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NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate - Tax, Business and Transportation Jan 29th, 2026 at 02:36 pm
Senate Tax, Business & Transportation
Transcript Highlights:
- Affordable spay and neuter programs are critical for controlling stray populations.
- So it's a program that City of Roswell, and City of Lovington.
- If we don't extend this, in effect, the whole program ends and the case goes away.
- And so this low-cost spay and neutering program directly helps families and districts across New Mexico
- This program directly helps families and districts across New Mexico, reducing pet overpopulation and
Committee:
Senate Senate Tax, Business & Transportation
Keywords:
tax credits, municipality, county property, industrial revenue bonds, economic development, qualified expenditures, solar energy, tax credit, renewable energy, photovoltaic, solar thermal, New Mexico, economic incentive, energy independence, SB40, Driver Privacy and Safety Act, automated license plate reader, ALPR, license plate reader, vehicle surveillance
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Committee Jan 28th, 2026
Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Transcript Highlights:
- those in cans, and then Alabama Coastal Foundation goes around every few days and picks those up and
- If it's something that I produce and raise and take to my fruit stand and sell, I don't have to collect
- </c> seafood from sales and use taxes and uh seafood from sales and use taxes and uh this<00:07:31.120
- </c><00:10:31.120><c> on</c> and propagate them and use them on and propagate them and use them on Dolphin
- And if a committee and covered peanuts.
Keywords:
oyster shell, tax credit, recycling, restaurant, state revenue, environmental benefit, sales tax exemption, seafood, fishing industry, local government, municipal exemption, seagrass restoration, environmental policy, water quality, marine ecosystems, conservation efforts, marine conservation, environmental remediation, coastal ecosystems, state waters
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Care & Wellness Jan 21st, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Health Care & Wellness
Transcript Highlights:
- Federal program changes and market adjustments over the last several years, as you know, have impacted
- do Premier and Regents after Marissa and Andrea go.
- encourage vaccinations, annual wellness exams, and preventive screenings, whole-person care benefits
- Customer service, fraud prevention, accurate provider directories, and data security—these things don't
- Bradywood and from Ms. Odegaard as it related to the program.
Committee:
House Health Care & Wellness
Keywords:
healthcare, transparency, patient communication, credentials, professional standards, medical loss ratio, insurance, health plans, cost management, nursing delegation, registered nurse, RN, home care aide, nursing assistant, certified nursing assistant, CNA, medical assistant, home health, hospice, community-based care
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- and that is the bill.
- grant programs.
- the program, thereby supporting conservation and educational initiatives related to Florida's unique
- grant programs.
- The bill, again, creates no new government program, requires no general revenue funding, and relies entirely
Committee:
Senate Transportation
Keywords:
transportation, memorial, honorary designation, Miami-Dade, Charlie Kirk, license plates, Florida Wildflower, vehicle registration, annual use fee, specialty plates, Fraternal Order of Police, license plate, funding, memorial foundation, law enforcement, motor carriers, fuel tax, military exemptions, safety regulations, electronic submissions
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
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services May 14th, 2025
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Our transition and financial support services, our Foster Youth Independence programs, or FYI, are available
- it seeks to prevent this by equipping youth with the knowledge and resources to make informed fiscal
- Female-specific cancers among firefighters is to save lives, decrease risk, mitigate cost, and prevent
- House Bill 742 requires firefighters and EMS personnel to complete human trafficking prevention training
- , and in nearly all states, RxPass—the program that I'm here to discuss with you today.
Bills:
HB107 , HB742 , HB1639 , HB1700 , HB2071 , HB2187 , HB2402 , HB2516 , HB3211 , HB4529 , HB5342 , HB694 , HB923 , HB4655 , HB107
Committee:
Senate Health & Human Services
Keywords:
sickle cell disease, registry, health data, confidentiality, healthcare access, human trafficking, first responders, health care, training, reporting, protection, cancer, female firefighters, health study, state health services, fire protection, telemedicine, teledentistry, telehealth, health records
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- to prevent this by equipping youth with the knowledge and resources to make informed fiscal decisions
- prevent and be aware of the risk, and ensure statute is sufficient to provide coverage for female-specific
- It's modeled after successful programs like the cancer and birth defect registries.
- It's modeled after successful programs like the cancer and birth defect registries.
