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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 4th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Funds. There are no amendments.
  • or retirement funds.
  • We need to be reducing regulations. We need to be creating spots.
  • So what this bill does is it allows fund transfers to be done only in those... ...does is it allows fund
  • to start funding basic education.
Summary: The House convened with a quorum, recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and heard a prayer from Tammy Stamphley, a Presbyterian minister and hospital chaplain. After approving the previous day’s minutes and receiving a Senate message, the chamber moved to second and third reading of several bills, with multiple measures advanced under suspended rules. The first major vote was on Engrossed Senate Bill 5872, which establishes a pre-K-related account to support up to 10,000 additional early learning slots for three- and four-year-olds. Supporters emphasized the Balmer Group’s private funding commitment and the value of early learning and family support; the bill passed 97-0. Substitute Senate Bill 5834, a Department of Retirement Systems request bill changing the fund source for legal, medical, administrative, and fraud-prevention expenses using interest earnings from pension funds, also passed 97-0. Substitute House Bill 2689, dealing with the Working Connections Child Care program, drew the most debate. Supporters said it aligned attendance policy with federal rules, adjusted reimbursement rates, and helped balance the budget while preserving child care resources. Opponents argued it cut support in rural and underserved counties, would worsen child care deserts, and placed budget savings on the child care industry; it passed 53-44. The House then passed Senate Bill 5922, allowing school districts to transfer vehicle depreciation funds with OSPI approval, by 59-38, and Senate Bill 6065, a narrower bill for districts under enhanced financial oversight such as Prescott, by 97-0. The session ended with announcements that both caucuses would meet later in the day.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 4th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Rather than make them go back and forth with the legislature if this needs to increase, this sets the
  • I think we just need to make sure that they follow the rules. Thank you.
  • Oh, I need to move my amendment. Thank you. Would you like to move adoption?
  • Everyone needs to follow the same rules.
  • We need to bring our ports up to speed so we are the best in the world. So I agree with that.
Summary: The House received a Senate message announcing passage of Substitute House Bill 1570 and then moved several bills from Rules to the second reading calendar, including Substitute Senate Bill 5242 on anaphylaxis medications in schools and Senate Bill 6132 on Inland Port District debt. The chamber then took up a series of bills, beginning with Senate Bill 5988 on Department of Health accreditation fee authority for opioid treatment programs. An amendment to cap the fee at $17,000 was debated at length but failed, and a separate amendment was ruled beyond the scope of the bill. Senate Bill 5988 then passed 62-34. The House next considered Substitute Senate Bill 6309 on enhanced municipal permitting tools for high-capacity transit projects. Several amendments were offered to require written consent from abutting property owners, preserve setback and seismic/critical-area protections, and add transparency provisions, but the scope challenge to the transparency amendment was sustained and the other amendments failed. Supporters argued the bill would streamline permitting for Sound Transit and reduce taxpayer costs; opponents said it gave a large transit authority too much discretion and weakened property-rights and land-use protections. The bill passed 56-38. The House also passed Substitute Senate Bill 5886 on personality rights and digital likeness protections, and Senate Bill 6136 on workers’ compensation transparency, both with strong bipartisan support. After caucuses and a rule suspension to work past 10 p.m., the House took up additional second-reading bills. It passed Substitute Senate Bill 6034 to codify the Governor’s Office of Indian Affairs, Gross Second Substitute Senate Bill 5395 on prior authorization and AI in health care, Substitute Senate Bill 6248 creating the Washington Travel Insurance Act, Substitute Senate Bill 5720 on uniform consumer debt default judgments, Senate Bill 5995 on port modernization funding with labor-related concerns, and Senate Bill 6103 affecting rural hospitals and enrollment status subject to appropriation. Later, the House passed Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6110 on e-motorcycle regulation, Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5156 allowing smaller elevators in some housing, Substitute Senate Bill 6269 updating motor fuel definitions to include hydrogen, Substitute Senate Bill 6189 extending time for Thurston County to pursue an aquatics public facilities district, and Senate Bill 6134 requiring unemployment applicants to acknowledge repayment if retroactive union pay is received. Most bills passed with large majorities, though some drew dissent over labor, property rights, transit governance, or regulatory scope.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 29th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • But mostly what I need from you, we need it from ourselves. So I'm going to be praying for you.
  • It has $200 million in charter funding, facilities funding, and a $300 million increase in the small
  • So nearly $1,000 below what our schools needed to catch up to 2019 funding levels.
  • They are distributed based on enrollment funding.
  • The ABC provides enrollment-based funding.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/17/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • But those are the requirements we need to make sure that we are not going to lose federal funding because
  • But those are the requirements we need is to make sure that we are not going to lose federal funding
  • We need to take care of this. This is a statewide problem. It should come from the general fund.
