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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 224 Conference AM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • ,</c><00:04:23.640><c> this</c> There being no further business, this There being no further business
  • Seeing no further business, this hearing is now adjourned. Good morning.
  • Seeing no further business, this hearing is now adjourned. Good morning.
  • Seeing no further business, this hearing is now adjourned. Yes. Okay.
  • Seeing no further business, Yes. Okay.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 016 Conference AM - 05-01-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, seeing no further business on you.
  • With no further business, this hearing is adjourned. &gt;&gt; Senator Lamasal. Excused.
  • We'll have money our small boat harbors.
  • This is the Lahina small boat harbor.
  • This is relating to capital improvements, project small boat harbor's map.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

RM 325 Conference PM - Thu Apr 30, 2026

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Thu Apr 30, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 55

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Item number five, unfinished business.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

RM 309 Conference AM - Thu Apr 30, 2026

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 229 Conference AM - 05-01-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 229 Conference AM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • First up, we have HB 649, relating to small boat harbors.
  • First up, we have HB 649, relating to small boat harbors.
  • council members representing geographic regions, and adjusts the island burial council's quorum for business
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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 016 Conference AM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • No further business on the agenda. This hearing is adjourned. right.
  • No further business on the right.
  • businesses and state business.
  • businesses and state business.
  • Hopefully we can get some more business for our peoples. So, okay.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 224 Conference PM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Seeing no further business, this hearing is now adjourned.
  • 00:02:04.120><c> Seeing</c><00:02:04.280><c> no</c><00:02:04.400><c> further</c><00:02:04.600><c> business
  • Seeing no further business, &gt;&gt; Okay, great.
  • Seeing no further business, this<00:02:05.040><c> hearing</c><00:02:05.240><c> is</c><00:02:05.320><c
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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 04-30-2026 12:00pm

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Smaller than even our small committee hearings.
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  • Now, back to the business at hand.
  • We Now, back to the business at hand.
  • Miscellaneous<00:43:48.400><c> Business,</c><00:43:48.800><c> reconsideration</c> Miscellaneous Business
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 229 Conference PM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

WAL Public Hearing - Thu Apr 23, 2026 @ 10:00 AM HST

Water & Land

Transcript Highlights:
  • establish kupuna-friendly building permit requirements for parking, accessibility, and private businesses
  • We are on SCR 90. accessibility, and private businesses accessibility, and private businesses operating
  • There might be some small tweaks that would be done over time to ensure that surfing is protected, but
  • There might be some small tweaks that would be done over time to ensure that surfing is protected, but
  • There might be some small tweaks that would be done over time to ensure that surfing is protected, but
Summary: The committee heard several resolutions related to water, coastal management, and permitting. Early measures included SCR 8 on faster county action for certain home-modification permits for older adults and people with disabilities, SCR 40 on banning disposable body boards, SCR 83 on creating a lithium-ion battery disposal facility, SCR 179 on enforcing Maui fire-code provisions for brush clearance and emergency access, and SCR 90 on kupuna-friendly permit requirements. No testifiers were present for those measures, and the chair moved through them without taking votes in the portion provided. The most extensive discussion was on SCR 94, endorsing Waikiki as a world surfing reserve, and SCR 159, urging shared guiding principles for restoring and maintaining Waikiki’s beaches and shoreline. University of Hawaii testimony said the surfing-reserve designation would bring recognition, could help attract grants, and would require a stewardship committee and management plan, but would not itself block beach nourishment or shoreline restoration. Members asked about possible effects on dredging, beach nourishment, and shoreline structures; the witness said impacts on surfing were not expected to be immediate or significant. For SCR 159, the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development supported the resolution but requested clarifying amendments to broaden references to law, stakeholder collaboration, and coastal science expertise. The Waikiki Beach Special Improvement District Association also supported the measure, emphasizing coordinated maintenance, public access, and the economic importance of Waikiki beaches, while noting that existing legal agreements and court decisions should be reflected in the resolution. The discussion also covered whether the state and private owners share repair and maintenance obligations for Waikiki seawalls; testimony said existing agreements remain relevant but must yield to current law. The committee also heard SCR 165 designating March as Water Month, with support from the Board of Water Supply and others, and SCR 177 requesting DAGS to convene a cooperative working group on state projects needing county permits. Mary Alice Evans said the latter would help expedite permitting, especially for housing and other state projects, and would complement efforts to standardize county permitting processes. No final votes or dispositions were announced in the excerpt provided.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 4/13/26

