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DE
Transcript Highlights:
- So what about caffeinated soft drinks that we grew up with, like Coke, 7-Up, whatever?
- It's to anything that's considered an energy drink. Yeah.
- The bill mentions caffeine and is advertised as an energy drink.
- It's to anything that's considered an energy drink. Yeah.
- The bill mentions caffeine and advertised as an energy drink.
Summary:
The Senate Education Committee met with enough members present to conduct business and approved the June 17 minutes. It first heard HB 459 with House Amendment 1, which would prohibit the sale of energy drinks on public middle and high school campuses during school hours or school events. The sponsor and Department of Education explained that the bill targets beverages containing caffeine and marketed as energy drinks, not ordinary soft drinks or coffee/tea products. Public testimony from the Medical Society supported the bill on health grounds, while the beverage industry said its companies already voluntarily limit school offerings and that the bill does not reflect current practice. No vote was taken in the transcript.
The committee then heard HB 461, a follow-up to prior legislation on New Castle County property reassessment and school tax rates. Senator Cruz said the bill would let New Castle County school districts adjust and reset tax rates to reflect reassessment changes without increasing projected operating revenue, and that it includes a sunset. DSEA supported the measure, saying fair property values are important to public education funding. The committee also heard HB 452, which would require additional background checks and training for DIAA sports officials and strengthen DIAA enforcement procedures. Members questioned how checks would be handled, who would see the results, and who would provide training; the DIAA compliance coordinator said the checks would be maintained through the state process and that associations would verify eligibility. The bill’s sponsor and DIAA said the goal was to align officials with existing child-safety standards.
Next, the committee considered HS1 for HB 425, which raises the salary supplement from 6% to 12% for nationally certified school counselors, nurses, and school social workers, and allows DOE to identify additional qualifying positions by regulation. Supporters, including school social workers, nurses, and DSEA, argued the change would improve retention and recognize advanced credentials. Senator Hansen raised concerns that school psychologists were not included; sponsors said a broader study and possible future legislation or budget language would address other nationally certified school-based professionals. The committee then heard HS1 for HB 358 on student elopement notifications, inspired by Ace’s Law, but administrators and the chair raised concerns that the bill may be too prescriptive and difficult to implement in practice, especially when schools may not immediately know a student has left campus. Finally, the committee discussed HB 379 on the comprehensive school discipline improvement program; DOE said the substitute was intended to consolidate prevention and intervention supports and avoid competition for funding, while DASA asked that the bill be paused or tabled. The meeting ended before action on the remaining bill, and HB 443 was deferred to a future executive meeting.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 4 on Climate Crisis, Resources, Energy, and Transportation Mar 5th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- And two really good examples of this include the drinking water programs that were mentioned by Chair
- The Water Board conducts an annual drinking water needs assessment.
- What's the status of the federal funding for the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund?
- Why do we still see, you know, 200-plus drinking water systems that are failing?
- And we not only work with drinking water, but also septic-to-sewer programs.
Summary:
The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on water and coastal resilience heard an overview of the governor’s Proposition 4 spending plan, with presentations from the Department of Finance, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Department of Water Resources, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, and later coastal agencies. Members discussed the water chapter’s major allocations for drinking water and wastewater, recycled water, tribal water infrastructure, groundwater recharge and SGMA implementation, dam safety, flood protection, integrated regional water management, Salton Sea projects, and water data/stream gauges. The LAO noted that many programs are established and have clear funding processes, but some newer or less-defined programs may warrant more detailed future budget requests and reporting. No votes were taken on the agenda items.
Members raised concerns about groundwater subsidence, water deliveries from the Delta, the pace of water storage investments, instream flows, and whether bond dollars were being used to backfill General Fund reductions. Administration witnesses said groundwater recharge spending is being paced because prior years already funded substantial SGMA work, that Delta operations are governed by water quality, salinity, and species requirements, and that Proposition 1 storage projects have moved slowly because they are locally led and require permitting and financing. The Water Board and DWR said they use public needs assessments, annual plans, and existing grant processes to prioritize projects, and Finance said some General Fund programs were shifted to Proposition 4 to help balance the budget. Members also asked for clearer public tracking of bond spending and more concise future reporting.
