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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Taxes - 04/29/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • We've worked with parking permit.
  • </c> you aware of the status of um the House you aware of the status of um the House Companion?
  • </c> Senator House China, please continue. Senator House China, please continue.
  • /c> the uh on the House uh on the House the uh on the House uh on the House bill.<00:48:49.119><c> And
  • </c><00:49:33.680><c> Just</c> house. So it's a big question mark. Just house.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 1569 was passed in the 87th session, which allowed El Paso County to identify and appoint.
  • For communities like ours, this is a tool to reclaim long-forgotten land and convert it into housing,
  • In 2019, we applied for a permit and were granted a permit from Water Texas. ...Commission on Environmental
  • There has been some confusion there, but there have been four houses... ...in my neighborhood that have
  • When the fire trucks show up, they empty all... ...their water on the fire, then they watch the houses
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session May 14th, 2026

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • the House.
  • Supreme Court, whose majority has aligned with the White House.
  • Supreme Court, whose majority has aligned with the White House. ...has aligned with the White House.
  • House Resolution 95. Ayes 66, noes 0. Senate Concurrent Resolution 123. Ayes 66, noes 0.
  • Davy seconds, that this House stands adjourned until Monday, May 18, at 1:00 p.m.
Keywords: 988, house, all
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/25/2026 - House Government

House Government Committee of Reference

Transcript Highlights:
  • You have given House Bill, as amended, due pass. House Bill 1167, due pass. Thank you.
  • So we had 28 state senators and 80 House members.
  • So not an A or B or House 1, House 2, just two at-large, whoever finishes top two is in.
  • So, So A, B, House, you can see it.
  • I'm trying to remember the House budget.
Summary: The committee first took up SB 1167, which would allow municipalities and counties to satisfy certain public-notice requirements by posting advertisements, publications, and printings on their official websites. The sponsor argued the bill is permissive, intended to modernize notice practices, reduce costs, and help governments meet statutory deadlines, while a Blackmun amendment required a six-month transition period in which notices would still be published in newspapers and the public would be alerted to the change. Newspaper and media representatives, along with tribal and rural community advocates, opposed the bill, arguing that print notices remain important for transparency, historical recordkeeping, and access in areas with limited internet service. Supporters from county and local government said newspaper publication schedules have become unreliable and that websites are a more effective way to reach the public. The committee adopted the Blackmun amendment and then passed SB 1167 as amended on a 4-3 vote. The committee then considered SB 1021, as amended by a strike-everything that would require the Auditor General to refer evidence of possible criminal activity involving health profession regulatory boards to the Attorney General, with procedures for investigation and conflict-of-interest handling. The sponsor and amendment sponsor said the measure would create a mechanism for criminal findings in audit work to be acted on. With no opposition testimony, the committee adopted the amendment and passed SB 1021 as amended on a 4-3 vote. Next was SB 1011, which would require county medical examiners or forensic pathologists to review an infant’s immunization and vaccination history, along with any countermeasures administered in the prior 90 days, in sudden unexplained infant death cases. The sponsor said the bill was a data-collection measure meant to improve accuracy, transparency, and prevention efforts. Opponents, including vaccine advocacy and disability representatives, said Arizona already collects this information, that unsafe sleep is the primary issue in most SIDS cases, and that the bill could fuel misinformation about vaccines. The committee passed SB 1011 on a 4-3 vote. The committee also heard SB 1013, a merit-based public employment bill that would prohibit hiring based on conditions other than merit. Supporters said it would ensure public employees are selected by qualifications and objective criteria; opponents argued existing law already bars discrimination and that the bill could create litigation risks and hinder outreach to underrepresented communities. The committee passed SB 1013 on a 4-3 vote. Finally, the committee considered SB 1015 and a strike-everything amendment that would replace the bill’s original detransition-liability language with the Arizona Thriving Families Act, creating a family and medical leave insurance program within Medicaid beginning in 2029. The original bill sponsor defended the underlying detransition-related liability concept as accountability and support for detransitioners, while opponents said it would function as a discriminatory backdoor ban on transition care for minors. The transcript ends during debate and explanation of the strike-everything amendment, before a final vote on SB 1015 is shown.
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

