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Transcript Highlights:
  • And so, point of clarification, I'm sorry if I miss this, this would effectively consist of legislators
  • It is set up of legislators by legislators. Your pay is already covered in that.
  • House Bill 4484, this legislation will allow the OCC workers to use...
  • This legislation is modeled after what the AG's office and Wildlife do.
  • This legislation is modeled after what the AG's office and Wildlife do.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

General Government REVISED: HB4434 - Added Feb 17th, 2026

General Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • It is set up of legislators by legislators. Your pay is already covered in that.
  • House Bill 4484, this legislation will allow the OCC workers to use...
  • This legislation will allow the OCC workers to use state-owned or state-leased vehicles between their
  • This legislation is modeled after what the AG's office and Wildlife do.
  • This legislation is modeled after what the AG's office and Wildlife do.
Summary: The committee took up several bills related to housing, state operations, veterans, and administrative cleanup. HB 4409, as amended by PCS, would create a bicameral, bipartisan legislative committee to oversee workforce and affordable housing issues and coordinate with outside stakeholders; members asked about membership, meeting frequency, and pay, and the bill passed 9-0. HB 4414, also with a PCS, would direct the Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency’s housing stability program to use a needs-assessment tool to guide funding decisions, with the tool and related provisions sunset after five years; members discussed whether it would be data-mapping based and how it would connect to broader legislative decision-making, and it passed 6-3. The committee also advanced HB 4484, allowing Oklahoma Corporation Commission workers to use state-owned or state-leased vehicles between home and work when traveling statewide for duties; it passed 9-0. HB 4486 would authorize placement of a Gold Star Family Memorial Monument on state grounds as a gift from the Woody Williams Foundation, with OMES handling routine cleaning, and it passed 10-0 after questions about the final design and consultation with veterans groups. HB 3057, a cleanup bill based on a 2025 evaluation identifying more than 50 obsolete statutory reports, repealed outdated reporting requirements and passed 10-0. Two additional bills addressed governance rules. HB 2588 would add requirements for HOA board service, limiting board membership after developer turnover to owners who live in the neighborhood and excluding tenants and nonresident owners; it passed 10-0. HB 4434 would require the governor to notify officials in the line of succession before being out of state, with members briefly discussing whether 24 hours was enough notice and whether the succession order should mirror the federal model; it passed 10-0. The meeting ended with all bills reported due pass and the committee adjourned.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Judiciary Feb 11th, 2026 at 05:05 pm

House Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • We are on H.J.R. 5, legislative compensation.
  • Being a legislator shouldn’t be reserved for the one percent, nor should it force legislators to make
  • Providing legislative compensation for our legislators will help keep a fair and broad representation
  • Providing legislation compensation for our legislators will help keep a fair and broad representation
  • within the legislation.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Judiciary Feb 11th, 2026

House Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • We are on H.J.R. 5, legislative compensation.
  • Being a legislator shouldn't be reserved for the 1%, nor should it force legislators to make financial
  • Providing legislative compensation for our legislators will help keep a fair and broad representation
  • Providing legislation compensation for our legislators will help keep a fair and broad representation
  • within the legislation.
Summary: The committee first took up House Bill 99, a medical malpractice reform measure. Sponsor Chair Chandler and Minority Leader Armstrong described months of stakeholder negotiations aimed at balancing patient compensation with concerns from physicians, hospitals, and insurers about litigation costs, punitive damages, and access to care. The committee substitute kept the existing monetary damage caps but changed several provisions, including definitions of “occurrence” and “value of medical care,” treatment of future medical expenses, a higher clear-and-convincing standard for punitive damages, a two-step process before punitive damages can be pled, and a lower punitive-damages cap for smaller providers versus a higher cap for large hospital systems. Supporters said the bill would help recruit and retain doctors and stabilize the malpractice market; opponents argued it weakens accountability, especially for corporate and out-of-state hospital systems, and several speakers urged a stronger amendment to preserve patient rights. After debate, the committee voted 10-0 to give the House Judiciary Committee substitute for HB 99 a do-pass recommendation. The committee then heard House Joint Resolution 5, which would amend the state constitution to allow legislative compensation. Sponsors and supporters said paying legislators would make service more accessible to working people, parents, rural residents, and others without independent wealth, and would broaden representation. Several advocacy groups and individual commenters backed the proposal, while members raised questions about the pay formula, with the resolution tying compensation to the state median income. Some members supported the idea but preferred a salary commission or a different mechanism. The committee approved HJR 5 on a 7-3 vote. Finally, the committee began hearing House Memorial 39, which calls for a task force to study the current state of sexual assault examination kits and report on backlog progress. Sponsor Rep. Ferrari and the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs explained that a prior task force a decade ago found more than 5,000 untested kits and led to policy changes, including the Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights and a statewide tracking system. The memorial is intended to reassess whether backlogs remain and recommend further fixes.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Judiciary Feb 11th, 2026

House Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • I know that the House is moving a piece of legislation on here.
  • The House is moving a piece of legislation on here.
  • We are in support of the legislation before you.
  • I just want to commend the sponsors of this legislation.
  • I just want to commend the sponsors of this legislation.
Summary: The committee first took up a lengthy informational presentation on the Patient Compensation Fund (PCF) and New Mexico medical malpractice insurance. Teresa Hassey, a plaintiffs’ attorney, described the PCF’s origin in the 1976 Medical Malpractice Act, its role as a state-backed excess coverage system, and her view that it was mismanaged when hospital participation expanded without individualized risk assessments. She argued that hospitals underpaid surcharges, that the fund was depleted by claims, and that the 2021 amendments and later legislative infusions were meant to shore up deficits and phase hospitals out. Superintendent of Insurance Alice Kane and LFC analyst Julia Rodriguez presented a different perspective, emphasizing recent general fund infusions, current surcharge collections, the use of actuarial reviews, and the PCF’s budget and settlement activity. Kane said the market is highly concentrated, New Mexico’s malpractice costs and defense expenses are high, and the fund still provides lower-cost coverage than the open market, while also noting ongoing issues with future medical claims, TPA transition, and investment management. Committee members questioned the presenters at length about why New Mexico malpractice premiums are so high, whether defense costs were being conflated with claim payouts, how the PCF works with primary coverage and excess coverage, and whether hospitals were properly assessed when they entered the fund. Several senators raised concerns about punitive damages, corporate practice of medicine, and whether the state’s legal environment is driving doctors away. Others challenged the data comparisons, noting differences between one-year figures and multi-year averages, and asked why New Mexico’s costs remain far above neighboring states. Kane and Hassey disagreed on the causes, with Kane pointing to high claims and defense costs over time and Hassey arguing that hospital participation and punitive-damage exposure distorted the market. The chair concluded the discussion by saying the committee had not exhausted the topic and that he still wanted a clear path to reducing doctors’ insurance costs. After a break, the committee moved on to Senate Bill 41. Senator Charlie introduced the bill, which would eliminate the statute of limitations for the most serious sexual crimes in New Mexico. He argued that trauma, coercion, fear, and delayed disclosure often prevent survivors from reporting promptly, and said the law should reflect that reality. The bill was presented as a response to survivor testimony heard in a prior hearing, and the sponsor framed it as part of a broader effort to modernize the justice system for sexual violence cases.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/03/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Committee on Appropriations, Transportation and Technology is called to order.
  • The bill outlines requirements relating to the legislative appropriations of non-constitutional federal
  • The money's appropriated in instances—for instance, block grants to counties.
  • So you didn't consult about this particular appropriation? We consulted about the...
  • We did talk about the need for the money and for the need for the appropriation, the emergency appropriation
Bills: HB2148, HB2993
KY
Transcript Highlights:
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  • This is one of ICE legislative liaison.
  • legislation? legislation?
  • Uh, BR stands for bill request. >> That’s and the bill request cannot be made until we’re in session.
Summary: The committee met for its sixth meeting, established a quorum, and approved the minutes from the October 21 meeting. The main agenda item was a presentation from Kentucky Association of Counties (KACo) leaders and county officials on jail funding and jail-system reform. Speakers said county jail costs have reached crisis levels, citing large and rising general-fund subsidies in counties such as Hardin, McCracken, and Warren, and noting that county general-fund contributions to jail funds have increased by 76% since 2019. KACo outlined a three-part legislative approach for the upcoming session: incentivizing regional jails, clarifying responsibility for pre-trial felony detainees, and redefining the model for housing state inmates in county jails. On regional jails, they proposed one-time state construction funding, statutory changes to allow former county jails to serve as 96-hour holdover facilities, broader participation of jailers on regional jail authority boards, an increased supplement for closed county jails, and a one-time payment for counties that close local jails and join regional facilities. Union County Judge Adam Onan described his county’s savings from contracting with Webster County and said regionalization can reduce costs where feasible. Harlan County Judge Executive Dan Mosley focused on pre-trial felony detainees, saying counties bear the full cost of housing people awaiting trial for long periods, sometimes years, and that pre-trial time is later credited toward state sentences. He argued the state benefits from that credit and referenced prior bills that would have reimbursed counties for time-served credit. Shelley Hampton then proposed replacing the current per diem model for state inmates with contracts requiring the Department of Corrections to pay actual housing costs and to support programming such as substance abuse treatment, cognitive behavioral programming, re-entry services, workforce training, and academics. No votes were taken on the jail proposals, and the meeting ended with the presentation and discussion of the county recommendations.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Workforce Development Apr 10th, 2025 at 10:00 am

