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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 14th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • On behalf of Senator Pugh, to recognize the doctor of the day.
  • His honors include induction into being a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the
  • Members, it's On behalf of Senator Pugh, to recognize the doctor of the day.
  • experience and 11 years in academic instruction, a graduate of the University of Tulsa.
  • President, by order of the House of Representatives of the state of Oklahoma, this message is sent advising
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 14th, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • of the governor could change it, just like we did with medical marijuana.
  • of the governor could change it, just like we did with medical marijuana.
  • hospital board of directors.
  • I am all in favor of apportionment reform all the way across the board.
  • Who appoints the members of the Board of Judicial Compensation? Thank you.
Summary: The Senate first took up House Bill 4440, a proposal related to Medicaid expansion. Pro Tem Paxton said the measure would move parts of the expansion from the Constitution into statute, add work requirements for able-bodied adults, and create a trigger if the federal FMAP match falls below 90%. Supporters argued this would give the Legislature more flexibility to manage costs and protect the program long term, while opponents said it would weaken voter-approved constitutional protections and could lead to reduced coverage or benefits. After extended debate, the bill itself passed 30-8, but the separate motion to place it on an August special election ballot failed 30-9. The Senate then advanced and passed H.J.R. 1067, a related November ballot measure that would repeal the constitutional Medicaid expansion obligation entirely; it passed 29-8. The chamber then considered several retirement cost-of-living adjustment bills. SB 1144 would provide a 3% or 6% COLA for retired teachers depending on years retired, while ending a dedicated revenue apportionment once the system reaches 100% funded or in 2036. Senators raised concerns about the long-term funding changes, but the bill passed 43-1. SB 1145 provided similar COLAs for retired state employees and passed 41-4. SB 1146 offered COLAs for police retirees and passed unanimously 48-0. SB 1147, a COLA for firefighters and volunteer firefighters with estimated added unfunded liability, was also adopted by the Senate after committee approval and proceeded to final passage as the transcript ended.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Jan 27th, 2026 at 08:00 am

