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AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/17/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • Before we start, I want to make a few quick remarks.
  • And as we make the adjustment, no speakers.
  • That doesn’t make sense.
  • “If a big bus makes sense, we have a big bus.
  • Chair, can I just make a suggestion before we proceed?
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/26

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Just last week, earlier in this week, we heard a bill that talked about interest rates and interim rates
  • And how do mandates do the same it comes to utility rates in the state it comes to utility rates in the
  • <00:05:10.160> and about interest rates and about interest rates and interim<00:05:11.480>
  • > that<00:05:12.880> that interim rates and the dollars that that interim rates and the
  • That<01:31:27.960> makes<01:31:28.200> sense. That makes sense. That makes sense.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/23/2026 - Senate Finance

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • rates, which is how this bill would work, are generally lower rates than mortgage rates, which is how
  • So it's attractive to try to use lower rates, lower interest rates, but we have to look at the cost of
  • Okay, if that’s your intention, we’ll make sure, we’ll work with staff to make sure that is what the
  • We’ll make sure, we’ll work with staff to make sure that is what the words of the page do.
  • the tax... ...other buildings and so on, for anything but make the tax rates lower, and another bill
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Apr 2nd, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • Develop the infrastructure in an economic environment that makes success possible.
  • There is an incentive to make sure that those jobs are filled.
  • So a statewide unemployment rate is used.
  • . ...rate five to six percentage points below their local economy.
  • Texas statute actually caps 204.061, which caps the ceiling at a 2% tax rate on total wages.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Ways & Means Mar 31st, 2025

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Okay, just double-checking to make sure.
  • Right now, I'm proud to say that our tax rate in Bell County is the lowest tax rate, so we do function
  • However, we're struggling to make ends meet.
  • a growth rate of 26%.
  • I just want to make sure I understood.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations May 5th, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • And I just want to make a point, Mr.
  • And to me, that makes no sense.
  • Money does make the world around.
  • including the rate studies as well.
  • And it makes an entity ineligible for future grants if they do not comply with the rate study.
Summary: The committee first handled House Bill 513 by Rep. Young, which would regulate name, image, and likeness issues for intercollegiate and interscholastic athletes, especially high school athletes. Young said the bill reflects recommendations from a statewide NIL task force and sets parental-consent and prohibited-category guardrails while preserving flexibility for colleges. The committee adopted a technical amendment and reported the bill favorably as amended. Members then advanced several procurement and administrative measures. Senate Bill 233 by Sen. Mizell would create a statewide data exchange compact for state agencies; testimony from the Department of Health said it would improve eligibility and program administration by allowing agencies to share data more efficiently, and the bill was reported favorably. Senate Bill 300, also by Mizell, would make various changes to the Procurement Code, including auction techniques in negotiated procurement, sole sourcing for consulting services in limited cases, and other technical and legal remedy revisions; it was reported favorably. Senate Bill 303 by Sen. Cloud would let executive branch agencies directly contract with other states for information technology systems and use the federal GSA schedule, and it was reported favorably as amended. Senate Bill 411 by Sen. DePlessis, removing a 20-year lease cap for certain state property in Orleans Parish, was also reported favorably. The committee then took up several bills affecting criminal justice funding. House Bill 660 by Rep. Egan would raise the state warrant amount used to fund assistant district attorney salaries from $50,000 to $60,000; Egan and district attorneys argued the increase is needed to recruit and retain prosecutors, while an opponent said the state should fund prosecutors and public defenders more equitably. The committee adopted an amendment making the bill effective only upon appropriation and reported it favorably as amended. House Bill 719, also by Egan, would increase the number of assistant district attorney warrants statewide, with most of the new warrants directed to Baton Rouge, St. Tammany, and Caddo; supporters cited workload studies and local needs, while an opponent raised concerns about New Orleans court consolidation and broader funding balance. It too was amended to be subject to appropriation and reported favorably as amended. Other measures included House Bill 76 by Rep. Freeman, which addresses coverage for orally administered anti-cancer medications and was reported favorably as amended after changes to cost-sharing and high-deductible plan language; House Bill 802 by Rep. Sawyer, which redirects existing revenue to watershed and flood-control restoration in the Amite River Basin, was reported favorably as amended; House Bill 940 by Rep. Barrow, creating a law-enforcement task force and rules framework for counter-drone operations, was reported favorably as amended; and House Bill 950 by Rep. Boyd, aimed at consumer protection education for seniors, was reported favorably. House Bill 596 by Rep. McCormick, which would have created an inactive-well fee assessment credit tied to plugging wells, drew concerns that it would reduce funds for orphan-well restoration, and the bill was voluntarily deferred after discussion. House Bill 581 and House Bill 1183 were also voluntarily deferred.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Apr 27th, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • So you're not making that decision.
  • Let me make sure I understand then.
  • It's a Medicare rate.
  • would be paid under 100% Medicare rate for the hospital outpatient rate.
  • So there's two different rates.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part II) May 15th, 2025

