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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Community Safety Jan 13th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • I mean, if someone’s not authorized and they’re going in, then that...
  • Law enforcement officer is defined as a general authority Washington peace officer, a limited authority
  • Law enforcement officer is defined as a general authority Washington peace officer, a limited authority
  • You have authority to restrict liberty, to detain, use force.
  • You have authority to restrict liberty, to detain, use force.
Summary: The House Community Safety Committee held public hearings on several bills. House Bill 2203 would create the offense of reckless interference with emergency operations for driving on a roadway known to be closed due to hazardous conditions, with gross misdemeanor penalties, a possible Class C felony enhancement if a rescue leads to injury or involves a minor or vulnerable adult, license suspension, and emergency-response cost recovery. The prime sponsor described recent flooding rescues in Orting as the impetus, and local police support emphasized responder safety and limited resources. The Sentencing Guidelines Commission opposed the felony section, saying the conduct did not warrant felony treatment and recommending a traffic infraction for the first level and a gross misdemeanor for the second. House Bill 2293 would bar Washington law enforcement agencies, the Criminal Justice Training Commission, and related personnel from training with foreign militaries, intelligence agencies, or security services, or funding travel for that purpose. The sponsor said civilian policing should not be trained like military service and argued officers should be trained under U.S. constitutional standards. Opponents from the sheriffs and police chiefs association argued the bill was too broad and unclear, could block valuable counterterrorism and best-practice training, and might need exemptions for Canada, Mexico, and other legitimate international partnerships. Members discussed possible amendments and clarification language. House Bill 2165 would create a new gross misdemeanor for false identification as a peace officer, covering possession or creation of realistic badges, insignia, or other items identifying someone as an officer when they are not commissioned, while preserving defenses for honorary, reserve, posse, and protected expressive uses. The sponsor and governor’s office said current law is too limited because it often requires an active impersonation before enforcement can occur; law enforcement groups supported the goal but raised concerns about definitions, vehicle markings, federal-agent coverage, and whether the offense could be plea-bargained away. House Bill 2173 would prohibit law enforcement officers from wearing facial coverings while interacting with the public, with exceptions for undercover work, SWAT protective gear, and medical or environmental masks, and would allow civil suits for violations. Supporters said the bill promotes transparency and trust and responds to concerns about masked immigration enforcement; opponents warned it could expose officers to doxxing, create liability and recruitment problems, and raise constitutional issues, especially as applied to federal officers. No votes were taken on any of the bills during the hearing.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session Apr 10th, 2025

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Debate having ceased, the clerk will open the roll for co-authors.
  • Remember, this is for co-authors. All those who desire to vote.
  • For co-authors. All those who desire to vote. This is for co-authors.
  • This is for co-authors. The clerk will close the roll.
  • There are 68 co-authors added to this resolution.
Summary: The Assembly met after a quorum call and prayer, then handled a series of procedural motions, guest introductions, and floor actions. Members welcomed student groups from Hope International University and Vacaville High School, and later recognized several guests connected to public safety dispatch. The chamber also adopted multiple re-referrals and procedural requests, including moving bills between committees and taking up AB 100 on concurrence from the Senate. A major portion of the session was devoted to ACR 34, designating April 14 as Sylvia Mendez Day. Assembly Member Ta and several colleagues spoke in support of honoring Sylvia Mendez and the Mendez v. Westminster case as a landmark in civil rights and school desegregation. The resolution drew extended partisan debate over the framing of the measure and broader issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, but it ultimately passed on a roll call vote, with the resolution adopted. The Assembly also recognized Dolores Huerta on her 95th birthday through guest introductions and celebratory remarks, then moved through several bills and resolutions. AB 471 on air district board compensation, AB 677 on pupil records and access to screenings for housing-insecure students, ACR 31 designating California Public Safety Telecommunications Week, and AB 1150 on airport customer facility charges all passed. HR 30 recognizing Khmer New Year also was adopted with broad support. The most contentious policy action was AB 100, the early action budget bill. Supporters said it provided funding for wildfire prevention, hospital payments, Medi-Cal, and recovery in Los Angeles fire areas, while opponents criticized the bill for health care spending and high-speed rail. After a failed attempt by Assembly Member DeMaio to amend the bill and an unsuccessful appeal of the chair, the Assembly concurred in the Senate amendments and sent AB 100 to the Governor. The day ended with consent calendar approvals and adjournments in memory for several community members, including Larkin Carol Wells, Carmen O. Perez, and Oscar B. Ramos.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Insurance Committee May 12th, 2026

