Transcript Highlights:

• Once again, it's largely preserving the criteria and the discretion of the Board of Parole Commissioners
• But... ...again, it's largely preserving the criteria and discretion of the Board of Parole Commissioners
• ensure that law enforcement agencies collect and maintain criminal intelligence in a manner that preserved
• In short, SB 1210 preserves the effectiveness of your prior reforms and ensures they apply uniformly.

Summary: The committee met without a quorum and operated as a subcommittee while hearing a long agenda of public safety bills. The chair announced recess and return times, noted several consent items, and said SB 906 was pulled from the agenda. Testimony procedures were explained, including limits on principal witnesses and public comment. Several bills were heard out of file order with authors presenting and witnesses speaking in support and opposition. SB 1446 would expand discretion in en banc parole review, make votes public, and allow CDCR referrals for sexually violent predator evaluations in certain cases. Supporters, including the author and district attorneys, said it would improve transparency and public safety; opponents from Uncommon Law, the Ella Baker Center, and public defender groups argued it would add confusion, litigation risk, and unnecessary duplication. The bill was not voted on because the committee still lacked a quorum. SB 1278 would exclude certain sex offenses and habitual or serial sexual offenses from elderly parole eligibility; the author and district attorneys cited recent releases of serious sex offenders and the need to respect victims and sentences, while opponents said the elderly parole process is already rigorous and evidence-based and that the bill would reduce rehabilitation incentives. The chair and other members strongly supported the measure, but no vote was taken. The committee also heard SB 1354, which would bar out-of-state military or law enforcement forces from entering California without the governor’s permission; the author and supporters framed it as a state sovereignty and constitutional authority measure, and the committee discussed an amendment removing a criminal penalty and leaving enforcement to the Attorney General. SB 926 would provide funding for implementation of Proposition 36; supporters said counties need resources for treatment, probation, and related services, while opponents called it fiscally reckless and said the budget process was the proper place to address funding. The chair summarized amendments removing a specific appropriation and limiting eligible recipients, and members emphasized that the voters approved Prop. 36 but it remains underfunded. SB 874 would require background checks and clearer oversight for Medi-Cal behavioral health treatment providers, especially ABA providers serving children; it drew support from health plans and behavior analysis groups and no opposition. SB 1210 would extend CalGang oversight and due process protections to all gang databases, including local ones; supporters described privacy harms and racial disparities, while police chiefs opposed applying CalGang rules to informal local investigative files. SB 1019 would create a DOJ cargo theft task force; supporters from BNSF, trucking, shipping, and port interests described organized theft, rail sabotage, and supply-chain losses, and there was no opposition. SB 1217, on non-consensual intimate image removal, was introduced with privacy and public safety amendments and framed as a survivor-driven effort to create a DOJ clearinghouse for rapid takedown requests; the author said it would help end ongoing digital harm from exploitation.

Transcript Highlights:

• Once again, it's largely preserving the criteria and the discretion of the Board of Parole Commissioners
• But... ...again, it's largely preserving the criteria and discretion of the Board of Parole Commissioners
• ensure that law enforcement agencies collect and maintain criminal intelligence in a manner that preserved
• In short, SB 1210 preserves the effectiveness of your prior reforms and ensures they apply uniformly.

Committee: Senate Public Safety

Keywords: 987, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• They move things forward, but they never, ever, ever jeopardize life, safety, and preservation of the
• safety,</c><01:39:54.560><c> and</c> jeopardize life, safety, and jeopardize life, safety, and preservation
• </c> preservation of the asset. preservation of the asset.

Committee: Senate Executive Departments and Administration

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• be eligible for the tax credits and therefore HF 4234, when enacted, will be able to create and preserve
• 00:03:04.680><c> and</c> enacted, will be able to create and enacted, will be able to create and preserve
• c> more</c><00:03:05.880><c> affordable</c><00:03:06.480><c> housing</c><00:03:06.959><c> in</c> preserve
• more affordable housing in preserve more affordable housing in Minnesota<00:03:08.160><c> without</c

Bills: HF4234 , HF3697 , HF1183 , HF4738

Committee: House Taxes

Keywords: HF4234, Minnesota private activity bonds, tax-exempt bonds, bond cap, aggregate bond limitation, residential rental projects, multifamily housing, affordable housing finance, housing bonds, public finance, bond allocation, private activity bond cap, Minnesota Statutes 474A.02, tax committee, tax refund, Minnesota Statutes, time limit, claims, tax overpayment, taxation

