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TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence May 14th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • Now, on top of that, you want to rob me of my inheritance for the benefit of this crook?
  • As each of you should know, a forcible detainer is what we see about 99% of the time.
  • Many of the leases out there choose a shorter period of time—one day... ...of the leases out there choose
  • the right of occupancy.
  • of a motor vehicle is an employee of a motor carrier or an independent contractor.
Bills: SB1015, SB2933
Summary: The Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence heard testimony on Senate Bill 1015, which would clarify that the comptroller is responsible for distributing excess judicial fund payments back to statutory probate courts. Judge Guy Herman testified in support, saying the bill would help ensure probate courts receive funding they are entitled to, while Ed Heimlich testified against the bill with broad criticism of probate courts and judicial practices. The committee then heard Senate Bill 2933, which would add elder abuse training to required judicial education for several categories of judges and judicial officers; Dr. Bruce Hargrave supported the bill, citing the prevalence and underreporting of elder abuse and the need for judges to recognize warning signs. No votes were taken on either of those bills, and SB 2933 was left pending. The committee then reconsidered Senate Bill 38, an eviction-related bill, and Vice Chair Hayes described two agreed floor amendments: one limiting the summary disposition procedure to forcible entry and detainer cases involving squatters, and another requiring a notice to pay rent or vacate for tenants who had been timely payers but missed a payment. After discussion, the committee voted 6-4 to report SB 38 without amendments. The committee also adopted or advanced a series of other bills and resolutions, including SB 293, SB 1141, SB 1448, SB 1536, SB 1558, SB 1838, SB 1940, SB 2127, SB 53, SB 251, SB 311, SB 387, SB 441 (with a substitute), SB 1164, SB 1335, SB 1574 (with a substitute), SB 1719, SB 1760, SB 1839, SB 1923 (with a substitute), SB 2807, and SJR 27 (with a substitute). Most measures were reported favorably on largely party-line or near-unanimous votes, with a few close votes on SB 942, SB 311, SB 2807, and SJR 27. SB 942, relating to retroactive child support beginning at conception, initially failed 5-5 but was reconsidered and then passed 6-5. The committee adjourned after completing its agenda.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Natural Resources (Part I) May 14th, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members of... Quorum is not established, of course. It's that time of session.
  • House Bill 2663 will require operators of oil and gas wells that have been inactive for 10 or more years
  • House Bill 2663 will require operators of oil and gas wells that have been inactive for 10 or more years
  • of that, any of those guideposts.
  • of Texas to address a failure by an operator to maintain an electrical power line serving a well site
Summary: The Senate Committee on Natural Resources heard several House bills dealing with environmental regulation, oil and gas safety, landfill permits, and utility cost recovery. HB 1237, by Rep. Geren and sponsored by Sen. Zaffirini, would extend TCEQ occupational license renewal deadlines from 30 days to 90 days, allow renewal up to one year with higher fees, and require a new application after longer expiration; the committee substitute clarified that applicants may continue working only until renewal is approved or denied and set a 180-day cutoff for renewal. HB 3071, sponsored by Sen. Hancock, would require TCEQ to cancel certain long-dormant municipal solid waste permits; members discussed concerns about precedent, ownership changes, and whether the bill should be narrowed, and the bill was left pending with a committee substitute expected. The committee also heard HB 2663, sponsored by Sen. Birdwell, which would require operators of inactive oil and gas wells to remove or de-energize electrical equipment after 10 years and authorize Railroad Commission penalties for false compliance. Testimony from landowners, cattle raisers, and the Sierra Club supported the bill as a wildfire-prevention measure, and the bill was left pending. HB 4384, also by Rep. Darby and sponsored by Sen. Birdwell, would let natural gas utilities defer certain infrastructure costs for later recovery through the GRIP process; utility representatives supported it as credit-positive and consistent with existing accounting, while consumer advocates opposed it as increasing rates without enough oversight. The committee discussed possible amendments to add more cost controls, and the bill was left pending. Later, the committee voted HB 2563, the companion to SB 2510, favorably to the full Senate by a 5-0 vote and ordered it certified for the local and uncontested calendar. The committee then took up HB 143, which would codify interagency procedures for addressing electrical power line safety at well sites and related facilities after wildfire concerns; members said a committee substitute had been negotiated with agencies and stakeholders to clarify responsibilities, timelines, and inspection authority while reducing fiscal impact. No final vote was taken on HB 143, and the committee recessed with several bills still pending.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence May 14th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • Now, on top of that, you want to rob me of my inheritance for the benefit of this crook?
  • As each of you should know, a forcible detainer is what we see about 99% of the time.
  • Many of the leases out there choose a shorter period of time—one day... ...of the leases out there choose
  • the right of occupancy.
  • of a motor vehicle is an employee of a motor carrier or an independent contractor.
Bills: SB1015, SB2933
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Licensing & Administrative Procedures May 13th, 2025

