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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Select Committee on the Transportation Costs and Impact of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard Aug 27th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- The conversion also allows us to reduce our water usage by 160 million gallons per year.
- This accumulation of wet manure results in air and water pollution in lower-income communities, near
- Air and water pollution in lower-income communities, near lower-income communities, almost entirely in
- I mean, it's distilled water. It doesn't taste very good, but it's clean.
- I mean, it's distilled water. It doesn't taste very good, but it's clean.
Summary:
The hearing focused on California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), its role in reducing transportation emissions, and whether its costs at the pump are justified by its climate, air quality, and investment benefits. The co-chairs and several members framed the discussion around affordability and asked whether the program’s benefits, including cleaner fuels, zero-emission vehicle infrastructure, and public health gains, outweigh any added fuel costs. Members also raised concerns about how the program is understood by the public and whether its benefits are being communicated clearly.
CARB and CEC officials explained how LCFS works as a market-based program that sets declining carbon-intensity targets, generates credits for lower-carbon fuels, and requires deficit holders to buy credits or otherwise comply. They said the program has driven billions in annual private investment, expanded alternative fuels, supported EV charging and hydrogen stations, and helped reduce emissions and local pollution. They also argued that LCFS credit prices are not the main driver of gasoline prices, that the recent amendments added only about seven cents per gallon, and that crude oil, refining, and distribution costs account for most pump price variation.
Committee members pressed witnesses on credit banking, market effects, the recent rule updates, additionality, and whether the program’s benefits are concentrated in-state or out-of-state. CARB said banking helps keep the program cost-effective and provides investment certainty, while the Energy Commission said LCFS-related costs are relatively stable and separate from the broader gasoline market. The panel also discussed how the 2025 amendments were shaped by the state’s 2030 and 2045 climate goals and by uncertainty over federal actions. No votes or formal actions were taken during the portion of the hearing provided.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- pollution, as chemically tainted blood, placenta tissue, and human remains are going into the water
- You do not have to be pro-life to oppose pathological medical waste going into the water.
- Abusers have also spiked water, drinks, and smoothies with abortion pills or forced women to take the
- They can be mixed with food and water and cause unwarranted abortions.
- Whether it's about water fountains, where someone can sit, or even just exist, we know that...
Committee:
House State Affairs
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And 44 were related to electricity, 34 to water and to wastewater utilities? Yes. Okay. Thank you.
- it to something simple that most people could understand, I would say, if I'm going to be running a water
- pipe from here to Dallas and I need a certain amount of water, am I going to put a two-inch line and
- **Senator Nichols:** ...water pipe from here to Dallas, and I need a certain amount of water, am I going
- If I need to run a water pipe from here to Dallas and I need a certain amount of water, am I going to
Committee:
Senate Business & Commerce
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- the state of Texas, in that if your electricity goes down, you don't pump gasoline, you don't pump water
- You can start back, drench it with a lot of water.
- We just kind of got to work the electricity side and water and all that stuff.
- point, we've also had those discussions in my office, you know, around whether it's an issue with water
- exactly directly pertaining to this hearing, but it would be nice to be able to request data from water
Committee:
Senate Business & Commerce
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Finally, under certain circumstances, the bill requires rate parity for municipal water and wastewater
- Committee substitute for House Bill 4081, a bill to be entitled an act relating to Eastpoint Water and
- Committee substitute for House Bill 4095, a bill to be entitled an act relating to the Headwaters Water
- Committee substitute for House Bill 4095, a bill to be entitled an act relating to the Headwaters Water
- Committee substitute for House Bill 4103, a bill to be entitled an act relating to the Apalachicola Water
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Whether it's investments in our state parks, public water accesses, fish hatcheries so people can catch
- And, of course, when we're on our bonding tours, as much as I love wastewater and drinking water and
- much as I love wastewater<00:32:36.480><c> and</c><00:32:36.799><c> drinking</c><00:32:37.120><c> water
- and drinking water and storm water<00:32:38.240><c> infrastructure,</c><00:32:39.440><c> I</c><00:32
- enjoy um water infrastructure, I really enjoy um seeing<00:32:41.919><c> all</c><00:32:42.080><c> of
Committee:
Senate Capital Investment
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations - Room 216, 28 January, 2026; 8:15 AM
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- We don't have any water out at Oakley, so we're going to have some additional expenses there, hopefully
- We don't have any water out at Oakley, so we're going to have some additional expenses there, hopefully
- We don't have any water out at Oakley, so we're going to have some additional expenses there, hopefully
- We don't have any water out at Oakley, so we're going to have some additional expenses there, hopefully
- That's why we're, you know, I hope we don't have to replace this water tower.
