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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Some places in our great state of Texas are undoubtedly sacred schools above all.
- It's one of the, it is the most underreported crime that we have, not just in the state of Texas, but
- The sexualization of children and the normalization normalization of pedophilia in the state of Texas
- In the state of Texas, possession of a childlike sex doll is not documented nor recorded as a statistic
- of Texas, but also with any police officer and investigator in the United States because this crime
Bills:
HB316
Committee:
House Criminal Jurisprudence
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Delivery of Government Efficiency Mar 5th, 2025
Delivery of Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- of Texas, for the state.
- You know, DIR is DIR with the state of Texas. There are others that are. state.
- The law of the state of Texas is the...
- the total teacher count in the state of Texas?
- As you all know so well, the state of Texas is one of the largest employers in the state. state, and
Committee:
House Delivery of Government Efficiency
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs May 23rd, 2025
Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- There's a crisis in the supply chain, but it benefits every Texas resident, every United States resident
- Texas A&M, West Texas A&M, and some pretty impressive programs that are working.
- According to the Texas Water Development Board, there are currently no operational ASR projects in Texas
- Our largest trading partner— and I don’t mean the United States, I mean Texas—is Mexico.
- House Bill 4530 addresses a Texas Water Development Board legislative priority. The Texas Water...
Committee:
Senate Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Apr 23rd, 2025
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Peace officers employed by the OAG bravely serve the citizens of the state of Texas and conduct complex
- In 2007, we were all sent across the state during the Texas Juvenile Justice, uh, division conservatorship
- of Texas.
- We are not only, I guess, competing against each other for officers across the state of Texas, but we
- We are the 3rd largest school district in the state of Texas.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Downtown, there are historic landmarks and attractions like the Texas State Railroad, the Texas Theater
- Members, today I'm proud to recognize county treasurers from across the state of Texas.
- I had a bill that would have put a cop in every school paid for by the state of Texas.
- I am. ...the state of Texas. That bill went nowhere. Correct. You're aware? I am.
- With no funding help from the state of Texas. That's correct.
Summary:
The Senate opened with a quorum, an invocation, and routine motions to excuse Senator King and dispense with the reading of the previous journal. Members then took up several ceremonial resolutions and recognitions, including honoring Duncanville High School’s boys basketball state championship, recognizing the city of Palestine, welcoming the Texas African American Lawyers Foundation and Barbara Jordan Leadership Institute, acknowledging the Cibolo Chamber of Commerce, and designating Texas County Treasurer’s Day and Mesquite Day. A memorial resolution for Clyde Vance Dunham of Waco was adopted, with multiple senators speaking in tribute to his long legal career and community service; the Senate agreed to adjourn in his memory.
The chamber then considered a series of bills, most of which were advanced on expedited motions. Senate Bill 1948, concerning fire prevention standards for certain agricultural facilities, passed after suspension of the rules and the three-day rule. Senate Bill 1394, updating weight and tire-load rules for ready-mix concrete trucks, passed unanimously. Senate Bill 1814, creating an electronic database to provide information to certain veterans, also passed unanimously. Senate Bill 241, tightening enforcement of the public camping ban and authorizing state enforcement and reimbursement mechanisms, drew questions about impacts on unhoused people but ultimately passed. Senate Bill 1147, withdrawing Texas from the Interstate Mining Compact, passed unanimously.
The Senate also passed Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 921 on Medicaid ex parte renewals after a narrower vote, and Senate Bill 609, requiring school districts and charter schools to comply with legally required policies, after rejecting an amendment by Senators Menendez and Perry that would have added a good-faith/resource-limitation safeguard for districts. Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 660, requiring bollards or similar barriers near certain hospital emergency rooms, passed with rural exemptions and exceptions for existing protections. Senate Bill 2155, a cleanup bill returning veterinary board authority from TDLR to the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, passed with amendments. Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 1209 on election dates and Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 1396 prohibiting national sex education standards in public schools also passed. The Senate then received first-reading bills and adjourned until the next day.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Texas is a great state, the economy is strong compared to other states. places but don't expect and that's
- But the goal is to bring together the medical schools across the state of Texas. working with the state
- It was a need from the state of Texas, as identified by the Texas... mortality child with the maternal
- As in, every single other state has fewer occupational licensure requirements than the state of Texas
- The state auditor is, state auditor's office Auditor for Texas State Government.
Committee:
House Appropriations
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Elections Committee Aug 19th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- You can tell him to call off this partisan gerrymandering in Texas and other states.
- Again, this is a crisis brought upon us because of what the state of Texas is..."
- Again, this is a crisis brought upon us because of what the state of Texas is doing.
- So by overriding our state constitution to retaliate to the actions of the state of Texas is completely
- You keep, you guys keep bringing up Texas. Why is other states... In Missouri.
