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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Appropriations Committee May 23rd, 2025
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- This includes, in some cases, bills that I've co-authored or authored myself that I think advance policy
- AB 830 ARBA 15 authorization due pass out on a roll call.
- CLOSA, I didn't mean to repurpose your bill to another author.
- drowning prevention education. resources, two, authorize an authorized school entity to correspond with
- AB 994, Hadwick County Jails, hold in committee.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House State Government & Tribal Relations Feb 24th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
State Government & Tribal Relations
Transcript Highlights:
- Instead, it authorizes the Secretary... ...requirements around rulemaking and portal design.
- the ballot portal and instead authorizes them to conduct a study.
- It involved, at least in the underlying provision, both state and local county officials.
- It takes out the county officials. So the amendment simplifies that.
- It's found in eastern Washington and four counties in Washington.
Keywords:
state nickname, evergreen state, identity, cultural heritage, tourism, state cactus, symbolic designation, ecological significance, state symbols, SB 6044, Diwali, Bandi Chhor Divas, Washington state holidays, RCW 1.16.050, state holiday recognition, religious observance, Hindu holiday, Sikh holiday, cultural recognition, paid holiday
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Community Affairs Jan 13th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- It's local governments, counties.
- When counties can't keep up financially, really... ...their county, they blame the legislator.
- Courtney Mooney, Florida Association of Counties.
- Johns County was going to show up to talk about this.
- And a county commissioner told us, we want to see three.
Summary:
The committee heard and advanced several bills. SB 330, by Sen. Bradley, clarified the heart disease presumption for firefighters, law enforcement, and correctional officers, including allowing a prior physical exam to count if a transferring officer is not given a new one; an amendment declaring the act an important state interest was adopted, and the bill passed favorably. SB 594, by Sen. Burton, would make mobile home residents eligible for local housing assistance programs such as SHIP for lot rent and home repairs; it received supportive testimony from manufactured-home advocates and passed favorably. SB 840, by Sen. DeSigley, revised hurricane-related land-use restrictions from prior legislation by shortening the affected area from 100 miles to 50 miles, ending certain temporary limits on June 30, 2026, and exempting some water, flood, and state/federal planning matters; it passed favorably after supportive comments from local-government interests and members noting the need to fix unintended consequences of prior law.
The committee also approved SB 526, by Sen. Grawe, which addresses no-damages-for-delay clauses in public construction contracts, creates a uniform commercial permit application, requires permit fee reductions when private providers are used, and adds mitigation to statewide product approval categories. County representatives testified with concerns about the contracting language, unfunded mandates, and fee reductions, but the bill passed favorably. SB 504, by Sen. Burgess, creates a statewide framework for code inspector body camera use, and SB 506, its linked public-records bill, exempts certain sensitive content from disclosure; both passed favorably with support from the sponsor and no opposition in committee.
The most heavily debated measure was SB 354, by Chair McLean, which creates a “blue ribbon project” framework for very large developments that trade state preemption over local land-use regulation for reserving at least 60% of the land for conservation, agriculture, recreation, utilities, and related uses. The bill drew significant testimony from environmental groups, counties, smart-growth advocates, and local residents who argued it could weaken local control, reduce public review, and allow sprawl or inadequate infrastructure planning; supporters argued it could help address housing needs and preserve large amounts of land. The committee adopted two amendments clarifying reserve-area easements and requiring certain easements to be granted without charge, and the committee then reported the bill favorably, with some senators noting they supported it in concept but wanted further changes before later stops.
