees, including CMS
- This work led the city to create the Traffic Congestion Mitigation Tax approved by San Francisco voters
- This is a three and a quarter percent tax on most fares and has amounted to about $1.5 million.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- Senate Bill 485 by Senator Edmonds provides for the levy of premium tax in the city of St. George.
- This transfers authority over insurance premium tax within the city of St.
- So it clarifies that insurers may only be subject to one local insurance premium tax for the same risk
- It defines insurance premium tax as a municipal license tax imposed on insurers, which is all consistent
- premium taxes, and administer those taxes.
Summary:
The Municipal Program of Cultural Affairs Committee met with a quorum and took up three Senate bills by Senator Edmonds, all related to the new City of St. George. The first bill, SB 348, would allow a local enforcement agency to contract with third-party vendors for administrative support in motor vehicle liability enforcement, such as plate processing, insurance verification, and notices, while making clear the vendors would not have police powers. Members raised concerns that the bill as drafted appeared statewide rather than local to St. George, and discussed how to limit it properly.
After debate, the committee adopted amendments to narrow SB 348 to cities incorporated after October 1, 2019 and to sunset the authority on July 31, 2028, with the understanding that St. George could return later with a properly advertised local bill. The bill then received favorable action. The committee then considered SB 485, which transfers authority to levy and collect the insurance premium tax within St. George to the city beginning January 1, 2027; it was reported favorably without objection.
Finally, the committee heard SB 444, which gives St. George expropriation authority for public infrastructure projects such as roads, drainage, flood protection, water, sewer, and utilities, using procedures similar to other Louisiana municipalities and DOTD. Members asked about the process and confirmed it was standard municipal authority and not related to private industry. The bill was reported favorably without objection. The meeting ended with thanks to staff and members and a reminder that this was the committee’s last meeting.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- disabled with a physical or mental impairment that has received a disability rating under United States Code
- taxes have been going up, noting that a lot of it is from government mandates to local governments that
- She then said her other question was about property taxes and local government costs.
- The speaker said they did not believe there would be an increase to property tax.
- The speaker said they did not believe there would be an increase to property tax.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Incentive Evaluation Commission -IEC- Jan 29th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Transcript Highlights:
- It started in 2023, where we were starting to allocate those tax credits.
- Either them or the tax commission might have that information. I don't know.
- So there are lots of incentives in the tax code that are to incent certain kinds of activity, like the
- home mortgage tax credit.
- For example, or tax exemption.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Nov 18th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- code changes.
- And, members, on page 11, this is one where, you know, as we see tax bills get into a tax package or
- That limits our ability to tax.
- Anything that shows like any kind of comparison between the tax cuts we have and the taxes that we've
- And as we're—you know, we've done a lot of tax cuts to the state's income tax; everything we've tried
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Tax Collections.
- . 27 sales tax collections are projected to be 59% of all total tax collections.
- , oil production taxes, franchise tax, and insurance tax.
- Motor vehicle sales and rental taxes and severance taxes from 96 to the present.
- The tax spending one.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Business meeting to markup an original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034. Feb 12th, 2025 at 09:00 am
Senate Budget
Transcript Highlights:
- And blaming us for raising taxes, or trying to get us to raise taxes on everybody in America, claiming
- While the tax rates were cut, tax revenue was at a record level.
- Maybe I'm going to be able to get my prohibition on one of the biggest scams in the tax code featured
- It's not about taxes.
- When we do address taxes, if we do cut taxes, it'll be for every American, as we did in the Tax Cuts
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- For the last 20 years, the plumbing unions in the United States have been writing a building code that
- is about The plumbing unions have been writing a building code that is about life safety.
- the International Building Code.
- That building code addresses this bathroom issue, and they provide recommendations, including access
- That building code addresses this bathroom issue, and they provide recommendations, including access
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Artificial Intelligence Task Force 2025 (9-11-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- in July in terms of some of the the tax in July in terms of some of the the tax incentives<00:20
- Next, um, the tax environment, or I'll call it the business environment to be a little more broad.
- Uh, but certainly the taxes.
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Another keeping other taxes down um etc. - Another keeping other taxes down um etc.
