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AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Fiscal Responsibility Committee Mar 19th, 2025
Fiscal Responsibility
Transcript Highlights:
- We've got to have a definition of success on some of our bills and some of our language to see, okay,
- Those types of things. Um outcomes. Those types of things.
- We've kind of piled up a list of... ...We've kind of piled up a list of programs that, over time, members
- type of thing. teachers, that type of thing.
- House a couple of weeks ago by a vote of 102 to nothing.
Committee:
House Fiscal Responsibility
Keywords:
business regulation, nonprofit entities, electronic filing, merger agreements, limited liability companies, partnerships, property transfer, termination fees, HB140, private sewer systems, wastewater utilities, Public Service Commission, PSC jurisdiction, utility regulation, rate setting, rate consolidation, affiliated systems, common ownership, private utilities, sewer rates
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- My personal experience as a parent of a of a deaf blind child.
- a year of work, Providence pulled out of that contract.
- Like much of the CBC, the existing CBC contract, the role of the department as conservator of the child
- I am the executive director of CASA of West Texas in Midland.
- To the best of their ability, but 9 out of 10 of those people that got hurt, some of you had an automobile
Committee:
House Human Services
Keywords:
commercial sexual exploitation, child sex trafficking, human trafficking, child welfare, foster care, DFPS, Department of Family and Protective Services, juvenile probation, risk assessment, needs assessment, trauma screening, child abuse prevention, exploitation screening, validated screening tool, evidence-informed tool, conservatorship, juvenile justice, at-risk youth, trafficking prevention, Child Sex Trafficking Prevention Unit
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- of them?
- I'm mayor of the city of Coppell.
- The negative impact of imposing HB 134 is devastating to the city of Coppell approximately 60% of our
- this. made the comment that a lot of, and this is for the city of Capelle, that a lot of this. of the
- of things.
Committee:
House Ways & Means
Keywords:
sales tax, use tax, local tax, municipal tax, county tax, tax sourcing, place of business, principal business location, small business, retailer, marketplace seller, economic development agreement, Chapter 321, Chapter 323, Tax Code, Texas Comptroller, local sales and use tax, tax jurisdiction, order consummation, ship-to location
TX
Committee:
Senate Economic Development
Keywords:
regulatory reform, state agencies, efficiency, rulemaking, judicial review, SB 217, Historic Texas Freedmen's Cemetery Designation Program, Texas Historical Commission, Freedmen's cemetery, freed slave burial site, cemetery designation, historic cemetery, African American history, Black cemetery, burial grounds, cemetery preservation, historical marker, medallion, property owner notice, adjacent landowners
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Business and Commerce (Part I) Feb 27th, 2025
Business & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- kind of the dynamics of that and answer any questions.
- , Chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
- transmission of the electricity. that that brings, but our role at the PUC is to kind of take all of
- 20% of 131 gigawatts is a lot of power demand.
- required of all users of the transmission system. versus those that would be kind of a more variable
Committee:
Senate Business & Commerce
Keywords:
hemp, consumable hemp, hemp-derived cannabinoids, CBD, cannabidiol, CBG, cannabigerol, delta-8, delta-9, intoxicating hemp, hemp gummies, hemp vape, edibles, cannabinoid regulation, hemp licensing, retailer registration, product registration, QR code labeling, child-resistant packaging, minor access
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Business and Commerce (Part II) Feb 27th, 2025
Business & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- For the record, my name is Mark Bell, on behalf of the AECT, the Association of Electric Companies of
- billions of dollars of investment in the state of Texas.
- The result of that has shown... in Figure 2 of my testimony.
- I'm the CEO of the Teaching Hospitals of Texas.
- I'm the CEO of the Texas Association of Health Plans.
Committee:
Senate Business & Commerce
Keywords:
hemp, consumable hemp, hemp-derived cannabinoids, CBD, cannabidiol, CBG, cannabigerol, delta-8, delta-9, intoxicating hemp, hemp gummies, hemp vape, edibles, cannabinoid regulation, hemp licensing, retailer registration, product registration, QR code labeling, child-resistant packaging, minor access
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Children are casualties of these events, and nothing is worth the price. of the well-being of our children
- and out of the pocket of Austin middlemen.
- behalf of the State Board of Education District 7.
- the state of. of the association president.
- of them.
Committee:
Senate State Affairs
Keywords:
Texas Water Code, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, water permit, water appropriation, dam permit exemption, reservoir, flood control, floodwater control, erosion control, sediment control, watershed protection, flood prevention, Natural Resources Conservation Service, NRCS, USDA, local sponsor, district, authority, water infrastructure
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- mentioned, seeks to prohibit the sale of nitrous oxide to individuals under 21 years of age.
- To be aware of. Absolutely.
- limits of the power of the federal government is crazy.
- some of the details of how it's affected?
