Video & Transcript Research : 'illegal entry'

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AR

Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session

HOUSE CONVENES Apr 8th, 2026

Arkansas All Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • First off, in the back of the chamber by the entry doors, we'd like to recognize two members of our Arkansas
  • From the Protect Act to death by delivery to the Defense Against Criminal Illegals Act, we have fought
Summary: The transcript covers the opening of the Arkansas House and a joint session of the 95th General Assembly’s fiscal session. The House first established a quorum, granted leave for absent members, recognized guests, and adopted House Resolution 1001 to convene a joint session with the Senate for Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s address. Several bills and resolutions were read for the record, including House Resolution 1002 and House Bills 1001, 102, and 103, before the House recessed to await the Senate and then the governor. In the joint session, leaders recognized the late Representative Stan Barry with a moment of silence, introduced constitutional officers, judges, and other guests, and appointed committees to escort the governor. Governor Sanders then delivered a lengthy fiscal-session address focused on her budget priorities and policy agenda. She emphasized continued funding for education under LEARNS, teacher pay and literacy gains, public safety and law enforcement funding, government efficiency and tax cuts, and the 1033 initiative aimed at helping vulnerable Arkansans move from crisis to self-sufficiency. She also urged lawmakers to avoid new Medicaid mandates or ongoing spending and said she would call a special session to cut income taxes further if the budget is passed. After the governor’s remarks, the joint session adjourned. The House then reconvened briefly, adopted a motion to adjourn until the next day, and announced that the Joint Budget Committee would meet later that afternoon and again the following morning.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 03/09/26

Judiciary and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • the number of them being sought, um, the judiciary branch is being somewhat overwhelmed, hence the entry
  • the number of them being sought, um, the judiciary branch is being somewhat overwhelmed, hence the entry
  • the number of them being sought, um, the judiciary branch is being somewhat overwhelmed, hence the entry
  • the number of them being sought, um, the judiciary branch is being somewhat overwhelmed, hence the entry
  • When a vulnerable young illegal drugs.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, September 8, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • H.R. 3486, the Stop Illegal Entry Act.
  • This legislation will strengthen our immigration laws and deter criminal, ineligible illegal aliens from
  • This legislation gives federal officials more tools in their tool belt to prosecute illegal immigrants
  • by requiring significant imprisonment for illegals who commit crimes.
  • FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PROPERTIORS -- PROSECUTORS HAVE THE TOOLS THEY NEED TO DETER FURTHER ILLEGAL
MD

Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session, 3/23/2026 #1

Maryland Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • <01:47:34.520> services<01:47:35.080> female rehabilitated re-entry services female
  • rehabilitated re-entry services female incarcerated<01:47:36.400> individuals.
  • Washington, Correctional Services Comprehensive Rehabilitated Re-entry Services for Female Incarcerated
  • immigrants who have criminal illegal immigrants who have committed<01:54:44.280> crimes,<01:54
  • new home sales, entry of final sale<01:58:04.160> price<01:58:04.480> in<01:58:04.600>
Summary: The Senate first handled routine announcements, including welcoming a new group of pages and noting donations of donuts and chicken from local businesses, along with a citation planned for Mr. Herman’s Bakery, which is closing after 103 years. The chamber then took up Senate Bill 858, establishing a Department of Budget and Management Audit and Finance Compliance Unit. A senator moved to send the bill back to second reading to add an amendment, which was adopted without objection, and the bill was reprinted for third reading. The Finance Committee then reported several bills. Senate Bill 84, concerning collective bargaining for graduate assistants at UMCP and UMBC, was laid over after questions about whether graduate assistants are employees or students. Senate Bill 455, creating a transformational project financing program tied to tax increment financing districts, had two committee amendments adopted and was ordered printed for third reading. Senate Bill 623, creating a premium cigar lounge alcoholic beverage license, also received two committee amendments and was ordered up, but a later Howard County amendment was proposed and the bill was laid over. Senate Bill 777, directing workforce development support in hospital closures and related events, was adopted and sent to third reading. Senate Bill 831, addressing child labor penalties, private-sector labor relations, and state labor standards, was adopted with two amendments and sent to third reading. Senate Bill 932, requiring social media platforms to display users’ general geographic location, was laid over after questions. The committee also advanced Senate Bill 340, requiring at least $2 million annually for the Long-Term Care Ombudsman office, with two amendments adopted and the bill sent to third reading. Senate Bill 489, creating a limited license pathway for physicians trained abroad and repealing the fifth pathway program, was adopted with two amendments and sent to third reading. Senate Bill 496, expanding Medicaid coverage for obesity treatment, prompted extended debate over the fiscal note and who would bear the costs; the sponsor argued the estimate was overstated and did not account for likely lower utilization or health-care savings, while an opponent pressed concerns about the state share and structural deficit. The discussion continued without a final vote in the excerpt provided.
CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 065 Mar 20th, 2026

