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California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee May 6th, 2026
Revenue and Taxation
Transcript Highlights:
- It's called Protecting the Future of Solar Power in California. The solar industry is ready to pay.
- SB 1329 protects our climate goals and helps solar energy providers supply renewable energy at low prices
- So this is about more than protecting structures.
- It protects individual households and businesses, and it strengthens the overall grid resilience.
- Protects individual households and businesses, and it strengthens the overall grid resilience.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Health Committee Jun 17th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- We seek to protect the rights of all who participate in the legislative process so that we can have effective
- Item 2, SB 278, Cabaldon, due pass to the Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee.
Summary:
The Assembly Health Committee met on June 17 and began with procedural announcements, quorum, and a consent calendar. The consent items included SB 246, SB 278, SB 317, and SB 386, which were moved together and approved by roll call. The committee then took up its only presentation item, SB 439 by Senator Weber, which would extend the sunset of the California Health Benefit Review Program (CHBRP) by six years and increase its annual budget by $1 million.
Support testimony came from Jen Chase on behalf of the University of California and Garin Corbett, CHBRP’s director. They described CHBRP as providing objective, evidence-based analysis of health benefit mandate bills, noted its workload and public resources, and argued that the program needs the extension and funding increase to keep pace with inflation and the growing complexity of health policy. No opposition testimony was offered.
Committee members expressed support for CHBRP’s role in informing health policy and fiscal analysis. SB 439 was then moved due pass to Appropriations and approved on a unanimous roll call vote. The hearing concluded after additional add-on votes confirmed the measures were out of committee.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- We should not have to legislate the welfare of our kids and the protection of our kids.
- I think that we need to protect all of our children.
- As you say, to protect all youth in California. And I would love to champion that.
- As some of you may know, Paris... ...to advance protections for vulnerable youth.
- people that need protection.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- It protects hospitality worker jobs.
- the community, protects the environment, protects the overall goal of a housing environment, but also
- protects the individual so that the environment, protects the overall goal of a housing environment,
- The permit inspection process provides essential oversight to protect consumers and business owners from
- protective of public safety.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Water and Natural Resources Jul 2nd, 2025
Water & Natural Resources Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- If we can protect the homes and the people who live in the communities, we're protecting the community
- That's a problem for kind of achieving our goal here of protecting those communities.
- Those are in protected areas of protection classes one through seven.
- I think there are protections built into the existing fare plan.
- There was movement on the governing committee. to add a consumer advocate to the board.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/25
Housing Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- A second key component is consumer choice.
- Consumer choice across the state is very important.
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HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
AEN-HOU, AEN-EIG, AEN Public Hearings 03-18-2026
Agriculture and Environment
Transcript Highlights:
- And then here we go to say to the consumers out there, we don't care.
- then here we go to say to the consumers then here we go to say to the consumers out<00:46:22.640
- Chair, we're not expanding the impact to the consumers.
- make it possible for people to protect make it possible for people to protect their<01:30:52.320
- to uh for the protection. So, thank you. to uh for the protection. So, thank you.
Keywords:
animal control, spay and neuter, pet overpopulation, sterilization, counties funding, tax designation, veterinary care, electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, energy policy, rebate program, environmental impact, renewable fuels, sustainable aviation fuel, tax credit, greenhouse gas emissions, local production, energy resilience, agricultural innovation, job creation
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on HB 1737, which clarifies allowable uses in agricultural districts for farm dwellings and farm employee housing, and HB 1604 HD2, which creates an agricultural workforce housing working group within the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity. Testimony on HB 1737 was overwhelmingly supportive, with county agriculture officials, the Hawaii Farm Bureau, and Hawaii Farmers Union backing the measure; one witness asked for a definition of “affordable” to guard against misuse of farm housing. For HB 1604, the Department of Agriculture, Hawaii Farm Bureau, Housing Hawaii’s Future, Hawaii Farmers Union, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs supported the bill, with OHA requesting disaggregated data and a seat on the working group. Committee discussion focused on housing shortages, possible misuse, affordability, and whether innovative housing models such as modular, tiny, and container homes should be considered.
The committee then took action on both measures. HB 1737 HD3 was recommended to pass with amendments that would limit farm employee housing to agricultural employees and their immediate family members actively engaged in the farm operation, add a grandfathering provision for existing permitted housing, preserve county zoning authority, clarify that ag tourism must be secondary and not occur in employee housing, delete a square-footage-per-acre ratio, and defer the effective date to July 1, 2050. HB 1604 HD2 was also recommended to pass with amendments adding OHA and a housing-shortage organization to the working group, expanding its scope to include modular, tiny, and container homes and permitting/zoning streamlining, and deferring the effective date to July 1, 2050. Both motions were adopted unanimously by the members present.
