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US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, January 7, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- legislation legislation you<00:54:26.599><c> can</c><00:54:26.839><c> stand</c><00:54:27.160><c> up<
- That's our job as legislators.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Legislative Administration (04/16/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
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- 19.680><c> department</c> legislative affairs for the department legislative affairs for the department
- </c> I've worked with him on the legislation. I've worked with him on the legislation.
- </c> officer from the joint legislative officer from the joint legislative committee<00:06:57.759><c>
- </c><00:35:08.560><c> My</c> legislatively of Senator Larson. My legislatively of Senator Larson.
Summary:
The Legislative Administration Committee opened with Senate Bill 197, which would remove the Department of Health and Human Services commissioner’s supervisory role over the legislative facilities committee nurse and instead place the nurse under the Board of Nursing’s scope of practice. The sponsor’s aide and DHHS legislative director explained that the change updates outdated language last amended in 1995, aligns the statute with current practice, and was reviewed with legislative staff and nursing regulators, who were said to be comfortable with the proposal. Members asked why the change was needed and whether the commissioner had actually been supervising; the response was that the language no longer reflected how the position functioned. The chair said the bill might still be a simple consent item, but additional modifications were being discussed, so the hearing was closed with no vote taken at that time.
The committee then heard Senate Bill 186, authorizing the Joint Legislative Historical Committee to accept and display a portrait of former Senator Jeb Bradley in the State House. The sponsor’s aide described Bradley’s legislative and congressional service and urged the committee to move the bill ought to pass. Members asked practical questions about whether the portrait was completed, its size, and where it would be hung. The witness said the portrait was not yet completed and that size and placement had not been determined, though the committee was told the historical committee would decide placement. A committee member noted that portrait sizes and locations are already being reviewed because of space concerns, and the hearing ended without a vote.
A work session followed on the portrait bills, with the chair using them as a vehicle to discuss broader problems in the statutes governing portraits and the historical committee. He said the committee had gathered information from other states and suggested possible policy ideas such as portrait moratoriums, waiting periods after death, size limits, and clearer placement rules. Members discussed the need to update the RSAs and better define the historical committee’s authority. The committee did not take final action during the work session, but the discussion indicated that the portrait bills may be held while broader statutory revisions are considered.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
89th Legislative Session - Second Called Session Aug 18th, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Father, bless the work done in this legislative body and the work of their hands.
- Legislation reducing the property tax burden on Texans and legislation imposing spending limits on entities
- Legislation making it a crime to provide hemp-derived products to children under 21.
- Legislation further protecting unborn children and their mothers from the harm of abortion, legislation
- Legislation protecting women's privacy in sex-segregated spaces, legislation that strengthens the Attorney
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Senators, last year we passed a piece of legislation.
- This legislation also ensures bridge safety.
- I worked with Dopple to bring this legislation.
- Section 3 is legislative intent.
- Section 3 is legislative intent. Section 2 deals with the title. Section 3 is legislative intent.
Summary:
The Senate met with a quorum present, opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, and approved the previous day’s journal. Early in the day, members received committee reports and messages from the Governor and House, including the transmission of several bills and resolutions. The chamber also advanced a number of measures to later orders of business, and several bills were held on the calendar or referred to committees for further action or possible amendment.
The Senate then considered and passed a series of bills on third reading. Among them were Senate Bill 1227 on generative AI in education, which passed after debate over teacher control, local control, and parent transparency; House Bill 603 on camping at the Capitol Mall, which passed after debate over free speech, public safety, and sanitation; House Bill 688 updating airbag and counterfeit airbag laws; House Bill 645 creating a voluntary portable benefits framework for independent contractors; House Bill 738 allowing LLCs to use a commercial registered agent’s address; House Bill 521 correcting background-check statutory placement; House Bill 615 clarifying disturbing-the-peace protections for houses of worship; House Bill 695 correcting a fee reference from possession to restitution; House Bill 568 repealing obsolete Department of Lands provisions; House Bill 774 repealing outdated fish and game penalty language; House Bill 762 revising charter school admissions preferences for foster and military children; House Bill 661 extending solid-waste competition rules to counties; House Bill 733 adopting a partnership audit procedure aligned with federal law; House Bill 749 revising city annexation rules to address hardship and property-rights concerns; House Bill 662 expanding milk testing provisions and Department of Agriculture dispute resolution; House Bill 664 eliminating differential speed limits for heavy trucks; and House Bill 716 revising transportation-funding distributions and increasing bridge inspection funding.
