Transcript Highlights:

• So can we talk a little bit about the cap adjustment factor?
• So can we talk a little bit about the cap adjustment factor?
• Um, I've heard some requests to have oil put in this carbon adjustment, cap adjustment factor.
• So I'm going to. benchmark cap adjustment factor and the annual output of a facility.
• Third, the proposed post-2032 cap adjustment factor decline is steep.

Committee: Joint Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies

Summary: The committee heard an overview and discussion of CARB’s proposed amendments to California’s Cap-and-Invest program, implemented under AB 1207 and SB 840. Chairs and members emphasized the program’s role in meeting climate targets while balancing affordability, and CARB described the proposal as intended to preserve market certainty, strengthen cost containment, address utility affordability, and support the state’s 2045 carbon-neutrality goal. CARB also noted the public comment period, the planned board hearing, and the goal of an effective date of September 1, 2026. Members questioned CARB on several implementation issues, including whether the rulemaking would be completed on time, the treatment of carbon capture and sequestration, the timing of the transfer of allowances from natural gas utilities to electric utilities, and the impact on ratepayers. CARB said it was on track to meet the May deadline, that CCUS/CDR could be further refined in the proposal and would also be addressed in a separate SB 905 rulemaking later in the year, and that it was seeking to protect ratepayers while inviting more utility data during the comment period. The committee also discussed refining-sector leakage risk, gasoline imports, and how imported fuel is accounted for under cap-and-invest versus the low-carbon fuel standard. A second panel of outside experts and stakeholders then testified. The Legislative Analyst’s Office and IEMAC representatives explained the major statutory changes, including putting offsets under the cap, shifting allowances from natural gas to electric utilities over time, and changing how allowance value is divided among utilities, industry, and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. They stressed that CARB has significant discretion in setting the allowance “pie,” and that more free allocations to utilities or industry reduce GGRF revenues. EDF’s representative argued the proposal should be adopted this spring, said the utility transition should happen faster, and urged a tighter near-term emissions cap. SCAPA, representing publicly owned utilities, opposed the proposed utility allocation changes, saying they would reduce expected allowances, undermine long-term planning, and could force higher rates or reduced decarbonization investments.

Transcript Highlights:

• put the cap at 12.5, 12,500, is what could the max could be charged to a veteran for filing their claims
• "Is what could the max could be charged to a veteran for filing their claims.
• If they file a claim with the VA or they choose to go with an outside company, same outcome will come
• , but it's just another tool in the veterans' toolbox that they can file their claims and get approved
• and get approved can file their claims and get approved through<00:12:31.920><c> the</c><00:12:32.360

Keywords: MS House Floor - 9 March, 2026; 4:00 PM, 925, all

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> self-insured employers and claim self-insured employers and claim administrators<01:19:04.719><c
• </c><01:20:43.840><c> with</c> injury the employee filed a claim with injury the employee filed a claim
• </c><01:20:49.679><c> and</c> uh accepted liability for the claim and uh accepted liability for the claim
• and I believe that the takeaway was that we are seeing fewer claims.
• </c> in workers compensation claims in workers compensation claims okay<01:41:49.800><c> I'll</c><01:

Committee: House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• state tort claims act.
• The claims in the bill were unanimously approved by the joint Senate and House claims subcommittee on
• claims.
• President, the claims bill claims. Mr.
• </c><00:18:08.000><c> Third</c> claims appropriating money. Third claims appropriating money.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• I must confess I don’t know the particulars of what you’re talking about regarding your claim that law
• Just to clarify, my claim is not that the jurisdiction of Public Safety or the concept of public safety
• is not that the jurisdiction of claim is not that the jurisdiction of Public<00:20:05.559><c> Safety
• </c><00:20:13.080><c> is</c><00:20:13.280><c> that</c><00:20:13.559><c> the</c> conceptually my claim
• is that the conceptually my claim is that the Minnesota<00:20:14.240><c> Department</c><00:20:14.679