Transcript Highlights:

• and it’s which is why we’re going to have to take a break for a few minutes as a matter of self-preservation
• :34:03.280><c> a</c><03:34:03.320><c> matter</c><03:34:03.560><c> of</c><03:34:03.640><c> self-preservation
• ,</c> as a matter of self-preservation, as a matter of self-preservation, I<03:34:05.520><c> asked</c

Committee: House Transportation

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Uh, the high-level objective of what's reflected in the governor's supplemental proposals is to preserve
• governor's supplemental proposals is to governor's supplemental proposals is to uh<00:02:33.440><c> preserve
• 34.400><c> for</c><00:02:34.560><c> the</c><00:02:34.720><c> economy</c><00:02:34.959><c> and</c> uh preserve
• vitality for the economy and uh preserve vitality for the economy and to<00:02:35.360><c> grow</c><00

Bills: HF4598 , HF4884 , HF3732

Committee: House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Keywords: workers' compensation, Minnesota workers' compensation, Workers' Compensation Advisory Council, reinsurance association, Workers' Compensation Reinsurance Association, WCRA, occupational disease, presumption, first responders, firefighter cancer, PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, police officer, paramedic, emergency medical technician, correctional officer, security counselor, public safety dispatcher, temporary total disability, permanent partial disability

Transcript Highlights:

• Senator Limmer: Preserve the right to ask questions. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr.
• Preserve<00:59:09.359><c> the</c><00:59:09.480><c> right</c><00:59:09.760><c> to</c><00:59:09.840><c>
• </c> Preserve the right to ask questions. Preserve the right to ask questions.

Committee: Senate Judiciary and Public Safety

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• You know, I look at this bill from a health perspective, and I cannot disagree with the intent of preserving
• with<01:48:15.840><c> the</c><01:48:15.960><c> intent</c><01:48:16.560><c> of</c><01:48:16.840><c> preserving
• </c><01:48:17.880><c> access</c><01:48:18.360><c> to</c> with the intent of preserving access to with
• the intent of preserving access to health<01:48:18.760><c> care</c> health care health care as<01:48

Bills: HB1626 , HB1643 , HB1668 , HB1550 , HB1974 , HB1858 , HB1871 , HB1966 , HB1972 , HB1973

Committee: House Health

Keywords: youth penalties, juvenile justice, community service, fees and fines, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, reform, court costs, cultural connection, pharmacy, pharmacist, pharmacy audit, audit reform, pharmacy benefit manager, PBM, recoupment, extrapolation, claims audit, pharmacy reimbursement, dispensing fee

Summary: The committee heard testimony on SB 847, which would create a Kauai pilot program allowing qualified psychologists limited authority to prescribe psychotropic medications. The Board of Psychology supported the bill’s intent but asked for amendments to delay the effective date or extend the pilot so rules could be written first, and to clarify the education/training language. Supporters, including the Hawaii Psychological Association, Hawaii Mental Health Coalition, and several psychologists, argued that prescribing psychologists have long safety records in other jurisdictions and that the pilot could improve access to care on Kauai, especially amid ongoing mental health needs and storm-related stress. They cited studies and examples from New Mexico, Louisiana, the Department of Defense, and other places. Opponents, including the Hawaii Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, Queen’s Medical Center, and a Department of Health representative, said the bill needed substantial work, raised concerns about training, liability, and workforce impacts, and urged a team-based model with psychiatrist oversight rather than independent prescribing. Some testimony also referenced a GAO report, with witnesses disagreeing over its meaning and cost-effectiveness. No vote was taken during the discussion, and members asked questions about how the bill would address the workforce shortage and whether a psychiatrist on Kauai could already meet the need. The committee then moved to SB 2271 on hospital licensing and SB 2272 on home health care licensing. The Department of Health, the Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and the Hawaii State Council on Developmental Disabilities supported both measures, which were described as streamlining and clarifying licensing oversight by relying on accreditation or certification reports. A member asked whether the bill language on hospital accreditation reports was duplicative, and the response was that the second provision was intended to strengthen enforcement by requiring hospitals to provide the actual report to DOH. The committee did not take final action in the portion of the hearing provided, and the chair noted that all bills on the agenda would later be considered for decision-making.

