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AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/24/2026 - House Republican Caucus Calendar #13
Transcript Highlights:
- Madam Whip, members, Senate Bill 1568 requires election systems and software to have their clocks and
- Election system software, this only for timekeeping?
- country, as well as countries outside of the U.S., from coming to Arizona, because right now this system
- The memorial also asks Congress to provide funding for a system study and for needed improvements to
- The memorial also asks Congress to provide funding for a system study and for needed improvements to
Summary:
The caucus reviewed a long list of Senate bills and memorials, mostly on consent calendars, covering housing, elections, health care, public safety, land use, transportation, and water. Several measures focused on housing and local government regulation, including limits on municipal interference with home design standards, restrictions on alleged “malicious delays” in permitting, and rules on exactions. Election-related bills addressed internet access for voting equipment, timekeeping requirements for election systems, primary election timing, precinct committeeman vacancies, and other election administration changes. Other topics included liquor law updates, assisted living facility rules, deed and title fraud prevention, a Freedom of Speech Monument committee, renaming public spaces, and a bill restricting gender transition procedures for minors.
Health and human services bills drew discussion on behavioral health technician definitions and AHCCCS/DHS coordination, Medicaid billing during facility ownership changes, breast cancer screening cost-sharing, naturopathic physicians administering IV antibiotics and similar drugs, safe-haven newborn surrender at hospitals, and reporting requirements for dialysis social workers. In public safety and judiciary, members considered bills on probation for dangerous crimes against children, sex offender registration limitations, victim restitution costs, unlawful alerting, increased penalties for unlawful flight, and a new offense for motor fuel theft. One member noted a no vote on extending the Vulnerable Adult System Study Committee, saying it would become a long-running study committee, while supporters said the committee had produced useful recommendations.
The caucus also heard land, agriculture, energy, water, and transportation measures, including creation of a foreign entity land review commission, restrictions on transporting Mexican gray wolf pups with state resources, water reuse and banking provisions, solar installation disclosures and roof inspections, a larger revolving fund loan cap, and several congressional memorials. Transportation items included roadable aircraft registration, motor vehicle booting rules, military property signage, a towing and impound study committee, and photo enforcement penalties. Public safety bills included extending traumatic event counseling programs and requiring state data sharing with the federal government regarding unauthorized aliens. No formal votes were taken in the transcript; members mostly asked clarifying questions and several sponsors explained the intent and practical effects of their bills.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (02/09/2026)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> it could certainly be an opt-in system it could certainly be an opt-in system if<01:11:44.239><c
- Um, so I have one of these systems.
- </c> FN relative to the enhanced 911 system FN relative to the enhanced 911 system fund,<02:32:33.920
- </c> equitable contributions to system equitable contributions to system efficiency,<05:36:41.200><c>
- </c><05:45:23.120><c> capacity</c> reducing overall system capacity reducing overall system capacity
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Business and Commerce (Part II) May 1st, 2025
Business & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- The use of artificial intelligence systems is rapidly expanding across both public and private sectors
- Government agencies are required to disclose to individuals when they are interacting with an AI system
- The bill prohibits the use of AI. ...systems designed to negatively manipulate human behavior or utilize
- HB 149 creates the AI sandbox program, allowing companies to deploy and test AI systems in a controlled
- First, it importantly enumerates explicit harms that AI systems should not be promulgating.
Bills:
HB12, HB149, HB12, HB149, SB229, SB1361, SB1749, SB1897, SB2113, SB2566, SB2677, SB1652, SB2327, SB2344, SB2696
Keywords:
election law, attorney general, prosecution, criminal offenses, law enforcement, jurisdiction, voter fraud, local prosecuting attorney, public safety, communication, governor approval, interoperability, political subdivision, radio systems, artificial intelligence, regulation, biometric data, ethical AI, consumer protection, AI governance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Most specifically, I'm here to speak to the intersections of systems involved youth and disconnection
- The majority of those young people have been systems involved.
- youth and young adults who have experienced homelessness and who have been in foster care or other systems
- low incomes in the period between ages 18 and 21, and only half of foster youth who age out of the system
- years, Teenoise has listened and learned from youth and young adults across Texas who have these systems
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- While transparency is important, implementing and maintaining a recording system comes with an estimated
- We'd have to have a two systems set up in case anybody from the public was present.
