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HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
House Chamber - Wed Mar 12, 2025, 12:00PM HST - Day 30
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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and vulnerable residents are protected and vulnerable residents are protected - Our natural resources are vital to Hawaii, Madam Speaker, and this budget invests in protecting them
- them for future invests in protecting them for future Generations<00:54:42.200>
it <00:54:42.760 - This 127-year-old building houses key divisions responsible for business regulation, consumer protection
- This 127-year-old building houses key divisions responsible for business regulation, consumer protection
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Elections Committee Mar 25th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- But when you mail out the ballot, it means that you have to protect the But when you mail out the ballot
- , it means that you have to protect the privacy of the individual's vote.
- But when you mail out the ballot, it means that you have to protect the privacy of the individual's vote
- Fairly time consuming, and I know that certification process even more so to have aligned that.
- I know, you know, previously, and I think you supported this measure when the Taxpayer Protection Act
Summary:
The Assembly Elections Committee met on March 25, 2026, with nine measures on the agenda and three bills taken on consent. The committee approved the consent calendar for AB 1736, AB 1853, and AB 2153. The committee also heard several election-related bills, including AB 1993 on ballot-envelope privacy, AB 1788 on nonprofit disclosure of travel payments for elected officials, AB 1560 on barring people convicted of public corruption from lobbying, AB 1539 on presidential and vice-presidential ballot eligibility certifications, AB 1919 on Santa Cruz Metro local tax initiative procedures, and AB 1562 on county selection of poll workers. The chair also noted membership changes and welcomed new and returning members and staff.
AB 1993 drew the most debate. The author argued it was a common-sense safeguard to prevent voters’ choices from being visible through ballot-envelope holes, citing a Sacramento County incident and public concern about ballot privacy. County election officials, the Secretary of State’s office, and Disability Rights California opposed the bill, saying the holes also serve accessibility and processing functions, that existing voter instructions already address privacy, and that the measure would create implementation problems and an unfunded mandate. After extended discussion, the committee voted the bill out on a 2-6 roll call and it failed.
AB 1788 was supported by the FPPC and the League of Women Voters and passed as amended to Appropriations, with members emphasizing transparency while seeking to avoid unintended coverage of organizations like NCSL and CSG. AB 1560 passed 6-0 despite the Secretary of State’s implementation concerns about how the office would learn of relevant convictions. AB 1539, which would require party representatives to certify presidential and vice-presidential nominees’ constitutional eligibility, passed 7-0 as amended. AB 1919, which would clarify procedures for a Santa Cruz Metro voter initiative to place a transit tax on the ballot, passed 6-2, and AB 1562, which would allow counties to randomly select poll workers, passed 7-1 after discussion about civic engagement, guardrails, and election administration. The committee then completed roll-call adjustments for absent members and adjourned.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Proper oversight will protect, like these, will protect land, cattle, water, and people from this kind
- Texans have a right to protect their land, water, and future.
- So that's potentially food that we may consume. It also could... the contamination.
- I also believe that there's more that should be done to protect the people of Texas.
- This current rule fails to protect landowner property rights with respect to reserve pits.
Keywords:
surface estate, well plugging, Railroad Commission, landowner rights, liability, strategic reserve, gas supply, petroleum products, disaster response, Railroad Commission of Texas, energy security, emergency planning, oil and gas waste, environmental regulation, waste management, mining pits, groundwater monitoring, regulation, commercial disposal facilities, environmental standards
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- I have to acknowledge that I actually seen Officer Cranbeer here working, protecting us all the day.
- We're a trade association representing the large wood-consuming mills in the state.
- the soil prevent erosion provide protect the soil prevent erosion provide wildlife<00:58:19.920>
- residents from trades the wells protect residents from trades the wells Administration<01:09:57.400>
- are improving our farm we're protecting are improving our farm we're protecting our<01:14:23.080
Keywords:
property tax, Indian Tribe, tax exemption, Minnesota, public charity, property tax exemption, Minnesota statutes, unorganized territory, federally recognized, soil conservation, water conservation, local government aid, environmental funding, Minnesota legislation, tax credits, sustainable aviation fuel, environmental policy, corporate franchise, Minnesota taxation, tobacco
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Fiscal Policy Apr 22nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- One is it protects the defendant.