In the coastal resilience portion, the Ocean Protection Council and Coastal Conservancy described Proposition 4 funding for sea level rise adaptation, coastal flood management, habitat restoration, public access, and San Francisco Bay projects, with a multi-year rollout based on project readiness and recent large state investments. The Conservancy said it would use its existing rolling grant process, while OPC said its sea level rise grants would build on existing programs and new technical assistance. The Department of Fish and Wildlife explained its proposed use of bond funds for climate-ready fisheries, hatchery modernization, salmon monitoring, whale- and turtle-safe fishing gear, and a specific hatchery operations request tied to the Friant settlement. The LAO said the coastal chapter’s proposed first-year spending is relatively modest but generally reasonable given staffing and project readiness, while members emphasized oversight, transparency, and coordination across agencies and jurisdictions.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Working Group on Omnibus Capital Investment Bill - 06/09/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Section two establishes the statewide drinking water contamination mitigation program.
- water due to contamination of drinking water by hazardous substances.
- water due to contamination of drinking water by hazardous substances.
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MN
Transcript Highlights:
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water the Clean Water funds the drinking water the Clean Water funds the drinking
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- for those six PFAS with drinking water standards.
- Detected in those drinking water wells.
- I'm sorry, with respect to drinking water? To the drinking water standard?
- So the drinking water standards will be...
- Parts per million, is that what I read on drinking water?
Keywords:
hydrogen sulfide, public health, environmental regulation, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, ground level concentrations, emissions limit, emissions limits, ground-level concentrations, air quality, PFAS, agriculture, environmental protection, health risks, criminal offense, chemical regulation, preproduction plastic, water quality, pollution control, industrial waste, emissions
SC
Transcript Highlights:
- That's for drinks and for gummies.
- That's for drinks and for gummies.
- But also just the idea that a hemp drink, and I'll make the argument all day long that a hemp drink is
- We all recognize that 14-year-olds, 16-year-olds should not be drinking these drinks.
- Younger folks really like them, people that don't drink alcohol. Are these THC drinks.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Jul 9th, 2025
New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- , replace, and create safe drinking water infrastructure throughout the United States.
- Department through the Drinking Water Bureau and also the...
- Some eligible projects for the Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Fund include drinking water treatment
- That allows us to provide the state match for the Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Fund.
- In our state, we often have drinking water emergencies. A couple of years ago, it was trauma.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And second, we need to address the problem of aging, deteriorating drinking water and wastewater systems
- water, then we need to look at those drinking water standards to which we're treating too.
- You know, we're all de facto drinking wastewater.
- You know, Houston is drinking what Dallas flushes. Period along the Trinity River.
- It I believe that drinking water standards are protective of human health based on the information we
Bills:
SB 7
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Children and Youth Health Committee Apr 9th, 2025
Children and Youth Health
Transcript Highlights:
- When you compare one of these to an alcoholic drink as far as an alcoholic drink as far as impairment
- Can you tell me a rough equivalency of an alcoholic drink and these?
- Some people, you know, we all like to drink with our friends socially.
- they've had a drink.
- Look at what's happening when we drink high sugar sodas.
Bills:
SB274
SC
South Carolina 2025-2026 Regular Session
House of Representatives Jun 25th, 2026
South Carolina House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I walked into a store that had 500-milligram drinks.
- When I talked about that during one of our meetings, I was told, drink five drinks, drink six drinks.
- Delta 9-THC in that drink and still be within the limits.
- It's not the drink manufacturers.
- They're banning these drinks.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Aug 19th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- In 2023, the cost is almost $4 per standard drink to our state.
- If we can make the price a little more expensive, they will drink less.
- We had started 25 cents a drink.
- Unhoused, drinking on the street, where can they go?
- So we're increasing the cost of a drink. Big deal.
AL
Alabama 2026 1st Special Session
Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Feb 4th, 2026
Finance and Taxation General Fund
Transcript Highlights:
- And all that because it can be quite comprehensive, particularly in the soft drink and the drink world
- So, are we going to tell them that they can't, you know, drink a soft drink, although that might not
- So, are we going to tell them that they can't, you know, drink a soft drink, although that might not
- So, are we going to tell them that they can't, you know, drink a soft drink, although that might not
- So, are we going to tell them that they can't, you know, drink a soft drink, although that might not
Keywords:
property, acknowledgment, conveyance, business entities, limited liability companies, state employees, payroll deduction, salary deduction, comptroller, membership association, membership dues, voluntary contributions, insurance premiums, financial instruments, deferred compensation, state payroll, employee benefits, association dues, withholding, Alabama Code 36-1-4.3
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources, February 10, 2026
Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- condition as as your drinking water. condition as as your drinking water.