  • We need to take care of this. This is a statewide problem. It should come from the general fund.
  • So if this study is not funded from the Housing Trust Fund, where it will save money, ...fund if this
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Transportation Feb 24th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • With our limited funds, we need to be building the projects that meet our current community goals, not
  • Our unmet needs include funds for case management and financial assistance, which are projected to be
  • We think we can provide clarity on what funding is needed. ...and underspend on local projects.
  • We think we can provide clarity on what funding is needed, specifically for this project: for 2025-27
  • We need consistency across the funding to help get our members back to work.
Bills: SB6225 , SB6005 , SB6354
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism 2ND REVISED Feb 24th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • We need better paying jobs in this state.
  • They're not without questions that need to be asked.
  • We know that we need more workforce housing in the state.
  • I'm sure we need more folks.
  • I think this is something we need to do.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Banking, Financial Services and Pensions REVISED: HB1182 - Removed Feb 17th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Banking, Financial Services and Pensions

Transcript Highlights:
  • Depending on per pension, or your per pension fund, I think the total of all the pension funds for increase
  • And judicial is 100% funded. ...$665,000, OLERS is $156,000, and judicial is 100% funded already.
  • The bill helps districts better manage idle funds, Policy and monthly review.
  • So first of all, what's the reason, the need for this proposal?
  • They have really gotten the pension system to a better funding level.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Higher Education Apr 29th, 2025

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • A UTEP law school is viable and needed.
  • But let's also talk about need and demand.
  • One of the other things that was very clear is that this law school needs to be designed to fit in need
  • We just need help with funding and with Texas Against Vandal we are a non-profit organization.
  • These are the jobs that we need to train. These are low-budget. You do not need a college degree.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 9th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • I need to apologize.
  • We're going to need all the energy above and below.
  • For me, it's the principle of the thing; we in Texas need to be running our own lives and we don't need
  • We need an all-of-the-above approach to meet Texans' energy needs.
  • We're going to need more traditional generation.
Committee: House State Affairs
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 9th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • And then suddenly we realized, hey, that's not what we need for our economy.
  • Texas law prohibits PLAs on state-funded projects but does not address those funded by local governments
  • These are local public projects funded with taxpayer dollars.
  • We need both union and non-union employers to be successful so we can all succeed.
  • They say, "Hey, I need this workforce, I need this much, and I need this job done by this amount of time
Committee: House State Affairs
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Natural Resources Mar 12th, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • We need to make sure this program serves the needs of the local communities. and just are really important
  • I helped write that legislation, um, and we need to we need to let it work. Um, Senator Nelson.
  • These rural systems have and how they struggle to find funding for the improvements that they need to
  • to fund much-needed projects to meet parameters.
  • It's going to let small municipalities access properly needed funding for water infrastructure and new
Bills: HB279 , HB310 , HB365 , HB391 , HB420 , HB422 , HB638 , HB279 , HB310
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Natural Resources Mar 12th, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • General's Office and Water Development Board when needing to communicate regarding financial assistance
  • If we were to do it, we would probably need multiple setups, because depending on when those districts
Bills: HB279 , HB310 , HB365 , HB391 , HB420 , HB422 , HB638 , HB279 , HB310
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 21st, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • My God, how we need you.
  • One, if they don't make the grades or whatever they need to do, then maybe that child needs to go to
  • You're the only one out of 104 that need to have it repeated? Yeah, I need hearing aids, I guess.
  • If his amendment says, I'm self-funded, I don't need my government, let him do whatever he needs to do
  • If his amendment says, I'm self-funded, I don't need my government.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 31st, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We need this reminder every now and then.
  • capital needs at our non-public university fund institutions.
  • And we got the money into the water fund.
  • And it addresses some of the critical needs of our state.
  • They need those conversations. They need those clubs. They need the anti-bullying protections.
Summary: The House met in a late-session floor session that began with prayer, pledges, quorum, and a series of excused absences and Senate messages reporting action on numerous bills, conference committee appointments, and conference reports. Members also adopted a memorial resolution honoring Mark James Hanna, a Capitol lobbyist and advocate for nurses, and a congratulatory resolution for Rishi Tarumalasetti, an eighth-grade civics bee winner from Katy. The chamber also received and recorded a parliamentary colloquy about an unusual Senate request on SB 293, with the Chair stating the House could not recede from only part of its amendments and could not suspend the rules because the bill had not been returned from the Senate. The bulk of the session was devoted to taking up conference committee reports and related procedural resolutions, especially the state budget. The House adopted a resolution allowing the SB 1 conferees to go outside the normal bounds, then adopted the SB 1 conference report on a 107-21 vote. Debate on the budget centered on public education funding, tax relief, health care, corrections pay, and judicial compensation, with supporters calling it a responsible compromise and opponents arguing it was overly expansive and insufficient on property tax relief. The House also adopted a technical correction resolution tying judicial pay increases in SB 1 to the House version of SB 293, and members discussed at length the relationship between judicial salaries and legislative pensions. The chamber then adopted a long series of conference reports on measures covering topics such as school library review and book challenges (SB 13), SNAP restrictions on sweetened drinks and candy (SB 379), hospital price transparency (SB 331), nursing home accountability (SB 457), school district personnel compensation conflicts (HB 3372), property notice rules (HB 2011), research and development tax credits (SB 2018), and several other bills affecting elections, permits, education, and criminal justice. Most reports passed by wide margins, though some drew significant opposition, especially SB 13 and SB 379. The House also granted several Senate requests for conference committees and introduced additional resolutions to suspend conferee limits on various bills as the session moved toward adjournment.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Ways & Means May 5th, 2025

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • . its unique needs and financial capacity.
