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  • testimony providing comments, and I'm here to answer any questions you may have about the tax administration
  • .<00:27:23.039><c> It</c><00:27:23.279><c> clarifies</c> administrations.
  • It clarifies administrations.
  • >> Uh, Chair, uh, you know, Joanne Biddenhar, she's our administrator of the disability compensation
  • </c><00:38:19.119><c> of</c><00:38:19.280><c> the</c> she's our administrator of the she's our administrator
Bills: SB2141 , SB2593 , SB2824 , SB2135 , SB2115
Committee: House Labor
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Jan 21st, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • Food and Drug Administration for veterinary purposes.
  • It amends the notification process for serving administrative complaints on certified law enforcement
Bills: S0032 , S0210 , S0432 , S0504 , S0506 , S0524 , S0676
Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice met with a quorum present and considered several bills. The committee heard and approved SB 504, allowing local governments to adopt standardized policies for code enforcement officers to use body cameras, and SB 506, which creates a related public records exemption for certain body camera recordings, including protections for minors and private information. Senator Smith raised questions about notice to property owners and use limitations, and Senator Osgood asked whether cameras must be on at all times; the sponsor said he would follow up on specifics. Both bills had support from local government and code enforcement groups and were reported favorably after adoption of an amendment to SB 504 clarifying training and familiarity with camera rules. The committee also approved CS/SB 32, creating a new injunction for protection against serious violence by a known person, and SB 210, the companion public records exemption for petitions involving that injunction. Senator Sharif said the bills fill a gap for victims who do not qualify under existing injunction categories, and supporters waived in favor. SB 676, by Senator Arrington, was also reported favorably; it creates a graduated penalty structure for contributing to the delinquency of a minor when the underlying conduct involves certain animal cruelty offenses, and increases penalties for fighting or baiting animals. Senator Osgood spoke in support, tying the bill to protecting children and animals, and several law enforcement and animal welfare groups waived in support. The committee further approved SB 432, which adds certain concentrated 7-OH to Schedule I, exempts FDA-approved veterinary xylazine products, creates a first-degree felony with a mandatory minimum for certain candy-like xylazine products, and establishes trafficking penalties for xylazine. Senator Osgood spoke at length in support, emphasizing overdose risks and the impact on people with substance use disorder. Finally, the committee passed SB 524, which revises duties and appointments related to the Medical Examiners Commission and district medical examiners, clarifies responsibilities within Chapter 943, and changes notification and curriculum approval provisions for criminal justice standards. All measures were reported favorably, and the committee adjourned without objection.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Jan 21st, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • Food and Drug Administration for veterinary purposes.
  • Amends the notification process for serving administrative complaints on certified law enforcement, correctional
Bills: S0032 , S0210 , S0432 , S0504 , S0506 , S0524 , S0676
Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice met with a quorum present and considered several bills, most of them related to public safety, criminal justice, and privacy. The committee first heard SB 504, which authorizes local governments to allow code enforcement officers to use body cameras under standardized policies, and SB 506, its companion public-records exemption bill protecting certain body-camera recordings from disclosure. Members raised questions about notice to property owners and when cameras may be used; both bills were supported by local government and code enforcement groups and were reported favorably after roll-call votes. The committee then approved CS for SB 32, creating a new injunction for protection against serious violence by a known person, and SB 210, which extends public-records protections to petitions for that injunction. Senator Sharif described the bills as filling a gap for victims who do not qualify under existing injunction categories; supporters included prosecutors, law enforcement, and advocacy groups. The committee also favorably reported SB 676, which creates graduated penalties for involving minors in certain animal cruelty offenses, and SB 432, which adds 7OH to Schedule I, exempts approved veterinary xylazine products, and increases penalties for trafficking and candy-like xylazine products. Senator Osgood spoke in support of SB 432, emphasizing the dangers of adulterated street drugs for people with substance use disorder. Finally, the committee approved SB 524, which revises duties and appointments related to the Medical Examiners Commission and the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission, including shifting district medical examiner appointments to the commission and clarifying notification procedures for administrative complaints. All bills received favorable votes, with support statements or waivers from various state, local, and advocacy organizations. The committee then completed its business and adjourned.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Civil Rights & Judiciary Jan 16th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Civil Rights & Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Fees for these filings are set by rule by the Secretary of State.
  • These fees are currently deposited with the state treasurer.
  • Fees for these filings are set by rule by the Secretary of State.
  • Record the assignment upon request and payment of a $10 fee.
  • And it allows us to point clearly to where fees are deposited and where fees go that come to our office
Bills: HB2248 , HB2158 , HB2178
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs (Part II) Apr 24th, 2025

