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US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, May 5, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We cannot remain practice as well.
- </c><04:06:32.319><c> This</c> were practicing fallen gong. This were practicing fallen gong.
- </c><04:06:44.960><c> that</c> Oregon harvesting, a practice that Oregon harvesting, a practice that
- </c> and banned their practice outright. and banned their practice outright.
- Make no mistake, these practices.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session-Day 12, February 23, 2026-AM
Wyoming Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- 21:10.080><c> a</c><01:21:10.320><c> promise</c><01:21:10.560><c> and</c><01:21:10.719><c> a</c> assessed
- fees and a promise and a assessed fees and a promise and a commitment<01:21:11.199><c> to</c><01:21:
- I think what I've heard is that the general practice in our state is for people not to follow the current
- in our state is for people not practice in our state is for people not to<01:24:45.840><c> follow</c
- valuation all of 1% times the assessed valuation all of this<01:36:12.000><c> but</c><01:36:12.159><
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
UMN Regent Candidate Forum - 02/04/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I think we should have a bold and practical plan.
- plan I think uh we should and practical plan I think uh we should also<00:51:21.119><c> have</c><00:
- </c><00:54:16.240><c> that</c> Albright uh well I would uh assess that Albright uh well I would uh assess
- It will require a multi-pronged approach, really being able to do a landscape analysis and assess the
- the campuses and where and assess the campuses and where they're<01:16:42.800><c> located</c><01:16:
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Tobacco Settlement Revenue Oversight Jul 7th, 2025
Tobacco Settlement Revenue Oversight Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- We've collected over 7,700 school assessments and support cards. and hosted hundreds of events.
- When the campaign was developed over 10 years ago, tobacco was the industry best practice.
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Legislative Task Force on Government Efficiency Mar 25th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Legislative Task Force on Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- So there are inconsistent solicitation practices by government entities.
- And again, I'm just kicking out ideas, because I know in the auditing field we are always assessing risk
- I'm just kicking out ideas, because I know in the auditing field we are always assessing risk, and risk
- I think modernizing, streamlining some of these, aligning these more with industry practices, I think
- There's still a couple of hundred that are in a community of practice.
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Advanced Nuclear Energy Committee Mar 24th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Advanced Nuclear Energy Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- And then twice a year, we do a nuclear drill where we'll do a practice.
- And then twice a year, we do a nuclear drill where we'll do a practice.
- It's called Total System Performance Assessment.
- “I make those comments not having examined it from a practical standpoint, but it is, when we've been
- I don't know if anybody, you know, tries to study risk assessment.
Committee:
Joint Advanced Nuclear Energy Committee
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This information is helpful when assessing the state's fulfillment of our Sixth Amendment obligations
- In fiscal year 2023, a private practice attorney in Dallas was paid for 1,075 cases, which included 671
- Do you practice law? I do not. I'm in real estate. I don't know. I do not. I'm in real estate.
- I've been practicing expunction law for a little over 20 years. I am an attorney here in Austin.
- I've been practicing expunction law for a little over 20 years now.
Bills:
HB115
Committee:
House Criminal Jurisprudence
Keywords:
public funds, lobbying, political subdivision, government spending, transparency, HB 115, taxpayer-funded lobbying, local government lobbying, county association dues, municipal lobbying, lobbyist registration, Chapter 305, Government Code Section 556.0056, Local Government Code Section 89.002, county government, city government, injunctive relief, attorney's fees, state association of counties, sheriffs association
Summary:
The Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence reconvened with a quorum present and announced it would likely not vote that night because of confusion over the bill list; members were told a definitive list would be circulated the next morning and a formal meeting would be scheduled later. The chair then heard a series of bills, generally taking testimony and leaving each pending without action. House Bill 1847 would set maximum caseload standards for private attorneys handling indigent criminal appointments through the Texas Indigent Defense Commission; House Bill 2417 would expand compensation eligibility for some wrongfully imprisoned people; House Bill 2813 would require earlier and more specific victim notice of scheduled court proceedings; and House Bill 2309 would expand state and local authority in certain civil asset forfeiture cases involving human trafficking, health care fraud, and organized crime. Each bill was laid out by its author or a member, with no opposition witnesses registered, and each was left pending.
