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CA
Transcript Highlights:
- And we also do goods and services, and Rick Breeding in a district that provides a lot of goods and services
Committee:
Senate Rules
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Rules met to consider several items, beginning with gubernatorial appointments not required to appear. The committee approved multiple appointments on 3-2 and 5-0 votes, including members to the Board of Behavioral Sciences, the Contractors State License Board, and the Medical Board of California. Members also approved a bill referral item, a rule waiver request to suspend SR 55 for guests on the Senate floor during an adjourn-in-memory for former President Pro Tempore John Burton, and floor acknowledgment items, all by 5-0 vote.
The committee then heard the required appearance of Dina El-Tawansy for Director of the California Department of Transportation. In her opening remarks, she emphasized Caltrans’ priorities of safety, equity, climate resilience, economic prosperity, workforce development, and multimodal transportation. Senators questioned her on a range of issues, including impacts from federal and state rules affecting immigrant truck drivers, the Highway 58 truck climbing lane project, DBE reevaluation under new federal guidance, asphalt recycling and waste disposal, climate-related damage to infrastructure, and the future of transportation funding as gas tax revenue declines.
El-Tawansy said Caltrans would prioritize emergency and safety projects, continue work on the Highway 58 corridor, and help DBEs through a reevaluation process and outreach efforts. She described ongoing climate adaptation work, including vulnerability assessments, vegetation management, and corridor studies such as Route 37 and LOSSAN, and said the department is researching road user charges through pilots and national collaboration. She also discussed small-business programs, local hiring, toll lane agreement consistency, and efforts to address litter and homelessness on Caltrans property through delegated maintenance agreements and new staff positions.
After public testimony from numerous transportation, construction, local government, labor, and technology organizations in support of the nominee, the committee voted 5-0 to advance El-Tawansy’s appointment to the full Senate floor for confirmation. The meeting then adjourned.
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Mar 12th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- California is now, coincidentally, breeding aluminum-resistant bees as a result.
Summary:
The Environment, Energy, and Technology Committee met with a quorum and first took up HCR 32, a resolution on Idaho’s energy future. Representative Leavitt said the measure emphasizes baseload generation, transmission, energy sovereignty, and private property rights, citing Idaho’s reliance on imported energy and concerns about projects such as Lava Ridge and the Southwest Intertie Project North. Public testimony included support from Renewable Northwest, whose representative praised the resolution’s recognition of regional market participation, ratepayer protection, and the need for more generation and transmission, while noting that regional market access can reduce the amount of baseload generation needed. The committee then voted to send HCR 32 to the floor with a due pass recommendation.
The committee next considered H.J.M. 18, a memorial urging opposition to solar geoengineering. Representative Hostetler explained that the memorial had been revised to focus specifically on solar geoengineering rather than weather modification generally. A long line of public testimony supported the memorial, with witnesses arguing that solar geoengineering poses risks to health, agriculture, water, soil, wildlife, and property rights, and calling for Idaho to assert state sovereignty and urge federal action. Several witnesses cited federal reports, research plans, and alleged environmental and health impacts, while others described personal observations and sampling results they believed showed harmful particulates in rain or air.
One witness, a federal trial practitioner, argued that airplane trails are not merely water vapor and urged independent scientific study, while other speakers claimed links between geoengineering and infertility, neurological illness, bee decline, drought, and crop impacts. A sponsor clarified the memorial’s language in response to a question about the term “generally,” explaining it was intended to distinguish solar geoengineering from broader weather modification. After testimony ended, the committee voted to send H.J.M. 18 to the floor with a due pass recommendation and then adjourned.
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Feb 18th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- They have water and they can breed in improper conditions, bacteria.