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: House File 768, sponsored by Vice Chair Hudson, was heard with an author’s amendment (A4) adopted to remove a technical section and put the bill in the intended form. Hudson described the bill as a response to concerns about government monitoring of protected speech, saying it would bar the Minnesota Department of Human Rights from creating or maintaining a database of constitutionally protected speech while preserving the department’s ability to investigate actual discrimination, harassment, threats, or illegal conduct. He emphasized First Amendment protections and argued the state should not track speech simply because it is controversial or unpopular. The main testimony in support came from Ran Lee of Americans for Prosperity, who echoed the free-speech concerns and said databases of bias incidents can capture lawful speech and create a chilling effect. Representative Rest said she generally supported the free-speech goal but wanted to preserve the Department of Human Rights’ ability to produce biennial reports and analyze de-identified trend data on civil rights incidents, including emerging threats or hateful rhetoric, so lawmakers can respond to patterns without recording individuals’ protected speech. Representative Curran raised concerns that speech trends can relate to public safety and argued that attacks on human rights often begin as speech. Hudson responded that the Department of Human Rights is not a law enforcement agency and that the bill would not impede criminal investigations. He argued that trying to monitor “trends in thought” would be constitutionally problematic and produce unreliable data, and he distinguished protected speech from criminal conduct. Representative Feist said the department’s existing report already uses aggregate, non-investigative data and suggested there may be room to refine the bill’s language. The bill was laid over for further consideration, with Hudson indicating he was open to continued discussion and possible language changes.

Transcript Highlights:

• This is not just theory; consumers using insurance portals and glass claim solutions often see SafeFlight
• This is not just theory; consumers using insurance portals and glass claim solutions often see SafeFlight
• This is not just theory; consumers using insurance portals and glass claim solutions often see SafeFlight
• This is not just theory; consumers using insurance portals and glass claim solutions often see SafeFlight
• This is not just theory; consumers using insurance portals and glass claim solutions often see SafeFlight

Committee: House Appropriations

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• name is Thomas Doyle, and I'm the Regional Liability Manager for Enterprise Mobility's Northeast Claims
• Auto claims involve a very small percentage of auto claims.
• They don't know who to pursue the claim for. It's a very cumbersome and sloppy process.
• Rental car-related claims make up less than 0.5% of all auto claims.
• Rental car related claims make up less than 0.5% of all auto claims.

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Transportation

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Transportation held a hybrid hearing on a large slate of bills covering motor vehicle sales, registration, title processing, dealer regulation, and several local matters. Chair Cyrro noted that Senate Bill 2414 had been postponed at the sponsor’s request, though public testimony would still be accepted. The hearing then heard testimony on measures including S. 2367, which would make an insurer primary for losses caused by an insured driver in a rental car; H. 3698 and related bills on codifying registration of 25-year-old imported Japanese kei vehicles; H. 3701 on requiring lienholders to release titles within seven days; H. 3690 on capping dealer documentation fees; and H. 3641 on requiring education for class two motor vehicle dealers. Testimony also addressed e-titling and e-signatures, peer-to-peer car sharing, temporary license plates, duplicate plates, general registration plates for motor vehicle distributors, and a bill to ban tinted license plate covers. Supporters of the rental-car insurance bill argued Massachusetts is an outlier compared with 47 other states and said the change would improve fairness, competition, and consumer understanding without raising premiums. Dealers and industry groups generally supported e-titling/e-signature modernization and the inspection-related bill, but urged safeguards to preserve title, registration, and insurance verification. The Massachusetts State Auto Dealers Association opposed the doc-fee cap, saying documentation fees are a disclosed cost-recovery tool that varies by dealership. Representatives and advocates for kei vehicles said the RMV’s 2024 reversal showed the need to codify the rules in law, while opponents of the RMV’s approach described it as arbitrary and harmful to owners and importers. Supporters of the dealer-education bill said it would curb unregulated “curbstoning” and help ensure proper title handling and consumer protection. Several local and specialty bills also drew testimony. Hatfield officials supported a local bill allowing golf carts on certain town roads under strict safety rules, and Representative Ayers testified for a bill banning tinted license plate covers to aid toll collection, law enforcement, and vehicle identification. Senator Lovely and other advocates supported the “Easy ID” license plate proposal, saying it would improve vehicle recognition in crime and child-abduction investigations. The committee took no votes during the hearing and adjourned after public testimony concluded.

Transcript Highlights:

• Our insurance company ended up settling the claim.
• Our company and our insurance company ended up settling the claim two years later for $365,000.
• I'll add that our insurance company dropped us as soon as we got the claim.
• The insurance companies pay the claim and then they drop you.
• The insurance companies pay the claim and then they drop you.