Transcript Highlights:

• It also preserves the Department of Revenue's rights.
• I'm going to have to urge a no on this one. preserves Department of Revenue's rights.
• That does better than preserve the voters' ability That does better than preserve the voters' ability

Summary: The House debated a series of amendments to a major income tax bill, with repeated arguments over tax fairness, affordability, administrative feasibility, and the role of the Department of Revenue. Early motions to reconsider a failed child care amendment were rejected, and Amendment 2561, which would have restricted data sharing with the IRS, was also defeated after debate over privacy, federal relationships, and whether the proposal was administrable. Amendment 2579, which would have required annual reporting on the tax’s effects on filers, businesses, and charitable donations, likewise failed, with supporters emphasizing transparency and opponents arguing DOR was not the right agency and the report was too speculative. Amendment 2598, proposing to use half of new revenue for a broad sales tax cut, was rejected despite arguments that it would reduce regressivity and provide immediate relief; Amendment 2556, expanding sales tax exemptions for diapers and other child-care essentials to include adult diapers and earlier implementation, also failed after debate over scope and timing.

Transcript Highlights:

• These provisions were enacted to help control long-term costs while preserving access to care, and by
• long-term were enacted to help control long-term costs<00:58:37.040><c> while</c><00:58:37.160><c> preserving
• </c><00:58:37.640><c> access</c><00:58:38.040><c> to</c><00:58:38.160><c> care</c> costs while preserving
• access to care costs while preserving access to care and<00:58:39.040><c> by</c><00:58:39.200><c> eliminating

Committee: House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• It allows Minnesota financial institutions to respond to changing customer expectations while preserving
• :59.600><c> while</c> changing customer expectations while changing customer expectations while preserving
• <00:15:00.560><c> safety,</c><00:15:01.120><c> transparency,</c> preserving safety, transparency, preserving

Bills: HF3604 , HF2236 , HF3709 , HF3766 , HF2400

Committee: House Commerce Finance and Policy

Keywords: bulk fuel, nonoxygenated gasoline, environment, exemption criteria, transportation, HF2236, Minnesota commerce, obsolete language, statutory cleanup, retail installment contract, consumer credit, vehicle financing, auto loans, retail buyer, retail seller, delinquency charge, collection fee, attorney fees, assignment notice, payment receipt

Transcript Highlights:

• It is about preserving stability, connection, and hope for children during an incredibly uncertain time
• percentages.<01:20:22.640><c> It</c><01:20:22.800><c> is</c><01:20:22.960><c> about</c><01:20:23.120><c> preserving
• It is about preserving percentages.
• It is about preserving stability,<01:20:24.640><c> connection,</c><01:20:25.360><c> and</c><01:20:25.600

Committee: House Education Finance

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• When deterrence is strengthened, stability is preserved.
• 23.440><c> is</c> deterrence is strengthened, stability is deterrence is strengthened, stability is preserved
• . preserved. preserved.

Keywords: 958, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Motans have preserved everything worthwhile about Western civilization while armed brutes try to tear
• Motans<01:54:23.760><c> have</c><01:54:23.920><c> preserved</c><01:54:24.480><c> everything</c> Motans
• have preserved everything Motans have preserved everything worthwhile<01:54:26.159><c> about</c><01:

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• manage Airbnbs and short-term vacation rentals, expertise in climate change, expertise in cultural preservation
• expertise expertise in climate change, expertise in<00:54:53.119><c> cultural</c><00:54:53.599><c> preservation
• </c><00:54:54.960><c> Those</c><00:54:55.200><c> are</c><00:54:55.440><c> all</c> in cultural preservation
• Those are all in cultural preservation.

