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TX
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V Feb 24th, 2025

Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V

Transcript Highlights:
  • For the courthouse program, Heritage Trails Program, the National Museum of the Pacific War, Brazil.
  • House Bill 1, Courthouse Program, Heritage Trails, National Museum.
  • It's the exact same courthouse, and that was critical for us.
  • Now, back in 1971, the legislature enacted protections. for historic county courthouses.
  • But a network of sites like the courthouses are what people from all over the country want to go see,
Committee: House Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V
CA
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Judiciary Committee Apr 7th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • AB 1544 underscores the importance of transparency and access to courthouses at a time when our democratic
  • In the construction industry, JLMCs already play a critical role as they currently serve in many ways
  • Keith Dunn here on behalf of the State Building and Construction Trades Council.
  • You have no authority at the High-Speed Rail Authority or any construction portion of it.
  • This model came from the CASp inspection context in physical construction access issues.
Committee: House Judiciary
CO
CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 087 Apr 11th, 2026

Colorado House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Appropriation to the Underfunded Courthouse Facility Cash Fund, for the Underfunded Courthouse Facilities
  • 11 courthouse<02:24:01.280><c> information</c><02:24:01.520><c> technology</c> courthouse information
  • </c> Affordable housing construction grants and loans, pursuant to section 24-32-721, C.R.S.
  • </c> Water Conservation Board Construction Water Conservation Board Construction Fund<04:55:21.920><c
  • Colorado Water Conservation Board Construction Fund, created in section 37-60-1211, C.R.S. B3.
OR
OR

Oregon 2026 Regular Session

Joint Emergency Board 06/17/2026 8:30 AM

Transcript Highlights:
  • I suspect this is the first of other actions in trying to make our courthouses safer.
  • Construction cash account to support the request that other funds expenditure increase the Reese Training
  • Public Safety Subcommittee recommends that the Emergency Board increase federal funds capital construction
  • Establish a federal funds capital construction expenditure limitation of $3,620,000 for the Reese Training
  • The second project will construct four sets of paired wells, measuring shallow and deep, to monitor water
Summary: The Emergency Board approved a series of consent federal grant applications from the Natural Resources and Public Safety subcommittees, along with several budget and position requests. The board approved grant applications for parks, transportation, judicial, emergency management, higher education, school nutrition, and other programs, including retroactive approvals where deadlines had passed. One member objected to the Natural Resources consent grants over concerns about future funding needs, but the motion still passed. The board also approved a one-time increase for Judicial Department court security, including digital privacy protections, circuit court security, and a statewide facilities assessment. A major discussion centered on Southern Oregon University’s financial stability. The Higher Education Coordinating Commission reported on SOU’s structural deficits, declining enrollment, and projected cash shortfall. The subcommittee recommended, and the board approved, allocating $7.5 million from the special appropriation for short-term stability, with a required update at the September 2026 Emergency Board meeting and a future request for the remaining funds. Members debated the broader crisis in higher education, with several saying SOU’s situation reflects systemwide enrollment and funding pressures and that long-term restructuring will be needed. The board also approved an AmeriCorps volunteer generation grant, an apprenticeship expansion grant, and a Department of Education nutrition equipment grant. In public safety, it approved funding for Oregon Military Department readiness facilities, a statewide evacuation planning tool, and a juvenile justice information system modernization report, while requiring a follow-up viability report. The Department of Justice received approval for additional antitrust positions and expenditure limitation, though several members raised concerns about the funding structure and incentives tied to settlement revenues; the motion passed despite objections. In natural resources, the board approved funding for the Water Resources Department’s well abandonment, repair and replacement grants, an assistant water master position in Washington County, groundwater data collection in the Lower Umatilla Basin, a wetlands remote sensing pilot, and parks-related grant applications for operations, maintenance, and capital improvements. Members generally supported the requests but raised concerns about geographic equity, long-term sustainability, and whether some county responsibilities were being shifted to the state. The meeting also included discussion of a Department of Emergency Management evacuation tool as an urgent wildfire preparedness measure, with members emphasizing its potential to save lives.
HI
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