Early Learning & K-12 Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Council, which serves under the Office of the Lieutenant Governor.
  • Council, which serves under the Office of the Lieutenant Governor.
  • The second portion of the bill pertains to school board director training.
  • Under current law, the Board of Directors may not incur expenditures in excess of budgeted appropriations
  • Members of the board, for the record, my name is Perry Dozier, 16th District senator.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several education-related bills. Senate Bill 6130 would move public high school voter registration activities from Temperance and Good Citizenship Day in January to National Voter Registration Day in September and require schools to offer Future Voter registration opportunities to eligible students. The sponsor, OSPI, county election officials, and youth advocates supported the bill as a no-fiscal-impact way to increase youth civic engagement and align school activities with election-season interest. A senator asked about possible community service credit for student participation, but no amendment was discussed and no vote was taken. Senate Bill 6247 would expand financial oversight and training for school districts in distress. It would require educational service districts to provide more direct oversight and support to districts in binding conditions or financial distress, require WASDA to provide mandatory budgeting and financial-health training for school directors, and impose stronger consequences for financial misconduct, including employment bars and possible state reimbursement of unrecovered damages. The sponsor said the bill is intended to help districts avoid insolvency, citing districts in binding conditions and the Prescott School District. OSPI supported the bill, while ESDs, WASDA, and WEA raised concerns about ESDs being placed in an enforcement role, the need for clearer definitions and possible state auditor involvement, and the scope of the employment prohibition. The committee also heard Senate Bill 6268, which would require OSPI to keep an online record of final special education community complaint decisions for 20 years instead of the current five years displayed online. OSPI supported the bill and noted a fiscal note of about $16,000 for added staff time, while advocates, parents, and disability organizations said the longer record would improve transparency, help families and districts identify patterns, and reduce repeated disputes. The committee then heard Senate Bill 6278, which would update review requirements for teacher and principal preparation programs and adjust the timing for submission of student-teacher field placement plans. The sponsor said the bill is meant to ensure educator preparation programs are aligned with classroom realities; PESB testified neutrally, saying many of the review elements already exist in rule and that the bill adds flexibility. Finally, the committee heard Senate Bill 6260, a budget-savings bill that would lengthen school bus depreciation to 15 years, withhold up to 1.9% of MSOC funds to pay for the High School and Beyond Plan platform, and reduce Running Start funding from 1.4 to 1.2 FTE. OFM supported the bill as part of the governor’s budget strategy, but nearly all other testimony opposed it, arguing it would shift costs to districts, keep older buses on the road longer, and reduce access to Running Start—especially summer Running Start—for low-income, rural, and technical-program students. Multiple college leaders, school officials, counselors, and students said the current 1.4 FTE model has increased participation, completion, and equity. No votes were taken on any of the bills in the hearing.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Local Government Jan 19th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • By way of background, a county board of equalization must meet annually by July 15th, or within two weeks
  • a petition with the county board of equalization within 60 days of the mailing date of the notice.
  • They can amend some parts of the code subject to approval from the Board of County Commissioners.
  • And so when I go to a hearing in front of the Board of Equalization...
  • And so when I go to a hearing in front of the Board of Equalization, they want me first to say, okay,
Summary: The committee heard several bill briefings and public hearings. SB 6064 would let certain large fire protection districts or regional fire authorities assume administration and enforcement of the International Fire Code within their boundaries, with notice to the county and displaced county workers offered equivalent jobs. Supporters said it would improve consistency, safety, and local control; opponents from counties, fire marshals, and builders argued it was unnecessary because interlocal agreements already exist and could add permitting complexity and delays. SB 6101 would require county coroners to be appointed rather than elected, while preserving existing medical examiner systems in larger counties. The sponsor and supporters said the change would address problems like the Yakima County coroner case, improve professionalism, and reduce partisan elections; opponents said it would reduce voter accountability, raise costs, and create conflicts of interest concerns. SB 6077 would extend the deadline for assessors and taxpayers to exchange valuation evidence in property tax appeals from 21 to 28 business days before a hearing, starting with petitions filed on or after July 1, 2026. Supporters said the extra time would improve due process and fairness; county assessors and some tax appeal practitioners said they were open to the timing change but wanted broader reforms to address long hearing backlogs. The committee also heard SB 5820, which would repeal Clark County-specific authority enacted in 2017 allowing freight rail-dependent uses on certain resource lands adjacent to a short-line railroad. The sponsor and supporters from FutureWise, local residents, and the City of Battleground said the prior law undermined Growth Management Act protections for agricultural and resource lands and had led to conflict and litigation. Opponents, including the railroad operator, Association of Washington Business, and former sponsor Linda Wilson, said the rail overlay supports economic development, jobs, and rail-served industrial land, and warned the repeal would harm local planning and investments. Members asked about how county and city comprehensive plans interact under the Growth Management Act, and staff said they would provide a summary of the appeals process. Finally, SB 6013 would update ski lift terminology to include aerial tramways, tows, and conveyors in the state safety and insurance requirements; State Parks supported it as agency-request legislation, and the bill was presented as a technical update with no opposition noted in the excerpt.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Jan 20th, 2026

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
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  • The University of Alabama schools may have an advisory board that they want to do.
  • What were the duties of this board in past legislation?
  • That board met maybe one time or two couple of times. Last time they met was 1998.
  • Is that part of all of this? I don't know.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/16/2026 - House Health & Human Services