Committee: Senate Economic Development and Tourism

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 2693 relating to capital improvement projects for aerospace infrastructure. Members had no questions, and the recommendation to pass the bill with a defective date of July 1, 2050 was adopted unanimously. The committee then deferred decision making on Senate Bill 26980 relating to transportation and Senate Bill 2374 relating to the blue economy until Thursday, February 19, 2026, in Room 229, pending additional information. In the joint hearing on Senate Bill 2816 relating to state enterprise zones, agencies and organizations including DBEDT, HTDC, Taxation, the University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Oceanit, the Hawaii Medical Association, and the Queen’s Health System testified in support or submitted written comments. One public testifier urged expanding enterprise zones around the Kakaako/Cancer Center area and combining them with the foreign trade zone to reduce taxes and attract business. A senator questioned whether the enterprise zone program had ever been comprehensively evaluated, noting DBEDT said it had not done a full study in recent years and cited annual report figures including about $221 million in company revenues and $460,000 in foregone state revenue in 2022. The discussion focused on whether the bill would subsidize existing activity or support new economic development, and on the broader policy question of whether enterprise zones should be used to revitalize depressed areas or to target strategic sectors like health care technology. The committee then heard Senate Bill 2900 relating to sports officials. The Department of Education supported the measure, saying the Attorney General is best positioned to represent employees in temporary restraining order matters and that elevating intentional bodily injury of a sports official to a class B felony would improve safety. The Office of the Public Defender opposed the bill, arguing it would escalate conduct already covered by existing assault statutes and go beyond other protected classes. The Department of the Attorney General recommended narrowing the bill by inserting “substantial” before bodily injury in the criminal section and deleting a section that would make the AG’s office act like plaintiff’s counsel in civil matters, suggesting instead that departments adopt policies to help employees obtain TROs without creating an open-ended civil representation role. Several sports and school-related organizations testified in support, and members discussed whether the bill should be narrowed or coordinated with other measures before further action.

Transcript Highlights:

• To preserve the state's integrity, I've asked that we add in an amendment here to include a provision
• </c><01:17:18.640><c> Uh</c><01:17:19.840><c> to</c><01:17:20.239><c> preserve</c><01:17:20.800><c> the
• Uh to preserve the that same feeling.
• Uh to preserve the state's<01:17:21.679><c> integrity,</c><01:17:22.560><c> I've</c><01:17:22.880><c>

Committee: Senate Public Safety and Military Affairs

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committees first took up SB 3322 relating to law enforcement. Chairs recommended adopting amendments from the Department of Law Enforcement that would exempt plainclothes officers from identification requirements, limit conspicuous agency markings to vehicles used in immigration enforcement operations, and allow a plainclothes officer to wear a mask when within eyesight of an unmasked officer from the same agency while performing official duties. Although there was an initial quorum issue, both committees ultimately voted to adopt the chair’s recommendation and advance the bill as amended. The next major item was SB 3333 relating to property tax treatment for certain housing. Testimony was strongly supportive, including from a Maui County real property tax board member and a representative of Nali Maui, who described homeowners in affordable housing being taxed at much higher rates when exemptions were missed or when resale restrictions kept values below market. The committees recommended passing the bill with amendments, including a deferred effective date of April 19, 2042, and the recommendation was adopted. The committees also heard SB 2422 on a pro housing score program for counties, SB 2981 on eliminating minimum off-street parking requirements in urban districts, SB 2007 on county land use boundary amendments, SB 3028 on restructuring the conveyance tax to a marginal rate system, SB 3033 on public petitions for review of beach structures, and SB 2434 on electric vehicle infrastructure. SB 2422 drew support with a request for flexibility and an appeals process for counties facing extraordinary circumstances; the chair’s recommendation was to pass it with amendments and note a $200,000 implementation study request, which was adopted. SB 2981 received strong support from housing and transportation advocates and was advanced unamended, while SB 2007 drew opposition from the Sierra Club and discussion about the Land Use Commission’s limited enforcement tools and the number of approved but unbuilt units. SB 3028 received mixed testimony, with support for the marginal-rate change but concerns about earmarking and blanks in the bill, and SB 3033 was supported as an early-warning mechanism for erosion-threatened coastal structures, though OPSD said it should not be the regulatory decision-maker. SB 2434 prompted concern about whether utility capacity can support EV infrastructure goals, with the chair citing a recent report suggesting transmission and distribution constraints.

Transcript Highlights:

• I wanted to revive Wyoming's underutilized natural gas economy and I want to try to preserve water.
• I want<00:27:18.799><c> to</c><00:27:19.520><c> try</c><00:27:19.760><c> to</c><00:27:20.000><c> preserve
• </c><00:27:21.840><c> There</c> want to try to preserve water. There want to try to preserve water.

