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NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance (05/28/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- And that's what that adjustment will be in July, is raising it to $90.
- Now, Senate Bill 118 changes that five-year adjustment period to an annual adjustment period.
- In addition, if you find this cost-of-living adjustment period proposed by Senate Bill 118 acceptable
- And that's what that adjustments.
- to an annual five-year adjustment period to an annual adjustment<01:06:10.240><c> period.
Summary:
The Finance Committee first took up Senate Bill 63, which Representative Maguire described as a straightforward bill setting funding for the Division of Travel and Tourism. He said it was not controversial. The committee voted to retain the bill by roll call, with one no vote and one member absent, and the motion passed 23-1-1.
The committee then considered Senate Bill 74, dealing with annual reporting requirements for state departments that issue permits. Representative Maguire explained Amendment 2282 would shorten the reporting burden by requiring summary data on delayed permits rather than listing every permit, and would delay the first report until 2027 so agencies would not have to reconstruct old data. The amendment was adopted by voice vote, and the bill was then approved as amended by a 24-1 roll call vote.
Next, the committee heard Senate Bill 241 on construction of a public pier at Hampton Beach. Representative Sweeney moved inexpedient to legislate, saying the project was ambitious and lacked public support. The motion passed unanimously 25-0, sending the bill to consent.
Division Two then took up Senate Bill 145, a replace-all amendment to the education freedom account bill. Supporters said the amendment clarified the bill, kept the policy intact, removed a reimbursement program and an open-ended appropriation, and established a cap of 10,000 students with priority for current students and certain other groups. Opponents argued the measure was still a major expansion, would increase spending after crossover, and that the cap was not meaningful. After discussion, Amendment 2301H was adopted and the bill was approved as amended by a 25-0 vote, with members noting it could go on consent because no money remained in it.
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 14th, 2025 at 02:30 pm
Appropriations - Education and Environment Division
Transcript Highlights:
- I think the difference was on the adjusted credit waiting and credit completion.
- What it does is it adjusts what we're doing in the university system so that we're ready to make that
- It will be adjusted as necessary.
- Challenge grants, we talked about those and made that adjustment for $750,000 for DSU.
- Sections 18, 19, 20, and 37 adjust the higher ed funding formula for credit weighting.
Bills:
SB2003
Keywords:
higher education, student loans, scholarships, capital projects, workforce development, funding, North Dakota university system, 908, all
Summary:
The committee met to work through the higher education budget, beginning with a conflict-of-interest request from Representative Martinson, who was excused from voting because of a partnership that leases office space to Bismarck State College. Members then reviewed the higher education institution budget sheets, covering ongoing and one-time funding items for campuses and system projects such as BSC housing, Lake Region roof repairs, UND’s STEM and National Security Crossroads projects, the UND allied health facility, NDSU projects including New Horizons, DSU deferred maintenance and campus security, Mayville’s Old Main, Minot projects, and the regional health institutes. Members also discussed student financial assistance, the professional student exchange program, IT security funding, and workforce/education innovation grants.
Several amendments and policy questions were debated. The committee adopted an amendment to make workforce education innovation grants competitive rather than automatically distributed, and then voted to remove language prohibiting those funds from being used to duplicate academic programs. Members also removed similar anti-duplication language from the New Horizons section. They agreed to extend the UND hyperbaric chamber transfer authority to 2027 and clarified language around UND land-sale proceeds. A proposed amendment to add $5.6 million for the Wahpeton State School of Science building purchase failed for lack of a second, and a proposal to restore fetal alcohol spectrum disorder funding to UND was left for conference. The committee also discussed, but did not add, a tuition cap change, a study on the Praxis exam, and several governance-related provisions.
The committee spent significant time on broader higher education policy items, including a $3 million enterprise resource planning request for the university system, a $2 million grant program for students who are pregnant, recently gave birth, or are caring for young children, and a $1.1 million request for library age-verification software tied to the Odin system. Members also discussed dual-credit authority for UND and NDSU, a goal for the UND medical school to increase North Dakota resident enrollment, and intent language regarding the commissioner/chancellor model and presidential search authority. At the end of the meeting, the committee approved the amendments and then gave the higher education budget a do-pass recommendation as amended, with Representative Sanford designated as the carrier. The Forest Service budget was also approved, including two additional FTEs, and the committee adjourned after noting it would continue with other budgets the next day.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, you would know more about the fiscal committee than I would, but there would be other adjustments
- The legislature would adjust. Thank you. Any further questions, gentlemen?