The committee also heard House Bill 4733, which would require sealing records for people acquitted of charges when they were not convicted on the related allegation; House Bill 2328, which would modernize expunction service by encouraging electronic notice, setting a standardized fee when electronic service is unavailable, extending clerk retention of expunction orders, and preserving certain mental health commitment orders; and House Bill 115, which would revise Texas’s “junk science” post-conviction writ law by providing counsel, changing the relief standard, requiring written decisions, and easing procedural barriers. Testimony on HB 2328 was mixed: county clerks supported the bill as a cost-saving modernization, while legal advocates warned that permanent retention of expunction orders could undermine true expunction and create privacy risks. HB 115 drew support from innocence and defense organizations, with some concern about a provision affecting subsequent writs. All were left pending after testimony.
Later, the committee heard House Bill 2046, which would allow affirmative family-violence findings for any Penal Code offense rather than only Title V offenses; testimony from a Dallas County prosecutor and a committee member emphasized that family violence can involve arson, burglary, fraud, and other non-Title V conduct, and the bill was left pending. House Bill 1765 would tighten restrictions on no-knock warrants by requiring higher-level approval, judicial review, and identifiable officers; members discussed the dangers highlighted by the Harding Street raid and similar incidents, and the bill was also left pending. The meeting ended with the chair noting that some bills had been removed from the agenda at the author’s request and that members should be prepared to finalize the vote list the next day.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (04/08/2026)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, but there's questions about what this bill will actually do in practice.
- I just want to quickly I know practice.
- I practice at Dartmouth Hitchcock as well as at a critical access hospital.
- It's also a issue, it's a practical one. It's also a fiscal<04:16:08.399><c> one.
- </c><04:21:44.080><c> within</c> taking a hold of their practice within taking a hold of their practice
Committee:
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- The agricultural production and practices in the state, and the way that we need to address invasive
- The agricultural production and practices in the state, and the way that we need to address invasive
- The agricultural production<00:50:01.920><c> and</c><00:50:02.240><c> practices</c><00:50:02.720><c>
- </c><01:16:17.920><c> um</c> do a comprehensive needs assessment um do a comprehensive needs assessment
- We have a practice of giving them everything on the plate, and so we are working on changing that practice
Bills:
HB1977 , HB1764 , HB1934 , HB2533 , HB1790 , HB2181 , HB1870 , HB2140 , HB2468 , HB2358 , HB1588 , HB1688 , HB1986 , HB2030 , HB2195 , HB1949 , HB1695 , HB1950 , HB2094 , HB2115 , HB2297 , HB2336 , HB2416 , HB2049
Committee:
House Finance
Keywords:
maternal health, infant health, mobile application, Medicaid, healthcare access, state programs, music education, public concerts, Hawaii State Library, cultural collaboration, music accessibility, libraries, education, reading programs, early childhood, nonprofit, community engagement, teacher retention, Hawaiian language education, special needs schools
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- We will be doing some assessment. Obviously, we’re not going to just go out and roll up programs.
- The assessment has already been somewhat proliferated through our partners with the chamber, right.
- </c> just so we will be doing some assessment just so we will be doing some assessment obviously<00:32
- So it sounds good what you're saying, but I don't know in practice.
- So it sounds good what you're saying, but I don't know in practice.
Committee:
Senate Economic Development and Tourism
Summary:
The committee heard several bills, beginning with HB 934 on broadband and digital equity. Testifiers from the Lieutenant Governor’s office, the Office of Enterprise and Technology Services, DCCA, the University system, the Hawaii State Council on Developmental Disabilities, and others generally supported the measure and emphasized the need to coordinate broadband efforts, fund operations, and expand access to high-speed internet, devices, and digital navigation services. The Chamber of Commerce and West Coast Comprehensive Health Center supported the bill but objected to HD1 language excluding broadband infrastructure for retail service, warning it could create unintended consequences and limit community-led or rural projects. The Lieutenant Governor explained the state expects roughly $400 million to $500 million in federal broadband funding, described the bill as consolidating efforts under a broadband office attached to the CIO, and said the office would focus on infrastructure, devices, and training. No vote was taken on HB 934 in the portion provided.
The committee then took up HB 97 on travel insurance. The Insurance Division said it had no major problem with the product but requested technical changes to align with licensing requirements and noted the bill largely codifies practices already used in the industry. Industry witnesses from Allianz and the U.S. Travel Insurance Association said the measure would create a consistent framework, add consumer protections, and align Hawaii with the NAIC model adopted in many other states. Members questioned whether there was a specific problem the bill was solving, and the division responded that it was mainly a framework and form-review measure rather than a response to a known enforcement issue. The bill was discussed but no final action was reported in the excerpt.
