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MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Session (Full Formal with Calendar) Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am

Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • For too long, large technology companies have profited off the personal information of Massachusetts
  • which are so important to our economy, but also ensures that we're able to give folks a reasonable quantum
  • By technology, they walk through every door and window imaginable to come for our stuff.
  • While Kroger does not have a presence here in Massachusetts, the technology exists for grocery stores
  • While Kroger does not have a presence here in Massachusetts, the technology exists for grocery stores
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Senate opened with the Pledge of Allegiance, recognized several guests in the chamber, and adopted a resolution congratulating Coleman-Nee on election as National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans. It also took up several local and personnel matters, including a sick leave bank for Emily Cullick and later Paul Stavarski, and local bills affecting the town of Weston and a Dorchester housing/library procurement exemption; those measures were advanced to third reading or engrossment as appropriate. The chamber also suspended Joint Rule 12 to refer several House petitions to committees. The main business was Senate No. 2516, the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act, which came before the Senate on a Ways and Means substitute (Senate Document 2608). Senators Creem, Moore, Charles, Feingold, Keenan, and others spoke in support, describing the bill as a comprehensive consumer privacy measure with data minimization rules, limits on sensitive data, protections for minors, and strong Attorney General enforcement. Several amendments were debated, with many rejected or withdrawn, while some were adopted, including provisions on geolocation data protections, opting out of targeted advertising, affiliate and merger/acquisition protections, internal operations exemptions, parental access to child data, and a Ways and Means amendment. A number of other amendments on employee data, union data, loyalty programs, AI training, reporting, and related issues were either not adopted or held/withdrawn. After the amendment process, the Senate adopted the amended Ways and Means substitute and ordered the bill to a third reading. The bill was then passed to be engrossed on a roll call vote of 40-0. The Senate also adopted an order to adjourn to the following Monday at 11:00 a.m. and to dispense with printing a calendar. The session adjourned in memory of Darrow Logan Alexander of South Boston.
NM
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee Jul 31st, 2025

Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're not seeing that for quantum computing.
  • And I believe there may be an issue, a technological issue or a reporting issue—a good academic issue—between
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NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

Senate - Tax, Business and Transportation Mar 18th, 2025

Senate Tax, Business & Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • news printer tax credit, foster parent and guardian tax credit, um, we're doing a little bit of the quantum
  • House Bill 20 establishes the Technology and Innovation division uh at the Economic Development Department
FL
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

Appropriations Committee on Higher Education Dec 3rd, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • UCF and Florida State have a lot in common in things like facilities, maintenance, and technology.
  • We have a security operations platform technology driven by generative AI.
  • Professionally, I bring over 25 years of experience across technology, innovation, and governance.
  • We're getting our technology down finally. Okay. Would you please raise your hand? Your right hand?
  • Technology. Oh, I've tried that one, too. It's just not working for some reason. Technology.
Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Higher Education met to hear confirmation testimony for a large slate of university and state college trustees. Most of the discussion centered on the nominees’ backgrounds, ties to their institutions, and priorities such as student success, workforce development, financial sustainability, research growth, housing, and maintaining or improving university rankings. Several University of Florida trustees emphasized campus improvements, “One UF” integration, institutional neutrality, and ambitions to move UF into the top tier nationally. Other nominees highlighted goals for Florida A&M, Florida Atlantic, UCF, Florida State, Florida Poly, the Florida Prepaid College Board, and several state colleges, with recurring themes of affordability, economic mobility, cybersecurity, and keeping Florida students in-state for college and careers. Public testimony was heard on the Florida A&M appointment, where Elijah Hooks spoke in opposition to the current administration and described his expulsion, arrest, and trespass from the university after protesting the selection of President Marva Johnson. During questioning of FAU nominee Tina Vidal-Duart, senators asked about her prior service on the Hope Florida Foundation board and about reports concerning CDR Health’s contracting practices; she said she was not aware of the foundation issues at the time and noted that CDR’s state contract was a flat daily rate, so subcontractor pricing affected only the company’s internal margins. Other nominees received little or no questioning. At the end of the meeting, the committee voted to confirm all nominees except Tina Vidal-Duart separately. Senator Bracy Davis requested the separate vote and opposed her confirmation, citing concerns related to her Hope Florida Foundation board service. Despite that objection, the committee ultimately voted to report Vidal-Duart favorably as well. The committee also noted that one University of West Florida nominee would be taken up at a later hearing because he was unable to attend.
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AR

Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session

ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE Jun 18th, 2026

ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE

Transcript Highlights:
  • innovating to meet rapid changes in employment, labor markets, skills needed for jobs and deployment of technology
  • As I mentioned, with economic changes coming due to AI, quantum computing, and other technologies, we
  • So what happens if we have another economic shock, and how do we respond if AI and technology causes
Summary: The committee met to hear an update from consultants Mason Bishop and Cameron Christie on Arkansas’s “one door” or “no wrong door” workforce and social services modernization effort. The discussion focused on moving the state toward a work-first system that better connects job seekers, employers, education, and public assistance programs, with goals of increasing upward mobility, improving labor force attachment, reducing inefficiencies, and adapting to changes such as AI and other economic disruptions. The consultants argued that Arkansas’s current system is fragmented across multiple offices, portals, agencies, and funding streams, and that people often have to navigate separate doors for workforce services, TANF, SNAP, Medicaid, and related supports. Bishop repeatedly pointed to Utah as the model, describing how that state integrated workforce and human services into a single department, used cost allocation to blend funding behind the scenes, and saw improved customer service and outcomes after reform. He said TANF should be treated as a workforce program, not just a benefits program, and suggested that Arkansas could use TANF and other tools to cross-train DHS staff, co-locate services, and create a more unified service delivery model. Members asked about federal flexibility, waivers, and whether the state could use one large waiver or a broader restructuring to simplify the system. Bishop explained that a federal pilot authority proposal failed in Congress, so the current approach relies on waivers, cost allocation plans, and possible state-level changes. The committee also discussed the relationship between DHS and workforce offices, the role of local workforce boards, how disability and vocational rehabilitation cases would be handled, and how the governor’s Restore Hope/Hope Hub and faith- and community-based initiatives might fit into the broader plan. Bishop said Arkansas already has rehabilitation services within the workforce department and emphasized that case managers should focus on people rather than programs. No votes were taken. The chair said the committee would revisit case management at its August meeting and adjourned the meeting after thanking the consultants.
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FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Higher Education Mar 11th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • You all call this other capital outlay of this is for classroom technology, scientific equipment, maintenance
  • Whether that be for new economic and technology.
  • Technology demands cost-cutting research that has been developed as a result of needs that have popped
  • At FSU, you all have been very generous in our city and supporting us with quantum science.
Keywords: 999, senate, all
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US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

Closed hearings to examine the posture of United States Indo-Pacific Command and United States Forces Korea in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2026 and the Future Years Defense Program; to be immediately followed by an ope Apr 10th, 2025 at 07:00 am

Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Russian technology transfers and military assistance Kim receives will help him to further strengthen
  • Specifically, the MiG-29, the Su-27, advanced help for their surface-to-air missiles, quieting technology
  • If we had impacts that led to lessening human and procedural interoperability coupled with technological
  • efforts to thwart their cable cutting that there are other spectra and other means for information technology
  • And it remains critical, absolutely one of my highest priorities, the introduction of quantum computing
Keywords: Indo-Pacific Command, U.S. military strategy, China military drills, Taiwan, Philippines, North Korea, defense budget, military modernization
Summary: The meeting focused on significant strategic discussions regarding the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and its military posture in the region. Admiral Paparo and General Brunson were commended for their services, with the Chair noting an alarming shift in the balance of power towards China. Key topics included China's aggressive military drills near Taiwan, the increasing coercion against the Philippines, and the need for the U.S. to reaffirm its commitments to its allies in the region. Concerns were raised regarding China's military modernization and its implications for U.S. forces, alongside discussions on North Korea's threats and its burgeoning nuclear capabilities. The committee emphasized the urgent need for military and defense appropriations to counteract these growing security challenges.
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US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, February 6, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • They shape industries that are the backbone of our economy: health care, information technology, advanced
  • <00:13:03.000> advanced<00:13:03.480> manufacturing technology advanced manufacturing technology
  • <00:13:35.320> like<00:13:35.839> artificial Technologies like artificial Technologies
  • AI technology to impersonate loved ones AI technology to impersonate loved ones their<02:14:19.360>
  • require more advanced tracing technology require more advanced tracing technology on<02:20:09.160
Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, February 6, 2025, 1012, house, all
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AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Children and Senior Advocacy Committee Feb 4th, 2026