Summary:
The Assembly Elections Committee met on August 19, 2025, to consider ACA 8, SB 280, and an informational hearing on AB 604. The meeting began with several failed motions to adjourn, to read public comments into the record, and to recess so members could review the roughly 16,000 public comments submitted through the committee portal. The chair emphasized the hearing’s expedited format, transparency measures, and rules limiting witness testimony, and noted a letter from Speaker Rivas authorizing Assemblymember Berman to present ACA 8.
ACA 8, described by supporters as the “Election Rigging Response Act,” would place before voters a temporary congressional redistricting plan tied to AB 604 and triggered only if another state, especially Texas, adopts a partisan mid-decade redistricting. Supporters, including Assemblymember Berman, labor groups, CTA, Planned Parenthood affiliates, SEIU, and other allied organizations, argued the measure was a response to partisan gerrymandering elsewhere and a defense of democracy, with voters having the final say in a November 4, 2025 special election. Opponents, including current and former redistricting commissioners, good-government groups, business and taxpayer organizations, and many members of the public, argued the proposal undermines California’s independent redistricting model, was rushed without adequate public review, could cost roughly $200 million or more, and would invite litigation and partisan manipulation.
The committee also debated a proposed amendment that would bar legislators who voted for ACA 8 from later running for Congress in districts adopted under the measure. After extended procedural disputes, the committee voted to lay the amendment on the table. The hearing then continued with extensive public testimony, overwhelmingly divided between strong support and strong opposition, but the transcript provided does not show a final committee vote on ACA 8 or SB 280 before the excerpt ends.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Projects in Texas already face a longer state permitting timeline because of the contested case hearing
- Uh, the LNG market is expected to nearly double by 2040, and the state of Texas has an opportunity to
- So, um, the quantity has increased a lot when we're talking about Ty permits for the state of Texas.
- I'm here representing Texas State Inspection Association.
- We're one of the newest towns in, in the state of the great state of Texas, and I am its first mayor
Committee:
House Environmental Regulation
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Which will allow us to learn from the state agencies and the current status of Texas transportation fundings
- It is a Texas issue. this issue and figuring out the problems that face our state is of great importance
- And then there's the federal side that is out of the jurisdiction obviously of of the state of Texas,
- , by the state of Texas and the MPOs.
- And priorities that we need to get done in the state of Texas seems to be dry. wagon out there.
Committee:
House S/C on Transportation Funding
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- based on state-specific metric goals.
- So with that opening up, the state of Texas does not have a method or organization to evaluate accreditation
- The bill amends the Texas Education Code by establishing the Texas Higher Education Accrediting Commission
- labor market demands, as identified by the Texas Workforce Commission.
- The Capitol View corridors in Austin, designed to preserve the visibility of the Texas State Capitol,
Committee:
Senate Education K-16
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Education K-16 heard several bills and took no final votes, leaving each measure pending. The first major item, SB 1322 by Senator Hagenbuch, would create a Texas Higher Education Accrediting Commission to evaluate and approve accrediting agencies for public colleges and universities using outcome-based metrics such as retention, graduation, employment, debt, and repayment. Supporters, including Kate Byerley of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, argued the bill would add competition and align accreditation with Texas workforce needs; Senator Menendez questioned the need for a new bureaucracy and noted the $3.6 million fiscal note, suggesting existing reporting and oversight structures could serve the same purpose.
The committee then heard SB 1998, which would establish a pediatric subspecialty preceptorship program to encourage medical students to enter pediatric subspecialties. Dr. Lauren Gamble testified in strong support, saying the program would help address shortages and improve access for children, especially in rural and underserved areas. SB 2788, authored by Senator Menendez, would add the PSAT as an accepted assessment for dual credit and Texas Success Initiative purposes; Priscilla Camacho of Alamo Colleges supported the bill, citing strong student outcomes and widespread use of the PSAT as a readiness indicator.
Senator Creighton laid out SB 2076, which would remove or modify certain Capitol view corridor restrictions affecting the UT Austin Academic Medical Center project, including the planned specialty hospital and MD Anderson Cancer Center expansion. He said the existing corridors are outdated and limit development. The committee also heard SB 1418, a cleanup bill replacing outdated references to ACT Plan with Pre-ACT and removing obsolete SAT subject test language. After brief testimony and no opposition on the later bills, the committee closed public testimony and left SB 1322, SB 1998, SB 2788, SB 2076, and SB 1418 pending before recessing for the floor session.
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Natural Resources and Environment Apr 15th, 2026
Natural Resources & Environment
Transcript Highlights:
- of Texas, dispose... ...to, while not directly compete with the state of Texas, disposal wells, at least
- Just as a reference point, if the exact well had been in the state of Texas, I would have been given
- The state of Louisiana gave me 1,160, so not even half of what Texas allows.