Committee:
Joint Appropriations
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- They're exempt from the city taxes, the county, the water district, and the hospital district.
- You brought up the water districts.
- What's really frustrating in those is that a lot of the water districts are MUDs that are usually just
- I represent one of those little blocks that... ...that he didn't really harp on, but we represent water
- So, if I've sold debt for a water plant or sewer plant that's going to serve that multifamily property
Committee:
House Intergovernmental Affairs
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Postsecondary Education (3-11-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- They prevent all food, water, and electricity from coming in.
- They prevent all<01:08:47.759><c> food,</c><01:08:48.159><c> water,</c><01:08:48.560><c> and</c><01:08
- :48.799><c> electricity</c><01:08:49.440><c> from</c> all food, water, and electricity from all food,
- water, and electricity from coming<01:08:49.920><c> in.
- Others represent olive leaves and, I believe, the water and off the coast of Palestine, or, you know,
Summary:
The committee first took up Senate Bill 77, which would allow comprehensive universities to pursue doctoral programs under a new approval process and, in the original bill, would also change who may serve on the EPSB board for small colleges and universities. The sponsor and Council on Postsecondary Education representative explained that the committee substitute removed the current statutory prohibition on comprehensive universities offering certain doctoral degrees, but added eligibility guardrails: a 77% first-to-second-year retention rate, a 56% six-year graduation rate, and three months of unrestricted cash reserves. They said the thresholds were based on national data placing institutions in roughly the top quartile, and that CPE would still review proposals for mission fit, workforce need, fiscal impact, and, where applicable, programmatic accreditation and legislative appropriations. EKU President David McFaden supported creating a pathway for comprehensive universities, said Kentucky is unusual in having an explicit statutory prohibition, and urged the committee to keep the standards attainable and durable. The committee approved the bill and adopted a title amendment, with the motion passing unanimously.
The committee then heard Senate Joint Resolution 55, which addresses antisemitism on postsecondary campuses. Senator Tichenor said the resolution responds to a rise in antisemitic incidents after October 7, 2023, and would require campuses to notify students each semester of Title VI rights, complaint procedures, existing harassment policies, and available Jewish student resources. It would also direct campuses to disband student organizations found to provide material support to known terrorist organizations, report such matters to law enforcement, and collect and report antisemitism data to CPE for posting on its website. A guest speaker from the Kentucky Jewish Council described a sharp increase in reported incidents, including harassment, threats, vandalism, and hostile campus activity, and argued that schools have often done too little to respond. He said the resolution was amended to protect free speech while ensuring Jewish students receive the same protections as other protected groups. The transcript ends while testimony on the resolution was still underway, before any committee vote on SJR 55.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- 34 hearing thank you for coming Okay, Senate Bill 59 is next, and the primary sponsor is Senator Waters
- Welcome, Senator Waters. Good morning. Welcome, Senator Waters. Good morning.
- Senator David Waters, District 4, to introduce Senate Bill 59.
- This might be for you or for Senator Waters or both, but I just want to comment first.