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development held a hybrid hearing on a large group of bills carried over from the previous session, with Chair Jake Oliveira and House Co-Chair Paul McMurtry outlining the process and limiting testimony to three minutes. The committee heard testimony on several labor and workplace proposals, including bills to harmonize employee definitions to address misclassification (SB 1338/HB 2141), expand bereavement leave (including H. 2189/S. 1354 and related bills), protect collective bargaining rights for certain administrative employees (HB 268/SB 1306), expand commuter transit benefits (HB 2153/SB 1345), regulate employer use of credit reports (S. 1286), and require apprenticeship participation or OSHA-related workplace safety measures on public projects. At the end of the hearing, the chairs read into the record additional bills that did not receive testimony that day. Supporters of the misclassification bill, including Greater Boston Legal Services and the AFL-CIO, said aligning the employee-status tests across wage, unemployment, and PFML laws would reduce confusion, improve enforcement, and help workers wrongly treated as independent contractors or managers recover benefits and bargaining rights. NAGE and its representative argued that public-sector employees have been improperly reclassified into management titles to weaken unions, and that the bill would force the Division of Labor Relations to review those titles. On bereavement leave, advocates including the Louis E. Brown Peace Institute, a state representative, the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance, and individual survivors described the impact of sudden loss and homicide on families, saying guaranteed leave would help workers grieve, make arrangements, and avoid losing jobs or custody-related stability. The committee also heard support for commuter benefits as a low-cost way to reduce emissions and increase transit use, and for restricting employer credit checks because of inaccuracies and discriminatory effects. There was opposition to some construction-related bills. The Associated Builders and Contractors and the Building Trades Employers Association supported apprenticeship training in principle but said current apprentice-to-journeyworker ratios are outdated or misunderstood, and that the bills should be amended or clarified before advancing. The Massachusetts landscape and snow-removal industry strongly supported a snow-liability limitation bill, arguing that hold-harmless clauses and broad indemnification requirements force contractors to assume liability for conditions they cannot control, drive up insurance costs, and threaten business viability. The committee did not take any votes during the hearing, and the session ended with the chairs thanking members, staff, and the public before adjourning.

Transcript Highlights:

• And that's what we see a lot in these cases, that you have one parent making claims.
• And of course, the claims... ...parent making claims, and of course the claims have to be investigated
• You want the claims to be investigated if someone's making a claim that someone was sexually abused or
• So I make a claim that he's been sexually abusing. Maybe that takes six months.
• I make the abuse claim...

Committee: House Judiciary, Rules and Administration

Keywords: 989, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This RS updates Idaho's small claims court limit from $5,000 to $15,000.
• This RS updates Idaho's small claims court limit from $5,000 to $15,000.
• But I'm hoping to see that claim... ...but it's good to see you're denying things when you need to.
• But I'm hoping to see that claim, that number, go down because the department's improving and training
• And those are the same substantiated claims that we have been working under for a number of years.

Committee: Senate Judiciary and Rules

Keywords: 989, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This was a review, a 10-year review of prior period adjustments, which tend to fluctuate, and the two
• The adjusted capital gains tax distributions, this is the same that was in both passed budgets.
• The reversion percentage reversion adjustment is the same as was in the House-passed budget and also
• year 29, and the adjusted capital gains tax distribution that James described, among other resource
• So that includes the additional prior period adjustments, the revenue legislation including 63-46 in

Summary: The conference committee on Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5998 met to review the operating budget conference report. House and Senate budget coordinators walked through comparison documents showing the Senate-passed budget, House-passed budget, and the conference proposal, including statewide totals, agency detail, revenue assumptions, transfers, and the four-year outlook. They said the conference budget uses the February 2026 ERFC forecast, includes an $880 million transfer from the budget stabilization account to the general fund, and reflects a four-year net near-general-fund impact of about $800 million, with an ending fund balance of $231 million in 2025-27 and $563 million in 2027-29. They also noted that future collective bargaining agreements are not included in the outlook beyond those already settled. The briefing highlighted major policy items across the budget, including Working Families Tax Credit expansion, a proposed city and county fiscal health account, changes to Working Connections child care attendance payments, behavioral health facility and staffing adjustments, long-term care funding for certain non-citizen residents affected by federal changes, Apple Health and other health-related responses to H.R. 1, K-12 changes such as free school meals contingent on related legislation, Running Start and transportation depreciation adjustments, higher education administrative reductions, corrections staffing and bed changes, wildfire response funding, and state employee compensation agreements. Members also discussed the budget’s reliance on revenue measures and transfers, including legislation referenced as 2487, 6228, 6231, and 6346. After the presentation, Senator Robinson moved adoption of the conference report and passage of the bill as recommended by the committee. In discussion, supporters said the budget protected core services and responded to federal H.R. 1 impacts, while opponents criticized the size of the budget, the use of reserves, future outlook assumptions, and reductions in some K-12 and other programs. The committee then voted 4-2 to recommend the conference report and ESSB 5998 to the legislature, with Representatives Gregerson and Ormsby and Senators Robinson and Stanford in favor, and Representative Couture and Senator Gildon opposed.

