Transcript Highlights:

• It says that if law enforcement officers arrest and detain you, even if that detention is unlawful, you
• It says that if law enforcement officers arrest and detain you, even if that detention is unlawful, you
• Here, a month in ice, I get it. All right. A month in ice.

Summary: The Florida Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several introductions recognizing guests and groups in the gallery, including Challenger Learning Center representatives, the Florida Dental Hygienists Association, Zeta Phi Beta, Pine Forest High School students, and others. Senators also offered remarks honoring the anniversary of the Challenger disaster and welcoming visitors. The chamber then moved to the special order calendar. The main floor debate centered on Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 156, which would increase penalties for crimes against law enforcement officers and other personnel, including mandatory life imprisonment for manslaughter of a law enforcement officer engaged in official duties. The bill drew extensive debate over self-defense, excessive force, prosecutorial discretion, jury instructions, and whether the measure was a proper response to the Jason Rayner case. Two amendments were offered and withdrawn. After debate, the Senate passed the bill 31-4. Senators Bracy Davis, Smith, Polsky, and others spoke in opposition, while Leek, Trumbull, and Hooper supported the measure as a needed correction and tribute to Officer Rayner. The Senate then passed a series of other bills, mostly unanimously or by wide margins. SB 168 expanded public nuisance law to include gambling establishments; SB 288 clarified rural electric cooperative authority; SB 292 created a public records exemption for appellate court clerks and their families; SB 296 and SB 298 advanced the HAVEN initiative and a related public records exemption for domestic violence victims; SB 364 modernized CPA licensure; SB 386 created protections for farm equipment purchasers; and several Open Government Sunset Review bills preserved or extended public records and meeting exemptions for emergency shelter addresses, Department of Military Affairs records, conviction integrity unit records, Public Service Commission and Gaming Commission proceedings, DHSMV investigatory records, social media investigation records, and certain economic development loan records. Most of these bills passed 32-35 votes, with SB 292 passing 34-1 and SB 7000, SB 7002, SB 706, SB 708, SB 7012, SB 7014, and SB 7016 all approved. At the end of the session, the Senate adopted a motion to immediately certify all bills passed that day to the House, heard announcements about upcoming executive appointments and State of Black Florida Week events, and then adjourned until the next scheduled meeting.

Transcript Highlights:

• This bill actually will turn all the agencies into ICE. That's dangerous.
• Police departments exist to keep communities safe, not to serve as extensions of ICE.
• ICE, in my opinion, is breaking the law, killing citizens, and undermining due process.
• You clearly see that United States citizens are being detained. That's my question. Mr.
• Six of our 15 counties have already established an agreement to cooperate with ICE.

Summary: The committee first approved the February 9, 2026 minutes and then took up SB 1618, which restructures the Military Affairs Commission to add governor-appointed defense and industry experts, expand advisory participation, require more frequent meetings and reporting, and create a commission fund. The sponsor and a witness from the Southwest Mission Acceleration Center said the bill would modernize Arizona’s approach to retaining and attracting military missions and defense-related business. After adopting a Gowan amendment, the committee voted 6-1 to give SB 1618 a do pass recommendation as amended. The committee then heard SB 1047, the “Defend the Guard” bill, which would bar deployment of the Arizona National Guard into active combat without a congressional declaration of war. Supporters, including veterans and activists, argued it would restore constitutional limits and protect Guard members from unauthorized foreign wars. Opponents, including a retired National Guard officer, warned it could harm readiness, create tension with the Pentagon, and risk federal funding or missions. The committee voted 4-3 to give SB 1047 a do pass recommendation. Next was SB 1474, which preempts state and local restrictions on cooperation with federal immigration authorities, requires immigration-enforcement training, and, under amendment, requires county sheriffs to enter 287(g) agreements with ICE by January 1, 2027. The sponsor said the bill would improve cooperation and enforcement consistency, while opponents—religious leaders, public servants, and others—argued it would expand federal immigration enforcement, increase fear in communities, and burden local agencies with an unfunded mandate. After a lengthy and contentious debate, the committee voted 4-3 to give SB 1474 a do pass recommendation as amended. Finally, the committee considered SB 1620, which changes Arizona Space Commission membership by reducing governor appointments, adding the lieutenant governor as chair, and making legislative and executive leaders nonvoting advisory members. The commission chair said the changes would align Arizona with other states and improve structure and continuity. The bill passed 5-1 with a do pass recommendation. The committee then heard SB 1365, a strike-everything amendment removing the income cap for disabled veterans’ property tax exemption on a primary residence; members discussed whether very high-income veterans should still qualify, but agreed the bill would help disabled veterans. The committee adopted both amendments and gave SB 1365 a do pass recommendation.

