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ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Agriculture and Water Management Committee Jun 17th, 2026
Agriculture and Water Management Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- This is an overlay that is in the map itself, and you can see the potential acreage of irrigation that
- The map in your handout shows the locations of those.
- And those aquifers, you can look at the map and they're all tied together.
- map, each of the engines that are represented are in relatively rural inland spaces.
- This is just a map.
Summary:
The committee met in Fargo and approved the minutes from the March 31 meeting before hearing a series of informational presentations focused on North Dakota agriculture, water, and research. NDSU President David Cook opened with remarks about NDSU’s land-grant mission, emphasizing statewide service through research, teaching, and extension, and highlighting examples such as the Lilac Agriculture startup and the university’s role in applying research to real-world problems. He said he intends to spend time listening across the state to better understand local needs.
The committee then received a detailed presentation on a state irrigation and drainage study from Tom Bodine on behalf of Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring. The study projected significant potential for expanded irrigation acreage, especially in counties such as McLean, Williams, Sargent, Burleigh, Mountrail, McKenzie, McIntosh, Dunn, and Bottineau, and estimated major economic gains from irrigation, including higher farm returns and support for value-added agriculture. Members discussed water permits, surface water versus aquifers, infrastructure, drought resilience, and the role of legal drains in improving productivity and generating economic activity. The presenters also noted that the full report is available online.
Dr. Greg Lardy followed with NDSU’s required interim report, outlining the university’s agricultural research and extension system, including the State Board of Agricultural Research and Education, seven research-extension centers, and the economic importance of agriculture to the state. He highlighted recent research impacts such as new crop varieties, potato breeding successes, virtual fencing, AI-assisted weed control, weather-network tools, and 4-H programming. He also described NDSU’s budget priorities: restoring the governor’s proposed 10% cuts, additional operating support, and deferred maintenance funding. Committee members asked about the new agricultural field lab, storage sheds, and NDSU’s partnership with Grand Farm.
The committee also heard from the North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute and a professor presenting water-related research, including data center cooling, water reuse, smart irrigation, and a feasibility study on co-locating data centers with greenhouse and aquaculture production. Members asked about water use, ownership, and whether the concepts were operational or still speculative. Finally, North Dakota AgTech presented its NSF-funded innovation engine work, describing startup commercialization, on-farm trials, workforce development, and partnerships with NDSU, UND, tribal colleges, and other land-grant institutions. No formal votes were taken beyond approval of the prior meeting minutes.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/18/2026 - House Transportation & Infrastructure
Transcript Highlights:
- So we can see and map out in our minds visually what is. we can see and map out in our minds visually
- I have my approach because I have this shows another map shows exactly what it has to go through the
- They were concerned when they look at mapping software: will it still say Loop 202?
- So if you pull up on Google Maps, if you pull up Chinle, Arizona, I know on Google Maps it doesn't have
- the mileposts on the maps, but it'll be, how do I describe it?
Summary:
The committee heard a lengthy Arizona Department of Transportation presentation on major corridor projects, beginning with Interstate 11. ADOT Director Jennifer Toth said the entire 280-mile I-11 corridor from Nogales to the Nevada line is covered by a federal lawsuit, which has paused Tier 2 work pending a Tier 1 reevaluation and public comment period expected later this year and into early 2027. Members asked whether the northern segment could move forward separately; ADOT said the lawsuit covers the full corridor and that segmentation would likely add time and cost. The committee also heard updates on SR 347 and the I-10 Wild Horse Pass corridor, including widening, interchange reconstructions, grade separations, and traffic-management improvements, with members raising concerns about congestion, signal timing, construction hours, signage, and safety. ADOT also presented the West Kingman I-40/US 93 project, a $106.5 million free-flow ramp project that is about 60% complete and expected to finish in early 2027; members discussed temporary traffic controls near Beale Street and the need for better access and safety in the area.
The committee then moved to a mass hearing on the Regional Transportation Advocacy Council (RTAC) bill, House Bill 2304, which appropriates about $473 million for a list of rural and small-metro highway projects. Testimony came from regional planning organizations, county officials, mayors, and city staff supporting projects in Apache Junction, Show Low, Chino Valley, Sedona, Eloy, Coolidge, Casa Grande, Lake Havasu City, Clarkdale, San Luis, and Yavapai County. Speakers described projects such as road widenings, bypasses, bridge and interchange improvements, flood and evacuation routes, freight access, and safety upgrades, often emphasizing local matching funds, shovel-ready status, and economic development benefits. Committee members frequently asked about traffic flow, emergency access, and project design details, while the chair reminded witnesses that support in the budget would still depend on members advocating for the projects during budget negotiations.
