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NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 19th, 2026

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Memorial 13 as amended, House Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Committee substitute for
  • Speaker, members of the body, I just wanted to thank the House Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources
  • I want to thank all the members and the staff of the House Agriculture, Acequias and Water Resources
  • Speaker, members of the body, I just wanted to thank the House Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources
  • I want to thank all the members and the staff of the House Agricultural Asakias and Water Resources Committee
Summary: The House met on the final day of session with quorum present and spent much of the morning and afternoon on announcements, expressions of gratitude, and ceremonial business. Members repeatedly thanked committee staff, leadership, clerks, security, sergeants-at-arms, analysts, and family members for their work during the session. The Speaker also recognized committee chairs, vice chairs, and ranking members, and reflected on the importance of committee leadership and the personal perspective gained during the session. The chamber took up several memorials. House Memorial 4, requesting an LFC study on expanding health insurance access for public higher education educators and graduate student employees, passed 36-23 after debate over whether the study should focus on expansion and affordability. House Memorial 30, directing a study of public education governance and the possibility of a statewide education commission, passed 57-0. House Memorial 24, calling for a study of the possible consequences of restructuring the Las Vegas land grant, passed 60-0. House Memorial 26, a Wild Friends memorial about insects and an interagency workshop on insect identification, ecology, and habitat protection, passed after extensive supportive debate from members who emphasized science education, pollinators, and ecological balance. The House also approved a large consent calendar of memorials by a 55-0 vote, then cleared additional ceremonial memorials from the Speaker’s table, including New Mexico Food and Farms Day, International Year of the Woman Farmer, Lincoln County Day, New Mexico TRIO programs, and New Mexico Speech-Language-Hearing Association Day, which also passed 55-0. The chamber received a Senate message concurring in House amendments to Senate Finance Committee substitute for Senate Bill 273, as amended. The House then stood in recess subject to the call of the Chair while awaiting any further Senate messages and final adjournment business.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Pro Forma Floor Session Feb 9th, 2026

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Summary: The Senate briefly convened to approve the previous day’s journal, then moved through the fifth order for introduction and first reading of bills. Senate Bill 6351 was introduced and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. The chamber then went at ease in anticipation of fiscal cutoff committee report activity later in the day. When the Senate reconvened, it took up reports of standing committees and supplemental standing committee reports. Substitute Senate Bill 5292, concerning family and medical leave rates, and engrossed substitute House Bill/Senate Bill 5466 were both reported and referred to the Committee on Rules. The referrals were approved without objection. No substantive debate or votes on the bills occurred in this transcript beyond the referral motions. The Senate adjourned at the end of the session until 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 10, 2026.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - Senate Government

Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • It promotes transparency, efficiency, and grassroots engagement.
  • The closer transparency, efficiency, and grassroots engagement, and for these reasons, I respectfully
  • It's about efficiency, accountability, and empowerment.
  • There's certainly an efficiency to having fewer or just one person... Way to go.
  • There's certainly an efficiency to having fewer or just one person govern everything, but that's not
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Diverting law enforcement resources to enforce bathroom bills makes our communities less safe.
  • I started volunteering at a pregnancy resource center after my little sister had a crisis pregnancy.
  • Although that was not a police shooting, the lack of law enforcement resources and response was just
  • I'm really here just as a resource if anyone on the committee has any questions after the changes.
  • mental health resources.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
  • forecast and we'll just be providing base funding to the Department of Commerce Division of Energy Resources
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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 4/24/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Very efficient. We'll now move on to the bills we have to hear today.
  • That was some good work we got done.<00:03:25.360><c> Very</c><00:03:25.599><c> efficient.
  • Very efficient. done. Very efficient.
  • What I also know is our limited resources, and when you send people to treatment that aren't wanting
  • What I also know is our limited resources, and when you send people to treatment that aren't wanting
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

