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AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
06/12/2026 - House Republican Caucus Calendar #26 & #27
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Feb 16th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- authorities with timely information, useful in assuring persons convicted of DUI honor the terms of their restricted
Summary:
The Senate Judiciary Rules Committee approved the minutes from its January 26, 2026, and February 4, 2026, meetings without objection. The committee then heard four RS requests from members of the Administrative Office of the Courts and senators, with no public testimony taken.
Jason Spillman presented RS 33146, a court-initiated cleanup bill to remove an outdated reference to a no-longer-existing court rule in the mediation statute, and RS 33147, which would establish a statutory priority order for distributing partial payments in Juvenile Corrections Act cases. Both measures were described as ways to clarify court procedures and align payment handling with legislative direction. The committee moved both RSs to print.
Senator Ben Taves presented RS 33394, a transparency proposal requiring labeling for products sold in Idaho that used fetal tissue in research or production. Senator Ricks said he would support printing it, and Senator Wintrow noted she expected debate on the benefits of biomedical research if the bill advanced. The committee voted to print the RS, with Senator Wintrow recorded as voting nay.
Senator Dan Foreman presented RS 33405, which would require ignition interlock companies to notify the Idaho Transportation Department when a device is installed and prosecutors when a vehicle is prevented from starting, in order to improve accountability and track DUI-related court requirements. The committee moved the RS to print, and then adjourned after completing the agenda.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- authorities with timely information, useful in assuring persons convicted of DUI honor the terms of their restricted
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Rules
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
County and Municipal Government Feb 11th, 2026 at 03:00 pm
County and Municipal Government
Transcript Highlights:
- We eliminate preferential or restrictive bid notices.
Committee:
House County and Municipal Government
Keywords:
property rights, public nuisance, compensation claims, government enforcement, Oklahoma Safe Neighborhoods Act, public utility, municipal water, wastewater services, liability protection, third-party contractors, infrastructure maintenance, emergency response, regulatory compliance, animal welfare, pet shops, commercial breeders, county regulations, animal shelter licensing, county purchasing, procurement practices
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- SB 1506, Recording Fees Unlawful Restrictions Exemptions.
Summary:
The Senate opened with prayer, the pledge of allegiance, and an electronic roll call showing 26 members present and four excused. The journal for January 29, 2026, was approved, and the chamber recognized Lucid Motors Day at the Capitol, highlighting the company’s Arizona operations, investment, and job creation. The Senate also received a gubernatorial nomination for Troy L. Campbell to the State Liquor Board, which was referred to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency.
A large number of bills were introduced and read for the first time, covering topics such as commerce, E-Verify, municipal self-certification, voter registration text notices, immigration enforcement training, school eligibility and testing, campaign finance, vulnerable adults, temporary vehicle plates, tribal flags, water projects, public works apprenticeships, housing and water supply, special plates, controlled substances research, and election-related resolutions. One bill, SB 1429, was further referred to the Committee on Finance. The Senate also placed many measures on second reading, including bills on roads, labor and collective bargaining, tax relief, education data, assisted living, liquor policy, public pensions, housing, utilities, and election and redistricting proposals.
The President noted that it was the final day to submit bills by the 5:00 p.m. deadline and announced upcoming caucus and committee meetings for February 3. During a personal privilege statement, the Majority Leader criticized the Attorney General’s recent remarks as dangerous and confusing, argued she should retract them, and said elected officials should lower the temperature around rhetoric that could contribute to violence. The Senate then adjourned by motion until Tuesday, February 3, 2026, at 1:15 p.m.
AZ
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, that have no deed restrictions that would prevent such a development and the project is located on
Bills:
HB 148 , HB 334 , HB 554 , HB 762 , HB 1520 , HB 1593 , HB 3526 , HB 3810 , HB 5092 , SB 2215 , HB 2607
Committee:
Senate Local Government
Keywords:
family leave, leave pool, county employee, sick leave, vacation leave, family care, pandemic, guardianship, HB 554, fireworks, Juneteenth, Juneteenth holiday, retail fireworks permit, Texas Occupations Code, Local Government Code, county commissioners court, drought conditions, Texas A&M Forest Service, fire safety, holiday sales
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- government attain an underwriting assessment, demonstrating that the rent reduction for income-restricted
Committee:
Senate Local Government
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, this bill restricts remote work by employees of public institutions of higher education.
Committee:
Senate Education
Keywords:
educator misconduct, reporting requirements, local law enforcement, public and private schools, penalties for non-compliance, expressive activities, freedom of speech, public forum, higher education, protests, student rights, telework, public education, employee rights, emergency provisions, Holocaust education, Holocaust Remembrance Week, antisemitism, genocide education, public schools
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, this bill is restricting remote work by employees of public institutions of higher education
Committee:
Senate Education K-16
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Banking and Insurance Mar 3rd, 2025
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Fish and Game and Marine Resources (02/03/2026)
Fish and Game and Marine Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, I hear you say, um, that our law at the current time is restrictive, and I'm not sure that I disagree
- Plaintiffs argue that such restrictions infringe upon their constitutional right to harvest.
