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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 2/20/25
Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
Transcript Highlights:
- The majority of the bill addresses partition actions, which is a legal process to sell or divide land
- Okay, so partition is a division of property between co-owners.
- You can end up with a partition. Partition is a division of property between co-owners.
- You can end up with a partition.
- So with agricultural land, it's partition in kind, where you split up—you get this 40, I get that 40.
Committee:
House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Justice Mar 25th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Runcie partition clarity is provided for truancy.
- A local man became impatient and back to his vehicle into a utility pole and fence then attempted to
- We don't have big fences around our campuses. Maybe just be whatever you could do.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on the Judiciary Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on the Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- An act relative to partition of nominee trusts. Go ahead. And I'm sorry. Go ahead, Madam Chair.
- Currently, property owners who own property in a trust cannot petition the court to partition a property
- H. 1964 / S. 1239, an act relative to uniform partition of heirs' property.
- Edwards and Chair Day, for allowing me to testify virtually today in support of the act related to the partition
- Boston College Law School, and I'm here to testify in support of S. 1239 and H. 1964, the Uniform Partition
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on the Judiciary
Summary:
The Joint Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on a wide range of state, probate, and family bills, with chairs Edwards and Day outlining strict testimony limits and accepting written testimony. Early testimony focused on H. 1911/S. 1138, which would clarify that a durable power of attorney may create a trust if that authority is expressly granted; sponsors and elder law advocates said the bill would resolve uncertainty created by the Barbetti decision and align Massachusetts with other states.
A major portion of the hearing centered on S. 1102, a proposal to establish medical panels in Probate and Family Court. Supporters, including attorneys, parents, physicians, and advocates, said neutral three-doctor panels would help judges resolve disputed medical issues in guardianship and custody cases involving children, elders, and people with disabilities. Testifiers described cases where medical treatment was blocked or contested by one parent or guardian, arguing the panels would provide impartial expertise and protect vulnerable people. The committee also heard support for bills addressing disability discrimination in family court, military parents’ custody rights, and a shared parenting bill, H. 1710, which drew strong opposition from domestic violence advocates and others who said a 50-50 presumption could harm survivors and children.
The committee also took testimony on several probate and court-administration measures. Senator Lovely supported a bill on nominee trust partition, and Senator Comerford and probate officials backed legislation to codify additional registry staff positions and modernize registry operations. Other bills discussed included foster care liability insurance, with providers warning that rising premiums and loss of coverage could force program closures; health care proxy storage and activation; access to decedents’ email accounts; uniform trust decanting; the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act; heirs’ property partition protections; a constitutional right to health care; alimony-related reforms; child-centered family law; and a right of disposition for funeral arrangements. No votes were taken during the hearing, and the committee repeatedly invited written testimony and follow-up questions.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Land Grant May 30th, 2025
House Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- When we first introduced the partition land grant legislation that gave political subdivision status
- in 2023, thanks to the persistence and perseverance of the leadership of Padilla and those five partition
- , which is something that the partition suit allowing for them to force the sale of those lands was set
- You see laws being passed to allow for adverse possession and for partition suits.
- So where there were partition lawsuits for the land grants, like in the 1800s, it was a slow burn.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Housing Jun 18th, 2026
Joint Committee on Housing
Transcript Highlights:
- reason the courts, in my opinion, decided not to allow condominium conversions in a petition to partition
- my opinion, the reason the courts decided not to allow condominium conversions in a petition to partition
- my opinion, the reason the courts decided not to allow condominium conversions in a petition to partition
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Housing
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Housing held a hybrid hearing on two bills: H. 5447, a home rule petition concerning the Town of West Tisbury’s affordable housing trust fund, and H. 5317/H. 5314, relating to condominium conversion or partition of co-owned two-unit buildings. Chair Richard Haggerty and Senate co-chair Julian Cyr opened the hearing and explained the format, including three-minute testimony limits and a July 31 deadline for written testimony.
Peter Harrington testified in support of updating the partition law so courts could use condominium conversion when dividing co-owned property. He said the current law is rooted in medieval-era rules and can hinder preservation of middle-class housing, especially where a two-family home might otherwise be sold and redeveloped. He argued the change would give judges a modern tool to preserve existing housing stock and noted the issue arises in some partition cases, though not every day.
