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- Texas, like many other states, adopted this model.
- the state of Texas.
- Texas is a great state for this type of policy.
- The state of Texas dropped the ball.
- exchange data exchange across the state of Texas.
Committee:
Senate Health & Human Services
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services convened to discuss interim charges regarding fraud, waste, and abuse in Texas human services, particularly focusing on Medicaid and childcare programs. The meeting highlighted the importance of preventing misuse of taxpayer funds, with testimony from various stakeholders emphasizing the need for increased oversight and accountability in these programs. Key points included the alarming rise in healthcare fraud in other states, the necessity for Texas to enhance its fraud prevention measures, and the potential financial repercussions of failing to meet federal compliance standards.
Several committee members expressed concerns about the impact of fraud on vulnerable populations, particularly those relying on Medicaid services. Testimonies from experts underscored the effectiveness of Texas's Office of Inspector General (OIG) in combating fraud, yet pointed out existing vulnerabilities, such as inconsistent enforcement and the need for better data sharing among agencies. The discussion also touched on the challenges faced by hospice care providers, with a significant increase in the number of hospices in Texas raising concerns about quality and oversight.
The committee heard from various witnesses, including representatives from health plans and advocacy organizations, who provided insights into the complexities of managing Medicaid and the importance of maintaining program integrity. The meeting concluded with a commitment to further explore legislative solutions to enhance oversight and ensure that resources are directed to those in genuine need.
TX
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- Okay, so out of the 13 million, how much of it is owned by the state of Texas?
- Okay, so out of the $13 million, how much of it is owned by the state of Texas?
- We're talking about the state of Texas and the entire state.
- MUDs are highly regulated by the state of Texas.
- Stated simply, Texas is special.
Committee:
House Land & Resource Management
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Appropriations - S/C on Articles VI, VII, & VIII Feb 25th, 2025
Appropriations - S/C on Articles VI, VII, & VIII
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- In the state of Texas.
- Is a regulated entity in the state of Texas.
- state agencies in Texas have 75% telework policies.
- the state of Texas.
- in the state of Texas?
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Press Conference: C.A.R.E. No Matter What Bill Rollout Mar 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Since Texas remains only one of 10 states who refuse to expand Medicaid, leaving millions of low-income
- across the state began.
- Texas is the most uninsured state in the nation. 1 out of 10 children in Texas have no healthcare.
- Planned Parenthood South Texas is one of 3 Planned Parenthood affiliates in the state, including Planned
- that Texas families are healthy, and Texas communities are healthy, no matter what.
TX
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- You know what, you really should direct that question to the governor of the state of Texas who designated
- Visitors come to see the and include our beautiful Padre Island National Seashore, Texas State Aquarium
- HR number 215 by Guilhan commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Texas state chapter of the National
- state has developed a plan to address kidney disease and the Texas Renal Coalition continues its vital
- across our great state of Texas.
TX
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- state.
- I'm proud to represent the heart of Texas in the United States Congress.
- of Texas.
- I'm the Texas State Lead for Climate Cabinet.
- When our state is still looking at the devastating outcome of flooding in mid-Texas...
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Special Committee on Congressional Redistricting Jul 26th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- I would urge our representation for the great state of Texas.
- As the state chair, I see environmental problems all over Texas.
- The state legislature and the State Board of Education districts were completed by Texas lawmakers during
- As stated in our state song, "Texas, our Texas," so wonderful, so great, boldest and grandest, withstanding
- This isn't just for Texas now, but for my three grandkids and every grandchild in the state of Texas.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Senate Committee on Business and Commerce Jul 29th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Yes, going forward in the state of Texas.
- Yes, going forward in the state of Texas.
- We're the state of Texas. We're the most energy-rich state in the lower 48.
- Please state your name and begin. Salado, Texas.
- I would also suggest that you contact the State Bar of Texas.
Summary:
The Senate Business and Commerce Committee held its third interim hearing on Texas electric grid reliability and 765 kV transmission lines/private property rights. Chair Schwertner opened by noting record ERCOT summer demand of 91,089 MW and emphasized the committee’s focus on managing rapid load growth, ensuring adequate generation, and protecting homeowners, businesses, landowners, and ratepayers. The committee also adopted strict two-minute limits for public testimony and planned to hear invited witnesses first, then public testimony.