- arguing that reasonable quotas, season closures, bag limits, and land area closures and other restrictions
- </c><03:44:21.600><c> are</c> closures and other restrictions are closures and other restrictions are
- In particular, there's one in Oregon being considered right now that would essentially place a restriction
Committee:
House Fish and Game and Marine Resources
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Our campus restricts the use of devices because we are well aware of the amount of screen. time children
- First, House Bill 6 clarifies that there is no restriction on the use of in-school suspension, thereby
- And so this... clarifies that there's no restriction on the use of in-school suspension.
- Why wouldn't that kid have gone then to what I think of as a restricted environment of a JJP.
- The campus was restricted on how they could address the situation and the student regardless of his of
Bills:
HB6 , HB27 , HB 123 , HB210 , HB213 , HB222 , HB610 , HB 1085 , HB1481 , HB6 , HB27 , HB123 , HB210 , HB213 , HB222
Committee:
House Public Education
Keywords:
mental health, telehealth, public schools, discipline management, behavioral interventions, financial literacy, high school education, curriculum requirements, economics, personal finance, HB 123, kindergarten readiness, early literacy, early numeracy, reading screening, math screening, foundational literacy, foundational numeracy, dyslexia screening, reading intervention
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Delivery of Government Efficiency Mar 5th, 2025
Delivery of Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- Outdated restrictions prevent businesses from hiring eager and capable workers.
- Currently, these restricted restrictions limit hiring pool at a time when businesses and families are
- Restriction two things occurred to me.
- Did you have any of those types of restrictions from the city of Houston while you were performing the
- Seaside administer and own the application, what their restrictions are, on whether they could employ
Committee:
House Delivery of Government Efficiency
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Ways and Means Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am
Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Transcript Highlights:
- We're very restricted. We cannot hire people using forfeiture money.
- And then will the difference be those who—could I see the expired, restricted, not certified?
- Those that are, when we mark somebody as restricted, when they leave an agency but they still have time
- specific services, and although the AGs have sued the Department of Justice and some of those restrictions
- have been removed for the programs that received the Of those restrictions have been removed.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Ways and Means held its sixth public hearing on the Governor’s H-2 budget proposal for fiscal year 2026, focused on public safety and judiciary agencies, at the Foxborough Community Center. After opening remarks and local welcomes, the committee heard first from the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, led by Secretary Gina Kwan, who outlined a $1.72 billion budget, up $69.8 million from FY26. She said the proposal emphasizes core operations, readiness, and partnerships with municipalities, and highlighted work on firearms-law implementation, State Police reform, DOC reentry efforts, hate-crimes prevention, emergency response, and planning for major events including the World Cup. Members also raised concerns about DNA backlog reporting, State Police academy boxing and training standards, ICE communication, disaster relief funding, crime lab staffing, EMS placement, and diversity in public safety leadership.
Several exchanges focused on specific operational issues. Secretary Kwan and her team said the State Police are tracking the influx of forensic work from local sheriffs, that the boxing program remains suspended pending an IACP review and likely will not return in its prior form, and that EOPS has no direct communication with ICE but supports law-enforcement coordination where appropriate. On disaster preparedness, officials said the new disaster relief fund is being developed with MEMA and A&F, currently capitalized at $14 million with another $14 million expected, though members urged a more permanent funding source. On the crime lab, staff said the roughly $4.5 million increase is intended to cover core operations and a structural funding gap rather than expand services. The secretary also said EOPS is not ready to absorb OEMS from DPH at this time, though she would keep an open mind.
The committee then heard from district attorneys, led by Suffolk County DA Kevin Hayden, who said the Massachusetts District Attorneys Association is seeking a 10% increase in operating budgets, including about $16.7 million for staffing salaries, to recruit and retain prosecutors, advocates, and support staff. He said the request reflects rising workload and the need to keep the criminal justice system functioning efficiently and fairly. The hearing was recessed briefly after the district attorneys’ opening remarks, with additional testimony expected to continue afterward.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Committee of Conference on HB 155, HB 1102, HB 1109, HB 1356, HB 1469, HB 1323, HB 1376 (05/26/2026)
Transcript Highlights:
- amendment and that's what restrictive amendment and that's what I'm<02:10:47.119><c> passing</c><02:
- California did not amend its laws to restrict care.
- California did not amend its laws to restrict care.
- So California did not amend its laws to restrict care.
- So California did not amend its laws to restrict care.
