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TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, last session this body passed Senate Bill 426 with a vote of 30 to 1, but the bill died in the House
  • In 2015, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 21, known as the Right to Try Act.
  • They provide housing for disabled, mentally ill, and elderly patients.
  • We're going to work with our colleagues in the House to try to move this bill forward again.
  • Bill 1763 and House Bill 1919.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 9th, 2026 at 06:36 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you. ...housing ecosystem by creating rental turnover and expanding access to affordable housing
  • We do respectfully request that this program be funded in addition to the Housing New Mexico Housing
  • Trust Fund and not in place of it, so the state...” “...addition to the Housing New Mexico Housing Trust
  • Okay, we're going to go ahead and ask Representative Garratt to take House Bill 63 and House Bill 64.
  • ...in House Bill 64.
Bills: HB63, HB64, HB184, HB200, HB47, HB48, HB2, HB9
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 9th, 2026

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • able to do to help the folks that... ...help the folks that may be displaced from the passage of this House
  • We have very limited housing options as well.
  • As CoreCivic indicated, anything since passage of House Bill 9?
  • House Bill 9 basically says May 20th, the letter has to go out to ICE, and then our contract will be
  • We house no one else. It was built for that purpose.
Bills: HB63, HB64, HB184, HB200, HB47, HB48, HB2, HB9
Summary: The committee heard testimony on the expected impacts of House Bill 9 on private detention facilities and the surrounding counties and municipalities, focusing on Cibola County/Milan, Torrance County/Estancia, and Otero County. Corrections Secretary Alicia Lucero explained that the Corrections Department does not oversee the immigration detention facilities directly, but said the department could help displaced workers through hiring fairs and expedited hiring into state positions, and suggested possible alternative uses for the buildings such as behavioral health treatment, training campuses, or transitional living centers. She also noted that a memorial would task several state agencies and affected counties with exploring alternate uses and economic options, and that Workforce Solutions had scheduled job fairs in February for the affected communities. Local officials described major fiscal and community impacts. Cibola County and Milan said the loss of the facility would reduce gross receipts tax revenue, force service cuts, and potentially shrink the county budget substantially; they also warned that the village uses the detention population to support federal grant applications and industrial park development. Torrance County and Estancia said the closure would eliminate jobs, reduce GRT revenue that funds public safety, and require transporting prisoners to other facilities at much higher bed rates, with estimated annual impacts around $3 million. Otero County reported 284 jobs and $20.8 million in payroll at risk, along with about $3 million in annual GRT and a $68 million facility that could be foreclosed if bonds defaulted. Committee members pressed for more precise numbers, including employee counts, transport costs, current bed costs, and the total fiscal impact after accounting for existing contract payments. Several members emphasized that each facility and community is different and asked for separate, detailed plans, including short-term cost replacement and long-term economic diversification. There was discussion of possible hold-harmless assistance, emergency bill drafting, and coordination with Workforce Solutions, Economic Development, and higher education partners. No formal vote was taken; the chair directed staff and agencies to meet the next morning to continue developing an emergency response and requested more detailed information from the counties and the department.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management May 1st, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thanks for the opportunity to lay out House Bill 5380.
  • House Bill 2011 ...
  • Concern is that we build more housing in Texas.
  • Too often, cities make critical decisions about when land uses are permitted or not permitted in zoning
  • I'm here to testify against House Bill 871.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management May 1st, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • We show you registered as Brian Toney for the Dallas Housing Coalition.
  • Housing affordability is now a statewide crisis and demands action.
  • ADUs play an important housing role and they should be allowed in cities.
  • You did it in 2019 when it came to building permit fees.
  • At what point does that—this is not a housing emergency.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EDU Informational Briefing 01-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Committee, February 26, 2026

Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 69.
  • </c> House Bill 69.
  • We'll move on to House House Bill 69.
  • I think now there's a lot more knowledge about that in both houses of the Senate and House.
  • I think now there's a lot more knowledge about that in both houses of the Senate and House.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Early Learning & Human Services Feb 18th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Early Learning & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • I guess my question for you is, as being a former House member, do you like the House or the Senate better
  • This is a companion to House Bill 2230, and this matches the version that passed out of the House.
  • It also diversifies the types of housing offered to young people by including transitional housing.
  • It diversifies the types of housing offered to young people by including transitional housing as an eligible
  • I only see a former House member, always a House member in my heart, Senator Orwell.
Bills: SB5957, SB5977
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Commerce and Tourism Jan 28th, 2026

Commerce and Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill was brought to me and my counterpart in the House, Representative Michael, also from Jacksonville
Summary: The Committee on Commerce and Tourism considered several bills. SB 1338 by Senator Burton would strengthen enforcement of written endowment agreements for charitable gifts and require legislative approval for new filing or reporting requirements on charities. The sponsor and Philanthropy Roundtable testified in support, emphasizing donor intent and protections for nonprofits; the bill was reported favorably. SB 1324, which was expected to address principal offices of LLCs, was temporarily postponed. The committee also passed CS/SB 1080 by Senator DeSigley, which directs FDOT to adopt rules allowing direct payments to first-tier subcontractors in specified circumstances. A transportation industry representative supported the measure, saying the situations are rare but need a statutory remedy. CS/SB 1582 by Senator Yarbrough, as amended, requires secondhand dealers, secondary metal recyclers, and pawnbrokers to submit transaction data to FDLE for statewide sharing through systems such as LInX; the amendment and bill were both reported favorably, with one witness from the Florida Recycler’s Association opposing the amendment. Senator McLean’s SB 1672, creating a home buyer workforce tax credit for employer contributions to help employees with first-time Florida home purchases, was reported favorably with support from the Florida Chamber of Commerce. SB 1112 by Senator Garcia, relating to the Florida Labor Pool Act, drew extensive testimony from workers, reentry advocates, and supporters who argued it would prohibit placement fees when workers are hired permanently, require annual registration of labor pools, improve accountability, and support stable employment and reentry; the bill was reported favorably. The committee then adjourned after recording votes and other closing business.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 3/17/25

Elections Finance and Government Operations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Signs are not permitted in the committee room.
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  • the law, you'll see that the city can permit us as a permitted use or as a conditional use.
Bills: HF1051, HF16
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Fri Mar 6, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 24

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 30th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 149.
  • DeRazio moves that the House concur with Senate amendments to House Bill 1056.
  • The House concurs with Senate amendments to House Bill 3073.
  • Gerdes moves that the House concur with Senate amendments to House Bill 456.
  • Anchia moves that the House concur with Senate amendments to House Bill 2854.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/11/2026 - Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency

Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • It was about permitting.
  • It was about permitting.
  • It's—and I mean, everyone that has a house, nobody wants to buy a house.
  • ...everyone that has a house. Nobody wants to buy a house.
  • are struggling to buy that house.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Energy REVISED Apr 9th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 3005 extends the sunset on the Oklahoma climatological survey to 2031.
  • With 8 ayes and 3 nays, I declare House Bill 1907 to be passed.
  • We have everything that came from the house still there.
  • We have 11,000 permitted acres today.
  • I declare House Bill 3175 to have passed.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Energy REVISED Apr 9th, 2026

Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It burns houses up. It burns cars up. It is proven it does cause fire. It burns houses up.
  • With eight ayes and three nays, I declare House Bill 1907 do pass.
  • We have 11,000 permitted acres today.
  • We do have a House fiscal statement.
  • With 10 ayes and zero nays, I declare House Bill 3175 to pass.
Summary: The committee took up several measures dealing with environmental regulation, waste management, and energy. Early on, it passed sunset-extension bills for the Oklahoma Climatological Survey and several environmental advisory councils. It then heard extensive debate on HB 1907, the Battery Stewardship Act, which would create a battery recycling system for small and medium batteries through DEQ. Supporters argued it would reduce landfill and garbage-truck fires, protect the environment, and create recycling value, while opponents raised concerns about added regulation, costs shifted to producers and retailers, and the creation of a new state FTE. Despite those objections, the bill passed 8-3. The committee also considered HB 3403, a pilot study on biosolids and sewage sludge applied to farmland. Members debated a committee substitute that shortened the study timeline from five years to three years and added a phased rollback of land application. Supporters said the study was needed because of unresolved questions about PFOS, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, and other contaminants, while critics argued the timelines conflicted and the bill could be hard to implement. The committee substitute was adopted, an amendment to delete key rollback provisions failed, and the bill ultimately passed 8-2 after testimony from Oklahoma City utilities officials and multiple rounds of questions about testing, health risks, and disposal practices. The committee then passed HB 3175 to establish the Oklahoma Advanced Nuclear Energy Office, with members noting it would have minimal fiscal impact and could help Oklahoma build nuclear expertise and jobs. It also passed HB 3986, expanding a gross production tax exemption for wells completed with recycled water, and HB 3466, which removes the statutory requirement that the Corporation Commission maintain a petty cash fund. Finally, HB 3411, another biosolids-related bill to buy testing equipment and provide information to landowners, and HB 4246, a rural water transparency/lowest-bid bill, both passed unanimously or near-unanimously. The meeting ended with the chair thanking members and adjourning.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Energy 2ND REVISED Feb 26th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Mining or blasting permits within 800 feet of protective structures.
  • Is it a periodic renewal, or is it once you've got the permit, you never have to repermit?
  • There's active mining in Sefo counties, 190,000 permitted acres of land.
  • Well, how about this: Did they own the property before the houses were built in 1983?
  • I just found in my notes there are 763 permits through the Department of Mines.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Local Government Feb 3rd, 2026 at 10:30 am

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • We have a, wow, we have a packed house.
  • density, affordable housing, housing for seniors or persons with disabilities, or investment in transit
  • House Bill 2517, providing for enhanced municipal permitting tools for high-capacity transit projects
  • , workforce housing.
  • for housing builders and stabilize housing costs for Washingtonians in the long term.
Summary: The committee opened public hearings on HB 2141 and HB 2573, then paused for caucus and later took executive action on several bills before returning to testimony. HB 2141 would impose a 10-year pause on most State Building Code Council updates after the 2024 codes, extend future update cycles to six years, restrict local amendments until the 2036 model codes, and remove the 2031 energy-code reduction target. Supporters, including builders, business groups, counties, and some local officials, argued the bill would reduce regulatory churn, lower housing costs, and give developers and local governments more certainty. Opponents, including environmental groups, architects, fire marshals, code professionals, and manufacturers, said the bill would freeze safety and energy-efficiency improvements, raise long-term utility costs, and undermine climate goals. No final action was taken on HB 2141 during the hearing. HB 2573 would require advance notice before grocery stores, pharmacies, and similar facilities close or are sold in communities that relied on them for housing, transit, or health planning; add a health and food access goal and a new healthy communities element to the Growth Management Act; authorize zoning tools to require or incentivize grocery or health-related uses; and allow cities and counties to impose excise taxes or nuisance fees on vacant former grocery-store properties, with some waivers for temporary or community uses. Supporters said the bill responds to recent closures in places like Lake City and Everett that created food and pharmacy deserts, harmed seniors and low-income residents, and disrupted local planning. Opponents from grocery industry groups argued the bill is punitive, could chill investment, and would unfairly penalize property owners who did not cause the closure. The hearing on HB 2573 was also left open without final action. During executive action, the committee adopted amendments and reported several bills out with do-pass recommendations: HB 2517, as amended to require notice to property owners before regional transit authorities apply for permits and to add property-owner consent protections; HB 2588, expanding county ferry district authority beyond passenger-only ferries; HB 1529, allowing counties to assist cities with paving and marking streets; HB 2223, allowing limited irrigation-district contract interests involving a director’s spouse; and HB 2006, as amended to narrow and extend the deadline for certain rural counties to designate industrial land banks. After those votes, the committee returned to testimony on HB 2141, heard additional support and opposition, and then adjourned without hearing all registered testifiers.