Most of these measures passed by substantial margins, often using the same roll-call vote by unanimous consent, and titles were approved without correction. One bill, House Bill 684, was sent to the 14th order for possible amendment. The Senate also received committee reports on additional bills and gubernatorial appointments, then moved into the Committee of the Whole, where it began reviewing several measures and adopted amendments to Senate Bill 1297 and Senate Bills 1352, 1353, and 1354, with motions to report those bills back as amended without recommendation.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- Now, move on to local legislation.
- </c><00:31:41.279><c> signed</c> committee on local legislation signed committee on local legislation
- Signed, committee on local legislation.
- </c> legislation. Signed, John Treadwell. legislation. Signed, John Treadwell.
- </c> legislation. Signed, John Treadwell. legislation. Signed, John Treadwell.
Summary:
The Alabama Senate convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, confirmed a quorum, and adopted the prior day’s journal. The chamber then handled a series of confirmations, including Thomas Ellis to the Agriculture Exhibition Center Board of Directors, Evelyn Vans Malden, Robert C. Brock, Mila Calhoun, and Elena Baranco to the University of Alabama or University of Montevallo boards of trustees, Chip Fugquay to the Alabama Workforce Board, and Thornton Stanley and Jemsticken Pum to the Alabama Forestry Commission. All of these confirmations were approved overwhelmingly, generally by 29–30 votes with no nays.
Committee reports advanced several county and municipal government bills, including SB 23, SB 71, SB 105, SB 109, SB 115, SB 131, SB 148, and SB 165, with some receiving amendments. The Senate also adopted and passed multiple resolutions, including SJR 14 honoring Drew and Lauren Winland as America’s top young farm family, and resolutions mourning Mary Anne Peak Phelps and Sam Palmer Faucet III. A local bill package for Marshall and Walker counties was taken up, with several bills receiving BRs, final passage, and certification resolutions.
The Senate also received numerous House messages referring local and finance-related bills to committees, including measures on county subdivision regulations, homestead exemptions, unclaimed property, sales and use tax, income tax, municipal audits, and other local matters. The Rules Committee report set a special order calendar for the next legislative day, listing SB 126, SB 33, SB 55, SB 102, SB 118, and SB 128. On that calendar, SB 126 extending the Alabama Private Investigation Board, SB 33 updating veteran license tag provisions, SB 102 extending the Board of Home Medical Equipment, and SB 128 reorganizing the Alabama Sickle Cell Oversight and Regulatory Commission were passed; SB 55 on military spouses was amended and carried over; and SB 118 on the Alabama Justice Information Commission was amended and carried over. The Senate adjourned until 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 21st.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session Mar 12th, 2026
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Public records and legislative rules reforms tied to compensation.
- , House No. 51010, entitled An Act to Reform and Regulate Legislative Stipends, hereinafter referred
- entitled An Act to Reform and Regulate Legislative Stipends and which is pending before the General
- Question one, subpart A: Does the petition reshape and codify existing legislative rules on how and when
- bills are heard and reported out of legislative committees, setting specific procedures for hearings
Summary:
The Senate opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and several ceremonial items, including introductions of championship Tri-County High School football and boys’ cross-country teams and adoption of a resolution honoring Auburn and the Robert and Esther Goddard Centennial Committee for the 100th anniversary of the first liquid-fueled rocket launch. The chamber then gave final passage to several local bills, including measures authorizing payment by the City of Revere, adjusting Wellesley’s senior property tax deferral income threshold, amending the Hopedinton/Hopkinton town charter regarding library trustees, and other local matters, all of which were passed to be enacted and sent to the Governor.
The Senate also suspended Joint Rule 12 to refer House petitions to committees and took up several local bills from the Orders of the Day. These included bills enhancing the powers of the Cotuit Fire District’s Board of Water Commissioners, authorizing the Cotuit Fire District to raise money for the Historical Society of Santuit and Cotuit, further regulating the Salem licensing board, and validating the results of Bourne’s May 20, 2025 annual election. Each was advanced by unanimous consent, read a third time, and passed to be engrossed.