- , and, in nearly all states, RX Pass, the program that I'm here to discuss with you today.
Bills:
HB 107 , HB742 , HB1639 , HB1700 , HB2071 , HB2187 , HB2402 , HB2516 , HB3211 , HB4529 , HB5342 , HB694 , HB923 , HB4655
Committee:
Senate Health & Human Services
Keywords:
sickle cell disease, registry, health data, confidentiality, healthcare access, human trafficking, first responders, health care, training, reporting, protection, cancer, female firefighters, health study, state health services, fire protection, telemedicine, teledentistry, telehealth, health records
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on a series of health and human services bills and left each one pending after public testimony. HB 4655 would expand financial literacy instruction for youth aging out of foster care to include credit scores, predatory lending, scams, banking, budgeting, and related consumer topics; the sponsor and Buckner International described the need to protect foster youth from financial pitfalls. HB 923 would add three public members and one physician to the Texas Medical Disclosure Panel; supporters said it would improve informed consent and patient voice, while a witness raised concerns about a House amendment requiring a physician majority for decisions and senators questioned scope-of-practice limits. HHSC said the panel is an independent body and the bill expressly bars it from changing scope of practice.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on County & Regional Government May 5th, 2025
S/C on County & Regional Government
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm a caver and cave diver. I travel statewide and talk to people.
- My closest neighbor that's making noise is two and a half acres away, and I still get kept up and my
- be used for initiatives like emergency shelters, homelessness prevention outreach programs, rapid rehousing
- and keep constables and deputy constables.
- The program will no doubt help and impact our rural counties in a positive way as follows.
Committee:
House S/C on County & Regional Government
Keywords:
county jailer, jail training, veterans, Texas Veterans Commission, Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, TCOLE, criminal justice system, county jail, law enforcement training, mental health training, jail standards, correctional officers, veteran services, veteran interaction, occupations code, jailer licensing, parking, county courthouse, infrastructure, local government
AL
Bills:
HJR303 , SJR83 , SJR85 , HJR310 , HR304 , HJR311 , SJR82 , HJR298 , HJR299 , HJR300 , HJR301 , HJR291
Committee:
House Rules
Keywords:
arts education, cultural heritage, Alabama Center for the Arts, public art, Alabama Arts Hall of Fame, community engagement, Cook Museum, natural science, STEM education, North Alabama, educational programs, student engagement, trade, economic relations, Montenegro, Port of Bar, international cooperation, investment, cargo operations, Alabama
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Members of the staff are participating, and it's all being broadcast and taken down.
- And when that happens, debt grows, families suffer, and public systems like the criminal justice and
- Make child support a tool for stability and success and not something that leads to punishment and despair
- , and abuse involved.
- And so she said we got to do something better. I called, and she asked me to.
Committee:
Senate Jurisprudence
Keywords:
child support, interest accrual, family law, delinquency, financial judgment, statutory probate courts, probate court fees, judicial fund, county reimbursement, comptroller, Texas Government Code, Local Government Code, court fees, fee allocation, excess contributions, judicial education and support fund, presiding judge salary, county finance, court administration, Texas judiciary
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Interagency Council on Student Attendance created 3/4/26
Transcript Highlights:
- job and and has done a fantastic job and and has testified<00:04:07.760><c> and</c><00:04:08.000><c>
- Several gaps in coordination were identified through both the task force and the pilot program districts
- We are Minnesota's largest educational neglect and truancy program.
- and viewed, and even funded.
- We need to intentionally invest in early attendance interventions to engage and keep students in school
Summary:
The committee heard House File 3585, as amended, which would create an interagency council on student attendance and re-refer the bill to education finance. Representative Keeler moved the bill and an A1 amendment that corrected the council’s placement from the Department of Children, Youth, and Families to the Department of Education; the amendment was adopted. Keeler and Representative Bakeberg described the bill as the product of several years of bipartisan work on chronic absenteeism and truancy, emphasizing that attendance problems involve multiple systems and require ongoing coordination rather than a single-agency response.