- Will they protect the well, this protect the homeowner and with the requirements in your bill?
- In short, we support SB 1388 as it protects our freedom to navigate the waterways and it protects our
- Again, this this part of of the amendment is is really focused on protecting the consumer. >> That's
- And those are really consumer friendly.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 108 May 2nd, 2026
Colorado House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- So decoupling from this provision protects Colorado and it protects our tax base, and it ensures investments
- So decoupling from this provision protects Colorado and it protects our tax base, and it ensures investments
- So decoupling from this provision protects Colorado and it protects our tax base, and it ensures investments
- So decoupling from this provision protects Colorado and it protects our tax base, and it ensures investments
- . consumer. consumer.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (01/15/2025)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- I am the director of the Division of Public Protection, which includes criminal, consumer, and environmental
- I am the director of the Division of Public Protection, which includes criminal, consumer, and environmental
- I also worked at the Attorney General's Office in the consumer protection and antitrust division. 2021
- General's office in the consumer General's office in the consumer protection<01:17:34.080>
and - individuals to be able to protect individuals to be able to protect themselves<01:43:58.840>
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Health Policy Feb 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- HOUSE BILL 1561 CREATES SEVERAL CONSUMER PROTECTIONS FOR PATIENTS OF PHYSICIANS WHO PERFORM LIPOSUCTION
- THE ADMINISTRATION BY WHICH MOST PATIENTS CONSUME THEIR MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN OUNCES AND YOU CAN SEE IF
- BECAUSE THERE ARE DIFFERENT THINGS THEY COULD CONSUME THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE HELPFUL TO THEM. >> Chair
- WHEN THEY PURCHASE IT AND THEN IT GETS A LITTLE BIT MORE PATIENT SPECIFIC ABOUT WHAT THEY NEED TO CONSUME
- BASED ON THEIR A LITTLE BIT MORE PATIENT SPECIFIC ABOUT WHAT THEY NEED TO CONSUME BASED ON THEIR CONDITION
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- Help us understand the needs of all of our people across this state, so that laws may protect life, promote
- Give us courage to protect, uphold every person, and stand for truth in all matters of legislation.
- House Bill 950 by Representative Boyd is an act in Title 46 relative to consumer protection for the elderly
- Last year, the legislature unanimously passed the Kids Online Protection and Anti-Grooming Act.
- The amendment protects the legislative power of the purse.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations - Room 216, 24 February, 2026; 1:30 PM
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- extent that they need to be, are talking to one another across agencies and that we have the same protections
- human services, child protection human services, child protection services,<00:21:46.080>
Medicaid - I'll tell you for a fact um consuming consuming consuming uh<00:25:10.960>
the <00:25:11.279>- In the last year, we've are protected.
- services and other child protection services and other sister<01:05:25.839>
agencies.
Summary:
Legislative leaders opened the hearing by focusing on statewide technology issues affecting agencies, including rising IT costs, cloud migration, cybersecurity risks, procurement delays, and the need for better coordination across government systems. They said the meeting was intended to hear from agency directors about current challenges and possible legislative solutions.
The ITS director described the state’s IT structure as decentralized but increasingly moving toward shared services. He highlighted recent legislative and executive actions on cloud computing, artificial intelligence, procurement modernization, and data sharing, including House Bill 1491, Senate Bill 2426, Senate Bill 2267, House Bill 958, and an executive order on AI. He said ITS has worked with large agencies on a cloud center of excellence, a procurement modernization advisory council, and a state data exchange, and noted plans for a master contract, potentially with OpenAI, that could be available to all public entities.
