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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This legislation would bring the Texas Penal Code into line with the state bar's regulations targeting
- Investigate it, regulate it, and reform it.
- I can't hold water. I drink and pee, drink and pee.
- Why can I not hold water? Because when you get inflamed, it creates a diuretic effect.
- When you can't hold water, you don't have electrolytes.
Bills:
HB 1239 , HB1990 , HB1748 , HB1749 , HB2578 , HB2986 , HB1970 , HB3163 , HB2733 , HB1922 , HB 113 , HB 1088 , HB1938 , HB3004 , HB2637 , HB2960 , HB113
Committee:
House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
Keywords:
public health, access to healthcare, insurance reforms, medical expenses, healthcare providers, mental health, protective custody, preliminary examination, detention period, emergency circumstances, emergency detention, legal framework, detention, healthcare, liability, landowners, nonagricultural land, trespassing, public safety, interpreters
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Funding (01/16/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- I ask that you think about drinking water while you're testifying.
- So please have some water or get water. There is a bottle cooler right out in the hallway.
- water or get water so please have some water or get water there<00:24:39.799><c> is</c><00:24:40.000>
- Thank you, and no questions. for like heat water electricity for like heat water electricity maintenance
- Self-regulation is a goal for him.
Summary:
The hearing focused on House Bill 115-FN, which would remove the income cap from New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account eligibility rules. Representative Valerie McDonnell, the bill’s sponsor, said the measure is intended to fund students rather than systems and to expand educational choice regardless of income or zip code. She described the change as a small statutory edit but argued it would have significant benefits, including helping families afford alternative education settings and testing costs such as AP exams. She also cited testimony from families who said EFAs helped children with special needs or difficult circumstances, and she argued the program is popular and cost-effective.
Committee members questioned McDonnell about the bill’s fiscal impact and administration. One member asked whether removing the income cap would extend vouchers to families above the statewide median income and whether the change could cost more than $100 million annually; McDonnell said she did not agree with that estimate and pointed to Arizona as a comparison. Representative Wendy Thomas asked whether the bill should require stronger data-sharing from the Children’s Scholarship Fund, which administers the program, so the Department of Education and taxpayers could better track spending; McDonnell said the program already uses ClassWallet and regulated expenditures, and that the question was better directed to the administrator.
Several members testified in opposition. Representative Wendy Thomas said the bill would increase costs for public schools, raise local property taxes, and worsen oversight problems. Representative Heath Howard argued the proposal would function as a subsidy for wealthy families already paying private tuition and said public education and special education should be funded first. Representative Megan Murray also opposed the bill, emphasizing the lack of a legal reporting requirement for EFA spending and the need for transparency, accountability, and attention to special education needs. Representative Sam Farrington supported expansion, sharing a constituent story about a student who left public school after harassment and benefited from private school placement. No vote or final action was taken in the portion provided.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Resources, appropriating additional money to the Department of Water Resources for fiscal year 2007,
- love water.
- And we all love water.
- They have a need for water. They have a need to use the bathroom.
- They have a need for water. They have a need to use the bathroom.
Summary:
The Senate opened with roll call, prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and approval of the prior day’s journal. It then moved through routine committee reports and bill referrals, including printing and committee assignments for several Senate bills and House messages. Early action also included referral of Senate Concurrent Resolution 128 and multiple House and Senate bills to the appropriate committees or later orders of business.
The chamber then took up several appropriations and policy bills on third reading. Senate Bill 1401, an appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for Public Health Services, was debated as a mix of federal pass-through funding, vaccine purchasing, laboratory testing, ARPA grants, HIV/hepatitis prevention, suicide prevention, and a transfer of the Idaho Home Visiting Program; it passed 21-14. Senate Bill 1423, dealing with the FAST Act and a framework for stablecoin payments, drew debate over efficiency, banking costs, state control, and privacy/risk concerns; it passed 22-13. Senate Bill 1429, a behavioral health appropriation and supplemental, was presented as a series of restorations and fund shifts tied to prior budget cuts and settlement obligations, and it passed 21-14. Senate Bill 1431, an appropriation and transfer for the Department of Water Resources, including aquifer monitoring and stream gauging/adjudication staffing, passed 26-7.
The Senate also passed House Bill 855, revising lifetime fish and game license residency requirements from six months to five years, by a vote of 23-11. Later, House Bill 752, which would prohibit knowingly entering opposite-sex restrooms or changing rooms in government buildings and public accommodations except under specified exceptions, prompted extensive debate. Supporters argued it protected privacy, children, and women’s safety; opponents argued it criminalized transgender people, was discriminatory, and could harm Idaho’s reputation and economy. The debate continued at the end of the transcript, with the bill still under consideration.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- An act relating to the appropriation to the Department of Water Resources.
