Video & Transcript Research : 'transparency in voting'

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AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Military and Veterans Affairs Committee Feb 26th, 2025

Military and Veterans Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • What just maintaining communication and transparency with the seven groups that came in yesterday?
  • Julius Ellsbury in Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham was the first black Alabamian killed in World War
  • The USS Alabama was restored in 1965 down in Mobile.
  • He was in the 167th Infantry Regiment during World War I, was wounded in July 1918, and died in Georgia
  • Hall served in the Army in Vietnam and came...
Bills: SB67, HB295, SB104
TX
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  • If you're in favor of the amendment, vote no on the motion to table.
  • If you're in favor of the amendment, vote no on the motion to table.
  • This is a record vote. All those in favor. Of the motion to extend time, vote aye.
  • If you're in favor of the amendment, vote no. If you are opposed, vote yes.
  • In the wake of tragedies like the one we experienced in Uvalde, transparency is not optional.
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  • Members, if you are present in the chamber, please hit your voting buttons. We're in a quorum call.
  • In the chamber, please hit your voting buttons. We're in a quorum call.
  • Roll call is now in progress. Representative Ley votes "Yea." Representative Miller votes "Yea."
  • Roll call is now in progress. Representative Erbs votes "Yea." Representative Harris votes "Yea."
  • Announce roll call in the hall. Roll call is now in progress. Members wishing to vote or...
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Speaker, I'm going to feel very comfortable in voting for something that is very clearly unconstitutional
  • I would sleep in that day, I'd come in in the afternoon.
  • The roll call is now in progress. Miller, those wishing to vote, change the vote.
  • Curbs are The vote is declared. 76 in favor, 17 against.
  • Council county a declare the vote. 90 in favor, 0 against.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 3/10/25

Elections Finance and Government Operations

Transcript Highlights:
  • > whether<00:15:25.360> it's change in in the number but whether it's change in in the
  • So that, in brief, is the bill.
  • But in all seriousness, I appreciate this, and just the idea of more transparency, and also to your point
  • America Vote Act, or HAVA.
  • reach uh you know other folks in reach uh you know other folks in government<00:46:32.960> in
Bills: HF1345, HF71, HF993, HF1943
TX
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  • And the third sheet shows the impact of House Bill 3 that was signed into law in 2019, as well as voting
  • I call it keeping whole where that on the INS side, the state is essentially keeping a hole in the INS
  • And of course, staying in their home is number one, and they are the largest voting bloc as well.
  • He has given us, the committee, his motion in writing that he supports this bill and that his vote is
  • He has left a motion in writing that he would like to be shown as voting aye for both Senate Bill 4 and
Bills: SB4, SJR2, SB 4, SJR 2
TX
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  • the birth of a child, but also in the birth of a child. not only in greater transparency in our medical
  • Thank you for your time and please vote in favor of SB406. yourself and go ahead.
  • I support this bill and intend to vote for it here and on the floor. in the floor, in the Senate rather
  • might have a primary in Texas. candidate receives 50 percent of the vote.
  • I ask you to vote in favor of this bill and push it to the full Senate for a full vote and eventual passage
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Insurance May 13th, 2026

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's given transparency. PBM pricing is notoriously opaque and non-transparent.
  • price in any way.
  • in the last eight years.
  • I believe in that.
  • So if I could applaud one thing more than anything in this bill and in others that I've seen, it is transparency
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPN-JDC, CPN, CPN, CPN Public Hearings 03-04-2026

Commerce and Consumer Protection

Transcript Highlights:
  • votes or reservations? votes or reservations?
  • Your no vote is noted. All others in the affirmative, recommendation is adopted. Thank you.
  • All others in the your no vote is noted.
  • I vote aye. Thank you very much. Nancy Casandro in support. Yes, so I'm in support.
  • in opposition, Johnny Mae Perry in support, Aubrey Green in opposition, Don Wakukawa in support, and
Bills: SB2386, SB2804, SB2852
Summary: The committees met in decision-making sessions on several bills and generally advanced them without opposition. Early actions included SB 2386, which clarifies job-posting pay disclosure requirements and lowers the small-employer exemption threshold, and SB 2804, both recommended to pass unamended. SB 2852, addressing accessibility of information and communications technology for people with disabilities in public accommodations, was also recommended to pass unamended. SB 2975 on marine life conservation districts was advanced unamended despite a noted defective effective date. The CPN committee then acted on SB 3019, a consumer protection bill, recommending passage with amendments to require refunds of certain fees upon cancellation and to defect the effective date to July 1, 2050. SB 3231 on agricultural districts, SB 2378 on housing, and SB 3062 on liquor were all recommended to pass with amendments and a defective effective date set to July 1, 2050. SB 3255, concerning cash payments and rounding guidance, was reconsidered after discussion with small business stakeholders and was also advanced with amendments. In the later regular CPN agenda, SB 2607 on landscape architect licensure drew support from the board and professional groups and was recommended to pass with board-requested amendments and a July 1, 2050 effective date. SB 2623 SD1 on pharmacy technician registration was recommended to pass with clarifying amendments from the Board of Pharmacy. SB 2396, which would create a registry for agents managing property for absentee owners and require on-island contact information for certain condo owners, received mixed testimony: supporters emphasized accountability and enforcement, while opponents from community associations raised implementation concerns and asked for further work. The committee ultimately recommended SB 2396 with amendments from the Hawaii Council of Community Associations and a July 1, 2050 effective date.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Safety Committee Mar 4th, 2026

Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • I had voted no. Coen Madison doesn't call me Senator. >> Yeah. Glory.
  • origin in order to qualify for benefits. >> I am carrying this for Senator Coleman.
  • firefighters can pick up by breathing in firefighters can pick up by breathing in the<00:07:11.440
  • <00:07:24.720> I'<00:07:24.880> I'd is appearing in firefighters.
  • I' I'd is appearing in firefighters.
TX
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  • As an example, in 2020, In 2024, we processed about 51 million transactions here in Texas, paying over
  • In the notion of transparency, it is my fear that we will create actual more confusion within the cardholder
  • By not being included in the bill, you can certainly provide the transparency that you think would put
  • in the Senate.
  • So, you know, we need help controlling and negotiating these in a competitive market and transparency
TX
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  • funds in.
  • Open and transparent government is one of the highest values we hold as Texans, reflected in Chapter
  • Way in.
  • In the notion of transparency, it is my fear that we will create actual more confusion within the cardholder
  • So, you know, we need help controlling and maintaining transparency in a competitive market.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce (Part I) Apr 3rd, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • Public notice in the county, in the county, in the county, provided to the state.
  • Open and transparent government is one of the highest values we hold as Texans, reflected in Chapter
  • Open and transparent government is one of the highest values we hold as Texans, reflected in Chapter
  • Open and transparent government is one of the highest values we hold as Texans reflected in Chapter 552
  • the numbering in the hundreds in some situations.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce met with a quorum and first took up several pending and uncontested bills. It favorably reported SB 1405, SB 1762, SB 1977, SB 2077, SB 2148, and SB 1968, and also moved SB 2321 to the local and uncontested calendar. The committee then heard SB 819, which would change how the Public Utility Commission reviews proposed utility-scale solar and related interconnection projects. The committee substitute would shift the default so interconnection is allowed unless the PUC affirmatively prohibits it within 180 days, limit denial to cases where harm substantially outweighs benefits, remove public meeting requirements, retain setback and financial assurance provisions, add optional application materials such as national security and environmental information, and restore local control over county tax abatements. The substitute was adopted and SB 819 was favorably reported to the full Senate on a 7-3 vote. The committee then took up SB 231, focused on CenterPoint’s use of large emergency generators after Hurricane Beryl. Senator King explained that the original bill was intended to prevent customers from being charged for non-mobile generators that were leased at great cost and did not match the bill’s emergency-response purpose. CenterPoint’s Jason Ryan apologized for the company’s communication failures and said the company would make customers whole through a combination of rate reductions, foregone storm-cost recovery, and a donation of the 15 large generators to ERCOT for about two years to address a San Antonio-area reliability issue, with the company absorbing the associated costs. PUC Executive Director Connie Corona said the commission could enforce the agreement through its contested-case process. Public testimony included consumer and reliability advocates, one of whom argued utility-scale microgrids should be preserved as a policy option. SB 231 was left pending. The committee also heard SB 986, which would create an alternative process for routine Public Information Act requests so local governments can make initial redactions without sending every routine exception to the Attorney General, while preserving an appeal path and training requirements. Supporters said it would reduce backlog and speed access to records; opponents argued it would shift the burden to requesters and encourage delay. The AG’s office testified that the process could improve efficiency and still fit within current timelines if used promptly. SB 986 was left pending. Finally, SB 584 was briefly laid out to require consumer reporting agencies that buy data from others to ensure the information complies with Texas law on excluded items such as bankruptcies, judgments, and tax liens, and SB 600 was heard on heir property. SB 600’s substitute would strengthen notice, require an attorney ad litem, add an heir’s bill of rights, allow settlement conferences, and require fair-market-value sales protections; supporters said it would curb predatory partition practices, while opponents warned some provisions could burden or diminish minority heirs’ property rights. SB 584 and SB 600 were left pending after testimony.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Feb 25th, 2026

Finance and Taxation Education

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  • thousand students in a whole system. thousand students in a whole system.
  • in the classroom. in the classroom.
  • I'm going to vote for it here. I'm going to vote for it on the floor.
  • I'm going to vote for it here. agree. I'm going to vote for it here.
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