Children and Senior Advocacy

Transcript Highlights:
  • you can see it when you look 10 years ago and you look at it today, and that is the explosion of technology
  • is the you look at it today and that is the explosion<00:26:20.559> of<00:26:20.799> technology
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Bills: HB19, HB170, HB171, HB173, HB174, HB19, HB170, HB171, HB173, HB174
Keywords: Ebony Alert, missing youth, public safety, law enforcement, racial equity, HB170, supplemental appropriations, Education Trust Fund, Alabama education budget, school funding, K-12 education, local boards of education, textbook adoption, school buses, school safety, charter schools, summer programs, afterschool programs, reading intervention, college and career readiness
KY
KY

Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Interim Joint Committee on Health Services (10-22-25)

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, one particular use of technology is called PARIS.
  • We have this technology issue, which I think has some paths forward.
  • c><00:26:53.360> I'm<00:26:53.520> just quantum merit claim that I'm just quantum merit
  • on the recommendations for technology on the recommendations for technology and<00:42:43.760>
  • We don't look at ourselves as a technology company.
Keywords: 958, all
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes and then approved an agency amendment to a health and family services regulation. The amendment reversed a prior change so that neonatal ICU beds would remain subject to regular review rather than nonsubstantive review. The remaining administrative regulations were then reviewed without objection. The main presentation was from State Auditor Allison Ball on a report finding $836 million in concurrent Medicaid capitation payments from 2019 through 2022, involving individuals enrolled in Kentucky and at least one other state. Ball said Kentucky relied on the PARIS system, which has limitations because it is updated quarterly and depends on voluntary state participation, while a better federal data source, T-MSIS, was not fully available to the state. She said the audit found weak internal controls, siloed processes, outdated guidance, and a low-priority attitude toward residency checks, all of which contributed to missed alerts and improper payments. She also said the report identified additional problems, including payments made after beneficiaries died and cases involving multiple states paying for the same person. Ball recommended better access to federal data, stronger MCO contract provisions, and more active oversight by the Department for Medicaid Services and managed care organizations. She said the contracts reviewed did not provide a clear way to recoup the improper payments, though she and her counsel suggested possible equitable legal theories might be explored. Members expressed concern about the scale of the waste and the lack of contract enforcement, and asked whether any money could be recovered. Ball said the audit did not identify a clear contractual path to recoup the funds.
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NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate Chamber Jan 27th, 2026 at 11:14 am

New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • He is the FFA sentinel at Bernalillo High School, and he's a junior interested in automotive technologies
  • I want to thank you for your promotion and championing of our aerospace technology sector and your work
  • Quantum and fusion and Castilian with rocket science is a great place to place them in the spaceport.
  • It requires a lot of technology in terms of heat shield reinforcements, making sure...
  • It requires a lot of technology in terms of heat shield, heat shield of reinforcements, making sure.
Keywords: 996, all
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ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Apr 11th, 2025 at 12:30 pm

