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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement - 03/25/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm here today on behalf of Education.
- </c><01:31:01.920><c> I</c><01:31:02.239><c> helped</c><01:31:02.560><c> to</c> I helped to stabilize
- </c> agreement on to be able to to stabilize agreement on to be able to to stabilize these<01:31:23.440
- This is the Minnesota State Higher Education Supplemental Retirement Plan. Uh, thank you, Mr.
- </c><02:23:13.520><c> supplemental</c> the higher education supplemental the higher education supplemental
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 05/07/26
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- A significant portion of that rating is because of the stability and the improving nature of our pension
- A significant portion of that rating is because of the stability and the improving nature of our pension
- A significant portion of that rating is because of the stability and the improving nature of our pension
- A significant portion of that rating is because of the stability and the improving nature of our pension
- </c><00:20:57.000><c> and</c> rating is because of the stability and rating is because of the stability
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Senate Executive Departments and Administration (02/18/2026)
Executive Departments and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- We are asking for stability—the kind of stability that allows families to work hard, become independent
- What kind of education has come out of the program now, the commission?
- It's about education, dignity, and civic responsibility.
- It's about education, dignity, and civic responsibility.
- ><c> and</c><02:28:12.960><c> civic</c> It's about education, dignity, and civic It's about education
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jun 18th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- For their hearing on Wednesday, June 24, pending re-referral from the Education Committee.
- Mike Fine has dedicated his career to strengthening public education in California.
- California's public school students will inherit an education system far better than he found it due
- California's public school students will inherit an education system far better than he found it due
- Thank you. will offer education, will offer civil engagement.
Summary:
The Assembly convened after a quorum call, opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, approved procedural motions, and recognized several guests and honorees, including CAUSE leadership academy participants, retiring FCMAT CEO Michael Fine, a Capitol intern, environmental leaders celebrating Black Conservation Week, family members of members, and NASA astronaut Captain Victor Glover Jr. The body also took up a number of routine file items and committee referral requests, with several bills referred to committees by unanimous consent and multiple items passed or retained on file.
The main floor debate centered on ACR 214, the Juneteenth resolution. Members from the Black Caucus and other caucuses spoke in support, describing Juneteenth as both a celebration of emancipation and a reminder that freedom and equality remain unfinished work. Speakers emphasized Black history, civil rights, solidarity across communities, and ongoing issues such as education, housing, health, incarceration, and economic inequality. The resolution was adopted by voice vote after 66 coauthors were added.
The Assembly also considered AB 2285 on blockchain staking and crypto regulation. The author argued the bill would provide consumer protections and clear rules for banks, credit unions, and crypto exchanges, while an opponent warned it could weaken securities oversight and consumer safeguards. The bill passed 45-1, and the author requested immediate transmission to the Senate. Later, SB 1036 on mitigation fee credits for redevelopment passed 55-0 after brief support for clarifying fee rules and reducing duplicative costs.
The chamber then adopted the second-day consent calendar, including resolutions for Women’s Equality Day and the International Day of Yoga, along with several Senate bills, all by unanimous or near-unanimous votes. The Assembly announced it would not meet on Friday, June 19, would reconvene Monday, June 22 at 1 p.m., and then adjourned.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies Feb 23rd, 2026
Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies
Transcript Highlights:
- How does any recent legislation like 237 help or stabilize?
- And how does that help in actually stabilizing that sector?
- That's not stabilization. You are seeing the leakage in real time under the status quo.
- At the end of session, we supported a compromise to preserve the program's stability.
- Stability matters, but it's not complacency.
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
January 29, 2026 - 03:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- Lisa Dubrava: Lisa Dubrava, 34-year Lee County educator.
- That's because my unions create great educators that support children.
- to do my job as a great Michael Woods: educator, and I am a great educator.
- It does not retain highly skilled educators.
- Stephanie Koegel, Florida Education Association waiving in support.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee Apr 22nd, 2026
Utilities and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- for emerging clean fuel industries to plan and finance projects at scale, and AB 1849 provides a stabilizing
- AB 1849 provides a stabilizing signal by directing California to evaluate its future fuel needs in a
- power plants are connected to the grid, how carbon emissions decline fast, how electricity prices stabilize
- and offer predictability... ...decline fast, how electricity prices stabilize and offer predictability
- Chair, Member Sam Nash, on behalf of the Los Angeles County Office of Education and Support.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- The answer is education.