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water on uh estimates from the drinking water on uh estimates from the drinking - used for the wastewater, the drinking used for the wastewater, the drinking water.<00:20:50.320>
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water under our authority under drinking water under our authority under drinking
Keywords:
wastewater, stormwater, infrastructure, environmental quality, public data, data collection, funding, study, water development, irrigation, public works, agricultural supply, municipal water, grazing lands, subleasing, non-owned livestock, state lands, rental fees, agricultural policy, land management
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Apr 2nd, 2025
Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Transcript Highlights:
- drinking water myself and hundreds of thousands of folks in Jefferson and Shelby County.
- I'm a rate payer, my daughter drinks that water, and my new grandson drinks that water.
- So, I'm very concerned about the drinking water. How many here are mall's customers?
- And you know, the customers are... they drink water from Big Creek Lake, and you know they're...
- So to sit here and make the point that this is our sole source of drinking water for Mobile is...
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- Our bottlers make the products that Alabamians enjoy, including soft drinks.
- drinks, sports drinks including Gatorade and Powerade, dairy-based beverages, iced teas, and energy
- drinks.
- That's being taken by the Soft Drink Bottlers Association.
- I’m not talking about taking... you know, I drink Cokes and I drink their... ...I drink Cokes and I appreciate
Keywords:
midwifery, licensed midwives, State Board of Midwifery, licensure fees, professional liability insurance, complaints investigation, emergency care plan, out-of-hospital care, HB491, public schools, K-12, school nutrition, school lunch, cafeteria, artificial dyes, food additives, food coloring, synthetic dyes, Red Dye No. 3, Red Dye No. 40
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs May 12th, 2025
Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Senate Bill 2497 relates to the installation of a filtration system by certain public drinking water
- Members, Texans expect their public water supply systems to provide clean, safe drinking water.
- A key concern is that some water utilities continue to allow the deterioration of drinking water wells
- For the record, my it's still safe to drink. Yes, sir. For the record, my name is Michelle Risko.
- As constituents, you don't like the looks or smell of brown water, and you don't want to drink it and
Keywords:
outboard motors, certificate of title, vessel regulation, Texas Parks and Wildlife Code, marine documentation, HB 685, municipal utility rates, water rates, sewer rates, local government code, rate discrimination, tax-exempt entities, sales tax exemption, ad valorem tax exemption, nonprofit organizations, charitable organizations, municipal water service, municipal sewer service, utility billing, public utilities
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs met with no quorum at the start, but later reached quorum and took up several bills. House Bill 2692, codifying the San Antonio River Authority’s enabling legislation and making non-substantive modernization changes, received brief supportive testimony from the River Authority and was left pending before later being voted out favorably. House Bill 685, which would prevent municipalities from charging higher water or sewer rates to tax-exempt entities than comparable customers, also drew support and was reported favorably. House Bill 1318, clarifying compensation issues when a municipality decertifies part of a retail water utility’s service area, was heard without opposition and passed out of committee. House Bill 630, exempting certain older outboard motors from title requirements, likewise passed and was placed on the local and uncontested calendar.
The committee spent the most time on Senate Bill 2497, relating to filtration systems for certain public drinking water systems. Senator Zaffirini described the bill as a response to ongoing secondary water quality complaints, while TCEQ testified that such contaminants are aesthetic rather than health-based and that the water remains safe to drink if primary standards are met. The Texas Rural Water Association opposed the bill as written, arguing filtration may not solve most water quality problems and could be costly for small systems, while a consumer witness from Floresville supported it and described repeated rate increases and brown water after a filtration system was removed. Members discussed narrowing the bill through a committee substitute and emphasized the need for flexibility and technical expertise; the committee substitute was adopted and the bill was reported favorably, with Senator Kolkhorst later asking to be recorded as voting no.
The committee also heard Senate Bill 2850, which would create a pollinator task force to study habitat loss, public education, and best practices for protecting bees and other pollinators. Senator Menendez and invited witness Erica Thompson of Texas BeeWorks highlighted major colony losses and the economic importance of pollinators to Texas agriculture, and Environment Texas and the Texas Beekeepers Association supported the measure. Members discussed monarch butterflies, native grasses, milkweed, and conservation efforts, and the bill was reported favorably and sent to the local and uncontested calendar. After testimony, the committee also voted out several pending items, including House Bill 5560 with a committee substitute addressing water-loss penalties and infrastructure improvements, and then recessed subject to the call of the chair.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (7-30-25)
Transcript Highlights:
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- Um, so there are drinking water.
