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TX
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  • Senate Bill 2949 by Senator Hinojosa of Hidalgo, relating to the regulation of the transportation. of
  • Their business model changed, and what it's moved to now is... to circumvent the Department of Public
  • Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Border Patrol, and Texas DPS.
  • According to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
  • According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, terrorist organizations control the Mexican toll
TX
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  • Senator Parker, relating to aircraft owned and operated by the Department of Public Safety.
  • The department now clearly refers to the Department of Public Safety.
  • " now clearly refers to the Department of Public Safety.
  • The Crime Records Division at the Texas Department of Public Safety.
  • Department of Homeland Security guidance on gang-related...
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Border Security (Part II) Apr 10th, 2025

Border Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • Major Omar Villarreal, Texas Department of Public Safety, available to you as a resource witness.
  • The department now clearly refers to the Department of Public Safety.
  • now clearly refers to the Department of Public Safety.
  • I’m Matt Hicks, the chief of the Crime Records Division at the Texas Department of Public Safety.
  • Department of Homeland Security guidance on gang membership, for example, can be conflicting.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Border Security heard several bills related to border security, law enforcement databases, DPS aviation maintenance, and transportation motor fuels. SB 2199, after brief invited testimony from the Texas Trucking Association and DPS, was left pending at first and later reported favorably to the full Senate on a 4-1 vote. SB 2332, relating to aircraft owned and operated by the Department of Public Safety, was laid out by Senator Parker, with DPS and TechSOT witnesses explaining that it would centralize DPS aircraft maintenance under DPS, align state law with FAA responsibility rules, and potentially reduce costs and downtime; it was later reported favorably on a 5-0 vote and placed on the local and uncontested calendar. SB 2949, relating to the regulation of transportation motor fuels, was also adopted as a committee substitute and reported favorably on a 4-1 vote, with a member noting continued interest in refining port-of-entry transloading issues. The committee spent the most time on SB 2201, which would revise Texas intelligence database criteria for criminal street gangs and foreign terrorist organizations. Senator Birdwell described the bill as adding safeguards such as requiring officer identification on submissions, setting retention and validation rules, and updating criteria to reflect technology and social media use. Invited witnesses from the district attorney’s office, DPS, and the Texas Anti-Gang Center generally supported the bill and said it would improve reliability and accountability. Public testimony included support from the Texas Public Policy Foundation and opposition from the Texas Civil Rights Project and the ACLU of Texas, which argued the bill’s language on implied or demonstrated self-admission and other criteria was vague, overly broad, and could lead to erroneous inclusion in the database and downstream consequences. After debate, SB 2201 was reported favorably to the full Senate on a 4-1 vote, with Senator Eckhardt voting no. During questioning on SB 2201, members discussed how gang-database entries are used in investigations and prosecutions, the meaning of “family member,” the scope of self-admission, and how “previously documented areas” would be identified in practice. Opponents raised concerns about due process, First and Fourth Amendment issues, racial profiling, and possible federal consequences if state database information is shared. Supporters emphasized that the database is a law-enforcement tool for identifying organized criminal activity and that the committee substitute adds training, audits, and accountability measures. The committee then completed its business and recessed subject to the call of the chair.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 11th, 2025

