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NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
Other - PSCOC Dec 11th, 2025
Public School Capital Outlay Oversight Task Force
Transcript Highlights:
- They are also requesting a local match reduction of 9,895,200, bringing the total request for this meeting
- The request is for approval of the requested construction funding and full local match reduction for
- The district requested.
- Our teams have reached out as part of the legislative request, adding the New Mexico Military Institute
- Some of them are requesting the vehicle; some are requesting the charging infrastructure, but this is
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division II (03/07/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- Procurement process and do a request for proposals based on the criteria that's written in the legislation
- The proposed legislation was worded as notifying recipients that have these age-appropriate children,
- The witness said that the proposed legislation specifically said to notify households with age-appropriate
- </c><00:54:55.240><c> and</c> supported by legislation and supported by legislation and Appropriations
- You know, if you propose legislation and you have other mechanisms that you feel would be appropriate
Summary:
The Finance Division 2 work session first took up HB 506, a bill dealing with the return of seized firearms. Members discussed how the measure would shift background-check processing for firearm returns through the Department of Safety, while the physical firearms would still remain with local police unless State Police had taken custody. The department said the bill would change which cases come to it, and members clarified that the bill concerns the background-check decision rather than possession of the firearms. The committee then voted OTP on HB 506 FN by a 7-0 roll call.
The committee next discussed HB 671, establishing a kindergarten literacy readiness program. Department of Education staff explained that the bill grew out of a COVID-era Waterford contract that provided home-based early literacy support for families using federal relief funds, at a cost of about $600,000 per year, but that the program ended when those funds expired. Members raised concerns that the bill’s $1 appropriation was not realistic, that the prior program lacked sufficient outcome data, and that the references to ESSA tier-one benchmarks were unclear. The department said it was conducting a broader literacy needs assessment and updating the state literacy plan, including data from the zero-to-five range, K-5, and dyslexia-related work.
Waterford representatives described the program as an early-literacy, pre-K readiness service for children ages zero to five, originally designed to work in homes with computers and internet provided where needed, and later expanded in some settings such as daycares and pre-K classrooms. They said the program used assessments at the beginning and end, had served hundreds of children, and was intended to support family engagement and kindergarten readiness. Despite that testimony, members remained concerned about funding and the lack of clear results, and one member moved to retain the bill for more information. The discussion ended with the bill retained rather than advanced.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Housing Jan 23rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- A fiscal note has not been requested. With that, I'd be happy to answer any questions.
- With this, you can achieve all the goals of this legislation.
- Opt-out legislation, such as that in Wisconsin, fails at platform scale.
- This would be an appropriate extension of your existing service.
- This is a timely piece of legislation because our population is aging.
Summary:
The Senate Housing Committee heard public testimony on several bills. SB 6091 would prohibit real estate brokers from marketing residential properties to limited or exclusive groups unless the listing is also marketed to the general public and all brokers, with exceptions for health or safety and private party sales. The sponsor and supporters, including Washington Realtors, Habitat for Humanity, Zillow, the Fair Housing Center, and others, said the bill promotes transparency, competition, and fair housing by preventing “pocket listings” and insider access. Opponents, including Compass representatives and some brokers, argued it would limit homeowner autonomy, harm privacy-sensitive sellers such as seniors, and create legal risk for brokers; the Attorney General’s office said it supported the competitive goal but wanted a different enforcement mechanism than WLAD. The committee later closed testimony on SB 6091 without taking final action in the hearing.
The committee also heard SB 6200, which would allow tenants and residents in manufactured home communities to install portable cooling devices, subject to safety, code, and electrical restrictions, and would require landlords to notify tenants of their rights and limitations. The prime sponsor and many public health, tenant, and climate advocates said the bill is needed to prevent heat-related illness and death during extreme heat events, especially for renters in older or low-income housing who lack built-in cooling. Landlord and property management groups supported the idea of portable floor units but raised concerns about window-mounted devices, citing fall hazards, property damage, and insurance issues. Testimony emphasized that the bill includes liability protections for landlords and is intended as a narrow public health measure.