PUC Chairman Thomas Gleeson, ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas, and OPUC Chief Counsel Benjamin Barclay testified on Senate Bill 6 implementation, large-load interconnection, transmission cost allocation, and market design. Gleeson said the PUC has adopted or is finalizing rules on net metering/co-location, large load interconnection standards, and a transmission cost recovery rule that would move from 4CP to 12CP, lengthen the interval to 30 minutes, and add a minimum demand charge to better allocate costs to large loads. Vegas explained ERCOT’s new batch process for large loads, saying it provides year-by-year capacity allocations, clearer financial obligations, and a transmission plan; he reported 205 GW eligible for Batch Zero, with 65 GW classified as baseload, 25 GW in an intermediate category, and 114 GW as allocated load. Barclay supported the changes as better protection for residential and small commercial customers, while warning that the minimum demand charge may need an exit-fee concept to address stranded costs if large loads leave.
Members pressed witnesses on whether additional market changes are needed to attract dispatchable thermal generation and whether DRS/DRRS Plus could become a capacity-market substitute. Gleeson and Vegas said the current market still favors solar, batteries, and other low-variable-cost resources, and that more incentives may be needed for gas and other thermal generation; Gleeson said the commission’s reliability standard assessment will begin this year and conclude next year with a 2029 outlook. They described DRS as an ancillary service for intraday reliability and DRS Plus as a proposed real-time revenue mechanism for thermal resources during scarcity, not a forward capacity market. Senators also questioned whether 12CP could still be gamed, whether curtailment authority under SB 6 should be expanded from EEA 2 to earlier stages, and whether the batch process should be bifurcated so traditional industrial loads are handled differently from data centers. Witnesses said the batch process is intended to prevent speculative projects from driving transmission costs, that most large-load projects are data centers, and that future rules may need to better distinguish among types of large loads.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session 4/25/25 - Part 2
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- State your advice. So, Mr. advice. State your advice. So, Mr.
- State your advice.
TX
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- Collin County to lead us in the Pledges of Allegiance to the United States of Texas Flags.
- that is pro parent in the history of the state so the Texas Senate is working the Texas House has accomplished
- For decades of our history in the state of Texas, it was more. common than not that we would suspend
- Visitors come to see and include our beautiful Padre Island National Seashore, Texas State Aquarium.
- great state of Texas.
TX
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- and Texas flags.
- And now to the Texas flag. Honor the Texas flag.
- I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you.
- H.R. 110 by Lalani, recognizing Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants Advocacy Day at the State
- House, former member of the Texas Senate, and former member of the State Board of Education.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, March 24, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I was recruited to the state of Texas from Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
- And so these would help the state of Texas build into an even greater leader throughout the world in
- The fund typically targets recruitment from outside the state of Texas.
- Okay. ...recruitments from outside the state of Texas.
- In addition, The very views the First Amendment and the state of Texas espouse to protect.
Committee:
Senate Education K-16
Summary:
The Senate Education K-16 Committee heard several bills before recessing to the floor, with most measures left pending subject to the call of the chair. SB 2986 would allow public schools and universities to permit after-hours facility use by religious groups on the same terms as other nonprofits, and SB 1032 would open the Governor’s University Research Initiative to private and independent universities; both had committee substitutes adopted and were left pending after brief testimony. Supporters of SB 1032 from Rice and Baylor said the change would help Texas recruit top researchers and strengthen the state’s research economy. The committee also heard SB 2058, which would require the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to publish annual data on nursing clinical training sites to improve placement coordination, and SB 2683, which would bar public colleges from giving benefits or recognition to student organizations that receive support from foreign entities of concern; both were left pending after testimony.
A large portion of the meeting focused on SB 2233, which would require public institutions of higher education to adopt policies prohibiting students or employees on nonimmigrant visas from publicly supporting terrorist activity or organizations, with enforcement through investigations, reporting to Homeland Security, and possible Attorney General action and fines. The author said the bill was intended to reinforce existing federal definitions and campus safety, while senators questioned the bill’s scope, the definition of terrorist activity, and the clause tied to U.S. policy or practice. Public witnesses, including civil rights advocates, law students, and others, argued the bill was vague, overbroad, unconstitutional, and likely to chill protected speech and increase surveillance of international students and Black and brown communities; several Jewish witnesses also said the bill misused Jewish safety concerns and could be used for viewpoint discrimination. SB 2233 was left pending after public testimony.
