Video & Transcript Research : 'continuous legislature'
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TX
Texas 89th Regular
89th Legislative Session - Second Called Session Aug 20th, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- These changes will continue to perform for the Republicans.
- And that was continuing since 2021. Understood.
- Members of the Democratic Party, let's continue.
- It's going to continue.
- They continue their representation of me.
Keywords:
district composition, congressional election, Texas, legislature, voting districts, 997, house, all
TX
Keywords:
district composition, congressional election, Texas, legislature, voting districts, 1185, senate, all
TX
Texas 89th Regular
89th Legislative Session - First Called Session Aug 11th, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- They are critical measures that would expand the powers of the Texas Legislature.
- They are critical measures that would expand the powers of the Texas Legislature.
- So far no one's home, but the search continues, and it will not stop.
Keywords:
redistricting, congressional districts, Texas Legislature, elections, 2020 Census, 997, house, all
TX
Texas 89th Regular
89th Legislative Session - First Called Session Aug 8th, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you for the wisdom and protection that our governor, our legislature, and all of our peace officers
- These efforts will continue through the weekend.
- We are continuing to explore new avenues to compel a quorum and we'll keep pressing forward until the
Keywords:
redistricting, congressional districts, Texas Legislature, elections, 2020 Census, 997, house, all
TX
Texas 89th Regular
89th Legislative Session - First Called Session Aug 5th, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We ask you to be with every member of this legislature and all the staff that helped work it together
- briefing on their efforts to locate and return the members who are actively trying to thwart. the legislature
- working to compel their attendance after I signed their civil arrest warrants yesterday and will continue
Keywords:
redistricting, congressional districts, Texas Legislature, elections, 2020 Census, 997, house, all
TX
Texas 89th Regular
89th Legislative Session - First Called Session Aug 4th, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Keywords:
redistricting, congressional districts, Texas Legislature, elections, 2020 Census, 997, house, all
TX
Texas 89th Regular
89th Legislative Session - First Called Session Aug 4th, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- If you choose to continue down this road, you should know there will be consequences.
Keywords:
redistricting, congressional districts, Texas Legislature, elections, 2020 Census, 997, house, all
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Congressional Redistricting, Select Aug 1st, 2025
Congressional Redistricting, Select
Transcript Highlights:
- We have been a part of this legislature.
- Hunter to continue his layout.
- Hunter to continue his layout.
- It is asking for the Texas Legislature to do what the Texas Legislature has always done, which is...
- Do you see that trend continuing, or is that just a blip? That's absolutely continuing.
Bills:
HB4
Keywords:
district composition, congressional election, Texas, legislature, voting districts, 997, house, all
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The Senate of the 89th legislature of the state of Texas will come to order.
- Senator [Menendez](link from function call): of the members of the Senate of the 89th Legislature, 2025
- You can continue to stand.
- He brought this understanding to the Texas legislature.
- Senator [Parker](link from function call): He brought this understanding to the Texas legislature.
Bills:
SCR7
Keywords:
legislature, adjournment, permissions, Texas Constitution, session, legislative authority, 1185, senate, all
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- But it is very important that we continue to make investments in public education in many different facets
- Public Education and School Finance, and Vice Chair Bernal, who has put in hours and hours of time to continue
- We want to make sure all of our ISDs benefit from this, and we continue to do so.
- To continue to invest in our public education, I am honored today to have several superintendents from
Keywords:
public education, HB2, teacher salaries, special education, emergent bilingual programs, Texas legislature
Summary:
The meeting primarily revolved around the discussion of HB2, which aims to increase funding for public education in Texas. Key points included enhancements to teacher salaries, special education funding, and initiatives to support emergent bilingual programs. Legislators highlighted the need for collaboration and leadership in addressing the challenges faced by public schools, noting the vital role that education plays in the state's future. Speaker Burroughs expressed confidence in achieving significant improvements for Texas students through this legislation, which has been deemed one of the most consequential bills of the session.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Apr 14th, 2025
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- They are very they are deserving of having the capability of continuing to carry.
- So for decades now, the legislature in Texas has gradually and systematically loosened our gun laws.
- Um, Cartel quantities drugs as being one of the continued first-degree felonies, first-degree felony
- The Texas legislature legislature is arming terrorist organizations, would potentially be the headline
- It does not cover continuous violence against the family.
Bills:
HB259
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Jan 21st, 2026
Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Transcript Highlights:
- But from conversations I've had, they have had no issues and so they file that continuously.