The committee then heard SB 6096, which would require cities and towns collecting water and sewer connection charges to offer a deferred payment option for qualifying residential construction until final inspection or certificate of occupancy. The sponsor and builders’ groups said deferral would reduce upfront financing costs and help housing production. Cities and utility districts opposed the bill, arguing it shifts financial risk to utilities and ratepayers, complicates infrastructure planning, and could delay or reduce needed system investments. Finally, the committee heard SB 6153, which would create a senior independent housing ombuds program, require registration of senior independent housing facilities, and make certain landlord-tenant violations subject to Consumer Protection Act enforcement. The sponsor said the bill responds to complaints from seniors in independent living settings who lack an ombuds or other practical recourse, while staff noted the bill carries an estimated $4.4 million biennial fiscal impact.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26
Children and Families Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- data request area.
- </c> without request and approval. without request and approval.
- We have a data privacy attorney who takes the request, finds the appropriate people within CSP to get
- We have a data privacy attorney who takes the request, finds the appropriate people within CSP to get
- </c> Uh no, I request a roll call. Uh no, I request a roll call.
Keywords:
child care, child care center, day care, licensed child care, video security cameras, surveillance, security cameras, maltreatment, child abuse, child safety, public and shared areas, camera mandate, child care assistance program, CCAP, Great Start Compensation Support, early learning scholarships, licensed provider, Minnesota Statutes 142B.68, Harvey's Law, privacy
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Indian Affairs Jul 18th, 2025
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- However, I'm just wondering the detail that's being requested, the presentation of how...
- And this comes from the experience of having an education line officer come to my pueblo and request
- In the past, there have been requirements around requests for reimbursement.
- And Legislative Navajo to say, yes, you have the authority to go ahead and advocate for yourselves.
- At the legislative level, we are very much concerned.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Apr 15th, 2026
Housing and Community Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you and respectfully request an aye vote.
- So respectfully request an aye vote. Great.
- And I respectfully request your aye vote. Great.
- UL Solutions is neutral on the legislation.
- piece of legislation a week ago or two.
Committee:
House Housing and Community Development
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- Um the legislative manager for HGEA.
- I'll request for Director Hashimoto.
- </c><00:18:47.760><c> but</c> the subject of a repricing request but the subject of a repricing request
- the form of a request for shortage.
- the form of a request for shortage.
Committee:
Senate Labor and Technology
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Labor and Technology heard testimony on several measures relating to public employment, the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund (EUTF), retirement benefits, and cafeteria plans. HB 2472 and HB 2276, both concerning EUTF staff and investment office staff salaries, drew support from the trust fund and labor groups, and no opposition was heard in person. HB 2272 and HB 2273, emergency appropriations for public employment cost items, were supported by the administration and labor representatives; members briefly clarified which bargaining units were covered.
A longer discussion centered on HB 1664, which would address a dispute mechanism for EUTF-related negotiations. HGEA said the current process lacks a dispute resolution path and that the bill would allow interest arbitration when the state and union disagree. The Department of Human Resources Development and the Budget and Finance director raised concerns about consistency across bargaining units and the role of an arbitrator unfamiliar with the complexities of the system. Senator Moriwaki questioned whether another dispute forum might be more appropriate, but no alternative resolution was settled.
The committee also heard HB 1655, which would make retirement benefits negotiable, and HB 1658, concerning collective bargaining repricing. ERS opposed HB 1655, saying it could create administrative and tax problems if retirement benefits were negotiated separately across many bargaining units, while UPW, HGEA, HSTA, and UPA supported it as a bargaining issue. On HB 1658, DHRD explained that repricing is an internal classification tool meant to preserve equal pay for equal work, not to address market pay, and said a single arbitrator or the Merit Appeals Board could handle disputes; HGEA preferred a neutral arbitrator and opposed the Merit Appeals Board as too employer-controlled. The final measure, HB 1661 on cafeteria plans, was supported by UPW and HGEA. DHRD said it planned to raise the maximum contribution through rulemaking but needed to manage plan solvency and timing because IRS limits change on a calendar-year basis while the state plan runs on a fiscal year. The committee then moved into decision-making and adopted recommendations to pass HB 2472 and HB 2276 as amended/unamended after a brief correction to the vote language.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Jan 19th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Quick introductions of the legislators who are here.
- LFC included about half of that appropriation at $15.7 million.
- Your current appropriation for out of school.
- Supplemental appropriation to the SEG.
- You've already appropriated that money.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Please bless our hearts that they might be expanded, that we might have the appropriate feelings toward
- Please bless our hearts that they might be expanded, that we might have the appropriate feelings toward
- And whereas, without appropriate intervention by speech, language, and hearing professionals, people
- The legislation listed below made the following recommendation: HB 2003 do pass as amended.