North Dakota Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • As technology is advancing, we have many, you know, robots and AI and things that are autonomous.
  • So the bill originally was introduced to look at the information technology or AI world, and as it's
  • and advanced technologies sphere.
  • The bill was... ...technologies sphere.
  • I think we can all acknowledge that advanced technologies, AI, machine learning, and quantum computing
Keywords: 908, all
Summary: The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a quorum call showing 46 members present. It then took up multiple House messages and amendments, appointing conference committees on several measures, including SB 2007, SCR 4007, SB 2374, SB 233, and House bills 1029, 1218, and 1022. The chamber also considered a series of House bills on the sixth and 14th orders, often adopting committee amendments before final passage or, in some cases, rejecting the bill outright. Among the major policy items, the Senate passed HB 1524 on regional planning council grants, HB 1143 increasing a food bank appropriation to $10 million, HB 1126 modernizing cosmetology licensing and inspections, HB 1542 making student applications for admission exempt records, HB 1613 regulating law enforcement use of robots, HB 1582 directing a study on false reports and accusations, HB 1214 revising school transportation funding, HB 1448 creating a study on advanced technologies, HB 1280 on drainage project voting rules, HB 1499 protecting records related to federal judges, and several Senate bills returned from the House, including SB 2221, SB 2117, SB 2198, SB 2120, and SB 2214. The Senate also adopted amendments to HB 1541 on septic systems before rejecting it on final passage. Several high-profile bills failed after debate. HB 1566, dealing with kratom regulation, saw an amendment to convert it to a study fail on a 21-25 vote, after which the chamber laid the bill over for one legislative day rather than take final action. HB 1283, which would have eliminated cost-sharing for diagnostic and supplemental breast exams in the state employee plan, was defeated 22-24 after extensive debate over cost, precedent, and insurance impacts. HB 1527, requiring Holocaust education in statute, also failed 22-24, with supporters emphasizing the importance of the subject and opponents arguing curriculum belongs in standards rather than statute. The Senate adjourned after announcements, scheduling its next meeting for Monday, April 14, 2025.
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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Appropriations - S/C on Article III Feb 26th, 2025

Appropriations - S/C on Article III

Transcript Highlights:
  • And as you probably followed, the technological advances there. really set up well for universities,
  • I just want to add that some of the technology that you all have there, I've gone to visit and saw the
  • Third funding request is to establish a bachelor of science degree in engineering technology with tracks
  • The development will feature a state-of-the-art agriculture engineering technology. facility designed
  • Advances in technology have transformed the potential to live independently, called aging in place, to
Keywords: 1184, house, all
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AR

Arkansas 2026 Regular Session

ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE Jun 18th, 2026

ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE

Transcript Highlights:
  • innovating to meet rapid changes in employment, labor markets, skills needed for jobs and deployment of technology
  • As I mentioned, with economic changes coming due to AI, quantum computing, and other technologies, we
  • So what happens if we have another economic shock, and how do we respond if AI and technology causes
Summary: The committee met to hear consultants Mason Bishop and Cameron Christie discuss Arkansas’s “one door/no wrong door” workforce and social services modernization effort. Bishop argued that the current system is fragmented across multiple agencies, offices, and portals, making it hard for job seekers and employers to access services efficiently. He said the goal is to create a more integrated system that promotes upward mobility, longer labor force attachment, better employer access to talent, greater efficiency, and faster adaptation to changes such as AI and other economic disruptions. Bishop repeatedly pointed to Utah as a model, describing how that state combined workforce and public assistance functions into a single agency, used statewide cost allocation to blend funding streams, and improved customer service and outcomes after reform. He said Arkansas should consider integrating governance, service delivery, and financing, including possible waivers, a statewide cost allocation plan, and a benefits-cliff pilot. He also said Arkansas’s current local workforce board structure creates duplication and weak coordination, and that Launch is a useful tool but not a full service-delivery system. Committee members asked how the proposal would work in practice, including whether TANF could be used to cross-train DHS workers, how federal waivers might be obtained, how local boards would be affected, and how disabled clients would be handled. Bishop said TANF should be treated as part of a workforce strategy, that federal pilot authority for workforce reform nearly passed but did not, and that waivers are now the practical path. He also said Arkansas could either merge functions more fully or at minimum co-locate workforce staff in DHS offices statewide. No votes were taken; the meeting ended with plans to continue the discussion in August, including a focus on case management and whether the state is managing programs or people.
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NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 5th, 2026 at 04:07 pm