Transcript Highlights:

• It just seems like an anti-ICE bill, frankly.
• I mean, it just seems like an anti-ICE bill, frankly, if I'm going to be frank about it.
• When ICE operates, they operate based on an administrative warrant. What's the difference?
• I just want to respond to some of the conversation about ICE.
• I think many of us, all of us in this room, probably appreciate the work that ICE is doing.

Transcript Highlights:

• by ICE when they're communicating and collaborating.
• There were anti-ICE messages written on the bullets.
• Maybe don't correlate ICE agents to the KKK.
• I don't see ICE agents doing that. They're not.
• I don't see ICE agents doing that. They're not.

Committee: House Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee

Transcript Highlights:

• They're the ones who are do not honor in New Mexico, do not honor federal immigration detainers.
• So really what I wanted to see is what are we paying for individuals to be detained?
• And the judge decided to detain these individuals now.
• When there's high-profile cases, the judge is detained, which doesn't make any sense to me.
• The judge decides, no, we're not, we're not going to detain.

Committee: House Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee

Transcript Highlights:

• “An immigration enforcement action may include detainment, preparation for, or participation in any judicial
• In 2025, a state employee was detained by ICE at the Canadian border along with her six-year-old son.
• members, who is a state employee and, to be clear, resides and works in our country legally, was detained
• If she had run out of leave, it would have meant that her children who were not detained with her would
• It would have meant that her children that were not detained with her would have lost their health insurance

Summary: The committee opened with member introductions and then heard House Bill 2123, which would change Washington’s foreign-national certification requirements for election contributions and political advertising. Staff explained that the proposed substitute would only require certifications for campaigns or sponsors exceeding a $5,500 threshold, with an amendment raising that threshold to $6,000, which would largely limit the requirement to ballot measure activity. Prime sponsor Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon said the current paperwork burden makes campaigns harder without solving a real problem, and that his proposal would preserve protections where federal law does not already cover ballot measures. Testifiers supporting the bill, including campaign treasurers, said the certification requirement is burdensome and ineffective; one witness raised concern that a related repeal provision might unintentionally allow foreign participation in state elections, and staff/leadership indicated follow-up would occur. The hearing on HB 2123 was then suspended and later reopened with additional supportive testimony from campaign professionals and others before the committee moved on to other bills. The committee then took up House Bill 2210 on ranked-choice voting for local elections. Staff said the bill would replace the current top-two primary structure with a top-five process for jurisdictions using ranked-choice voting, allow counties and other local governments to adopt the system through 2032, and set ballot, tabulation, rulemaking, and public education requirements; Seattle would be exempt because it is already moving toward ranked-choice voting. Rep. Gregerson, the sponsor, framed the bill as a temporary tool to protect free and fair elections amid federal uncertainty and potential Voting Rights Act changes. Supporters from Fair Vote Washington, the Washington Bus, Sightline Institute, and others argued ranked-choice voting can improve representation, reduce vote splitting, and help young, military, overseas, and underrepresented voters. Opponents, including Secretary of State Steve Hobbs, county auditors, and several citizens, said the system is confusing, costly, harder to audit, and may increase ballot rejection or lower participation, especially among communities of color and voters with limited English proficiency. The committee heard extensive debate but took no final action during the transcript. The committee also heard House Bill 2411, which expands the state shared leave program to cover employees who are victims of hate crimes or whose absences stem from immigration enforcement actions affecting themselves or family members. Rep. Osman Salahuddin said the bill responds to real cases where state workers faced detention or family separation and could not use shared leave under current law. OFM, the Office of Equity, and the Washington Federation of State Employees supported the bill, describing it as a humane, low-cost way to help employees remain employed during traumatic disruptions. A Republican member asked whether the change would apply to people not legally present or working under a visa; witnesses said they believed it would not, or would be extremely unlikely, and would follow state hiring documentation requirements. The hearing then closed on HB 2411. Finally, the committee heard House Bill 2281 on government-to-government consultation with tribes regarding state actions affecting tribal traditional cultural places. Staff said the bill would require mutually agreed consultation processes, timely notice, meaningful consultation before action, and a heightened legal standard requiring the state to show a compelling interest and least restrictive means if it would burden tribal cultural practices; tribes could sue in superior court. Rep. Chris Stearns said the bill is intended to protect Native identity, sacred sites, and religious practices from further loss, while tribal leaders and faith advocates strongly supported it as enforceable protection for sacred places and sovereignty. Some business and industry groups said they supported the goal but worried the bill’s broad definitions and cause of action could create permitting uncertainty, project delays, and significant costs, especially for clean energy and industrial projects. The committee also heard testimony on House Bill 2206, which would adopt the Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act; supporters said it would streamline absentee voting for overseas and military voters, while opponents argued it could allow never-residents or duplicate registrations and raised constitutional concerns. No votes were taken in the transcript.