A major portion of the session focused on two orders from Senator Friedman requesting advisory opinions from the Supreme Judicial Court on initiative petitions. One concerned a public records proposal that would extend public records law to the General Court and Governor’s office; the other concerned a legislative stipends proposal that would alter internal legislative procedures and compensation rules. Senator Feeney argued the requests were needed to clarify constitutional issues before the Legislature acts on the initiatives, and both orders were adopted.
The Senate also received a Ways and Means report on Senate Bill 2720, a bill banning the retail sale of dogs, cats, rabbits, and pet sharks, with a new draft, Senate No. 3014, recommended. The chamber adopted an order placing the bill on the Orders of the Day for second reading on March 19, 2026, with amendments in order, and then adopted a separate order to adjourn until Monday at 11 a.m., dispensing with the printing of a calendar.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- The legislative... use natural gas than anticipated.
- This brings us to the legislative auditor’s recommendations.
- This leads us to the legislative auditor’s recommendations.
- I give this example to my legislators.
- You’ve got to legislate and appropriate that money.
Bills:
SB5754
Keywords:
public bank, state bank, finance, banking regulations, economic development, state investment, 904, all
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Feb 17th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm here to testify against this legislation as it stands now.
- Chairman and the legislator getting used to saying commissioners, legislator, I would say first of all
- Chairman and the legislator getting used to saying commissioners, legislator, I would say first of all
- Those are the goals of this legislation.
- But this piece of legislation... ...that we're not moving things forward, but this piece of legislation
Summary:
The Senate Commerce Committee approved the February 10, 2026 minutes and then took up several housing bills from Senator Taves. SB 1277 would have required statewide allowance of accessory dwelling units and limited local restrictions; testimony was split between supporters who said ADUs can expand attainable housing and help families, and opponents who raised concerns about infrastructure, parking, height limits, short-term rentals, HOA/covenant issues, and local control. Senator Taves said he was willing to amend the bill to address height limits, HOA language, and a private cause of action, but the committee ultimately voted 5-4 to hold SB 1277 in committee.
The committee then heard SB 1279, which would have promoted smaller starter-home subdivisions and allowed incentives for smaller lots and setbacks. Supporters argued it would help first-time buyers and give builders more flexibility, while opponents said the bill was too broad, too fast, and could create density and infrastructure problems. After testimony and discussion, the committee voted 5-4 to hold SB 1279 in committee as well.
Next, SB 1280 proposed allowing duplexes and twin homes in single-family residential areas. Testimony again centered on housing supply versus local infrastructure, with county and city officials warning about septic, water, and retroactive covenant issues, while real estate testimony supported more lower-cost housing options. Senator Taves said he was open to amendments, but the committee voted 5-4 to hold SB 1280 in committee. Finally, SB 1276, which would remove the sunset on a PERSI provision allowing retired teachers and other retirees to return to work, received supportive testimony from the sponsor and PERSI’s director, who said there would be no negative impact on the retirement system; the committee voted to send SB 1276 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation. The meeting ended with an informational presentation on PERSI COLA concerns from retired public employees, followed by adjournment.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Dec 18th, 2025 at 09:13 am
Transcript Highlights:
- Vice Chair Romero, members of the Legislative Education Committee, good morning, and thank you for the
- The New Mexico School Board Association Resolution and Legislative Committee recommends legislative priorities
- We trust our legislative priorities will be carefully considered by New Mexico's legislative and executive
- In analyzing legislative proposals in the interim and during the legislative session, the New Mexico
- Legislative platform. I did have a quick announcement just as we close up here.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- This will put that under the legislative purview, not under the executive branch purview.
- This will put that under the legislative purview, not under the executive branch purview.
- Why would you give away your legislative authority to the executive branch?
- If you look at the legislation, it falls under the State Controller's Office.
- And if you look at the legislation, it falls under the state controller's office.
Summary:
The committee first approved the minutes from March 25 and reordered the agenda to hear House Bill 941 first. HB 941, presented by Speaker Moyle, would move the rules coordinator and related rule publication functions from the executive branch to the Legislative Services Office and eliminate the existing periodic review process for administrative rules. Supporters said the bill would restore legislative control over rules and ensure they match statutory authority; opponents raised separation-of-powers concerns and worried about giving one legislative employee too much power. After questions from several members, the committee voted on a due-pass motion, which failed 8-5.
