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WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Care & Wellness Jan 30th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Health Care & Wellness
Transcript Highlights:
- So the authority is granted to the department to go forth and write these rules, but before they write
- So I guess I would say if this is of interest, do the study first before you grant the authority to go
- So the authority is granted to the department to go forth and write these rules, but before they write
- So I guess I would say if this is of interest, do the study first before you grant the authority to go
- It authorizes nurses to delegate tasks to a credentialed medical assistant.
Committee:
House Health Care & Wellness
Keywords:
healthcare, patients, cardiovascular procedures, outpatient services, surgical facilities, HB2613, compounded medications, compounded drugs, pharmacy compounding, bulk drug substances, active pharmaceutical ingredients, API, drug safety, patient safety, pharmacy license, Washington pharmacy law, RCW 18.64, Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, FDA, pharmaceutical compounding
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Current law allows local authorities to regulate sound through permitting systems, fees, and local ordinances
- For small business owners, HB2625 maintains local enforcement authority while providing a clear and consistent
- in Texas, though we may not always agree on how to allocate the money that we have passed in our budget
Bills:
HB246 , HB796 , HB 1056 , HB1544 , HB1846 , HB2001 , HB2618 , HB2625 , HB2869 , HB2898 , HB3069 , HB3114 , HB3157 , HB3228 , HJR98 , HB246
Committee:
House State Affairs
Keywords:
federal directives, state authority, Tenth Amendment, government enforcement, local governance, gold standard, legal tender, currency, transactional currency, financial transactions, electronic payment systems, state finance, regulatory compliance, electric trucks, charging infrastructure, advisory council, transportation, sustainability, criminal penalties, official information
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I work with stakeholders to Author a writer in the state budget to create a task force to study the growth
- Author, Mr. Garren. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
- So as I covered with the bill author...
- Members, any other questions for the author?
- However, there's no constitutional authority.
Bills:
HB246 , HB796 , HB 1056 , HB1544 , HB1846 , HB2001 , HB2618 , HB2625 , HB2869 , HB2898 , HB3069 , HB3114 , HB3157 , HB3228 , HJR98 , HB246
Committee:
House State Affairs
Keywords:
federal directives, state authority, Tenth Amendment, government enforcement, local governance, gold standard, legal tender, currency, transactional currency, financial transactions, electronic payment systems, state finance, regulatory compliance, electric trucks, charging infrastructure, advisory council, transportation, sustainability, criminal penalties, official information
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Military and Veterans Affairs Committee Feb 26th, 2025
Military and Veterans Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- The budget actually comes from...
- That may probably be $100 million in the budget, but still, the board will have say over the money allocated
- Both the commissioner and the board have decision-making authority, and we cannot have it competing.
Committee:
House Military and Veterans Affairs
Keywords:
veterans affairs, Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs, State Board of Veterans Affairs, commissioner, Governor appointment, oversight board, veterans services, veterans benefits, state veterans homes, veterans cemeteries, Alabama Veterans Home Trust Fund, veteran service officers, district managers, assistant commissioners, county veterans offices, military veterans, disabled veterans, elderly veterans, veterans organizations, American Legion
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/5/26
State Government Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- And to the author, is there a fiscal note that's been requested for this?
- </c><00:30:09.840><c> might</c> amount that you uh some author might amount that you uh some author might
- Um I my question is from a author.
- </c> author, a bevy of anecdotal information. author, a bevy of anecdotal information.
- And this makes the withholding authority permanent.
Committee:
House State Government Finance and Policy
Keywords:
civil rights, law enforcement, federal collaboration, accountability, state law, immigration enforcement, economic impact, Operation Metro Surge, study, appropriation, local government, Legislative Commission on Legislative Security, legislator security, elected official security, staff security, statehouse security, capitol security, legislative district safety, political violence prevention, threat assessment
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/10/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology
Appropriations, Transportation and Technology
Transcript Highlights:
- We know that we have unassigned authorizations out there today.
- An unassigned authorization means the individual has been authorized for service, but the service hasn't
- There is a refund process in place today for the Pinal Regional Transportation Authority.
- Giving the state the same authority that counties already have.
- Bad budgeting. I'm not going to go into those at this late hour. This is a bad budgeting issue.
Bills:
SB1072 , SB1111 , SB1114 , SB1116 , SB1122 , SB1179 , SB1250 , SB1308 , SB1455 , SB1456 , SB1457 , SB1487 , SB1547 , SB1549 , SB1551 , SB1552
Keywords:
reimbursement rates, intellectual disabilities, community services, economic security, funding appropriations, automated license plate readers, law enforcement, privacy, data access, public records, behavioral health, patient brokering, appropriation, state funds, Maricopa County, claims review, medical necessity, American Indian health program, healthcare regulations, healthcare
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- .<00:01:34.479><c> It</c><00:01:34.720><c> authorizes</c><00:01:35.200><c> the</c> authorization.
- It authorizes the authorization.