WAM Public Hearing 02-19-2026

Ways and Means

Summary: The Committee on Ways and Means met for decision-making only and adopted recommendations on a long list of Senate bills, with no oral testimony taken. Early actions included SB 99 to pass unamended, SB 585 to pass with a date correction to 2015, SB 2060 to pass with amendments involving public project lists, legislative approval for fund transfers, and removal of certain appropriations, and SB 2069 to pass with amendments extending a sunset date and requiring transit-oriented development zoning. The committee also advanced several other measures, including SB 2110, SB 215, SB 2259, SB 2382, SB 2442, and SB 2485 unamended, while SB 2152, SB 2315, SB 2446, SB 2919, SB 2577, SB 2580, and SB 2861 were moved with various amendments, mostly date changes, appropriation blanks, or technical clarifications. A substantial portion of the meeting focused on SB 2211, where Department of Human Services officials explained how the department was covering costs by using restricted funds and shifting Med-QUEST funding, and noted a need for $14 million plus support for $16.5 million in ACA enhanced tax credit subsidies. The chair indicated the bill would move forward with amendments, including blanking the appropriation pending more information on lapses, and the recommendation was adopted. SB 2544 was also amended to remove a specific appropriation and replace it with a blank cap on funds from DUR, and SB 2342 was amended to require projects to be in transit-oriented development zones and to reflect prior committee concurrence. The most extended debate was on SB 3326, which would address utility restructuring. One senator opposed the bill, arguing it could raise rates, worsen reliability issues, and disrupt an existing utility without a clear plan, especially given island-specific conditions. Supporters argued the bill would separate generation from transmission and distribution, create competition, protect union jobs, and respond to aging infrastructure and financial weakness in the utility sector. After recesses and discussion of the Public Utilities Commission’s role, the chair changed the recommendation from pass unamended to pass with amendments requiring the PUC to conduct a study, provide an interim report before the next session, and a final report the following session. That amended recommendation was adopted, and the meeting then adjourned with no further business.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 10th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Speaker, I move that the House grant permission for the Committee on Delivery of Government Efficiency
  • Other resources, I move passage. The question occurs on final passage of House Bill 346.
  • Credit the Committee on Land and Resource Management.
  • Municipality for failure to provide services for the Committee on Land Resource Management.
  • Residential property for occupancy further for the Committee on Land Resource Management.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 28th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • HB 2791 helps ensure the Workforce Commission can effectively and efficiently continue to provide this
  • Efficiency, efficiency, efficiency. Now I move passage. Thank you, no further questions. Mrs.
  • HB3826 by Hernandez relating to the Texas Energy Efficiency Council. Chair, I'll ask Ms. Hernandez.
  • efficiency, reduce unnecessary government spending, and implement best practices.
  • are used efficiently to enhance court security and modernize court technology.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Health and Welfare May 19th, 2026

Health and Welfare

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm concerned about resources. I know there's a fiscal note.
  • We need to get the resources so that we're doing this right.
  • So do we have the resources today? I would say unequivocally no.
  • It gives you the resources.
  • So we have many more resources and at a fraction of the cost.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Fri Mar 6, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 24

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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  • And that was a lot of time, a lot of resources. And sometimes we couldn't find them.
  • And that was a lot of time, a lot of resources. And sometimes we couldn't find them.
  • And that was a lot of time, a lot of resources. And sometimes we couldn't find them.
  • And that was a lot of time, a lot of resources. And sometimes we couldn't find them.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 04-07-2026 11:30am

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • lifeline for families and caregivers across the islands, offering critical support services, care, resources
  • the organization has significantly expanded access to capital, financial education, and housing resources
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Thu Mar 19, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 30

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • She understands the importance of tapping into community resources to make the learning relevant and
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  • to make the into community resources to make the learning<00:33:41.960><c> to</c><00:33:42.080><c> make
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Mar 3rd, 2026

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • who are residents of a country that is hostile to the United States, putting our citizens' natural resources
Summary: The committee heard and advanced a large number of bills covering tort claims, criminal law, child protection, licensing, housing, and public transparency. Early measures included HB 3037, adding students in curricular activities to the Government Tort Claims Act definition of employee; HB 3581, revising riot statutes and removing a no-bail provision; HB 458, allowing voluntary blood type notation on driver’s licenses; HB 2929, tightening mandatory child abuse reporting by school employees; and HB 3087, extending garnishment notice and objection timelines. All of those bills received unanimous or near-unanimous due-pass recommendations. Several bills drew more substantial discussion. HB 4227, the Cindy Clemishire Act, was amended to allow minors to discuss sexual abuse with health care providers and was named after a survivor; it passed 13-0. HB 4125, restoring Second Amendment rights to certain nonviolent felons, passed 13-1 but members raised concerns about federal law and asked for further explanation before floor consideration. HB 1453, which would criminalize hostile foreign nationals and entities owning Oklahoma real property and agricultural land, generated extensive debate over indirect ownership, foreclosure timelines, logrolling, and constitutional concerns, and it ultimately failed 3-10. HB 3521, modernizing money transmission regulation and adding payment processors and digital asset kiosks, passed 13-0. Other measures advanced after questions or minor amendments, including HB 3691 on self-certifying medical fitness for a Class D license, HB 2015 on landlord-tenant repair and tenant remedies, HB 2940 on recording public meetings, HB 1016 on trust protections for minors appearing in monetized online content, HB 3267 making breaking and entering an occupied dwelling a felony without needing proof of another intended crime, HB 3695 expanding the definition of great bodily injury for DUI cases, HB 3453 shifting the burden in eminent domain cases to the condemning authority, and HB 3053 creating parole review criteria for older eligible inmates. The committee also advanced bills on self-defense definitions, straw purchasing of land for prohibited foreign parties, human trafficking parole guidelines, child welfare/adoption terminology, outpatient treatment, child support-related license revocations, workplace violence protective orders, and protections for charities reporting sexual misconduct. The meeting ended with several bills laid over and the committee adjourning, with a note that it would meet again Thursday.