- Um, but because we do that, we do have the camera system set up.
- Wagner shared, a two camera system. You've got to be able to see whoever's. Speaking.
- And we've come in and set up a two-camera system.
Keywords:
HB 279, uranium mining, uranium permit, production area authorization, production zone, Texas Water Code, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, contested case hearing, administrative hearing, groundwater restoration, groundwater baseline, water quality, mining permit, restoration values, natural resources, environmental regulation, in-situ uranium mining, permit amendment, public hearing
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Joint General Fund Budget Hearings Jan 29th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> federal authorities and the court system federal authorities and the court system is<01:44:29.360
- </c> system was never set to take care of. system was never set to take care of.
- </c> throughout the system. throughout the system.
- We already do a PARIS matching system. PARIS is the Public Assistance Reporting Information System.
- We already do a verification system.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- to explain our decision to pursue the turf replacement project through the interlocal purchasing system
- process was conducted properly, particularly due to concerns regarding the field base and drainage system
- in and help us to make sure we have very good plan moving forward to really reform our workforce system
- , a workforce system, and that's something I think that we're going to be working on.
- They're the leading source of getting states to where they need to be with this system.
Summary:
The Executive Subcommittee met and first considered a waiver request from the Stuttgart School District to use the TIPS interlocal purchasing system for a turf replacement project instead of the traditional competitive bid process. Superintendent Jeff McKinney explained that three bids were received but none fully met the RFP specifications, including warranty and insurance requirements. He said the district, with its architect’s guidance, determined that United Turf and Track was the best option because it met the 10-year warranty requirement, had resolved the insurance issue, had prior experience with the district, and could complete the work in time for summer installation. The committee approved the waiver request.
Members then approved a consultant services agreement between the Bureau of Legislative Research and WorkEd Consulting for work related to the workforce system study and potential legislation for the 2027 session. Senator Jane English and Representative Mary Bentley said the consultant would help the legislature develop reforms after prior audit findings showed the current workforce system was inefficient and ineffective. They noted WorkEd’s experience in other states, including Louisiana, West Virginia, Mississippi, and Virginia, and explained that some subcontractors would include people who had worked on the earlier Georgia Center for Opportunity study. The contract was approved.
The committee also approved a renewed actuarial and consultant services agreement with Perrin Knight for services related to the state’s new property insurance captive. Jill Thayer said the contract would provide independent actuarial support to legislative subcommittees, especially the State Insurance Properties Oversight Subcommittee, with services billed only as used. Members asked about budgeting, frequency of work, and overlap with existing executive branch contractors; Thayer and Senator Goodmore said the service had been anticipated from the start and would be separate and independent. Finally, Marty Garrity requested use of committee room funds to renovate Committee Room C in the Big Mac Building because its audio-visual equipment is outdated. That request was approved, and the meeting adjourned.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- process was conducted properly, particularly due to the concerns regarding the field base and drainage system
- to look at them, but they were very, very thorough and gave us a chance to see that our workforce system
- , a workforce system, and that's something I think that we're going to be working on.
- , a workforce system, and that's something I think that we're going to be working on.
- They're the leading source of getting states to where they need to be with this system.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> And that was an ham operating system And that was an ham operating system that<00:28:46.880><c>
- </c><00:31:02.240><c> coming</c> computerized type uh system coming computerized type uh system coming
- </c><00:34:39.040><c> were</c> communications when other systems were communications when other systems
- </c> operations or abusing the system. operations or abusing the system.
- </c> two-plate system for a couple years now. two-plate system for a couple years now.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division III (03/17/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:49:51.240><c> fewer</c> spent in our treatment system fewer spent in our treatment system fewer
- and in our treatment justice system and in our treatment system<00:50:53.240><c> and</c><00:50:53.400
- </c><01:17:55.400><c> to</c> order for everyone in the the system to order for everyone in the the system
- Like many other youths here, I aged out of the foster care system.