HB 448 on technology enablement drew broad support from the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation, the Chamber of Commerce, the Food Industry Association, and other business representatives. Supporters said the measure would help businesses use technology such as digital platforms, e-commerce, robotics, and AR/VR to improve competitiveness, especially in tourism and other sectors. Committee members pressed for clearer scope, cost estimates, and assurances that local companies would be used; the agency said it would prioritize local-first contracting, use federal NIST-related support where possible, and estimated an initial request of about $200,000, though it could not give a firm total. Members expressed concern that the plan was still too undefined. The committee then began HB 455 on small business loans, where the Attorney General suggested explaining why a special fund is needed, and a witness from H Collaborative said the bill would help startup businesses that struggle most to access capital.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- The motion is on re-refer. practice that's not just purely practice that's not just purely anecdotal<
- so the issue came if do an assessment so the issue came if you<02:03:23.760><c> did</c><02:03:23.960
- By putting that money in there, if there is an assessment, then they have the money.
- By putting that money in there, if there is an assessment, then they have the money.
- then they have if there is an assessment then they have the<02:09:59.360><c> money</c><02:09:59.800>
Committee:
Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Under practice...
- So the practice that could be adopted under the current law. 281 you would want the nurse to be making
- So, just like she said, the school nurse is the best suited person to assess a student's symptoms and
- Do you think practicable is a real word?
- Nurses employed by schools are practicing outside of their scope.
Committees:
Senate Education , Senate Education K-16
Keywords:
SB 207, Texas Education Code, public school attendance, excused absence, mental health appointment, mental health care, behavioral health, school district, student absenteeism, same-day return, health care professionals, physician certification, religious holy days, court appearance, DFPS, foster care, education policy, student wellness, school mental health, attendance policy
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine optimizing longevity from research to action. Feb 12th, 2025 at 02:30 pm
Aging (Special) Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- healthier lives, but inexcusable lack of action to put these issues into question as a matter of best practices
- Sarah Nozel is a family medicine physician who practices at a federally qualified health center in the
- My name is Sarah Nozel, and I'm a practicing family physician in the South Bronx.
- I have practiced for more than two decades in a community.
- So as I said, I'm a practicing family doc. I was seeing patients this week.
Committee:
Senate Aging (Special) Committee
Summary:
The committee meeting was marked by discussions surrounding health policies aimed at enhancing the lifespan and quality of life for the community members. The chairperson initiated the session with personal reflections on the importance of extending not just the years of life but also the quality of those years, especially from the perspective of parents and grandparents. Members engaged in thoughtful dialogue regarding potential legislative measures that could address public health in a more holistic manner, emphasizing the need for community outreach and effective health education programs.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee and Senate Environmental Quality Committee Aug 4th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- they were bringing a level of technical, scientific, law, public health, and cumulative impact assessment-type
- that they were bringing a level of technical, scientific law, public health, cumulative impact assessment
- But figuring out what are the best practices, and perhaps there's a way to do this more uniformly across
- of an agency that spends time and money researching skis and snowboards over the harm and real assessments
- of an agency that spends time and money researching skis and snowboards over the harm and real assessments
Summary:
The joint oversight hearing focused on the Board of Environmental Safety (BES), created by SB 158 in 2021, and on broader DTSC reform efforts, including permitting, community engagement, fee setting, and the hazardous waste management plan. Chair Connolly opened by noting the board’s original goals of improving transparency, accountability, and fiscal stability, and raised concerns about a recent board appointee later becoming a lobbyist with DTSC-regulated clients. Witnesses and members also discussed the long-delayed SB 673 regulations on facility permitting and community vulnerability protections, as well as the board’s role in approving the hazardous waste management plan and reviewing permit appeals.
Community and environmental justice witnesses argued that the board has improved access by creating a public forum, ombudsperson, and appeal process, but said it remains too passive and lacks authority over budgets, staffing, and implementation. They urged more statutory direction, stronger community participation, better transparency on how comments are used, and more meaningful authority in permit and plan decisions. One witness suggested the Legislature consider a separate oversight body or stronger legislative engagement, while another called for youth representation and paid fellowships on advisory bodies. Business and regulated-community testimony was more supportive of the board’s structure, emphasizing that SB 158 was a negotiated compromise that improved transparency and accountability while avoiding politicization, and calling for faster fee analysis and clearer budget information.