AR
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 04/11/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> grant administration authority grant administration authority recommended<00:37:04.800><c> by</c
- ,</c> estimates of the county, estimates of the county, $2,880<01:51:16.400><c> per</c><01:51:16.800>
- But at the same time, um, our counties will be bearing the brunt of this and our counties are getting
- are</c> brunt of this and our counties are brunt of this and our counties are getting<01:57:28.239><
- </c> that they sent out to their counties that they sent out to their counties came<01:57:52.719><c>
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee on H.F. 2115 - Human Services Omnibus - Part 2 - 05/14/25
Transcript Highlights:
- ,</c><00:33:57.840><c> but</c> have anyone here from the counties, but have anyone here from the counties
- ><c> with</c><00:34:47.760><c> legal</c> counties have been working with legal counties have been working
- </c><00:35:55.599><c> to</c> with the opposition of the counties to with the opposition of the counties
- </c><00:38:28.720><c> should</c><00:38:28.960><c> be</c> Um a county staff member should be Um a county
- </c> there's a timeline that the counties there's a timeline that the counties have<00:41:19.599><c>
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- If you had the authority.
- Your agency cut costs by having more authority.
- You mentioned working with cities and counties? Yes, Dean. What authority?
- Texas was on January 10th, 2025 in Brown County.
- It also includes contingent appropriation authority.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-02-20 (9:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Some of these include authority for commerce to continue hurricane recovery and mitigation programs.
- Within the Department of Revenue, there's $75.2 million for payments to fiscally-constrained counties
- Judges for fiscal year 2026-27 authorizing 13 new circuit court judges and 12 new county court judges
- , Hillsborough, and Lee counties; two additional judgeships in Orange County; and three additional judgeships
- each in Duval and Miami-Dade counties.
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> Authority revenue bond limit increase. Authority revenue bond limit increase.
- County. County.
- ,</c><00:20:26.160><c> then</c> George's, then Baltimore County, then George's, then Baltimore County
- County. County.
- </c> gentleman from Baltimore County. gentleman from Baltimore County.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Select Committee on Tribal Relations, January 27, 2026 - PM
Select Committee on Tribal Relations
Transcript Highlights:
- They're authorized to bill for it.
- They're authorized to bill for it.
- so it wasn't a Fremont Sweetwater County so it wasn't a Fremont County<02:02:12.960><c> case</c><02:
- uh</c> from um Valley County, the the county uh from um Valley County, the the county uh west<03:01:53.200
- Not just our county.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/25
Children and Families Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- They have administrative authority, investigatory authority, but then they give that prosecuting authority
- They have administrative authority, investigatory authority, but then they give that prosecuting authority
- They have administrative authority, investigatory authority, but then they give that prosecuting authority
- They have administrative authority, investigatory authority, but then they give that prosecuting authority
- They have administrative authority, investigatory authority, but then they give that prosecuting authority
Keywords:
Office of Inspector General, inspector general, legislative audit, fraud prevention, waste and abuse, public funds, grant oversight, state grants, grant management, whistleblower protection, retaliation, subpoena power, data practices, government transparency, accountability, law enforcement referrals, sanctions, debarment, payment withholding, public assistance fraud
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House agriculture committee approves HF770 3/3/25
Transcript Highlights:
- new bonding authority for the RFA.
- I own and operate Rust Hill Ranch in Chisago County.
- </c><00:03:53.760><c> new</c> chair Anderson's Bill to authorize new chair Anderson's Bill to authorize
- we raise Livestock on pasture and County we raise Livestock on pasture and in<00:04:01.239><c> the</
- Minnesota Farm Bureau supports funding for the Rural Finance Authority.
IN
Transcript Highlights:
- The author has the right to close.
- The author has the right to close.
- First, it removed the provision in the bill that authorizes the relocation of the Ohio County riverboat
- It removed Wayne County as a potential site for the new license.
- if the voters of the county do not approve casino gaming in the county.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services (Part I) May 7th, 2025
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- So, I'll take a stab at that, although I don't think I'm the authority.
- You're not going to deliver babies in every rural county in Texas, but every rural county in Texas has
- I'm the county judge in Tara County.
- What is Taylor County going to do if we keep having more cases?
- Laura Sievert, I'm the CPSG for Smith County District Attorney's Office.