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • remind everyone that a big part of why we're convening today is also because of SB 254, which was authored
  • with that, I'll offer Senator Becker an opportunity to make some opening comments as well as the author
  • One year ago, the Sustainable Insurance Strategy went into full effect using our existing authority,
  • My second question would be that you would consider looking at SB 1270, which I'm the author of.
  • For those that are on the coast, against sea level rise, coastal flooding, inland flooding.
Keywords: 987, senate, all
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • state in terms of where our younger families are living, you know, often moving out of the Central Coast
  • And finally, to be clear, doing so does not compromise academic standards or faculty authority.
  • It wasn't authority, but they're not aligned. What's the... how do I phrase this correctly?
  • In response to that report, Assembly Member Fong authored legislation that asked the Chancellor's Office
  • The external resolution authority in our report would take on some of the case resolution caseload and
Summary: The committee heard an overview of the California Community Colleges budget proposal, including Proposition 98 funding, a 2.41% COLA for apportionments, enrollment growth funding, repayment of an apportionment deferral, and one-time investments for a student support block grant and deferred maintenance. The Department of Finance described the Governor’s package as providing significant new resources, while the LAO recommended prioritizing COLA and enrollment growth within available funds but raised concerns about some smaller proposals, including making the Healthy School Food Pathways Program ongoing and adding more funding for credit for prior learning before outcomes are known. The Chancellor’s Office supported the COLA, enrollment growth, and one-time investments, and said current projections suggest enrollment growth closer to 3%, with about $85 million to $90 million in ongoing costs if fully funded. Members focused heavily on enrollment growth, the 10% district cap, and whether the state should continue funding growth in the current year and budget year. The Chancellor’s Office said some districts, especially in the Inland Empire and Central Valley, are growing rapidly and that about seven districts are above the cap, with roughly 1,563 FTES and about $30 million in ongoing costs tied to that issue. Members also discussed hold-harmless districts and whether declining campuses should be required to produce turnaround or right-sizing plans. The Chancellor’s Office said districts are already having local conversations and that state funding provides time to adjust, but no formal plan requirement was proposed. The committee then took up common course numbering, where the Chancellor’s Office said all 115 community colleges have implemented the first phase and more than 550,000 students enrolled in the first six commonly numbered courses. The office argued that CCN improves clarity but does not yet guarantee that credits will transfer with full value across UC and CSU, because articulation is still handled campus by campus and can require more than 3,500 separate reviews. Members expressed concern that students can still be forced to retake courses such as calculus or ethnic studies even when they have the same common number, and urged the systems to develop a stronger statewide articulation mechanism tied to outcomes and transparency. The item was left open. Finally, the committee heard the Governor’s proposal to make Calbright College’s funding ongoing at $53.1 million. The LAO recommended instead transitioning Calbright to the student-centered funding formula, with one-time bridge funding in the meantime, arguing the Governor’s proposal lacks a clear enrollment-based rationale and performance expectations. Calbright’s leadership defended the college’s competency-based, flexible model for adult learners, citing more than 6,800 students served, over 2,200 certificates awarded, and wage gains for graduates; they said enrollment is expected to grow from about 7,000 students now to roughly 8,000 to 9,000 next year and around 10,000 over the next couple of years. Members pressed for clearer enrollment and funding data before deciding how Calbright should be funded going forward.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Local Government Jan 27th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • For some background, a transit authority is a special purpose district established to provide public
  • There are various types of transit authorities, including city transit departments and county transit
  • authorities.
  • Turning to the bill, a regional transit authority may apply for land use and construction permits for
  • And finally, applications submitted by a regional transit authority for permits issued by cities and
Summary: The committee first heard HB 2517, which would give regional transit authorities, especially Sound Transit, more flexible permitting tools for high-capacity transit projects. Staff and the bill sponsor said the goal is to let permit applications and technical reviews proceed concurrently with property acquisition and land use decisions, reducing delay and uncertainty for large transit projects. Sound Transit testified that the bill could save as much as nine months, while a city representative from Bothell asked for an amendment requiring notice to property owners before permits are advanced on land not yet owned or controlled by the agency. The committee then took testimony on HB 2313, concerning publicly owned grocery stores in underserved areas. The bill would let cities acquire land, build or rehabilitate stores, seek capital grants, and create tax increment financing areas for grocery access projects, with annual reporting requirements. Supporters, including the sponsor, Food Lifeline, and Northwest Harvest, argued that grocery closures and food deserts are real problems and that local governments need tools to fill gaps when private grocers leave. Opponents, including grocery industry groups and several students, warned that public stores could undercut private grocers, burden taxpayers, and create operational and property-rights concerns; some testimony also questioned the need for government ownership and the use of tax increment financing. A proposed substitute removed eminent domain and tax increment financing provisions and narrowed the bill to grant-funded stores in underserved areas. Next, the committee heard HB 2451, a major rewrite of local tax increment financing rules. The bill would tighten notice, consultation, reporting, and mitigation requirements for TIF areas, strengthen the “but-for” test, limit where increment areas can be located, and protect existing taxing districts by excluding certain levies and requiring negotiation, mediation, or arbitration when impacts are significant. Cities, ports, counties, libraries, fire chiefs, and hospital districts largely described the bill as a negotiated compromise that improves transparency and addresses unintended impacts, though some local governments said they still wanted more flexibility or protections for existing projects. One city testified against the bill, arguing the new restrictions would make TIF much less useful for large redevelopment efforts. The committee then heard HB 2298, which would authorize county auditors to create voluntary property title protection programs to help prevent land-record fraud by allowing owners to record a protection instrument that delays recording of a title transfer for up to five business days unless identity verification is provided. Auditors, treasurers, and county officials strongly supported the bill as a practical response to rising deed fraud, while title and foreclosure industry representatives said the proposal was too limited, could interfere with foreclosures or other transfers, and would only delay—not prevent—fraud. The final bill heard was HB 2566 on local government procurement, which would raise certain small-purchase and small-public-works thresholds for counties, remove some differences between larger and smaller counties, and give counties more options when no bids are received. County representatives supported the bill as a needed update to procurement rules and a way to reduce bureaucracy and keep pace with inflation.
NM
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Judiciary Jan 21st, 2026