Transcript Highlights:

• In Oregon, ICE agents are stalking school parking lots and school routes and detaining parents in front
• In Oregon, ICE agents are stalking school parking lots and school routes and detaining parents in front
• In Oregon, ICE agents are stalking school parking lots and school routes and detaining parents in front
• In Oregon, ICE agents are stalking school parking lots and school routes and detaining parents in front
• In Oregon, ICE agents are stalking school parking lots and school routes and detaining parents in front

Bills: HB4305 , HB2965 , HR916

Keywords: small business, regulatory burden, advocacy, government oversight, compliance assistance, Red Tape Hotline, regulatory budget, Small Business Administration, fiscal responsibility, rulemaking

Transcript Highlights:

• border-related crimes, and grants to cities, towns, and counties for costs associated with prosecuting and detaining
• Having witnessed recent DHS and ICE activities in states like Minnesota, where communities have been
• When recognizing the close work of the department that it conducts with ICE, as well as the recent pauses
• on federal funding to ICE, it would be disrespectful to community members to spend this money without

Summary: The Military Affairs and Border Security Committee heard several bills. HB 2416 would appropriate $20 million for Department of Public Safety border support, including equipment, law enforcement positions, and grants to local governments for border-related enforcement and detention costs. Supporters, including the Arizona Sheriffs Association, said the funds are fully used each year and are largely spent on drug interdiction, especially against fentanyl and methamphetamine. Opponents argued the bill’s immigration-enforcement language was too broad and that the money should instead go to health care, education, food assistance, or prevention programs. The committee approved HB 2416 on a 4-3 vote. The committee also heard HB 2806, which would require county recorders, ADOT, and AHCCCS to use the federal SAVE system and report citizenship-verification results to JLBC and the Auditor General. The ACLU of Arizona opposed the bill, saying SAVE is not designed to determine voter eligibility, could wrongly flag eligible citizens, and would likely lead to litigation and confusion. Several members questioned the need for the bill, noting existing citizenship requirements and current use of SAVE in some agencies, while others supported it as a way to ensure only citizens access voting and benefits. HB 2806 passed 4-3. HB 2663, a technical cleanup bill updating military leave language for state and local employees serving in the National Guard or Reserves, drew little opposition and passed unanimously. HB 2759 would appropriate $500,000 to the Department of Veterans Services for a grant program with Yavapai County educational institutions to help veterans with emergency housing, equipment, professional development, and other shortfalls tied to delayed GI Bill payments. Testimony supported expanding help for veterans, but some members raised concerns that the bill was limited to Yavapai County and included private institutions; the sponsor and witnesses said it could serve as a pilot and potentially expand statewide. The committee approved HB 2759 on a 4-3 vote.