Colorado House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • must have security features designed to prevent<01:26:07.920> unauthorized<01:26:08.400> entry
  • Beginning October 1, 2027, at least one of the following features designed to prevent unauthorized entry
  • <01:36:46.000> or activate upon unauthorized entry or activate upon unauthorized entry or
  • by federal law, books, which is illegal by federal law, they<01:54:23.040> are<01:54:23.119><
  • Um and so what we circulation illegally.
Keywords: 981, all
Summary: The House convened with a quorum, approved the journal as corrected, and then proceeded out of order to memorials. House Memorial 1002, honoring former Representative Carl Eugene Miller of Leadville, was read and adopted unanimously, 63-0 with two excused. Speakers highlighted Miller’s service as a miner, Army veteran, Lake County commissioner, state representative, Public Utilities Commission commissioner, and his role in establishing the National Mining Hall of Fame and the Leadville Trail 100. His family was recognized in the chamber. During announcements, members welcomed several visiting groups, including Prowers County commissioners, the Rocky Mountain Cradle to Career Civic Influencers, the Colorado Springs School, and Advocates for Recovery Colorado, which was noted as advocating for recovery support and related policy issues. Members also mentioned upcoming committee meetings, including Finance and Appropriations, and a reminder that the business affairs and labor committee was not meeting that day. The House then set special orders for March 19, 2026, and adopted motions limiting debate time on House Bill 1126 to three hours and on Senate Bills 4 and 43 to two hours each. The chamber then resolved into committee of the whole and began consideration of House Bill 1126, which concerns requirements for dealing firearms. The bill was read at length at the request of the minority leader, who argued that the measure could hurt small, family-owned gun businesses. The bill summary described expanded permit requirements for firearm dealers, additional requirements for responsible persons and employees, recordkeeping and security mandates, reporting of theft or loss, and increased penalties for violations, including fines, suspension, or revocation of dealer permits.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