Bills: HB0120 , HB0043 , HB0128

Committee: House Minerals, Business & Economic Development

Keywords: energy production, natural gas, industrial sovereignty, manufacturing, tax exemptions, money laundering, illegal investment, financial institutions, criminal activity, Wyoming legislation, severance tax, oil production, tax exemption, energy sector, economic impact, 916, all

Transcript Highlights:

• providing meaningful targeted property tax relief to homeowners who are also our constituents while preserving
• </c><01:28:27.840><c> while</c> are also our constituents while are also our constituents while preserving
• 28.560><c> the</c><01:28:28.800><c> stability</c><01:28:29.199><c> of</c><01:28:29.440><c> local</c> preserving
• the stability of local preserving the stability of local governments<01:28:30.639><c> need</c><01:28

Bills: SF0061 , SF0098 , SF0110

Committee: Senate Revenue

Keywords: sales tax, motor vehicle, family transfer, tax exemption, Wyoming legislation, veteran, property tax exemption, Wyoming National Guard, honorable discharge, tax benefits, surviving spouse, military service, property tax, residential real estate, tax assessment, primary residence, tax revenue, 916, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So to maintain and preserve community, you must first learn what exactly does the community need.
• <01:16:55.160><c> to</c><01:16:55.320><c> maintain</c><01:16:55.880><c> and</c><01:16:56.040><c> preserve
• </c><01:16:56.480><c> community,</c> So to maintain and preserve community, So to maintain and preserve

Bills: HB2614 , HB1660 , HB1704 , HB1563 , HB1573 , HB1777 , HB1749

Committee: House Consumer Protection & Commerce

Keywords: cosmetics, returns, refunds, consumer protection, high-pressure sales, transparency, accountability, HB1660, Hawaii, county labor standards, counties, contractors, building permits, permit denial, permit suspension, permit revocation, wage theft, wages, benefits, hours

Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 2614, which would require merchants selling cosmetics to accept returns of newer unopened goods within specified time frames and expand signage requirements for return and refund policies. DCCA’s Office of Consumer Protection strongly supported the bill, citing updated figures of 180 cosmetic complaints from 2020 to 2025, 54 still under investigation, 148 referred to class action litigation, and more than $1.3 million in consumer losses. Members questioned whether the bill was needed given the pending lawsuit and whether bad actors would comply, while the office responded that clearer signage would improve consumer awareness and could reduce complaints without limiting other remedies. No vote was taken. The committee then heard HB 1660 HD1, which would allow counties to require contractors to disclose wage, benefit, hour, and employment-status information and to deny, revoke, or suspend permits for certain labor-law violations. DLIR, the Hawaii Regional Council of Carpenters, Operating Engineers Local 3, and Pacific Resource Partnership testified in support, arguing the measure would help deter cheating contractors, protect law-abiding employers, and keep bad actors from undercutting wages and taxes. One member raised concerns about possible delays to affordable housing projects and whether owners should be held responsible for contractors’ misconduct; supporters replied that compliance is a minimum standard, that county action would be discretionary rather than automatic, and that the bill would not bar counties from working with affordable housing developers. No action was reported. Finally, the committee took up HB 1704, adopting the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact to allow telepsychology and temporary in-person practice across state lines. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the State Health Planning and Development Agency, the Hawaii State Association of Counties, and the Hawaii Association of Health Plans supported the measure, saying it would help fill major staffing gaps, especially for forensic evaluations and services in rural and neighbor-island communities. The Board of Psychology raised concerns about the compact’s scope, the need for a study focused specifically on psychologists, background-check requirements, possible loss of regulatory authority and revenue, and the need to update older statutory provisions. Hawaii Association for Justice opposed the immunity language in the compact, and Shawn Scanlon opposed the bill, arguing it could weaken cultural responsiveness and local control and suggesting the state instead improve temporary licensing and other in-state pathways. The committee also questioned the Department of Corrections about its vacancies and whether telehealth could be filled by local providers; no vote was taken in the excerpt.

Transcript Highlights:

• In the Second Amendment Preservation Act, we tried to do that as well, where we offered an amendment
• In the Second Amendment<00:45:27.440><c> Preservation</c><00:45:28.079><c> Act,</c><00:45:28.560><c>
• we</c><00:45:29.040><c> tried</c><00:45:29.359><c> to</c> Amendment Preservation Act, we tried to Amendment
• Preservation Act, we tried to do<00:45:29.760><c> that</c><00:45:30.079><c> as</c><00:45:30.400><c>

Bills: HB0130 , HB0095 , HB0096 , HB0097 , SF0101 , SF0106 , SF0067 , SF0123

Committee: House Appropriations

Keywords: Second Amendment, firearms, state rights, federal regulation, law enforcement, civil penalties, government liability, concealed carry, public colleges, university facilities, weapons legislation, self-defense, campus safety, weapons, age requirement, permits, HB0097, Wyoming firearms privacy, merchant category code, MCC