- Appropriating additional money to the Department of Water Resources for fiscal year 2007.
- Appropriating additional monies to the Department of Water Resources for fiscal year 2007.
- And we all love water. So number one... And we all love water.
- They have a need for water. They have a need to use the bathroom.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House State Government & Tribal Relations Jan 21st, 2026 at 01:30 pm
State Government & Tribal Relations
Transcript Highlights:
- Ranking Member Waters. Thank you, Rep. Fitzgibbon.
- Representative Waters, federally we’re represented pretty much by Democrats, correct?
- Waters.
- Thank you, Chair Mena, Ranking Member Waters, and committee members.
- So, dear Chair Mena, Ranking Member Waters, and committee members, my name is Linda Young, and I urge
Committee:
House State Government & Tribal Relations
Keywords:
redistricting, congressional representation, census, state law, legislative boundaries, ballot measures, petitioners, signature gatherers, voting rights, election integrity, initiative process, referendum, signature gathering, ballot measure, citizen actions, support demonstration, 904, all
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- It was water And it was half full. Half. It was water And it was half full. Half. It was half full.
- would pop out of plane and no water would pop out of plane and no water would pop out of this, then
- You can see where the water if it land just like where the water if it land just like where the water
- If I put water there, you can see here. If I put water there, you can see here.
- Or with applicable laws and regulations. Or with applicable laws and regulations.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, April 1, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This is just the beginning of the war for water.
- I yield back. water from the Colorado River. This is a water from the Colorado River.
- </c> just the beginning of the war for water. just the beginning of the war for water.
- the much needed water to South Texas.
- Traditionally, things like overdraft fees are regulated by state regulators.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- surgical in the way that they have made their choices as we have thought to navigate these tough waters
- really, really grateful for everything that you have provided to us as we have navigated these choppy waters
- Are they going to start to water down the formula? And that is real, my friends.
- On behalf of the Thermolito Water and Sewer District, I want to voice again strong support for Prop.
- I want to call out the Concau Reservoir Project as a really critical water and drinking water project
Committee:
House Budget
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 03/11/25
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- Adding additional fees and regulations, including those that would be passed on to the consumer, tracks
- uh has been mentioned we're regulated uh has been mentioned we're the<01:18:06.040><c> only</c><01:18
- my understanding would far surpass the amount of minerals that we have in areas like the Boundary Waters
- my understanding would far surpass the amount of minerals that we have in areas like the Boundary Waters
- will help ensure that all regulations will help ensure that all individuals<01:46:41.639><c> regardless
Committee:
Senate State and Local Government
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Citizens and towns will regulations.
- And the therapeutic cannabis program remains tightly regulated with strict oversight.
- They legalized it, and four years later they came back and regulated how they're going to sell it.
- </c> later they came back and and regulated later they came back and and regulated how<01:50:49.520><
- c><02:42:10.960><c> stopping</c> regulation, there is nothing stopping regulation, there is nothing stopping
Committee:
Senate Judiciary
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Apr 22nd, 2026
Housing and Community Development
Transcript Highlights:
- The regulation was put in place, and it was a regulation; it wasn't a bill that was passed.
- The regulation was put in place, and it was a regulation; it wasn't a bill that was passed.
- The regulation was put in place, and it was a regulation; it wasn't a bill that was passed, in 1961.
- So I've got to trust some regulators to come up with the authority.
- Witness: I would say for us, we don't regulate what goes on on the public right-of-way.
Committee:
House Housing and Community Development
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (01/29/2026)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- In 2019, 728D, which governs the valuation of electric, gas, and water, was modified.
- </c> regulation of net metering. regulation of net metering.
- or hot water heater technically could be swept into this definition.
- 41.040><c> nuclear</c> Regulatory Commission regulates nuclear Regulatory Commission regulates nuclear
- </c><05:39:50.718><c> regarding</c> um really any regulation regarding um really any regulation regarding
Committee:
House Science, Technology and Energy
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Ways and Means Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Transcript Highlights:
- He said the federal rules and regulations form the backbone of what the Commonwealth is allowed to do
- I appreciate, and I appreciate the regulation changes. God help us.
- The second, I will say, is that the updated regulations that have allowed birth centers to function,
- I'm an avid open-water swimmer, and I'm also maybe a frequent call to your office.
- Notably, that includes regulating the internal grievance process and administering external reviews.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Ways and Means held a Health and Human Services budget hearing in Clinton, with opening remarks from Chairs Meg Kilcoyne and Robin Kennedy, local officials, and many House and Senate members introducing themselves. The hearing focused on Governor Healey’s FY27 EOHHS and MassHealth budgets, with repeated themes of rising health care costs, federal funding uncertainty, workforce shortages, and access to care in underserved regions. Members also raised concerns about primary care shortages, rural and regional disparities, behavioral health access, maternal health, food insecurity, and the impact of federal policy changes on Massachusetts programs.