Board Chair Andrew Rakestra and DTSC Director Barbara Butler reported that reform has produced measurable gains: more public engagement, stronger enforcement, fewer continued permits, improved compliance, increased revenues from the generation-and-handling fee, and progress on Exide cleanup, safer consumer products, and community revitalization grants. They acknowledged, however, that the board’s authority is limited, permit appeals can be slow, SB 673 regulations remain unfinished, and public trust still needs work. Both said the board is most effective when involved early and when DTSC shares information proactively. Members asked about fee stability, the hazardous waste management plan, and whether the Legislature should give the board a more formal role in budget change proposals, regulatory processes, and implementation oversight. No votes were taken; the hearing was informational and ended with public comment.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Committee on the Census Feb 10th, 2026
Senate Committee on the Census
Transcript Highlights:
- So that kind of post-pandemic surge that we saw, um, ending combined with federal policies and practices
- They started to assess population in 2020.
- available on our website, mass.gov slash a home for everyone, which is the full repository of our needs assessment
- numbers down, but this is also very well described on the Home for Everyone website under the needs assessment
- On the Home for Everyone website, under the needs assessment and future housing demand.
Committee:
Senate Senate Committee on the Census
Summary:
The Senate Committee on the Census, chaired by Senator Will Brownsberger with Senator Liz Miranda and other members participating, held a hearing on mid-decade population estimates and projections for Massachusetts. Susan Strait of the UMass Donahue Institute presented the latest Census Bureau estimates and explained the main components of population change: births, deaths, domestic migration, and international migration. She said Massachusetts has continued to grow, but much more slowly than in the immediate post-2020 period, largely because net international migration has fallen sharply after a pandemic-era surge. She also reviewed fertility and aging trends, noting that births are concentrated among women in their 30s, that the state’s population is aging, and that the share of residents 65 and older is projected to rise substantially, increasing the dependency ratio.
Strait and committee members discussed the role of immigration in Massachusetts’ population growth, the concentration of immigrants in Greater Boston and other regions, and the effect of immigration on births and the labor force. They also discussed domestic out-migration, especially among young adults, and the possibility that housing affordability is a major driver. Senators raised questions about how the Census counts people in group quarters such as prisons and dormitories, and Strait explained that the Census counts incarcerated people where they are housed and generally does not treat dormitory residents as migrants in the same way as household residents. She said the Census Bureau is still working on methodological issues such as extending a “college fix” to more areas.
Jesse Partridge Guerrero of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council described how MAPC uses Donahue Institute population projections, household headship rates, and UrbanSim to allocate projected households down to regional, municipal, and sub-municipal levels. He said the projections used for MassDOT’s long-range transportation plan anticipated slower statewide growth and regional decline in the Cape and parts of western and central Massachusetts. Tim Reardon of the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities then explained how those projections feed into the statewide housing plan, including three population scenarios and associated housing needs. He said the plan estimates a need for about 115,000 homes to address existing shortages and another 73,000 households even under a low-growth scenario, with total housing needs rising to roughly 222,000 units under the middle scenario and 262,000 under the high scenario. Members pressed him on whether the scenarios may understate future need given the recent drop in immigration and ongoing affordability problems, and he said the state is also pursuing housing production, rental assistance, shelter response, seasonal conversion prevention, and infrastructure support for communities. No votes were taken.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment & Energy Jan 19th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- want to start out with what this bill does on plastic carryout bags because it reflects the broader practical
- The 2022 guidelines called for a science-based environmental risk assessment; therefore, restricting
- Tracy Norberg continued: “We also provided input on the alternatives assessment that Washington Ecology
- “We are conducting a comprehensive alternatives analysis to assess potential alternatives to 6PPD in
- currently part of the Safer Products for Washington program, which does include an alternatives assessment
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on three main bills. House Bill 2284 on reducing litter would remove a scheduled increase in plastic bag thickness, preserve the existing penalty on thicker bags, and create a litter solutions task force to use existing data and recommend further actions. Supporters from business, retail, agriculture, food industry, and the Department of Ecology said the bill takes a data-driven approach and could help reduce litter without imposing a full bag ban, while Ecology noted it already has a statewide litter study underway and raised cost and membership concerns. Opponents and other commenters generally favored the bill’s direction but emphasized the need for more study and careful implementation. No vote was taken.
House Bill 1652 would require certain ocean-going vessels in Washington waters to use fuel with no more than 0.1% sulfur, with recordkeeping, Ecology oversight, penalties, and a substitute clarifying vessel coverage and exemptions. The prime sponsor and environmental and public health advocates said the bill would reduce air and water pollution from scrubbers and protect the Salish Sea, orcas, salmon, and nearby communities. Ports, shipping interests, and industry groups raised concerns that the bill could effectively discourage scrubbers, create burdens for irregular callers and cargo traffic, and affect port competitiveness, while some said the bill should be narrowed or further stakeholdered. The hearing also included discussion of a proposed substitute and possible impacts on vessels and port operations.