- It authorizes fund transfers between the mixed-income subaccount without legislative approval, authorizes
- </c><00:08:22.800><c> authorizes</c> without legislative approval. authorizes without legislative approval
- </c><00:19:00.640><c> to</c> already have the legal authority to already have the legal authority to
Committee:
Senate Housing
Keywords:
rental housing revolving fund, HHFDC, Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, mixed-income housing, mixed-income rental project, affordable housing, low-income housing, housing finance, housing development, preservation, rehabilitation, pre-development, construction financing, equity investment, credit enhancement, collateral, gap financing, area median income, AMI, perpetual affordability
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Postsecondary Education & Workforce Jan 27th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Postsecondary Education & Workforce
Transcript Highlights:
- I was able to do some significant work in the budget.
- We were able to get in the budget a request for the IRS to make a declaration that this would not throw
- I apologize if you already said this, but I know our state's in a budget shortfall, facing challenging
- Apologize if you already said this, but I know our state's in a budget shortfall, facing challenging
- In a difficult budget environment, we do appreciate Representative Bergquist's outreach to WASAC over
Bills:
HB2438 , HB2422 , HB2525 , HB2586 , HB2337 , HB2311 , HB2286 , HB2324 , HB2363 , HB2098 , HB2088
Committee:
House Postsecondary Education & Workforce
Keywords:
education, scholarship, early childhood, funding, higher education, early education, support, degree seekers, private security, security guard, armed security guard, security company, licensing fees, license renewal, endorsement fee, fingerprints, background check, workforce retention, low-wage workers, public safety
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill would simply give the appraisal review board the authority if a house is sold for 10% below
- Uh, that being said, I did speak with the author this morning, uh, right before this hearing and has
- just want to basically make sure that people are getting involved with the process and have the authority
- education as a means to better understand the constitutional and statutory roles, responsibilities, authorities
- Do they, is that just absorbed into your existing budget? Do you charge them something?
Committee:
House S/C on Property Tax Appraisals
Keywords:
residential property, ad valorem tax, leasing, property appraisal, fair market rent, housing affordability, appraised value, tax limitation, housing market, affordable housing, leased residential real property, rent control, Texas Tax Code, property tax, residential leasing, homestead, tax code, appraisal review board, real estate sales, property tax relief
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Feb 19th, 2025
Ways and Means General Fund
Transcript Highlights:
- ...whether it be Domestic Relations or a custody court, as long as a judge has discretion or has authority
- takes you to court for not paying child support or custody or divorce court, anytime that judge has authority
- That's a little over $3 million in the budget, and so we took into consideration their daily activities
Committee:
House Ways and Means General Fund
Keywords:
judicial compensation, salary increase, court system, Alabama legislation, judges, HB187, court fees, docket fee, sheriff's fund, sheriff's office, jail operations, law enforcement, county sheriff, court filing fees, Alabama Code 12-19-312, solicitor's fund, clerk's fund, forensic services trust fund, budget flexibility, public safety
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The legislation... ...and also grants the PUC authority to adopt rules necessary to implement the policy
- I would also note that the federal authorities have considered this as well, when FERC ordered 19-20,
- The state does not have that authority. Thank you for answering my question. Mr.
- We're neutral on the bill because we believe we've worked out an accommodation with the author regarding
- So what this bill's author is trying to do, I think, is trying to balance that.
Bills:
HB551 , HB 1281 , HB1378 , HB1617 , HB2868 , HB2881 , HB3374 , HB4439 , HB4726 , HB4732 , HB4878 , HB4914 , HB4921 , HB4958 , HB5200 , HB5318 , HB5360 , HB5402 , HB5568 , HB5573 , HB5623 , HJR218
Committee:
House State Affairs
Keywords:
political contributions, address privacy, Texas Ethics Commission, election transparency, campaign finance, international organizations, World Health Organization, jurisdiction, state law, enforcement, United Nations, World Economic Forum, attorney general, Texas attorney general, state sovereignty, legal enforcement, Texas Attorney General, electric energy storage, municipal regulation, county regulation
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Have you been able to give some of your feedback to the bill author?
- I am testifying neutral as we continue to work with the bill author.
- We've been working closely with the author and his staff.
- Federal authority was far different than it is today.
- Authority in areas that historically the office has never had authority in.
Bills:
HB551 , HB 1281 , HB1378 , HB1617 , HB2868 , HB2881 , HB3374 , HB4439 , HB4726 , HB4732 , HB4878 , HB4914 , HB4921 , HB4958 , HB5200 , HB5318 , HB5360 , HB5402 , HB5568 , HB5573 , HB5623 , HJR218
Committee:
House State Affairs
Keywords:
political contributions, address privacy, Texas Ethics Commission, election transparency, campaign finance, international organizations, World Health Organization, jurisdiction, state law, enforcement, United Nations, World Economic Forum, attorney general, Texas attorney general, state sovereignty, legal enforcement, Texas Attorney General, electric energy storage, municipal regulation, county regulation
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- of this new authority.