No final vote on the RTAC bill or the individual project bills was taken in the portion provided, but the chair announced a mass-motion approach: members and witnesses would be allowed to speak briefly on each project, after which the committee would vote on the package together. The meeting also included brief staff explanations of several individual appropriation bills, including funding for Apache Junction, the Wolford Road extension in Show Low, Ray Lane in Graham County, SR 89 widening in Chino Valley, and Sedona roadway and roundabout-related improvements.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, my belief is that Texas having this plane or planes in their possession would be able to map, uh,
- And you can see a map of that as map number one in your handouts.
- I noticed on your map too. Most of the area that I represent. You did not receive a fiber bid.
- Uh, just when you do provide those maps, if you could, uh, provide detailed maps of the major urban areas
- because that's what seems to be hard to decipher on this map.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And then also even LiDAR mapping where you can go pre or post and do assessment on fuels. or you know
- of that as map number one in your handouts. for their review and approval on October 27th in addition
- I notice on your map to most of the area area that I represent, you did not receive a fiber bid.
- When you do provide those maps, if you could provide detailed maps of the major urban areas. areas because
- that's what seems to be hard to decipher on this map, and I realize most of this program is focused.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Just a friendly prompt here from the Admiral on this New World screwworm website: we have maps on that
- And with those detection plots on that map, you will also see what's reflected and recorded in terms
- were transacted through those markets that are indicated in red on that map in the year of That were
- transacted through those markets that are indicated in red on that map in the year 2024.
- We're not From those affected markets that are in red on that map.
Summary:
The joint hearing focused on preparedness for the New World screwworm threat and brought together the House Committees on Culture, Recreation, and Tourism and Agriculture and Livestock. USDA officials, Texas Department of Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, and Texas Animal Health Commission leadership described the pest as a serious risk to livestock, wildlife, rural economies, and beef prices, and emphasized coordination among federal, state, industry, and Mexican partners. Witnesses repeatedly stressed that Texas is currently seeing no confirmed U.S. detections, but that recent confirmed cases in northern Mexico, including Nuevo León, remain a concern because of their proximity to the border.
USDA testimony outlined current surveillance and response efforts, including more than 120 screw worm-specific traps along the Texas border and neighboring states, thousands of additional dual-purpose traps, wildlife inspections, weekly coordination with Mexico’s Senasica, and a new USDA New World Screwworm Directorate. Officials said the existing Panama sterile fly facility is maxed out at about 100 million flies per week, while a dispersal facility in Tampico is helping move flies farther north in Mexico. They also described plans for a retrofitted sterile fly facility in Metapa, Mexico, expected to come online in 2026, and a new domestic production facility at Moore Air Base, with phase one targeted for late 2026 or early 2027 and phase two adding substantially more capacity later.
Members pressed USDA on timelines, production capacity, the reliability of Mexican reporting, the risk from wildlife, and whether modular or mobile facilities could be deployed faster. USDA said it is also exploring innovative technologies, including a genetically engineered sterile male fly, but that such tools still require EPA review and field validation. Commissioner Miller highlighted Texas biosecurity efforts, five permanent inspection stations, cooperation with FDA and EPA on treatments such as Exzolt, and other pest issues affecting Texas agriculture. He also noted research into fly bait and private-sector efforts to speed sterile fly production.
Texas Animal Health Commission officials described extensive state preparedness work, including weekly coordination calls, field response trainings, outreach to producers and veterinarians, and a Texas Screwworm Response Team. They said Texas has trained more than 100 inspectors and other personnel, with additional trainings planned, and that the state is expanding its cattle fever tick rider program. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the hearing; the main action was the exchange of testimony and questions about readiness, surveillance, and facility timelines.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
House Chamber - Tue Apr 8, 2025, 9:00 AM HST - Day 47
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
HRE, WTL-HRE, HRE-LBT Public Hearings 03-18-2025
Transcript Highlights:
- So, you're anticipating with that new change in the maps that you'd be able to put more units on that
- </c> in progress uh and a letter of map in progress uh and a letter of map revision<00:48:27.760><c>
- </c><00:49:06.000><c> that</c> with that new change in the maps that with that new change in the maps
- </c> Program to create an inventory and map Program to create an inventory and map of<01:03:04.880><c
- Um, we hear there's a lot of fish ponds that weren't mapped during the last effort.