Laura Silber testified for West Tisbury in support of H. 5447, saying the town wants its affordable housing trust fund expanded to serve households up to 180% of area median income and to support seasonal-community workforce needs, including public sector essential workers. She said the town and Martha’s Vineyard Commission also support broader seasonal-community housing tools and a future local option transfer fee. Senator Cyr questioned whether the home rule petition was necessary given the Seasonal Communities law, and Silber responded that the petition was a short-term measure while technical fixes and a pooled year-round housing trust are developed. No votes were taken, and the hearing ended with adjournment after testimony concluded.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Health Policy Mar 25th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Each partition or facility must produce all request the records in their possession within 14 days, allow
- senators will go to Tab 5 where we are considered Senate Bill 1690, by center McLean on surrendered in Fences
KY
Transcript Highlights:
- I noticed today as we were walking in in the annex that there were signs and partitions saying that you
- 00:13:37.200><c> and</c> the annex that there were signs and the annex that there were signs and partitions
- 38.880><c> that</c><00:13:39.040><c> you</c><00:13:39.279><c> couldn't</c><00:13:39.519><c> go</c> partitions
- saying that you couldn't go partitions saying that you couldn't go any<00:13:39.920><c> further</c><
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Chamber Meeting Feb 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Speaker, the wolves that have been released back on to the public lands and they don't know fences; they
- Colony of Goa on the west coast of India during partition, and it was in Karachi that she met my Pakistani
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Mar 20th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The first thing is that it updates our rules around the partition of property.
- So we've updated our laws around the partition of property.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- The first thing is that it updates our rules around partition of property, which is property owned by
- most of this property was farmland, um, which it no longer is, so we've updated our laws around partition
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- rather than committing a bulk of financial resources to the state grant program, the more we sort of partitioned
- the state grant that everybody can kind of access and utilize fairly, or if we continue to kind of partition
- to</c><00:34:42.480><c> kind</c><00:34:42.720><c> of</c><00:34:43.119><c> uh</c><00:34:43.359><c> partition
- </c><00:34:43.839><c> it</c> we continue to kind of uh partition it we continue to kind of uh partition
Committee:
Senate Higher Education
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs (02/20/2026)
State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- without a shot fired, but then we started killing each other right after that, as you know, the partition
- without a shot fired, but then we started killing each other right after that, as you know, the partition
- India has 200 million Muslims right now after the partition.
- 21:02.159><c> the</c> million Muslims and this is after the million Muslims and this is after the partition
- So those who stayed partition right now.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Special Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Feb 9th, 2026
Special Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- only place that you can get Narcan is at the Division of Family Services, where it's behind a glass partition
- thing at the front desk, and you have... ...where it's behind a glass partition thing at the front desk
Summary:
The committee first took up House Bill 2901 in executive session. After a brief explanation from the bill sponsor, the committee adopted a House Committee amendment ending in 0.07 that set a five-year expiration date and clarified where reports must be filed. The committee then rolled the amendment into a substitute and voted the House Committee substitute do pass by a roll call of 13 ayes and 0 noes.
The committee then heard House Bill 3000, which would fix the signature threshold for petition-driven audits by tying the required number of signatures to the gubernatorial election in effect when the petition process begins, rather than when signatures are submitted. The sponsor and the State Auditor’s office said the change would prevent the required number from shifting during the petition period and provide consistency. No vote was taken on the bill during the hearing.
House Bill 313 was then heard, a fentanyl-poisoning response bill that would require naloxone in public buildings, designate October as Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Month, require fentanyl education for students in grades 6 through 12, and require training and investigation procedures for law enforcement in drug-related deaths. The sponsor and multiple family members who lost loved ones to fentanyl strongly supported the bill, emphasizing prevention, access to Narcan, and more thorough death investigations. Committee members generally expressed support, raised questions about the definition of public buildings, school implementation, and funding, and testimony suggested opioid settlement money as a possible source. No committee action was taken on HB 313 in the transcript.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- and the last sentence of that where it reads, for purpose of this paragraph, bona fide division or partition
- Then there's this other exception for this bona fide agricultural partition, and what that means if you're
Committee:
Senate Resources and Environment
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Land Grant Oct 7th, 2025
House Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- People have built roads, homes, and fences. That keep our legal heirs out.
- Partition land-grant issue was an issue that came up in the 2003 committee, and we resolved those issues
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/16/26
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Even though I see very clearly it will be partitioned to the ...
