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MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am

Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Meanwhile, we face risks on the job: scams, robberies, even violence.
  • I've got suspicious package requests and scam calls.
  • costs, because sometimes simply signing up and getting it, and those costs in the waiting period, prevents
  • and in our written testimony highlight additional consumer protections for cost transparency and preventing
  • consumers from loot. consumer protections for cost transparency and preventing consumers from lute from
Summary: The Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities, and Energy opened its hearing with testimony on several broadband, towing, and rideshare-related bills. The first major issue was H. 3470/S. 2259, which would add data privacy and integrity protections for transportation network driver information. Rideshare drivers and labor advocates strongly opposed the bill, saying it would delay implementation of Question 3, which Massachusetts voters approved to give rideshare drivers a path to unionize. Drivers described low pay, deactivations, harassment, safety risks, and the need for a union to negotiate fairer working conditions. Legal and labor experts testified that the bill was largely duplicative of existing law and regulations and would unnecessarily postpone drivers’ organizing rights. No vote was taken on the bill during the hearing. The committee also heard extensive testimony on broadband affordability and access bills, including S. 2318/H. 3527 and related measures. Supporters, including legislators, digital equity advocates, senior advocates, and service providers, said low-income households need a permanent affordable broadband option after the federal Affordable Connectivity Program ended. They argued that internet access is now essential for jobs, school, health care, housing, and daily life, and supported a flat-rate low-income plan around $15 per month with protections such as no installation fees or termination fees. Opponents from cable and wireless industry groups argued the bills would impose artificial price mandates, discourage investment, and reduce consumer choice, noting that providers already offer discounted programs. The committee also heard support for broadband deployment and pole-attachment streamlining bills, with providers and municipal broadband advocates saying permitting delays and pole access bottlenecks slow expansion and raise costs. Additional testimony covered H. 3566, which would exempt municipal broadband projects from surety bond requirements, and towing-related bills including S. 2235, H. 3507, H. 3516, and H. 3482. Insurance and anti-fraud witnesses supported stronger towing protections, saying some towers charge excessive fees and hold vehicles hostage, while one witness urged broader consumer safeguards. The hearing ended after the chairs shortened testimony to fit the room schedule, asked for final comments on remaining bills, and then adjourned by motion and voice vote.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session Jan 22nd, 2026

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • both the Banking and Judiciary Committees, I told a story about my mom last year, who was almost scammed
  • Over the interim recess, I had two senior scam stopper events in my district, and I heard from hundreds
  • And this allows even small-dollar scams to be aggregated and shared across law enforcement jurisdictions
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Elections - 04/08/25

Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • It includes a wide range of pro-democracy reforms that will improve transparency, prevent corruption
  • range of pro-democracy reforms that will improve<00:01:27.799><c> transparency,</c><00:01:28.799><c> prevent
  • </c><00:01:29.200><c> corruption</c> improve transparency, prevent corruption improve transparency, prevent
  • </c><00:59:38.799><c> billionaires</c> and this bill will prevent billionaires and this bill will prevent
  • As predatory scam packs our elections.
Committee: Senate Elections
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session Jun 3rd, 2025