He also emphasized cybersecurity, saying the state is seeking a secure operations center and a broader “cyber maturity” approach after recent incidents. On procurement, he said the goal is to speed up purchasing while keeping it safe, and on optimization he pointed to potential savings from consolidating duplicate agreements, such as multiple Microsoft enterprise contracts. In response to questions, he said exceptions to centralization would be based on business and technical architecture and regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, CISA, or FERPA, rather than ad hoc decisions.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- We make sure that the record is protecting the patient's privacy and protecting their most highly sensitive
- our consumers, but I also don't want to overburden the providers and put a new onus on them.
- Nor are there any protections for the emergency personnel where the boxes are located.
- We already have a baby... ...that the protections that this bill specifically requires.
- And giving the mother those extra protections, legal protections, is very, very important.
Summary:
The committee took up a large health policy agenda. SB 1568 on electronic prescribing was explained as a federal conformity measure, but members raised concerns about preserving patients’ ability to obtain paper prescriptions and about exemptions for emergency, hospice, and other situations. Emergency physicians testified in support of e-prescribing but asked for flexibility, and the bill was reported favorably despite Senator Harrell’s opposition. SB 1606 on patient access to records sought to standardize record-production timelines and require electronic delivery when available; after an amendment correcting a drafting error, the bill drew concerns about HIPAA, behavioral health confidentiality, and the distinction between personal and legal representatives, and it was reported unfavorably as a committee substitute.
The committee then approved SB 1346 on fentanyl testing, with a technical amendment, to require hospitals and campus emergency departments to test for fentanyl in urine testing for suspected overdose or poisoning. SB 1224 on administration of controlled substances by paramedics was amended to clarify language and reported favorably. SB 656 on health care billing and collection activities was substantially revised by strike-all amendment to allow sale of medical debt to third parties under new limits, including no interest or fees and return of debt if charity care applies; it was reported favorably as a committee substitute. SB 68 expanded health facilities authority financing to include not-for-profit LLCs and parent companies, and SB 524 added Duchenne muscular dystrophy to the newborn screening panel; both were reported favorably.
Later, the committee approved SB 1842 on out-of-network referrals after multiple amendments, requiring providers to verify network participation at the point of service and notify patients in writing, though several members and physicians warned it could burden providers and increase workload. The committee also advanced proposed committee bill SB 7028, which revises the Casey DeSantis Cancer Research Program, adds oversight and reporting requirements, creates a pediatric cancer research incubator, and establishes the Bascom-Palmer VisionGen initiative; cancer center representatives testified in strong support, and the bill was reported favorably as a committee bill. SB 172 on specialty titles and designations was amended to clarify enforcement and was reported favorably after supporters said it would prevent misleading use of specialist titles, while opponents argued it could confuse practitioners’ titles. Finally, SB 1690 on surrendered infants was reported favorably after supporters said it would codify and expand safe-haven baby box procedures and opponents raised safety concerns about the devices. The committee also noted SB 1606 remained pending for reconsideration next week before adjourning.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Sep 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- We have a law, but are there protections? that would keep this program in place and functioning.
- So, in terms of the programming, in terms of the Bureau, There are no protections.
- If this is something you value, it needs to be funded permanently, and that would protect everything
- We saw advanced purchasing as consumers tried to get ahead of tariffs, especially in the auto market.
- And protecting those services.
DE
Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
House of Representatives Legislative Session - Session 2 - 42nd Legislative Day Jun 30th, 2026
Delaware House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It also protects privacy.
- I think that protecting our rate payers and the cost is important.
- protection.
- In 2023, the General Assembly passed the Medical Debt Protection Act, which creates a range of protections
- I hope that you continue to protect this institution.
Summary:
The House convened with quorum, offered prayers and moments of silence for community members who had recently died, and recognized several guests and family members in the chamber. After routine communications and passage of consent calendar 29, the chamber took up a series of measures on the main and colored agendas, with several bills and resolutions passing by voice vote or roll call.