- that the full would be other adjustments that the full legislature<00:38:27.000><c> could</c><00:38:
- education trust fund the legislature education trust fund the legislature would<00:38:54.880><c> adjust
- thank you any further would adjust thank you any further questions<00:38:58.720><c> gentlemen</c><00
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Education (2-25-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- It will adjust the makeup of that work group.
- You're welcome to make that adjustment.
- </c> uh uh reallocated an equity adjustment uh uh reallocated an equity adjustment that<00:24:52.840>
- </c><00:25:26.960><c> you're</c><00:25:27.159><c> welcome</c> to make that adjustment you're welcome
- to make that adjustment you're welcome any<00:25:29.360><c> members</c><00:25:29.720><c> have</c><00:
Summary:
The committee first took up House Bill 276, which would revise the membership of the performance-based funding work group for postsecondary education. Representative Tipton explained that the committee substitute changes the group so the CPE president chairs it as a nonvoting member, all nine university and KCTCS presidents serve as nonvoting advisory members, and the voting members are three House members, three Senate members, the state budget director, and one gubernatorial appointee. He said the goal was to reduce deadlock among institutions and allow legislators to deliberate before meetings. Some members raised concerns that the change shifts influence away from the universities and toward the legislature, but Tipton said he had not heard pushback from the presidents. The committee adopted the substitute and passed HB 276 with an expression of opinion that it should pass with the committee substitute attached; several members voted yes, while Representative Roarx voted no and Representative Stalker passed.
The committee then considered House Bill 711, another bill sponsored by Representative Baker and presented by Representative Tipton. Tipton said the measure is a cleanup bill for postsecondary statutes, repealing outdated provisions for groups that have not met in years, including the Strategic Committee on Postsecondary Education, the STEM Initiative Task Force, and local P-16 councils, and removing obsolete language about one-time board appointments. It also strikes the statutory definition of remedial education because Kentucky public postsecondary institutions no longer offer remedial classes, instead using transitional courses with wraparound support that count for credit. A question was raised about whether Senate confirmation requirements for some appointees had been removed in the committee substitute, and Tipton confirmed they had. The committee then passed HB 711 with an expression of opinion that it should pass with the committee substitute attached.
After the bills, the committee reviewed administrative regulations from the Council on Postsecondary Education. CPE Senior Vice President and General Counsel Travis Pahl explained that the regulations update the performance funding model for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to reflect changes made by Senate Bill 191, including a Community Needs Index that reallocates part of an equity adjustment based on regional poverty, unemployment, and labor participation across the 16 colleges. Members were told the committee could ask questions, propose amendments, or find the regulations deficient, but no further action was taken. The meeting then adjourned.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- This memorial is regarding our livestock, our cattlemen, and depredation claims in the state of Idaho
- learned that there are ranchers in the state of Idaho that are concerned if they file a depredation claim
- you know, they are either grizzly bears or wolves, they have an opportunity to file a depredation claim
- Filing a depredation claim should not be the basis for a negative action on a federal grazing permit.
- congressional delegation and the Trump administration to promulgate rules noting that filing a depredation claim
Summary:
The Senate convened with 33 members present and one excused absence, then proceeded through prayer, the pledge, and approval of the prior journal. Members also received communications, including notice of a temporary substitute senator and a governor’s letter withdrawing a reappointment to the Idaho Human Rights Commission, which was referred back to State Affairs.
The chamber then considered several gubernatorial appointments. The Senate adopted committee reports and confirmed Brian Skigliano and Leighton Lining to the Idaho Commission on Human Rights, Gregory Donica and Nora Carpenter to the Idaho Health Insurance Exchange Board, and later Salvador Cruz’s appointment was also taken up in the sequence of business. Senators highlighted each nominee’s background and qualifications, and the reports were adopted without recorded opposition. The Senate also adopted Senate Joint Memorial 108, which urges federal action to protect Idaho livestock owners from adverse grazing-permit consequences when filing depredation claims; Senate Joint Memorial 106 was sent back to committee after a correction was noted.