Transcript Highlights:

• The rhetoric that is going on surrounding ICE, the rhetoric that is going or... ...rhetoric that is going
• on surrounding ICE, the rhetoric that is going around, and I would argue coming from the far radical
• She is an Arizona resident who has leukemia, and she has been in ICE detention now for over a year after
• So she is dying, she's coughing up blood, and she's been detained inhumanely and treated horribly and
• message of love and strength to her and to her family and to every migrant who has been taken and is in ICE

Summary: The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, a roll call showing 29 present, and several guest introductions, including Scout groups from Phoenix/Levine, Dr. John Galgiani for Valley Fever Awareness, and Dr. Sarah Lee Davidson as Doctor of the Day. Senator Kavanagh read a proclamation recognizing Valley Fever Awareness and the work of the University of Arizona’s Valley Fever Center for Excellence. The chamber also adopted a death resolution for Victor E. Hardy and observed a moment of silence. The Committee of the Whole considered SB 1036 on unemployment insurance, SB 1056 on reporting vacant state positions, SB 1236 on AHCCCS enrollment verification and presumptive eligibility, and SB 1238 on the physician assistant licensure compact. SB 1036, SB 1056, and SB 1238 were approved in Committee of the Whole, with SB 1036 and SB 1238 amended. During floor debate, SB 1036 drew criticism from Democrats as adding burdens and reducing benefits for unemployed workers, while supporters said it was aimed at preventing fraud; it later passed the Senate 17-12. SB 1056 also passed 17-12 after debate over whether automatic elimination of long-vacant positions would improve efficiency or harm agency staffing. SB 1238 passed with a conforming amendment and later the House version HB 2190 was substituted and passed. The Senate then took up several third-reading bills. SB 1126 on educational records passed 29-0. SB 1189 on campaign expenditures passed 27-2 after debate about political violence and campaign-related expenses. SB 1211 on sentencing passed 29-0. The chamber also reconsidered and substituted House bills for identical Senate bills: HB 2206 for SB 1333 and HB 2396 for SB 1368, both related to SNAP. HB 2206 passed 17-12 after debate over a proposed SNAP error-rate penalty and its impact on food access, and HB 2396 passed 17-12 after debate over restricting SNAP purchases. Finally, HB 2796 was substituted for SB 1236 and passed after debate over AHCCCS enrollment barriers. The Senate adjourned until Tuesday, February 17, 2026.

Transcript Highlights:

• by ICE officers arresting them at home, at work, or on the street.
• They have to pass on the I-9. ...to the ICE agents. Now, they do have to pass that on.
• crackdown, a heavily publicized ICE crackdown that occurred between June and October of 2025.
• ICE swoops in, takes people, brings them down to Texas where there's no habeas corpus.
• Families across Massachusetts are experiencing cruelty at the hands of ICE.

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development

Summary: The hearing opened with the co-chairs introducing House and Senate members and explaining the hybrid format, three-minute testimony guidance, and the deadline for written testimony. The committee then heard extensive testimony on S. 2665, which would require employers to post notice to employees when an I-9 audit or similar federal immigration inspection is underway. Supporters, including immigration attorneys, a pediatrician, a labor leader, and an affected family member, argued the bill would protect privacy, give workers time to gather documents and consult counsel, and reduce fear and wrongful arrests. One witness from Illinois described a similar law there and said it had not caused the problems employers feared, while others said recent ICE enforcement has made notice especially important. The committee also heard testimony on S. 1360, a bill affecting collective bargaining rights for State Police, with the State Police Association arguing that a statutory gap lets departmental rules override their contract and that the bill would restore intended bargaining protections. A separate labor bill, S. 1305, was also briefly supported by the AFL-CIO as part of broader worker-classification protections for app-based delivery drivers. A large portion of the hearing focused on H. 2066, which would impose fines on transportation network drivers who refuse rides to people with disabilities using service animals. Testimony from blind and disabled riders, service dog users, advocates, and the Disability Law Center described repeated ride cancellations, drivers pulling away after seeing a service animal, and the difficulty of enforcing existing anti-discrimination laws through MCAD or other agencies. Witnesses said the current system leaves riders without practical recourse because drivers are hard to identify and complaints can take years, and they argued that fines on individual drivers would create a real deterrent. Several witnesses also described the impact on employment, medical appointments, and daily independence. Committee members asked about service-animal verification, whether refusals are ever appropriate, and whether penalties should target drivers or companies; witnesses said legitimate refusals are limited to misbehaving or unsafe animals and that companies already have policies and some training, but enforcement remains weak. The committee also heard from a witness supporting a related bill on rideshare accessibility and from advocates describing broader transportation discrimination issues. One witness discussed a separate proposal to study service-animal denial, and others noted that Uber’s self-identification feature and company policies have not solved the problem. No votes were taken during the hearing, and the meeting ended after the final witnesses on the service-animal bill and a brief organizational discussion about related legislation and committee business.