- </c> education is the key? education is the key?
- </c><04:12:02.880><c> and</c> purpose of state aid to education and purpose of state aid to education
- </c> allocated for state aid to education. allocated for state aid to education.
- </c> been any re reason from the education been any re reason from the education side<04:18:08.080><c
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
FL House Floor Session - 2025-04-03 (12:30PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- entitled an act relating to workforce education.
- entitled in Act Relating to Workforce Education.
- to be entitled an act relating to workforce education.
- observance and education on the fentanyl crisis.
- We need more education and awareness.
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, a moment of silence for Walton County Deputy Will May, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a quorum present. The Rules and Ethics Committee’s special order report for April 3, 2025 was adopted, and CS/HB 947 was recommitted to the Judiciary Committee. The chamber then moved through a series of bills, mostly reviser and technical measures, with several companion Senate bills substituted and passed: SB 36 (Florida statutes adoption act), SB 42 (general reviser’s bill), SB 40 (deleting inoperative statutory provisions), and SB 38 (renaming references from the Division of Investigative and Forensic Services to the Division of Criminal Investigations). All of those passed unanimously or near-unanimously.
The House also passed HB 513 on electronic transmittal of court orders, requiring clerks to electronically send certain petitions, notices, summonses, and orders within six hours, including Baker Act, Marchman Act, and risk protection order documents. Members discussed whether judges needed to direct transmission and whether there were fail-safes if clerks did not comply. HB 615, on electronic delivery of notices between landlords and tenants, was amended to strengthen tenant protections and passed 108-0. HB 655 establishing a regulatory framework for pet insurance, HB 299 on elevator accessibility requirements, and HB 1145 on workforce education also passed, with HB 1145 receiving 100 yeas and 4 nays. HB 649, removing the paper supervised protocol for certified registered nurse anesthetists, passed 77-30 after structured debate.
A major portion of the meeting focused on CS/HB 1205, which would significantly revise Florida’s citizen initiative process. The bill adds a $1 million bond requirement after 25% of required signatures are collected, requires petition handlers to be Florida residents and U.S. citizens, imposes background checks and training for paid circulators, shortens petition turn-in deadlines to 10 days, increases penalties, adds signature revocation notices, and creates additional criminal penalties and enforcement provisions. Supporters argued the changes were needed to address fraud and protect petition integrity; opponents said the bill would burden First Amendment activity and make citizen-led amendments much harder to qualify. Numerous amendments were offered, including proposals to remove sensitive personal information from petition forms, soften deadlines and penalties, change validation thresholds, and alter the estimating conference process; most failed, though one amendment clarifying who pays for background checks was adopted. The transcript ends during continued debate on an amendment to strike most of the bill and prohibit public funds from being used to advocate for or against constitutional amendments.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> been a Statewide general education been a Statewide general education Levy<00:17:28.600><c> um</
- </c><00:33:00.320><c> uh</c> 91 and 94% % of general education uh 91 and 94% % of general education uh
- educ education programs is in special educ education programs is also<00:42:06.079><c> kind</c><00:42
- </c> gosh all of a sudden special education gosh all of a sudden special education costs<01:04:49.000
- </c> deserve a good quality public education deserve a good quality public education in<01:05:22.200>
WV
West Virginia 2026 Regular Session
WV Senate Natural Resources Committee in Session Mar 11th, 2026 at 09:38 am
Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- the reasons for the decline in the eastern gray fox population in West Virginia and find ways to stabilize
- the reasons for the decline in the eastern gray fox population in West Virginia and find ways to stabilize
- resolution requests a joint committee to study the reasons for the decline in the population and how to stabilize
- The joint committee is to study the reasons for the decline in the population and how to stabilize it
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Finance and Tax Feb 25th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- The funding source is declining, and so shifting it to a sales tax percentage creates some stability.