- board had a very clean audit and, from conversations he had, they have had no issues and file continuously
- But from conversations I've had, they have had no issues and so they file that continuously.
- Um, but it's for the continuance of the Alabama Board of Counseling, Board of Examiners in Counseling
Keywords:
property tax, ad valorem tax, real property assessment, assessment cap, county-wide reappraisal, CPI-U, Consumer Price Index, tax assessor, Class II property, Class III property, local government revenue, property tax relief, reappraisal, tax increment district, retroactive tax law, Alabama Code 40-7-2.2, appropriation, education funding, Southern Preparatory Academy, fiscal responsibility
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- During these unexcused absences, only during the moratorium period and during years that the Texas legislature
- By a minority faction of the Legislature.
- We should make sure the executive and all the Legislature are treated equally.
- So that's the legislative continuance.
- Continue asking them.
Bills:
HB18
Keywords:
HB 18, Texas Legislature, quorum break, quorum-busting, legislative walkout, absent legislators, political contributions, campaign finance, political expenditures, legislative caucus, specific-purpose committee, Texas Ethics Commission, civil penalty, show cause order, district court, Fifteenth Court of Appeals, session fundraising, travel lodging food expenses, legislative session, compelled attendance
Summary:
The meeting of the committee focused on the discussions surrounding HB18, which aims to prevent legislators from financially benefiting when they break quorum. Chairman Shaheen emphasized that this bill addresses the integrity of the Texas legislature and responds to constituent concerns about lawmakers being absent and raising funds simultaneously. Throughout the meeting, members discussed the implications of enforcing penalties for breaking quorum and the balance between legislative strategy and financial transparency. Various representatives expressed their views, with some supporting the bill for enhancing accountability, while others argued that it imposes unfair restrictions on a constitutional tactic historically used by minority factions.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, February 27, 2026
Labor, Health & Social Services
Transcript Highlights:
- emergency detention or continued emergency detention or continued detention.<00:19:36.559>
So - of the legislature. of the legislature.
- We'll open it up for... it's up to the will of the legislature it's up to the will of the legislature
- legislature in the last couple of years. legislature in the last couple of years.
- legislature that understands the issues. legislature that understands the issues.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, February 27, 2026
Labor, Health & Social Services
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It would require the board to submit a final report to the legislature by December 1, 2026.
- Chairman, members, we all recognize that our state has been and continues to be responsible for our foster
- That bill does not concern us in the sense that you, as the legislature, in other contexts as well, are
- The study group will provide its findings and recommendations to the legislature by December 1, 2026,
- take the risk of continuing to lose very valuable educators from the profession.
Keywords:
district composition, congressional election, Texas, legislature, voting districts, fraudulent solicitation, disaster relief, nonprofit organizations, criminal penalties, consumer protection, fraud prevention, charitable donations
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Education K-16 heard a series of higher education and K-12 bills, initially without a quorum and with several measures left pending subject to the call of the chair. Early bills included HB 1868, which would direct a study on lowering the dual-credit funding threshold for public junior colleges from 15 to 9 semester credit hours; HB 2598, which would replace statutory references to “licensed specialist in school psychology” with “school psychologist”; HB 3629, which would bar registered sex offenders from serving on independent school district boards of trustees; and HB 4361, which would require the Higher Education Coordinating Board to adopt rules for timely emergency notifications at public institutions of higher education. Each received brief sponsor explanations, no opposition testimony, and was left pending.
The committee also heard HB 4848, requiring public higher education systems to ensure at least one institution offers affordable competency-based bachelor’s degree programs in high-demand fields, and HB 1211, which would remove the age 25 deadline for former foster youth to use public college tuition waivers. HB 1211 drew extensive supportive testimony from Texas CASA, a former foster youth who benefited from the waiver, and a current student headed to medical school, all arguing the change would better match the realities faced by youth aging out of care. Members discussed the bill’s fiscal uncertainty and the argument that the waiver is an investment in workforce participation; the bill was left pending.
Later, the committee heard HB 20, creating an Applied Sciences Pathway Program to let high school students earn certificates in targeted industries such as welding, plumbing, electrical work, manufacturing, and oil and gas while in school. Industry and workforce groups strongly supported the bill as a way to address labor shortages, while Texas 2036 raised concerns about allowing applied versions of core academic courses to substitute for traditional instruction. HB 4687, which would extend governmental immunity protections to certain campus/district charter schools and adult charter high schools, also received support from a charter-school attorney who said it would align statutes with existing case law and not expand charter rights. HB 4236, as substituted, would create a study group to examine the property value study’s effect on school finance and alternative valuation methods; it was adopted as a committee substitute and left pending. The committee also heard HB 824 on civics instruction in high school government courses and HB 2243, which would create a commission on teacher job satisfaction and retention; the latter prompted debate over removing “ethnic diversity” language from the commission’s makeup. After adopting the substitute for HB 2243 by roll call, the committee recessed subject to the call of the chair.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And I had no idea that this man had been continuously in trouble.