Testimony was strongly supportive. Matt Shaver of Allies cited statewide chronic absenteeism data and argued that schools cannot solve the problem alone because root causes such as housing, transportation, health, and economic instability lie outside school control. Assistant Commissioner Angela Mansfield of MDE said the task force and pilot districts showed coordination gaps and supported the council, while also noting MDE’s Compass staff would need permanent funding to carry out the work. Ashley High Totower of Hennepin County’s BEET program said attendance is a public health, child welfare, transportation, housing, and economic issue, and Kenneth Avon of the Minneapolis Foundation said absenteeism is an ecological problem requiring cross-sector coordination.
Student witnesses also supported the bill but urged stronger youth representation. Henry Brick of Catalyst for Systems Change said students understand the causes of absenteeism best and proposed expanding student seats on the council from one to five. Ava Northrup of the Minnesota Youth Council said youth voices should be more than symbolic and suggested two youth representatives, one from the metro and one from greater Minnesota, plus additional youth task forces or panels. In member discussion, Representative Lawrence questioned whether the council duplicated existing MDE work, asked who would coordinate the group, and raised the lack of a sunset; Keeler and Bakeberg said the Department of Education would coordinate and that a sunset could be considered later. Other members asked about fiscal impact, and the chair said a fiscal note had been requested and the bill would move on to education finance.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Select Committee on Economic Development and Technological Innovation Feb 5th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- works and proactivity works; that early and coordinated engagement between the state and the utilities
- And I do think we need to start early, not just in colleges.
- , perhaps the UAW manufacturing apprenticeship program, and then you can earn while you learn and be
- And figuring out what are the industries by region, and then developing the programs there.
- And we'll give a shout also to the EPIC program.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/26
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> A program, and then DEED develops guidelines, processes, and materials related to the guardrails
- And you might have heard our acronym ETP, Employment and Training Programs, and that tends to be our
- and any changes you make over time in programs?
- :33:17.519><c> specific</c><00:33:17.840><c> to</c> programs and it was not specific to programs and
- 51.040><c> know</c><00:36:51.200><c> that</c> of Justice programs and know that of Justice programs and
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Human Services Committee Jun 16th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And we know that was embedded in some of our early welfare policies.
- And we know that was embedded in some of our early welfare policies.
- I think in too many previous decades and eras, and unfortunately even today, that our welfare programs
- So we know California is the state's largest anti-hunger and anti-poverty program, and every dollar in
- And part of the challenge here is that we have funded services through the One California program, and
Summary:
The Assembly Committee on Human Services heard several bills focused on homelessness, child care, food security, public assistance, immigration legal services, and veterans’ benefits. SB 479 would allow city-based local health jurisdictions, including Berkeley and Oakland, to use multidisciplinary homeless response teams and share specified information across departments; supporters said the change would improve coordination and outcomes, and no opposition testified. SB 902 would allow electronic signatures for child care and development services paperwork while preserving paper options; supporters said it would reduce burdens on families and providers, and the bill passed to the Assembly Education Committee 4-0.
The committee also heard SB 1025, creating an Office of Food Security and Affordability to coordinate California’s food assistance efforts, and SB 1030, repealing the CalWORKs “man-in-the-house” rule. Supporters of SB 1025 said the state’s food system is fragmented and needs a coordinated strategy; SB 1030 supporters argued the rule is outdated, redundant, and rooted in racist and sexist assumptions. Both bills received no opposition testimony and were approved on 4-0 votes, with SB 1025 sent to the Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact Committee and SB 1030 to Appropriations.
The committee then approved SB 1077, which would require CDSS to create a communications and contingency plan for CalFresh disruptions during federal government shutdowns, including a public webpage and planning for state-funded benefits; it passed 4-0 to Appropriations. SB 1194 would codify the Immigration Legal Fellowship Project to expand immigration legal services in underserved areas, and supporters emphasized the need for legal representation in rural and Central Valley communities; it passed 4-1 to Judiciary. SB 1201 would seek federal waivers to protect veterans from CalFresh time limits, require referrals to county veterans service officers, and adjust treatment of job-search expenses; it passed unanimously 6-0 to Military and Veterans Affairs. The consent calendar, including SB 557 and SB 1051, also passed unanimously. After all items were heard, the committee completed roll calls for absent members and adjourned.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Human Services Committee Jun 16th, 2026
Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- And we know that was embedded in some of our early welfare policies.
- And we know that was embedded in some of our early welfare policies.