Workforce Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • . ...include in this bill their response to that, that they would respond to legislative management,
  • And it came actually during Legislative Council last year as we looked at term limits.
  • And so there will be DOGE and there will be Legislative Council program evaluations.
  • And so this one is for the Legislative Council side, but they're parallel. You're right.
  • That concludes our work and Workforce Development for this 16th-minute legislative session.
Bills: HB1119
Summary: The Workforce Development Committee reconvened to consider House Bill 1119 with amendment version 02005. Senator Hogan explained that the amendment removed a section requiring the Department of Human Services to respond to legislative management, in order to make the bill feel more like a program evaluation than an audit and to avoid placing an unreasonable burden on the executive branch. The amendment also clarified that the Child Care Advisory Committee would provide an update and that the committee would dissolve after the rewrite of licensing standards, making it a time-limited body. Committee members discussed the bill as a novel approach to forming a group to study an issue and then disbanding after reporting back. Senator Larson noted the concept was similar to broader performance-review ideas, and Senator Hogan said the Legislative Council program evaluation effort was parallel to, but separate from, other performance-review proposals. The committee then voted 4-0-1 to adopt the amendment. Afterward, the committee moved to give House Bill 1119, as amended, a do pass recommendation. That motion also passed on a roll call vote, and the committee adjourned.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 7th, 2025 at 02:30 pm

Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • The reporting language is the same: they have to report to the Legislative Assembly, the 70th Legislative
  • Okay, so on the bottom, there's an appropriation.
  • It says Legislative Management. The one report by March... to Legislative Management.
  • the committee's report concerning the new water project request must be provided to the appropriations
  • committees of the Legislative Assembly.
Bills: SB2004, HB1600
Summary: The committee reconvened to continue work on water-related appropriations and related bills, with the chair emphasizing the need to move the water bill to conference committee soon because of differences with the House. Members reviewed project funding levels and carryover balances across several water projects, including NAWS, Southwest, Valley City, Cirrus River flood control, Hart River, Redder water supply, municipal and rural water, general water, and discretionary funding. The discussion focused on reduced revenue forecasts, the use of a $150 million line of credit as a working assumption, and concerns about large carryover amounts and piling up cash. No final changes were made to the water funding numbers, but the chair said the committee would revisit the bill after further cleanup of the draft language. The committee then took up House Bill 1600, which would create an immigration law clinic at the University of North Dakota law school. Members agreed the program should be treated as a one-time pilot rather than ongoing general fund spending, so they adopted an amendment changing the $400,000 appropriation to one-time funding from the strategic investment fund. The amended bill passed unanimously, and Senator Meyer was assigned to carry it. House Bill 1417, dealing with parole and probation-related policy, was also amended. The committee removed Section 8, which eliminated the bill’s appropriations language, based on testimony that the referenced funding was already included elsewhere in the budget. The amended bill then passed unanimously. The committee also discussed possible future amendments to water study language, including earlier reporting deadlines and a proposal to require larger new water project requests to go through the Water Topics Overview Committee before being introduced, but no final action was taken on those concepts. Several other bills, including the AI-related House Bill 1448 and law enforcement bonus bill 1193, were left for later consideration.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Feb 25th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 2306 makes supplemental appropriations for the 2025-27 biennium.
  • House Bill 2306 makes supplemental appropriations for the 2025-27 fiscal biennium.
  • corrects an account reference, it corrects the amount for the highway bond retirement account appropriation
  • It establishes the Preserve Washington Account in the motor vehicle fund as an appropriated account to
  • That was the legislative intent, at least by one of the sponsors of the bill, so just want to clarify
Bills: HB2306, HB2711
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Feb 23rd, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • That would involve both legislative and executive branch members and look at the financial options for
  • And there's money provided for the drive system to make sure that legislative changes that are made,
  • There is increased federal appropriation authority in the Washington Traffic Safety Commission.
  • It also crosses the 33rd, the 47th, and the 11th legislative districts.
  • It also crosses the 33rd, the 47th, and the 11th legislative districts.
Bills: HB2306, HB2711
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/11/2026 - House Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • The challenge that I have is that this really was an ongoing appropriation when we appropriated it originally
  • That's appropriate. We should be recognizing that.
  • a specific appropriation for ESA administration.
  • more money or vote for appropriating more money.
  • They were appropriated it for administration. ...appropriated for the FY24 budget.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Appropriations - Human Resources Division Apr 15th, 2025 at 09:00 am

Appropriations - Human Resources Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's called the HR Division of Senate Appropriations to order and ask the clerk to call the roll.
  • Chairman, the department has noted two bills where there are fiscal notes, where there is no appropriation
  • Just replace the fiscal note with an appropriation.
  • So, committee, are those three changes appropriately expressed? Yes. I need to consensus.
  • Chairman, I went up to Legislative Council and they did let me take a look at the Becadol amendments,
Bills: HB1012
Summary: The Senate Appropriations Human Services Division met to consider House Bill 1012, the Department of Human Services budget, and reviewed three previously made amendments: correcting a reference to $30 million underfunding, changing “human service centers” to “behavioral health clinics,” and revising section 31 language so the department would review medical assistance services and report findings and recommendations rather than directly implement adjustments. The committee also discussed whether to include funding related to two other bills with fiscal impacts, House Bill 1485 (personal needs allowance) and House Bill 2399 (PRTF reimbursement), noting those measures may go to conference committee and that appropriations could be added there instead of in HB 1012. The committee agreed to proceed with HB 1012 and members noted provider inflation questions would be raised later in full committee. The division then approved a due pass recommendation on the amendments to HB 1012 and, after a roll call vote, approved HB 1012 as amended on a 4-1 vote, with Senator Mathern voting no. Senator Davison was named as carrier. Members also discussed House Bill 1577, involving wastewater project financing and possible amendments related to a line of credit from the Bank of North Dakota for specific projects, and House Bill 1619, for which additional amendments were expected before full committee action. The meeting ended with general thanks and adjournment.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Finance and Taxation Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Appropriation out of our educational opportunity fund.
  • Chairman, if it's appropriate, I'm going to make a request that in the overall bill that deals with all
  • Senator Gavan, is your legislation or our legislation on line 272? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
  • There was a request to just roll all the earmarks into the O&M. So that's all that did.
  • Senator Smith, I'm going to make another request.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce May 13th, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • This also is a clean-up bill requested by the Texas Department of Banking.
  • It would allow requesters to send a written complaint to the agency.
  • producing information in response to requests that was not handled timely and require requested information
  • In Corpus Christi, I requested messages between the city manager and a hotelier.
  • She remained in charge of public information requests and just ignored it.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Business and Commerce May 13th, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • Now what would happen with the legislation change?
  • This is a clean-up bill requested by the Texas Department of Banking.
  • This also is a cleanup bill requested by the Texas Department of Banking.
  • for producing information in response to requests that were not handled timely.
  • She remained in charge of public information requests and just ignored every request.