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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 13th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • He's a board trustee for the Oklahoma State Medical Association and a delegate to the American Medical
  • Cockrell, who is a coach of this incredible team but is also a longtime member of the Broken Arrow School Board
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 3rd, 2026 at 05:50 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • That is the way that our system is set up here.
  • I serve on the Governor's Preventative Health Advisory Board, and this board has also focused on public
  • This is one of the main charges of the board.
  • And it's important that people are able to protect their property, protect their housing, and have the
  • I met my first septic system inspector when I was about 10 years old, as my dad is a septic system designer
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 3rd, 2026 at 02:00 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Speaker, we really want to protect, or I do, I think you and I hopefully want to protect law enforcement
  • They’re, which most of them will wear masks, so not to protect the person on the other side, but to protect
  • We want to make sure that we protect them. They protect us.
  • I'm trying to protect myself. I'm trying to protect myself as well.
  • I'm trying to protect myself as well.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 3rd, 2026 at 09:00 am

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Speaker, as we both serve and represent our House caucus on this board.
  • Speaker, as we both serve and represent our House caucus on this board, this Washington leadership board
  • I think that should be left more to local school districts and local school boards.
  • I think that should be left more to local school districts and local school boards.
  • This bill does not require that you implement a smart access system.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 3rd, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • That is the way that our system is set up here.
  • I serve on the Governor's Preventative Health Advisory Board, and this board has also focused on public
  • This is one of the main charges of the board.
  • And it's important that people are able to protect their property, protect their housing, and have the
  • I met my first septic system inspector when I was about 10 years old, as my dad is a septic system designer
Summary: The House received several messages from the Senate announcing passage of engrossed or substitute versions of House Bill 2294, House Bill 2472, Senate Bill 606, Senate Bill 6335, engrossed substitute Senate Bill 6266, and engrossed substitute House Bill 3. The chamber then moved through second and third reading on a series of measures, often suspending the rules to advance bills to final passage. A major floor debate centered on Senate Concurrent Resolution 8406, which would reestablish the Joint Select Committee on Civic Health and expand its membership. Amendment 2131, offered to keep the committee at its current size rather than expanding it, was rejected after debate over fiscal restraint, committee scope, and whether the body functioned like a “proxy legislature.” The resolution then passed 83-10. The House also passed engrossed substitute Senate Bill 6200 on portable cooling devices for renters and mobile home occupants, Senate Bill 6084 on clarifying the prohibition on voting in more than one election, second engrossed substitute Senate Bill 5105 on sexually explicit depictions involving minors, and Senate Bill 6046 authorizing the Civil Air Patrol to be used by the governor in emergencies; each drew debate over policy scope, enforcement, and state-federal authority, but all ultimately passed. The House next passed substitute Senate Bill 6054, limiting HOA and common-interest community restrictions that conflict with wildfire-hardening measures; substitute Senate Bill 6091, requiring greater transparency in real estate broker practices; Senate Bill 6291, giving more time to train and certify on-site wastewater inspectors; substitute Senate Bill 6081, creating a Public Records Act exemption for sex designation information to protect transgender people from doxxing and harassment; Senate Bill 5963, automatically enrolling certain vulnerable students in the Washington College Grant; and substitute Senate Bill 6226, addressing audiology scope-of-practice and telemedicine concerns. Most of these bills passed with broad bipartisan support, though some drew dissent over added regulation, privacy, or scope-of-practice issues. The final portion of the transcript focused on Senate Bill 6106, which the Speaker ruled had an out-of-scope amendment related to agricultural seasonal workers; the bill itself passed 75-18 after debate over layoff notices and tribal sovereignty. Substitute Senate Bill 6014, dealing with pregnancy accommodations and related public records issues, saw a failed amendment to replace gender-neutral language with “pregnant woman” and then passed 68-25. The House also debated Senate Bill 5820, with multiple amendments concerning freight rail, greenhouse gas calculations, county planning, property rights, and rail safety; the excerpt ends amid that amendment debate before final action on the bill is shown.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Transportation Jan 20th, 2026