- Are you going to continue to file suit?
- Our average on exams is continually high above this metric.
- Please let Texas medical schools continue training compassionate and competent physicians.
- So I have full respect for anybody who's continued on that pathway and has continued to want to help
Keywords:
district composition, congressional election, Texas, legislature, voting districts, fraudulent solicitation, disaster relief, nonprofit organizations, criminal penalties, consumer protection, fraud prevention, charitable donations
Summary:
The committee first took up House Bill 2853, which would allow the UT System Board of Regents to adjust the University of Texas at El Paso student union fee above the current statutory cap, subject to student approval, to help fund a new student union building. Senator Blanco explained the bill and the committee substitute, there were no questions or witnesses, public testimony was closed, and the committee adopted the substitute and left the bill pending subject to the call of the chair.
The committee then heard House Bill 610, which would limit severance payments for terminated independent school district superintendents to six months’ salary and benefits. Senator Paxton described large severance payouts and said the bill had passed the House overwhelmingly. There were no witnesses, public testimony was closed, and the bill was left pending.
A lengthy hearing followed on House Bill 4623, which would waive school district immunity in certain cases involving negligent hiring, supervision, or employment of professional school employees who commit abuse or related misconduct against students. Senator Paxton and several witnesses, including survivors and parents, argued the bill was needed to address cover-ups, delayed reporting, and repeated failures to remove dangerous employees; some members raised concerns about liability caps, litigation, and how the bill would interact with the Tort Claims Act. The committee also heard from TEA staff and employee-group witnesses who discussed possible injunctions and stronger no-hire protections. Public testimony was then closed and the bill was left pending.
Finally, the committee heard House Bill 4, an accountability and assessment bill that would restore A-F ratings, change the state testing system, and replace STAAR with shorter, more instructionally useful assessments. Senator Bettencourt explained the committee substitute, including annual ratings, limits on taxpayer-funded lawsuits, and a phased-in testing redesign with beginning, middle, and end-of-year assessments. Testimony was generally supportive from education and business groups, though some witnesses favored norm-referenced testing while others emphasized criterion-referenced, TEKS-aligned assessments; one witness noted social studies assessments were restored in the bill. The hearing concluded with additional invited testimony and no final vote reported in the transcript.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Mar 19th, 2025
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- So that still continues on three years later.
- The issue was, is there a continuing threat? Is there somebody that was working with him?
- I think a lot of them have been addressed by the legislature.
- to evolve, continue to work on I think this committee is probably well-versed in the challenges that
- That would be a good thing for him, maybe, to continue. to consider and continue to work on the challenges
Keywords:
electronic monitoring, parole supervision, law enforcement, warrant execution, public safety, handgun license, judgment evaluation, medical advisory board, application denial, gun law procedures, abandoned property, unclaimed property, disposition, handgun, driver's license, commercial driver's license, weapon carry, gun rights, Texas legislature, legislative attendance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Each one of these bills continues our work to make Texas a safer place.
- And so we had asked the legislature to reconcile the law with the needs of the victims.
- This is a continuation of that policy.
- It does a lot and it's just a continuing fight.
- May God continue to bless your life. Senator Miles: You're a very strong young lady.
Keywords:
HB 48, oilfield theft, organized theft, petroleum products, oil and gas equipment, DPS, Department of Public Safety, Texas, Railroad Commission, criminal justice, energy resources, theft prevention, organized crime, border region, El Paso, law enforcement task force, asset recovery, pipeline theft, drilling equipment, equipment theft
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- three, contributed to the residents of this state in an extraordinary way as a member of the Texas Legislature
- generations of El Paso bootmakers and ensures the city's unique contribution to Texas tradition. continue
Keywords:
Governor's Medal of Service, Texas award, state honor, public service recognition, Governor's office, Governor's award, Texas Government Code Chapter 3108, ceremonial award, honorary medal, state service award, local government retirees, private sector contributions, Texas Legislature recognition, gift acceptance, donations, grant funding, executive recognition, Texas Life Monument, human life, preservation