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I know that you had some personal experience with this scam.
  • I know that you had some personal experience with this scam.
  • It's why we have allocated billions of dollars to wildfire prevention.
  • It has prevented law enforcement from getting search warrants.
  • Members, drowning is 100% preventable. Numbers don't lie. Members, drowning is 100% preventable.
Summary: The Assembly met after a quorum call and first dealt with a procedural dispute over four amendments to AB 1240. The Speaker ruled the amendments out of order as not germane, and the Assembly sustained that ruling on a 49-16 vote. Members then added co-authors to several consent-calendar resolutions, including measures on the National Conference of State Legislators, Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, ALS Awareness Month, and Men’s Mental Health Month, before adopting the consent calendar. The chamber also heard guest introductions, including a welcome for Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, and took up a motion to bring AB 41 up out of file, which failed 19-48. The bulk of the meeting was floor action on a long series of bills and resolutions, many of which passed with broad bipartisan support. Measures approved included ACR 40 supporting immigrant students and FAFSA privacy; AB 917 on permanent status for certain school employees; AB 985 on anesthesia access; AB 7 and AB 42 on higher education and student services; AB 245 providing property tax relief for wildfire victims; AB 255 allowing funding for drug-free recovery housing; AB 279 updating K-12 library standards; AB 289 creating a pilot for automated speed enforcement in highway construction zones; AB 291 on an educator apprentice program; AB 327 addressing swatting; AB 340 on confidential union communications; AB 341 creating an oral health technical assistance center for people with disabilities; AB 356 on San Diego health care infrastructure; AB 410 on bot disclosure; AB 476 on copper theft enforcement; AB 477 on educator pay targets; AB 485 on stolen wages and business licensing; AB 487, the insurance committee’s technical omnibus bill; AB 573 on tobacco retail license fees; AB 598 on school mapping technology; AB 635 on mobile home law enforcement referrals; AB 651 on remote participation for incarcerated parents in dependency hearings; AB 654 on homelessness hotline assistance in Los Angeles County; AB 662 creating a South County higher education task force; AB 667 on language access in professional licensing; AB 669 limiting early denial of addiction treatment; AB 670 on naturally occurring affordable housing; AB 695 on online continuation of community college for deported students; AB 723 on disclosure for digitally altered real estate images; AB 727 placing Trevor Project information on student IDs; and AB 736, a $10 billion affordable housing bond for the June 2026 ballot, which passed on a 61-11 urgency vote after extensive debate. Debate on AB 736 was the most extensive of the day, with supporters arguing the bond would help address California’s housing crisis and give voters a chance to weigh in, while opponents criticized the state’s bond debt and past spending results. The Assembly then recessed for caucus meetings and later returned to continue the daily file, where additional measures were taken up, including AB 798 adding diapers and wipes to the emergency food bank reserve program, which passed 56-0, and AB 821 on career technical education, which was presented as bipartisan-supported as the transcript continued.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 02/26/25

Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am, and he signed executive orders, in his words, to get rid of the Green New Scam, which I've been
  • I am, and he signed executive orders, in his words, to get rid of the Green New Scam, which I've been
  • I am, and he signed executive orders, in his words, to get rid of the Green New Scam, which I've been
  • I am, and he signed executive orders, in his words, to get rid of the Green New Scam, which I've been
  • Uh, I don't want to call it a scam, but this less than effective way of providing electricity.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm founder of Ways to Well, a medical practice that is rooted in predictive preventative medicine.
  • It prevents private pediatricians and family practice offices from choosing not to accept unvaccinated
  • Why are you preventing adult citizens of Arizona the right to make medical decisions that are in their
  • cost savings of providing Medicaid coverage for preventive care, evaluating and recommending public
  • The ADA and its affiliated Obesity Association advocate for diabetes and obesity prevention policies
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on the Judiciary Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on the Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • And we're just trying to prevent it. Thank you.
  • Just those things that we see over and over again, and we're just trying to prevent it. Thank you.
  • My name is Alejandra, and I'm representing the Massachusetts Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence.
  • As a gun violence prevention organization, we are focused on the root causes of gun violence: racism,
  • Solving homicides is itself a violence prevention strategy.
Summary: The hearing opened with procedural remarks and acknowledgments of Rosh Hashanah, followed by testimony on several criminal justice bills before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary. A major focus was S. 1061, the “Raise the Age” bill, which would gradually move 18- to 20-year-olds into the juvenile justice system. Supporters included youth and young adult advocates, former juvenile court Judge Jay Blitzman, ACLU and CPCS representatives, Roca, United Way, Citizens for Juvenile Justice, and Senator Brendan Crichton. They argued that young adults are still developmentally immature, that juvenile court services improve education and rehabilitation, and that adult-system involvement leads to higher recidivism and racial disparities. Committee members asked practical questions about how the bill would work, and witnesses explained that it would expand access to juvenile court diversion, probation, and DYS services for the covered age group. The chairs also noted a notice issue, clarifying that the hearing had been posted seven days in advance rather than the usual ten. The committee also heard testimony on a bill to revise accomplice and joint venture murder liability and sentencing. Representative Sam Montaño and Senator Liz Miranda supported the reform, arguing that current law can impose life sentences on people with limited or no knowledge of a killing and that the doctrine contributes to racial bias and disproportionate punishment. A law professor, a former defendant, and advocates from the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls described cases where people were punished far beyond their actual role and said the bill would better align charges and sentences with individual culpability. Related testimony also supported a proportionality-focused reform to reduce the harshness of joint venture sentencing. Several other public safety and criminal justice bills drew testimony. Senator Robin Kennedy supported a bill redefining strangulation in domestic violence law, saying the current “substantial pressure” standard is too vague and that strangulation is often lethal without visible injury. District Attorney Ryan and a retail business executive backed a bill on organized retail theft, saying it would give prosecutors more flexible charging options and better address coordinated theft rings. Representative Vieira and the family of Kiana Barros urged action on Kiana’s Law, which would improve restraining-order notification and enforcement after Barros’s daughter was killed after an order was not served. The hearing also included support for the HALO Act, which would create a 25-foot safety zone around first responders and penalize harassment or obstruction, and for a bill to enhance courthouse security by creating specific protections for judges and their families. No votes were taken during the hearing."} 0}]}
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session Jan 22nd, 2026