PBS Info Briefing - Mon Nov 10, 2025 @ 10:15 AM HST

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • circling the courthouses and outside the courthouses.
  • There's, you know, courthouses, the district courthouses, the circuit courthouses, all of the different
  • . >> Inside the courthouse.
  • </c> incident at Wuku courthouse. incident at Wuku courthouse.
  • </c> he was detained inside the courthouse. he was detained inside the courthouse. &gt;&gt; Okay.
Summary: The Committee on Public Safety held an informational briefing on findings from the deportation data project and possible policy responses to increased federal immigration enforcement in Hawaii. In opening remarks, the chair said the committee was concerned about changing federal executive orders, policies, and enforcement actions, and framed the issue as one involving due process and public safety. The chair and presenters described reports of ICE activity on multiple islands, including raids, courthouse presence, and fear in immigrant communities, and said the committee was considering whether state policies should be advanced more quickly. Mandy Fernandez of the ACLU of Hawaii presented updated deportation data and argued that increased immigration enforcement is creating fear, reducing crime reporting, and potentially making state and local agencies extensions of the federal immigration agenda if they accept federal funding with conditions. She said the deportation data project, housed at UC Berkeley Law with UCLA’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy, uses FOIA requests and its latest data runs through late July 2025. She reported 153 ICE arrests in Hawaii from January through July 2025, up from 41 in the same period in 2024; 96 removals, up from 15; a federal detention center average daily population of 91 in June 2025 versus 31 in June 2024; and 111 ICE detainers issued in Hawaii from September 2023 through July 2025, with 49 issued in 2025. She also cited an immigration court backlog of 1,144 pending cases as of August 2025 and noted that about one in five Hawaii residents were born outside the United States. Haley Chang of the Office of the Public Defender said her office is seeing a marked increase in ICE presence around courthouses and more ICE contacts with clients, including reports of people being detained after court appearances or while on supervision. She emphasized that the office is not an immigration law office and that much of its information is anecdotal, but said the pattern appears new compared with prior years. In response to committee questions, she explained that ICE detainers are requests, not judicial warrants, and said local law enforcement is generally not required to honor them unless accompanied by a judicial warrant or other legal authority. She also said the public defender’s office had not yet seen new criminal charges arise solely from an ICE detention or failure to appear tied to immigration enforcement, though cases could be affected if defendants are removed from the criminal process.
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/26

Health Finance and Policy

WA
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Transportation Feb 24th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're grateful for the investments in workforce and vessel construction that the Legislature has made
  • Construction markets remain volatile, and continued uncertainty around federal trade policy, including
  • Bonding reduces stop-start construction, supports predictable preservation funding, and improves schedule
  • It's also the location of our hub ambulatory expansion project, which is now under construction.
  • It's also the location of our hub ambulatory expansion project, which is now under construction.
Bills: SB6225 , SB6005 , SB6354
Committee: Senate Transportation
Keywords: transportation bonds, general obligation bonds, Washington State Department of Transportation, WSDOT, highway funding, road construction, infrastructure financing, motor fuel tax, gas tax, vehicle fees, bond authorization, state finance committee, highway bond retirement fund, corridor projects, interstate improvements, right-of-way acquisition, public-private partnerships, transportation capital projects, local matching funds, emergency clause
AZ
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency

Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • Bill 1176 allows a store in the Phoenix Active Management Area to recharge stormwater within a constructed
  • replenishment obligation if the offset is for groundwater withdrawn from a well within two miles of the constructed
  • water provider's service area, and a portion of the service area is located within two miles of the constructed
Bills: SB1176 , SB1186 , SB1235 , SB1286 , SB1446 , SB1458 , SB1515 , SB1616 , SB1641 , SB1668 , SB1670 , SB1678 , SB1747 , SB1787
Committee: Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency
Keywords: stormwater, water storage, replenishment credits, groundwater, aquifer, Arizona Revised Statutes, disclosure, state contracts, procurement records, donations, transparency, EMS, reciprocity, interstate compact, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, licensure, public safety, military personnel, veterinary telemedicine
AZ
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - House Transportation & Infrastructure

Transportation & Infrastructure

Transcript Highlights:
  • In the schedule, we did enter into a pre-construction agreement with Sun Construction on February 10.
  • Heather, yeah. in the schedule we did enter into a pre-construction agreement with sun construction on
  • It began construction in May of 2024.
  • It began construction just last month.
  • It began pre-construction already, that’s sorry.
Bills: HB2067 , HB2068 , HB2127 , HB2164 , HB2200 , HB2201 , HB2242 , HB2283 , HB2284 , HB2285 , HB2286 , HB2287 , HB2304 , HB2306 , HB2399 , HB2601 , HB2609 , HB2760 , HB2761 , HB2859 , HB2887 , HB2892 , HB2893 , HB2894 , HB2978 , HB4027 , HCM2012 , HCM2016
Committee: House Transportation & Infrastructure
Keywords: appropriation, transportation, infrastructure, Apache Junction, funding, Show Low, road extension, special license plates, nonprofits, charitable contributions, Reay Lane, Graham County, HB 2200, State Route 89, SR 89, Chino Valley, Arizona Department of Transportation, ADOT, road widening, highway expansion
AL
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Jan 21st, 2026