Keywords:
9:00am HB 155
9:30am HB 1102
10:30am HB 1109
11:00am HB 1356
11:30am HB 1469
1:00pm HB 1323
2:00pm HB 1376, 928, house, all
Summary:
The meeting began with unanimous committee approval of amendment 2026-2021S to HB 2. Senator Lang explained the amendment corrected a drafting error so that $2.5 million in state funds, matched with federal money for a total of $5 million, could be spent during the biennium rather than lapse at the end of the fiscal year. The money is intended to stabilize Medicaid per diem rates for county nursing homes, and members agreed without objection to adopt the amendment and continue working from the bill as amended by the Senate.
The committee then discussed HB 155 and a proposed amendment, 2026-201H, dealing with the business enterprise tax. The House side described the proposal as a compromise that would raise the filing threshold from $250,000 to $375,000 and create a trigger that would reduce the BET rate by 0.05% for each $100 million in combined business tax surplus, down to a floor of 0.25%. Senate members opposed lowering the rate at this time, arguing that tax relief should focus on the filing threshold, which they said would remove filing burdens for about 3,500 small businesses, and that rate cuts should be considered in a budget cycle rather than an off-year. Concerns were raised that one-time revenues, such as tax amnesty receipts or federal repatriation-related surpluses, could unintentionally trigger reductions.
Representative Sweeney later offered a revised approach by moving the effective date of the trigger mechanism to January 1, 2028, and said he was also willing to carve out tax amnesty revenues or adjust the effective date to avoid using one-time funds. The Senate remained unwilling to agree to a rate reduction, though it expressed openness to raising the filing threshold further. The committee ultimately did not resolve the business tax issue and recessed to continue discussions at a later time.
The final item discussed was HB 1102, concerning an increase in the research and development tax credit paired with changes to state park fees. House members supported the R&D credit increase but opposed tying it to higher park fees, citing concerns about tourism, especially at border parks, and noting that the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources had said it did not need the increase. Senate members defended the park fee changes as a fairness issue, arguing that New Hampshire residents should pay less than out-of-state visitors and that the department had not raised rates in many years. No vote was taken on this item during the discussion captured here.
VT
Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session - 2026-05-08 - 11:30AM
Vermont Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Further, in Section 42, we work to address EV charging concerns related to unreasonable restrictions
- Section 42 is that we make those common interest communities not be able to place unreasonable restrictions
- to</c> charging concerns related to charging concerns related to unreasonable<01:34:06.239><c> restrictions
- </c><01:34:07.120><c> in</c><01:34:07.760><c> the</c> unreasonable restrictions in the unreasonable restrictions
- </c> unreasonable restrictions in section 42. unreasonable restrictions in section 42.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 3/25/26
Elections Finance and Government Operations
Transcript Highlights:
- It also clarifies that reasonable restrictions as mentioned in that statute must be adopted by ordinance
- <00:20:38.400><c> reasonable</c> also clarifies that reasonable also clarifies that reasonable restrictions
- as mentioned in that restrictions as mentioned in that statute<00:20:41.520><c> must</c><00:20:41.840
- 20:52.880><c> reasonable</c> uh to talk about what reasonable uh to talk about what reasonable restrictions
- </c> restrictions look like in those cities. restrictions look like in those cities.
Bills:
HF4348 , HF4186 , HF4202 , HF4455 , HF3884 , HF3883 , HF3882 , HF3881 , HF2688 , HF3295 , HF3862 , HF3362 , HF4242 , HF3798
Keywords:
HF4186, Minnesota local government finance, housing and redevelopment authority, HRA, public investment authority, qualifying government, State Board of Investment, SBI, index mutual fund, multifamily housing development, long-term equity investment, investment-grade fixed income, federally insured securities, government-sponsored entities, municipal investing, local government investments, housing finance, public funds, investment policy, risk of loss
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 069 Mar 24th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, many of us believe that this state imposes far too many rules and regulations and restrictions on
- many rules and regulations<00:50:47.119><c> and</c><00:50:47.280><c> and</c><00:50:47.839><c> restrictions
- </c><00:50:48.400><c> on</c> regulations and and restrictions on regulations and and restrictions on
- And um, as a senator from Aurora accurately pointed out, the state Supreme Court did put some restrictions
- </c> supreme court did put some restrictions supreme court did put some restrictions on<02:00:49.440>
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Ways and Means Mar 24th, 2026
Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Transcript Highlights:
- We're very restricted. We cannot hire people using forfeiture money.
- And then will the difference be those who—could I see the expired, restricted, not certified?
- Those that are, when we mark somebody as restricted, when they leave an agency but they still have time
- And although the AGs have sued the Department of Justice and some of those restrictions have been removed
- for the programs that received the Of those restrictions have been removed.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Ways and Means