- overwhelming majority of our students, including those outside the current performance metrics, are educated
- overwhelmingly majority of our students, including those outside the current performance metrics, are educated
- And I say that because education is the key to upward mobility, and we should not be penalizing a charter
Summary:
The Finance and Tax Committee met with a quorum present and took up two bills. The first, SPB 7046, was the Senate tax package. It included changes to Live Local property tax opt-outs, charter school distributions from voter-approved property tax levies, RV park special assessments, fiscally constrained county funding, a permanent sales tax exemption for small propane tanks, a hunting/fishing/camping sales tax holiday, and provisions barring governmental net zero policies. An amendment made the charter-school distribution change prospective starting July 1, 2026. Committee discussion focused heavily on whether the charter-school language would divert money from traditional public schools and on the fiscal-constrained county formula. The bill was reported favorably as a committee bill after a roll call vote, with Senators Bernard and Jones voting no.
The committee also considered SPB 7048, which updates Florida’s conformity to the Internal Revenue Code as of January 1, 2026 and partially decouples from federal tax changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The bill addresses bonus depreciation, research and experimental expenses, business meal deductions, and the business interest deduction, with the Revenue Estimating Conference expected to review the fiscal impact later in the week. The Florida Chamber testified that the bill should better align with federal tax relief and reduce administrative burdens, while senators emphasized the need to balance business tax relief with state revenue constraints. SPB 7048 was also reported favorably as a committee bill by roll call vote.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- But initially, it was just a program for educators, and then first responders were added, along with
- litigation draining resources away from essential services like public safety, infrastructure, and education
- behalf of the North Texas Commission, I encourage you to support SB2299 to ensure strong fiscal stability
- We put it on the ballot in August, so the campaigns and the education part of it got off to a late start
Bills:
SB250, SB375, SB536, SB845, SB1633, SB1944, SB1957, SB2081, SB2137, SB2262, SB2299, SB2419, SB2452, SB2522, SB2549, SB2594, SB2605, SB2631, SB2639, SB2675, SB3029, SJR60, HB22, HB1392, HB2525, HB22
Keywords:
municipal annexation, railroad, adjacent areas, local government, property rights, healthcare provider, Harris County Hospital District, hospital funding, healthcare services, public health program, home loans, nurses, veterans, public servants, Texas Heroes program, low-interest loans, social workers, housing assistance, SB 1633, Texas Tax Code
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government Feb 5th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- PROGRAM OVERALL AT THIS POINT IS 633 MILLION AND YOU CAN SEE THERE HOW IT IS DIVIDED INTO GRANTS, EDUCATION
- YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN SOME FOLKS ONLY SAW THEIR PREMIUMS STABILIZED MEANING THEY DIDN'T GO UP OR
- WE DO HAVE AN APPEARANCE CARD TODAY FROM LINDA EDSON, SHE IS WITH THE FLORIDA RETIRED EDUCATION EDUCATORS
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, the benefit of building groins is you can, uh, in my opinion, you can stabilize a shoreline region
- Um, the benefit of building groins is you can, uh, in my opinion, you can stabilize a shoreline region
- Um, the benefit of building groins is you can, uh, in my opinion, you can stabilize a shoreline region
- Um, the benefit of building groins is you can, uh, in my opinion, you can stabilize a shoreline region
- </c> can, uh in my opinion, you can stabilize can, uh in my opinion, you can stabilize a<00:19:14.400
Keywords:
building permits, seniors, health care, disability, safety modifications, county regulations, expedited processing, environment, pollution, tourism, disposable bodyboards, polystyrene, marine ecosystems, lithium-ion batteries, environmental safety, recycling, public safety, waste management, Honolulu, Maui County
Summary:
The committee heard several resolutions related to water, coastal management, and permitting. Early measures included SCR 8 on faster county action for certain home-modification permits for older adults and people with disabilities, SCR 40 on banning disposable body boards, SCR 83 on creating a lithium-ion battery disposal facility, SCR 179 on enforcing Maui fire-code provisions for brush clearance and emergency access, and SCR 90 on kupuna-friendly permit requirements. No testifiers were present for those measures, and the chair moved through them without taking votes in the portion provided.