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm a founding board member of the Association for the Chronically Mentally Ill.
  • effort of how we need to take care of some of our people, right?
  • it on to the Board of Behavioral Health Examiners as well for that oversight and licensure component
  • of it.
  • To the best of your knowledge, has the governor ever vetoed a bill previously—this exact governor, obviously—and
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 397 by Endrix of the House and Bergstrom of the Senate, an act relating to the state board
  • It simply extends the sunset for the board of behavioral health licensure to July 1st, 2028.
  • Senate Bill 397 by Endrix of the House and Bergstrom of the Senate, an act relating to the state board
  • She is the president of Adair County Junior Fair Board and Rabbit and Poultry Club.
  • She is on the student board of directors at the First National Bank. Wants to attend UCO.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations May 11th, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • all state and federal funds expended by the Board of Regents and certain boards of supervisors, colleges
  • of Regents and then also the Board of Supervisors.
  • It seeks to take that information, collected from the different Board of Regents and their Board of Supervisors
  • an investigation into the Louisiana Board of Regents.
  • "Which auditor, the legislative auditor or the auditor within each of the boards of supervisors?"
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Mar 31st, 2025

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • I serve as a member of the Board of Trustees of the San Antonio Fire and Police Retiree Health Care Fund
  • The Fund is very much like a pension fund and is governed by a nine-member Board of Trustees, funded
  • The Fund board respectfully requests that House Bill 3594 be reported out of this committee favorably
  • And as one of the witnesses testified, it's already into the billions of dollars of fraud.
  • The Chair calls up Amy Cardona, who registered to testify on behalf of the Pension Review Board on the
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Energy REVISED Mar 5th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chair, for taking care of that business for me.
  • It took out some of those things that were a little bit of an imposition on other things.
  • It also took out the funding for the water sources board.
  • Yes, members of the committee, I'd appreciate your indulgence on this.
  • policy for the state of Oklahoma.
Bills: SB1928, SB259
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 2/24/26

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It takes five of those to the governor.
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  • the governor in any of this work.
  • So you governor in any of this work.
  • Uh, I myself have served on one of the minority boards.
Bills: SF856, HF3168, HF3528, HF389
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Feb 10th, 2026

Children, Families, and Elder Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • These recommendations will be provided to the legislature and governor in February of 2027.
  • I have the privilege of working alongside many of you for a number of years, and I continue to appreciate
  • the creation of a statewide youth advisory board, an idea that came from youth for the purpose of creating
  • Can you give us a, of course, we've had a lot of conversation over the funding formulas and things of
  • We've had a lot of criticism of Access and SNAP, and a whole variety of issues there.
Bills: S0556, S0794, S1600
Summary: The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs considered three bills and a confirmation. On SB 1600, the committee adopted a strike-all amendment and a technical amendment that shifted the bill from creating an accreditation process to requiring the Office of Insurance Regulation, DCF, and community-based care lead agencies to study liability insurance coverage and availability in the child welfare sector and report findings to the legislature by January 1, 2027; the bill also included enforcement provisions for failure to provide requested information. Support was noted from child and family advocacy groups, and the committee reported the bill favorably. The committee also heard CS for SB 556, which would allow students with disabilities to satisfy a physical education graduation requirement through participation in Special Olympics, if included in the student’s IEP, and would clarify that two years of marching band participation can satisfy both PE and fine arts credit. Special Olympics Florida, families, and other supporters testified in favor, emphasizing flexibility, access, and recognition of rigorous activity. The bill was reported favorably. The committee then considered CS for SB 794, which requires background screening for employees of residential facilities and day training programs serving people with developmental disabilities and directs a review of waiver support coordination, including quality, consistency, access, competencies, recruitment and retention, caseloads, and geographic gaps in services. An amendment to conform to the House version was adopted, and the bill was reported favorably. Members then questioned Secretary Taylor Hatch regarding her confirmation as Secretary of the Department of Children and Families. Senators raised concerns about child welfare system performance, parent notification and rights, CBC funding formulas, managing entities, opioid settlement spending, peer support expansion, and technology/interoperability improvements. Hatch described DCF’s recent data and initiatives, including reductions in out-of-home care entries, youth advisory efforts, missing children recovery operations, expanded behavioral health capacity, and technology upgrades for benefits processing. Public comment included support from family and provider organizations and concerns from a former foster care worker about medical misdiagnosis cases. The committee voted to recommend Hatch’s confirmation favorably, with Chair Grall voting no, and adjourned after allowing Senator Sharief to be recorded as voting in favor of SB 1600.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Mar 19th, 2025