- or both um but I I just want to Waters or both um but I I just want to uh<00:59:06.480><c> comment</
Committee:
Senate Education
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Ways and Means (01/14/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- Water and Sewer um I I I'm not sure we Water and Sewer um I I I'm not sure we could<02:56:13.880><c>
- There could be a waters edge filer elsewhere, right?
- There could be a waters edge filer elsewhere, right?
- There could be a waters edge filer elsewhere, right?
- There could be a waters edge filer elsewhere, right?
Summary:
The meeting was a Ways and Means briefing opened by the vice chair, who introduced Jason Wong of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston to discuss the national and regional economy. Wong focused on inflation, asking why it had fallen from about 9% in 2022 to the 2%–3% range, and what that meant for monetary policy and the risk of an economic downturn. He said the Fed’s target is 2%, noted that recent PCE inflation was about 2.4% and core PCE about 2.7%, and described the ongoing debate over whether interest rates should stay tight or be lowered further to protect the labor market.
Wong explained that the improvement in inflation has been driven largely by goods prices, especially durable goods such as cars, appliances, and furniture, as well as non-durable goods like food. He said supply-chain disruptions during the pandemic caused major price spikes in 2022, but those pressures have eased and many goods prices are now at or below the Fed’s target. He also referenced the New York Fed’s Global Supply Chain Pressure Index, saying it showed extreme pandemic-era disruptions that have since receded.
The main remaining inflation problem, he said, is in services, especially housing. Wong broke services into rent of shelter and all other services, explaining that shelter is a large share of household budgets and that housing inflation has a lag because rent measures often reflect older lease terms rather than current market rents. He said monthly Zillow data suggest market rents have cooled and may eventually feed through to official inflation measures. Members asked several questions about the chart’s time scale, the treatment of real estate, property taxes, and utilities, and Wong clarified that housing costs are counted in services and that the slides would be shared digitally. No votes or formal actions were taken.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
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- We have the Board of Water Supply in support. >> I think it's with the Board of Water Supply.
- </c> the waters we manage. the waters we manage.
- I know a few years ago there was a commitment of about 201 water meters from the Department of Water
- </c> from the Department of Water Supply. from the Department of Water Supply.
Bills:
HB2459 , HB1616 , HB1799 , HB1604 , HB1732 , HB1736 , HB1931 , HB772 , HB2153 , HB2122 , HB2009 , HB2012 , HB1779 , HB2296 , HB2397 , HB2398 , HB1596 , HB2233 , HB1976 , HB1563 , HB815 , HB1655 , HB1851 , HB1941 , HB2037 , HB1635 , HB2201 , HB1943 , HB1163 , HB2452 , HB2429 , HB2148 , HB2306 , HB2007 , HB2049 , HB2616
Committee:
House Finance
MI
Michigan 2025-2026 Regular Session
Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection 26-06-23
Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection
Transcript Highlights:
- declared just in the last few months here in Michigan surrounding tornadoes and gas prices and a recent water
- No one should have to pay hundreds of dollars for food, water, first aid supplies, or other essentials
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection met with a quorum, adopted the June 17 minutes, and took testimony on several bills. Senate Bill 1053, sponsored by Chair Kavanaugh, would raise the acreage cap for neighborhood enterprise zones from 15% to 20% for certain zones. Supporters from Invest Detroit and the City of Detroit said the change would help make housing and redevelopment projects viable, especially in high-tax areas like Detroit, and the bill was reported to the floor on a 6-2 vote.
The committee also heard Senate Bill 988, sponsored by Senator Santana, which would extend from 30 to 35 days the deadline to appeal a denied poverty exemption to the Michigan Tax Tribunal. The sponsor and Detroit’s property assessment director described it as a technical alignment with the Tax Tribunal Act and a correction to conflicting timelines; the bill drew support from the Michigan Poverty Law Program, the Michigan Chamber, and the Tax Tribunal, and was reported unanimously. The committee then adopted S-1 substitutes for Senate Bills 1041, 1042, and 1043, the price-gouging package sponsored by Senators Moss, Chang, and Kavanaugh.