On legislation, Senate Bill 1227 passed after debate over a framework for generative AI in education. Supporters said it would preserve human judgment, local control, and parent transparency while helping schools prepare for AI; opponents raised concerns about vague definitions, implementation, and possible overreach. The Senate also passed Senate Bill 1226, expanding DNA sample collection to include misdemeanor sexual battery and misdemeanor domestic violence convictions, with supporters citing public safety and victim accountability and one senator noting budget concerns. Finally, Senate Bill 1225 as amended passed, codifying university presidential search procedures and changing public disclosure rules so only the sole finalist’s name is released, with a minimum 10-day public vetting period. The Senate adjourned after miscellaneous announcements and set its next meeting for the following day.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
March 5, 2025 - 01:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- They'll have a third-party administrator, so they'll use large major medical insurers to handle claims
- Major medical insurers to handle claims and do all the things.
- getting this type of insurance get a disclaimer indicating that it's not the very same thing as Claiming
- just have some questions regarding what, if any, impact this is going to have on consumers and their claim
- example that you provided of the company that obviously was a good actor and continued to pay those claims
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum present and heard several insurance- and financial-services-related bills. HB 315 was temporarily postponed. The chair also noted that, following the speaker’s remarks, members should expect additional special meetings as the committee investigates insurance-related issues and seeks transparency and the truth.
HB 497, relating to nonprofit agricultural organization health coverage, was presented as a way to give Florida Farm Bureau members—especially farmers, ranchers, and small business owners—more affordable health coverage options. An amendment added statutory placement changes, disclosures that the product is not commercially sold, and annual financial audits. Members discussed ACA-related protections, fraud, and insolvency concerns, and the bill received support from Florida Farm Bureau and was reported favorably 16-0. HB 379, the annual securities package, updated exemptions, foreign jurisdiction rules, the Florida Invest Local Exemption, merger-and-acquisition broker rules, fingerprinting requirements, and technical issues in the Securities Guarantee Fund. Three amendments clarified entity definitions and fingerprint/live-scan requirements; the bill drew support from industry and OFR and passed favorably 17-0.
The PCS for HB 147 on consumer debt collection clarified prohibited communications during nighttime hours, with the sponsor and supporters explaining the intent was to allow email while restricting other forms of contact and reduce litigation over passive communications. Members and public witnesses discussed ambiguity in the wording, and the sponsor said further cleanup language may still be needed; the PCS was reported favorably 17-0. HB 655 on pet insurance and wellness programs created a regulatory framework for pet insurance, drew support from industry and humane society representatives, and passed favorably 17-0. HB 367 on home and service warranty association financial requirements allowed financial compliance through multiple contractual liability insurance policies and alternative parent-company documentation; an amendment corrected cross-references and duplicative language, and after questions about consumer protections and insolvency, the bill was reported favorably 17-0. Finally, HB 7003 preserved a public-records exemption for sensitive financial technology sandbox application materials; members discussed the sandbox concept and possible future issues, but no amendments were taken and the bill passed favorably 17-0. The meeting adjourned without objection.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/26
Agriculture Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- To date, we have received 19 claims for a total of $1.1 million. first claim uh on the account that many
- The claim is submitted by a farmer, uh, and then we verify that and the claim is validated using information
- And if the claim is valid, uh, the claim payment is initiated.
- The claim is submitted by a farmer, uh, and then we verify that and the claim is validated using information
- And if the claim is valid, uh, the claim payment is initiated.
Committee:
House Agriculture Finance and Policy
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Informal House Session 71 Jul 20th, 2026
Massachusetts House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- matters be scheduled for consideration by the House: the Senate bill further regulating insurance claims
- An act further regulating insurance claims. Senate number 785. Insurance claims.
Summary:
The House began with the Pledge of Allegiance and then took up several routine matters from the Committee on Rules. It adopted resolutions congratulating Mark D. Chiraco on his retirement from the Veterans Health Administration and Gene M. Bubon on her retirement from the town of Sturbridge, and it also adopted an order extending the Education Committee’s reporting deadline on House document 5991 to July 31, 2026. The chamber then suspended Joint Rule 12 to receive and refer several Senate petitions, including a proposal to conform state law to the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022, a Buzzards Bay Water District easement bill, and measures involving Fish and Game easements and the leasing of Pilgrim Memorial Park.
The House also accepted the Steering, Policy and Scheduling Committee’s recommendation to place several bills on the calendar, including Senate No. 785 on insurance claims, House bills naming the official vegetable and crustacean of the Commonwealth, and a local bill for additional alcohol licenses in East Bridgewater. After suspending Rule 7A, the House gave second reading and ordered these bills to third reading. It then passed to be enacted House 4321, authorizing the Dalton Fire District to continue employing interim fire chief Christopher Francis Cherat, and House 899, dedicating park and field space in South Boston.
