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AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 24th, 2026

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • It is a small, fine boundary. >> That is correct. >> Downtown tourism, but it is within the city limits
  • cities without compensation. cities without compensation.
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  • <00:18:32.799> of >> but it is within the city limits of >> but it is within the
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Bills: SB298, SB91
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Workforce Mar 25th, 2025

S/C on Workforce

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chair lays out HB 673 relating to the eligibility of first responders for workers' compensation benefits
  • Chair lays out HB 673 relating to the eligibility of first responders for workers' compensation benefits
  • For this reason, there are various presumptions under a state workers' compensation system specifically
  • Gomez has not placed any specific limitations or parameters other than geographical location, so that
  • Current law requires workers' compensation dispute proceedings to be conducted within 75 miles of the
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Revenue Committee, February 19, 2026

Revenue

Transcript Highlights:
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  • It's very limited there as well.
  • So it just it limited there as well.
Bills: HB0101, HB0062, HB0109
VA
Transcript Highlights:
  • We are calling the meeting of the Commission on Unemployment Compensation to order.
  • It has been moved and seconded that the Commission on Unemployment Compensation elect Delegate Destiny
  • It has been moved and seconded that the Commission on Unemployment Compensation elect delegate Destiny
  • In Chapter 33 of Title 30, it establishes the Commission on Unemployment Compensation.
  • It establishes the Commission on Unemployment Compensation, and I'll take a brief moment to go through
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/16/2026 - Senate Finance

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • So the $10,000 loan amount that is, again, the limit, was set in 1980, correct?
  • We view this measure and its companion bill as very limited in scope.
  • The proposal creates unequal treatment among landowners and limits routine assessment practices.
  • The proposal creates unequal treatment among landowners and limits routine assessment practices.
  • In short, this measure weakens uniform administrative or property tax law, creates inequities, and limits
Summary: The Senate Finance Committee approved committee amendments and then heard a series of bills covering consumer lending, health insurance, chiropractic practice, breast cancer screening, insurance claim practices, digital assets, vaccination-based reimbursement, agricultural property inspections, and aviation tax exemptions. Testimony generally split between sponsors and industry or advocacy supporters emphasizing modernization, consumer access, or fairness, and opponents raising concerns about higher costs, tax breaks for wealthy interests, or unclear policy changes. Several bills drew detailed debate over whether they would help consumers or shift costs, and multiple witnesses described personal or industry experiences in support of the health-related measures. SB 1689, which would raise consumer loan thresholds and change interest-rate tiers, was amended but failed on a tied vote after Senator Epstein opposed it as shifting costs to smaller borrowers. SB 1347, requiring coverage for fertility preservation for cancer patients, was amended and passed 4-2 after testimony from the sponsor, a nonprofit representative, and two cancer survivors. SB 1165, eliminating cost-sharing for diagnostic and supplemental breast exams, was amended and passed 5-1. SB 1206, updating rules for public adjusters and contractors after loss events, was amended and passed 5-1. SB 1649, creating a digital assets strategic reserve fund, passed 4-2 despite criticism that it was unnecessary and pro-crypto. SB 1212, barring different reimbursement rates based on vaccination status, passed 4-2. SB 1291, limiting county assessors’ ability to reclassify or inspect agricultural property for four years after a successful appeal, was amended to allow inspections if taxable improvements are made and passed 5-1 over assessor opposition. SB 1516, expanding aviation-related tax exemptions to more aircraft maintenance and repair property, passed 4-1 after supporters framed it as economic development and opponents called it a tax break for private jets. SB 1554, updating chiropractic language from “x-ray” to “diagnostic imaging,” initially failed, was reconsidered after additional questioning, and then passed 3-2 after members said the change mainly codified current practice and reduced liability concerns.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Jan 14th, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, Senate Bill 7010 is the Roth Contribution Plan deferred compensation program.
  • Federal tax law allows deferred compensation plans to offer both pre-tax contributions and post-tax Roth
  • Current state law limits the state and local administrative deferred compensation plans to only a pre-tax
  • governmental entities for local plans to allow post-tax contribution and their prospective deferred compensation
Bills: S7010
Summary: The Senate Committee on Appropriations met to take up SB 7010 by Senator Mayfield, which would authorize Roth post-tax contribution options in state and local deferred compensation plans. The bill was briefly explained, received one appearance in support, had no debate, and was reported favorably by roll call vote. The committee then heard a lengthy presentation from the Governor’s Office of Policy and Budget on the governor’s recommended $117.4 billion “Floridians’ First Budget.” The presentation highlighted major spending areas including education, health care, public safety, transportation, environmental restoration, and economic development. Key proposals included increased FEFP funding for K-12 schools, teacher salary funding, higher education support, Everglades and water quality funding, emergency preparedness reserves, corrections staffing and pay increases, law enforcement recruitment bonuses, cybersecurity, and affordable housing and infrastructure investments. Members asked extensive questions about property tax reserve planning, litigation funding, emergency response fund balances and expenditures, the use of federal reimbursement for the Everglades detention facilities, the animal abuse hotline, Hope Florida, corrections staffing, and the proposed reduction in ADAP eligibility for HIV/AIDS medication assistance. A member of the public also testified at length about concerns that the ADAP changes would harm access to life-saving medications and alleged improper shifting of program funds. Committee members and the presenter acknowledged follow-up questions on several items, but no additional votes or formal actions were taken beyond the favorable report on SB 7010 and adjournment.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Border Security Apr 15th, 2025