- </c> young person aging out of the system young person aging out of the system feels<01:28:57.360><c>
Summary:
Division 3 Finance held a work session to move through five bills before noon, noting one member’s early departure and adjusting the order of bills accordingly. The first item, HB 54, would allow some alternative treatment centers in the medical cannabis system to operate for profit. Members discussed a fiscal note showing a one-time $133,000 cost, which was described as a Division 1 budget item to be handled through HB 2 rather than directly in Division 3. After discussion about keeping Division 1 informed and the distinction between retaining a bill versus funding it, the committee voted unanimously to retain HB 54 for further finance work and conversion into HB 2.
The committee then took up HB 547, concerning reimbursement to counties for enhanced FMAP funds during the COVID period. The chair summarized the issue as federal enhanced Medicaid matching funds that were received by the state before authority existed to pass them through to counties, creating a disputed amount owed to counties. County representatives said the money should have gone to counties and clarified the relevant time period, while the department did not take a position. The chair proposed retaining the bill and moving it into HB 2, with discussion of a possible four-year repayment structure in equal annual installments. The committee agreed to retain the bill for continued work in the budget process.
During the HB 547 discussion, members also clarified the fiscal and accounting details, including that the fiscal note had not been widely available and that some figures in the note should be treated as county revenue rather than county expenditure. Testimony explained that the enhanced FMAP increased from 50 percent to 56.2 percent, and that the state’s and counties’ shares of claims were affected by the timing of the federal change and the later state authorization. The committee emphasized that the issue was complex and budget-dependent, and that retaining the bill would allow further negotiation and incorporation into HB 2 rather than immediate final action.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- ,</c> a public or academic library system, a public or academic library system, we're<00:04:35.280><c
- They are system level deficits. They are system level preparation<00:10:32.560><c> gaps.
- It could be for operating systems. It could be for software on systems.
- It could be for operating systems. It could be for software on systems.
- </c><01:06:25.359><c> you</c> one maybe there was three systems you one maybe there was three systems
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/26
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> systems to be able to implement those. systems to be able to implement those.
- So what kinds of systems changes do we need to do?
- You said it was delayed due to systems work.
- ,</c> there was really a gap in the system, there was really a gap in the system, which<01:09:32.159>
- When we started tracking our K12 system.
Bills:
HF3379
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Administration of Criminal Justice Apr 23rd, 2026
Administration of Criminal Justice
Transcript Highlights:
- HB 1107 is the antithesis of justice and fairness in our criminal system.
- HB 1107 is the antithesis of justice and fairness in our criminal system.
- Too often, systems respond to them with arrest, detention, or other punitive measures.
- We are reinforcing shame, isolation, and distrust of systems that are supposed to help.
- This bill certainly reduces accountability in a very important system here.
Summary:
The committee first handled several housekeeping items, voluntarily deferring HB 123, HB 255, and HB 994 without objection. It then took up SCR 3 by Senator Brock Myers, which would delay and revise implementation of a state police rule affecting criminal history background checks for licensed ambulance personnel and certain health care workers. After adopting Amendment Set 434 to remove a provision involving parish and local law enforcement checks, the committee reported SCR 3 as amended favorably. The committee also heard HB 978 by Rep. Lecombe, which as amended raises the population threshold for municipalities required to remit certain special costs to the District Indigent Defender Fund from under 5,000 to under 9,000; with support from the town of Addis and related stakeholders, the bill was reported favorably as amended.
The committee then considered HB 967 by Rep. Moore, which sought to remove language limiting parole eligibility for certain pre-July 2, 1973 life-sentenced offenders to those who had pleaded guilty, thereby allowing a small group of elderly inmates convicted at trial to seek parole consideration. Supporters argued the bill would only create an opportunity for review, not release, and cited rehabilitation and fairness concerns; opponents, including district attorneys and corrections officials, argued the 2022 law already addressed the intended group and that the current bill would reopen cases involving serious violent crimes. After extended debate, the motion to report HB 967 favorably failed on an 8-3 vote.