- This bill authorizes trained EMS medical directors and paramedics they delegate the authority to initiate
- You've got no authority, and we're giving civilians this authority to do that.
- So it doesn't, it does. authorize the same authority.
- So they kind of have that authority to a degree, it's just not authorized explicitly.
Bills:
HB3772 , HB1656 , HB4504 , HB1896 , HB4420 , HB4421 , HB4076 , HB3708 , HB2806 , HB3540 , HB1586 , HB5459 , HB4553 , HB4535 , HB3811 , HB3749 , HB4255 , HB4051 , HB5098 , HB3554 , HB4539 , HB5274
Committee:
House Public Health
Keywords:
e-cigarettes, health and safety, regulations, directory, penalties, regulation, certification, compliance, manufacturers, FDA, nicotine, mental health, emergency detention, paramedic authority, mental illness, healthcare facility, public health, covenants not to compete, health care practitioners, physicians
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- of a physician who would also be authorized in this case.
- When we delegate that authority to... To another professional.
- That authority, the prescriptive authority, to a PA or an APRN, part of that is ensuring adequate supervision
- And again, I would encourage you to work with the bill author.
- at that point they are acting under the delegation authority.
Bills:
HB3772 , HB1656 , HB4504 , HB1896 , HB4420 , HB4421 , HB4076 , HB3708 , HB2806 , HB3540 , HB1586 , HB5459 , HB4553 , HB4535 , HB3811 , HB3749 , HB4255 , HB4051 , HB5098 , HB3554 , HB4539 , HB5274
Committee:
House Public Health
Keywords:
e-cigarettes, health and safety, regulations, directory, penalties, regulation, certification, compliance, manufacturers, FDA, nicotine, mental health, emergency detention, paramedic authority, mental illness, healthcare facility, public health, covenants not to compete, health care practitioners, physicians
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- But their budget and the nine collections on some of the IPT, the insurance premium tax funds, have not
- kept up with what their budget needs.
- Their budget hasn't. So this makes an adjustment in the IPT. ...raised since 1999.
- Their budget hasn't.
Committee:
House Appropriations
Keywords:
HB 290, Act 426, sunset law, Department of the Treasury, Louisiana Treasury, re-creation, reauthorization, statutory entities, termination date, sunset review, Title 49, fiscal administration, state finance, agency continuation, legislative authority, insurance premiums, Municipal Fire and Police, dedicated fund, assessments, Louisiana legislation
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- authority is clear.
- </c> fiscal impact and this is budget fiscal impact and this is budget neutral.<00:56:55.680><c> And<
- These have no impact on the state budget. These are budget neutral.
- These are budget on the state budget.
- author? author?
Committee:
House Energy Finance and Policy
Keywords:
climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, financing, sustainability, environmental policy, renewable energy, Minnesota Climate Innovation Financing Authority, earned incentive release credit, release credits, supervised release, corrections, Minnesota Department of Corrections, sentence reduction, good time, prison time, incarceration, violent offenses, murder, criminal sexual conduct, sex offenses
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm trying to get the authors to come over here, but we're going to start with one now.
- CCI is all the entities with eminent domain authority except TxDOT in the state of Texas.
- That includes private and public entities with eminent domain authority, which includes things like cities
- compensation for one of the power lines coming through his place, and he felt like in the end he had no authority
- This document doesn’t have any legal authority to it.
Committee:
House Land & Resource Management
Keywords:
impact fee, moratorium, local government, Texas legislation, infrastructure funding, municipal utility district, eminent domain, bonds, assessments, infrastructure, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Harris County, Municipal Utility District, territory exclusion, debt service taxes, property taxation, condemnation, property acquisition, real property, appraisal reports
IA
Committee:
Joint Appropriations
Keywords:
federal funding, block grants, substance abuse, mental health, community services, energy assistance, city regulations, foster care, adoption services, chemical dependency, reimbursement, human trafficking, juvenile protection, child exploitation, restitution, stakeholder meeting, victim support, legal reform, health services, dependent adult abuse
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Committee Apr 9th, 2025
Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure
Keywords:
underground damage prevention, one-call notification system, utility locating, excavation safety, dig safe, call before you dig, utility lines, underground utilities, pipeline safety, gas pipeline, electric utility, telecommunications, water utility, wastewater, cable television, locate request, premark, tolerance zone, positive response, contract locator
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee Apr 2nd, 2025
Education Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Education Without conditions, this bill would authorize the state superintendent to summon witnesses
- There are a lot of state agencies that have this authority, but we don't have the authority, obviously
- We don't have the authority, obviously.
- As you know, we spent millions of dollars on the Montgomery intervention out of our budget.
- funds for the purpose of securing earmarks from the federal... securing earmarks from the federal budget
Committee:
Senate Education Policy
Keywords:
school safety, local law enforcement, superintendent, complaints, school bus regulations, National Signing Day, athletic scholarships, military enlistment, postsecondary education, apprenticeship programs, high school students, educational commitments, education intervention, State Superintendent, local boards, provisional release, subpoena authority, compliance, educational operation control, fundraising