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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  • small the small pharmacies, cuts out the small the small pharmacies, you<01:02:14.000><c> know,</c><
  • </c> rural Minnesota and our small rural Minnesota and our small communities communities communities
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  • </c> are, which is a small part of our state. are, which is a small part of our state.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

County and Municipal Government Feb 18th, 2026

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Bill 4203 clears a path for the OUBCC to explore guidelines for new construction that would allow for small-unit
Summary: The committee considered a series of county, municipal, housing, and public-safety bills. House Bill 3748 would allow county governments to partner with four-year institutions and was reported out after a brief explanation and no questions. House Bill 4203, with a PCS adopted, would let the Oklahoma Uniform Building Code Commission explore guidelines for small-unit multifamily housing of eight units or fewer and four stories or fewer; it passed 5-1. House Bill 3919, also with a PCS, would let county commissioners reduce county fair boards from nine members to five to help achieve quorum; it passed 6-0. House Bill 3091, with a PCS changing the residency requirement from 80% to 70%, would require county elected officials to maintain a principal residence in the county and occupy it at least 70% of the time. Members discussed whether the bill should use “may” or “shall” and how it would apply in hardship or medical situations; the author said he was open to further language changes. The bill passed 6-0. House Bill 3314, creating a county-option retail sale public safety impact fee on marijuana, also passed 6-0. House Bill 3435, requiring a single-subject rule for municipal bonds so voters can consider bond issues separately, passed 6-0. House Bill 3913, which would allow municipalities to authorize single-stair apartment buildings up to six stories if they meet modern fire-safety standards, failed on a 2-4 vote after no questions or debate. House Bill 4132 would provide liability protection for local governments that follow recognized cybersecurity frameworks and passed 6-0. House Bill 4303, a collaborative measure extending the deadline for municipalities to publish ordinances from 15 days to 30 days, also passed 6-0. The committee adjourned after completing the posted agenda.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • compensation, wage and hour, temporary disability insurance, family leave, tax classification of business
  • unemployment insurance by establishing conditions under which delivery drivers are deemed employees of the business
  • compensation, wage and hour, temporary disability insurance, family leave, tax classification of business
  • unemployment insurance by establishing conditions under which delivery drivers are deemed employees of the business
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Tax, Business and Transportation Feb 7th, 2026 at 06:52 pm

Senate Tax, Business & Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am a third-generation small business owner of a drilling and well-servicing business in the San Juan
  • We are a membership of about 200 business members, large and small.
  • Small businesses know how to budget for incremental costs year to year.
  • large and small, to participate in the, advocates, community members, businesses large and small to
  • Most of our work at NMCIC is with small businesses and nonprofits.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Health and Public Affairs Feb 4th, 2026 at 06:25 pm

Senate Health & Public Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • SB 53 would also have a divesting impact on New Mexico's small businesses.
  • those small businesses under New Mexico law are accountable of course, any business in New Mexico under
  • The coverage or the service, I should say, of those businesses, whether it's health care or small businesses
  • I'm a small business.
  • But small businesses, you're only giving them until the 1st of July.
Bills: SB20, SB53, SB86, SB96, SB129
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/28/2026 - Senate Government

Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • It is so small, it's comparable to one minute in 1,000 days.
  • So if they don't want a bright light all the time, you can turn it down. ...to a very small amount.
  • So if a print newspaper has this archive and they go out of business, then the archive is gone.
  • The government pays vendors all the time for business supplies, for lots of things.
  • Sally with a small ass. Chairman Hoffman, Senators, my name is Paul Bixler.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs May 5th, 2025

S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • This would rename the portion of Business US Highway 83 South in Hidalgo County. between its western
  • As a matter of pending business, Mr.
  • Members, Senate Bill 1931 relates to the designation of a portion of Business U.S.
  • Members, that concludes today's agenda, and we do have one more item of business to discuss.
  • Or any other further business? If not, once again, happy Mother's Day to all mothers out there.