Video & Transcript Research : 'PROTECT Act'

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Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 8th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • An act relating to the uniform retirement system for justices and judges.
  • House and Hall of the Senate, an act relating to the pardon and parole board.
  • an act relating to the Oklahoma Pension and Retirement System.
  • of the House and Senate, an act relating to schools.
  • Senate Bill 1481 by Caldwell of the House and Senate, an act relating to schools.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services Oversight REVISED: SB1304 - Added Apr 15th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Health and Human Services Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • I won't read the whole statute here, but it says that for the protection of public health, public parks
  • That particular bid is held up in OMES and hasn't been acted on in months.
  • Just a clarification, so in the language of the bill, that does provide some protections against the
NE

Nebraska 2025-2026 Regular Session

Legislative Morning Session Apr 10th, 2026

Nebraska Unicameral Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The bill also addresses the Protection Orders Act, an inclusion to the hearsay rule for statements offered
  • , and the Fees Regulation Act.
  • , freedom, facility financing assistance act, the property tax act, growth limitation act, property tax
  • , Act, Providence, Act, Act, Provider, District, District, District, District, Districts.
  • The act declares an emergency.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 27th, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 1090 by Representative Baham is an act on Title 14 relative to simple arson of a religious
  • Senate Bill 57 by Senator McMath is an act to amend Act 463 of the 2025 Regular Session of the Legislature
  • It is an act to amend Title 37 relative to professions and occupations. Senator Pressly.
  • Senate Bill 251 by Senator Pressly is an act to amend Title 51 relative to critical infrastructure protection
  • , to provide for critical infrastructure that needs protections from foreign adversaries.
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, heard a guest prayer by Pastor Lee Shipp, and conducted routine opening business including journal adoption, receipt of confirmation appointments, and House messages naming conferees on several Senate bill disagreements. The chamber also adopted or recognized several personal privilege resolutions and commendations, including honors for Grady Hazel, the Acadiana Veterans Hockey of Louisiana national championship team, Grambling State University’s 125th anniversary and related athletics/band centennials, the 2026 Governor’s Fellows, and a brief address by special guest Ms. Benson. Members then acted on a series of resolutions and concurrent resolutions. The Senate adopted measures creating or requesting study task forces on child permanency, medical malpractice review panels, driving school fees, the Minimum Foundation Program, and earthquake activity in north Louisiana, and it concurred in House resolutions on illegal dumping, gaming board review, behavioral health crisis center reimbursement, Medicaid incentive payment reporting, and a physician review panel study. Several condolence and commendation resolutions also passed, including those honoring Lewis Thomas Nelson and Josephine Ruth Kennedy, and the Senate adopted a resolution urging local governments to consider generator requirements for unlicensed senior and disability residential facilities. The chamber also took up House Bill 723, a motorcycle traffic-signal bill allowing certain two- and three-wheeled vehicles to proceed through malfunctioning vehicle-actuated signals under specified circumstances; after debate about safety and enforcement, it passed 33-3. The Senate then considered numerous House amendments to Senate bills, concurring in most, including bills on fluoridation/local opt-out, public assistance, nutrition, human trafficking training, bulletproof vests, adult residential care generators, cell-cultured food products, public benefits eligibility, attorney-fee limits in disciplinary proceedings, critical infrastructure protections, debit card surcharges, bank stock certificates, child welfare proceedings, digital student IDs, watershed restoration funding, innovation hubs, sports agent registration, and manufactured housing regulation. It rejected House amendments to SB 283 and SB 408 for further negotiation. The session ended with announcements for committee meetings and a recess until 2 p.m.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session May 5th, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And we continue to pray for our military as they continue to protect our freedoms.
  • This will make the smaller employer quality jobs act.
  • This will make the smaller employer quality jobs act.
  • It really doesn't have the protections we need to do this well.
  • By that, we are to act in...
Summary: The Senate convened, established a quorum, offered prayer, and recognized a doctor, a nurse, and a student hero who rescued a driver from a burning vehicle. The chamber also welcomed a new group of pages and adopted a motion to reject House amendments to Senate Bill 1546 and request conference. Senators then adopted Senate Resolution 44 recognizing Teacher Appreciation Week, and heard remarks honoring educators in the gallery. Senator Goodwin also announced the death of former Representative Don Ross and offered condolences to his family. The Senate then took up House Concurrent Resolution 1027, setting a target sine die date of May 14 at 5 p.m. The resolution drew opposition from Minority Leader Kurt and Senator Jett, who argued the chamber still had unfinished business, but it passed 28-17. The Senate also passed SJR 50, SJR 52, and SJR 53, all related to agency rules, including expanded provider types, removal of a physician-visit cap, and medical marijuana packaging requirements. Additional measures passed included HB 1185 on preserving military and historic firearms for honor guards and museums, HB 1937 on student-employee communications and due process, HB 2035 on funeral transportation protection agreements, HB 2137 on involuntary medication procedures for competency restoration, and HB 2166 on legal newspaper distribution without a USPS permit. Later, the Senate approved a series of bills on business, licensing, public safety, and state operations. These included HB 3148 on VIN inspections by dealers, HB 3323 on removing notarization for certain electronic Service Oklahoma documents, HB 3466 eliminating petty cash at the Corporation Commission, HB 3498 updating corporation and LLC statutes, HB 3661 extending a forestry equipment sales tax exemption, HB 3678 expanding the definition of public official for electronic harassment protections, HB 3710 revising the Rising Scholars Award Program, HB 3977 updating state veterinarian qualifications, HB 3986 expanding a tax exemption, HB 4104 strengthening penalties for repeat voyeurism-related offenses, HB 4108 adding airport operational areas to critical infrastructure, HB 4142 covering conspiracies to use bombs or explosive devices, HB 4274 allowing military children to attend non-zoned schools, HB 4275 allowing case managers and peer support specialists to work for local public agencies, HB 4322 removing dual certification for funeral directors in charge, HB 4336 updating interventional pain management rules, HB 4484 allowing certain state vehicles to be used between home and work, HB 3880 on Tourism Department compensation and Oklahoma Today publication discretion, and HB 1687 creating the Uniform Health Care Decisions Act with an amended effective date. The chamber also passed HB 2959 requiring school administrators to report abuse allegations to law enforcement within 24 hours and before school questioning, with emergency passage approved. HB 3718 was then taken up with an amendment clarifying timelines for special education evaluations tied to the Lindsay Nicole Henry Scholarship; discussion centered on the new 15-school-day meeting timeline and the 45-day evaluation period. The transcript ends during questions on that amendment, before final action on HB 3718 is shown.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 16th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate and Governmental Affairs May 6th, 2026