Bills:
HB18, HB37, HB116, HB388, HB879, HB913, HB1151, HB2216, HB2358, HB2809, SB577, SB1590, SB1782, SB1887, SB2744, HB18, HB37, HB116
Keywords:
rural health, hospital funding, healthcare access, mental health services, financial stability, perinatal bereavement, healthcare, hospital training, bereavement support, maternal care, fetal demise, stillbirth, neonatal death, parent-child relationship, involuntary termination, family law, child welfare, child protection, HB 388, HB388
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Legislative Audit Committee Jun 1st, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- This audit obviously focuses on San Diego County, but I believe that it is of importance statewide.
- But SANDAG has really had a loss of public trust and confidence in San Diego County.
- And I do know that they are, ...of public trust and confidence in San Diego County.
- And so these are the questions that continue to linger in San Diego County.
- Testifying here in support of this audit request is San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Deakis.
Summary:
The Joint Legislative Audit Committee met to consider new audit requests. The State Auditor reported 10 JALAC audits in progress, with several expected to be published over the coming months, and noted that litigation is delaying the Huntington Beach air show audit. The committee approved a consent calendar of four audit requests covering UC library resources, law enforcement information sharing, EDD unemployment insurance claims, and Housing and Community Development housing development monitoring.
The committee then heard Assembly Member DeMaio’s request for an audit of SANDAG’s road project management and use of transportation funds. DeMaio argued the audit was needed to restore public trust and examine whether restricted funds, voter-approved revenues, and project commitments were properly handled. SANDAG’s CEO and CFO said the agency manages many funding sources, undergoes frequent audits, and has strengthened internal controls; they said the requested review would be duplicative of existing oversight. After debate, the committee voted the request down.
Next, Senator Valadares presented an audit of the Board of State and Community Corrections’ Proposition 47 grant administration, focusing on whether grantees and BSCC are accurately reporting outcomes and recidivism data and whether oversight is sufficient. BSCC said the program already has multiple oversight layers, including Controller audits, and cited reported improvements in homelessness, employment, and recidivism outcomes. The committee approved the audit. Finally, Senator Cortese’s audit of CalHR’s dental benefits procurement and contract oversight was heard, with supporters citing long-standing benefit caps, provider network problems, and retirees’ out-of-pocket costs. CalHR said its network remains strong, that it recently ran an RFP adding MetLife as a second carrier starting in 2027, and that it uses performance guarantees. The committee approved that audit as well, then completed add-on votes approving the earlier consent calendar items before adjourning.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services May 14th, 2025
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- The panel is not authorized to take any action that changes the scope of practice authority of any physician
- of practice authority of any physician or healthcare provider.
- Across all five of our centers, we do serve all 254 Texas counties.
- House Bill 2187 is authored in the House by Representative Howard.
- Members, any questions for the bill author on House Bill 2071?
Bills:
HB107, HB742, HB1639, HB1700, HB2071, HB2187, HB2402, HB2516, HB3211, HB4529, HB5342, HB694, HB923, HB4655, HB107
Keywords:
sickle cell disease, registry, health data, confidentiality, healthcare access, human trafficking, first responders, health care, training, reporting, protection, cancer, female firefighters, health study, state health services, fire protection, telemedicine, teledentistry, telehealth, health records
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Business, Trade & Economic Development Jan 14th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Business, Trade & Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- I am Senator Perry Dozier, 16th District, which is Walla Walla County and Benton Franklin County, taking
- County. Good morning. I'm Senator John Lovick from the 44th District, Snohomish County.
- A few of them are representing two counties at the same time.
- A few of them are representing two counties at the same time.
- And then in the 9th District for Senator Schessler, Columbia County, 11, and Garfield County, too.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Judiciary Apr 15th, 2026
Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence
Transcript Highlights:
- Louis County. I'll be brief.
- Charles County, you know, then... ...a transaction of facts that happened in a specific county.
- I've got a medical malpractice case in Clay County or a personal injury case in Clay County, and there's
- Will that case stay in Clay County, or will it be transferred to Cole County?