The committee then reconsidered Senate Bill 1320, a code cleanup measure removing outdated language tied to a State Controller’s Office project fund that ended in 2023. With no testimony in opposition, the committee passed SB 1320 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation. It next heard Senate Bill 1236, which repeals the Idaho Women’s Commission because it has been defunded and inactive for years. The sponsor described it as housekeeping, while several women’s advocacy groups and individual testifiers opposed the repeal, arguing the commission still has value in addressing women’s representation, pay, health care, and other issues. After debate, a motion to hold the bill failed 7-6, and the committee then approved SB 1236 for the floor on a 7-6 vote.
Finally, the committee considered Senate Bill 1397, presented by Representative Sauter and Senator Woodward, which would bring certain private wastewater systems under Public Utilities Commission oversight if they have 100 or more connections. Supporters said some homeowners are trapped by private sewer monopolies, facing doubled rates and being unable to obtain building permits because systems lack capacity or will-serve letters. Opponents questioned whether the bill would interfere with private contracts, but supporters argued it would provide the same consumer protections already applied to other utility monopolies. The committee passed SB 1397 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation and then adjourned.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House (Capitol Chamber) Apr 1st, 2026
Alabama House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Bless your legislators and the work that they're doing.
- Bless your legislators and the place.
- day be dispensed the 25th legislative day be dispensed with. with. with.
- </c><00:13:13.040><c> operations</c> continuity of legislative operations continuity of legislative operations
- ><c> building</c><00:13:17.120><c> be</c> that the new legislative building be that the new legislative
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, September 15, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This legislation will save billions of This legislation will save billions of taxpayer<00:20:59.280><
- The resulting legislation is straightforward. The resulting legislation is straightforward.
- </c> colleagues to support this legislation. colleagues to support this legislation.
- This legislation does so by life.
- </c> all members to support this legislation. all members to support this legislation.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
89th Legislative Session - Second Called Session Aug 18th, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Father, bless the work done in this legislative body and the work of their hands.
- Legislation reducing the property tax burden on... and legislation imposing spending limits on entities
- Legislation making it a crime to provide hemp-derived products to children under 21, and legislation
- Legislation protecting women's privacy in sex-segregated spaces.
- Legislation that provides a congressional redistricting plan.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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- legislative staff and then ultimately how<00:10:41.160><c> legislation</c><00:10:41.800><c> will</c>
- and enacted legislation.
- </c><00:26:19.000><c> to</c> for tracting and drafting legislation to for tracting and drafting legislation
- </c><01:02:40.799><c> whether</c> both parties in every legislator whether both parties in every legislator
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, February 4, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- ALASKA GOVERNOR IS ALSO SUPPORTIVE OF THE LEGISLATIVE Again, I want to thank the sponsor for this legislation
- remarks and include extraneous material on the legislation.
- Valadao for co-leading this legislation.
- I urge all members to support this commonsense, bipartisan legislation.
- I URGE ALL MEMBERS TO SUPPORT THIS COMMONSENSE, BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
JLCAR Administrative Rules (04/17/2026)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:04:04.720><c> authority,</c> the rules within legislative authority, the rules within legislative
- </c> case, uh uh you would have a legislator case, uh uh you would have a legislator would<00:04:11.280
- </c> the legislative intent. Thank you. the legislative intent. Thank you.
- Um legislative intent here.
- </c> understand this in future legislation. understand this in future legislation.
Summary:
The committee opened with housekeeping items, approved the minutes and consent agenda, and reminded the public that JLCAR’s role is limited to determining whether agency rules are within statutory authority, not to decide policy. Testimony was to be limited, and members noted that policy concerns should be addressed through the legislature rather than the committee process.
The first major item was Public Utilities Commission rule 25-215 concerning natural gas suppliers. Staff said the proposal had been postponed because the PUC appeared to lack authority to impose fines and penalties in this rule set, especially suspending or revoking registrations, and recommended either a conditional approval removing those provisions or a preliminary objection for lack of statutory authority. PUC counsel responded that the cited authority had been incorrect, that the Department of Energy now has most registration rulemaking authority, but argued the commission still has jurisdiction over mediation and dispute resolution and may still have authority over fines because natural gas suppliers are not expressly excluded from public-utility status. Committee members discussed the split between PUC and DOE authority and the possibility that the transition in authority had not been fully cleaned up in statute.