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> don't need a mining claim at all. don't need a mining claim at all.
• </c><02:23:39.520><c> Effectively,</c> claim. This is sweeping. Effectively, claim.
• </c><02:26:12.560><c> an</c> multinational companies to claim an multinational companies to claim an
• That claim is very false.
• That claim is very false. reversible. That claim is very false.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, December 18, 2025, 1012, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Under this, the claim has to be filed with the commissioner of Revenue.
• Under this, the claim has to be filed with the commissioner of Revenue.
• So that multiple claims are allowed until that maximum is reached.
• It's called delegation. somebody claiming their refund but in in somebody claiming their refund but in
• So, Senator Westlin, with that, he could claim a refund.

Committee: Senate Elections

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> aim to open bonding leave claim aim to open bonding leave claim submissions<00:06:07.759><c> to<
• Will it mirror the UI program where I have the ability to deny or rebut the claim?
• </c> rebut the claim? rebut the claim?
• and claims validation and verification, which is really important.
• </c> in place to validate claims. in place to validate claims. &gt;&gt; Thank<01:49:55.760><c> you.

Committee: House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> appropriations against which the claims appropriations against which the claims were<00:48:02.480
• As a matter of fact, every session I have been here but one, the claims bill became law.
• The only time it hadn't become law was the other time that I sponsored the claims bill.
• So, the claims bill did not get passed that year.
• So, the claims bill did pass any bills.

Keywords: 958, all

Transcript Highlights:

• We have the bill back before us because we needed to make an adjustment to our spreadsheet that, according
• Line 1.19 adjusts the soil and water conservation district aid appropriation for FY 2026-27.
• the L LGA and CPA and removing adjusting the L LGA and CPA and removing the<00:04:45.759><c> um</c><
• ><c> water</c><00:05:05.040><c> conservation</c> adjusts the soil and water conservation adjusts the
• </c><00:05:15.440><c> the</c> Line 120 deletes a section adjusting the Line 120 deletes a section adjusting

Committee: Senate Taxes

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• And the sheriff must verify the claim and serve a notice on the lawful occupants.
• We had a landlord who was claiming there was an individual in the house.
• Last year, the fund reimbursed 81 claims that were made against it, of almost $8 million.
• a... ...large claims made against the fund because a lawyer has engaged in a large-scale theft.
• We have years where more of the claims are lower-level claims where, fortunately, we've been able to

Committee: Senate Judiciary

Summary: The Judiciary Committee met with a quorum present and Senator Thompson excused. The committee first considered Senate Bill 48 by Senator Garcia on judicial sales and procedures. Garcia explained a delete-all amendment that would create clearer statewide procedures for alternative judicial sales, increase transparency, remove bidding credits, extend sale timelines, and add oversight for auctioneers and escrow agents to prevent fraud and collusion. After no questions or opposition, the amendment was adopted, Senator Pasadoma said the rewrite addressed many of his concerns, and the committee then voted CS for SB 48 favorably with unanimous yes votes from members present. The committee then received a presentation from the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office on the effectiveness of Florida’s recent anti-squatting law, House Bill 621/SB 888. Presenters described several cases in which deputies used the new process to remove unlawful occupants, including a false landlord report, a long-term fake lease situation, and a more recent unlawful occupancy case. They said the law has helped protect property owners and potential victims, but suggested technical changes: clearer authorization for deputies to enter and use force if needed, and a fix to the affidavit penalty provision because false statements are currently being charged as false reports rather than perjury under the existing wording. The Florida Bar also presented on its role in regulating lawyers, lawyer advertising, and the unlicensed practice of law. Bar leaders explained that the Bar operates under the Florida Supreme Court’s authority, is funded by member fees, and handles complaints through a multi-step process involving intake, branch offices, grievance committees, referees, and final Supreme Court review. They described advertising review procedures, discipline statistics, consumer assistance, the Clients’ Security Fund, and enforcement against unlicensed practice. Senators asked about the Legislature’s authority over lawyer advertising, the prevalence of legal ads, the role of public members on grievance committees, and how those members are selected and used.