- miles from the uptake for the drinking miles from the uptake for the drinking water<00:36:41.680
- Good drinking water is the primary thing.
- This is why we can't our drinking water.
Summary:
The meeting began with roll call, adoption of the minutes, and brief remarks, including birthday recognition for Representative Maseroni and a moment of reflection for a soldier who died during training at Fort Knox. The committee then heard a presentation from Tony Hatton, commissioner of the Department for Environmental Protection and acting director of the Kentucky Division of Water, with Amanda Lefer, deputy commissioner, on the state’s water and wastewater programs and planning.
Hatton described Kentucky’s water resources and the Division of Water’s responsibilities, including watershed and nonpoint source work, KPDES discharge permitting, PFAS response, engineering review of water infrastructure, inspections, public outreach, and sampling. He said Kentucky has 428 public water systems, 263 water treatment plants, about 1.9 million service connections, and nearly 97% of the population has access to municipally treated water. He also noted that the state has 43 systems receiving awards for EPA areawide optimization and emphasized operator training, regionalization, and use of GIS mapping and Kentucky Infrastructure Authority data to support planning and funding decisions.
Members raised concerns about aging infrastructure, water loss, staffing shortages, and wastewater problems in local systems. Representative Blandon described severe failures in a city system, including major water loss and sewer backups, and asked whether the state could intervene; Hatton said the division inspects treatment facilities and provides compliance assistance but is not authorized to manage delivery systems, though third-party help and emergency funding can be used in some cases. Senator Smith and others shared similar experiences with line loss and system failures, while Hatton pointed to regionalization and funding support as the main tools available. The discussion also highlighted PFAS as an emerging issue, with Hatton saying the department is working with systems to meet anticipated federal requirements by 2029.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (10/07/2025)
Energy and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- Natural areas provide ecosystem services such as flood storage, protecting drinking water, moderating
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NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Sep 2nd, 2025
Radioactive & Hazardous Materials Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- The drinking water in Curry County around the base is 650,000 greater than the Safe Drinking Water Act
- Water Act Our action level is a drinking water standard.
- So, the action level for this is under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
- Class VI regulations are designed to protect public health and drinking water again under the Safe Drinking
- In a 2016 report on fracking and drinking water The U.S.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (10/28/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, but they weren't allowed to drink.
- This child that was being served drinks This child that was being served drinks by<00:57:02.799>
- >> no underage drinking allowed.
- This is my opinion. drinking then yes they will prosecute drinking then yes they will prosecute and<01
- decides he wants to go out for drink decides he wants to go out for drink just<01:02:30.960>
Summary:
The committee first took up a liquor-related amendment correcting an earlier drafting error that had accidentally removed enhanced penalties for death-related over-service from the statute. Members explained that the language had already been enacted briefly before being deleted by mistake, and the amendment simply restored the prior penalty provisions. The committee voted unanimously in favor. A second liquor amendment followed, concerning VFW and similar veterans’ clubs. The revised language would allow a veteran or member to sign in a limited number of under-21 guests, with testimony emphasizing that this was meant for small events and would mirror existing restaurant rules requiring a parent, legal guardian, or adult spouse. There was extended debate about whether private clubs were sufficiently public, whether towns could tighten liquor rules locally, and whether enforcement would be effective. Liquor enforcement testified that municipalities must approve licenses, only four minors could be signed in at once under a member’s signature, age-restriction signage remains required, and clubs often report violations themselves to protect their licenses. The amendment was ultimately approved unanimously, and the subcommittee then moved into executive session.
In executive session, HB 186, relating to cannabis legalization, regulation, and appropriations, was recommended ought to pass on a 10-7 vote, with a minority report noted. HB 241, relating to treatment alternatives to opioids, was then supported with amendment 2990 and recommended ought to pass as amended; the bill was described as expanding access to non-opioid, non-surgical, and non-medication pain treatments, while the amendment clarified Insurance Department procedures and educational materials. That bill was placed on the consent calendar unanimously. HB 297, concerning access by self-funded employer health plans to claims data, was also recommended ought to pass with amendment 2987 and then ought to pass as amended unanimously; supporters said it would let employers opt in to deidentified claims data, improve transparency, and preserve privacy. It too was placed on the consent calendar unanimously.
The committee then considered HB 312, dealing with student-athlete name, image, and likeness compensation, and voted to send it to interim study. Members said the issue remained too uncertain because of ongoing federal and NCAA developments, and that interim study would keep the committee’s options open without killing the bill. The motion was supported as a way to continue monitoring the issue for future action.