- You reference that in Texas and other states, it’s more consistent in terms of the substructure, but
- My biggest concern is that the state of Louisiana ends up doing what Texas is doing, and they go in and
Committee:
House Natural Resources & Environment
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
Legislative Finance Sub Committee Nov 18th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- About a year and a half ago, the United States Supreme Court rejected the consent decree of the states
- Unlike the consent decree that the states had entered into, the United States is now on board with this
- You can think of this as Texas and New Mexico both thought the other state was violating the compact.
- Senator to Texas.
- Those are just within New Mexico issues, though, so we don't even need Texas or the United States on
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- in the state.
- Members of the State Board of Education are among the few elected officials in Texas who do not have
- My name is Maggie DeSanza, and I'm here representing the Texas State Employees Union, speaking on HB
- beneath the Texas.
- The state did not do that.
Committee:
Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Referred to the Committee on State Affairs.
- and the state highway system.
- HB 1262, by Goodwin, relating to the purpose and programs administered by the Texas State Affordable
- to the Committee on State Affairs.
- outdoor burns conducted during a state of disaster or state emergency, referred to the Committee on
Summary:
The House met to read a large slate of newly filed bills and resolutions and refer them to committees. The measures covered a wide range of topics, including health care and insurance, public education, elections, criminal justice, public safety, taxes, transportation, agriculture, environmental regulation, higher education, housing, and local government. Several proposals focused on abortion and reproductive health, firearms, voter registration and ballot access, school curriculum and accountability, property tax and homestead issues, and state contracting and agency oversight. A number of constitutional amendments were also filed, including proposals on initiative and referendum, veto override authority, vaccination refusal, parental rights in education, gun rights, Medicaid expansion, and various tax exemptions.
No substantive debate, testimony, or votes occurred during this portion of the meeting; the clerk simply read the bills and resolutions and announced their committee referrals. The list included both general legislation and joint resolutions, with many items sent to standing committees and several to subcommittees. The House then adjourned without objection until 2 p.m. on Tuesday.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Texas is a great state.
- across the state. the state of Texas.
- It was a need from the state of Texas, as identified by the Texas... Child...
- of Texas that pays their car wash attendants more than we pay our IDD attendants. in the state of Texas
- People across the state of Texas thought were some ideas that we could do in Texas to bolster the mental
Committee:
House Appropriations
Keywords:
budget, House Bill 1, public education, healthcare, border security, federal funding, spending limits
Summary:
The meeting primarily focused on reviewing the proposed budget for the upcoming biennium, with substantial discussions around House Bill 1 and its implications for public education, healthcare, and border security. The Comptroller presented a revenue overview indicating a total of $194.6 billion available for general purpose spending, which reflects a slight decrease compared to previous years due to fluctuating economic conditions. Members raised questions regarding spending limits and the impact of federal funding on state programs, highlighting concerns about the sustainability of funding in light of potential changes at the federal level.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- States.
- Justice Kavanaugh emphasized, to state the obvious, Representative Hayes: a state cannot conduct an election
- Federal law preempts state law.
- Even if we're not having one of those in Texas, it can affect a Texas voter's mail ballot if it happens
- and help them navigate the elections process in Texas.
Committee:
House Elections
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- state.
- House Concurrent Resolution 102 also directs the Texas Secretary of State to send official copies to
- And NEI estimates that preserving these credits could save the state of Texas up to $600 million.
- the state and authorize the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation to adopt necessary rules, providing
- who are licensed in Texas that moved. ...to other compact states.
Committee:
Senate Business & Commerce
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm from South Texas. I'm from South Texas.
- I'll also state that this bill, I think just like fracking helped bring a lot of innovation from Texas
- Texas Pacific owns interest in more than 6800 oil and gas wells, mostly in West Texas.
- of Texas.
- in Texas schools.
Committee:
House Energy Resources
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The first, as far as the Texas Nutrition Advisory Committee membership, we would recommend where it states
- More streamlined messages not just for schools but for the whole state of Texas.
- And since then, we've been able to work in probably 130 Texas counties and all states and 30 countries
- I, I'm still here for the Texas Pediatric Society and the Texas Medical Association, and, um, we are
- So, what you see in front of you is the state of Texas Ice Cream Company, which is Blue Bell, which I
Committee:
Senate Health & Human Services
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We do democracy work in many states across the US, but I am the Texas person, OK, one of the great Texas
- Yes, can you explain what a risk limiting audit is for the state of Texas?
- The state of Texas has our own requirement for it.
- The state of Texas requires counties to provide certain election information to the public.
- That's what this is, is let's online transparency about our elections in the state of Texas.
Committee:
House Elections