Later, the House considered several third-reading bills and passed them to be engrossed, including Senate 2735 dissolving the North Carver Water District, House 5421 on transportation of vessels in Barnstable, House 5426 amending the North Attleboro charter, and House 5543 establishing a sick leave bank for Andrew Bartlett of the Department of Public Health. House 5528, a sick leave bank bill for Edward Gillian, was amended to add an emergency preamble and then passed to be engrossed as amended. The House adopted an order to meet again Wednesday at 11 a.m., then adjourned, with a Democratic caucus notice announced for noon in rooms A1 and A2.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Military and Veterans Affairs Committee Jan 14th, 2026
Military and Veterans Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- to veterans and their families by removing a provision in the Constitution that prevents veterans claiming
- the homeowners' exemption from also claiming the disabled veterans' or veterans' exemption. ...from
- also claiming the disabled veterans' or veterans' exemption, thereby allowing eligible veterans to stack
Committee:
Senate Military and Veterans Affairs
Summary:
The committee met with one item on the agenda: Senate Bill 623 by Senator Archuleta. The bill would implement a related constitutional amendment to provide property tax relief for veterans and their families by allowing eligible veterans to combine, or “stack,” the homeowners’ exemption with the disabled veterans’ or veterans’ exemption, and by removing certain property limitations tied to the exemption. The author and chair framed the measure as recognition of veterans’ service and a way to expand access to tax relief for veteran homeowners.
The committee heard extensive testimony in support from veterans and advocates, including disabled veterans, combat veterans, representatives of veterans’ organizations, and county and health care advocates. Supporters said the bill would meaningfully improve benefits for veterans and their families. No opposition testimony was presented, and no committee member raised objections during the hearing.
The bill was moved on a due pass motion to the Committee on Appropriations. The roll call vote was 3-0 in favor, with the bill held on call pending Senator Menjivar’s return so she could vote as well. The meeting then adjourned after the chair thanked the veterans and attendees.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Military and Veterans Affairs Committee Jan 14th, 2026
Military and Veterans Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- to veterans and their families by removing a provision in the Constitution that prevents veterans claiming
- the homeowners exemption from also claiming the disabled veterans' or veterans' exemption.
- The homeowners exemption would no longer prevent veterans from also claiming the disabled veterans' or
Committee:
Senate Military and Veterans Affairs
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
November 5, 2025 - 08:30 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- and to your point, I think it, if you are someone who is purchasing one of these properties and you claim
- and to your point, I think it, if you are someone who is purchasing one of these properties and you claim
- I think it, if you are someone who is purchasing one of these properties and you claim that you are unaware
Summary:
The Judiciary Committee met with a quorum present and took up a single bill, HB 167, dealing with former phosphate-mined land. Chair McClure explained that the bill revises a strict liability provision if the current property owner records the prior phosphate-mining use with the county or municipality and the Department of Health completes a survey. Members asked about whether the lands would be treated as hazardous or Brownfield properties, how the bill would affect disclosure and recorded notice, and whether it would apply to pending litigation. McClure said the bill is intended to create more public assessment data and that the language requires the conditions to be met at the time of litigation, though he was open to further clarifying language if needed.
During debate, Ranking Member Gottlieb said he would support the bill because Florida is a buyer-beware state and the recording requirement plus the Department of Health study should provide purchasers with needed information. Representative Joseph also supported the bill, citing the transparency and recording provisions, while noting he still wanted clarification on pending litigation. In closing, McClure said the bill reflects a middle ground after prior discussions and noted that environmental assessments are typically part of transactions involving these properties.
The committee then voted unanimously to report HB 167 favorably, with 21 ayes and no nays. The meeting adjourned after the bill passed and no further business remained.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- SO 2601 also prohibits insurers from factoring in claims for damages incurred into insurance rate calculations
- to provide requested border crime reports to the Attorney General within 14 days to support timely claim
- Instead, a lessee can file the claim, but compensation goes to the landowner who could live hundreds
Committee:
Senate Border Security
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- And so our committee has done the hard work to try to make the changes, to make the surgical adjustments
- , to make the thoughtful adjustments to try to implement that vision.