  • We just need the comptroller to pick.
  • I'll just need to ask you offline. I had the same problem.
  • Unfortunately, state funding has consistently fallen short.
  • House Bill 485 provides ESDs with a modest but meaningful tool to fund emergency service needs without
Committee: House Ways & Means
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/26/2026 - House Judiciary

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • So that process is underway, which is, again, why we need the database portion of this ask to be funded
  • They were doing it, they needed funding, but they had programs up and running.
  • They needed funding, but they had programs up and running. All of the other counties weren't ready.
  • two funds in there.
  • Way's question, is another reason why we needed the striker, because we named the wrong fund in the Senate
Bills: SB1317 , SB1655 , SB1656 , SB1751 , SCR1049
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/03/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • We need a heliport on the top of the sat. We need a heliport on the top of the center.
  • You think about Section 8 funding; they have their own formulas and they need to work it out for human
  • I don't see the need for this bill.
  • Also, part of that money is to purchase well-needed patrol cars.
  • We did talk about the need for the money and for the need for the appropriation, the emergency appropriation
Bills: HB2148 , HB2993
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives May 27th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Because I don't think it's needed.
  • where they need to be.
  • Honestly, I don't even know why we need this.
  • Oh, you mean by receiving public funds? Correct.
  • We need to take it out.
Bills: SCR59 , SCR70 , HR275 , HR279 , HR282 , HR289 , HR307 , HCR112 , SCR61 , SCR62 , SCR64 , SB121 , HR310 , HR314 , HR316 , HR317 , HR321 , HCR117 , SCR5 , SCR29 , SCR33 , SCR37 , SCR63 , SCR30 , SCR40 , SCR65 , HCR3 , HCR49 , HCR66 , HCR67 , HB54 , HB137 , HB321 , HB368 , HB386 , HB414 , HB431 , HB552 , HB555 , HB578 , HB590 , HB593 , HB618 , HB638 , HB670 , HB692 , HB707 , HB708 , HB715 , HB718 , HB732 , HB741 , HB748 , HB776 , HB796 , HB807 , HB822 , HB848 , HB856 , HB887 , HB888 , HB917 , HB921 , HB1082 , HB1243 , HB1246 , HB1 , HB2 , HB42 , HB45 , HB71 , HB79 , HB126 , HB133 , HB159 , HB213 , HB218 , HB222 , HB289 , HB291 , HB312 , HB313 , HB324 , HB352 , HB383 , HB398 , HB403 , HB429 , HB457 , HB459 , HB549 , HB571 , HB579 , HB591 , HB608 , HB616 , HB624 , HB766 , HB769 , HB783 , HB804 , HB864 , HB874 , HB909 , HB951 , HB971 , HB983 , HB1005 , HB1017 , HB1051 , HB1056 , HB1126 , HB1186 , HB1193 , HB1223 , HB1224 , HB1235 , HB1249 , SB259 , SB295 , SB312 , SB348 , SB444 , SB485 , SB441 , SB149 , HB359 , SB29 , SB43 , SB78 , HB463 , HB998 , SB197 , SB268 , SB123 , SB276 , SB326 , SB80 , HB901 , HR20 , HR74 , HCR65 , HCR71 , HCR98 , HB284 , HB306 , HB341 , HB366 , HB393 , HB458 , HB577 , HB603 , HB605 , HB614 , HB625 , HB646 , HB733 , HB752 , HB773 , HB798 , HB911 , HB955 , HB996 , HB1035 , HB1069 , HB1113 , HB1140 , HB1180 , HB1191 , HB1240 , HB1255 , SB82 , SB89 , SB97 , SB479 , HB74 , HB119 , HB134 , HB210 , HB258 , HB468 , HB784 , HB870 , HB953 , HB956 , HB1117 , HB1236 , SB42 , SB208 , SB217 , SB274 , SB300 , SB341 , SB379 , SB382 , SB387 , SB401 , SB449 , SB487