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • veteran service department, Secretary of State, and cybersecurity at the Department of Information Technology
  • for federal DARPA programs, $15 million for a centralized open user facility, $3 million for the Quantum
Bills: SB145, SB143
Keywords: auditing, financial reporting, state auditor, public agencies, capital outlay, compliance, federal audits, agriculture, New Mexico Department of Agriculture, fee update, regulatory fees, egg inspection, egg grading, egg dealer, pesticide control, pesticide registration, pesticide applicator, pest management consultant, plant protection, nursery license
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MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am

Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies

Transcript Highlights:
  • Welcome to the first public hearing of the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies
  • We are the hub for quantum computing, robotics, AI, big data, battery technology, and green technology
  • Entrepreneurial and Economic Investment Fund; H. 492, An Act Establishing an Advisory Commission on Science, Technology
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies held its first public hearing of the session, chaired by Rep. Carole Fiola with Sen. Barry Finegold. After housekeeping on livestreaming, virtual testimony, and written testimony deadlines, the committee heard testimony on several bills, with the main focus on S. 303/H. 503/S. 305 and H. 491, all related to worker ownership and business succession. Testimony generally supported expanding employee ownership, right of first refusal for workers, and incentives for owners to sell to employee groups. Speakers from worker co-ops, technical assistance organizations, lenders, and business owners said these measures could preserve local businesses, protect jobs, build worker wealth, and help communities retain valued services and storefronts. On S. 303, Vincent Lawrence Dixon described a proposal to create tools such as a special community trustee, right of first refusal, and community institution landmarks to help communities preserve important local properties and uses when owners cease operations. On H. 491 and the employee-ownership bills, witnesses including Matthew Page Lieberman, Caleb from Circus Cooperative Cafe, Sarah Acefa of Dorchester Food Co-op, Halsey Platt, Kevin O'Brien, John Abrams, Virginia Berman, Stacey Cordero, Adrian Roman, Alex Popali, Adam Trott, and Ethan Tupelo emphasized that worker-owned businesses can be more resilient, support democratic participation, and help with business transitions as owners retire or close. Committee members asked questions about the tax incentive threshold, the timing and mechanics of the right of first refusal, and whether the bills would affect sale prices or business succession. Rep. Kristen Kassner also testified on H. 490, which would create a special commission to inventory the Commonwealth’s built environment, infrastructure, permitting, and land-use barriers to help Massachusetts adapt vacant or underused spaces for the next economy. She said the commission would help identify opportunities for housing, climate and energy tech, advanced manufacturing, and other uses, and members discussed commission composition and data sources. At the end of the hearing, the chair read a series of additional bills into the record, noted an upcoming Economic Development Expo, and the committee adjourned after a motion and second.
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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Committee on Business and Commerce May 23rd, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • QAI is bringing blockchain, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing to market.
  • Through blockchain technology, they could be completely anonymous.
  • My name is Lance Cook, and I am the Chief Technology Officer for SAGE Systems.
  • HB 3778 represents a new technology. I'm confident, and my colleagues and other businesses are...
  • Advancing our technology. Mr.
Bills: HB111
Keywords: 1185, senate, all
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NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

House - Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs Jan 23rd, 2025

House Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • just curious if you have any tools in particular that help our folks navigate some of those new technologies
  • I know the Office of Science, Strategy, and Technology is also deeply in that realm as well.
  • So they've been looking at a lot of quantum and emerging tech as well as AI.
OK
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations and Budget 2nd Revision: HB1782 (Moore) laid over. Added to 3/4 A and B Full agenda Mar 3rd, 2026 at 04:30 pm

Appropriations and Budget

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NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Transportation Infrastructure Revenue Subcommitee Nov 3rd, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • , and are those satellite technologies more expensive than, let’s say...
  • They're very near obsolete technologies, where AI and the power of AI and quantum computing have provided
  • Sort of impacts of the technology on their agencies. Next slide, please.
  • If you saw, there was the ability to transmit that to a wearable technology.
  • Having that technology.