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Scott testifying on behalf of yourself and testifying for the bill it's on behalf of the city of Austin
  • Again, my name is Nim Kidd, Chief of the Division of Emergency Management and Chair of the Governor's
  • I kind of think of it a little bit as a doge type of bill because it screams efficiency.
  • property in the paper of of general circulation.
  • However, instead of considering the context of his counseling, DPS. consulted the medical advisory board
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Health Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • This stuff deprives your brain of oxygen, and it's just become... ...brain of oxygen, and it's just become
  • There have been several of these since I've... ...there have been several of these issues since I've
  • We have the privilege today of Senator Chestine to... ...the privilege today of Senator Chestine to be
  • of our package of bills pertaining to our military.
  • after we passed this out of committee, a mother of an active duty military member was telling her that
Bills: HB245, HB278, SB59, SB78
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Mar 24th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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  • of the Board of Trustees.
  • the board, powers, duties of the board, procedures regarding license.
  • the board, powers, duties of the board, procedures regarding license.
  • from one of their boards out of nine parishes.
Summary: The House convened with a quorum, opened in prayer, and received official notice from the Secretary of State certifying Dana Henry and Paul Sawyer to fill vacancies in the chamber. Both members were sworn in. The House also received Senate messages on several concurrent resolutions and a large slate of Senate bills, and it adopted a number of House resolutions recognizing groups and individuals, including agriculture, athletic trainers, GoFar Louisiana, homeschooling families, veterans, and several community honorees. Committee reports and bill referrals were also announced throughout the morning hour. A substantial portion of the meeting was devoted to floor action on House bills, many of them memorial highway designations and policy measures. The House gave final passage to bills naming roadways and bridges for Officer Trevor Abney, Dr. Harry Blake Sr., Virginia Green Evans, and American Legion Post No. 14, and it also passed bills extending Tax Commission assessment fees, creating a transfer-on-death securities registration act, increasing lender origination fees, expanding assessor certification committee membership, and strengthening protections for eligible adults against financial exploitation. Other bills passed included measures on teacher certification appeals, removing Evangeline Parish from a juvenile justice district, re-creating the Department of Education, and repealing a $25 impaired-driving fine. Most of these bills passed overwhelmingly or unanimously. The most extensive debate centered on House Bill 68, which would create a new offense for disturbing worship services and impose a mandatory 30-day jail term for certain misdemeanor conduct, with higher penalties for related offenses. Supporters argued the bill was intended to deter disruptions and reduce the risk of escalation in houses of worship, citing heightened security concerns and incidents in churches nationwide. Opponents questioned the bill’s vagueness, the mandatory minimum sentence, the distinction between misdemeanor and felony treatment, and whether existing law already covered the conduct. The bill remained under discussion as members continued to raise constitutional, enforcement, and policy concerns.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Mar 24th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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  • the Board of Trustees, disability retirement.
  • of the Board of Trustees.
  • the board, powers, duties of the board, procedures regarding license.
  • from one of their boards out of nine parishes.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Jan 21st, 2026

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • I think I made around to each of you that we kind of bent the rules.
  • I think I made around to each of you that we kind of bent the rules.
  • I think I made around to each of you that we kind of bent the rules.
  • I think I made around to each of you that we kind of bent the rules.
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AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Judiciary Committee Feb 5th, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • They know the rest of this much...
  • of six years old, the only punishment that’s allowable is life without the possibility of parole.
  • case of Kennedy versus Louisiana.
  • It also allows the judge the discretion at the time of release to place that individual in any type of
  • That's the split part, the minimum period of confinement. part, the minimum period of confinement provided