- I think in too often in previous decades and eras, and unfortunately even today, that our welfare programs
- So we know California is the state's largest anti-hunger and anti-poverty program, and every dollar in
- And part of the challenge here is that we have funded services through the One California program, and
Committee:
House Human Services
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- resources the municipality will invest, and the state chooses viable programs to help with grants.
- Uh, it changes from a program year to a calendar year, and the amounts and types of the eligible credits
- everybody who gets them and just make the program run smoother and easier since I'm a one-man show.
- everybody who gets them and just make the program run smoother and easier since I'm a one-man show.
- Be able to implement this and implement that other, uh, 20-day program.
Committee:
Senate Ways and Means
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
January 28, 2026 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- a stoplight and a crosswalk, and I never understood why.
- And thank you, Rep. Weinberger and Rep.
- This would help Florida become more competitive for manufacturers, operators, and training programs that
- and rate payer and taxpayer protections I clean energy, clean water, and rate payer and taxpayer protections
- a meltdown, prevent the plant from overheating, and you've had problems where that has not been able
Summary:
The Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee considered a full agenda of transportation, utility, aviation, and energy bills. HB 4045, amending the Jacksonville Aviation Authority charter, passed without questions or debate. HB 1075, which would require municipal utilities to allow outside property owners to connect when capacity exists and fees are paid, drew testimony from local government and municipal advocates who warned about conflicts with existing agreements, long infrastructure payback periods, and the risk of subsidizing nonresidents; despite concerns from Rep. Smith and others about municipal boundaries and cost, the bill passed, with Smith voting no. HB 519, as amended, authorizes golf cart crossings at signalized intersections on designated golf cart roads; it passed unanimously after lighthearted debate about golf carts and pedestrian crossings.
The committee then took up HB 919, which creates a state definition for major commercial service airports and preempts airport naming authority, including renaming Palm Beach International Airport to Donald J. Trump International Airport subject to FAA, county, and trademark-related conditions. Palm Beach County supported the bill and an amendment clarifying implementation and trademark language, while Rep. Eskamani and others raised concerns about preemption and the timing of honoring a sitting president; the bill passed with several no votes, including Eskamani, Skidmore, and the ranking member. HB 1093, the Advanced Air Mobility and Infrastructure Act, would support eVTOL/vertiport development through tax exemptions, infrastructure funding flexibility, and statewide siting standards while preserving local zoning; supporters framed it as an economic-development and workforce bill, while Rep. Cheney raised taxpayer concerns. An amendment narrowing liability protections for vertiports co-located with public airports was adopted, and the bill passed with Cheney voting no.
Finally, HB 1461 established a regulatory framework for advanced nuclear reactors, assigning oversight roles to the PSC, DOH, and DEP. Supporters argued the bill would improve energy reliability, affordability, and Florida’s leadership in clean, advanced energy, while an opponent from Deploy US urged strong consumer protections and cautioned against overbroad deregulation. Rep. Eskamani emphasized preserving PSC prudency review for ratepayer protection, and the sponsor said the bill was refined through committee discussion. After an amendment fixing technical issues and clarifying that one section applied to all nuclear, the bill passed favorably. The meeting then adjourned.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Jun 27th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, he and his family are new to New Mexico and applied for the DD waiver program.
- and our programs.
- , and we're actually preventing some of the harm.
- Nickel and diming this program to death, and I'm not putting it on you.
- And is that DD and is that just in the waiver program, or is it in HCA?
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- School District vocation programs programs with our college programs and other like programs, we do
- It's a cooperation, but we feel like it's coming from good decisions. and good programs and good re-entry
- And as I mentioned, a loan repayment program as well. Thank you.
- And our second program is forensic science representation. folks and a smaller number of non-capital
- security in our programming and our secure facilities.
Committee:
House Criminal Jurisprudence
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- And the programs with that are account.
- </c> programming and treatment, we strengthen programming and treatment, we strengthen the<01:31:39.280
- Smaller and youth, adult programming.
- Uh and both with MDOT's TED program.
- And so our next programs through legacy.
Committee:
Senate Capital Investment
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- Schools, specializing in bilingual education and Title I programs.
- targeted programs and resources for students that need extra support.
- We worked closely together on the passage of the Early Childhood Education and Care Department and the
- We're looking at early warning systems when kids are missing school, and we really have programs like
- evaluation plan: identifying program goals and outcomes, describing how program activities will achieve
Committee:
Senate Senate Rules