89th Legislative Session Apr 15th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Very important for clarification on how much illegal aliens are costing Texas taxpayers.
  • And Amendment 315 collects data on the cost of illegal aliens in our prison systems.
  • Do we at least know how much of our incarcerated population are illegal aliens?
  • Are you referring to immigrants or illegal immigrants, or both? All immigrants. Okay.
  • Texas was number two on the list of cybercrime losses in 2023, with 47,000 entries.
Summary: The House convened with prayer, pledges, and several ceremonial recognitions, including Wilson County Day, San Antonio Mission Indian Descendants Day, and Blue Ribbon Lobby Day, along with acknowledgments of visiting groups and a birthday greeting. The chamber also announced committee meetings and then moved into floor business, including conference committee action on Senate Bill 1, the state budget. A series of motions to instruct House conferees on SB 1 were debated and voted on. One motion sought to restore salary for Attorney General Ken Paxton after his impeachment-related suspension; it passed 88-56. Another, from Rep. Olcott, directed conferees to support amendments requiring data collection on the costs of undocumented immigrants in hospitals and prisons; after extended debate and a failed amendment from Rep. Martinez Fischer to also study immigrants’ economic contributions, the motion passed 86-61. The House also adopted instructions to eliminate Texas Lottery Commission funding, to support amendments restricting public education institutions from affirming gender identities inconsistent with biological sex, and to seek an additional $4 billion in property tax relief, with each motion passing on recorded votes. The House then took up a supplemental calendar and passed several bills, including HB 39 on veteran death data, HB 102 on priority registration for certain students entering military service, HB 126 on student-athlete compensation and representation, HB 290 on tuition and fee assistance for members of the Texas military forces, HB 300 on Texas Armed Services Scholarship Program updates, and HB 2143 naming a highway in honor of Army Specialist Joey Lins. The chamber also postponed consideration of HJR 2 and HJR 6. Later, the House considered HB 120 on career and technology education pathways and HB 20 on applied science pathway programs for high school students. HB 120 received a perfecting amendment and was advanced after discussion about workforce preparation. HB 20 prompted extensive questioning about transportation, costs, and how students would access partner campuses such as community colleges and TSTC sites; debate continued as the transcript ended, with members examining how the program would operate and whether approval authority would rest with TEA.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Ways and Means Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am

Joint Committee on Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you leave your business and you leave product there, that is illegal.
  • If you leave your business and you leave product there, that is illegal.
  • If you leave your business and you leave product there, that is illegal.
  • to figure out that it's illegal for me to get it.
  • If it's illegal, if it's illegal, it's illegal. Well, why don't we make it illegal?
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on Ways and Means held a public FY27 budget hearing at Barnstable Town Hall, with opening remarks emphasizing the Cape and Islands’ seasonal infrastructure, housing, transportation, workforce, and digital needs. The hearing began with testimony from the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, which outlined the Healey-Driscoll administration’s budget priorities for job training, apprenticeship, youth employment, reentry programs, and unemployment insurance modernization. The secretary highlighted proposed funding for the Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund, Career Technical Initiative, YouthWorks, reentry workforce development, and services for young adults with disabilities, along with a proposal to streamline youth work permits. Members also discussed the unemployment trust fund, the COVID assessment on employers, rising unemployment, and the need to improve DUA customer service and claims processing. Committee members asked about job seeker barriers such as child care, housing, transportation, and out-migration of young workers, as well as how to keep Cape Cod graduates and seasonal workers in the region. The administration said its strategy is to pair training with broader affordability investments and to expose students to career pathways earlier, including through middle school, early childhood STEM, YouthWorks, pre-apprenticeships, and Building Pathways. Senators and representatives also raised concerns about regional funding disparities, especially for Hampshire Franklin MassHire, and the administration said it is reviewing MassHire funding and service equity through a policy committee and statewide workforce board. On unemployment assistance, officials reported major improvements in wait times and claims processing, but said they are still working through backlogs and staffing challenges while maintaining program integrity. The committee then heard testimony from the Executive Office of Economic Development. The secretary described House 2 as a fiscally restrained budget with no new taxes or fees, while preserving core programs and using the Mass Leads Act tools to support competitiveness. EOED’s proposal included funding for the Community One Stop for Growth, rural economic development, social enterprise operating grants, regional economic development organizations, the Workforce Investment Trust Fund, Community Workforce Partnerships, Pathmaker, advanced manufacturing training, life sciences, innovation vouchers, AI initiatives, small business assistance, and tourism and live theater support. The Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation also testified on its FY27 request, focusing on consumer protection, licensing, banking, insurance, and public safety regulation. No votes were taken during the hearing.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Health Care Affordability, Select Apr 30th, 2026