The committee then voted to grant a waiver of the time limit and postpone the item for another month so the agencies could work with counsel and clarify which parts of the rule could proceed. Members also urged that any needed legislative fix be brought forward quickly, noting that the Senate was not taking up non-germane amendments and suggesting the House as the likely venue for a cleanup bill.
The committee next took up Department of Energy EN900 and EN1000 rules. Staff said the EN900 net-metering rules had been postponed previously and that the main remaining issue was a retroactive requirement in EN909.03(b), which the agency agreed to revise so the language would apply only on or after the 2026 effective date of the chapter. The agency described the EN900 rules as implementing net metering authority transferred from the PUC and expanding the chapter to cover municipal group net metering and low- and moderate-income community solar projects. The EN1000 interconnection rules were described as implementing 2024 legislation requiring uniform procedures for distributed energy resources. The department said both sets of rules were developed through extensive stakeholder input and asked for approval subject to the oral amendment already discussed."}】【。json
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- So we think that we can make a great piece of Texas legislation into a great piece of Missouri legislation
- So we think that we can make a great piece of Texas legislation into a great piece of Missouri legislation
- So is this body, this legislative body, creating legislation based on fear?
- I worked with research and my legislative assistant based on legislation that was drafted in Germany.
- I worked with research and my legislative assistant based on legislation that was drafted in Germany.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- This is our third public hearing of the 2025-2026 legislative session.
- And if we adopt this legislation... ...to respond to overseas and domestic missions.
- Well, it's last legislation that would pass it doesn't...
- Thank you for your time and consideration for this piece of legislation.
- But I sit here today to talk and support two pieces of legislation.
Summary:
The committee held a hybrid public hearing on seven House bills and seven Senate bills related to the Massachusetts National Guard and U.S. Armed Forces Reserves. Opening remarks covered hearing procedures, livestreaming, testimony limits, and expected reporting dates, and chairs noted the committee’s focus on Guard and Reserve issues. Testimony then moved through several bills, including S. 2465 to expand the National Guard welcome-home veterans bonus to all deployed Guard members regardless of residency, H. 3876/S. 2462 to authorize military-style headstones for long-serving or deceased Guard members, and S. 2482/H. 3833 to establish a Massachusetts National Guard Museum in Salem. Supporters of the bonus and headstone bills argued they would correct inequities and better honor service; Senator Lovely described the museum proposal as a way to preserve the Guard’s history in Salem and potentially support federal funding for the project.
A major portion of the hearing focused on H. 3829/S. 2471, the “Defend the Guard” proposal that would bar Massachusetts National Guard deployments into active combat absent a formal congressional declaration of war. Supporters argued the bill would restore constitutional war powers, reduce repeated undeclared deployments, and protect Guard members’ mental health and state readiness. Opponents, including retired Guard leaders and current service members, warned it could conflict with federal law and Title 10 authority, undermine federal funding and training, and harm readiness, force structure, and unique Guard capabilities. Committee members repeatedly questioned the bill’s legal authority, constitutional basis, and practical effects under the Supremacy Clause and Title 10, and several witnesses were asked to submit additional written legal support.
The committee also heard testimony on H. 3831, which would extend Chapter 115 benefits to currently serving Guard and Reserve members who do not meet federal veteran-status thresholds, and on related proposals to clarify Guard command structure and the duties of the Adjutant General. Supporters said these changes would improve access to benefits, reduce confusion in the chain of command, and strengthen discipline and responsiveness. Separately, the National Guard Association of Massachusetts backed H. 3860/S. 2458, the Guard Enlistment Enhancement Program, as a recruiting tool, while opposing the Defend the Guard bills. No votes were taken during the hearing.
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Kratom Working Group Aug 7th, 2026 at 09:00 am
Transcript Highlights:
- So what we're doing here this morning, this is a legislative morning.
- So what we're doing here this morning, this is a legislative morning, we're going to ask legislators
- I know I haven't been a legislator for that long.
- At the legislative hearings coming up during the special session.
- However, it was not selected for study by Legislative Management.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- legislators to create law.
- legislators to create law.
- Just want to go on record in support of this legislation.
- As a legislative body, it is going to be on the side of the compact, not you as a legislator or me as
- If that would be your prerogative, or future legislators' and legislative bodies' prerogative, you can