EOHHS Secretary Kiame Mahaniah said the FY27 EOHHS budget totals $33.7 billion, reflecting mostly non-discretionary growth from health care costs, labor costs, caseload increases, and provider rate pressures. He highlighted targeted investments in foster care, family resource centers, maternal health, youth services, nutrition programs, immigrant legal services, and human service workforce rates, while warning that federal actions could strip roughly $3.5 billion annually from the state’s health care funding. In response to questions, he defended the administration’s cooperation with federal audits and program integrity efforts, discussed the primary care crisis, and said the state is trying to preserve core services while preparing for a more difficult FY28 budget cycle.
MassHealth Undersecretary Mike Levine then described two major FY27 challenges: double-digit cost growth and the expected effects of the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act. He said MassHealth’s proposed $22.7 billion gross budget includes a 7.5% increase and relies on a moratorium on new expansions plus targeted reductions, including a $1,000 annual adult dental cap, ending GLP-1 coverage for weight loss only, reducing care management to peer-state levels, and work groups to slow growth in PCA, adult foster care, and adult day health spending. Members questioned the impact on Boston Health Care for the Homeless, preventive care, and regional access; Levine said the changes are meant to preserve sustainability, that children and certain disabled populations remain protected, and that the administration will continue working with providers, advocates, and the Legislature on implementation and longer-term reforms.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- I don't think any other arguments have any water behind. I don't think they hold any water.
- Um but don't think they hold any water.
- </c> the school to regulate that misconduct. the school to regulate that misconduct.
- </c><02:56:56.000><c> the</c> universities cannot regulate the universities cannot regulate the presence
- </c><04:16:09.680><c> the</c> university's authority to regulate the university's authority to regulate
Committee:
Senate Judiciary
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Massachusetts citing high regulations Massachusetts citing high regulations and<00:06:11.840><c> high
- We're seeing again whether it's housing, where we're tight, we're loosening regulations and we're allowed
- We're seeing again whether it's housing, where we're tight, we're loosening regulations and we're allowed
- or whether it's the tax and regulations or whether it's the tax and fiscal<00:12:32.320><c> policy</
- , whether it's on housing or regulation, whether it's on housing or otherwise,<00:12:47.279><c> or</c
Committee:
Senate Ways and Means
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS Senate Floor - 31 March, 2026; 10:00 AM
Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> prevention, and water quality. prevention, and water quality.
- Senator Williams handled the grading system as far as water systems go.
- </c><01:22:34.240><c> systems</c> grading system as far as water systems grading system as far as water
- </c><02:56:18.760><c> as</c> Safety to adopt rules and regulations as Safety to adopt rules and regulations
- rules and regulations for promulgating these<03:47:53.760><c> fire</c> these fire these fire fund<03
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm talking about the slew of regulations, the truth and insurance regulations that are similar to what
- I'm talking about the slew of regulations, the truth-in-insurance regulations, that are similar to what
- regulations weren't in place.
- I'm sorry, water.
- I'm sorry, water.
Bills:
SB57 , SB405 , HB62 , HB193 , HB203 , HB222 , HB246 , HB420 , HB475 , HB486 , HB574 , HB584 , HB815 , HB949 , HB1092 , HB1214
Committee:
House Health and Welfare
Keywords:
SB 57, Act 735, Act 463, nutrition, public health, food additives, artificial colors, banned chemicals, ingredient labeling, food labeling, FDA, food and beverage regulation, consumer disclosure, school nutrition, Louisiana Revised Statutes Title 40, Louisiana Revised Statutes Title 17, food manufacturers, food retailers, compliance, effective date delay
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division I (02/24/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- The commission regulates over $2 billion in annual revenue and over $8 billion in assets, with a small
- </c> state environment where we're regulated state environment where we're regulated by<03:23:51.080>
- The increase to the consultants line is to make the commission compliant with federal regulation and
- The increase to the consultants line is to make the commission compliant with federal regulation and
- The increase to the consultants line is to make the commission compliant with federal regulation and
Summary:
The committee first heard the Banking Department’s fiscal year 2026-2027 budget presentation from Commissioner Amelia Galeri. She described the department as a self-funded consumer protection regulator overseeing two main areas: the Banking Trust Division, which supervises state-chartered banks, credit unions, and trust companies, and the Consumer Credit Division, which oversees more than 7,000 licensees including mortgage and money transmitter businesses. She said the department’s budget is about 86% salaries and benefits, with 53 positions all filled, and explained that the agency funds itself through fees, fines, and end-of-year assessments on regulated entities.