- enrollment decline, may be required to complete a turnaround plan describing how its budget may be adjusted
- are many cities that surround these large cities, and that is the concern for them is how did they adjust
- And then also criticizing us when people make adjustments to those spending levels and when people have
Committee:
House Budget
DE
Transcript Highlights:
- passage of HB 209, clarifies legislative intent, protects consumers from inappropriate loss-of-use claims
- passage of HB209, clarifies legislative intent, protects consumers from inappropriate loss of use claims
- From an insurance perspective, we're just worried about the extra-contractual claims against carriers
- for failure to pay valid claims, and we just oppose the bill.
Committee:
Senate Executive
Summary:
The committee met in hybrid format, approved the June 24 and June 25, 2026 minutes, and then heard several bills and a joint resolution. On House Bill 382 with House Amendment 2, Senator Hoffer explained the measure as a technical correction to prior rental-car and peer-to-peer car-sharing law that would clarify when loss-of-use damages may be recovered while preserving recovery for intentional, willful, or criminal conduct. Avis Budget Group and Enterprise Mobility supported the bill, saying it resolved ambiguity and restored limited common-law recovery, while Allstate and Toro opposed it, arguing the bill could reintroduce unfair and unpredictable fees and leave too much discretion to rental companies. No vote was taken in the transcript, and Senator Townsend said he still had questions about how the bill would operate.
The committee then considered House Bill 476, a Frederica charter change that would reduce town council meetings from twice monthly to monthly and make ordinances effective immediately unless otherwise stated. Representative Postles presented it as a simple, noncontroversial change, though members noted Senator Buckson, the Senate sponsor, was not present at the time. No public comment was offered on that bill. The committee also heard House Joint Resolution 13, which directs the Department of Labor to study a Delaware health care apprenticeship degree program and report recommendations; the Delaware Health Care Association supported the resolution and urged coordination with existing workforce efforts.
Finally, the committee heard House Bill 458 with House Amendment 1 on backflow devices in low-hazard buildings. Senator Pardee said the bill would exempt residences and office-type buildings from costly backflow retrofits until regulations are updated, and DHSS said the current regulations do not clearly define low hazard but that the bill’s list of exempted buildings would not raise immediate public health concerns. The Delaware Association of Realtors supported the bill, arguing the regulations were overbroad and costly, while the Delaware Rural Water Association opposed it, warning that weakening backflow protections could threaten drinking water and aquifers. The committee then adjourned without any recorded votes on the substantive bills in the transcript.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on State Administration Mar 17th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Much of our role at that initial stage is helping people understand whether they have a claim and whether
- it is a claim that we can help with.
- Much of our role at that initial stage is helping people understand, do they have a claim, and is it
- a claim that we can help with?
Summary:
The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on State Administration met to hear the Civil Rights Department’s budget items, with the chair opening by emphasizing that agency directors should appear in person if they want their items heard. Go-Biz was not heard because its director was absent. The department outlined four chaptered-legislation implementation items: SB 464 on updated pay data reporting categories, AB 822 extending the Commission on the State of Hate, AB 935 expanding data collection and reporting, and SB 518 creating the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery. The Department of Finance and Legislative Analyst’s Office had no concerns with these proposals.
Members then asked about the department’s broader workload and role in responding to discrimination, hate incidents, and immigration-related fears in communities. CRD explained that it handles complaints in areas such as housing, employment, public accommodations, hate crimes, and human trafficking, but does not have jurisdiction over the federal government or landlord-tenant law generally. Officials said filings and open matters have risen sharply, with the department nearing 12,000 open matters, and described outreach in multiple languages, immigrant-serving work, and support for victims through T and U visa-related assistance. They also discussed the Commission on the State of Hate, the California vs. Hate hotline, and coordination with Stop the Hate grantees and community organizations.
The committee also heard items on ongoing workload for AB 2188, AB 1041, and AB 1949, which would convert limited-term resources to permanent positions because workload has met or exceeded initial estimates. The LAO had no concerns. A final item requested $502,000 for ongoing security guard services at CRD public counters after more than a dozen threats to staff since July 2024; the LAO again had no concerns. Members expressed support for the security request and discussed the need for safe public-facing offices. No votes were taken, and each item was closed after discussion and public comment.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS Senate Floor - 23 February, 2026; 4:00 PM
Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We claim his healing this evening. In your holy and righteous name we pray. Amen. Amen.
- </c><00:04:57.120><c> We</c><00:04:57.360><c> claim</c><00:04:57.680><c> his</c> heal him in Jesus name
- We claim his heal him in Jesus name.