HWN-EIG, HWN, HWN-HOU, HOU DEFER Public Hearings 02-04-2025

Hawaiian Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:52:58.319><c> the</c><00:52:58.440><c> same</c> committee on housing the same committee on housing
  • These are similar programs, but Senate Bill 491 is to construct new housing and 490 is for existing housing
  • These are similar programs, but Senate Bill 491 is to construct new housing and 490 is for existing housing
  • These are similar programs, but Senate Bill 491 is to construct new housing and 490 is for existing housing
  • These are similar programs, but Senate Bill 491 is to construct new housing and 490 is for existing housing
Keywords: 912, senate, all
Summary: The joint hearing focused primarily on Senate Bill 1409, which would cap county user fees charged to Department of Hawaiian Home Lands beneficiaries. Department of Hawaiian Home Lands supported the measure, arguing it would reduce monthly housing-related costs for lower-income beneficiaries and help make homesteading more affordable. Several testifiers, including the Tax Foundation of Hawaii and some individuals, also submitted comments or support. County and city water and sewer agencies, including the County of Kauai Department of Water, the City and County of Honolulu Department of Facility Maintenance, the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, and the City and County Department of Environmental Services, strongly opposed the bill, saying it would shift substantial costs to other ratepayers, create lost revenue, and could force fee increases for everyone else. They also raised concerns about the bill’s cap structure and potential misuse, while noting their systems are funded by user fees rather than taxes. During committee discussion, Honolulu Board of Water Supply officials estimated about 4,500 DHHL customers on Oʻahu and projected lost revenue of roughly $30 million to $36 million over five years, with larger cumulative impacts over time; they said any waiver would be absorbed by other customers. The County of Hawaiʻi representative estimated nearly 2,000 DHHL customers on the Big Island and about $2.4 million in annual lost revenue. DHHL responded that it is pursuing revenue-generating projects on unused lands, but members questioned whether the department should do more to generate its own revenue and suggested looking at other affordability mechanisms, including market rent on commercial properties or a similar cap on other beneficiary fees. After hearing the testimony and discussion, the committee chair announced the recommendation to defer SB 1409 indefinitely, and the Committee on Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs agreed with that decision. The hearing then moved to Senate Bill 1408, a housekeeping measure. DHHL testified in support, saying the bill was part of an effort to lower housing costs through a modular manufacturing approach. DHHL described plans to use an unused hangar at Kalaeloa for a potential modular housing manufacturing plant, including discussions with the University of Hawaiʻi and a Denver-based company, and said it was also exploring a pilot project with Habitat for Humanity on Maui. No vote or final action on SB 1408 was taken in the portion of the transcript provided.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Standing Committee on Small Business and Information Technology (2-18-26)

Small Business & Information Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 227 is a media platforms.
  • House Bill 227 as amended by House Committee Substitute 1 passes with favorable expression and should
  • pass on the House floor.
  • House Bill 227 as amended by House &gt;&gt; yes.
  • House Bill 227 as amended by House Committee<00:52:30.880><c> substitute</c><00:52:31.359><c> one</c>
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

Public Health and Welfare - Room 216, 21 January, 2026; 3:30 PM

Public Health and Welfare

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 3 is what happened, which I think most of y'all know.
  • House Bill 3 is the thing to do. So we'll start at the bottom with House Bill 3.
  • Um Um Um the<00:01:49.119><c> House</c> the House the House just<00:01:51.600><c> a</c><00:01:51.920>
  • </c><00:04:58.639><c> it's</c> bill that's coming from the house it's bill that's coming from the house
  • </c><00:52:33.280><c> in</c> budget uh committee in this house in budget uh committee in this house in
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Jan 15th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • So agenda item number three, House Bill 2160, will be the last bill, and House Bill 2179 will be third
  • House Bill 2179.
  • House Bill 2179 is a clean fix.
  • House Bill 2179 is a clean fix.
  • From our perspective, House Bill 2160...
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Sep 9th, 2025

New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • John Block, House District 51 State Representative in beautiful Otero County in Alamogordo, and it's
  • I mean the very significant back-of-the-house work needed to allow any customer to operate the spaceport
  • Where are they housed? Where are they trained?
  • The Rio Grande Valley in Texas has received five presidential permits in the last five years, and we
  • don't need to ask for presidential permits.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Energy Committee Meeting - 2025-04-03