State Affairs

Summary: The Senate Committee on State Affairs was called to order and a roll call showed most members present, with one absent. The chair explained that the committee had arranged witnesses for a later meeting but had received responses from some parties declining to testify, prompting Senator Bettencourt to offer a written motion for subpoenas. The motion authorized the committee chair, under Senate Rule 11.20, to issue subpoenas to BlackRock, State Street, or other financial services companies affecting Texas public pension investments, along with their subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, agents, or representatives. The subpoenas would require testimony and production of records concerning investment practices, the impact on Texas public pension funds, and any investments intended to further political or social causes. Members discussed the importance of obtaining testimony and the limited but necessary use of subpoena power. The committee then voted, with 10 ayes, no nays, and one absent, to adopt the motion. With no further business, the committee recessed until the call of the chair, planning to return after the local calendar.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs (Part III) Apr 24th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • And members, under current law, county elections administrators are prohibited from being a candidate
  • A series of these restrictions are, however, concerns have been raised that election administrators may
  • Senate Bill 2819 addresses this issue by prohibiting county elections administrators from holding an
  • By the administrative law judge.
  • He served in the Reagan administration.
Summary: The committee heard Senate Bill 945, 946, 2044, 2819, 2403, 2337, and 312, with all bills left pending after testimony. SB 945 would restrict insurance companies from denying or limiting coverage based on oil and gas activity or ESG-related goals, and supporters argued it would protect Texas energy producers from politically motivated shareholder activism and insurance discrimination. SB 946 would bar creditors from using social credit, ESG, DEI, or religious/political affiliation as a basis for denying or limiting credit; witnesses said it would prevent viewpoint-based financial discrimination and protect access to capital for Texas businesses. SB 2337 would require proxy advisory firms to disclose when recommendations are based on non-financial factors or when they give conflicting advice to different clients; supporters said the measure would increase transparency and curb ESG-driven influence over shareholder voting. SB 312 would direct public retirement systems to focus on financial returns rather than social or political objectives, with the author saying the bill responds to activist pressure on pensions and would reinforce fiduciary duty. The committee also took up election and ethics measures. SB 2044 would strengthen electioneering restrictions for publicly funded education institutions and personnel, prohibiting use of official resources to promote political agendas; testimony focused on alleged school district electioneering in bond and tax elections. SB 2819 would prohibit county elections administrators from holding certain officer positions appointed by elected officials, addressing potential conflicts of interest. SB 2403, the Texas Ethics Commission sunset bill, would restructure complaint handling with a three-tier violation system, risk-based complaint prioritization, longer response times, bipartisan preliminary review panels, and expanded hearing options; members discussed amendments aimed at dismissing minor complaints, clarifying categories, and adjusting lobbying and penalty provisions, but the amendments were withdrawn during committee consideration. Across the ESG and finance bills, invited witnesses from the American Energy Institute, Heartland Impact, Consumers Research, ADF Action, Texas Civil Justice League, and related groups generally supported the measures, arguing that banks, insurers, proxy advisors, and asset managers have used ESG or reputational-risk standards to discriminate against energy, agriculture, firearms, and religious organizations. No opposition testimony was presented in the excerpt, and the committee closed public testimony on each bill and left them pending.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Insurance Committee Jan 28th, 2026

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • It eliminates the expense of any co-pay or additional fees on that second or third diagnostic.
  • It eliminates the expense of any co-pay or additional fees on that second or third diagnostic.
  • on that second or or additional fees on that second or third<00:14:42.399><c> diagnostic.
  • Is it a um because I Is it a flat fee?
  • </c> charged a fee charged a fee uh<00:31:19.520><c> for</c><00:31:20.320><c> for</c><00:31:20.720><c
Bills: HB300 , HB40 , SB19 , HB283 , HB179 , HB296 , HB300 , HB40 , SB19 , HB283 , HB179 , HB296
Committee: House Insurance
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/26

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> all fees. all fees.
  • And if I want to turn it back in, there's a fee to turn it back in. There's a fee to assign.
  • And if I want to turn it back in, there's a fee to turn it back in. There's a fee to assign.
  • And if I want to turn it back in, there's a fee to turn it back in. There's a fee to assign.
  • Turn it back in, there's a fee to turn it back in. There's a fee to assign.
Bills: SF1750 , HF4250 , HF3938 , HF3904 , HF3642
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Care & Wellness Jan 28th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Health Care & Wellness