Transcript Highlights:

• ... ...is if the department gets it wrong, you can see there's definitions of substantiation of a claim
• The definition of how you substantiate the claim is also currently in rule that we would put in statute
• at here is making sure that we're not sending children into visitation if there are substantiated claims
• ... ...sending children into visitation if there are substantiated claims of abuse, either physically
• of the bill, two things: One, we're not going to force kids to go to visitation in substantiated claims

Committee: Senate Health and Welfare

Keywords: 989, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So can we talk a little bit about the cap adjustment factor?
• We don't hold anyone back from that category of the alternative cap adjustment factor.
• And so I've heard some requests to have oil put in this carbon adjustment, cap adjustment factor.
• So I'm going to. benchmark cap adjustment factor and the annual output of a facility.
• Third, the proposed post-2032 cap adjustment factor decline is steep.

Committee: House Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies

Summary: The Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policy heard an overview from CARB on proposed amendments to California’s Cap-and-Invest program, which was reauthorized through 2045 by AB 1207 and SB 840. CARB said the draft rules are intended to preserve affordability, market certainty, and progress toward the state’s 2030 and 2045 climate targets. The agency described the program’s main features, including the declining emissions cap, utility and industrial allowance allocations, offset changes, the allowance price containment reserve, and new reporting and oversight requirements. CARB also said the rulemaking is on a public comment timeline, with board consideration planned for late May and an effective date targeted for September 1, 2026. Committee members focused heavily on electricity affordability, the planned shift of free allowances from natural gas utilities to electric utilities, and whether the proposal would raise rates for investor-owned and publicly owned utilities. CARB said the proposal is meant to protect ratepayers from compliance costs and that the utility allocation is based on updated data showing utilities are greener than before, but members and utility representatives argued the transition should happen faster and that the current draft could reduce expected revenues and disrupt long-term planning. Members also pressed CARB on carbon capture and sequestration, asking that the regulations clearly recognize it as a compliance pathway, and on whether the SB 905 rulemaking for carbon capture should move forward on schedule. A second major topic was industrial allocations, especially for refiners and other sectors at risk of leakage. CARB said it is keeping all industries at high leakage risk through 2030, maintaining the current cap-adjustment approach, and leaving room for additional comments and data on whether refiners need more allowances to avoid economic leakage and preserve in-state refining. Members also questioned how imported gasoline is treated, and CARB explained that transportation fuel is regulated at the rack and through the low-carbon fuel standard, while cap-and-invest covers in-state tailpipe and smokestack emissions rather than full life-cycle emissions. CARB said it is open to using additional data, including SB 253 reporting, to improve fuel carbon-intensity estimates. The panel of outside experts largely agreed that the program must balance affordability, ambition, and leakage concerns, but they differed on how much allowance value should go to utilities, industry, and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The Legislative Analyst’s Office emphasized that the Legislature should scrutinize CARB’s allocation choices now because they will be hard to change later. An IEMAC representative said the proposal appears to shift more allowance value to industry and utilities, which could reduce GGRF revenues, while EDF argued the cap could be tightened further in the near term without triggering price containment. SCAPA, representing publicly owned utilities, warned that the proposal would reduce utility allowances and could raise costs for ratepayers and undermine early decarbonization investments. No votes were taken at the hearing.

Transcript Highlights:

• or the Net Zero claim.
• or the Net Zero claim.
• or the Net Zero claim.
• or the Net Zero claim.
• or the Net Zero claim.

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee first took up House Bill 313 and, on motion by Representative Perez, voted to retain the bill because members felt it needed further work and was not ready for final action. The motion passed 18-0, and no further action was taken on the bill. House Bill 391, an anti-SLAPP measure, was then discussed; supporters said it addressed a real problem and should move forward, while opponents raised concerns that it was too broad, could affect criminal cases, and might create procedural complications. The committee voted 18-0 to retain HB 391 as well, and it was placed on consent. The committee next considered House Bill 462, establishing a cause of action for unwarranted video imaging of residential properties. Representative McFarland moved OTP, saying the bill raised First Amendment and property-rights concerns. The motion passed 18-0, and the bill was also placed on consent. The committee then turned to House Bill 509, which would require reporting on forfeitures. Supporters argued the information was useful for future legislation, while opponents said the reporting would be costly, duplicative, and potentially split data across fiscal years. The committee voted 11-7 to recommend OTP, with a minority of members opposed. House Bill 520, authorizing Department of Education hearing officers to issue subpoenas, drew the most extended debate. Supporters argued DOE needed the same tools other agencies have, while opponents said DOE already had access to needed information, the Attorney General could handle subpoenas, and the bill would create an unbalanced process and raise due process and student-record concerns. Representative Tur offered Amendment 0842H to shift subpoena power from DOE hearing officers to the Attorney General; after debate, the amendment failed 10-8. The transcript cuts off as the committee begins the roll call on the underlying bill after rejecting the amendment.