Health Care Affordability, Select

Transcript Highlights:
  • So the Affordable Care Act, Section 6001, banned entry of physician-owned hospitals.
  • So the Affordable Care Act, Section 6001, banned entry of physician-owned hospitals.
  • If you look at law firms, I mean, it's illegal for a non-lawyer to own a law firm, but a doctor can't
  • It's actually illegal for independent doctors to offer cash prices to Medicare patients because of the
  • It's not illegal. Right? Well, in some cases, but yeah, primarily, mostly it's. Right.
Keywords: 1184, house, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 3/12/26

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you receive an entrance ticket, please retain it, as you may be required for re-entry if you leave
  • 00:01:12.560> be<00:01:12.720> required<00:01:13.119> for<00:01:13.280> re-entry
  • <00:01:14.080> if for it may be required for re-entry if for it may be required for re-entry
  • <01:15:49.440> are you know, obviously these these are you know, obviously these these are illegal
  • discrimin acts of employment illegal discrimin acts of employment discrimination,<01:15:52.880> but
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Elections - 02/26/26

Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • But this is your data entry of donors and expenditures. I refer to it as a parking lot.
  • this<00:08:57.519> is<00:08:57.680> your<00:08:58.000> data<00:08:58.320> entry
  • <00:08:58.800> of<00:08:59.120> donors but this is your data entry of donors but this
  • is your data entry of donors and<00:08:59.839> expenditures.
  • anger in a very unproductive or illegal anger in a very unproductive or illegal or<00:36:36.079>
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session Jun 4th, 2025

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • You are simply just stating, and it is illegal for him to ask on that ID portion.
  • AB 246 will prevent evictions of seniors and people with disabilities if there is a declared illegal
  • Cockfighting is already illegal in every state.
  • While I strongly support the efforts to stop illegal cockfighting, this bill sweeps too broadly and risks
  • punishing responsible... ...stop illegal cockfighting.
Summary: The Assembly convened with a quorum call, prayer, and Pledge of Allegiance, then moved through a long daily file of bills. Early procedural motions included a failed attempt to suspend the rules for AB 1219, followed by consideration of numerous measures on housing, veterans, education, elections, energy, wildfire prevention, public safety, and consumer affordability. Several bills drew bipartisan support and passed overwhelmingly, including AB 878 on safety accommodations for survivors of violence, AB 948 on school district facility maintenance, AB 81 and AB 88 on veterans’ mental health and student aid, AB 640 on school board fiscal training, AB 660 on housing permit timelines, AB 1048 on workers’ compensation billing disputes, AB 1119 on dual credentialing, AB 1172 on inhalable anti-seizure medication access, AB 1227 on wildfire prevention, AB 1285 and AB 696 on lithium-ion battery safety, AB 1417 on offshore wind transparency, AB 1530 on disaster recovery assistance, and AB 353 on affordable home internet. Some measures drew opposition or more divided votes, including AB 704 on sealing certain misdemeanor records, AB 1249 on early voting access, AB 1280 on thermal energy incentives, AB 1448 on offshore oil protections, AB 380 on price gouging, AB 402 on Cal Grant increases, AB 1074 on CalWORKs reunification, and AB 1084 on expedited gender-change and name-change court orders. The Assembly also granted reconsideration on AB 435, a child passenger safety bill, and passed it after debate on the five-step safety-seat standard. The floor debate featured recurring themes of affordability, housing, wildfire preparedness, election access, veterans’ services, and public safety. Supporters of the election bill AB 1249 argued it would simply add a Saturday early-voting option in non-VCA counties, while opponents raised concerns about verification and county staffing. AB 30, authorizing E15 gasoline in California, was presented as an urgency measure to lower fuel costs and passed unanimously on the urgency and the bill. AB 1466 on groundwater disputes was also taken up, with the author arguing it would reduce frivolous litigation and better represent all water users; the vote was 42 ayes and 17 noes. After completing the file, the Assembly recessed for lunch, later returned, and continued with additional file items, with many measures passing on strong bipartisan votes.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Education Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • In addition, we're concerned about things like student journal entries, very personal information that
  • First, it would provide stronger legal grounds for school staff to deny entry to immigration enforcement
  • who have received training still express concerns about whether they have the authority to refuse entry
  • First, it would provide stronger legal grounds for school staff to deny entry to immigration enforcement
  • AB 49 would make it clear that not only are staff allowed to deny entry, they are required to do so,
Summary: The Assembly Education Committee heard a full agenda of bills, first adopting a consent calendar of 11 measures without individual presentations. The committee then took up AB 1412, which would require California schools to implement or adopt a transferred special education student’s IEP within 30 days for out-of-state transfers and to coordinate more quickly on records. The author and military-family witnesses said the bill would reduce delays for highly mobile students, especially military children; a school administrators group opposed it. The bill received initial support from committee members and was moved on call. The committee also reconsidered AB 281, which would require notice to parents when outside consultants provide sex education instruction; the author accepted amendments removing a copy-right provision, but the bill remained on call after a split vote. The committee heard AB 1005, which would create a statewide drowning-prevention education and swim-lesson voucher framework for underserved communities. The author and supporters described drowning as a preventable public health and equity issue, while the bill was clarified as developing a plan rather than immediately launching a voucher program. It was voted out on a 3-0 roll with the measure placed on call. AB 908, as amended, would add compliance monitoring for existing requirements that schools use LGBTQ-inclusive instructional materials and curriculum under the FAIR Act. Supporters said the bill would improve implementation and student safety; opponents raised concerns about privacy, girls’ sports, and school burdens. The committee approved the bill 5-2 and sent it to Appropriations. The committee then heard AB 1401, which would affirm parents’ access to school records, including unofficial records unless exempt by law. The author argued that parents need clearer access to information held by schools and vendors, while school officials and teachers’ union representatives warned the bill was too vague and could sweep in personal notes, journals, and other sensitive material. The bill failed on a 2-3 vote and was placed on call. Finally, AB 727 would require student ID cards to include the Trevor Project hotline for LGBTQ youth; supporters framed it as a suicide-prevention measure, while opponents argued it conflicted with parental rights and religious beliefs. Committee discussion focused on whether 988 already provides similar access and whether the Trevor Project is an appropriate resource to print on IDs; the hearing continued with the bill still under consideration.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate Chamber Feb 7th, 2026 at 12:19 pm