Senate Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • They already have authority to issue subpoenas.
  • us, but they would have that authority.
  • This bill preserves full state authority.
  • or our lawmaking authority.
  • under the authority of a commission.
Bills: SB1, SB3
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

AGR Public Hearing - Fri Feb 7, 2025 @ 9:30 AM HST

Agriculture & Food Systems

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:42:24.960><c> rails</c> up and create stronger guard rails up and create stronger guard rails
  • HB 3228 HD1, relating to school meals, requires the Department of Education to authorize and facilitate
  • But I guess I should go back and talk to the author, the introducer of the bill, because I am concerned
  • the introducer of the bill but um author the introducer of the bill but um I<01:19:08.760><c> am</c>
  • It authorizes the agricultural loan program to issue lines of credit and creates a new class of loans
Keywords: 910, house, all
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 11th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Could the author see how that could happen with this language in particular?
  • Could the author understand it's plain and simple?
  • I want to commend the author on this. This is a good process to be done.
  • Can the author share where it is, and it very well could be here.
  • And I very much appreciate the author talking with me about what it is.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Community Safety Jan 13th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Community Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • The CJTC is authorized to issue and revoke certifications in the state for these officers.
  • Impersonation undermines the actual authority of certified law enforcement officers.
  • Law enforcement officer is defined as a general authority Washington peace officer, a limited authority
  • When law enforcement officers are operating their authority in public...
  • You have authority to restrict liberty, to detain, use of force.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Health and Human Services - 03/26/25

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm grateful to be a co-author on this bill and here to present it.
  • I do not support it, and authors can bring amendments, and we have to vote how we vote.
  • Authors can bring amendments, and we have to vote how we vote.
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  • </c><02:09:25.880><c> the</c> fee related statutes and authorizes the fee related statutes and authorizes
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services (04/08/2025)

Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> classification that says prison guards classification that says prison guards are<00:40:51.040><
  • to stop being a prison guard and you to stop being a prison guard and you work<00:55:39.119><c> as</c
  • </c> authorized to get those payments back. authorized to get those payments back.
  • So who, let's say, is the person that has the final authority on that? Mr.
  • </c> final authority on that. final authority on that.
Keywords: 1189, house, all
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy and Administration (04/13/2026)

Education Policy and Administration

Transcript Highlights:
  • However, it is nothing that I have authority over. There's nothing that I I just can't pay it.
  • So, being a Dylan's rule state especially, towns only have the the capacity, the authorities that we
  • There's nothing that I I authority over.
  • authorities that we explicitly<01:41:34.639><c> delegate</c><01:41:35.040><c> to</c><01:41:35.199><c
  • to tack an extra them in authority to tack an extra charge<01:41:44.159><c> onto</c><01:41:44.560><c
Keywords: 1189, house, all
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Mar 10th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • Will we have an opportunity to ask the author, Chairman Craddock, some questions?
  • Over the last 25 years as a brain research specialist, I've authored. 185 papers in the peer-reviewed
  • Again, I'm just trying to be respectful of the authors of the bill and everyone.
  • There's the author. I think that you should, if you have the opportunity, to speak with him about.
  • Um, uh, the next question I have is on page. 20 when it talks about authorized use of grant money.
Bills: HB5, HJR3, HB155, HB513, HB5, HB155
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 05-01-2026 06:30pm

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Fri May 1, 2026, 6:30PM HST - Day 56

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

RM 325 Conference PM - Fri May 1, 2026

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

RM 329 Conference AM - Fri May 1, 2026

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

RM 325 Conference AM - Fri May 1, 2026

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

RM 411 Conference PM - Fri May 1, 2026

Hawaii House Floor Meeting