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • option of publishing invitations to bid to public contractors on a website maintained by the Department
  • of Finance.
  • Don't try to be the health department or the building department.
  • All of the regulations remain in place, all of the inspections remain in place, all of the forms and
  • First of all, please remember that 99.9% of all liquor licenses that are... 99.9% of all liquor licenses
Bills: SB36, SB39, SB40, SB12, SB29, SB121, SB131, SB12
OK
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  • Senate Bill 1437 is directing the State Department of Education to establish certain guidelines, administer
  • And actually, the Department of Health is wanting this data or information from these results to work
  • your support of this bill.
  • Department of Education and the State Board of Education to select those programs and those specific
  • One of the things that came out of that was, I think, she correctly identified the problem of us naming
OK
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  • First, we have Natalie Curie, Director of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, to my right, your left
  • Speaker, members, Senate Bill 2117 looks to clarify that the Department of Ag does have the authority
  • It would establish an Office of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias at the Department of Health
  • There's also some Department of Ag language that they wanted in the amendment to make sure that it fully
  • There's also some Department of Ag language that they wanted in the amendment to make sure that it fully
Summary: The House convened under quorum call and began with several recognitions and presentations, including visits from Comanche County 4-H, the Muskogee Police Department officers who completed EMT training, the March of Dimes, and Ag Day honorees, including the Ag Hall of Fame recipient Ron Justice. The chamber also adopted House Resolution 1054 designating April 2026 as Library Month, with a special presentation honoring library leaders and advocates for their work on the first Library Day at the Capitol. The House then considered and passed a series of bills, mostly on broad bipartisan votes, covering state symbols, fireworks sales, oil and gas royalty protections, AP exam access, veteran records access for grandchildren, Medicaid support for a food-is-medicine grant, law library representation, controlled substances, public health, state security staffing, financial exploitation protections, credit union modernization, workforce data, staffing contracts, enterprise zone incentives, conveyance/title theft protections, hospice narcotics disposal, duplicate statute cleanup, and memorial highway/bridge designations. One major bill, SB 237 on eliminating the solar and battery storage manufacturing tax exemption, was laid over after discussion and questions about tax policy and local incentives. Several measures drew brief explanation and questions, including SB 2159 on state symbols and wheat, SB 1948 on fireworks sales, HB 1371 on oil and gas royalty payments and bankruptcy protections, SB 1975 on AP testing locations, SB 2026 on access to veterans’ discharge papers, SB 1565 on food-is-medicine Medicaid support, SB 1642 on splitting short opioid prescriptions, and SB 933 creating a right-to-try pathway for individualized treatment. Most of these bills passed with little or no debate, and several emergency clauses also passed by the required two-thirds vote. Not all measures advanced: SB 1771, expanding Workforce Commission data authority, failed on a 27-46 vote, and the House later gave notice of intent to reconsider. SB 1365 was reconsidered and then passed, but its emergency clause failed. The session also featured an extended personal privilege speech by Rep. Scott Fetgatter marking his departure, in which he thanked colleagues and staff and reflected on his tenure and legislative work.
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  • Riley, Jr., MD, endowed chair in pediatric education with the Department of Pediatrics from 2015 to 2022
  • No ropes, no sign of any fight of any kind.
  • Bergstrom of the Senate, an act relating to the Board of Governors of the Architects.
  • of Governors of Architects.
  • Of the House and Bergstrom of the Senate, an act relating to the Board of Governors of Architects.
Summary: The House met in session with a roll call establishing a quorum, followed by prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including the Doctor and Nurse of the Day and youth groups visiting the chamber. Special presentations honored the Oklahoma City Blazers under-10 ice hockey team for winning a Texas state championship and MacArthur High School JROTC cadets for repeated drill team success. The chamber also adopted House Resolution 1055 declaring April 29, 2026, as Oklahoma Agriculture Day, and House Resolution 1056 recognizing Denim Day during Sexual Assault Awareness Month; both were adopted without objection. Members then considered a series of Senate bills. SB 2170 on child custody passed 77-0 and requires supervised visitation when a court finds child abuse or sexual exploitation. SB 1833 codifies a federal waiver barring SNAP purchases of candy and soft drinks and passed 62-17. SB 1198, requiring the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to file releases on county- and municipally-owned properties at the request of local officials, passed 79-0. SB 1730, which requires law enforcement sexual abuse reports to be forwarded to OSBI for investigative use, drew debate over victim protection versus due-process concerns and passed 52-29. The House also passed SB 1379 creating a two-year grant pilot for services to labor and sex trafficking victims, including services regardless of immigration status, and approved the emergency. SB 1645 on Medicaid audit procedures, SB 2155 allowing the Route 66 Commission to use MOUs for administrative oversight, and several sunset-extension bills for boards and commissions also advanced, many with emergency clauses approved. SB 1461 extending the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority passed 67-20, but its emergency failed 55-20. Other measures passed included SB 1344 creating an insulin access and affordability program, SB 1309 increasing Roads Fund debt-service capacity, and multiple board-extension bills for construction, polygraph examiners, engineers and surveyors, and midwifery, most with emergency clauses adopted. The House then moved to announcements and recessed until 1:30 p.m.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Wed Feb 11, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 13