Galeri said the department is facing workload growth from several directions: continued growth in the trust industry, increased fintech supervision, and a new requirement to regularly examine auto dealers that take finance applications, which adds about 300 exams over two fiscal years. She said the department was directed to flat-fund its budget based on 2025 levels but was allowed to increase travel and training. To stay within that limit, she said the department reduced office space, went paperless, converted administrative and licensing positions into examiner positions, and expects to defund an embedded DOJ database administrator position once a new SharePoint system is fully implemented.
Members asked about how the department’s revenue and assessments work, including whether fees were increasing and how much existing banks would pay. Galeri said fees are not being raised, most banks pay little or no fines, and assessments are based largely on asset size, with trust companies paying the bulk. She also explained that fines are set by statute, generally capped at $2,500 per violation for consumer credit entities, and said she would not recommend increasing that cap. The committee then voted to accept the Banking Department’s budget proposal as presented in HQ1, with a motion and second and no discussion.
The transcript then moved to the Department of Energy budget. Commissioner Jared Chakin and Chief of Operations Lenny Radio discussed federal program funding, including LIHEAP fuel assistance and weatherization. They said the apparent drop in fuel assistance funding from FY 2024 actuals to the budgeted amount is due to the loss of ARPA and CARES Act supplemental funds, while weatherization remains a federally constrained program with a waiting list and limited flexibility. Members also asked about a proposed transfer from the renewable energy fund; staff said the transfer would still allow the department to carry out its statutory duties for the year, though the committee deferred deeper discussion until House Bill 2.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Labor and Employment Committee Jun 24th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- He said new regulations proposed under pressure from refineries would weaken those protections.
- He said they have lived with the regulations since 2017, that a lawsuit was filed in 2019, that COVID
- He asked that they be allowed to keep the regulations because they have been very important and very
- She said new regulations proposed under pressure from refineries would weaken those protections.
- As it pertains to the lawsuit and the DIR regulations, we did ultimately sue over the DIR final regulations
Summary:
The Assembly Labor and Employment Committee heard several bills focused on labor standards, worker safety, and public transparency. SB 954 by Senator Blakespear would revise last year’s CEQA exemption for advanced manufacturing by adding worker protections such as prevailing wage, a skilled and trained workforce, high-road employment standards, and environmental guardrails. Supporters from labor, environmental justice, and conservation groups said the bill restores promised safeguards after SB 131, while business groups argued the added requirements would undermine the exemption and discourage investment. The committee voted 5-0 to do pass and re-refer SB 954 to Appropriations, leaving the roll open for absent members.
The committee then considered SB 966 by Senator Gonzalez, which would codify refinery worker participation and safety protections adopted in 2017 after the 2012 Chevron Richmond fire. Supporters, including United Steelworkers and a former refinery worker, said the bill would preserve workers’ ability to report hazards, select representatives, and stop unsafe work, preventing future disasters. The Western States Petroleum Association opposed the bill, arguing it could be preempted by federal labor law and would add regulatory uncertainty. The committee passed SB 966 3-0 and re-referred it to Appropriations, with the roll left open.
Next, SB 1203 by Senator Smallwood-Cuevas sought to modernize private security guard training, expand de-escalation instruction, strengthen accountability, and create a clearer professional pathway for the industry. The author and many security workers testified that guards are often first responders in volatile situations and need more practical training and better standards; opponents from industry and business groups warned the bill would raise costs, worsen staffing shortages, and create implementation problems, especially around third-party training and a new wage order. The committee voted 4-1 to do pass and re-refer SB 1203 to Public Safety, with one no vote and the roll left open.
The committee also heard SB 1284 by Senator Smallwood-Cuevas, a transparency bill requiring DHCS to publish the names of large employers with workers enrolled in Medi-Cal and the estimated taxpayer cost. Supporters said the measure would show how low wages and unaffordable coverage shift health costs to the public, while opponents argued Medi-Cal enrollment depends on many factors and that naming employers would be misleading and amount to public shaming. After discussion, the committee voted 4-2 to do pass and re-refer SB 1284 to Appropriations, leaving the roll open. The transcript then began discussion of SB 1054 by Senator Cabaldon, which would improve workforce data collection and sharing to better evaluate job-training pathways, but the excerpt cuts off before testimony or action on that bill.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/25
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> aquatic invasive species and water aquatic invasive species and water protection<00:09:44.240><c
- This $4.4 million proposal increases water-use permit and application fees and water-use fee rates and
- </c> water and agricultural irrigation needs. water and agricultural irrigation needs.
- > fund</c> management, the DNR's clean water fund management, the DNR's clean water fund budget<00:24
- </c> partners plan for and implement water partners plan for and implement water quality<00:24:10.720