Summary:
The Intelligence Task Force met with a quorum present and approved the minutes from the August 14 meeting. The first presentation was from the National Retail Federation on artificial intelligence in the retail sector. NRF described AI use cases in three areas: consumer-facing tools such as chatbots, product descriptions, and marketing; employee-facing tools such as company-specific apps trained on employee manuals; and internal uses such as supply chain forecasting, inventory planning, fraud detection, cybersecurity, and coding support. The presenters said retail has been among the top deployers of AI and emphasized that the goal is to improve both customer and employee experience.
NRF also outlined its principles for responsible AI use, organized around governance and risk management, customer engagement and trust, workforce applications, and business partner accountability. The group said retailers should maintain strong internal oversight, be transparent with customers, ensure compliance with existing laws, closely review workforce-related uses because they can be high-risk, and clearly define responsibilities between retailers and third-party developers. In policy discussion, NRF urged a tiered approach focused first on high-risk uses such as hiring, health care, financial, mortgage, and rental decisions, warned against fragmented rules that could favor only the largest firms, and encouraged voluntary standards and worker upskilling incentives. In response to a question about dynamic pricing, NRF said its members do not target consumers based on pricing and offered to follow up with more information.
The committee then moved to a follow-up discussion on energy policy and data centers, hearing from Bartley Cleland of NetChoice. He explained that AI runs largely in data centers and that cloud computing shifts processing and storage away from individual devices, which he argued improves efficiency and can reduce costs. He said electricity demand has been rising over time and that AI will increase compute-related electricity use, but framed electricity as a normal input to economic growth. No votes or formal actions were taken after these presentations.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Local and County Government Feb 24th, 2026 at 02:00 pm
Local and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
- The reason I ask that is because I know when we deal with grass weeds and code enforcement, there are
- the state who are frustrated at their government that is entering into business agreements with their tax
- dollars with entities and their with other business entities and they're spending their tax dollars
- so they don't tell their constituents what they're spending the constituents' tax dollars on.
- bill does is it says you have to be accountable to your constituents for what you're doing with their tax
Keywords:
zoning, municipal compensation, property rights, financial impact, reversion ordinance, solid waste management, municipal authority, regulatory fees, waste reduction, environmental impact, restrictive covenants, discriminatory covenants, racially restrictive covenants, housing discrimination, Fair Housing Act, plats, subdivision plats, residential additions, county clerk, municipal ordinance
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jun 5th, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 114 May 8th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- uh to impose a sales tax. uh to impose a sales tax.
- tax.
- misconception about property tax. misconception about property tax.
- It is tax credits though. It's like it's above the tax line.
- It's not actual general fund dollars going out, but tax credits and tax breaks, that's spending.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Water and Natural Resources Jul 2nd, 2025
Water & Natural Resources Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- paid their taxes and services.
- I happen to be on the Tax Committee.
- What is your tax base? What's your tax rate?
- The The insurance code requires residual market rates to be actuarially set with actually sound rates
- Building codes don't touch fencing.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 01/21/25
Housing and Homelessness Prevention
Transcript Highlights:
- received re the low-income housing tax received re the low-income housing tax credit<00:59:27.920
- credit that's the federal housing tax credit that's the federal housing tax credit<00:59:30.400>
- <01:00:00.079>
credits reported that receive tax credits reported that receive tax credits - designated housing it may just be a tax designated housing it may just be a tax credit<01:00:11.359
- private bond market and in the tax private bond market and in the tax credit<01:18:45.840>
Market
Summary:
The Senate Housing and Homelessness Prevention Committee met for an organizational hearing focused on introductions, committee jurisdiction, and a presentation from Minnesota Housing Finance Agency Commissioner Jennifer Ho. Members described their priorities for the session, including addressing HOA issues, senior housing affordability, manufactured housing exploitation, first-time homebuyer access, housing and health connections, homelessness protections, downtown conversions, and expanding starter homes, ADUs, and smaller multifamily housing. Chair Port emphasized bipartisan collaboration and the committee’s focus on removing barriers to housing production and expanding homeownership.