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • He is president of the Hawaii Society of Naturopathic Physicians.
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  • Can we give them a round of applause? Can we give them a round of applause?
  • please stand for a round of applause? please stand for a round of applause?
  • Top of page 15. Report number 180-26. Top of page 15.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Transportation, Highways and Public Works May 14th, 2026

Transportation, Highways & Public Works

Transcript Highlights:
  • Here recently we had a morning breakfast with the Department of Transportation and Development to look
  • It urges and requests the Department of Transportation and Development to conduct a review...
  • It urges and requests the Department of Transportation and Development to conduct a review of its public-private
  • It says the department may establish this is under advanced aeronautics function of the department.
  • It says the department may establish this is under advanced aeronautics function of the department.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Ways and Means Committee 4/24/25

Ways and Means

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  • There are still pieces coming over from the Department of Public Safety as well as the Department of
  • There are still pieces coming over from the Department of Public Safety as well as the Department of
  • There are still pieces coming over from the Department of Public Safety as well as the Department of
  • There are still pieces coming over from the Department of Public Safety as well as the Department of
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MN
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  • the February forecast and we'll just be providing base funding to the Department of Commerce Division
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  • The work is much better because of all of you.
  • I will better because of all of you.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House State Government Committee Apr 2nd, 2025

State Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • This changes the makeup of the board of trustees of the University of South Alabama.
  • meetings instead of 10 days at 24.
  • They're pretty much mirror images of each other. Okay.
  • Uh, so that really that aspect of it isn't changing.
  • All in favor of the approval of the sub say "Aye." Aye. Any opposed? Okay, the sub's approved.
Bills: HB442, HB459, HB90, HB91, HB461, HB481
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Executive Committee Meeting Jun 24th, 2026

Executive

Transcript Highlights:
  • As most of you know, I'm a lifelong resident of the state of Delaware.
  • I've also served eight years at the United States Department of Agriculture as an undersecretary and
  • The Department of Agriculture is in favor of this bill, to my knowledge, and it was voted on in the House
  • new chief of planning at the Department of Agriculture.
  • So at the end of the day... Employee report the failure to respond to the Department of Labor.
Bills: HB371
Summary: The Senate Executive Committee met in hybrid format, approved the minutes from its June 17 and June 18 meetings, and considered several nominations and bills. The committee heard testimony from Michael T. Skeuse for the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission and Jay Eric Fearwald for the University of Delaware Board of Trustees; both nominees described their backgrounds and qualifications, and no objections were raised. The committee then moved to legislation focused largely on property tax reassessment and related school-tax issues, along with a technical constitutional corrections bill, an agricultural lands preservation cleanup bill, and a child-safety/service-letter bill. A major portion of the meeting centered on Senate Bill 350, which would create a third multifamily residential tax classification at 1.2 times the residential rate. Supporters argued apartments are housing and should not be taxed as commercial property, emphasizing relief for renters and fairness after reassessment. Opponents, including county and school officials, warned the bill would reduce local revenues, complicate tax administration, and create unintended consequences for counties, municipalities, school districts, and agriculture. Similar themes carried into House Bill 462, which would make the split-rate school tax structure permanent and lower the nonresidential cap to 1.85, and House Bill 463, which would align New Castle County senior school-tax exemptions with county exemption rules; both bills drew discussion about shifting burdens, fiscal impacts, and timing. The committee also heard House Substitute 1 for House Bill 320, a technical corrections bill to the Delaware Constitution, with one public commenter objecting to charter-related changes being included in a correction bill. House Bill 371, which removes the requirement for county farmland preservation advisory boards under the Delaware Agricultural Lands Preservation Act, was presented as a streamlining measure and had support from the Department of Agriculture and public comment in favor. House Bill 438, expanding service-letter requirements to a broader set of child-serving facilities and requiring reporting when employers fail to respond, was described as a cleanup bill closing a safety loophole. After public comment and committee discussion, the meeting ended with a motion and unanimous adjournment; no recorded votes on the bills were taken in the transcript.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/25

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Our first item of business is the approval of the minutes.
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  • He added that the Minnesota Department of Commerce is actually leading the effort as administrator, and
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Bills: HF75