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NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Taxation and Revenue Feb 18th, 2026 at 02:07 pm
House Taxation & Revenue
Transcript Highlights:
- And while it's not explicitly mentioned here in this bill, there is $15 million in this budget from the
Bills:
SB240
Committee:
House House Taxation & Revenue
Keywords:
capital outlay, capital projects, severance tax bonds, general fund appropriations, supplemental severance tax bonds, UNM School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, infrastructure, state buildings, courts, schools, higher education, road improvements, water and wastewater, tribal infrastructure, tribal projects, public safety, housing, emergency services, bonding
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Taxation and Revenue Feb 18th, 2026 at 08:43 am
House Taxation & Revenue
Transcript Highlights:
- For employers who already fund a large share of New Mexico's budget.
- A very prudent raise, given our budget situation, and that gets stripped out from under Them.
- They're trying to figure out—we're all in the budget cycle right now, right?
- That matters a lot because you all know what it means to manage those city budgets.
- That is our authority as a state. But through your leadership, Mr.
Bills:
SB240
Committee:
House House Taxation & Revenue
Keywords:
capital outlay, capital projects, severance tax bonds, general fund appropriations, supplemental severance tax bonds, UNM School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, infrastructure, state buildings, courts, schools, higher education, road improvements, water and wastewater, tribal infrastructure, tribal projects, public safety, housing, emergency services, bonding
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Alcohol, Tobacco and Controlled Substances REVISED: HB3530 - Added Feb 11th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Alcohol, Tobacco and Controlled Substances
Keywords:
alcoholic beverages, personal use permit, manufacturing, excise tax, Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, medical marijuana, license transfer, Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority, moratorium, business regulation, commercial grower licenses, licensing restrictions, agriculture, alternative nicotine products, vaping, regulations, manufacturing standards, packaging requirements, penalties, Attorney General
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Early Learning & Human Services Jan 27th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Early Learning & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill authorizes the court to order certain conditions during child welfare shelter care hearings
- This bill authorizes the court to order certain conditions during child welfare shelter care hearings
- This authorization occurs at a shelter care hearing.
- The policies here, and the budget pieces are still going to be considered in the budget, and I think
- There is nothing in this bill that authorizes the court to order removal if the ordered services are
Committee:
House Early Learning & Human Services
Keywords:
child welfare, dependency, imminent physical harm, child abuse, neglect, foster care, extended foster care, shelter care, out-of-home placement, Department of Children, Youth, and Families, DCYF, family law, juvenile court, child protection, unsafe home, substance use, caregiver impairment, relative placement, guardianship, adoption
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- You'll also have different sheets and other factors that compare the executive budget with the LFC budget
- How about the budget documents?
- Dollar budget, for example, or a billion-dollar plan.
- But given the existing statutory authority that we're working with and the authority of the State Transportation
- So even though it's granting $1.5 billion in authority.
Committees:
Senate Senate Finance , Senate House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
SB 2, State Highway Project Bonds, highway funding, transportation bonds, state road fund, motor vehicle fees, vehicle registration fees, electric vehicle fee, EV surcharge, plug-in hybrid fee, weight distance tax, road construction, infrastructure financing, Department of Transportation, State Transportation Commission, bonding authority, county road funds, municipal road funds, transportation improvement program, state highways
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 21st, 2026 at 01:58 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- Our fiscal year 27 budget, the executive budget request keeps that momentum going by strengthening capacity
- This outlines the gap in the budget.
- And the executive budget reflects what it takes.
- It is a growth budget, it is just a different one. It's not an 84 growth budget.