Summary:
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee first considered House Bill 494, which would move background-check rules into statute. Representative Josh Wheeler and Department of Health and Welfare Chief of Staff Jared Larson said the change was needed to maintain access to the FBI’s national fingerprint database and to clarify who is subject to checks, without adding new categories of people. Senators questioned the bill’s reference to federal public policy and the FBI’s role, and some expressed concern about federal influence and state sovereignty. After debate, a motion to hold the bill in committee failed, and the committee voted to send HB 494 to the 14th order for possible amendment, with the intent of restoring language related to sex-offender background checks.
The committee then heard House Bill 526, which would expand Idaho’s cottage food law to allow certain time- and temperature-controlled foods to be sold directly by small entrepreneurs up to a $5,000 threshold. Representative Jeff Ehlers said the bill was meant to help startup food businesses avoid the cost of commercial kitchens and permits, while still requiring labeling and direct-to-consumer sales. Testimony from Food Northwest and public health district officials opposed the bill, warning that the foods involved carry greater foodborne illness risks, that the current cottage food labeling rules were designed for shelf-stable foods, and that the bill lacked training or safety standards. Supporters argued consumers should be able to choose and that regulation does not eliminate all risk.
After discussion, the committee voted to send HB 526 to the floor with a due pass recommendation. Several senators voiced support for small business and consumer choice, while others noted concerns about food safety and liability. The committee adjourned after announcing it would meet again the next day.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- They are, they are, they have water and they can breed in improper conditions, bacteria.
Committee:
Senate Health and Welfare
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- HB 3607 by Curry relating to the regulation of deer breeding by Parks and Wildlife Department referred
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Agriculture Feb 3rd, 2026
Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- Can we talk about the rolling stock a bit? Yes, absolutely.
- Are we talking rolling stock, the rolling stock piece? Okay, what page are we on here?
- Rolling stock starts on page 15 towards the bottom of page 15.
- But all that piece does not pertain to the rolling stock part. Okay.
- On the rolling stock, we've actually had some facilities shut down because of it.
Summary:
The Agriculture Committee first established a quorum and then went into executive session, where it voted House Bill 24-22 do pass by a vote of 18 ayes, 0 noes, and 1 present. The committee then moved into public hearing on House Bills 2713 and 2716, both sponsored by Representative Deal. HB 2713 was described as the larger agriculture tax credit package, including removal of sunsets from several existing ag-related credits and technical changes to programs such as biodiesel, meat processing, specialty crops, wood energy, and rolling stock. HB 2716 focused on the short-line rail tax credit and related rail infrastructure incentives, including track rehabilitation and industrial development credits.
Representative Deal said the bills were intended to provide long-term certainty for agriculture and rail investment and noted the programs’ positive return on investment. Committee members raised concerns about eliminating sunsets, how future legislatures would review the credits, and whether some credits could be used if Missouri moved toward eliminating income tax. Questions also focused on whether abandoned or minimally used rail lines would qualify, and on the transferability of rolling stock credits to entities with different tax liabilities. Deal and witnesses said the rail provisions were aimed at active short lines and that data on the credits’ performance could be provided.
Testimony in support came from the Missouri Corn Growers Association, Missouri Farm Bureau, Missouri Soybeans, the Biodiesel Coalition of Missouri, Missouri Dairy, Missouri Agribusiness Association, Missouri Bankers Association, Missouri Eastern Railroad, Missouri Economic Development Council, Osage Valley Electric Cooperative, and the Missouri Railroad Association. Supporters said the credits have stimulated ethanol, biodiesel, dairy, specialty crop, meat processing, and rural economic development projects, and that rail credits help preserve and expand short-line service, reduce truck traffic, and attract industrial investment. No opposition testimony was offered on either bill, and the hearings on HB 2713 and HB 2716 were adjourned without any recorded committee vote on those bills in the transcript.
WI
Wisconsin 2026 1st Special Session
Joint Committee on Finance May 12th, 2026
Joint Committee on Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- Right, because the stock market was so high, right?
- less than two weeks' notice to respond or they were going to make structural impacts to our fish stocking
- And if they can't figure out, anything but stocking on that $1.3 million of the 2.8.