Licensing & Administrative Procedures

Transcript Highlights:
  • Is there objection to the adoption of the committee substitute?
  • You're all well aware of this. This bill aims to prohibit the sale of lottery tickets...
  • Senate Bill 2864 clarifies how the state regulates the installation of a relatively new type of rooftop
  • If you think of a tongue and groove kind of wood floor type situation where they snap together on the
  • Senate Bill 2167 relates to the licensing of massage therapy.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Transportation and Energy Committee Apr 15th, 2025

Transportation and Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is important to rural utilities or Alabama Power, and any of the utility companies because of the
  • length of a utility trailer with poles on it.
  • Um, and of... ...being against my chairman.
  • Um, and of course, in the absence of the amendment for class one municipalities for Birmingham, I can't
  • Chair, that is my further explanation of my no vote.
Bills: HB323, SB271, SB295
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Transportation and Energy Committee Apr 10th, 2025

Transportation and Energy

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  • from the city of Birmingham.
  • They would be locked, and it mentions an effective date of December 31st of 2025.
  • And our price index would not be reflective of all of the other smaller municipalities.
  • In the bill, even with the vote of the people, all of us know... ...people, all of us know that who is
  • I'm with the Alabama Department of Transportation. Um, and... Department of Transportation.
Bills: SB271, SB295, SB309
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate State Governmental Affairs Committee Apr 9th, 2025

State Governmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is about the Office of Information Technology.
  • This piece of legislation deals with the emergency management agency of Alabama.
  • Most of the agencies law for this?
  • Coming out of your budget. Let's start Coming out of your budget. Let's start there.
  • We of course can't stop them; it's a division of power, separation of powers, but certainly something
Bills: HB207, SB269, SB279, SB291, SB266
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Finance Committee 4/1/25

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • should pay into the state's commercial levy instead of voter-approved school operating levies.
  • Unlike approximately 70% of Minnesota school districts, we do not have an operating levy to supplement
  • have an operating referendum, the average of which is over $1,000 per pupil.
  • of about the<00:09:56.480><c> impact</c><00:09:56.880><c> of</c><00:09:57.120><c> operating</c><00:09
  • the average of an operating referendum the average of which<00:10:19.040><c> is</c><00:10:19.200><c>
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Mar 11th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • , and all of that because of this issue.
  • I know of friends of ours that choose to take their kids to private school, none of which make sense.
  • All of us.
  • He invested a good portion of his life and millions of dollars of his own money.
  • Well, it's basically, that number of 500% of federal. and the 200% are based on a family of four.
Bills: HB3, HB3
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Mar 11th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Hours of debate, and it has a clear framework for providing an adequate, efficient, equitable public
  • clear that hurdle and start operating in the market. within weeks of opening their doors.
  • enrolled in the last year of operation.
  • I'm an assistant superintendent in Danbury ISD, that's about an hour south of Houston.
  • After years of underfunding, most school districts in Texas are currently operating in a deficit budget
Bills: HB3, HB3
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/4/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • The hour of 10:15 having arrived, we’ll call the House Taxes Committee to order.
  • c> harder I'm the mayor of the city of St harder I'm the mayor of the city of St Paul<00:31:00.159><c
  • We are not at some of the low levels that we've seen some of our colleagues across the country kind of
  • final closing of gap financing, which also, of course, negatively impacts the tax basis of the cities
  • </c> question of now we're into a time of question of now we're into a time of tariffs<01:26:10.560><
Bills: HF1277, HF812, HF457, HF633
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Judiciary Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • You only need to ask the family of Steve Perkins of Montgomery, Alabama, who... of Steve Perkins of Montgomery
  • All right, um, because usually what I thought was we operate on sort of a "should have known" standard
  • The first section says you can't operate a drone within 500 horizontal feet or 400 vertical feet of a
  • And yeah, you have to have knowingly operate for the purpose of photographing or recording that kind
  • It shall not apply to any of the following: when an unmanned aircraft is operated on or above the person's
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • But where the real chaos is in terms of where the real chaos is in terms of injuries.
  • With the help of Safe Kids in Washington, DC, if you've ever heard of that organization, this law was
  • So that is one of the thresholds of what we're...
  • One of the thresholds of what we're trying to do... I have an amendment.
  • The idea of being able to pass this type of legislation, I think, speaks volumes about the kind of future
Bills: SB140, HB102, SB133, SB34
US
Transcript Highlights:
  • of Americans.
  • I'll say this: after having a number of conversations with CEOs of banks around the country, one of the
  • From many of us on our side of the aisle here.
  • So a lot of things go into long rates, and one of them is the expected future short rate of Fed policy
  • Powell, he's kind of running along that vein of thought.
Bills: SB257