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The first order of business is House File 1366.
  • Thank you for hearing House File 1366.
  • I move that House File 2803 be laid over.
  • House File 283 as amended is laid over.
  • And this is where House File 1859 comes in.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm the prime sponsor of House Bill 192.
  • and one member of House Fiscal.
  • </c> for the opportunity to Produce House for the opportunity to Produce House Bill Bill Bill 435<00:
  • </c><04:19:09.760><c> Edna</c> Madam chair members of the House Edna Madam chair members of the House
  • </c> move and expediate to legislate on House move and expediate to legislate on House Bill Bill Bill
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The hearing opened on House Bill 192, which concerns the Joint Committee on Employee Classification process for state employee positions. Representative Peter Schmidt explained that the bill is a procedural step to send already-reviewed classifications to Korn Ferry and then into statute and the budget. Department of Corrections staff and Commissioner Helen Hanks testified that one Deputy Director of Medical Services position had been omitted from the bill by mistake even though it had already gone through the JCEC process, and they asked for an amendment to add it. Hanks clarified that the position is an existing classified job being converted to unclassified status, not a new position. The committee discussed how the amendment would work and the quorum requirements for the JCEC, then closed the hearing on HB 192 after no further testimony. The committee then heard House Bill 435, sponsored by Representative Don McFarland, which would clarify professional engineering licensure law. McFarland said the bill is intended to make clear that work in IT security, electronics, digital systems, computing, and software is not the practice of engineering requiring a professional engineer license, while preserving licensure requirements for fields such as civil, structural, and building-related engineering. He said he had consulted with the American Council of Engineering Companies and that the bill is meant to remove ambiguity and legal risk, not deregulate engineering. Several members with engineering backgrounds spoke in support, describing the distinction between licensed PE work and other technical fields, and one member noted that software development and regulated software work typically do not require a PE license. The committee voted ought to pass on HB 435 by a roll call of 16-0 and placed it on consent. Finally, the committee opened House Bill 210, which would create a commission to study the New Hampshire state flag. Representative Tom Corman argued that the current flag is a generic “state seal on a blue bedsheet” and does not meet common vexillological design principles such as simplicity, meaningful symbolism, limited colors, and distinctiveness. He said the proposed commission would include legislative members plus representatives of the New Hampshire Historical Society and the New England Vexillological Association, and would review the flag’s history and recommend whether to redesign it and how to do so. He also indicated he intended to add language to avoid costs, but the bill discussion was not completed in the portion provided.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • Um we surveyed permites are telling us.
  • Uh, reconvening our committee hearing here in the House Committee on Transportation.
  • It may come to JAY House. So I have another opportunity. >> Thank you, Representative members.
  • It may come to JAY House. So I have another opportunity. >> Thank you, Representative members.
  • </c> House. So I have another opportunity. House. So I have another opportunity.
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several transportation-related bills. HB 1688, which would provide a general excise tax exemption for certain aircraft maintenance materials, parts, tools, and facility construction, received comments from the Department of Taxation and support from Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, Kohala Coast Resort, the Activities and Attractions Association of Hawaii, and the Tax Foundation of Hawaii. Testimony indicated the measure was intended to clarify an existing exemption rather than create a new one. The bulk of the hearing focused on HB 2386, which would authorize the Public Utilities Commission to establish automatic adjustment mechanisms and a water carrier inflationary cost index. The Department of Transportation said it would change its testimony to support the bill, citing a 2020 working group recommendation, while the PUC and DCCA offered comments. Matson, the Maritime Group, Hawaii Harbors Users Group, and Young Brothers supported the measure, arguing it would modernize regulation, improve predictability, and help maintain reliable interisland shipping. Hawaii Farm Bureau offered comments, while Hawaii Food Industry Association, Maui Brewing Company, Lani Kai Brewing Company, and the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Hawaii opposed it, arguing automatic rate increases were not the solution and that underlying costs and efficiencies should be addressed first. The chair noted the bill was essentially the same as one previously considered, and asked questions about how Hawaii’s water carrier regulation compares with other states. The committee also heard HB 1691, which would allow electronic signatures for certain motor vehicle title transfers after total-loss insurance settlements and remove the notary requirement for that narrow transaction. The City and County of Honolulu Department of Customer Services, Hawaii Insurers Council, Copart, American Property Casualty Insurance Association, and one individual supported it, with Copart saying the change would reduce delays and could allow a faster, largely electronic settlement process. Members asked about county impacts, and Copart said counties would only see a different form with no added cost or electronic integration. HB 1680, requiring county finance directors to notify agencies through a centralized system for vehicle transfers, drew opposition from the City and County of Honolulu Department of Customer Services and one individual in support. HB 2516, raising helmet requirements for electric foot scooters and bicycles and requiring helmets for high-speed or Class 3 electric bicycles, received support from DOT, DOH, AAA Hawaii, and the Hawaii Bicycling League. HB 193, allowing deaf vehicle owners to register a deafness designation visible to law enforcement, drew support from the City and County of Honolulu Department of Customer Services, the Hawaii Disabilities Rights Center, and an individual who suggested amendments to broaden the bill to deaf and hard of hearing individuals and adjust the proof standard. HB 2442, increasing required accessible and van-accessible parking spaces in larger parking lots, was supported by the Disability and Communication Access Board, the Council on Developmental Disabilities, and the Disability Rights Center, which said the bill would address shortages of accessible parking and may need technical amendments to align terminology with the ADA.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