- And it's very frustrating that it specifically happened in my stocking cuts happen in the state.
- We're going to grant the request, and we're going to make sure that stocking continues to take place
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Finance
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Health and Human Services Feb 4th, 2026 at 08:36 am
House Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- The barriers come from distributor limits, denied orders, inconsistent stocking, and lingering stigma
- Still, they cannot find a pharmacy that has suboxone in stock. It's a huge barrier.
- this and said that they would not stock it.
- If the only local pharmacy doesn't stock buprenorphine, patients may have no realistic way to access
- HB 137 increases pharmacy stock. What they actually dispense guarantee medication is. Thank you.
Committee:
House House Health & Human Services
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- With the amount of investment that the state has in Tesla stock, that accounts for over $400 million
- President, that any time that any elected official stands up and tries to affect the value of a stock
- , that accounts for over in Tesla stock, that accounts for over $400<00:24:41.080><c> million</c><00:
- ,</c><00:25:00.320><c> be</c> tries to affect the value of a stock, be tries to affect the value of a
- afterwards, the stock started to go<00:25:13.520><c> up.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House tax panel hears bill to expand tax incentives for producing sustainable aviation fuel 4/8/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:35:06.640><c> These</c> many as 10 different feed stocks.
- These many as 10 different feed stocks.
- ,</c> staff in Minnesota from any feed stock, staff in Minnesota from any feed stock, we<00:35:19.359
- </c><00:37:09.839><c> Um</c><00:37:10.160><c> and</c> different feed stocks come in.
- Um and different feed stocks come in.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
ECD Public Hearing - Wed Feb 12, 2025 @ 10:00 AM HST
Economic Development & Technology
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:12:35.920><c> locally</c> encouraging growing feed stocks locally encouraging growing feed stocks
- </c><00:17:00.720><c> for</c> and demolition waste as feed stocks for and demolition waste as feed stocks
- </c><00:17:28.679><c> and</c> trying to have GMO Beed stocks and trying to have GMO Beed stocks and enzymes
- </c><00:20:53.520><c> we're</c> eligible Solid Waste feed stocks we're eligible Solid Waste feed stocks
- </c><00:59:00.880><c> Renewable</c> updated renewable feed stock Renewable updated renewable feed stock
Committee:
House Economic Development & Technology
Summary:
The Committee on Economic Development and Technology heard testimony on HB 976, a measure related to incentives for renewable fuels, including renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel. Supporters said the bill would help close the cost gap between renewable and conventional fuels, strengthen Hawaii’s energy security, support climate goals, and encourage local economic development. Testifiers from Pono Pacific, PAR Hawaii, Hawaiian Electric, Hawaiian Airlines/Alaska Airlines, the Hawaii Department of Transportation, Pacific Biodiesel, Aloha Carbon, and others described ongoing or planned projects, local feedstock development, and potential benefits for agriculture, waste diversion, and emissions reductions.
Several testifiers also discussed proposed amendments. The Hawaii Renewable Fuels Coalition said it wanted to remove the import tax credit, eliminate the aggregate cap increase to avoid additional state funding, and revise local-production language to rely on a carbon-intensity threshold rather than location-based preferences. The Tax Foundation of Hawaii raised technical concerns about the bill’s administration, including prorating credits if the cap is exceeded and the feasibility of a 30-day filing window. Some supporters urged keeping solid waste, including construction and demolition debris, as eligible feedstock, while Energy Justice Network opposed that approach and also urged removing GMO-related language and waste-based feedstocks because of environmental and toxic emissions concerns.