The joint hearing then moved to HB 1736, which would establish a spay and neuter special fund and require sterilization and declaration provisions for cats, with some discussion of dogs. DLNR and the Hawaiian Humane Society supported the bill, while Pacific Pet Alliance objected to the broader requirements and the inclusion of dogs; the Hawaiian Humane Society and American Bird Conservancy supported cat-focused sterilization and the special fund, while some testifiers opposed mandatory sterilization as too costly or intrusive. Members raised questions about toxoplasmosis, trap-neuter-release, enforcement, neighbor-island access, and funding needs, and DLNR indicated additional funding and third-party contracting would likely be needed. The transcript then began HB 1620 HD2 on energy, which would increase the environmental response energy and food security tax and shift funds from the hydrogen fueling subaccount to EV charging infrastructure; state agencies generally stood on written testimony in support, while the Tax Foundation objected to special fund earmarks and noted the bill raises only one part of the barrel tax structure.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 083 Apr 7th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 1101 is a great step forward in protecting critical infrastructure from thievery and, you
- He said House Bill 1101 is a great step forward in protecting critical infrastructure from thievery and
- reciprocal agreement with each individual state in the compact, which could potentially become time-consuming
- reciprocal agreement with each individual state in the compact, which could potentially become time-consuming
- reciprocal agreement with each individual state in the compact, which could potentially become time-consuming
WI
Wisconsin 2026 1st Special Session
Senate Special Committee on Oversight of the Department of Justice Mar 31st, 2026
Senate Special Committee on Oversight of the Department of Justice
Transcript Highlights:
- The reason we're sent here to the legislature is to put forward laws that protect and help the people
- local prosecutors, supporting our state departments, upholding our state laws and regulations, protecting
- consumers and the environment, all while working with law enforcement to keep our communities safe.
- was pursuing, you know, again, out-of-state influence as opposed to the actual bread and butter protecting
- every lever at his... ...anything other than using every lever at his ability, at his disposal to protect
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Business meeting to consider Amendment of Rule 6(b) of the Committee Rules to establish the reporting quorum, an original resolution to provide for the funding of the Committee for the 119th Congress, and the nominations of Douglas Burgum, of North D Jan 23rd, 2025 at 08:30 am
Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm ready to empower consumer choice.
- with local stakeholders and tribal leaders before making or recommending changes to public land protections
- We also heard him share his love of the outdoors and his shared commitment with Teddy Roosevelt to protect
- To ensure that these protections are enduring and to advance public land policies that work for California
- priorities like the Hydrogen Hub Program, the opportunities and potential in Lithium Valley, and protecting
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- But we're trying to protect her. Part of my drink, Ray? Yeah.
- Law that protects those kids from breaking the law?
- This 100 feet is a protective barrier, technically. There's a technical aspect to this.
- That our systems could be protected. So I'm vehemently against this.
- This led to a number of reforms to protect the secrecy of the ballot among these.
Keywords:
election services, contracting, political subdivisions, county elections, election code, voter registration, citizenship status, election law, cancellation, disqualification, Texas Election Code, voter identification, registration, election integrity, identification documents, election, watcher, polling place, removal, Texas Elections Code
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Informal House Session 85 Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Worcester relative to extending until Wednesday, March 18, 2026, the time within which the Committee on Consumer
- Protection and Professional Licensure is authorized to report on a certain House document, House Order
- Comerford for legislation to provide for utility shut-off protections during periods of extreme heat,
- Comerford for legislation to provide for a utility shut-off protections during periods of extreme heat
Summary:
The House began with the Pledge of Allegiance and then took up several Committee on Rules reports extending committee reporting deadlines on various House orders. The House suspended the rules as needed and adopted each extension, including for the Committees on Aging and Independence, Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure, Housing, and Transportation. The House also concurred in several Senate petitions referred under Joint Rule 12, including proposals on charter school funding, a Salem police retirement, utility shut-off protections during extreme heat, and seatbelt education for passengers in large vehicles.