New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • the bill, I don't see any illegal gun trades occurring.
  • this illegal act.
  • Any of these things that are now going to be illegal?
  • It says that they're illegal here. So we can't sell it.
  • Because that's an illegal...
Keywords: 996, all
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • sometimes we forget or don't. attention is you also guard the coastal waters. waters, in terms of illegal
  • Item D is a decrease in general revenue funds related to one-time costs for entry point inspection stations
  • Rider 8, agricultural and livestock entry points. inspection stations, recommendations remove references
  • It's not being done because of illegal alluvial wells along the river and permit holders. producing in
  • up you're saying there's no water because of the water will is drilled in the aluvium that's right illegal
Bills: SB1, SB 1
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/26/2026 - Senate Floor Session

Arizona Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And we are pretty sure that performing illegal surgeries already opens practitioners up to civil liability
  • And so if somebody's doing something bad or illegal, they can put them on administrative leave, they
  • Finchem referenced yesterday, they illegally and unconstitutionally expanded through the mass parole
  • That it should not be the responsibility to fund public benefits for people that came in illegally and
  • an act amending Sections 12-1171 and 12-1173 of the Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to forcible entry
Keywords: 1182, all
Summary: The Senate met in Committee of the Whole on several calendars, with opening prayer, pledge, attendance, guest introductions, and recognition of doctors of the day and student visitors. The chamber also approved the prior day’s journal and later adopted multiple Committee of the Whole reports assigning bills for further action. Several measures were retained on the calendar, including SB 1366, SB 1503, SB 1787, SB 1803, and SB 1628. On the first calendars, the Senate advanced SB 1232 on military compatibility permit zoning, SB 1493 on disciplinary action appeals for law enforcement officers, SB 1538 on civil traffic violations and warrant-related penalties, and SB 1618 on the military affairs commission, all with amendments. The chamber also advanced SB 1424 on firearm safety instruction in public schools, SB 1456 on state highways and routes, SB 1552 on a tax revision, SB 1554 on chiropractic claims, SB 1572 on civics instruction, SB 1633 on an income tax subtraction for a primary residence, SB 1684 on school liability for serious injury, and SCR 1004 on photo enforcement systems. SCR 1004 drew comments that the amended version would require photo radar to be put to voters in affected cities or towns in the 2028 election cycle. A substantial portion of the meeting focused on SB 1094, which would create civil liability for physicians performing irreversible gender-reassignment surgery on minors. Supporters argued it would protect minors and hold doctors accountable, while opponents said it would discriminate against transgender youth, increase malpractice costs, chill medical care, and reduce provider availability. The Senate also debated SB 1124 on psychiatric evaluations ordered by boards, SB 1496 on Department of Child Safety procedures and representative payees, and SB 1713 on AHCCCS procurement contracting, with concerns raised about access, delays, and agency discretion. SB 1813, dealing with the state hospital governing board and Maricopa County bed limits, prompted debate over litigation risk versus expanding capacity for people with serious mental illness. In later calendars, the Senate advanced SB 1246 on homeowners associations and foreclosure, SB 1271 on municipal authority and alarm-system reporting, SB 1338 on state and local public benefits eligibility, SB 1428 on county board membership, SB 1663 on freedom of speech and the Freedom of Speech Monument Committee, SB 1688 on membership association fees and disclosures, SB 1805 on county recorder/court claim deeds and notaries, SCR 1024 on legislative qualifications and residency requirements, and SB 1808 on homeowners associations and county flags. SB 1338 drew opposition from Sen. Kuby, who said it would remove refugees, DACA recipients, and asylum seekers from eligibility for state and local benefits. SCR 1024 was amended to require one year of party affiliation in addition to district residency, and the sponsor explained it was intended to align party and district requirements. Most measures were adopted from Committee of the Whole with do-pass recommendations, many as amended.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Apr 22nd, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • somebody at the Texas Education Agency just kind of arbitrarily decided that homeschooling should be illegal