- I believe if you partition that money to the Medicaid Fraud Unit, it'll be used for that and no other
- I believe if you<00:34:33.360><c> partition</c><00:34:33.919><c> that</c><00:34:34.120><c> money</c><
- 00:34:34.879><c> to</c><00:34:35.040><c> the</c><00:34:35.120><c> Medicaid</c> you partition that money
- to the Medicaid you partition that money to the Medicaid Fraud<00:34:36.040><c> Unit,</c><00:34:36.280
Bills:
HF4338
Committee:
House Human Services Finance and Policy
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Consumer Protection & Business Mar 3rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- trying to find someone, a designer, that could apply those COVID rules to our new workspace with the partitions
- trying to find someone, a designer, that could apply those COVID rules to our new workspace with the partitions
Summary:
The Consumer Protection & Business Committee held public hearings on two bills. House Bill 2616, described as an agriculturally resilient markets act, would create a broad package of agriculture-related policies and appropriations, including a strategy to expand state purchasing of Washington-grown food, temporary packaging and emissions exemptions for certain agricultural uses, changes to labor notice rules for agricultural and dairy layoffs, several grant and study programs, a transfer of cannabis production/processing/testing oversight to the Department of Agriculture, and an appropriation for the tree fruit leadership program. Representative Christine Reeves said the bill was intended as a state-level “farm bill” to address farm losses, food security, and regulatory burdens, and she emphasized stakeholder input and the need to support family farms and farmworker well-being.
Testimony on HB 2616 was overwhelmingly supportive, with growers, commodity groups, dairy and potato representatives, and other agricultural stakeholders arguing that Washington farms face low margins, high regulatory and labor costs, refrigeration and processing challenges, and competition from foreign producers. Several speakers said the bill’s exemptions, grants, and studies would help keep farms viable and preserve local food production. Committee members asked about stakeholder outreach, the role of Washington State University and commodity commissions, the impact of federal versus state policy, and possible ways to reduce compliance burdens. The hearing ended without a vote, and the chair noted the bill was after cutoff and would not move this year, but that stakeholder meetings would continue over the summer.
The committee then heard House Bill 2721, which would create a registration system for commercial interior designers, expand and rename the Board of Architects, set education, examination, and experience requirements, define the scope of practice, require seals and technical submission attestations, and establish penalties and a fee account. Supporters from interior design organizations said the bill would recognize a profession already performing code- and safety-related work in commercial spaces, align Washington with other states and national model law standards, and remove barriers to ownership and advancement, especially for women. Testifiers also said the bill would clarify responsibility for life safety, accessibility, and non-structural interior construction in schools, health care, and public buildings. The committee heard only supportive testimony, but members raised questions about how the profession compares with architecture, the impact of delaying the bill until 2027, and demographic diversity in the field. The chair closed the hearing noting the bill would not advance this session and that further interim work would be needed.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- But what I've said before is like partition, separate and distinct...
- But what I've said before is like partition, separate and distinct area room.
- But that may mean like a sheetrock partition. That may mean like a divider.
- And I do not see any type of barriers or partitions, or any offset, that would be significant enough
Summary:
The committee first met in executive session on several House bills related to transgender health care and sports participation, with Representative Thomas speaking in strong opposition. Thomas argued the bills were not supported by medical science, would criminalize doctors and parents following mainstream medical guidance, and were being driven by campaign politics rather than Missouri testimony or need. The committee adopted House Committee Substitutes and voted do pass on House Bills 2033, 1608, 1672, and 1854 by a vote of 9-4, and then voted do pass on House Bills 1663, 1607, and 1973 by the same 9-4 margin.
The committee then held a public hearing on House Bills 2404 and 2172, which would bar political subdivisions from using deed restrictions to prevent former public school buildings from being sold or leased to charter schools and would give public entities a right of first refusal on unused school property. The sponsors and charter school supporters said the bills would help repurpose vacant buildings for educational use, while St. Louis Public Schools and AFT opposed them, arguing local school boards should control their property and that existing restrictions were lawful and sometimes necessary. Kansas City Public Schools testified that the issue was less pressing there and that it already had a robust repurposing process, though charter advocates described difficulty obtaining former school facilities. No vote was taken in the hearing.
Finally, the committee heard House Bill 2989, a major proposal to legalize and regulate video lottery terminals. Representative Hardwick said the bill would eliminate gray machines, create a licensed and taxed system for bars, VFWs, and similar establishments, and direct revenue to education, veterans, and enforcement. Supporters said the bill would clarify the law and provide a regulated alternative to existing unlicensed gaming, while opponents argued it was unconstitutional, would expand gambling, and should instead focus on enforcement against illegal machines. Members questioned details such as age verification, surveillance retention, municipal opt-in/opt-out timing, the definition of amusement devices, the felony penalty, and the need for a new gaming bureau; Hardwick said he was open to changes in a committee substitute. The hearing ended without a vote.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/8/26
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- For example, if you wanted a partition to come to the rural areas, specific exclusions exist in the law
- For example, if you wanted a partition to come to the rural ...with what is already in the federal rules
Committee:
House Human Services Finance and Policy
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development Mar 11th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- SEND IF THEY ARE NOT DOING THE DUE DILIGENCE THEY ARE VIOLATING THE LAW BY FILLING OUT WITH ONE PARTITION