Senate & Governmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • HB 210 is a cleanup bill in relation to Act 492 of the 2024 Regular Session.
  • When we got to what is now Act 492, it got to the Senate...
  • Acting Chair. Mr.
  • and Fisheries, protecting their information.”
  • Acting Chair.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Ways and Means May 5th, 2026

Ways & Means

Bills: HB1039, SB423, SB436
Summary: The Ways and Means Committee met on May 5, 2026, and first considered Senate Bill 436 by Senator Cloud, which revises how annual aviation fuel estimates are calculated for the Aviation Trust Fund. Senator Cloud explained that the fund supports airport and aviation projects and has been supplemented in recent years with general fund dollars because the estimated balance has remained stagnant. The committee adopted amendments allowing DOTD’s Office of Multimodal Commerce to use federal and other public data sources, requiring Revenue to provide annual aviation fuel sales tax collections data, and making a technical change. After a brief question about existing airport disclosure requirements, the bill was reported as amended with support cards entered into the record. The committee then took up House Bill 1039 by Representative Desotel, dealing with local sales and use tax audit procedures. The bill was presented as a fairness and transparency measure for audits, but members and the author discussed substantial amendments that would remove or modify several provisions. The committee adopted the amendments except for Amendment 4, which would have required private auditing firms contracting with taxing authorities to be domiciled in Louisiana; that language was set aside for further work after concerns it could affect audits conducted outside Louisiana. Members also discussed provisions on waiving prescription periods, suspending interest and penalties by agreement, and concerns about multiple parishes auditing the same business at once. The bill was reported as amended, with several support cards and informational cards entered. Senate Bill 423 was voluntarily deferred, and there was no other business before the committee. The meeting adjourned after a motion to adjourn was adopted.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/04/2026 - Senate Education