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • both the banking and judiciary committees, I told a story about my mom last year, who was almost scammed
  • Over the interim recess, I had two senior scam stopper events in my district, and I heard from hundreds
  • And this allows even small-dollar scams to be aggregated and shared across law enforcement jurisdictions
Summary: The Assembly convened, established a quorum after a roll call, and opened with a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. Routine procedural motions followed, including unanimous-consent actions to suspend rules for adjournment-in-memory remarks, guest introductions, and expedited floor processing of certain bills and committee reports. The chamber also recognized several guests, including Sacramento Police Detective Jason Collins, student musician Ethan Shue, and Glendale Councilmember Artie Kasakian. On the floor file, AB 1184 by Assembly Member Patterson, the Homeowner Association Accountability and Transparency Act of 2026, was presented as a measure to add basic transparency requirements for HOAs; it passed 56-0. AB 871 by Assembly Member Stephanie, addressing financial elder abuse and scam reporting/training for financial institutions, also passed 56-0. On the Senate side, SB 25 by Senator Umberg, which would give the California Attorney General earlier access to federal merger-notification filings to streamline merger review, passed 43-14 after the Majority Leader presented it. The Assembly then held several adjournment-in-memory tributes, including Paul R. Ignatius, former U.S. Secretary of the Navy and Glendale native; Oxnard Police Commander Scott Aaron; Private First Class Tanner F. Rubio of the U.S. Marine Corps; and former Yolo County Supervisor Betsy Marchand. Members and family guests offered remarks honoring their service and legacies, followed by a moment of silence for PFC Rubio. The session concluded with announcements about upcoming floor and committee deadlines and adjourned until Monday, January 26 at 1 p.m.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 23rd, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • SB5 by Hoffman, ruling to the creation of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
  • is gonna be $300 million per year. and up to 10% for those who are used for prevention.
  • Establishing the Dementia Prevention and Research.
  • This is a bill that prevents or seeks to prevent online barricades, stop the ambulance chasers online
  • TDLR is directed to identify Texas laws that limit or prevent rest.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session (Part 2 of September 12, 2025 Legislative day)

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Offshore, we're tightening oversight to prevent irreparable harm to our coast.
  • The bill also includes a really important provision to prevent hedge funds from trying to capitalize
  • So this is an attempt at a preventative measure to make sure that we maintain our electric system in
  • Let's be very clear here: cap and trade is a scam. It is a fraud. It has failed. It is a fraud.
  • In closing, one of the biggest scams In closing, one of the biggest scams of cap and trade is the so-called
Summary: The meeting began with procedural announcements, a vote change on SB 414, and adoption of the consent calendar, including ACR 107 on the Diablo Range. Members also agreed to take several Senate messages up without reference to file. A point of order was raised urging members to respect staff by arriving on time after a late-night session. The main floor debate centered on SB 237, a major oil and gas measure. Supporters said it would help stabilize fuel supply and prices, address refinery closures, strengthen offshore pipeline safety, clarify Kern County oil permitting, and allow possible suspension of the summer gasoline blend. Opponents argued it was a giveaway to big oil and a setback for climate goals. The bill passed 59-0. The Assembly then passed SB 254, an energy affordability and wildfire package that would reduce ratepayer costs, strengthen the wildfire fund, and speed utility infrastructure and clean energy permitting; it passed 58-0. SB 840, the cap-and-invest reauthorization and spending framework, drew the most divided debate, with supporters emphasizing climate policy, transit, housing, and community investments, and opponents calling it a tax increase and slush fund; it passed 54-15 on the urgency and 54-15 on the measure. AB 1207, the Assembly’s cap-and-invest reauthorization bill, also passed, 55-10 on both urgency and the measure. Members also approved SB 352 to make the Bureau of Environmental Justice permanent and require more reporting on air quality and AB 825 to create a Westwide electricity market, which supporters said would lower costs, improve reliability, and reduce emissions; AB 825 passed 67-2. AB 8, a cannabinoids bill with Senate amendments, was concurred in 66-0, and AB 383, a firearms cleanup bill, was concurred in 66-0. The session ended with immediate transmittals of the major measures to the Senate or Governor as applicable.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/05/2026 - House Floor Session