Transcript Highlights:

• It would be the illegal detention of people of color by ICE.
• We know that over 2,300 people who are illegally in the United States have been detained by ICE for so
• We know that people of color by ICE.
• </c><01:28:56.080><c> by</c> the United States have been detained by the United States have been detained
• ,</c> store, dragged out of the store by ICE, store, dragged out of the store by ICE, yelling<01:31:11.520

Committee: Senate Education

Transcript Highlights:

• The fears that they'd had been detained.
• Contrast that to the last several months of ICE activity, where there were also centers that had 30,
• Families saw citizens being detained. We all saw young children being detained.
• space where the commissioner can create an emergency based on a number of things, natural disaster, ice
• </c><00:42:40.840><c> visiting,</c><00:42:41.680><c> you</c><00:42:41.760><c> know,</c> disaster, ice

Bills: HF2136 , HF4195 , HF4548 , HF4432 , HF4174 , HF3024 , HF4389 , HF3773

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

Keywords: youth intervention, grants, community support, early intervention services, nonprofit, Minnesota human services, forecast adjustment, budget forecast, appropriations, Medical Assistance, MinnesotaCare, Health Care Access Fund, general fund, behavioral health, housing support, General Assistance, Minnesota Supplemental Aid, MFIP, DWP, child care assistance

Transcript Highlights:

• families to stabilize after a sudden loss of income, especially in the current climate of increased ICE
• </c> current climate of increased ICE current climate of increased ICE enforcement.<01:02:41.280><c>
• But a few weeks ago, he was taken by ICE.
• But instead, working families, many with legal work authorization, have seen neighbors detained, family
• or deported, renters has been detained or deported, renters who<01:30:06.719><c> are</c><01:30:06.880

Bills: HF3425 , HF3424 , HF1385

Committee: House Housing Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:

• Dozens of parents of our school district students were detained.
• Seven of our district students were detained, and one is still there in Texas.
• The individuals detained were here legally and following the rules.
• Seven of our students were detained.
• </c><00:05:03.440><c> were</c> reinforcing that those detained were reinforcing that those detained were

Bills: HF3492 , HF3493 , HF3494 , HF3495 , HF3602

Committee: Senate Education Finance

Keywords: school safety, grants, education funding, Northern Lights Express, security improvements, rural schools, safe schools, charter schools, nonpublic schools, Tribal education, funding increase, safe schools aid, school security, mental health support, Tribal schools, cybersecurity, funding, mental health, evidence-based plans, public safety

Transcript Highlights:

• IC and TDLR to track gas pump skimming, allowing us to open cases in hot spots, de-conflict cases among
• To be clear, we are not asking for the authority to detain individuals on the street. detained just anyone
• Eva, I was having a headache and I was detained because I do. have a occupational mental health diagnosis
• legally contest an unlawful detention if we are to expand and the standards under which someone can be detained

Bills: SB330 , SB663 , SB1020 , SB1152 , SB1164 , SB1896 , SB2111 , SB2196 , SB2383 , SB2581 , SB2797 , SB2798 , SB2371

Committee: Senate Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:

• However, for families who have their children detained and arrested by ICE and held in a facility for
• This bill protects struggling families when their children are taken by ICE.