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • systems to times when the school zone speed limit is in effect and requires any applicable flashing
  • installation of school bus infraction detection systems on district school buses.
  • Obviously, you know, we're trying to improve a system that we currently have in place.
  • Obviously, you know, we're trying to, you know, improve a system that we currently have in place.
  • Any questions on any of these appointees to the various boards? All right.
Bills: S0382 , S0654 , S0684 , S0880 , S1080
Summary: The Transportation Committee heard and advanced several measures. SB 654 on traffic infraction enforcement was presented as a comprehensive cleanup of camera-based enforcement for red lights, school zones, and school bus violations. The sponsor said the bill aims to improve consistency, transparency, privacy limits, and due process, including clerk fee retention, virtual hearings, recordkeeping, limits on data use, school district approval for bus cameras, and reporting requirements. An amendment clarifying reporting and liability-transfer procedures was adopted without objection. Members raised questions about information sharing, facial recognition, school-zone flashing lights, private school buses, and bus stop safety; the sponsor said those issues were either already covered in statute or outside the bill’s scope, though he was open to future clarification. The committee reported the bill favorably. The committee also heard SB 1080, which received a delete-all amendment concerning FDOT direct payments to first-tier subcontractors and takeover agreements with sureties. The amendment was adopted and the bill was reported favorably. A block of appointments to various boards was then considered together and reported favorably after a single confirmation vote. Later, SB 382 on electric bicycles and scooters was substantially revised with a strike-all amendment. The new version keeps pedestrian-yield and audible-signal rules, adds a 10-mph limit when pedestrians are within 50 feet, creates an e-bike task force, and requires crash data collection and reporting. Members discussed whether the speed rule applies to shared-use paths, how it would be enforced, whether licensing or speedometers should be required, and whether the bill could create barriers for seniors or others who rely on e-bikes. Supporters emphasized safety, data collection, and the need for stakeholder input; the bill was reported favorably. The committee also reported favorably SB 684, which allows electronic signatures in connection with total-loss vehicles and vessels, and SB 880, creating a Miami Northwestern Alumni Association specialty license plate. The meeting ended after all bills and appointments were approved and the committee adjourned.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Transportation and Energy Committee Apr 10th, 2025

Transportation and Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • legislation does not require counties or municipalities or the state to upgrade its transportation system
Bills: SB271 , SB295 , SB309
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Business and Insurance 2ND REVISED Feb 12th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Business and Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • This extends the sunset for the construction industries board to 2031.
  • This extends the sunset to 2031 for the Oklahoma abstractors Board.
  • I mean, I do think there are some valid consumer protection issues, right?
  • Also includes large-scale renovations to HVAC systems.
  • Schools have gotten Some federal money back to the switched to geothermal systems.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Feb 12th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you for the sergeants and the troopers and for those who provide protection for all of us in this
  • That protection they always provide. Look for the pages with us this week.
  • Patnode and Trooper Joey McLaughlin sincere gratitude for their heroism and unwavering commitment to protecting
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 4/1/25

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
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  • Several have even been adopted out of the child protection system and thus have experienced trauma.
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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/26

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • They're they're board of directors.
  • Just get on board.”
  • That is not a fair system.
  • That is not a fair system.
  • That is not a fair system. And product. That is not a fair system.
Bills: SF1750 , HF4250 , HF3938 , HF3904 , HF3642
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Environment & Energy Feb 2nd, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Environment & Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It creates a new per se violation of the Consumer Protection Act for the restrictions or requirements
  • regime applicable to those violations would be through the Attorney General or under the Consumer Protection
  • proposed substitute also removes the requirement that the UTC and consumer-owned utility governing boards
  • And I want to also make sure that we have labor protections in the bill should a data center build behind
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

