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TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • content and sexual performance.
  • or way to commit obscenity in the obscenity statute, were you here listening to her testimony.
  • Pornography is a form of obscenity, but obscenity encompasses a much wider range of materials.
  • While federal law strictly prohibits distributing obscene content to minors, Texas has created a shield
  • The Texas Penal Code currently contains a loophole in which obscene and harmful content can be shown
Bills: SB20, SB1621, SB412, SB441, SB442
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/26

Transportation Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • House File 3241 updates the language to read 'display of electronic content.'
  • There is much more video content and other types of interaction that are not necessarily classified as
  • texting and messaging that is taking place, but significant increases in engagement with virtual content
  • amount of engagement with<00:33:33.600> this<00:33:33.919> virtual<00:33:34.480> content
  • He asked whether prescription glasses that Bluetooth to a phone and play content would also be covered
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Civil Judiciary Feb 12th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Civil Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 1016 addresses content creation, which is a relatively new but rapidly growing industry.
  • There are many content creators that are featuring minors in that content.
  • Oklahoma does not have any protections for minors in online content or in film.
  • It provides definitions for content creation, a content creator on an online platform.
OK
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Culture, Recreation & Tourism Apr 23rd, 2025

Culture, Recreation & Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • is not required to act on any grant application and may deny applications because of inappropriate content
  • or content that portrays Texas or Texans in a negative fashion.
  • This stage also includes a script and content review.
  • If the audit is in compliance, the Film Commission then conducts a final content review to ensure that
KY
Summary: The Medicaid Oversight Board meeting opened with quorum, approval of the March 9 and March 16, 2026 minutes, and a welcome to new member Representative Willner. The board then heard a presentation from the Department of Medicaid Services on several statutory reports: the quarterly budget analysis (LRC) report, the quarterly MCO report, the provider tax and assessment report, the enrollee demographic report, the annual behavioral health/substance use disorder utilization report, and the Medicaid pharmaceutical rebate fund. Commissioner Lisa Lee and CFO Steve Bechal explained the reports and answered questions. On spending, DMS said the quarterly budget analysis report should be read using the summary tabs because the first tab reflects only traditional Medicaid and does not include all populations. Lee said the first three quarters of fiscal year 2026 showed about $191 million more in waiver spending than the same period last year, about $250 million more in other categories such as nursing facilities, CCBHCs, and FQHCs, and roughly $450 million more in total fee-for-service spending. She also noted that Medicare Part D premiums are 100% state funds and estimated the state-fund increase at about $140 million. For managed care, DMS said pharmacy, inpatient hospital, and outpatient hospital spending made up about 66% of MCO payments so far this fiscal year. Members asked about administrative costs, provider tax impacts, citizenship-status categories, medical loss ratio, and whether the reports could be expanded to show recoupments and citizenship-based spending. DMS clarified that the spending figures discussed were benefit costs only, not administrative costs, and said administrative match rates vary. On the provider tax and directed payments report, Lee said the new CMS proposed rule would allow separate payment terms to continue through the grandfathering period, but that the impact would be substantial for providers even if the administrative effect was minimal. She also said DMS was still reviewing unusual citizenship categories such as “other” and “unspecified,” and would provide more information on medical loss ratio and recoupments if available. Auditor Ball raised concerns about alleged waste, duplicate Social Security numbers, ineligible enrollees, and high error rates in other programs. Lee responded that Medicaid focuses on fraud, waste, and abuse, but said the cited $800 million figure was not factual because it did not account for people enrolled in more than one Medicaid program at the same time. She said DMS is reviewing eligibility systems, including changes tied to community engagement requirements, and is working with the cabinet’s eligibility staff and ombudsman division on error rates. No additional votes or formal actions were taken beyond approving the minutes.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education Oversight Feb 25th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Education Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • I've had, if you've noticed, I first had this written around obscene material, and we switched that when
  • the obscene material was very difficult to write around.
  • colleges in the state of Oklahoma, they can rest assured that they will be graded only on their academic content
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development May 21st, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • By technology, a program that mimics human behavior and content presents serious negative implications
  • This will also include restrictions on algorithms to show or promote content on the digital service.
  • The algorithm might see that, and they'll send you more content like that.
  • . ...So that's the tool that's used by platforms to be able to determine what is harmful content and
  • For, you know, political content.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/04/2026 - House Judiciary