The Committee on Steering, Policy and Scheduling reported four local bills for House consideration: legislation concerning employees of the Dedham-Westwood Water District, the membership of the Prim Board, the Williamstown Library Trustees, and rodeos. After suspending Rule 7A, the House gave each bill a second reading and ordered them to a third reading. The House then passed several local bills to be engrossed, including measures on the Cotuit Fire District water commissioners, the town charters of Acushnet and Provincetown, the elected term of Holden’s moderator, and a bill designating Veterans Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day, which was amended to add an emergency preamble.
The House also adopted an amendment substituting a new bill for House Bill 2244, relating to making the Chicopee city charter gender neutral, and passed the amended bill to be engrossed. Later, the House considered and enacted additional measures, including House Bill 4530 making fiscal year 2025 supplemental appropriations, House Bill 4531 establishing the 2026 state primary election day, and House Bill 3298 designating July 2 as Machado-Joseph Disease Awareness Day. The session ended with the House adopting an adjournment order and adjourning to meet the following Monday at 11 a.m. in informal session.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
April 10, 2025 - 11:30 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- It also does the same thing with the words 'dilemma zone' and 'pedestrian protection' and simply, again
- It also creates a voluntary Florida manufacturing promotional campaign to increase consumer awareness
- It also creates a voluntary Florida manufacturing promotional campaign to increase consumer awareness
Summary:
The Transportation and Economic Development Budget Subcommittee met and first took up CS/HB 567, a broad transportation bill by Rep. McFarland. The bill, as explained, covered a range of transportation policy changes including higher speed limits, local regulation of e-bikes and e-scooters, parking accommodations for pregnant women, advance land acquisition for DOT projects, changes to FDOT contracting, elevation of roads in capacity projects, MPO quality metrics, and repeal of the Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Council. Two amendments were adopted: one added a prohibition on driving too fast through flooded roads and creating excessive wake, and another updated language to allow for future technology in traffic management systems. The strike-all removed several items from the original bill, including utility-right-of-way language, private-public-use airport funding, and an electric vehicle tax redirect, and added MDX board changes. The bill then passed favorably on a recorded vote.
The committee next considered CS/HB 1535, also by Rep. McFarland, a lengthy hurricane recovery and preparedness measure. It requires local governments to post storm-preparedness and recovery information online, expands special needs shelter information, mandates emergency management training, improves debris removal planning, and adds provisions for fiscally constrained counties. It also addresses shelter access, rebuilding rules, permitting timelines and fees after storms, homestead rebuilding limits, and election flexibility after disasters, including a process for supervisors of elections to request emergency changes through the Secretary of State. Members asked several questions about local rebuilding ordinances, election “super sites,” and the request/approval process. The bill drew support from several groups, including disability advocates, builders, waste and recycling interests, crane owners, and restaurant and lodging representatives, and it passed favorably.
The committee then heard CS/HB 561 and CS/HB 563 from Rep. Cobb on manufacturing. HB 561 would elevate a chief manufacturing officer within the Department of Commerce, create a voluntary Florida manufacturing promotional campaign, and require biennial reporting on manufacturing efforts; an amendment removed the grant portion of the program, and the bill passed favorably with support from industry groups. HB 563 established an annual fee, capped at $100, for participants in the voluntary manufacturing promotional campaign and also passed favorably. Finally, Rep. Spencer presented HB 827, which directs a statewide study on the impact of automation and artificial intelligence on Florida’s workforce, to be updated every three years and developed with business, academic, and local input; it too passed favorably. The meeting then adjourned with notice that the subcommittee would meet again the following week.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- So we encourage you to pass this legislation to make sure this protection is needed.
- Rajie Tolantino on behalf of the Office of Consumer Protection.
- Rajie Tolantino on behalf of the Office of Consumer Protection.
Summary:
The Committee on Labor and Technology heard testimony on several measures. SB 2198 would direct DLIR to study a Hawaii Workforce Excellence Award program and report back to the Legislature; DLIR supported it so long as it did not affect its supplemental budget request. SB 2140 would authorize counties to require contractors to disclose wage, benefit, hour, and employment-status information and to deny or suspend permits for certain labor-law violations; DLIR and labor representatives supported it as an added accountability tool, while the committee discussed whether state law alone was sufficient and whether counties would still need to pass their own ordinances. SB 3055 would prohibit falsely impersonating a union representative; union and labor groups strongly supported it, and UPW said it was open to amendments to address concerns raised by OPA. SB 3090, SB 3091, and SB 3092 were emergency appropriation bills for public employment cost items tied to collective bargaining and temporary hazard pay or salary adjustments for various bargaining units; agencies and unions generally supported moving them forward, and B&F said the amounts were still being finalized because negotiations were ongoing.