Opposition testimony focused on the bill’s cost and feasibility. Energy Justice Network and Ted Metros argued the measure could become a large subsidy for a refinery and questioned whether Hawaii has enough land and water to produce meaningful quantities of biofuel locally. Metros also criticized the refundable credit structure and said the state should not bear the cost for what he described as a benefit largely tied to tourism and imported fuel. No vote was taken during the portion of the hearing provided; the chair later noted the committee had received 13 testimonies in support, 18 in opposition, and seven comments, and then invited further discussion on cost allocation and lowering caps to broaden participation.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- And when you put extra provisions that are already covered, now you breed conflicts with the law between
Committee:
House Housing
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- This would be stocks and bonds, something you might have in a stock account or in your retirement fund
- In the old days, you used to be given a stock certificate.
- That was your proof of ownership in a certain equity portion of the company that you bought stock in.
- As the digital age rolled around, those stock certificates, although available, were transformed into
- In the old days, you used to be given a stock certificate.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Community Affairs Dec 9th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- We have a more diverse housing stock, and I think it's sustainable as well.
- housing stock.
- But we're really not adding to that condo stock.
- So we're not seeing an additional condo stock. Also classified townhomes as condos.
- So we're not seeing an addition to that stock.
Summary:
The Committee on Community Affairs met with a quorum present and took up SB 122, which would repeal Chapter 205 on local business taxes while allowing municipalities to continue imposing a gross-receipts-based business tax on merchants. Senator Trumbull presented the bill for the sponsor, and committee members questioned what services local governments fund with local business tax revenue and whether the bill should be considered alongside broader property tax changes. County and city representatives opposed the bill, arguing that local business taxes are capped home-rule revenues used for general fund services such as public safety, zoning and licensure checks, economic development, and business support, and warning that repeal would shift costs to residential taxpayers and reduce local flexibility. Senator Shreve said he would vote no because of ongoing property tax discussions, while Senator Pizzo said he would support the bill but wanted clearer accounting of how the revenue is spent. The committee voted 5-1 to report SB 122 favorably.
The committee then held a housing panel discussion focused on Florida’s housing shortage, affordability, and supply constraints. Dr. Samuel Staley said Florida is in a housing crisis driven largely by insufficient supply, arguing that the state needs roughly 100,000 additional units per year just to keep up with in-migration and that local planning systems often do not prioritize housing enough. He urged more emphasis on measurable impacts, streamlined permitting, accessory dwelling units, smaller lot sizes, and other market-responsive tools. Ann Ray of the Shimberg Center said Florida is seeing more single-family and multifamily construction but that production is concentrated in a handful of counties, while condo construction remains limited; she also noted that rents and home prices spiked sharply in the early 2020s and remain above pre-2020 levels, with nearly 905,000 low-income renters cost-burdened. Leslie Deutsch of John Burns Research said the national housing market is slow, Florida has a severe affordability problem, and builders are lowering prices and offering incentives but still face high land, labor, materials, and insurance costs.
In committee discussion, senators focused on whether Florida should encourage more density, including townhomes, build-to-rent products, modular housing, and redevelopment of existing sites rather than relying on large new subdivisions. Members also discussed the role of local zoning, impact fees, density bonuses, and state incentives tied to housing targets. Several senators said Florida’s growth and affordability challenges require updating land development codes and planning for where future residents will live without overbuilding rural or environmentally sensitive areas. The chair closed by emphasizing that density can support affordability and that Florida should use existing footprints more efficiently.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Legislative Session Day 53 (3-25-26)
Kentucky House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Agriculture Committee has met and reports Senate Bill 37 should pass, an act designating the state dog breed
- </c><00:08:42.640><c> the</c><00:08:42.880><c> state</c><00:08:43.280><c> dog</c><00:08:43.599><c> breed
- </c> act designating the state dog breed. act designating the state dog breed.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 03/24/26
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- Secrecy breeds distrust.
- Secrecy<00:33:02.040><c> breeds</c><00:33:02.440><c> distrust.
- 03.080><c> And</c><00:33:03.240><c> so,</c><00:33:03.400><c> if</c><00:33:03.520><c> we</c> Secrecy breeds
- And so, if we Secrecy breeds distrust.
Committee:
Senate State and Local Government
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- And secondly, we don't want mosquitoes to start breeding in there.