House Bill 2367 would end special coal-related exemptions by limiting the cap-and-invest exemption to pre-2026 emissions, removing limits on additional greenhouse gas regulation for the coal plant, and repealing coal sales and use tax exemptions. Supporters said the bill would align state law with the planned closure of the Centralia coal plant, reinforce Washington’s climate policies, and remove outdated carve-outs. Business and petroleum representatives warned that if the plant were brought back into the cap-and-invest program, the allowance market could be affected and Ecology might need flexibility to adjust the program. The committee heard extensive testimony on all three bills but took no recorded votes or final action in the transcript.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- removal of fences around a breeder release site if at least five years have passed since the last assessment
- publish a report on their website derived from long-term studies conducted between 2003 and 2025 that assess
- the effects on our bays that have already been reports that have already been done, and they assess
- simply inadequate to capture cumulative long-term impacts of seawater desalination discharges and to assess
- areas for improvement to ensure Texas' effectiveness in managing CWD. employees the most effective practices
Committee:
House Culture, Recreation & Tourism
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Committee on Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact Mar 24th, 2025
Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact
Transcript Highlights:
- Today on how we've been assessing Californians concerns about the economy over the short and long term
- eye towards options the legislature has that won't create new budgetary costs because our current assessment
- diabetes treatments like insulin so it's and the National Academy of Sciences has done a couple assessments
- So, these kinds of supply chain analyses, I think, can be really helpful to try to assess what. may be
- And we understand that, and I know you all understand it as well, but from a very practical perspective
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Environment and Natural Resources Mar 17th, 2025
Environment and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- All right, we're going to take up Senate Bill 1208 on service lateral assessment and rehabilitation by
- They use CCTV to ensure accuracy, provide an assessment schedule every seven years to look at the conditions
- publicly accessible database will be available, and defective or deteriorating sewer lines can be assessed
- publicly accessible database will be available, and defective or deteriorating sewer lines can be assessed
- our public waters, provide economic benefits to the local communities, and conduct safe boating practices
Committee:
Senate Environment and Natural Resources
Summary:
The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources met with a quorum present and considered a series of environmental, water, waste, boating, and land-use bills. SB 834 on recreational fishing vessel licenses was briefly explained as aligning licensure rules for freshwater and saltwater captains and was reported favorably. SB 1208 on service lateral assessment and rehabilitation would require periodic CCTV inspections, a seven-year assessment cycle, and a long-term public database for sewer laterals; county representatives opposed it over private-property and cost concerns, but the bill was reported favorably. SB 978 on advanced wastewater treatments, as amended, would require DEP reports and a long-term prioritization plan for upgrading large wastewater facilities to advanced treatment; the committee adopted the amendment and then reported the bill favorably.
The committee then took up SB 1822 on auxiliary containers, which would preempt local regulation of certain packaging and define the term in statute. The sponsor argued it would reduce a patchwork of local rules and help businesses, while opponents from environmental groups, local advocates, and some local governments warned it would weaken plastic and foam restrictions, including in parks and coastal communities. Despite substantial opposition and several senators expressing concern, the bill was reported favorably. The committee also approved CS for SB 384 on notice for annexation of state-owned lands, after a technical amendment requiring written or email notice to legislative delegations, and reported it favorably.
SB 1008 on waste incineration would bar new ash-producing incinerators or waste-to-energy facilities within a half-mile of residential, commercial, or school property. The sponsor said the bill was aimed at preventing another fire-related incident like the Doral plant and clarified it was intended to apply only to new facilities, not existing ones; waste-to-energy and county representatives opposed it as too restrictive, while several senators sought clarifying changes. The bill was reported favorably. The committee also adopted a substitute amendment to CS for SB 594 on port channel and turning basin buffer zones, reducing the proposed anchoring setback from 5,000 feet to 2,500 feet and allowing ports to create buffer zones after public hearings and rulemaking; the bill was then reported favorably. Finally, SB 830 on lost or abandoned property, aimed at streamlining removal of migrant vessels that pose navigational and environmental hazards, was reported favorably after brief support testimony.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Stop what practices. OK. They're discriminatory.
- I just don't know how this is practical. Sure.
- This practice has devastating consequences.
- Pre predatory practice.
- Our office, I practice, I'm a lawyer.
Committee:
House Insurance