- But then I was like, well, tell me about your budget and your family and your budget and the income of
Bills:
SB2
Committee:
House House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
SB 2, State Highway Project Bonds, highway funding, transportation bonds, state road fund, motor vehicle fees, vehicle registration fees, electric vehicle fee, EV surcharge, plug-in hybrid fee, weight distance tax, road construction, infrastructure financing, Department of Transportation, State Transportation Commission, bonding authority, county road funds, municipal road funds, transportation improvement program, state highways
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Feb 12th, 2025
Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Transcript Highlights:
- increased weights during the COVID-19 declaration of local and national states of emergency that authorized
Keywords:
weight limits, trucking regulations, transportation, enforcement authority, portable scales, SB64, Alabama, state waters, public waters, aquatic plants, aquatic vegetation, lake management, waterway maintenance, environmental regulation, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, DCNR, commercial contractors, vegetation removal, mowing aquatic plants, uprooting plants
HI
Bills:
SB2876 , SB3253 , SB2125 , SB2781 , HB549 , HB1768 , SB2053 , SB2494 , SB2851 , SB3073 , HB1678 , HB1721 , HB2475 , HB2246 , HB1667 , HB1516 , SB2532 , SB3131 , SB3154 , HB2297 , HB1737 , SB2143 , SB2398 , SB2623 , HB1740 , HB1920 , HB1682 , SB2153 , SB3140 , HB1515 , SB2835 , HB2282 , SB3083 , SB2031 , SB2519 , SB2667 , SB2140 , SB2544 , SB2069 , SB2697 , SB874 , SB2043 , SB888 , SB2721 , HB2152 , HB1334 , HB2385 , HB1643 , HB2314 , HB1688 , HB1692 , SB2568 , SB2983 , SB2108 , SB3136 , HB1959 , SB3156 , HB1511 , HB1753 , HB1824 , HB2137 , HB1810 , HB2279 , HB2309 , HB1548 , HB2078 , HB2293 , SB3262 , SB2169 , SB2607 , SB2964 , SB3255 , HB2576 , HB1481 , HB1864 , HB1550 , SB2818 , SB3067 , SB2061 , HB1728 , HB1881 , HB2361 , HB2395 , HB1823 , SB2050 , SB2397 , SB2175 , SB2852 , SB847 , SB3001
Keywords:
natural hair braiding, hair braiding, braids, braider, braiding license, cosmetology, barbering, barber board, Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, registration, licensure exemption, sanitation training, health and safety, hair extensions, cornrows, twists, locks, protective hairstyles, beauty industry, occupational licensing
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Joint Legislative Budget Committee staff must adjust the CSF per-pupil calculations to exclude the weighted
- Joint Legislative Budget Committee staff must adjust the CSF per-pupil calculations to exclude the weighted
- As they write, quote, it is the opposite result of what was expected when voters authorized Prop 301.
- There are severe impacts toward budgeting, toward overall budgeting.
- They want teachers who are actually compensated and given classroom supply budgets, right?
Keywords:
kinship care, child welfare, foster care, relative placement, child protection, child neglect, financial resources, behavioral health, Christian Science treatment, parental rights, child safety, oversight, independent committee, transparency, accountability, systemic review, child abuse, neglect, protective parent, investigation
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Lastly, the bill authorizes the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy to inspect any person or entity engaging
- But why would the FDA authorize something like that if it was dangerous? Mr.
- To sell a flavored vape legally in the U.S., the product must first receive pre-market authorization.
- You have people say products that are not authorized.
- So there's 47, 43 products that are authorized by the FDA. Those are legal.
Keywords:
trade offices, committee, Arizona commerce authority, stakeholder input, efficiency, Arizona-Sonora, Sonora, Mexico, trade commission, cross-border trade, bilateral trade, international trade, economic development, foreign relations, border economy, investment, infrastructure, business exchange, academic exchange, legislative commission
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/05/2026 - House Rural Economic Development
Rural Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- So when I was a freshman here, people didn't understand some of the line items on the bill, on our budget
- And we're talking about line items on our budget that have been around for decades and decades and decades
- Line items on our budget that have been around for decades and decades and decades, and for a good reason
- The bill outlines the contents of the study and requires the Commerce Authority to submit a report of
- And I know real quick there's not a specified amount, and that is because it is a budget issue.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- That would be funded just as we fund it right now, right through our budget.
- Yes, We have an annual budget that we live within, so we cover all of our travel expenses under our budget
- Where does this money show up in the budget? So, again, Mr.
- is about 45% of the state budget, pretty consistently year to year.
- I think a significant part of the state budget, roughly 48-50% of the budget, and the governor wouldn't
Committees:
Senate Senate Education , Senate House Education
Keywords:
appropriation, higher education, sports facilities, community college, Luna Community College, KANW, educational radio, rural news, public education, funding, education, documentary, historical figure, Padre Antonio Jose Martinez, cultural heritage, research funding, federal funding, New Mexico, University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University
NM
Committee:
House House Education
Keywords:
appropriation, higher education, sports facilities, community college, Luna Community College, KANW, educational radio, rural news, public education, funding, education, documentary, historical figure, Padre Antonio Jose Martinez, cultural heritage, research funding, federal funding, New Mexico, University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee Jan 21st, 2026
Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development
Keywords:
public accountancy, CPA licensing, board regulations, educational prerequisites, electronic notifications, firm registration, assignment, creditors, insolvency, liquidation, assignee, secured transaction, bankruptcy, state law, voluntary process, distribution of assets, emergency rules, governor certification, state regulations, public safety
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Friday, December 12, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- delegated authority, FK would incorporate<00:21:31.840><c> this</c><00:21:32.159><c> water</c><00:21
- 401 authority to obstruct interstate<00:29:30.240><c> projects.