Transcript Highlights:
  • defines a permitted use of AI to mean the use of AI by a licensed professional to assist in certain administrative
  • that medical assistants are not making independent clinical decisions, but we are decreasing the administrative
  • Representative Marshall continued: We are decreasing the administrative burden on providers. Yeah.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Transportation Jan 12th, 2026

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • By adjusting the fee structure, the bill seeks to encourage broader participation in the program, thereby
  • The bill aims to increase the annual use fee for the existing Florida wildflower specialty license plate
  • vehicle owner purchasing the wildflower specialty license plate for more than 10 vehicles, the annual fee
  • And that ends public comment. the fee structure, the bill seeks to encourage broader participation in
  • The bill aims to increase the annual use fee for the existing Florida wildflower specialty license plate
Bills: S0174 , S0388 , S0470 , S0488 , S0490 , S0584 , S0628
Summary: The Transportation Committee heard and advanced several bills, mostly related to honorary roadway designations, specialty license plates, and Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles administration. SB 628 designated a portion of South Navy Boulevard in Pensacola as “Warrior Sacrifice Way” to honor Ensign Joshua Watson and Petty Officers Muhammad Hatham and Cameron Walters, who were killed in the 2019 Naval Air Station Pensacola attack. The bill passed favorably with no debate or opposition. The committee also considered SB 174, naming a portion of State Road 985 in Miami-Dade County as Charlie Kirk Memorial Avenue. Senator Arrington opposed the bill during debate, citing Kirk’s public statements as inconsistent with the honor, while Senator Rodriguez argued the designation was an honorary roadway naming that did not require agreement with Kirk’s views. The bill was reported favorably. SB 388, which raises the annual use fee for the Florida Wildflowers specialty license plate from $15 to $25 while keeping the lower fee for owners with more than 10 vehicles, also passed favorably after a support-only public comment. Members then approved SB 470, which opens the Fraternal Order of Police specialty plate to the general public and allows redesigns to help sustain sales and increase funding for law enforcement memorial efforts. Public testimony from the FOP supported the change. SB 584 authorized DHSMV to enter agreements allowing county tax collectors to enforce certain commercial driving school provisions, aimed at addressing fraud and licensing abuses, and it passed favorably with support. Finally, the committee approved SB 488, the DHSMV agency package updating IFTA compliance, online filing, crash reporting thresholds, registration procedures, email communications, and tank vehicle definitions, along with SB 490, the companion public records exemption for email addresses used under SB 488; both were reported favorably, with SB 490 noted as requiring a two-thirds vote.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Economic Development May 21st, 2025

Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • engrossed version of HB 346 sought to relieve new businesses from the costly licensing and registration fees
  • Registration fees in their first year of business.
  • The committee substitute allows the Secretary of State to set appropriate fees for an expedited business
  • The committee substitute allows the Secretary of State to set appropriate fees for an expedited business
Summary: The Senate Economic Development Committee heard and laid out several measures focused on school safety, Texas-Taiwan relations, defense manufacturing, business formation, hotel tax policy, and NASA relocation. HB 1851 would allow surplus DPS vehicles and law enforcement equipment to be transferred to school districts in economically disadvantaged areas for use by school police and security personnel, with a two-year resale restriction. HCR 127 expressed support for the Texas-Taiwan relationship and trade ties, HCR 118 supported expanding warship manufacturing in Texas, HCR 141 urged Congress to move NASA headquarters to Houston, HB 346 (with a committee substitute) revised business filing and fee authority while making permanent a franchise tax exemption for new veteran-owned businesses, HB 2974 was an omnibus hotel occupancy tax and qualified hotel project bill, and HB 5596 addressed accountability for municipal hotel occupancy tax revenues in coastal communities. Witnesses generally supported the measures, including the Texas Hotel and Lodging Association on HB 2974 and resource witnesses from the Texas Veterans Commission and Secretary of State on HB 346; no opposition testimony was registered on the laid-out bills. After public testimony, the committee took up pending business and adopted committee substitutes where applicable. HB 1851, HB 346, HB 2974, and HB 5596 were each reported favorably to the full Senate, with HB 346 and HB 2974 also recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. HCR 127 and HCR 118 were reported favorably as well, and HCR 127 and HCR 141 were likewise recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. The committee also reported HB 4320 favorably, though the transcript repeats that motion several times. The meeting ended with the committee standing in recess until 7:00 a.m. subject to the call of the chair.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • version of HB 346 sought to relieve new businesses... ...from the costly licensing and registration fees
  • The committee substitute allows the Secretary of State to set appropriate fees for an expedited business
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Culture, Recreation & Tourism May 8th, 2025