RM 325 Conference PM - Thu Apr 23, 2026

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • on a federal level these protections to accessing clinics and health care facilities.
  • We already have adequate laws on the federal and state levels to protect people.
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  • So, again, not law protects it as well.
  • they want to try to protect life and save<00:57:25.800><c> life.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session May 29th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • You have a duty to uphold public safety and protect victims of crime. That's your duty.
  • That's for across the board for all, yes.
  • Members, this bill relates to the regulation of transportation protection agreements.
  • House Bill 1094, relating to the regulation of transportation protection agreements.
  • Alvarado, Bettencourt, Board of Elections. 31 ayes, zero nays. Rule is suspended.
Bills: SJR5 , SJR27 , SB4 , SB6 , SB7 , SB9 , SB13 , SB15 , SB23 , SB27 , SB30 , SB40 , SB57 , SB66 , SB140 , SB268 , SB293 , SB331 , SB413 , SB437 , SB447 , SB457 , SB467 , SB506 , SB510 , SB512 , SB568 , SB571 , SB650 , SB710 , SB763 , SB785 , SB800 , SB850 , SB863 , SB865 , SB904 , SB905 , SB973 , SB974 , SB1191 , SB1281 , SB1300 , SB1362 , SB1494 , SB1504 , SB1522 , SB1540 , SB1567 , SB1579 , SB1580 , SB1610 , SB1660 , SB1723 , SB1760 , SB1838 , SB1923 , SB1946 , SB1957 , SB1964 , SB2018 , SB2024 , SB2121 , SB2167 , SB2217 , SB2221 , SB2321 , SB2337 , SB2368 , SB2373 , SB2407 , SB2431 , SB2477 , SB2587 , SB2615 , SB2753 , SB2807 , SB2900 , SB2965 , SB2972 , SB2986 , SB3039 , SB3047 , SB3059 , SB3070 , SB1 , SB8 , SB12 , SB13 , SB15 , SB17 , SB21 , SB30 , SB37 , SB260 , SB268 , SB331 , SB379 , SB441 , SB447 , SB457 , SB509 , SB650 , SB763 , SB1198 , SB1405 , SB1506 , SB1566 , SB1610 , SB1637 , SB1660 , SB1833 , SB2018 , SB2024 , SB2155 , SB2217 , SB2308 , SB2337 , SB2601 , SB2753 , SB2778 , SB2878 , SB2900 , SB3059 , HB4 , HB145 , HB300 , HB493 , HB2011 , HB2067 , HB2516 , HB2525 , HB2885 , HB2974 , HB3071 , HB3372 , HB3595 , HB5138 , HB5246 , HB796 , HB1523 , HB5294 , HB748 , HB3395 , HB180 , HB3171 , HB4690 , HB146 , HB5596 , HB5694 , HB 1135 , HB3225 , HB186 , HB1449 , HB3793 , HB 112 , HB 104 , HB4233 , HB 1094 , HB3336 , HB3520 , HB3320 , HB5663 , HB2731 , HB2399 , HB 111 , HB3483 , HB4580 , HB3748 , HB632 , HB4730 , HB 127 , HB5690 , HB5689 , HB3385 , HB4359 , HB5381 , HB20 , HB 123 , HB549 , HB5606 , HB2594 , HB 1057 , HB3664 , HCR141 , HCR40 , HCR59 , SJR36 , SJR50 , SJR63 , SCR12 , SCR39 , SB2023 , SB62 , SB666 , SB847 , SB284 , SB854 , SB810 , SB1505 , SB583 , SB507 , SB1434 , SB1772 , SB2016 , SB1122 , SB731 , SB397 , SB508 , SB1436 , SB287 , SB1882 , SB393 , SB1791 , SB209 , SB2429 , SB1085 , SB1975 , SB2717 , SB1262 , SB636 , SB2056 , SB884 , SB1200 , SB1845 , SB2458 , SB801 , SB3014 , SB3013 , SB758 , SB2797 , SB2076 , SB2876 , SB1640 , SB1449 , SB1181 , SB1234 , SB2926 , SB2841 , SB1528 , SB1854 , SB317 , SB1250 , SB2082 , SB1237 , SB2819 , SB629 , SB2608 , SB1602 , SB2009 , SB867 , SB640 , SB1698 , SB2680 , SB913 , SB1071 , SB1086 , SB1087 , SB1483 , SB1444 , SB1553 , SB1556 , SB1703 , SB2133 , SB2297 , SB2298 , SB2622 , SB2955 , SB2334 , SB1367 , SB2044 , SB2363 , SB2565 , SB1888 , SB3036 , SB3057 , SB3043 , SB3063 , SB3035 , SB203 , SB2688 , SB2522 , SB2459 , SB2655 , SB2251 , SB1884 , SB2928 , SB2566 , SB2549 , SB2553 , SB2919 , SB1944 , SB1232 , SB1798 , SB2603 , SB2607 , SB2683 , SB1319 , SB3045 , SB3071 , HB20 , HB 127 , HB549 , HB 1094 , HB2594 , HB2731 , HB4233 , HB4690 , SR625 , HCR167 , SJR5 , SB4 , SB6 , SB9 , SB23 , SB40 , SB13 , SB15 , SB30 , SB268 , SB331 , SB447 , SB457 , SB568 , SB650 , SB763 , SB1540 , SB1610 , SB1660 , SB2018 , SB2024 , SB2217 , SB2337 , SB2753 , SB2900 , SB2972 , SB3059 , HB4 , HB145 , HB493 , HB2067 , HB2516 , HB2885 , HB2974 , HB3071 , HB3372 , HB3556 , HB3595 , HB5138
Summary: The meeting centered around the discussions of several key bills, notably HB4233, which aims to align Texas's money transmission licensing and auditing requirements with federal regulations. Senator Parker led the discussion, emphasizing the need for consumer protections around cryptocurrency kiosks that have become targets for fraud, particularly affecting vulnerable populations such as seniors. The meeting also saw lively debates on HB20, designed to reintegrate technical education into high schools, addressing skills shortages in the workforce. The bills were well received, with strong bipartisan support evident in the votes.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • It's no different than the existing system, sir.
  • It's no different than the existing system, sir.
  • They are very protective of them because they know how needed they are.
  • They are very protective of them because they know how needed they are.
  • House Bill 2440 is a request from the Oklahoma Water Resources Board.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Elections Mar 27th, 2025

Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • Navigate the system.
  • A system that could save taxpayer money is a bad system.
  • So to switch to a ranked-choice system would do it.
  • We have five board members.
  • It's tied to the same system on a daily basis.
Bills: HB376 , HB817 , HB 1297 , HB1478 , HB1661 , HB1783
Committee: House Elections
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 29th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Medical Center, Manning Family Children's, North Oaks Health System, Oaks Health System, Oaks General
  • Tammany Health System, Terrebonne General Health System, Touro LCMC Health, Willis-Knighton Health, and
  • Medical Center, Manning Family Children's, North Oaks Health System, Oaks Health System, Oaks General
  • Tammany Health System, Teribone General Health System, Turo LCMC Health, Willis Knighton Health, and
  • SB 483 by Senator Reese, relative to the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy, board membership qualifications