- </c><03:36:14.960><c> were</c> acknowledged their authority were acknowledged their authority were sinners
- </c><03:48:04.800><c> That's</c> budget increased by 124 billion.
- That's budget increased by 124 billion.
Bills:
HB3668
Keywords:
pipeline, natural gas, Natural Gas Act, FERC, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, NEPA, environmental review, permitting reform, LNG, liquefied natural gas, certificate of public convenience and necessity, section 7, section 3, Clean Water Act, section 401, water quality certification, state authority, interagency coordination, pipeline safety, pipeline security
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/5/26
State Government Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- And to the author, is there a fiscal note that's been requested for this?
- </c><00:30:09.840><c> might</c> amount that you uh some author might amount that you uh some author might
- Um I my question is from a author.
- </c> author, a bevy of anecdotal information. author, a bevy of anecdotal information.
- And this makes the withholding authority permanent.
Committee:
House State Government Finance and Policy
Keywords:
civil rights, law enforcement, federal collaboration, accountability, state law, immigration enforcement, economic impact, Operation Metro Surge, study, appropriation, local government, Legislative Commission on Legislative Security, legislator security, elected official security, staff security, statehouse security, capitol security, legislative district safety, political violence prevention, threat assessment
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/10/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology
Appropriations, Transportation and Technology
Transcript Highlights:
- We know that we have unassigned authorizations out there today.
- An unassigned authorization means the individual has been authorized for service, but the service hasn't
- There is a refund process in place today for the Pinal Regional Transportation Authority.
- Giving the state the same authority that counties already have.
- Bad budgeting. I'm not going to go into those at this late hour. This is a bad budgeting issue.
Bills:
SB1072 , SB1111 , SB1114 , SB1116 , SB1122 , SB1179 , SB1250 , SB1308 , SB1455 , SB1456 , SB1457 , SB1487 , SB1547 , SB1549 , SB1551 , SB1552
Keywords:
reimbursement rates, intellectual disabilities, community services, economic security, funding appropriations, automated license plate readers, law enforcement, privacy, data access, public records, behavioral health, patient brokering, appropriation, state funds, Maricopa County, claims review, medical necessity, American Indian health program, healthcare regulations, healthcare
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- .<00:01:34.479><c> It</c><00:01:34.720><c> authorizes</c><00:01:35.200><c> the</c> authorization.
- It authorizes the authorization.
- It authorizes fund transfers between the mixed-income subaccount without legislative approval, authorizes
- </c><00:08:22.800><c> authorizes</c> without legislative approval. authorizes without legislative approval
- </c><00:19:00.640><c> to</c> already have the legal authority to already have the legal authority to
Committee:
Senate Housing
Keywords:
rental housing revolving fund, HHFDC, Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, mixed-income housing, mixed-income rental project, affordable housing, low-income housing, housing finance, housing development, preservation, rehabilitation, pre-development, construction financing, equity investment, credit enhancement, collateral, gap financing, area median income, AMI, perpetual affordability
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Postsecondary Education & Workforce Jan 27th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Postsecondary Education & Workforce
Transcript Highlights:
- I was able to do some significant work in the budget.
- We were able to get in the budget a request for the IRS to make a declaration that this would not throw
- I apologize if you already said this, but I know our state's in a budget shortfall, facing challenging
- Apologize if you already said this, but I know our state's in a budget shortfall, facing challenging
- In a difficult budget environment, we do appreciate Representative Bergquist's outreach to WASAC over
Bills:
HB2438 , HB2422 , HB2525 , HB2586 , HB2337 , HB2311 , HB2286 , HB2324 , HB2363 , HB2098 , HB2088
Committee:
House Postsecondary Education & Workforce
Keywords:
education, scholarship, early childhood, funding, higher education, early education, support, degree seekers, private security, security guard, armed security guard, security company, licensing fees, license renewal, endorsement fee, fingerprints, background check, workforce retention, low-wage workers, public safety
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill would simply give the appraisal review board the authority if a house is sold for 10% below
- Uh, that being said, I did speak with the author this morning, uh, right before this hearing and has
- just want to basically make sure that people are getting involved with the process and have the authority
- education as a means to better understand the constitutional and statutory roles, responsibilities, authorities
- Do they, is that just absorbed into your existing budget? Do you charge them something?
Committee:
House S/C on Property Tax Appraisals
Keywords:
residential property, ad valorem tax, leasing, property appraisal, fair market rent, housing affordability, appraised value, tax limitation, housing market, affordable housing, leased residential real property, rent control, Texas Tax Code, property tax, residential leasing, homestead, tax code, appraisal review board, real estate sales, property tax relief