The committee then took up SB 735, which builds on prior Holocaust education legislation by funding optional age-appropriate and bilingual curriculum, museum field trips, teacher preparation partnerships, annual reporting, and regional collaboration with Holocaust museums and education service centers. The author and invited witnesses said the bill responds to survey findings showing uneven Holocaust instruction and a need for better teacher training and accountability. A fifth-grade teacher and the director of the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio testified in support, emphasizing the need for accurate, age-appropriate instruction and professional development. The committee recessed before finishing the agenda, and SB 735 was set to resume after the floor session.
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- Uh, is this specifically involving Texas and other states in the U.S., or does this also include Mexico
- And so the state of Texas and DPS already go through these additional security measures to comply with
- And I can’t remember whether Texas, but I know that there are some other states that are requesting from
- Are you aware of whether Texas is one of those states that’s pushing that back?
- Um, I know as well, I think here in the state of Texas and honestly all over the U.S. there has been
Committee:
House S/C on State-Federal Relations
Summary:
The Committee on State-Federal Relations heard testimony on HB 3484, which would formalize agreements between border municipalities and treat certain infrastructure, services, and facilities as Texas assets for funding eligibility if they are within 30 miles of the border. Representative Van Deaver and a witness from Texarkana described how the bill would help Texarkana, Texas, secure state funding for jointly used facilities such as wastewater, water treatment, and airport assets that are physically located in Arkansas but serve Texas residents. Members asked about whether Arkansas benefits from the facilities and whether the bill would apply only to U.S. border cities; testimony clarified that it applies to Texas municipalities bordering another U.S. state, and the bill was left pending after the committee substitute was withdrawn.
The committee also heard HCR 112, by Representative Perez, which urges Congress to allow state-issued Real ID cards, including Texas driver’s licenses, to be accepted as identification for U.S. citizens re-entering the country at land and sea ports of entry. Perez argued that Texas already verifies citizenship and lawful presence for Real ID issuance, that most Texans already have Real ID-compliant licenses, and that acceptance at the border would reduce costs and delays for routine cross-border travel without weakening security. Members asked about the security features of Real ID, implementation timing, passport delays, and how border crossings currently work; Perez said the resolution would not replace passports for international air travel and would apply only to U.S. citizens returning at land and sea ports. HCR 112 was also left pending, and the committee adjourned after HDR 125 was withdrawn from the schedule.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The comptroller is our money manager for the state of Texas, not through TEA.
- However, the state of Texas is proving to have higher rates.
- However, the state of Texas is proving to have higher rates.
- The largest school district in the state of Texas is HISD with 189,000 enrolled students.
- The state of Texas has 254 counties. I think half of them don't have a private school.
Bills:
SB 2
Committees:
Senate Education K-16 , Senate Education
TX
Texas 89th 1st C.S.
Press Conference: Special Session Jul 21st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm proud to represent the heart of Texas in the United States Congress.
- Here in Texas and all across the country we know members of Congress, governors in every state across
- of Texas.
- I'm the Texas state lead for climate cabinet.
- When our state is still looking at the devastating outcome of flooding in mid Texas, what are we doing
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, we have a process in Texas where we recognize, uh, a lot of federal and out of state and military
- Um, and certainly us here in the state of Texas and border states want to make sure that the US government
- of Texas and the state.
- United States, Constitution of Texas.
- And I will tell you on behalf of our landowners in South Texas, if it wasn't for state, uh, efforts,
Committee:
House S/C on State-Federal Relations
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Special Committee on Congressional Redistricting Aug 7th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Texas may be the first to redistrict, but your state is next.
- The state of Texas is defending in federal court right now.
- For redistricting against Black and Brown, the state of Texas has lost, yes or no?
- The state of Texas went to the U.S.
- These seats belong to the people of Texas. The great state of Texas. This is a farce.
TX
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- This should not be understated because many states look to Texas as a leader in all sectors.
- Related work, and we, we developed a micro grid and that work was actually funded by the state of Texas
- Texas State University previously gave their students the option to pick which name they wanted on their
- Um, on average, a nurse in the state of Texas makes around $91,000 a year.
- , as our state produces proportionally fewer than per capita than other states produce.
Committee:
House Higher Education
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.
- Capitol and recognizing Port Freeport's 100 years of contributing to the state of Texas.
- The House of Representatives of the state of Texas joins citizens of Texas in remembering the life and
- and now is one of our finest judges in the state of Texas, Judge Victor Villarreal.
- Wukashkhoot to the state of Texas and the Texas House with a big round of applause.