Summary:
The committee heard three University of Hawaiʻi-related measures. HB 718 HD1 would appropriate funds for faculty and staff positions at the John A. Burns School of Medicine in cardiovascular, law, biology, tropical medicine, quantitative health/biostatistics, and environmental health and safety. Testimony was in support, including from university representatives and others who submitted written testimony. Members asked whether the positions were additional and how they would affect enrollment; the university said the hires would teach medical students and conduct biomedical research, helping increase the class size to about 77 and eventually 80, and noted a workforce paper requested by the committee would be provided soon.
The committee then discussed SB 1170 HD1, which would grant resident tuition at any UH campus to certain graduates of Hawaiʻi high schools enrolling in undergraduate programs. UH supported the bill and said it had adjusted its testimony in response to prior committee concerns. Members focused on the proposed four-year window, asking why that timeframe was chosen and whether the change was needed at all. UH explained that four years would allow students who left the state to return and still complete an undergraduate degree or prepare for graduate school, and said the bill would help students who come back after one or two years but otherwise would have to wait a year to reestablish residency under current rules. UH also said it was discussing possible administrative rule changes as an alternative if the bill did not pass.
Finally, the committee heard HB 1300 HD1, which would fund a University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center pilot study on cancer disparities among Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, Filipinos, and people living near landfills in Nanakuli, focusing on social determinants of health, lifestyle, environmental exposures, and resilience factors. Testimony from researchers and advocates strongly supported the measure, saying the study could help explain cancer disparities and support future research funding. Members questioned the cost, the reliance on future federal or foundation funding, and the practical outcome of the study. The Cancer Center said the pilot would cost about $500,000 per year for two years, with later funding sought from federal, nonprofit, or private sources; it said the study would produce longitudinal data that could help identify at-risk groups and provide evidence for policy decisions, though members expressed concern that the project needed a clearer end goal and stronger case for public investment.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Children and Family Law (04/01/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- We do have a first appearance map.
- We do have a first appearance<01:10:01.440><c> map.
- So it is that flowchart appearance map.
- Um so that map does first appearance.
- See, we're we're working to the map.
Summary:
The subcommittee met to continue its review of recommendations for New Hampshire’s family court, with the chair emphasizing a collaborative approach and noting that the group would focus on the origins of the family division, recurring problems identified in earlier reports, and comparisons with other states. Members discussed organizing testimony into three broad topics: the court hearing process and pro se litigant preparation, mediation/arbitration/counseling, and the interaction of domestic violence issues with family court and related criminal proceedings. The chair also noted that the subcommittee would not meet again for two weeks and encouraged members to review materials from Judge Michael Mace and NCSL research on other states’ family court systems.
Attorney Heather Culp, senior administrator for the judicial branch’s circuit court, testified about New Hampshire’s ADR programs. She explained that the Office of Mediation and Arbitration, created by statute in 2007, oversees more than 12 statewide ADR programs across the Supreme, Superior, and Circuit Courts, including family division programs such as divorce-parenting mediation, neutral case evaluation, guardianship, termination of parental rights, and voluntary adoption mediation. She said the divorce-parenting mediation program is the largest family division ADR program, with about 3,400 mediation sessions in 2023 out of roughly 6,700 cases, and that most cases involving minor children are referred to mediation soon after the first appearance session.
Culp described the family division process as beginning with a first appearance session led by a case manager, who provides information, helps with paperwork, and schedules mediation, usually within 30 to 45 days. She said mediation is strongly encouraged in parenting and divorce cases, but there is no requirement to reach agreement, and parties may settle some issues while leaving others for court. She also explained that mediation is prohibited or limited in certain domestic violence cases: cases with active civil protection orders may proceed only with both parties’ consent and possible safeguards, while cases involving criminal protective orders are not sent to mediation. Mediators in court-referred family cases are contracted with the court and must be certified by the executive branch’s mediator certification board; mediators do not communicate with judges, except through a brief ADR report noting whether the case settled or what the next procedural step is. Members asked about referrals, timing, and the meaning of “neutrals,” and Culp said the court uses in-house contracted neutrals for family division ADR and does not refer divorce-parenting cases to outside providers.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- We already really had some exceptional cancer clinical research centers, but all the stars on the map
- We already really had some exceptional cancer clinical research centers, but all the stars on the map
- We already really had some exceptional cancer clinical research centers, but all the stars on the map
- We already really had some exceptional cancer clinical research centers, but all the stars on the map
- We already really had some exceptional cancer clinical research centers, but all the stars on the map
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Facilities because currently we don't have any actual asset map.