Culture, Recreation & Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • What this bill does is fund that by asking for a simple $600,000 a year from the boat registration fees
  • There are over 500 boats that pay the registration fees to the state.
Bills: HB4538 , HCR89 , HCR142 , SCR1 , SB2139
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs May 5th, 2025

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • While the districts in the region have, in some cases, used arbitrary fee schedules and overly strict
  • HB 612 extends cost-based fee protections to include developers, not just retail public utilities.
  • It prohibits water districts from imposing pipeline construction fees on a developer greater than the
  • However, the fee limitations still apply.
  • SB 3058 authorizes the district to use export fees, export fees collected under the current law to fund
Bills: HB2018 , HB1633 , HB1689 , SB612 , SB3058
Summary: The Senate Water, Agriculture, Rural Affairs Committee heard several bills focused on groundwater management, water infrastructure, and agricultural land conservation. SB 612 would limit certain water districts in Hidalgo, Cameron, and Willacy counties from charging developers pipeline construction fees above actual, documented costs; the committee substitute removed a developer challenge mechanism to preserve district discretion over construction standards. HB 1633 would require groundwater conservation districts to consider registered exempt wells when reviewing or amending permits, and testimony from landowners, district representatives, and advocacy groups largely supported the bill as a way to protect domestic and livestock wells from drawdown caused by large export projects. HB 1689 would clarify that export fee revenues may be used for well operability, alternative water supplies, and aquifer monitoring, including through interlocal cooperation, and HB 3058 would give the Post Oak Savannah Groundwater Conservation District authority to use export fees for county road improvements and environmental programs tied to well inspection and groundwater management. HB 2018 would clarify that the Texas Farm and Ranchland Conservation Program is intended to purchase conservation easements only on working agricultural lands, with support from cattle raisers and Farm Bureau representatives. The committee also considered HB 29, which would require large water systems to validate water loss audits and submit mitigation plans; a committee substitute removed the water-loss threshold and adjusted the timeline for more detailed validation. Public testimony on the bills was generally supportive, with several witnesses describing declining well levels, road damage from export projects, and the need to preserve agricultural land and local water supplies. The committee adopted committee substitutes and voted favorably on HB 29, HB 1689, HB 2018, SB 612, and SB 3058, recommending several of them for the local and uncontested calendar; HB 1633 was left pending awaiting a committee substitute.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on County & Regional Government May 5th, 2025

S/C on County & Regional Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Establishing a permitting process for events exceeding these limits, with fees based on administrative
  • The fee collected when certain county fees are paid is deposited into a special account and can only
  • local needs. direct accountability to local voters with respect to the fees, fee amounts, and how they
  • Fee. So the county commissioners will come up with the fee amount, correct?
  • I understand there could be concern that the fee might be too high.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairman and members, Senate Bill 1015 relates to excess contributions and fees allocated to statutory
  • It would clarify the exact court fees pursuant to the local government code which the comptroller uses
  • for the bill as filed would further clarify that the allocation of excess statutory probate court fees
  • Are the sole domain of the comptroller by including fees permitted to the Office of Court Administration
  • If the bill is implemented, then whatever hourly rate or flat fee the county pays for those.
Bills: SB629 , SB1015 , SB2501 , SB2933
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Feb 18th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • I did serve in the legal division of the administrative office of courts for almost 35 years.
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  • So, I'm here representing Alabama CASA, not the Administrative Office of Courts, obviously.
  • It goes to administrative rule.
Committee: Senate Judiciary
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Ways & Means Feb 9th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • A partial fiscal note is available showing no impact to the Administrative Office of the Courts, but
  • The administrative fee may increase state revenues, but the amount is indeterminate, as it is unknown
  • It also makes tax administration simpler for our assessors by having a standard deduction.
  • Also makes tax administration simpler for our assessors by having a standard deduction.
  • Senate Bill 5988, establishing fee authority for accreditation services.
Committee: Senate Ways & Means