- That would not be in Cole County.
Summary:
The committee first met in executive session and approved House Bill 2666, Representative Keithley’s anti-SLAPP bill, on an 8-4 vote after a brief clarification that it was the anti-SLAPP measure being considered. The committee then held a public hearing on House Bill 3054, also by Representative Keithley, which would shift Cole County appellate venue to the Eastern District for workload balancing and require certain challenges to the enactment or validity of statutes and regulations to be filed originally in Cole County to reduce forum shopping.
Representative Keithley said the bill was intended to centralize procedural and constitutional challenges tied to lawmaking or rulemaking in Jefferson City, not to move ordinary fact-based civil cases. Committee members pressed him on whether the language would also sweep in personal injury, medical malpractice, or criminal cases, and several expressed concern that the bill was broader than intended and could create venue fights or burden litigants. Keithley acknowledged the language might need clarification, especially regarding whether it could affect cases with constitutional counts in otherwise ordinary civil actions.
Opposition testimony came from the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys and the Missouri Circuit Judges Association. Both groups said the bill, as drafted, was too broad and could unintentionally move many cases to Cole County, including cases where constitutional challenges are commonly pleaded, and possibly criminal matters because of the “notwithstanding” clause. They also warned it could encourage new venue disputes and undermine expected local venue. The Judicial Conference of Missouri offered to provide data on case types if the committee wanted more information. No further action was taken on HB 3054, and the hearing adjourned.
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- Amen. reminds us that authority is received, reminds us that authority is received, not<00:01:24.159>
- County. County.
- </c><00:10:16.560><c> this</c> came down from Carroll County this came down from Carroll County this
- It was evening in Frederick County.
- county council.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Promoting Patient-Centered Care / Supporting Our Hometown Heroes / Healing Our Herd Mar 20th, 2026
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- . 33 of Minnesota's rural counties have what we call county-based purchasers.
- <00:07:24.319><c> based</c> counties have what we call county based counties have what we call county
- ><c> serve</c> of counties.
- County board members serve of counties. County board members serve on<00:07:30.720><c> this.
- Are you only has DFL co-authors.
Summary:
The segment focused first on Senator John Marty’s bill, SF 3612, which would remove private insurers and HMOs from Minnesota’s state health care programs and replace them with a statewide administrative services model. Marty argued that managed care has created churn, coverage disruptions, and administrative waste in Medicaid and MinnesotaCare, and said the state should instead pay providers directly while investing more in care coordination, case management, and wraparound services through primary care clinics and county-based purchasers. He said the goal is better care, not just savings, though he also cited potential taxpayer savings and pointed to Connecticut as a model. He acknowledged the bill is not expected to become law this year and said a fiscal note and more details are still pending.
Marty said the proposal has support from the governor and groups such as the American Cancer Society, but that his current co-authors are all DFL members. He expressed hope for bipartisan support and said the simpler system would also improve fraud detection and transparency. He addressed concerns about insurance-industry jobs by saying workers should be treated fairly and that retraining and dislocated-worker assistance would be part of the transition. He also said the broader goal is universal coverage for all medical needs, including mental health and dental care, without co-pays or deductibles.
The second half highlighted Senator Jeff Howe and Minnesota’s Hometown Heroes Assistance Program for firefighters. Howe described the program as a statewide effort for roughly 20,000 career, paid-on-call, and volunteer firefighters that provides up to $20,000 in assistance for occupational illnesses such as cancer and heart disease, along with training, counseling, and family support. He said the program helps firefighters process trauma and has been recognized as the nation’s most comprehensive firefighter well-being initiative. Howe said the most recent version of the bill received unanimous bipartisan support in both chambers, and he suggested future expansions could include retired firefighters and possibly peace officers. The segment also noted a separate therapy approach using retired racehorses to help first responders work through trauma, with participants saying it has helped them stay on the job and manage anxiety and PTSD.