The most extensive discussion was on SCR 94, endorsing Waikiki as a world surfing reserve, and SCR 159, urging shared guiding principles for restoring and maintaining Waikiki’s beaches and shoreline. University of Hawaii testimony said the surfing-reserve designation would bring recognition, could help attract grants, and would require a stewardship committee and management plan, but would not itself block beach nourishment or shoreline restoration. Members asked about possible effects on dredging, beach nourishment, and shoreline structures; the witness said impacts on surfing were not expected to be immediate or significant. For SCR 159, the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development supported the resolution but requested clarifying amendments to broaden references to law, stakeholder collaboration, and coastal science expertise. The Waikiki Beach Special Improvement District Association also supported the measure, emphasizing coordinated maintenance, public access, and the economic importance of Waikiki beaches, while noting that existing legal agreements and court decisions should be reflected in the resolution. The discussion also covered whether the state and private owners share repair and maintenance obligations for Waikiki seawalls; testimony said existing agreements remain relevant but must yield to current law.
The committee also heard SCR 165 designating March as Water Month, with support from the Board of Water Supply and others, and SCR 177 requesting DAGS to convene a cooperative working group on state projects needing county permits. Mary Alice Evans said the latter would help expedite permitting, especially for housing and other state projects, and would complement efforts to standardize county permitting processes. No final votes or dispositions were announced in the excerpt provided.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Commission to Study Stable Tokens (10/15/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- One thing I do want to say that, just like in the CFTC, GMAX, DeFi taxonomy, as in the Financial Stability
- There's always still the risk where the peg stability and the reserve transparency may be broken if any
- There's always still the risk where the peg stability and the reserve transparency may be broken if any
- There's always still the risk where the peg stability and the reserve transparency may be broken if any
- </c> to just purely educational to just purely educational also<02:09:17.679><c> also</c><02:09:18.000
Summary:
The Stable Token Study Commission held its first regular meeting, welcomed all remaining appointed members, and completed brief introductions from legislators and agency designees. The chair outlined the commission’s plan to use the first part of the enabling legislation as a “level-setting” discussion, focusing this meeting on the basics of blockchain, the current landscape for stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets, and leaving blockchain-based trust for a later meeting. No votes were taken.
The main presentation came from Deanna Bario Zales of the Global Blockchain Business Council, who described stablecoins as increasingly converging toward fiat-backed or asset-backed models, with algorithmic designs viewed more cautiously. She said stablecoins are being used for payments, remittances, DeFi activity, cross-border transfers, retail use in high-inflation markets, and treasury functions, while noting risks such as peg instability, reserve transparency, counterparty and network risk, and possible capital flight from weaker banking systems. She cited growth in supply, wallet activity, and transfer volume, and said U.S.-pegged stablecoins dominate the market, with USDT and USDC leading.
Zales also discussed tokenized real-world assets, describing them as digital representations of physical assets that can enable fractional ownership, liquidity, and faster settlement. She said the market is growing quickly, with institutional participation from firms such as BlackRock and Franklin Templeton, and projected continued expansion. She closed with an overview of regulatory developments, emphasizing the new U.S. stablecoin framework under the Genius Act, the proposed Clarity Act, OCC guidance, and similar regimes in the EU, UK, UAE, Singapore, Japan, and elsewhere, all of which she said are shaping compliance requirements and market development.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- And, uh, also is concerned about the stability and viability of any system."
- Um, the education adequacy payment.
- </c><00:59:29.280><c> Um</c><00:59:29.320><c> the</c><00:59:29.440><c> education</c> education trust
- Um the education education trust fund. Um the education adequacy<00:59:30.640><c> payment.
- </c><01:06:48.880><c> or</c> materially improve fiscal stability or materially improve fiscal stability
VA
Transcript Highlights:
- lovingly watching newborns through junior high schoolers, offering families a sense of safety and stability
- woman to chair the Committee on Privileges and Elections, and she was a tireless advocate for public education
MO
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Local and County Government Feb 17th, 2026 at 02:00 pm
Local and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
- have these extra monies that have to go out, it's having an issue like this where they don't have stability
- Just curious if you've ever heard of Team, which is the education and employment ministry, which is a
Keywords:
emergency management, federal funding, disaster relief, cost sharing, public assistance, bail reform, public funds, nonprofit organizations, political subdivisions, injunctive relief, criminal procedure, surety bond, judicial discretion, uniform bond schedule, liability insurance, judgments, insurance fund, Oklahoma, county sheriff, commissary