Among the measures approved were House Concurrent Resolution 157, which as amended requested a State Lottery report on options to support traditional lottery retailers; Senate Bill 53 on the Delaware Farm to Community Program; Senate Bill 307 on PSC authority for Lifeline telecommunications carriers; Senate Bill 339 clarifying health directive forms in mental health facilities; Senate Bill 235 on manufactured home community rent increases; Senate Bill 325, as amended, updating fire prevention and volunteer fire/EMS background check rules; Senate Bill 309 on inmate work and discharge of incarceration-related balances; Senate Bill 324 on deadly weapons and constable agency representatives; Senate Bill 293 on youth camp child care licensing; Senate Bill 94 on respiratory care practitioners and ECMO medication delivery; and Senate Substitute 2 for Senate Bill 100, proposing a constitutional amendment protecting the right to marry regardless of race or gender while preserving religious freedom. House Bill 188, changing Delaware primary elections to allow unaffiliated voters to choose a party primary, also passed after debate.
Two measures drew extended discussion and amendments. Senate Bill 233, requiring snow and ice to be removed from vehicles, was tabled once, then later amended and passed after debate over whether the law was workable for truck drivers and other vehicle operators; a proposed truck-related exemption amendment failed. House Substitute 1 for House Bill 404, creating a pilot program for artificial intelligence and extended reality in schools, passed after testimony from the Department of Education emphasizing guardrails, privacy, and educator oversight, alongside concerns from members about data, bias, and long-term effects. Several items were tabled or reconsidered during the session, and the House adjourned after completing the day’s business.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Health Insurance Affordability Task Force, June 18, 2026
Health Insurance Affordability Task Force
Transcript Highlights:
- supportive of because we want to be a good partner and we want to increase price transparency for consumers
- in the market that are visiting our hospitals. ...increase price transparency for consumers in the market
- about it as much, is the ultimate goal of all of our these conversations: to make that ultimate consumer
- So, that's something I intend to look at and have previously enhanced our antitrust statutes to protect
- Our population, or consumer health status and our demographics, how we're aging and changing payer mixes
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Governmental Organization Committee Jun 23rd, 2026
Governmental Organization
Transcript Highlights:
- the public. ...they comply with local, state, and federal laws meant to protect the public.
- He said, "The loving thing is to protect people who are hurting."
- I mean, from my perspective, the question we should be asking is: who is this protecting?
- It's protecting gang members. It's protecting the human trafficker, the convicted violent felon.
- It protects faith equally and asks the state to play no favorites, and we support it.
NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York State Senate Session - 02/04/2026
New York Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Service at that time did not Equal protection, and it often does not equal protection now.
- for the consumer.
- How does this bill protect someone?
- Let's protect the sanctity of life together. I vote no.
- LET'S PROTECT THE SANCTITY OF LIFE TOGETHER. I VOTE NO.
Summary:
The Senate convened, approved the prior journal, received messages and substitutions from the Assembly, and welcomed two new members, Senators Erik Bottcher and Jeremy Zellner. The chamber then adopted the resolution calendar and took up a privileged resolution sponsored by Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins memorializing Governor Hochul to proclaim February 2026 as Black History Month in New York. Senators Bailey, Baskin, Sanders, Scarcella-Spanton, Brisport, Parker, Cleare, Comrie, and others spoke in support, emphasizing Black history as American history, the importance of education and remembrance, and the contributions of Black New Yorkers and historical figures. The resolution was adopted, and the leader opened it for co-sponsorship.