FL House Floor Session - 2025-02-13 (12:00PM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The prayer today will be given by the House chaplain, Tim Perrier. Mr.
  • House calendar.
  • Representative Joseph, argumentative questions are not permitted.
  • Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn, sine die.
  • The House is adjourned sine die.
Summary: The House convened with prayer, a moment of silence for the Parkland shooting victims, quorum call, and the Pledge of Allegiance. The Rules and Ethics Committee special order report for February 13, 2025 was adopted, setting the day’s special order calendar and debate times. The chamber then took up immigration-related special order items, beginning with Senate Memorial 6C, which urged the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide guidance and training for 287(g) agreements. Members debated federal immigration policy and state cooperation with DHS, and the memorial passed 85-27. The House next considered Senate Bill 4C, an immigration bill creating new state offenses related to unlawful entry and reentry into Florida and requiring a mandatory death sentence for an unauthorized alien convicted of a capital felony. Members questioned the bill’s constitutionality, including Supremacy Clause, due process, and Eighth Amendment concerns, and several speakers argued it would create separate classes of people and invite litigation. Multiple amendments were offered to narrow or expand exemptions, including protections for Venezuelans on TPS, certain Haitian TPS and humanitarian parole recipients, undocumented people brought to Florida as children working in critical professions, and a proposal to delay action pending court rulings; all of those amendments were rejected. The bill passed 85-29. The chamber then took up Senate Bill 2C, which would create a State Board of Immigration Enforcement led by the Governor and Cabinet, establish a local law enforcement immigration grant program and advisory council, repeal the undocumented-student fee waiver, and appropriate more than $300 million for immigration enforcement. The sponsor described it as supporting cooperation with federal immigration agencies and ending the in-state tuition incentive for undocumented students. Early questioning focused on the impact on “dreamers” and whether the bill would effectively raise their tuition costs; the sponsor said it removed the incentive of in-state tuition but did not bar attendance. The transcript cuts off during that exchange, before final action on SB 2C is shown.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Labor - 03/05/26

Labor

Transcript Highlights:
  • I have before you House File 3750 for consideration. All right.
  • safety, schools mindful of student safety, schools should<00:26:38.120><c> be</c><00:26:38.240><c> permitted
  • </c><00:26:38.680><c> to</c><00:26:38.760><c> determine</c><00:26:39.200><c> their</c> should be permitted
  • to determine their should be permitted to determine their own<00:26:39.680><c> spending</c><00:26:40.040
  • day and age when we are working so hard to fund our schools in the very best way and, of course, to permit
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
FL