The committee also heard SB 2761, which would bar social media platforms from allowing users under 16 to create or maintain accounts if the platform knows the user is under 16. DCCA’s Office of Consumer Protection offered comments, while CCIA and Meta opposed the bill, raising constitutional and First Amendment concerns and arguing that blanket bans could push teens to less regulated spaces online. Meta also said the bill’s carveouts were too narrow and would leave major platforms outside the scope of the restriction.
In decision-making, the committee recommended passage of SB 2198 with amendments, SB 2140 as is, SB 3055 with amendments adding a specific intent-to-deceive standard, SB 3090 with amendments, SB 3091 with amendments, SB 3092 with amendments, and SB 2761 with amendments adopting DCCA’s changes and noting potential First Amendment issues in the committee report. For the appropriation bills, the committee changed the effective date to January 1, 2077 as a placeholder. All recommendations were adopted, with reservations noted on SB 2761 from Senators Moriwaki, Fevella, and Ihara.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Environment Committee Meeting - 2025-03-25
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- And so I'm excited to be here today to talk to you about how we can protect and manage our natural resources
- General Fund dollars support EWR's aquatic invasive species and water protection work, and fees alone
- They need to be trained in how to respond while protecting First Amendment rights.
- The CPSC, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, also has removed writing instruments from their lead
- factor that should be considered when evaluating the level of exposure from any chemical in any consumer
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- This is about connecting the dots early, lawfully, and with strong privacy protections.
- protection committee we're, you know, this week we passed legislation on chatbot companion chatbots
- protection committee we're, you know, this week we passed legislation on chatbot companion chatbots
- And sometimes I worry that we're creating a world where we're going to completely protect children and
- I'm here to ask you to oppose SB 1147 and protect the gold standard that California has built.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 4th, 2026
County and Municipal Government
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- And for those kids and grandkids that you protect them as they grow up.
- President and members, it's an effort to provide for consumer transparency, consumer choice, clear standards
- Um, like I said, existing businesses are protected.
- protection that we would expect in Minnesota.
- those high standards and that consumer protection<02:10:28.960>
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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Every day, Texas peace officers put their lives on the line to protect our communities.
- Please back the brave men and women who protect us, and I urge your support for House Bill 1871.
- existing statutes to ensure protection for children in the age of AI and deepfakes.
- HB 4911 ensures that Texas leads the way in protecting our children in the digital age.
- HB 4911 ensures that Texas leads the way in protecting our children in the digital age.
Summary:
The Subcommittee on New Offenses and Changed Penalties met with a quorum present and first handled witness-registration corrections for House Bill 2461, changing one witness from support to neutral and deleting another registration; HB 2461 was left pending. The subcommittee then heard House Bill 3507, which would create a tiered penalty structure for repeat theft offenders by increasing penalties for those with five or more prior theft convictions. Representative Wharton and Walker County District Attorney Will Durham testified in support, arguing current law treats chronic shoplifters the same regardless of how many prior convictions they have. No opposition was presented, and HB 3507 was left pending.
The committee next heard House Bill 1871, which would increase penalties for attempted capital murder of a peace officer, raise the minimum sentence to 25 years, and deny parole and mandatory supervision for those convicted. Representative Dyson, Brazos County District Attorney Jarvis Parsons, Lieutenant Ed Ramirez, and Chief Deputy Constable Calder Lively testified in support, describing attacks on officers and arguing the bill would provide stronger deterrence and truth in sentencing. No questions or opposition were recorded, and HB 1871 was left pending.
House Bill 4911 followed, updating child exploitation laws to address AI-generated and deepfake child sexual abuse material by expanding definitions and criminalizing knowing possession or viewing of fake or computer-generated images depicting minors. Representative Fairly and Harris County DA’s Office division chief Steven Driver supported the bill, saying technology had outpaced existing law and that the measure would help protect children. A committee member raised concerns about broad affirmative defenses in the bill, and Representative Fairly said the office would work on an amendment. HB 4911 was left pending. Finally, on HB 795, Representative Bowers moved that the subcommittee report completion of deliberations and recommend the bill for full committee consideration; the motion passed 3-2, and the meeting adjourned.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
April 2, 2025 - 04:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- We are not only protecting them but also making our roads safer for everyone.
- You do not have a protected right for commercial speech.
- But Israel is not the only country that we protect.
- A good protection that is now covered in Florida statute 30.078.
- The technology's not protected by exclusive patent.