Ways and Means General Fund

AL
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Apr 29th, 2025

County and Municipal Government

TX
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 2nd, 2025

State Affairs

TX
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 2nd, 2025

State Affairs

TX
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Mar 26th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • help with early notification to our state's military bases of the possibility of wind turbine construction
  • Currently, what the bill does is require, by rule, notification from construction of wind turbines.
  • Several of these view corridors will be affected by this construction.
Bills: HB246 , HB796 , HB 1056 , HB1544 , HB1846 , HB2001 , HB2618 , HB2625 , HB2869 , HB2898 , HB3069 , HB3114 , HB3157 , HB3228 , HJR98 , HB246
Committee: House State Affairs
Keywords: federal directives, state authority, Tenth Amendment, government enforcement, local governance, gold standard, legal tender, currency, transactional currency, financial transactions, electronic payment systems, state finance, regulatory compliance, electric trucks, charging infrastructure, advisory council, transportation, sustainability, criminal penalties, official information
TX
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Mar 26th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • locations for electric truck charging infrastructure and the requirements for their development and construction
  • , including high-capacity power sources, freight routes, and the ability to to construct operation hubs
  • In the last 40 years, building a construction company from the ground up, I wake up early, and a lot
Bills: HB246 , HB796 , HB 1056 , HB1544 , HB1846 , HB2001 , HB2618 , HB2625 , HB2869 , HB2898 , HB3069 , HB3114 , HB3157 , HB3228 , HJR98 , HB246
Committee: House State Affairs
Keywords: federal directives, state authority, Tenth Amendment, government enforcement, local governance, gold standard, legal tender, currency, transactional currency, financial transactions, electronic payment systems, state finance, regulatory compliance, electric trucks, charging infrastructure, advisory council, transportation, sustainability, criminal penalties, official information
AL
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Feb 12th, 2025

Boards, Agencies and Commissions

NH
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Executive Departments and Administration (02/19/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
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  • </c> reference the straford county courthouse reference the straford county courthouse because<01:24:
  • </c> were not able to fill your Courthouse were not able to fill your Courthouse what<01:24:48.159><c
  • So, like Hillsborough County rents courthouse services, not necessarily a courthouse to the state, but
  • </c><01:33:34.719><c> for</c> hill the hooksen courthouse for hill the hooksen courthouse for example
Summary: The subcommittee first took up House Bill 702, which would change how extra or special duty pay for retired police officers is treated for retirement and work-limit purposes. Supporters argued the bill would let retirees work more special-duty hours, helping municipalities fill traffic-detail and similar assignments without added state cost, and said it would not prohibit retirees from working but would simply stop those hours from counting toward the return-to-work threshold. Opponents argued the change would be inconsistent with the retirement system’s 2011 reforms, could increase pension liabilities, and would treat the same compensation differently for active employees and retirees. Members also discussed whether the bill would affect current and future retirees, the role of municipalities, and whether the policy amounted to “policing for profit.” The subcommittee ultimately voted 3-2 to recommend inexpedient to legislate (ITL) on HB 702, sending it to the full committee with that recommendation. The committee then discussed House Bill 581, which would create a Group Three retirement plan for new state employees hired after the bill’s effective date. The chair outlined a housekeeping amendment to delay implementation, moving the effective date to January 1, 2026, and noted a sponsor amendment addressing health insurance group inclusion and medical and surgical benefits so those benefits would not be put at risk for the new group. Testimony and discussion focused on the shift from defined benefit to defined contribution, with supporters citing Michigan examples and arguing the bill would help recruit and retain employees while giving them more flexibility. Opponents said the change could weaken retirement security and increase unfunded liability, though supporters responded that the bill still requires employer contributions toward accrued liability and is intended to keep the state on track to pay off its unfunded liability by 2039. The transcript ends with continued discussion of the bill and no final vote shown on HB 581.
CA
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 6 on Public Safety May 18th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • We do offer a backfill to a reduction to the state court facilities construction fund based on improved
  • I just have a couple questions regarding the trailer bill for lactation rooms in the courthouses.
  • I just have a couple questions regarding the trailer bill for lactation rooms in the courthouses.
  • Do we have an estimated cost what it's going to be to finish the full-out construction of those rooms
  • “And we heard the dollar amount, $31.9 million, to finish that construction.
NH
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary (01/23/2025)

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • undocumented immigrants in the United States make up at least between 10 and 20% of laborers at construction
  • sites 13 to 30% of people construction sites 13 to 30% of people in<01:14:25.040><c> involved</c><01
  • I understand you when someone gets bail, you know, whether it's at the police station or at the courthouse
  • , you know, the ICE agents could be waiting around the courthouse, and I've seen that before in my capacity
  • I understand you when someone gets bail, you know, whether it's at the police station or at the courthouse
Committee: Senate Judiciary
ID
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Jan 28th, 2026

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • I retired from my work at the Canyon County Courthouse in 2013.
  • I retired from my work at the Canyon County Courthouse in 2013.
  • Senator Guthrie, and members of the committee, say someone was operating big equipment out on a construction
Committee: Senate State Affairs