Border Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • As you may recall, the Landowner's Compensation Program was established by Senate Bill 1133 last session
  • Instead, a lessee can file the claim, but compensation goes to the landowner.
  • The lessee may never see the compensation necessary to fix the damage.
  • Instead, a lessee can file the claim, but compensation goes to the landowner.
  • The lessee may never see the compensation necessary to fix the damage.
Bills: SB2601
Summary: The Senate Committee on Border Security met with a quorum and heard only one bill, Senate Bill 2601 by Senator Blanco, laid out by Senator Hinojosa of Hidalgo. The bill was presented as a committee substitute to revise the Landowner’s Compensation Program created last session under SB 1133. The changes would expand eligibility to include land lessees with the landowner’s permission, cover damage to the land itself as well as structures and real property, add continuous smuggling of persons as a qualifying border crime, prohibit insurers from using claims under the program in rate calculations, and require law enforcement to provide requested border crime reports to the Attorney General within 14 days. Public testimony was unanimously supportive. Charles Maley of the South Texans Property Rights Association said the program has been beneficial and that the bill helps clean up implementation issues, including clarifying compensation for debris and pollutants left on land. Stephen Diebel of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association also supported the bill, saying it would help address fence damage, destroyed infrastructure, and other harms along the border, and that lessees who manage properties day to day should be eligible for direct compensation when they have the landowner’s permission. Members discussed border-related property damage, including vehicles crashing through fences, broken sheds, livestock escaping, and resulting highway hazards. Senator Hinojosa asked about how conflicts between landowners and lessees would be handled, and testimony indicated documentation of lease authority would be required. After public testimony closed, the committee adopted the committee substitute without objection and voted to report SB 2601 favorably to the full Senate by a 5-0 vote, recommending it as local and uncontested.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/11/2026 - Senate Education

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • department is balancing the tremendous growth of the ESA program, 100,000 students, while simultaneously limiting
  • Okay, um, Bobby Bravo, gosh, this is a serious... and we're gonna now limit the comments to two minutes
  • The bill undermines administrators by limiting their professional judgment and ignores a reality that
Summary: The Senate Education Committee heard a presentation from Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne focused on school safety, academic improvement, career and technical education, ESA oversight, and teacher pay. Horne argued that students cannot learn without safe schools and urged more funding for school police officers, citing threats and violent incidents. He also highlighted Project Momentum, tutoring, attendance, classroom phone restrictions, the Student Industry Partnership, expanded ESA participation, and his call to use Proposition 123 land trust funds for direct teacher raises. In response to a question, he said the department is using AI tools, residency checks, and investigators to reduce ESA fraud and abuse. The committee then considered SB 1074, which would require written certification from a principal or administrator before a student removed for discipline could return to class. Horne and the sponsor said the bill would support teachers and hold administrators accountable, while opponents from the Arizona Education Association argued it was redundant, could undermine administrator judgment and FERPA-protected information, and would not address the root causes of classroom disruption. The bill passed 4-3. The committee also heard SB 1327, as amended by a strike-everything amendment requiring Arizona public universities to adopt and report on research security policies to protect against foreign adversary threats and preserve federal funding eligibility. Support came from the sponsor, State Armor, and the Arizona Board of Regents, and the amended bill passed 5-2. Members next approved SB 1475, which bars students convicted of, or admitting to, certain serious offenses from participating in school-sponsored interscholastic activities, with some discussion about rehabilitation, school discretion, and whether a readmittance process should exist. Supporters said the measure was needed for accountability and uniformity after a particularly egregious case; opponents warned it could remove an important rehabilitative outlet. The bill passed 4-3. The committee then advanced SB 1582 and SB 1583, both related to school safety interoperability funding and technical corrections; SB 1582 passed 4-2, and SB 1583, as amended, passed 4-2. Finally, SB 1598, which appropriates $500,000 for school and community gardens, passed unanimously 5-0 after testimony that gardens serve as hands-on learning spaces and supportive environments for students.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Baldwin County Legislation Committee Jan 20th, 2026

Baldwin County Legislation

OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Revenue and Taxation Feb 16th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Revenue and Taxation

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill simply gives Oklahoma state retirement systems the option, not a requirement, to consider limited
  • bill includes clear guardrails, and investments must be made through federally regulated products, limited
  • The limit is 500 billion in market cap, and so currently, there's only one that would actually qualify
  • only be able to invest in those that have a 500 billion dollar market cap, which at this time would limit
  • Just because it's May instead of Shia and there's some limits on it.