  • state agency arbitrarily. ...deciding someday, like they did in the 80s, that homeschooling should be illegal
  • or almost illegal.
  • These actions would better address risk without creating barriers to entry for qualified diverse professionals
US
Transcript Highlights:
  • Democrats desperately want wide-open borders and mass amnesty for illegals, allowing them to vote.
  • Are there any Democratic senators that you think are for open borders and mass amnesty for illegal undocumented
  • significant part of... of the U.S. major sector, the Swanton sector, where you've had a skyrocketing of illegals
  • And we need to do so with people as well, both at the lowest level, the starting entry levels within
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Transcript Highlights:
  • as a career while maintaining the high bar of passing the CPA exam that is designed to demonstrate entry-level
  • as a career while maintaining the high bar of passing the CPA exam that is designed to demonstrate entry-level
  • This bill would make it illegal for gifted healers to receive compensation unless approved by boards
  • especially massage is something that is unnecessary, as we have had no one ever accused of doing anything illegal
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The committee opened a hearing of the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure and reviewed a broad agenda including credit card fees, event ticketing, music therapy licensure, senior psychologist licensure, CPA pathways, school mental health licensure, and a bill regulating alternative healing therapies. The chairs explained hearing logistics, including three-minute testimony limits and submission of written testimony, and noted that more than 70 people had signed up to testify. Legislators and advocates were heard out of order throughout the day. A major portion of the hearing focused on credit card surcharge and interchange legislation. Restaurant owners, the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, NFIB, and other small-business witnesses supported bills allowing merchants to add convenience fees and, in one proposal, preventing card companies from charging fees on tax and tip portions of transactions. They argued that swipe fees are a major and growing cost, especially for restaurants, and that Massachusetts is one of only two states that bars surcharges. Opponents from the Cooperative Credit Union Association, the Electronic Payment Coalition, and the Electronic Transactions Association warned that the proposals would create compliance burdens, fragment the payment system, raise legal preemption issues, and disrupt a system they described as efficient and secure. The committee also heard competing testimony on ticket transferability and ticket resale. Supporters, including the National Consumers League and Sports Fans Coalition, said bills on ticket transferability would protect consumers who cannot attend events and would increase competition and savings in the secondary market. Opponents, including United Musicians and Allied Workers and theater owners, argued that mandatory transferability would weaken artists’ and venues’ ability to prevent scalping and predatory resale, and that some ticket sellers should be exempt from the broader ticketing regulations. Separate testimony supported music therapy licensure, senior psychologist licensure, and new CPA education pathways, with witnesses saying these measures would expand access to care and strengthen the workforce while maintaining professional standards. The hearing also drew extensive opposition to S.261 on alternative healing therapies, with practitioners and clients arguing it would overregulate spiritual and holistic practices and was not an effective response to human trafficking concerns.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session May 21st, 2026