- Obviously, Senator Cole, of course, worked with the Office of Attorney General on this.
Committee:
Senate State Affairs
Keywords:
municipal libraries, state funding, gender identity, public events, children's literature, SB 19, Texas, political subdivision, local government, county, city, municipality, taxpayer-funded lobbying, lobbying ban, public funds, registered lobbyist, Chapter 305, Government Code, Local Government Code, county association dues
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- He completed his Hall of Fame career at the... completed his Hall of Fame career at the conclusion of
- Be it resolved by the Senate of the Legislature of Alabama that immediately upon the adoption of this
- under a great deal of criticism because of the cost.
- They're such a part of the fabric of our society, and this is a great way to take care of them.
- to the midline of the right-of-way.
Bills:
SJR 1 , SB 9 , SB 40 , SJR 36 , SJR 1 , SJR 5 , SB 9 , SB 40 , SR 61 , SR 91 , SR 97 , SR 103 , SR 104 , SR 112 , SR 115 , SR 116 , SCR 16 , SB 26 , SB 26
Keywords:
bail denial, illegal aliens, felony offenses, constitutional amendment, law enforcement, bail reform, defendants, pretrial detention, public safety, criminal justice, charitable bail organizations, bail bonds, public funds, political subdivision, injunctive relief, taxpayer rights, bail, criminal justice reform, Texas Music Advocacy Day, music industry
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Budget Review Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education (2-16-23)
Keywords:
KY LRC YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfxEkZHiWzs, 2026-06-21T07:17:03+00:00, 2.2.24, Data collected via generic collector engine, MEETING START 00:00:00
ROLL CALL 00:00:26
DISCUSSION WITH KENTUCKY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEMS,
ACTING PRESIDENT, LARRY FERGUSON, VICE PRESIDENT OF WORKFORCE &
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, JESSIE SCHOOK, AND OWENSBORO CTC PRESIDENT,
SCOTT WILLIAMS ABOUT CAMPUS OVERVIEW, MISSION STATEMENT, COLLEGE &
CAREER READINESS, TRANSFER EDUCATION, AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING.
TRYING TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AND EDUCATORS WITH
WORK BASED LEARNING AND APPRENTICESHIPS. BUDGET REQUEST FOR ASSET
PRESERVATIONS THAT WERE SUBMITTED FOR THE 2022-2024 BUDGET. 00:01:16
DISCUSSION WITH MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY, PRESIDENT ROBERT JACKSON ON
UPDATES FOR RANKINGS AND REPUTATION, RECRUITING AND RETENTION.
INFORMATION ON ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE, QUALITY ASSURANCE, NEW HEALTHCARE
EDUCATION BUILDING, MAINTENANCE AND CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS, BUDGET
REQUEST FOR ASSET PREVENTION PROJECTS, THE NEW HEALTHCARE EDUCATION
BUILDING, AND THE BREATHITT VETERINARY CLINIC. 00:39:24, 958, all, 2.2.42, 2.1.47
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations & Revenue (3-16-22)
Keywords:
KY LRC YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmj0vYOxnzc, 2026-06-21T07:17:00+00:00, 2.2.24, Data collected via generic collector engine, Meeting Start 00:00:00
Roll Call 00:00:11
Chief Justice of the Commonwealth Budget Request Discussion Only 00:01:15
HB 137 Discussion 00:19:04
HB 137 Vote 00:22:08
SB 150 Discussion 00:23:16
SB 150 Vote 00:25:10
HB 219 Discussion 00:26:17
HB 219 Vote 00:35:53
HB 259 Discussion 00:37:56
HB 259 Vote 00:39:05
HB 482 Discussion 00:40:41
HB 482 Vote 00:41:21
SB 232 Discussion 00:42:16
SB 232 Vote 00:44:59
SB 285 Discussion 00:46:07
SB 285 Vote 00:49:10
SB 249 Discussion 00:50:21
SB 249 Vote 00:54:41
SB 195 Discussion 00:55:43
SB 195 Vote 01:07:03, 958, all, 2.2.42, 2.1.47
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Feb 17th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- of inspection rules.
- The right-of-way program administers a wide variety of rights of way, both benefiting and encumbering
- landowners. ...of rights of way, both benefiting and encumbering land managed by the State of Idaho.
- But if there's no backlog, we've been able to turn around appraisals within a couple of months within
- So in terms of, I'm sorry, so in terms of the actual selection of an external appraiser, would the participant
Summary:
The committee first handled routine business, including a silent roll call, notice of an upcoming tour of the Veolia water treatment plant, and approval of the February 9 and February 11, 2026 minutes. Members also recognized a departing page, Kaelin, who briefly shared her plans to serve an LDS mission and later attend college for an agribusiness degree.