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • We'll... okay, all right, now let's reconsider the motion, and somebody make a motion.
  • Bring up 4205, same thing, but Robert make the motion.
  • late, okay, so you don't have to... ...and we're starting late Monday, okay, so you don't have to make
Summary: The Senate Committee on Local Government met with a quorum and took up a series of pending bills, mostly local-government measures. Early action included final committee approval of Senate Bill 1633 and S.J.R. 60, followed by Senate Bill 3038 and Senate Bill 3045, both reported favorably and placed on the local and uncontested calendar. The committee also considered House Bill 24, adopted a committee substitute, and reported the substitute version favorably; House Bill 2025 was likewise reported favorably and sent to the local and uncontested calendar. Members then handled several companion and local bills, including House Bill 2713 as the companion to Senate Bill 1331, which was reported favorably and placed on the local and uncontested calendar. House Bill 3348, House Bill 3370, House Bill 3505, and House Bill 4506 were each reported favorably, with no objections to local-and-uncontested placement. House Bill 5424 passed on a 6-1 vote, and House Bill 5652 passed with one present-not-voting, both also sent to the local and uncontested calendar. The committee also adopted substitutes and reported House Bill 3687 and House Bill 4205, though both were later reconsidered because the wrong script had been read. After reconsideration, House Bill 3687 and House Bill 4205 were each re-voted and reported favorably to the full Senate, with both placed on the local and uncontested calendar. Senate Bill 3071 was also reported out on a 5-2 vote after adoption of a committee substitute. The meeting ended with no further business and the committee standing at recess subject to the call of the chair.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Insurance Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Please make every effort to provide copies of the amendments to the committee clerk as soon as possible
  • important than it used to be a few sessions ago. ...than it used to be a few sessions ago, so we need to make
  • So if you make a motion for anything, it must receive a second or it will die for lack of support. ..
  • If I make a motion and nobody else... ...sir, if I make a motion and nobody else wants to second...
  • Make a motion? All right, we're adjourned. Don't forget you...
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Ratings if they harm our A through F ratings.
  • It is about making certain...
  • I just want to make the point.
  • So you're making. it about race again. No, I didn't make it about race.
  • To make sure that everybody votes from that. And so I want to make sure that we have a...
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Who will make that determination? What is fair and reasonable? Thank you for that question.
  • Them to make sure that their measurement systems are compliant.
  • And so, with that, we're just trying to make sure they are using.
  • We just want to make sure that the fact that they are choosing to step up and do more does not make them
  • All the rate cases go through them, and they have a whole staff that are experts in that.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - House Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • So it makes economic sense.
  • It doesn't make economic sense for them to buy into a fund and their rates go up. We can't do that.
  • A lot of this makes sense, although I—thank you. And a lot of this makes sense.
  • So we haven't been making deposits, and we should have been making deposits.
  • it make sense, so I vote yes.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Intergovernmental Affairs May 13th, 2025

Intergovernmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • The locality will also be prohibited from adopting a Property tax rate over the no new revenue rate or
  • When adopting a property tax rate.
  • Fix them to the no new revenue tax rate, also.
  • I just want to make a quick point.
  • I'm just, obviously, if it's verbatim of the previous, people want to make sure that they make it in
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

State Affairs Mar 26th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • The sub makes a change that will improve the implementation and tighten the liability language to ensure
  • I don't know if a lawsuit has actually been filed, but they are trying to collect and make sure that
  • Chairman, we'll make an exception for you and we'll bring extra snakes whenever you're available.
  • Let me, I'll make a note. Let me, let me just, let me just add one thing.
  • to make adjustments for what a local neighborhood may or may not need.