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • providers can act to fill it while still preserving fairness and protecting the role of the coordinated entry
  • to do more to be able to support housing developments and types of all types, and especially this entry-level
  • closes enforcement gaps by requiring mandatory summary disbarment when attorneys are convicted of illegally
  • closes enforcement gaps by requiring mandatory summary disbarment when attorneys are convicted of illegally
Summary: The Assembly met on May 7, 2026, after an initial delay caused by the absence of a quorum, then proceeded with prayer, a moment of silence for victims of a hate-motivated attack at the Islamic Center in San Diego, and the Pledge of Allegiance. The Speaker pro tempore then moved through the daily file, repeatedly urging members to be on time and at their desks as the House of Origin deadline approached. Procedural actions included dispensing with the journal, deferring some items, and moving AB 1667 to the inactive file. The bulk of the session was devoted to floor consideration of many bills, most of which passed with little or no opposition. Measures approved included bills on artificial intelligence provenance information (AB 2713), community college trustee compensation (AB 2528), transit camera enforcement and privacy (AB 1837), excess proceeds claims in taxation (AB 2705), HOA technical cleanup (AB 1892), hepatitis C treatment access (AB 1843), child care planning in local general plans (AB 1914), greenhouse energy code flexibility (AB 2200), rent-now-pay-later consumer protections (AB 2350), housing cleanup and density bonus measures (including AB 2390, AB 2480, AB 1567, AB 1751, and others), spay/neuter access (AB 2010), workforce housing financing tools (AB 2110), supportive housing and homelessness-related changes (AB 2146), mental health and health plan notification measures (AB 1598, AB 2613), student aid and education bills (AB 1534, AB 1636, AB 1669, AB 1728, AB 1784, AB 1871), public safety and criminal justice bills (AB 1546, AB 1572, AB 1872, AB 1877, AB 1932), and several health and social services measures (AB 1602, AB 1628, AB 1680, AB 1825, AB 1845, AB 1906, AB 1907, AB 1925). Most bills were described as support measures, often with bipartisan backing and no opposition, and passed by wide margins. A few bills drew more discussion, especially AB 1751, a housing/townhome bill that sparked extended debate over wages, prevailing wage, stakeholder engagement, and whether the measure could depress pay for construction trades; despite concerns and an opposition speech, it ultimately passed 44-0. AB 1793, which would allow symmetrical rounding of cash transactions to the nearest nickel in light of the penny’s phaseout, also drew light debate and passed 47-1. AB 1932, an urgency measure expanding community-based crisis response, passed with one no vote on both the urgency and the bill. Several urgency or 54-vote bills, including AB 1534 and AB 1932, required later roll calls or calls to be lifted, but all measures described in the transcript were ultimately approved.