- But let's, for the sake of argument, say that MAP gets approved.
- Okay, so to be clear, school districts that use MAP for TIA will still be giving the end-of-year MAP
- This map allows...
- I'm happy to explain that map, but I'm almost out of time.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (01/16/2025)
Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- What I'm sharing with you today is our 2024-25 road map.
- um so that was we called our road map um so that was basically<00:13:21.040><c> our</c><00:13:21.279
- commissioner yeah uh do you have any map commissioner yeah uh do you have any extra<00:13:28.160><c>
- This is a 2024-25 road map.
- </c> uh two years this is a 2425 road map uh two years this is a 2425 road map there<00:24:57.440><c>
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- Ninety-nine percent of the MAP program has gone to manufacturing equipment.
- Support for education, school support, and the million dollars for the MAP program.
- Ninety-nine percent of the MAP program has gone to manufacturing equipment.
- </c><02:13:37.719><c> program</c><02:13:38.040><c> and</c> map so actually for the map program and map
- Ninety-nine percent of the MAP program has gone to manufacturing equipment.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
Judiciary, Division A - Room 216, 17 February, 2026; 10:45 AM
Judiciary, Division A
Transcript Highlights:
- So there’s bound and there’s moving parts from a map to the code sections to all of that.
- moving<00:05:25.919><c> parts</c><00:05:26.320><c> from</c><00:05:26.479><c> a</c><00:05:26.720><c> map
- </c><00:05:27.039><c> to</c><00:05:27.360><c> the</c><00:05:27.600><c> code</c> moving parts from a map
- to the code moving parts from a map to the code sections<00:05:28.400><c> to</c><00:05:28.639><c> all
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Care & Wellness Feb 3rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- is the bill that requires the Department of Health to submit certain information to the overdose mapping
- is the bill that requires the Department of Health to submit certain information to the overdose mapping
- So this modifies the ODMAP location data that DOH is going to control in this overdose mapping software
- So in the bill, it specifically says that this overdose mapping cannot be used by law enforcement for
- So with this overdose mapping, 35 states are using this now. California's using it.
Summary:
The House Health Care and Wellness Committee held public hearings on four bills and then took executive action on three measures. HB 2555 would require the Health Care Authority to apply for a Medicaid waiver to cover traditional health care practices provided through Indian Health Service, tribal, and urban Indian facilities. Supporters, including the prime sponsor, tribal health leaders, and the Health Care Authority, said the bill would recognize traditional medicine, expand access, and leverage federal funding, though HCA noted the July 1, 2026 waiver deadline and urban Indian reimbursement questions may be difficult to resolve. HB 2685 would codify tribal data sovereignty principles for state agencies, require reporting of notifiable conditions to tribal health jurisdictions, and exempt certain tribal data from public disclosure. Tribal representatives supported the bill as necessary for access, governance, and better public health planning, while the Washington Coalition for Open Government and HCA raised concerns about the breadth of the PRA exemption, undefined ownership interests, and implementation details.
HB 2658 would require health carriers to submit standardized public data on behavioral health and other coverage and access metrics, with the Insurance Commissioner posting the information on a public dashboard. Supporters said the bill would improve transparency about mental health parity and help families, employers, and policymakers compare plans; opponents argued it duplicates or complicates recent parity reforms and could be misinterpreted. HB 2683 would shorten carrier credentialing timelines from 90 days to 30 days and require carriers to post billing and coverage information online. Supporters said it would reduce delays for providers and patients, while opponents warned the shorter timeline could be hard to meet and that posting information without login protections could raise privacy concerns.