The Senate then moved to the bill calendar and passed several measures, including bills on civil procedure, urban development, labor, and public service law. One labor bill was substituted from the Assembly and passed. Several energy and utility-related bills drew debate, with supporters arguing they would improve affordability, utility rate-setting, and consumer protections, while opponents said they would not meaningfully lower costs and instead reflected broader policy choices. Senator Walczyk voted no on one utility bill, and Senators Tedisco and others criticized the package; Senators Mayer and Harckham defended the measures as needed reforms to utility regulation and return-on-equity standards. Most bills were approved by wide margins, including one public service bill that passed 53-9 and another that passed 61-1.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 2/17/25
Agriculture Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Consumers are evolving the story into a more transparent view of where their food comes from, and that
- consumers and farm producers<00:36:23.319>
but <00:36:23.480>it <00:36:23.599>takes - marketing to meet consumer marketing to meet consumer demands<00:36:36.280>
as <00:36:36.359 - While planning to protect the farm's legacy can often be overlooked, the lack of experienced experts,
- is an obstacle while planning to protect the<00:39:03.960>
Farm's <00:39:04.359>Legacy
Keywords:
agriculture, agricultural education, leadership development, Minnesota Agricultural Education and Leadership Council, MAELC, chapter 41D, grant funding, general fund appropriation, commissioner of agriculture, farm education, youth agriculture programs, ag literacy, workforce development, extension education, research funding, extension services, technology transfer, grant programs, 1183, house
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- the process and all the work that you guys have put into the wall and what that wall is doing to... protect
- It is to protect customers. foster competition and promote high quality infrastructure and so all the
- What consumers must pay to connect a new generation resource to the grid.
- so far, 12 companies have registered, representing 21 different facilities. that are expected to consume
- the Permian Basin. comes not just from oil and gas, but also from economic growth and from other consumers
MN
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- <00:40:59.839>
credit <00:41:00.160>reporting consumer credit reporting consumer credit - support rural communities, protect support rural communities, protect obviously<01:10:33.920>
- It's basic consumer protection.
- It's basic consumer protection.<01:18:34.239>
We <01:18:34.480>also <01:18:34.719>thank - We also thank you for protection.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- We don’t know what we don’t know, and we have to highlight those gaps because ultimately consumer and
- It keeps spam emails down and protects consumers. That is the bill.
- On February 12, 2022, Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services employee negligently violated safety
- We think that there's a consumer... ...awareness component to that so that purchasers at the store, if
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee met with a quorum present and took up a long agenda of House and Senate bills, many of them conforming or “orphan” measures that were amended with delete-all or strike-all amendments to place them in conference posture. Among those reported favorably were HB 5015 on the State Group Insurance Program, HB 5009 creating the Florida Accountability Office, HB 5013 on state-funded property reinsurance, HB 5201 on state financial accounting, HB 5203 on the Capitol Center, and HB 5501 on documentary stamp tax distributions. The committee also approved SB 1292 on public records exemptions for certain email addresses, SB 1290 on highway safety and motor vehicle agency changes, SB 26 on an uncontested claims settlement, SB 176 and SJR 174 on homestead property assessment for flood-mitigation improvements, and SB 1122 on Florida Virtual School procedures.
Several substantive bills drew discussion. SB 924, covering fertility preservation services for cancer patients under the state health plan, received supportive comments from members and was reported favorably. SB 1160 expanded health insurance premium coverage for law enforcement officers and their families when catastrophic injury or death occurs in the line of duty or during official training, and it also passed. HB 1662, the Department of Transportation package, established or revised programs involving the Florida Transportation Academy, transportation research, rural transit, airport and seaport accountability, advanced air mobility, landscaping, and HOV lane changes; it was amended after testimony from the Florida Airports Council about landing-fee language and questions from members about AAM and HOV lane implementation, then reported favorably.
The committee also heard and approved SB 600, which codifies a statewide manufacturing office and creates a Florida manufacturing promotional campaign and grant framework, and SB 602, the fee bill tied to that campaign. That pair prompted the most extensive debate, with members asking about grant structure, eligibility, oversight, and whether the program could become a “slush fund”; the sponsor and Florida Makes said the program is aimed at small manufacturers, would be subject to rulemaking, and is intended to support training and modernization. SB 602 passed on a mostly party-line vote with Senator Pizzo voting no. At the end of the meeting, members recorded additional votes on selected bills, and the committee adjourned without further business.