Sponsors of the price-gouging bills said the package would strengthen Michigan’s emergency price-gouging protections by defining excessive increases during declared emergencies, covering lodging, essential goods and services, and energy products, and giving the Attorney General clearer enforcement tools. Supporters included the Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association and the Attorney General’s office, while the Michigan Chamber, Mackinac Center, and NFIB opposed the package. Despite the opposition, all three bills were reported to the floor on 5-3 votes. The meeting adjourned after all reported bills were approved.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Formal House Session 94 Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- support a section of the consolidated amendment that will assist 73 ...cities, towns, school districts, water
- allow our communities to amortize these unanticipated costs over a short period to help settle the waters
Summary:
The House took up several routine and ceremonial matters first, including a resolution honoring the Solomon Northup Committee and commemorating the arrival of the Solomon Northup sculpture in Boston, which was adopted. Members also adopted an order extending the Revenue Committee’s reporting deadline on House No. 4606, concurred in a Senate sick leave bank petition for Jeffrey Yatson, and suspended Joint Rule 12 for a similar sick leave bank petition for Jean McCarran. The House then advanced House No. 4413, a bill on the terms of certain Commonwealth bonds, to third reading and later passed it to be engrossed.
The main floor debate centered on House No. 4601, the fiscal year 2025 supplemental appropriations bill. The bill was described as a $2.25 billion supplemental budget with a net Commonwealth cost of about $750 million, covering MassHealth, snow and ice deficiencies, Home Base, universal school meals, reproductive health care supports, a sports and entertainment fund, and other items. The bill also included outside sections on public health and finance, and it ratified seven collective bargaining agreements. The House adopted Amendment 70, which added Health Safety Net funding measures, including higher hospital assessments and a $50 million transfer from the Commonwealth Care Trust Fund, after supporters said it would help avert a projected shortfall and generate federal Medicaid revenue. A separate amendment on Home Base eligibility was rejected.
The House also adopted a consolidated amendment that included provisions affecting western and central Massachusetts municipal health insurance costs and changes to violent injury benefit language for first responders, including clarifying the definition of a weapon and tightening the standard for covered injuries. Another consolidated amendment was adopted by roll call, and the bill itself was then passed to be engrossed by a recorded vote. The session ended with an order to meet the next day at 11 a.m. and a motion to adjourn in memory of former House members Thomas and George, which was agreed to before adjournment.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- expands eligibility for the 24-month gross production tax exemption on wells completed using recycled water
- Is that still the intent of this to make sure that noncompleted wells are completed with produced water
Committee:
Senate Revenue and Taxation
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
04/08/2026 - House Democratic Caucus Calendar #15 & #16
Transcript Highlights:
- have, it says, like how big their pen has to be, how far away from a wall, la-da-da-da, where their water
- Where their water is, all the things. It's a gender issue.
Summary:
The caucus reviewed a long list of Senate and House bills, many of them on consent or with strike-everything amendments. Topics included advanced air mobility for border security (SB 1457), raising the off-highway vehicle weight limit to 3,500 pounds while striking a proposed law enforcement fund (SB 1519), school property leases and a trampoline court safety citation change (HB 2383), electronic monitoring in health care facilities (SB 1041), dental school complaint handling and board jurisdiction limits (SB 1168), pharmacist-authorized testing and HIV prevention guidance (SB 1713), school district insurance/self-insurance requirements (SB 1497), reporting-requirement cleanup for education statutes (HB 2203), historic neighborhood housing zoning (SB 1118), construction contract payment protections in revitalization districts (SB 1189), timeshare salesperson licensing (SB 1274), workers’ compensation notice and recordkeeping (SB 1428), property tax disability exemption clarifications (HB 2120), insurance modeling/data organization requirements (HB 2174), HOA rules on chickens and pet breed restrictions (SB 1582), first responder death benefits for law enforcement pilots (SB 1503), and changes to virtual veterinary prescribing periods (SB 1286). Members generally asked clarifying questions, and several sponsors were said to intend to concur or refuse amendments, with HB 2010 headed to conference because the sponsor would not accept the Senate’s five-year refund window.