In executive session, the committee adopted two amendments to HB 2168, which concerns overdose mapping data, then reported the substitute bill out with a due pass recommendation by a vote of 16-1. It rejected an amendment to HB 2196 that would have extended PANDAS/PANS coverage to public and school employee plans, then advanced the substitute bill with a due pass recommendation by a vote of 15-2. Finally, the committee passed HB 2545, which would allow ambulatory surgical facilities to perform elective percutaneous coronary interventions, by a vote of 13-4, after members discussed safety, access, and cost savings.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Legislative Evaluation and Development Committee REVISED: Meeting room changed to House rm 450 May 13th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Legislative Evaluation and Development Committee (LEAD)
Transcript Highlights:
- it's real So, digging down into logistical advantages, obviously, you all know where we are on the map
- Now, the next thing we have here is a map of the entire state.
- Do we have a strategic asset map by chance?
- Yes, we do have a map that highlights electric water Wastewater, where we have the information.
- I think we do have the basic asset map.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, May 12, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><08:34:10.160><c> to</c> capital, they are changing the maps to capital, they are changing the maps
- These maps are a pattern, and after Clay, it is spreading like a wildfire.
- These maps are a pattern, and after Clay, it is spreading like a wildfire.
- These maps are a pattern, and after Clay, it is spreading like a wildfire.
- These maps are a pattern, and after Clay, it is spreading like a wildfire.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/26/26
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> Medical Assistance Protection Act or MAP Medical Assistance Protection Act or MAP Act<00:38:21.520
- The MAP Act resources we're asking for.
- The MAP Act adds should all fix that.
- We're also trying to correct that with the MAP Act here.
- We're also trying to correct that with the MAP Act here.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- And Human Services, the Department of Human Services, continues to not act and to put out a road map
- for how we can upgrade these a road map for how we can upgrade these services. services. services.
- The mapping, a lot of that is done, and a lot of the work is now underway.
- </c> Since 2023, Minnesota has worked to map Since 2023, Minnesota has worked to map and<01:03:46.840
- </c> and mapping work continues. and mapping work continues.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- You can see this map quite a few.
- The lands that you see depicted on this map are the lands owned by the implementing agencies.
- So one of your maps shows the network of the arterial, but I want to focus in on the highway BRT.
- So one of your maps shows the network of the arterial, but I want to focus in on the highway BRT.
- So it doesn't show up on our map, but it definitely shows up on our minds.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Combatting Antisemitism Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Transcript Highlights:
- The first is about the infamous 2022 mapping project. I don't know how... ...questions.
- The first is about the infamous 2022 mapping project.
- Project, and I'd specifically suggest we talk about the 2022 Mapping Project, which was a harrowing
- And just briefly, the Mapping Project was textbook antisemitism.
- Justice David Lowy that... ...such as the Mapping Project.
Summary:
The Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism met to hear testimony from Chief James Hicks of the Natick Police Department, who chairs the Municipal Police Training Committee, and Chief Thomas Fowler of the Salisbury Police Department. They described the statewide civil-rights-officer model for hate-crime response, the HEART Unit, and MPTC training authority under POST, and urged the commission to recommend incorporating the IHRA definition of antisemitism into police training and to fund that effort. Commissioners asked about how law enforcement should handle antisemitic incidents that may not rise to crimes, the 2022 Mapping Project, masking during protests, and the role of HART; the chiefs said departments can update training quickly, that every department should have a trained civil-rights officer, and that HART’s expertise should be integrated statewide. The commission also approved the October 16, 2025 minutes after correcting an initial procedural error.
The rest of the meeting focused on the draft report, especially the prefatory statement and the definition section. Commissioners broadly praised the report’s scope and the chairs’ work, but offered many edits aimed at tightening language, reducing advocacy tone, and clarifying the “Massachusetts way” of combating antisemitism. Several members wanted stronger emphasis on Massachusetts values, education, moral leadership, and the distinction between hate incidents, hate crimes, and statutory offenses; others urged clearer references to constitutional protections, First Amendment limits, and Attorney General review of legal statements. There was also discussion of whether to keep or remove references to alternative definitions of antisemitism: some commissioners argued that only the IHRA definition should be centered, while others said acknowledging other definitions was factually important and would reflect the range of testimony.
Commissioners also raised specific substantive edits for later sections, including adding examples such as the 2022 Mapping Project, strengthening language on online intimidation, academic boycotts, and divestment campaigns, and clarifying that some conduct may be hateful even if lawful. In the higher education section, members praised recommendations on mandatory training, bystander intervention, trauma-informed responses, mental health supports, and campus climate surveys, while suggesting a few technical edits and additional best-practice examples. No final votes were taken on the draft report during this portion; the chairs said they would incorporate feedback into a revised draft before the remaining meetings and eventual vote.