Finally, the committee took up HB 1107 by Rep. Melerine, a bill on determining intellectual disability in capital cases. The bill, as amended, raised the burden of proof to clear and convincing evidence, set an IQ threshold framework, required expert reports and Daubert-type reliability review, and limited the article to post-conviction capital cases. The Attorney General’s office and district attorneys supported the bill as a way to create clearer procedures and speed resolution of Atkins claims, while criminal defense lawyers, disability advocates, clergy, and medical experts opposed it as inconsistent with current clinical standards and potentially unconstitutional, warning that rigid IQ cutoffs and presumptions could wrongly expose people with intellectual disabilities to execution. The transcript ends during closing remarks on HB 1107, with no final committee vote shown.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Feb 27th, 2026 at 09:00 am
Washington Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- No one is getting more PTO in this system when they have PFML.
- They just have whatever PTO... ...in this system when they have PFML.
- I'm not saying what the lady who previously spoke... ...system.
- So we're going to have to take a look at the entire system, how to make it more efficient.
- It includes $100 million over the next years targeted at preservation of our ferry system.
Bills:
SB6061, SB6234, SB6170, SB6176, SB6182, SB6335, SB5647, SB6047, HB2367, HB2606, SB5998, SB6005, SB6003, SB6129, SB6225, SB6228, SB6231
Keywords:
tourism, self-supported assessment, funding, statewide promotion, economic development, sewage, grinder pumps, residential buildings, regulation, construction, contracting rules, state highway construction, procurement limits, state regulations, infrastructure funding, vehicle registration, enforcement, renewal, transportation, state law
Summary:
The Senate met on February 23, 2026, opened with the usual roll call, pledge, prayer, and approval of the previous journal. Members then adopted Senate Resolution 8698 recognizing piano teachers, with several senators sharing personal remarks about their own teachers and the role of music education in families and communities. Guests from the Washington State Music Teachers Association and the National Guild of Piano Teachers were recognized in the gallery.
The chamber then moved into budget debate, considering a series of amendments to the operating budget. Several proposals focused on housing costs, local planning, utility rates, and state spending restraint. Amendment 0772, which would have created a housing-related task force and increased funding, was rejected after debate over housing affordability and regulatory costs. Amendment 0785, restoring growth management planning funding for local governments, was also rejected. Amendment 0791, directing the Department of Commerce to study the effects of climate and clean energy laws on utility costs, and Amendment 0769, related to grid capacity and clean energy investments, were both adopted.
Other amendments drew sharper partisan debate. Amendment 0798, which would have reduced the Supreme Court from nine justices to five and redirected savings to public defense, failed. Amendments 0794 and 0795, seeking funding for ballot measure costs tied to initiatives, also failed. Amendment 0799, intended to redirect Pacific Tower lease savings to developmental disability services, was rejected after discussion of the building’s current public uses. Amendment 0773, capping state spending growth and tying it to median wage growth, failed on a roll call vote, while Amendment 0777, addressing concurrent use of paid family and medical leave and sick leave by state employees, also failed after extended debate. Later, Amendment 0776 on tort liability reporting was adopted, as were Amendment 0758 creating a DSHS work group on community-based services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and Amendment 0786 was introduced to reduce cash and food assistance work-related funding, with debate beginning before the transcript ends.
NV
Transcript Highlights:
- It just happens through that top-down system. Thank you.
- in Nevada and threaten Nevada’s voters, a system that we have grown accustomed to.
- Is there a reason that we're not able to do it through the DMV's current system?
- They would also... ...a bunch of programming in their old, outdated system.
- , the sentencing management system, into NOTIS, which is our Nevada Offender Tracking Information System
Bills:
AB49, AB169, AB188, AB284, AB296, AB306, AB356, AB366, AB467, AB499, AB515, AB540, AB542, AB595
Keywords:
educational personnel, teacher licensing, reciprocal licensure, provisional teaching, school counselors, school nurses, school social workers, state education standards, health insurance, speech-language pathology, stuttering, rehabilitative services, habilitative services, coverage requirements, health plans, retired public employees, subsidy, Medicare, health reimbursement arrangement, Public Employees' Benefits Program
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- , and in the health care system.
- They may lose. trust in the system entirely.
- So now how can I trust my justice system to protect me now?
- With survivors citing fear, mistrust in the system.
- It's the system that abandoned me in the interim.