- Another area where it was not requested, and it kind of leaves the department in limbo.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> proof of domicile is appropriate proof of domicile is appropriate under<00:44:10.119><c> um</c><
- the appropriate forms.
- the appropriate forms.
- </c><02:22:45.120><c> the</c><02:22:45.280><c> appropriate</c> so they're requesting the appropriate
- so they're requesting the appropriate forms<02:22:47.160><c> they'll</c><02:22:47.359><c> be</c><02:22
Committee:
House Election Law
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee May 6th, 2026
Revenue and Taxation
Transcript Highlights:
- This is also triggered by an appropriation allotment.
- But that's an appropriations conversation, which I sit on appropriations.
- Motion is due passed to the Committee on Appropriations.
- Motion is due pass to the Committee on Appropriations.
- Motion is due pass to the Committee on Appropriations.
Committee:
Senate Revenue and Taxation
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee on SF3045 5/12/25
Transcript Highlights:
- A28 is basically a technical change to the House language regarding the conditions in which the legislative
- </c> President, legislative auditor policy. President, legislative auditor policy.
- </c> conditions in which the legislative conditions in which the legislative auditor<00:01:56.560><c>
- The state demographer and the legislative task force on aging provides a clear directive.
- It's only triggered when funding is not appropriated for agencies to provide this oversight.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services (Part II) Mar 26th, 2025
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- My name is Ashley Lennertz, and I serve as the Legislative Director for Texas.
- You brought up points that are already in the legislation. I'm sorry, go ahead.
- I request that we keep the fee-for-service model.
- We want to thank Senator Sparks for this important work. ...piece of legislation, and we request your
- The TMA feels that SB 1318 strikes an appropriate balance.
Bills:
SB397 , SB481 , SB596 , SB760 , SB855 , SB1195 , SB1196 , SB1233 , SB1257 , SB1318 , SB1368 , SB1388 , SB1398 , SB1524 , SB1558 , SB1589 , SB1677 , SB1792 , SB2034
Committee:
Senate Health & Human Services
Keywords:
SB 397, telemedicine, telehealth, teledentistry, remote care, virtual care, consent documentation, patient consent, data collection, data sharing, audio-only telehealth, in-person examination, irreversible medical procedure, health professional regulation, Occupations Code, Texas Health and Human Services, medical records, provider compliance, data privacy, consumer rights
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
CPN, CPN DEFER Public Hearings 01-31-2025
Transcript Highlights:
- And I would respectfully request, in order to keep the agenda moving, that you not read verbatim your
- We don't obviously have that expertise within our division itself, so we may need an appropriation to
- </c><00:01:28.119><c> in</c> and I would respectfully request in and I would respectfully request in
- </c> entity I just think from the legislative entity I just think from the legislative standpoint<00:
- We received about 15 proposal requests from different condominiums.
Summary:
The committee opened by outlining hearing procedures, including a two-minute limit for live testimony, a request not to repeat written testimony, and a reminder about decorum. The first bill heard was SB 697, which would create a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for expenses to retrofit residences with wind-resistive devices. The Insurance Division said it supported the concept but noted it may need an appropriation or outside expertise to develop certification standards, while the Department of Taxation said the bill should retain a third-party certification requirement if the Insurance Division cannot administer the credit. The Hawaii Insurers Council supported the bill, and the Tax Foundation suggested a subsidy-style program would be more efficient than a tax credit and criticized the bill’s 100% credit structure. A testifier in support argued the measure would help homeowners fortify houses against hurricanes and reduce shelter demand; written testimony from several others, including HIEMA, was noted as supportive.
The committee then moved through SB 76, which would require the Hawaii Property Insurance Association to provide commercial property coverage after two private-market denials, and SB 83, which would require insurers to give advance written premium-change notices and explanations to common-interest community policyholders and the insurance commissioner, along with a report on premium increases. For SB 76, the State Insurance Division stood on its written comments, and testimony in support came from Michael Honda, the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, and Jessica Herzog. SB 83 drew more extensive discussion: the Insurance Division supported the need for better transparency, while the Hawaii Insurers Council opposed the bill, arguing that agents—not insurers—typically communicate with AOAO boards and that the measure could worsen an already difficult market. Insurance Division staff acknowledged widespread complaints from condo associations about lack of transparency and said the division had received many calls about premium increases and nonrenewals.