Florida 2026 4th Special Session

House in Session Mar 9th, 2026

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate bills on special orders shall be considered in lieu of the House companion measures on the House
  • In lieu of the House companion measures on the House calendar. Reading in the report, Mr. Speaker.
  • up Senate bills that have a House bill on the calendar or where a substantially similar House bill has
  • the House version?
  • The House is adjourned.
Summary: The House convened with prayer, a moment of silence for former Lee County Judge John Carlin, the Pledge of Allegiance, and recognition of FSU Police Officer Cody Popple for stopping the April campus shooter. The Speaker then outlined the final week of session, noting the House had passed 253 House bills and 149 Senate bills to date, but that the 2026-27 budget would not be completed this week. The chamber also adopted the Rules and Ethics Committee’s special order report for the day. The House took up several Senate bills on special order, largely technical or open-government measures, and passed them with little or no opposition. These included SB 100, SB 104, and SB 102 on the Florida Statutes and revisor’s changes; SB 7006, SB 7014, SB 7002, SB 7012, SB 7024, SB 7016, SB 7026, SB 7008, SB 7000, and SB 7004, which extended or preserved various public-records and meeting exemptions for matters such as Public Service Commission proprietary information, social media investigations, military affairs, highway safety records, cybersecurity, emergency shelter contact information, conviction integrity units, and trade secrets. Most passed overwhelmingly, though SB 7006 drew 99-8, SB 7022 on public records for exam integrity passed 101-8 after questions about testing materials and scoring rubrics, and SB 7026 on trade secrets passed 106-3. The most substantive floor debate centered on SB 7040, which recreates the emergency preparedness and response trust fund in the Executive Office of the Governor. Rep. Eskamani offered an amendment to let the fund expire, arguing the money had become a “slush fund” and had been used for the Everglades detention facility rather than emergencies; several members supported her on fiscal and separation-of-powers grounds, while others said the fund is needed for rapid disaster response. The House rejected Eskamani’s amendment and then adopted a Griffiths strike-all amendment adding accountability measures, including spending limits, quarterly reporting, asset tracking, and a sunset/review provision. SB 7040 then passed 82-25. The chamber also passed CS/CS SB 302 on coastal resiliency, CS/CS SB 984 on firefighter cancer benefits, CS SB 474 on military affairs, and SB 488 on Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, which prompted extended questions about vehicle registration requirements, license plate frames, and foreign passport/I-94 documentation; the bill was still under amendment and debate when the transcript ended.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Session (05/01/2025)

New Hampshire House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The House will attend to a prayer by House Chaplain Reverend Jonathan Hopkins, pastor at Concordia Lutheran
  • Welcome to the New Hampshire House.
  • </c> Welcome to the New Hampshire House. Welcome to the New Hampshire House.
  • The House will be in order.
  • It kills infill housing.
Keywords: 1189, house, all
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Standing Committee on Housing, Construction, and Community Development - 05/04/2026

Housing, Construction, and Community Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • Welcome to this meeting of the New York State Senate Committee on Housing, Construction, and Community
  • There may well be one additional housing committee meeting before the end of the year.
  • account for affordable housing rental units located in New York State.
  • to transferring the Village of Potsdam Housing Authority to the Village of Canton Housing Authority
  • to permitting multiple transfers of low-income housing tax credits.
Keywords: 993, senate, all
Summary: The New York State Senate Committee on Housing, Construction, and Community Development met on May 4 under Chair Brian Kavanagh and considered an eight-bill agenda, much of it consisting of measures previously sponsored by former Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal and now carried by other senators. Kavanagh noted the committee was in the first full week of May, with 32 days left in session and ongoing budget negotiations that include housing issues. The committee moved through the agenda without substantive debate on most bills. The committee reported several bills to the floor, including S.6263 (requiring certain out-of-state affordable housing owners to maintain escrow accounts for New York affordable units), S.8956 (transferring the Potsdam Housing Authority to the Canton Housing Authority), S.9571 (allowing multiple transfers of low-income housing tax credits), S.9677 (the City of Buffalo Historic Preservation Receivership Act), S.9716 (expanding the definition of family members in public housing law), S.9907 (marshals’ filing requirements for eviction notices), S.9908 (calculating rent reductions from the date services were actually diminished), and S.9914 (requiring replacement units to retain the same protected status after demolition or major renovation). Several of these bills had previously passed the Senate in earlier sessions. Most measures were advanced by motion and second, with some recorded negative votes or votes to advance without recommendation from minority members, but no bill was defeated. The transcript includes some repetition of bill readings, but the final action on each listed bill was reporting it out of committee, generally to the floor and, for S.9914, to Cities 1.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