Keywords:
sexual assault, victim rights, forensic examination, medical care, trauma-informed care, crime victims compensation, evidence retention, child sexual abuse material, child pornography, digital services, reporting requirements, children's protection, sex offender registration, indecent assault, educator-student relationship, criminal justice, legislation, crime victims, compensation fund, information disclosure
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- That's what we're discussing is what that legal system should.
- Like a couple percentage points maybe of people that are gaming the system.
- House Bill 32 is a crucial step towards fixing the system.
- The current civil system, eviction system is failing to meet its statutory purpose of being expeditious
- This is not only unjust, it is a perversion of the of our legal system.
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Administration of Criminal Justice Apr 15th, 2026
Administration of Criminal Justice
Transcript Highlights:
- It creates a spectrum alert system to assist in locating missing persons with autism.
- Representative Eccles, it creates a spectrum alert system to assist in locating missing persons with
- prosecutor, that the system only works if both sides are properly funded.
- the public defender system very vulnerable to a lack of funding.
- Romanak said, it would cripple the criminal justice system in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Bills:
HB59, HB74, HB159, HB167, HB175, HB255, HB330, HB364, HB458, HB525, HB568, HB656, HB1033, HB1034, HB1070
Keywords:
public defender, funding, district court, East Baton Rouge, judicial expenses, Autism Spectrum Disorder, missing children, law enforcement, public safety, Spectrum Alert, inmate documentation, post-release employment, special identification card, Louisiana Department of Public Safety, reentry services, veterans, veterans services, lottery proceeds, special fund, grant board
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Student career pathways framework established 2/26/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This envisions it to integrate talent development systems, and we've heard a lot about that today, and
- interact rather than workforce systems interact rather than treating<00:02:42.959><c> them</c><00:02
- and we've heard a lot about that systems and we've heard a lot about that today<00:02:52.640><c> and
- 00:04:21.120><c> that</c> our students into a pathway system that our students into a pathway system
- 00:18:49.280><c> learning</c> system of career connected learning system of career connected learning
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/16/2026 - House Health & Human Services #1
Transcript Highlights:
- So these systems operate.
- So to try to make those systems talk is going to, again, not only mess up the systems we have in place
- attacks the central nervous system.
- , the criminal justice system, and cash assistance programs.
- , the criminal justice system, and cash assistance programs.
Summary:
The committee first took up House Bill 2307, as amended, which would require the Department of Health Services to contract with out-of-state secure mental health facilities when Arizona beds are unavailable for certain involuntary commitment cases involving defendants found dangerous and incompetent. The sponsor and supporters framed it as an emergency stopgap to prevent individuals who are deemed non-restorable from being released because Arizona lacks secure behavioral health beds, while opponents argued it would raise due process, disability rights, family access, and cost concerns, and questioned whether the state could even implement such interstate placements. After debate, the committee adopted the strike-everything amendment and advanced HB 2307 on a 6-5 due pass vote.
The committee then heard House Bill 2083, which updates diabetes-related coverage language in health plans to include newer devices and supplies such as continuous glucose monitors, insulin pumps, and smart insulin pens. Supporters said the bill modernizes outdated statutes and improves access and outcomes for people with diabetes, while an insurer representative offered soft opposition, warning that writing these items into statute could create a state mandate and potential cost exposure, especially if the language is read to include GLP-1 medications. The committee adopted the strike-everything amendment and moved HB 2083 forward on an 11-1 due pass vote.
Next, House Bill 2673 was heard, addressing mental health screening and treatment for incarcerated people. The sponsor said the bill was being reworked into a study committee concept after stakeholder feedback, but the underlying proposal would require prompt evaluation of prisoners showing mental disorder symptoms and faster referral for treatment. A family member testified about her son’s severe deterioration in jail and death, while an attorney opposed the bill as overbroad and legally problematic. Despite the sponsor’s indication that the bill would become a study committee, the committee voted 12-0 to give HB 2673 a due pass recommendation. The committee also advanced House Bill 2923, which revises timelines, procedures, and notice requirements for judicial review of court-ordered mental health treatment; supporters said it clarifies outdated language and improves communication with families, while opponents argued it shifts burdens onto patients and could prolong confinement. HB 2923 also received a 12-0 due pass vote.