A substantial portion of the meeting was devoted to remembering Senator Carrie Dietz, with Chair Port, Senator Draheim, and Commissioner Ho each describing her deep knowledge, behind-the-scenes leadership, and role in major housing accomplishments. They highlighted her work on fire sprinkler requirements in high-rise buildings, rental housing safety, public and nonprofit housing repairs, protections against predatory investors, manufactured and workforce housing, tenant protections, down payment assistance, local affordable housing aid, homelessness services, and the Bring It Home program, which helped pave the way for Minnesota’s rental voucher program. Advocates’ letters honoring her contributions were also made available to members.
Committee staff then reviewed the panel’s jurisdiction, including housing and homelessness prevention, Minnesota Housing Finance Agency oversight and budget matters, housing bond allocation authority, housing infrastructure bonds, manufactured housing, rent control, transitional housing, and homeless prevention. Chair Port said the budget overview would be held for a later hearing. Commissioner Ho introduced her staff and outlined Minnesota Housing’s mission as a statewide mission-driven financial institution that finances affordable housing, homeownership, supportive housing, homelessness prevention, and manufactured housing through partnerships with lenders, developers, service providers, tribes, and local governments. No votes or formal legislative actions were taken at this meeting.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- We have testimony from Tomy Chicaa, Tax Foundation of Hawaii, via Zoom, in opposition. resilience hubs
- This is Jade McMillan on behalf of the Tax Foundation. We submitted comments on the measure.
- This is not a tax relief; this is granting them money for people making only 80% of the median income
- I haven't set codes or anything like that.
- , and we lack a section of the fire code, which is the Wildland Urban Interface fire code, which dictates
Summary:
The committee held its first hearing of the 2025 session and began with housekeeping on testimony deadlines, hybrid participation rules, time management, and expectations for civility. The chair said testimony posted at least 24 hours in advance would be available to members and the public at the same time, late testimony would still be processed, and decision-making would generally be deferred to later in the day so morning hearings could adjourn before the noon floor session.
The first bill heard was HB 673 on emergency management. Hawaii Emergency Management Agency administrator James Barros testified in opposition, saying the bill could undermine the executive’s unity of command during emergencies and objecting to provisions allowing the legislature to terminate a state of emergency by a two-thirds vote. Members asked about the difference between an emergency order and a state of emergency, whether other states use legislative checks and balances, and whether long-running emergencies such as COVID-19 or homelessness should have clearer end conditions. Barros said the agency, along with the Attorney General’s office and the governor’s office, would review the language and that the issue is setting conditions for when an emergency ends.
The committee then heard HB 596, also on emergency management, which would clarify types of events that count as dangers and emergencies. Barros opposed the bill, saying the current list covers known hazards but should remain open-ended for future threats; he cited COVID-19 as an example of an unforeseen event and said the bill could limit flexibility. Members asked whether the list could be expanded, and Barros said the agency would look at that possibility. Testimony included support from the Grassroots Institute of Hawaii and concerns from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii about the bill’s special fund provisions; the committee also corrected testimony that had been submitted for the wrong bill.
The final measure discussed was HB 1060 on emergency preparedness and the Community Readiness Center Program. Barros explained the proposal as part of HEMA’s effort to build local readiness centers and community hubs, with an initial target of 10 communities through a federal grant and a longer-term concept of roughly 100 statewide. The Climate Advisory Team supported the bill’s intent but urged that centers be developed with strong community and nonprofit involvement through the HARRP program. The Department of Taxation offered comments on the special fund, and members raised questions about cost, size, use of existing school facilities, public messaging, and equity across communities. Barros said the centers would provide backup communications, power, water, and food for a community group, would not function as general shelters, and would be designed to help communities hunker down and recover after a disaster.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V Feb 24th, 2025
Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V
Transcript Highlights:
- Item two, for mixed beverage tax reimbursements to cities and counties.
- The requested transfer of advanced tax compliance to comptroller proper.
- I'm specific to tax statutes statewide and on the border.
- Well, we looked at the threshold of who files a franchise tax return.
- Ashley, he's the Associate Deputy Controller for Tax. Good morning.