The discussion on SB 83 expanded into broader concerns about condo insurance, nonrenewals, surplus lines, and the difficulty of getting timely explanations for large premium increases. Committee members and testifiers described older buildings struggling to fund repairs and upgrades while facing steep insurance costs, and some urged the committee to craft baseline statutory protections for unit owners. The Insurance Division said surplus lines serve a critical gap-filling role and warned against regulating that market in a way that could slow access to coverage. No votes or final committee actions were taken in the portion of the meeting provided.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
HOU-PSM, HOU-HWN, HOU Public Hearings 03-11-2025
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:31:04.360><c> it</c> community so with this uh legislation it community so with this uh legislation
- </c> in alignment with the last legislation in alignment with the last legislation we<00:31:12.600><c
- </c> allocation of $600 million appropriated allocation of $600 million appropriated by<00:38:54.440>
- If you want that, we should give you a direct appropriation so at least you can appropriate all those
- Well, I mean, this was a DHHL bill, so it wasn't our request. Okay.
Summary:
The joint Housing and Public Safety/Water and Land hearing first took up HB 1096, which would repeal statutory tenant-selection preferences for disabled veterans and spouses of deceased veterans in state low-income housing. HPHA testified in support, saying the change was a housekeeping measure because the same preferences already exist in administrative rules and could be adjusted later to align with other local preferences, while also noting the federal VASH program provides stronger veteran housing support. Several members questioned why the preference should be removed at all, emphasizing that veterans have long been underserved and asking for a stronger justification; the committees ultimately deferred HB 1096.
The later Housing/Hawaiian Affairs agenda heard HB 606 HD1, a measure to extend Act 279 funding and related exemptions for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. Supporters argued the bill would give DHHL more time to use the $600 million appropriation to acquire land, work with developers, and address a wait list of about 29,000 applicants, while also helping restore Hawaiian communities and reduce the Hawaiian diaspora. Opponents focused on accountability and oversight, saying DHHL needs clearer plans, measurable goals, and stronger safeguards before receiving more money, and warning that prior spending and strategic-plan changes had reduced the number of applicants served. The committee also heard testimony that the bill would help DHHL fulfill long-standing obligations to Native Hawaiians and that the housing need affects the broader state, not only Hawaiian Home Lands beneficiaries.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> appropriate providers. appropriate providers.
- So, what I did when I submitted this request initially to Legislative Services, amongst the other thousand-plus
- <01:45:49.880><c> initially</c><01:45:50.840><c> to</c><01:45:51.000><c> legislative</c> request initially
- to legislative request initially to legislative services<01:45:52.120><c> amongst</c><01:45:52.560><
- appropriate? appropriate?
Committee:
Senate Education
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Jun 18th, 2026
California Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I rise as Vice Chair of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus in support of SCR 183.
- I rise to request that file item 126, AB 1817, be pulled off the consent calendar at the request of the
- I am requesting a no vote and a roll call. Thank you.
- Senators, Senator Viadaris is requesting a no vote. Senator Richardson is requesting an aye.
- The Senate will be in recess until all legislative business has been received.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Emergency Management Committee Apr 23rd, 2026
Emergency Management
Transcript Highlights:
- Assembly Bill 1960 has been pulled off consent at the request of the Vice Chair.
- The motion is due pass to the Committee on Appropriations.
- The motion is due pass to the Committee on Appropriations. AB 2101, Gibson.
- And with that, we, I do, you do enjoy the due pass request from the chair.
- Member Carrillo, due pass to the Committee on Appropriations. AB 2041.
Committee:
House Emergency Management
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><04:03:02.000><c> requests</c><04:03:02.399><c> for</c> to make those legislative requests for to
- make those legislative requests for improvements<04:03:03.120><c> to</c><04:03:03.279><c> the</c><04
- And what happened last legislative session is that we began receiving reports requesting that approved
- And what happened last legislative session is that we began receiving reports requesting that approved
- And what happened last legislative session is that we began receiving reports requesting that approved
Committee:
House Education Funding
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- And so to me, that feels like an appropriate place to put this notice.
- appropriation?
- appropriation?
- I'm afraid for the fate of your bill if it goes to Appropriations.
- Are you trying to put together model legislation?
Committee:
House Commerce
Keywords:
surveillance, price discrimination, consumer protection, automated decision systems, data privacy, broadband, cable service, price increase, notification, digital assets, abandonment, custodian, escheatment, blockchain, cryptocurrency, unclaimed property, state treasurer, telecommunications, spoofing, call authentication