Video & Transcript Research : 'school function'

Page 26 of 500
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part II) Aug 18th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's up to the school.
  • They have a charter school association. They have a charter school PAC.
  • So, TASB, for example, represents the governmental body that is school boards. The school boards.
  • Our traditional public schools and another for our charter schools.
  • Look folks, we hear it in the Education Committee all the time: charter schools are public schools.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Aug 15th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • eliminate the STAAR test and replace it with effective tools to... ...assess student progress and ensure school
  • The age from 21 to 18, which would include high school students.
  • Senate Bill 10 by Bettencourt et al. relating to public school accountability and transparency to Finance
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Feb 12th, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • All we got in law enforcement, school teachers, and all.
  • Gainesville High School.
  • Senate Bill 1216 gives school districts another tool in the toolbox.
  • Senate Bill 1216 gives school districts another tool in the toolbox.
  • When they get sued, the school district gets sued.
Summary: The committee heard and advanced several bills, beginning with SB 694 on compensation for the descendants of the Groveland Four. Senator Bracey Davis described the wrongful accusations, convictions, deaths, and long-term harm to the families, and an amendment added a $4 million appropriation and updated the recipient for Ernest Thomas’s family. Multiple family members, advocates, clergy, and supporters testified in favor, emphasizing the decades-long delay in justice and the need for accountability and repair. Senators from both parties spoke in support, and the committee reported the bill favorably after a roll call vote. The committee then approved SB 330 on disability provisions for firefighters, law enforcement, and correctional officers; SB 474 on military affairs leave and related benefits; and SB 96 on the Veterans Dental Care Grant Program. SB 96 drew the most discussion, with Senator Sharief explaining that the bill raises eligibility to 400% of the federal poverty level and moves $500,000 in recurring funding to the General Appropriations Act. Senator Wright and Senator Harrell raised concerns about whether expanding eligibility could worsen the existing waitlist, while supporters argued the change would help more veterans access needed dental care. The bill was ultimately reported favorably. The committee also passed SB 7018 on child welfare, making the Step Into Success pilot program permanent and statewide, adjusting visitor/background-check rules for foster homes, and creating a best-practices program through the Florida Institute for Child Welfare. SB 480 on information technology was reported favorably after amendments creating a central IT governance structure under the Governor’s office, adding vendor performance metrics and a preferred vendor list, and restoring criminal justice information security provisions. SB 1066 on the Ocklawaha River and Rodman Dam also advanced after extensive testimony from supporters and historians about partial restoration, recreation, and economic benefits; the sponsor said he would continue working through permitting questions before floor consideration. Later, the committee approved SB 1216 on educator compensation, which gives districts more flexibility on cost-of-living adjustments, advanced degrees, and performance pay caps, and SB 1120 on water management district oversight and reporting. The committee also reported favorably SB 1366 on sovereign immunity and claims against government, which would raise damages caps, index them to CPI, shorten claim deadlines, and cap attorney fees at 25%. That bill drew testimony from hospitals, cities, counties, school districts, and others, with some supporting the Senate’s compromise approach and others raising concerns about impacts on self-insured law enforcement agencies and attorney incentives. The meeting concluded with the favorable report on the bill after debate continued over those issues.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Workforce Apr 1st, 2025

S/C on Workforce

Transcript Highlights:
  • We work with nonprofits, we work with philanthropy, we work with school districts, and business leaders
  • These are youth aged 16 to 24 who are neither in school nor employed.
  • ... ...preps their development, and they are 10 times more likely than their peers to drop out of school
  • , perform poorly in school, and have difficulty obtaining and maintaining long-term employment.
  • stable employment, we must prioritize this population and create strategies to re-engage them in school
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Aeronautics and Transportation REVISED Apr 13th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Aeronautics and Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 2979 enables the Department of Transportation to establish school zones on portions of state
  • The Department of Transportation has identified 14 locations where a school dwells school zone meets
  • I just took the normal common Definition of the run the highway running right beside the school.
  • The school, Senator Stewart, you're recognized for a follow-up question. Thank you again.
  • So, we're gonna take care of the initial marking of the school zone in the signage Tewart for follow-up
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 15th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The partnerships were between school districts or charter schools, traditional school districts. of higher
  • Because when I look at even my own kids who are in high school, middle school and elementary school,
  • Unaddressed problems at school, because the schools have no resources, because the schools have no patience
  • , because the schools...
  • All members voted Kerwin voting aye School Bell School Bell School Bell Have all members voted.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 3/26/26

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • And this legislation ensures that the cap increase enacted in 2025 functions as intended, and that helps
  • This road is important for water and sewer infrastructure that are integral to the corridor's function
  • This road also borders the Frazee School District campus, including football, softball, and baseball
  • This road also borders the Frazee School This road also borders the Frazee School District<00:57
  • The city's 14 pressure reducing valves serve a critical function in the city's water distribution and
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee Apr 16th, 2025

Public Safety and Homeland Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • Mask if they are on campus, because it's just a school bill, right?
  • This is not like a grocery store bill or because you're using schools.
Bills: HB411, HB559
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations May 26th, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is not an abstract policy debate for our teachers and school employees.
  • This is not an abstract policy debate for our teachers and school employees.
  • If we want to recruit and retain school employees, then we have to act like it.
  • normal childhood functioning related to younger children with teenagers.
  • that doesn't report. requires, or it carries a penalty against any school that doesn't report.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education 2ND REVISED Apr 14th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • We also have Miss Ortiz, who is an ESL teacher at Putnam City North High School.
  • So, there's nothing requiring a school to do it.
  • Members, House Bill 4478 simply increases the daily deposit threshold for school districts and school
  • That gives the districts and school sites and parent volunteers and school employees more flexibility
  • I think giving the schools and really parent volunteers who handle these for school dances...
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Banking, Financial Services and Pensions REVISED: HB1182 - Removed Feb 17th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Banking, Financial Services and Pensions

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, HB 2206 allows newly hired school resource officers to participate in the Oklahoma Law Enforcement
  • Members, HB 3625 updates Oklahoma school districts' investment statute.
  • Local school boards retain full control through written policy and monthly review.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Higher Education Apr 29th, 2025

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • A UTEP law school is viable and needed.
  • . school.
  • into existence, takes into account whether there's a desire to open a law school. school and whether
  • So it could either be UTRGV or any. law school and come down and establish a school down there in the
  • Educate elementary, middle schools, high schools, I have a school that I'm going to, next month, to bring