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • regulation of kratom by treating several synthetically derived compounds as narcotic drugs, capping content
  • and making it a class 3 misdemeanor to prepare, transport, or sell kratom products that exceed the content
  • following directions are always given to me when I do these shows: Please keep sexually explicit content
  • false conflation of two distinct things: drag and sexually explicit material, also known as adult content
  • conflation of two distinct things, of drag and a sexually explicit material, also known as adult content
Summary: The committee first heard HB 2415, which would tighten Arizona’s regulation of kratom by treating synthetic or highly concentrated 7-OH products as narcotic drugs, raising the legal sale age to 21, and imposing criminal penalties for prohibited sales or preparation. Supporters, including the sponsor, a recovering user, the American Kratom Association, and the Attorney General’s Office, argued the bill targets dangerous synthetic products while preserving natural kratom leaf products. Opponents, including the Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice, warned the amendment could sweep in users and create harsh felony penalties for possession. The committee adopted the Wynn amendment and then gave HB 2415 as amended a 6-3 do-pass recommendation. The committee then considered HB 2870, which would bar multiple Level 2 or Level 3 registered sex offenders from living together in the same residence unless they are related by blood, marriage, or adoption. The sponsor and neighborhood witnesses described a local home with six or seven offenders and said the arrangement frightened nearby families and children. Opponents argued the bill would destabilize housing for people on probation, increase homelessness, and interfere with supervision and rehabilitation; some also noted existing probation oversight and low sexual recidivism rates. After debate over whether the bill should instead target only certain housing settings, the committee voted 5-4 to give HB 2870 a do-pass recommendation. Next, HB 2413 was heard, requiring GPS or electronic monitoring for registered sex offenders who do not have a fixed address until one is established. Supporters said the bill would close a gap for homeless or transient registrants who otherwise report only every 90 days, while opponents raised due process, cost, and implementation concerns, noting that some offenders are already monitored through probation and that DPS does not itself supervise offenders. The committee passed HB 2413 on a 5-4 vote. The committee also heard HB 2720, which increases the penalty for purchasing prostitution to a class 6 felony and directs a $200 assessment to the anti-human trafficking fund. Supporters said it targets buyers and helps deter trafficking demand; opponents argued the bill could still ensnare trafficking victims and sex workers. The committee adopted a Bliss amendment clarifying the affirmative defense and use of funds, then approved HB 2720 as amended by an 8-0 vote with one member present. Finally, HB 2418, appropriating $600,000 from the General Fund to the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission for five major incident division task forces, was supported by county sheriffs’ representatives and passed unanimously by the committee.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs - Part 1 Mar 19th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • I have too many examples where individuals. in the education setting have claimed obscene content is
  • and harmful content in a host of other contexts.
  • content at a young age.
  • But I've got literally thousands. of examples of obscene content that's been found in our public schools
  • There is no one going and getting arrested. the school for showing obscene content to a minor because
FL

Florida 2026 4th Special Session

January 27, 2026 - 09:30 AM

Education & Employment Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • This materials include pornographic or age inappropriate content.
  • So I ask if how are you holding obscenity laws an issue.
  • Book restrictions on explicit content in schools.
  • So as to deem obscene any book with alternative viewpoints.
  • content.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • They had to actually remove all sexual content. They had content throughout their 22 chapters.
  • . to have a voice in how their local public school collects and allows access to books with obscene content
  • And that is obscene content, which is defined as harmful content. and what the Federal Communications
  • showing obscenity. content as legally defined to a minor has been in the Texas Penal Code for decades
  • Why can't we label books containing indecent content? profane content.