- secondly, we don't want mosquitoes to secondly, we don't want mosquitoes to start<01:09:14.480><c> breeding
- 15.839><c> Um</c><01:09:16.120><c> so,</c><01:09:16.600><c> we</c><01:09:16.720><c> just</c> start breeding
- Um so, we just start breeding in there.
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Government Operations held an informational briefing with the State Procurement Office on its small business procurement program. SPO staff described the program’s purpose as expanding access to state contracting for small businesses, including veteran-, Native Hawaiian-, and women-owned firms, and said they are seeking to make the current five-year initiative permanent before it ends in June 2027. They reported outreach efforts, a new website and newsletter, statewide surveys, draft administrative rules, and a 38% increase in small business registrations in the HANS database. They also explained that the program is intended to support outreach, education, certification, compliance, and a statewide database to connect agencies with qualified small businesses.
Committee members focused heavily on whether the program is producing measurable contract awards, not just registrations. The chair and senators questioned the definition of “small business,” noting that SPO currently relies on SBA standards in HANS and is considering a Hawaii-specific definition based on employees, revenue, and Hawaii residency. Members raised concerns that the data showed only a small number of registered businesses receiving awards and that the database does not yet track awards well enough to evaluate performance. SPO responded that the database has had funding gaps, that the position was only filled in February 2025, and that the agency is still building the system and rules needed to track outcomes accurately.
A major theme was how to make the program more effective for very small or “micro” businesses and how to reduce the complexity of state procurement. Members discussed the difference between set-asides and bid preferences, with SPO explaining that set-asides are generally tied to RFPs and preferences to IFBs. The committee suggested that future rules should make participation easier, provide more training and hand-holding, and possibly create pathways for micro businesses or groups of small businesses to bid together. No votes or formal actions were taken; the briefing ended with the committee asking SPO to provide more performance data and clearer information on outreach results and database contents.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House higher education panel questions U of M representatives about award 1/23/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- about police officers and what they said, spreading false information to defame police officers and breed
- defame police false information to defame police officers<01:10:37.239><c> and</c><01:10:37.520><c> breed
- </c> officers and breed officers and breed distrust<01:10:40.360><c> August</c><01:10:40.679><c> 7th<
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
JLCAR Administrative Rules (01/16/2026)
Transcript Highlights:
- And so, I thought it should be upon request, they shall submit the most recent stock report.
- And it's a stocks report. >> It's a lot 7212.03 C. >> Who made the motion?
- And so, I thought it should be upon request, they shall submit the most recent stock report.
- And it's a stocks report. >> It's a lot 7212.03 C. >> 99 in the packet or 99 on the numbered pages. >
- And it's a stocks report. mistaken. And it's a stocks report.
Summary:
The committee first adopted the minutes and then approved the consent calendar, with one item removed for separate consideration. On the regular calendar, the Department of Agriculture rule item 25207 drew concern because it involved adopting rules that had expired years earlier, and the agency was not present to answer questions. A motion was made and approved to grant a waiver and postpone that item until next month.
The removed lottery item was then taken up with representatives from the New Hampshire Lottery and Gaming Commission present. The discussion focused on a reporting requirement that operators said could be burdensome if required on a regular basis. The committee agreed to revise the language so the report would be provided only upon request, rather than annually, with the agency clarifying that the request would likely arise during an audit and that the report should be the most recent stock report.
After the verbal edits were agreed to, a motion for conditional approval of the lottery rule was made and seconded, and the committee approved it unanimously. No other business was raised, and the meeting adjourned.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- So, the fund, the $2.3 billion, is entirely stocks and bonds and some cash.
- Right now, that's 50% stocks, 48% bonds, and 2% cash.
- as we have had 3 years of downturn in a stock market situation.
- </c> downturn in a stock market uh situation. downturn in a stock market uh situation.
- So, if the stock the market environment.
Committee:
Senate Finance