Arizona House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • HB 2992, pilot program, sexual abuse prevention — Education and Appropriations.
  • This bill does not prevent a librarian from being a member of a library association.
  • Regarding her work on robocalls and scams, A.G.
  • Mays should not resign because she issued multiple cryptocurrency scam alerts after Arizona's lost $177
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • I first heard about this problem from my own constituents who were scammed when accessory dwelling unit
  • In my former life, I prosecuted some elder financial abuse cases, including the types of scams we're
  • Dodd-Frank Act in 2010, and it really gives financial regulators specific authority to go after financial scams
  • especially right now it's timely because with the rise of AI and all the ways in which people can be scammed
Summary: The Assembly Banking and Finance Committee met to hear several bills focused on consumer and small business financial protections. SB 97, by Senator Grayson, would update and clarify California’s digital financial assets law; supporters from the blockchain industry and consumer groups said it would improve compliance clarity while preserving room to align with possible federal action. The committee passed SB 97 on a due-pass motion to the Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee, with the roll left open for absent members. The committee also heard SB 362, which would strengthen disclosure rules for small business financing by requiring clearer pricing information throughout the marketing process. Supporters said the bill would help small businesses compare offers and avoid harmful financing, while some industry groups objected to the bill’s treatment of communications and APR disclosures during negotiations. After discussion, the committee passed SB 362 to the Judiciary Committee, with several members voting aye and the roll left open. SB 784, a bill addressing predatory home-improvement and solar financing practices, drew extensive testimony. The author and supporters described scams targeting seniors, low-income homeowners, and non-English speakers, and said the bill would add safeguards such as confirmation calls, document access, fee transparency, and longer cancellation periods. Solar industry groups moved to neutral after amendments, while banks and other lenders raised concerns about overbreadth and impacts on legitimate lending. The committee passed SB 784 to Judiciary, with some members not voting or changing votes during the roll call. Finally, SB 825 sought to give the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation clearer authority to enforce existing consumer financial protection laws against its licensees, especially in light of reduced federal CFPB enforcement. Supporters argued California needs independent state enforcement tools, while banking and mortgage groups opposed the bill as duplicative and unnecessary, urging coordination with federal regulators and proposing narrower amendments. The committee passed SB 825 to Appropriations on a due-pass vote, and then adjourned after completing the agenda.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Administration of Criminal Justice Apr 15th, 2026

Administration of Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • individuals have sensitivities and other medical-related, whether you call it trauma or situations that prevent
  • This is prevention.
  • We have a law on the books now that prevents wearing a mask, like in—can you tell me where all, maybe
  • Thank you. ...of the person or to prevent his being readily recognized.
Bills: HB59 , HB74 , HB159 , HB167 , HB175 , HB255 , HB330 , HB364 , HB458 , HB525 , HB568 , HB656 , HB1033 , HB1034 , HB1070
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/26

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • We got rid of prevention and literacy.
  • We got rid of prevention and um<00:25:15.120><c> wellness</c><00:25:15.679><c> promotion.
  • ><c> emergency</c><00:28:27.200><c> management,</c> prevention, emergency management, prevention, emergency
  • But I understand right now current law prevents them from taking care of the same individuals if they
  • </c><01:03:43.920><c> by</c> occur a lot if they can be prevented by occur a lot if they can be prevented
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Transportation Feb 5th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • An ignition interlock device is installed in a driver's car, and it prevents the car from being started
  • So the program is designed to help support people be employed to try to prevent that.
  • Traffic Safety Commission as a public health authority for purposes of traffic safety improvement and prevention