Video & Transcript Research : 'bond transparency'

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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Cap Committee Meeting - 2026-04-16

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • Without bonding support, in poverty.
  • million in Minnesota legislative bonding million in Minnesota legislative bonding funds<00:19:36.880
  • So, um, for general obligation bonds.
  • We respectfully ask for your support on these bonding requests.
  • Thank support on these bonding requests.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Energy 2ND REVISED Feb 26th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Certainly, does this give us more transparency or less?
  • , for example, collateral bonds, etc.
  • How is that what's the process for figuring out what the bond amount is?
  • industry, but also the oil and gas industry has had bonding requirements.
  • I think what we've learned about bonding requirements is that the bonding requirements, regardless of
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 2nd, 2026 at 02:03 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • We asked you to do it in public on the webcast in a very transparent. manner. You all stepped up.
  • Not only does that make for a more transparent process, it makes. for a better budget.
  • I will tell you, Chairman, that this has been the most transparent committee I've sat through with respect
  • Chairman, I appreciate what you do I appreciate the transparency versus past leadership on house appropriations
Bills: HB2, SB48, SB64, SB100
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairman Priglioni, this House bill has to do with fiscal transparency for bonds issued by local governmental
  • Information must be provided to the bond review board after the election.
  • Certain information must be provided to the bond review board, and once the bonds are paid, there is
  • Thank you for the opportunity to testify in support. of HB 3526, one indication that bond transparency
  • Is the bond review board here? Do we have someone from the bond review board? Everyone is ag...
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Healthcare Committee Feb 25th, 2026

Healthcare

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's about transparency. So, to require them...
  • <00:19:42.160> of again, the lack of transparency of again, the lack of transparency of trying
  • And, again, the transparency issue of it simply says that you have to let the public know whether you
  • And so when you look at the<00:23:10.600> transparency<00:23:11.440> of<00:23:11.520>
  • Patient has a right to >> and transparency. Patient has a right to know. know. know.
Bills: HB128, SB297, HB128, SB297
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ethics and Campaign Finance Committee Feb 25th, 2026

Ethics and Campaign Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • It is simply a transparency bill. It identifies four countries.
  • Uh, but it's transparency.
  • Uh, and it's simply transparency so we know who owns these companies that are in Alabama operating.
  • It is simply a transparency Alabama.
  • Uh, but it's transparency. appropriate. Uh, but it's transparency.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Elections May 15th, 2025

Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 2217 will increase transparency in election actions by requiring consistent data reporting
  • SB 2217 focuses on improving transparency, accuracy, and accountability in Texas elections by mandating
  • It would also bring transparency. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members.
  • The current county clerk is actually working very hard to make sure they're trying to be transparent.
  • As long as they're transparent, you could ask like this last.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part I) Sep 3rd, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Ryan Hamilton, Kelsey Norris de la Cruz, Kylie Thurman, Andrea Cummings, Sarah Hansen, Megan Bond.
  • Texas lawmakers and leadership are not interested in accountability, and they are running from transparency
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Rules REVISED Apr 20th, 2026

Rules

Summary: The Rules Committee met to consider a long slate of executive nominations and several bills. All of the nominations received broad support and were advanced to the floor, including Lori Burns to the Redlands Community College Board of Regents, Lisa Daly to the Oklahoma State Credit Union, Juana Ellison to the Forensic Review Board, Haley Frick to the Regional University System of Oklahoma, Michael Hillary to the Wildlife Conservation Commission, Dustin Hillary to the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, John Holt to the Used Motor Vehicle Dismantler and Manufactured Housing Commission, Brian Sweeney to the Capital Medical Center Improvement and Zoning Commission, and Cale Walker to the USAO Board of Regents. Most nominations passed unanimously; Brian Sweeney’s nomination passed 15-2. The committee then heard and passed several policy bills. HB 1675 created a severe-weather preparedness framework for youth camps and passed 16-1. HB 3242, the Women’s Safety and Protection Act covering shelters, schools, and higher education, passed 15-2 after questions about enforcement and legal remedies. HB 1739 increased state police pension benefits and employer contributions to help retain officers, passing 16-1. HB 3320 overhauled the sunset review process for boards and commissions and passed 15-2. HB 3047 designated LOFT as the central recipient for legislative reports and passed unanimously, and HB 4434 required the governor or acting governor to notify the next successor before leaving the state, also passing unanimously. The committee also advanced HB 4432, which would restore the ability to deduct gambling losses against gambling winnings for state income tax purposes; supporters said it would help ordinary taxpayers, while opponents raised fiscal concerns, and it passed 16-1. HB 3705 raised the parental choice tax credit cap from $250 million to $275 million and passed 13-3 after extended debate over school choice, public funding, and reporting. HB 3718 set timelines for school districts to process evaluations tied to the Lindsay Nicole Henry Scholarship program and passed 12-2, with critics arguing it could create a separate track and strain school psychology resources. HJR 1089, which would have sent voters a constitutional convention referendum, was laid over and not voted on. The meeting ended with adjournment after the final vote.