- We claim his healing<00:04:58.880><c> this</c><00:04:59.199><c> evening.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Commerce and Small Business Committee Feb 18th, 2026
Commerce and Small Business
Transcript Highlights:
- They're already not open because of religious day exception, and they didn't want someone coming in claiming
- want someone exception and they didn't want someone coming<00:09:39.519><c> in</c><00:09:39.920><c> claiming
- ><00:09:40.399><c> a</c><00:09:40.640><c> different</c><00:09:40.959><c> religious</c> coming in claiming
- a different religious coming in claiming a different religious day<00:09:42.399><c> operation.
Committee:
House Commerce and Small Business
Keywords:
financial services, banking, insurance, debanking, social credit score, ESG, environmental, social, and governance, diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI, religious freedom, free speech, viewpoint discrimination, political discrimination, firearms, gun industry, ammunition, fossil fuels, oil and gas, mining, timber
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Democratic Leaders Media Availability Jan 27th, 2026 at 11:00 am
Transcript Highlights:
- But so, for example, it is challenging, for example, when you continue to have completely baseless claims
- making sure that you have a system that works so actually things aren't ground to a halt with baseless claims
- So actually things aren't ground to a halt with baseless claims is also really an important thing.
- I don't understand your question. so actually things aren't ground to a halt with baseless claims is
Summary:
Senate and House Democratic leaders used the meeting to preview several bills they expect to move quickly, while framing much of their agenda as a response to federal ICE actions and broader concerns about public safety and accountability. They said the Senate will pass a bill banning law-enforcement masking, with the stated goal of requiring identification and transparency for officers, and that the House will likely take it up after House-of-Origin cutoff. They also said a bill restricting Flock automated license plate readers will move from rules to the floor, and they discussed a separate proposal to bar people hired as ICE agents under Trump’s second term from later serving in Washington law enforcement, though leaders said they had not yet reviewed its details.
The leaders repeatedly criticized ICE and said the state must do what it can to protect residents, especially immigrants, while also defending Washington’s law enforcement training and accountability systems. They said the bill on face coverings is aimed at federal agents, though they also argued it is a general standard for all law enforcement and may serve to “enunciate” a norm even if its legal scope is tested in court. They also discussed concerns about fraud and misuse of funds in state programs, saying Washington has checks and balances and that accountability measures are appropriate, while cautioning against baseless claims.
On budget and policy matters, they said a Senate bill to restore Washington College Grant and Washington Promise scholarship funding would be considered in the operating budget process, but it was too early to know what reductions could be reversed. They expressed openness to a House bill limiting non-emergency charity care to Washington residents, citing border-community strain and examples from eastern Washington hospitals. They also said they were still evaluating a House bill on camping enforcement tied to shelter availability and a tort-liability measure, noting that any savings would likely come from reduced litigation costs rather than caps on damages.
Other topics included a possible income tax proposal, which leaders said could be introduced as soon as Friday or next week with offsets included or outlined; House Bill 1607 on a beverage container recycling/deposit system, which they said could reach executive action soon; and a floor vote expected on the BAC bill the next day. They also said they were not inclined to hear the recently arrived voter initiatives in committee, describing them as likely headed to the ballot instead.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 3/27/25
Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
Transcript Highlights:
- And second, Minnesota used the principle of contributory negligence in evaluating a plaintiff's claim
- evaluating a plaintiff's claim. So we evaluating a plaintiff's claim.
- injuries, comparative fault, and their duty to mitigate damages of their claims.
- It even can prevent at times a claims.
- injuries, comparative fault, and their duty to mitigate damages of their claims.
Committee:
House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
Keywords:
mortgage foreclosure, redemption, foreclosure surplus, sheriff's sale, junior lienholder, mortgagor, homeowner protections, loss mitigation, dual tracking, foreclosure redemption period, certificate of redemption, certificate of sale, sheriff, county recorder, registrar of titles, homeownership center, lien priority, real property, foreclosure by advertisement, surplus funds
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Labor, Health & Social Services, February 11, 2026
Labor, Health & Social Services
Transcript Highlights:
- It is not, as some<00:54:02.640><c> have</c><00:54:02.880><c> claimed,</c><00:54:04.000><c> special</
- have claimed, special treatment or a<00:54:06.160><c> blanket</c><00:54:06.640><c> exemption</c><00:
- The Supreme Court ruled 5 to4 claimed.
- </c><00:54:44.800><c> that</c> centers was likely to win its claim that centers was likely to win its
- </c> kind of an average of that those claims. kind of an average of that those claims.
Committee:
House Labor, Health & Social Services