The committee then heard House Bill 652, presented by Representative Stone on behalf of a fourth-grade homeschool student from Twin Falls, Betty Grandi. The bill would designate hunting as Idaho’s official state sport. Grandi testified that she researched the issue, surveyed her community through her newspaper, and found hunting to be the clear favorite. She argued it reflects Idaho’s history, outdoor traditions, conservation values, and family recreation. The committee praised her presentation and unanimously voted to send the bill to the floor with a due pass recommendation.
The remainder of the meeting was devoted to pending Idaho Department of Lands rules. Andrew Smith presented changes to mine land reclamation rules, saying the revisions were the product of negotiated rulemaking, public meetings, and comments, and would reduce word count and restrictive language while adding definitions and reorganizing requirements. Will Teeteman of the Idaho Conservation League supported periodic review of reclamation plans but objected that the rule did not clearly reflect statutory five-year review language; the committee nonetheless approved the docket. Marty Menzinger then presented navigable waterways rule changes, describing outreach, no fee increases, and reductions in word count and restrictive terms; the committee approved that docket as well. Finally, Lawson Tate presented right-of-way easement rule changes, including removal of nominal fees, updated compensation language tied to appraised value, emergency-work definitions, and longer temporary permits; after questions about appraisal costs and selection, the committee approved the rule. The meeting adjourned after all pending items were acted on.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- benefit of the public.
- The right-of-way program administers a wide variety of rights of way, both benefiting and encumbering
- The right-of-way program administers a wide variety of rights of way, both benefiting and encumbering
- But if there's no backlog, we've been able to turn around appraisals within a couple of months within
- So in terms of actual selection, So in terms of, I'm sorry, so in terms of the actual selection of an
Committee:
House Resources and Conservation
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee to Hear SAO Performance Audits Jul 15th, 2026 at 02:00 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- By July 1 of each year, JLARC must report the status of SAO's recommendations to the legislature.
- out of a wheelchair or bed.
- a concern, so our analysis set a threshold of 75% or less of hours used.
- As of March of this year, around 20% of the state's training programs were already doing this.
- value in terms of safety.
Summary:
The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee heard a State Auditor’s Office performance audit on the Restoring Quality Home Care Initiative (I-1163), which created home care aide certification requirements, FBI background checks, and an abuse/neglect registry. Auditors said some requirements likely improve safety, especially background checks and training, but the state lacked pre-2011 data to measure outcomes directly. They also found Washington has a long-term care workforce shortage, though its workforce supply ranks better than many states, and that more stringent entry requirements do not appear to reduce workforce participation compared with other states.
The audit’s main concern was that the certification process is slow and burdensome. Auditors reported that most applicants never finish certification, that only about one-third of fiscal year 2025 applicants were certified within the 200-day legal deadline, and that the average time to certification was 463 days. They identified delays between training and testing, limited testing access in some areas, and redundant Department of Health verification of FBI background checks as key causes. The audit recommended streamlining the process by accepting applications later in the process, expanding testing within training programs, and eliminating the redundant background-check verification.
Department of Health and Department of Social and Health Services staff largely agreed with the audit’s findings and recommendations. They said they have already made improvements, including moving exams into more than 110 training programs, increasing credentialing staff, and reducing barriers through rule changes. DSHS noted testing is offered in 13 languages. Committee members asked about testing contract incentives, language access, and whether the agencies would seek statutory or budget changes to implement the recommendations. No public testimony was offered, and the meeting adjourned without any vote or formal action by the committee.
TX
Texas 89th 1st C.S.
Press Conference: Special Session Jul 21st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- the state of Texas.
- I'm kind of boring.
- Last week, some of you may know that we had the 5 year anniversary of the death of Congressman John Lewis
- Of the danger that is coming, not just a failure to take care of the nearly $50 billion of backlog disaster
- preparedness of the myriad of piles of legislation dealing with disaster readiness, climate change,
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senator Manka Dhingra Press Conference Feb 13th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Together with the help of survivors and advocates, we have extended the statute of limitation for sexual
- to keep firearms out of the hands of abusers, prohibited employers from discriminating against survivors
- This is one of the largest nonprofits working on behalf of survivors of sexual assault. Kate?
- of their abuser.
- You know how to get a hold of all of us and hopefully all the bills mentioned today.
Summary:
Sen. Manka Dhingra held a press conference focused on Washington’s ongoing efforts to support survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, trafficking, and other gender-based violence, while warning that state victim-services funding is at risk amid budget pressures. She highlighted past legislative actions such as extending sexual-assault statutes of limitation, keeping firearms from abusers, protecting survivors from discrimination, improving civil protection orders, and addressing female genital mutilation, and said the state must continue funding trauma-informed, victim-centered services.