March 9, 2026 (1:00PM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • In lieu of the House companion measures on the House calendar. Reading in the report, Mr. Speaker.
  • Welcome to the Florida House. Welcome to the Florida House. Read the next bill.
  • the House version?
  • the House version?
  • The House is adjourned.
Summary: The House convened with a prayer, pledge, quorum call, and recognition of Officer Cody Popple of the FSU Police Department for his actions during the April campus shooting. Members also observed a moment of silence for former Lee County Judge John Carlin. The Rules and Ethics Committee report setting the special order calendar was adopted, and the Speaker outlined the final week of session, noting that budget negotiations were still ongoing and that the House would continue taking up Senate bills and returning messages. The chamber then considered a series of mostly technical or sunset-review bills, including SB 100, SB 104, and SB 102 on the Florida Statutes, all of which passed unanimously. Several Open Government Sunset Review bills were also approved, extending or preserving public records and meeting exemptions for the Public Service Commission, the Department of Military Affairs, the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, cybersecurity records, emergency shelter information, conviction integrity units, the Florida Gaming Control Commission, and school testing materials; most passed with little opposition, though SB 7006, SB 7026, and SB 7022 drew some dissenting votes. The House also passed SB 7016 on small business loan records, SB 7008 on gaming commission records, SB 7000 on emergency shelter information, and SB 7004 on conviction integrity unit records. Members then moved into farewell remarks and recognitions, including an extended farewell speech by Representative Hart-Lowman reflecting on her service, family, district, and policy priorities such as criminal justice, housing, health care, and labor issues. The House also recognized visiting students from Osceola County and other guests in the galleries. Later, the House took up more substantive measures. SB 7040 recreated the emergency preparedness and response trust fund; after a lengthy debate over an amendment to let the fund expire and a strike-all restoring the House position, the bill passed 82-25. The chamber then passed CS/CS/SB 302 on coastal resiliency, CS/CS/SB 984 on firefighter cancer benefits, and CS/SB 474 on military affairs, all with broad support. The final portion of the transcript shifted to SB 488 on Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, where members debated vehicle registration requirements, license plate frames, and related amendments, including provisions for disabled veterans and dealer allocation rules, before the transcript ended mid-debate.
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

FL House Floor Session - 2026-03-09 (1:00PM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate bills on special orders shall be considered in lieu of the House companion measures on the House
  • up Senate bills that have a House bill on the calendar or where a substantially similar House bill has
  • the House version?
  • Members, the Speaker of the House. Another farewell address, members, the Speaker of the House.
  • The House is adjourned.
Summary: The House convened with prayer, a moment of silence for former Judge John Carlin, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a recognition of FSU Police Officer Cody Popple for his actions during the April campus shooting. The Speaker also outlined the final week of session, noting the House would focus on Senate bills and returning messages, and that the 2026-27 budget would not be completed by the end of the week. The chamber then adopted the special order calendar for the day. The House passed several technical and open-government bills, mostly on strong bipartisan votes. These included SB 100, SB 104, and SB 102 on the Florida Statutes and reviser changes; SB 7006, SB 7014, SB 7002, SB 7012, SB 7024, SB 7016, SB 7026, SB 7008, SB 7000, and SB 7004, which extended or preserved various public records or meeting exemptions involving the Public Service Commission, social media investigations, military affairs, highway safety investigations, cybersecurity, small business loan records, trade secrets, emergency shelter locations, and conviction integrity units. Members asked questions on several of these bills, especially about the scope and purpose of the exemptions, but the bills generally advanced with little opposition. The chamber also took up more substantive measures. SB 7040 recreated the emergency preparedness and response trust fund and drew extended debate over whether the fund had been misused for the Everglades detention facility; an Escamani amendment to let the fund expire failed, while a Griffiths amendment adding limits and oversight was adopted, and the bill ultimately passed 82-25. CS/CS/SB 302 on coastal resiliency passed unanimously after supporters highlighted nature-based shoreline protection and a Biscayne Bay provision. CS/CS/SB 984 on firefighter cancer benefits passed after a House amendment aligned it with the House version. CS/SB 474 on military affairs passed unanimously after an amendment allowing local governments to extend Guard leave. SB 488 on the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles was debated extensively over vehicle registration requirements, license plate frames, and I-94 documentation, with amendments including one for disabled veterans and another on dealer allocation; the transcript cuts off before final disposition of that bill.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

FL House Floor Session - 2026-03-09 (1:00PM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate bills on special orders shall be considered in lieu of the House companion measures on the House
  • In lieu of the House companion measures on the House calendar. Reading in the report, Mr. Speaker.
  • House bill has already passed.
  • the House version?
  • The House is adjourned.
Keywords: 998, house, all