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Madam Chair and members, House Bill 2409, or the Getting Arizona Ready for AI Act, establishes the Arizona
  • HB 2008 undermines the freedom of association protected by the Arizona Constitution.
  • participation in associations that advocate for their fields, the bill penalizes constitutionally protected
  • Article 2, Section 5 of the Arizona Constitution protects the right of the people to assemble peaceably
  • And finally, calling the proposal the Library Freedom Act obscures its actual impact on constitutional
Summary: The committee took up several education bills. HB 2395 would create a voluntary Arizona School Fitness Program in ADE to recognize schools that participate in nationally recognized fitness testing or events and allow the designation on school report cards. Supporters, including the sponsor and outside witnesses, argued it would encourage student activity and support the whole child; the bill passed with a 6-0 do pass recommendation. HB 2409, the Getting Arizona Ready for AI Act, would create a voluntary summer AI course program through ADE with curriculum on digital hygiene, civic integrity, and AI for small business/entrepreneurship, with optional facility use and academic credit. The sponsor said it was meant to prepare students for AI-driven job disruption without requiring new appropriations; it passed 4-2. HB 2203 would direct ADE to review public school and agency reporting requirements for duplicative, expired, or obsolete reports and recommend consolidation or repeal, and an amendment making a technical correction was adopted before the bill passed 6-0. HB 2008 would bar school libraries from using public money to pay dues to certain professional library associations; opponents from Secular AZ and the ACLU argued it was viewpoint discrimination and a threat to professional association rights, but the bill still received a do pass recommendation on a 6-0 vote, with one member explaining a no vote because the problem did not exist. The committee also heard HB 2075, which would require school districts to submit superintendent and CFO employment contracts to ADE, post them online, keep them available for five years after termination, and create a searchable database with compensation details. The Goldwater Institute supported the bill, citing difficulty obtaining contracts through public records requests and examples of very high superintendent compensation and opaque contract terms; the Arizona School Administrators opposed the bill as singling out districts while not applying to charters or other public-dollar schools, though they said they could support it if expanded to all schools receiving public funds. Members debated whether charters are political subdivisions and whether the bill should extend to charters and ESAs, and some discussion also focused on transparency and public records access. The bill ultimately received a 4-2 do pass recommendation.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 4th, 2026

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'd love for you all to be recognized from the number one public high school in the state, average ACT
  • to have y'all here. ...to be recognized from the number one public high school in the state, average ACT
  • 19.840> average public high school in the state, average public high school in the state, average ACT
  • :02:21.800> are<00:02:21.920> firing<00:02:22.360> on<00:02:22.480> all ACT
  • Y'all are firing on all ACT score of 30.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Education Jan 28th, 2026 at 09:05 am

Senate Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Special Education Act, and monitor compliance
  • Please protect it going forward. ...but only available to a public school student when it's protected
  • Act in order to be successful adults.
  • Gifted in New Mexico deserves explicit protections, and we request that those protections be added in
  • Gifted in New Mexico deserves explicit protections, and we request that those protections be added in
Bills: SB64, SB19, SB44, SB83
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 27th, 2026 at 04:11 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • sheets, but this is giving you every single line item that you'll find in the General Appropriations Act
  • And the difference is that UNM is covered by the New Mexico Court Claims Act.
  • They're not part of the New Mexico Tort Claims Act. So there's just some disparity there.
Bills: SB37, SB29
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Jan 27th, 2026 at 09:18 am

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • And New Mexico has been a strong leader in this nationally to protect people who are purchasing coverage
  • for the Department for FY20. for the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, the CARA program for
  • Those cases, when it's a child protective services issue, I don't want to get in the CYF... landscape
  • Those cases, when it's a child protective services issue that I don't want to get in the CYF, ...and
  • it's a child protective services issue that I don't want to get in the CYFD space here because Secretary
Bills: SB37, SB29
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • I think it's probably less utilized as an act of terrorism.
  • Less likely that that's truly an act of, you know, and if you're talking about true acts of terrorism
  • To conduct some sort of act of terrorism, the more egregious acts, I should say, are going to involve
  • Going to go commit an act of terrorism or a violent act, and they provide that firearm to this person
  • Is that an act that...
Bills: HCR40, HB214, HB214
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry

Transcript Highlights:
  • I didn't look any further because once we found the 1858 Local Act or the Act of Alabama, that's determinative
  • though we contend, and I think we could prove it's a public waterway, Malls still has the right to protect
  • things, they would have the... kinds of things, they would have the right to have buffer zones or protection
Bills: HB352, HB366, SB272, SB296