On the second calendar, the committee heard HB 2176 on health facility complaint investigations, allowing DHS to investigate older complaints involving alleged abuse; HB 2050 on radiologic technologists and radiologist assistants, restoring direct supervision requirements with limited general-supervision exceptions; HB 2010 on digital goods, where the Senate reduced a refund window from 10 years to five and the sponsor planned to refuse; HB 2875 on unmanned aircraft, expanding airport drone-delivery buffer rules from one mile to two and a half miles and requiring airport consultation; HB 2428 on county certification of emission reduction credits, clarifying participation is voluntary and limiting new credits if fleet participation becomes mandatory; and HB 2877, which was struck and replaced with a veterinary technician certification pathway requiring 4,000 supervised work hours and allowing nonprofit curriculum evidence. Several members noted support or opposition based on prior votes or policy concerns, but no roll-call votes were taken in the caucus itself.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
Local and Private - Room 210, 24 March, 2026; 10:45 AM
Local and Private
Transcript Highlights:
- into an agreement with a local operator, and what it is is an employer that wants to use the treated water
- , 10 million gallons goes into the treated, um, a day, and they're wanting to utilize some of that water
Committee:
Joint Local and Private
VA
Transcript Highlights:
- Senate Bill 553 relates to certain data from water users and water use consumption of data centers.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Mar 12th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Washington House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Stokesbary, Stonier, Street, Steve, Taylor, Thai, Tharinger, Thomas, Timmons, Valdez, Volz, Walen, Walsh, Waters
- May the waters of Puget Sound, the Colombian Snake Rivers, the rivers of the Skagit and Yakima valleys
Keywords:
behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access, mental health funding, premium assistance, funding, healthcare, subsidies, juice grapes, agriculture, commerce, state regulation, market access, fire safety, insurance incentives, best practices, community protection, voluntary measures, mortgage modification
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Education Oversight REVISED: HB1937 - Added Mar 4th, 2026
Education Oversight
Transcript Highlights:
- So I do not want to water down the protections of the students. These things happen, unfortunately.
- So I do not want to water down the protections of the students.
Committee:
House Education Oversight
Summary:
The Education Oversight committee heard and advanced several House bills, mostly with policy recommendations or amendments accepted and then due-pass votes. HB 4358, by Pro Tem Moore, would limit screen time for pre-K through fifth grade and shift online testing/remediation provisions to shorter, per-class-period limits; it was sent out due pass. HB 2398, by Rep. Hill, would recognize “credentials of value” for students in career tech and higher education based on workforce demand and other indicators, and it also passed due pass. HB 3557, by Rep. Williams, would keep 4-H fundraising money in the county where it was raised and prevent commingling with other funds; the committee agreed to strike the title and send it out due pass.
The committee also advanced HB 3129, which would prevent colleges from charging security fees to students or student organizations based on public expression, and HB 3312, which would create K-12 firearms education curriculum developed with OSDE and CLEET, focused on safety, storage, and response, with no live firearms or ammunition. HB 2210 modernizes the youth apprenticeship program by allowing earlier entry into career pathways, expanding eligibility, and assigning CareerTech oversight and ROI reporting; it passed due pass. HB 1937, in a committee substitute, was discussed at length and would require corroborating evidence before school personnel are suspended over alleged improper communications with students, while still requiring action and reporting; it was also sent out due pass.
Finally, HB 3021, a lengthy graduation-related cleanup bill, was explained as reconciling conflicting statutes and making several technical changes, including allowing tribal language to count as a non-English language for graduation purposes. After extensive stakeholder work and a late-filed committee substitute, the committee accepted the PCS and sent the bill out due pass. The meeting concluded after all House bills on the agenda were advanced.