Transcript Highlights:

• But when Homeland Security Investigations and the internal removal operations of ICE came back to this
• I say all of that because I know that the intention was to detain and deport convicted criminals.
• I live in Ewa. uh the internal removal operations of uh the internal removal operations of ice<00:34:
• came back to this family they they ice came back to this family they they found<00:34:54.839><c> the
• </c><00:35:25.480><c> and</c> that the intention was to detain and that the intention was to detain and

Committee: House Economic Development & Technology

Summary: The committee on Economic Development and Technology met on March 12, 2025, and heard testimony on several measures. On SB 9, the Hawaii Food Industry Association, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation testified in support, and there were no questions or objections. On SB 148, the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs offered comments, and a member of the public testified in support of combining boxing and MMA oversight into a single combat sports commission, with amendments to preserve safety standards and separate or distinct treatment for the two sports. Committee discussion focused on whether proposed requirements were primarily safety-related or cost-related, how to handle smaller events, and whether a one-year implementation delay was necessary; the department said many safety provisions already exist in the MMA program, that it was open to continued discussion on costs, and that it needed time to combine rules and appoint new commissioners. The chair suggested possible amendments to account for event size and to reduce burdens on smaller events. The committee then heard SB 816, which drew extensive testimony on providing legal representation for immigrants in immigration proceedings. Supporters included the Hawaii State LGBTQ+ Commission, ACU Hawaii, the Refugee and Immigration Law Clinic, the Legal Clinic, Hawaii Friends of Civil Rights, the Hawaiʻi Coalition for Immigrant Rights, Pride at Work Hawaii, and others. Supporters argued that immigration cases can be as serious as criminal cases, that counsel is essential for due process, and that representation improves outcomes; several also emphasized the economic importance of immigrants to Hawaii. One supporter noted a suggested amendment to include training for attorneys and partners doing deportation defense and asylum work. Opposition came from a Navy veteran who argued the bill would use state resources for a federal issue, create inequities, and impose fiscal burdens. The chair noted 69 testimonies in support and 44 in opposition, and later an additional supporter brought the total to 70 in support. No vote was taken in the portion of the meeting provided. The committee also heard SB 125, with the Department of Economic Development, the Agreed Business Development Corporation, and the Hawaii Food Industry Association in support, and the Tax Foundation of Hawaii offering technical comments about complicated nested definitions in the bill. Testimony on SB 125 focused on updating the Enterprise Zone Program so local manufacturers selling directly to retail could qualify, along with value-added products and certain health-related sectors. Finally, on SB 732, the State of Hawaii Creative Industries testified with comments, raising concerns about county permit-fee waivers, implementation timing, and the bill’s lack of a carry-forward provision for the film tax credit. The witness said uncertainty in the credit was already causing productions to delay coming to Hawaii and urged stability to support the industry and local workers. The committee then moved on to additional testimony on the measure.

Transcript Highlights:

• According to the conservative Cato Institute, only about 5% of people detained by ICE have convictions
• According to the conservative Cato Institute, only about 5% of people detained by ICE have convictions
• More than 170 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE.
• ICE agents surrounded her car.
• </c> operate ICE detention centers. operate ICE detention centers.

Committee: House Executive Departments and Administration

Transcript Highlights:

• 287(g) agreements... ...and Customs Enforcement to enter into 287(g) agreements and to cooperate with ICE
• Now, this is something we did with the Idaho ICE Act already.
• This is just clarifying some of those provisions in the Idaho ICE Act and also require some biannual
• are in the custody of the Idaho Department of Correction and are subject to a federal immigration detainer

Committee: Senate State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:

• The problem we have now is that ICE is running out of money.
• If we get this bill through the Senate and the House, ICE will have the money they need to finish the
• ICE deportations of criminal illegal aliens have plummeted since February of 2021.
• ICE, under the Biden administration, has deported less than 115,000 illegal aliens.
• Get ice cream. Find somebody to buy you an ice cream.

Committee: Senate Senate Budget