Several advocates and service providers testified that the system is at a breaking point without restored funding. Colleen McIngles of the Children’s Justice Center said programs statewide could close if the Legislature does not restore roughly $10 million in additional victim-services funding, while Kate Garvey of KSARC said $21.38 million is needed just to maintain current services after federal VOCA cuts and staff layoffs. They argued that losing forensic interviewers, advocates, and coordinated response teams would leave survivors without support and increase harm.
Legislators also discussed several bills. Sen. T’wina Nobles described SB 5169, aimed at protecting children from having to relive trauma in court. Rep. Jamila Taylor and Rep. Roger Goodman discussed HB 1591, which would address “defendant survivors” by recognizing coercion and allowing mitigation, resentencing, and vacatur in some cases. Rep. Chris Stearns and Sen. Tina Orwall discussed a bill to make court proceedings less retraumatizing for sexual-assault survivors and to address female genital mutilation, and Dhingra noted the Senate had unanimously passed the Ebony Alert bill. Rep. Lauren Davis shared her personal experience relying on victim services and said the state must fully fund both community-based and system-based advocacy. In response to a question, Dhingra said funding discussions were ongoing but emphasized the need to secure about $21.5 million for survivors and to create a more stable statutory funding mechanism.
AR
Arkansas 2026 Regular Session
REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE May 4th, 2026
REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE SALES, USE, MISC. TAXES & EXEMPTIONS SUBCOM.
Transcript Highlights:
- bottom of some lists that none of us want to be at the bottom of.
- We're here for you to consider whether we can afford a $180 million tax cut with a backlog of families
- It is a way in which each of us proportionately contributes to the shared good of all of us.
- the least of these.
- The top 20% of earners will receive 80% of the tax benefit.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- of some lists that none of us want to be at the bottom of.
- the people's money, is one of the best tools we have for climbing to the top of those lists.
- We're here to ask you to consider whether we can afford a $180 million tax cut with a backlog of families
- for the people of Arkansas.
- It was out of my hand.
Committee:
All REVENUE & TAX - SENATE
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- of some lists that none of us want to be at the bottom of.
- the people's money, is one of the best tools we have for climbing to the top of those lists.
- The top 20% of earners will receive 80% of the tax benefit.
- for the people of Arkansas.
- It was out of my hands.
Committee:
All REVENUE & TAX - SENATE
Summary:
The Senate Revenue and Tax Committee met to consider Senate Bill 1, sponsored by Senator Jonathan Dismang, which continues the state’s long-running effort to reduce Arkansas income tax rates. Dismang said the bill would lower the personal income tax rate retroactive to January 1, 2026 and delay the corporate income tax change until the following January, bringing the rate down from 7% to 3.7%. He also said the bill would use existing surplus funds and estimated that a person making $65,000 would see their effective tax burden reduced by about 45% compared with earlier rates.
The committee heard several witnesses in opposition, including a United Methodist pastor/social worker, a parent describing her son’s disability and need for supported living services, representatives from Arkansas Appleseed and Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, and a Marshallese community advocate. They argued that Arkansas should preserve revenue for public schools, health care, food assistance, housing, rural hospitals, early childhood education, and disability services, and said the tax cuts would disproportionately benefit higher-income taxpayers while providing little relief to working families. Several speakers cited low state spending relative to national averages and warned that further cuts would worsen existing service gaps.
In closing, Dismang and other supporters said the state can be both compassionate and competitive, that no essential services would be cut by the bill, and that Arkansas has continued to grow revenue despite prior tax reductions. Members emphasized balancing service funding with economic competitiveness and noted the legislature’s focus on lower-income tax brackets in earlier reforms. The committee then voted to do pass SB1, and the bill was approved.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- Arkansas is at the bottom of some lists that none of us want to be at the bottom of.
- The top 20% of earners will receive 80% of the tax benefit.
- for the people of Arkansas.
- It was out of my hands.
- A lot of what we talk about is generated locally, some of the tax.
Committee:
All REVENUE & TAX - SENATE
Summary:
The Senate Revenue and Tax Committee considered Senate Bill 1, sponsored by Senator Jonathan Dismang, which would continue Arkansas’s phased income tax reductions, lowering the personal income tax rate to 3.7% and delaying the corporate income tax change until the following January. Dismang said the bill was part of a long-running effort begun in 2013 to reduce rates using conservative budgeting and surplus revenue, and he estimated the change would reduce the effective tax burden for a person making $65,000 by about 45%. Committee members supporting the bill emphasized that the measure would not cut state services and argued Arkansas should balance competitiveness with funding essential programs.
Several speakers opposed the bill, including a clergy member/social worker, a parent advocating for disability services, representatives from Arkansas Appleseed and Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, and a community advocate from the Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese. They argued the state should preserve revenue for public schools, health care, housing, food assistance, early childhood education, and supported living services, citing underfunded schools, a waitlist for pre-K, hospital and child care pressures, and the needs of low-income and vulnerable residents. Some speakers said the tax cuts would disproportionately benefit higher-income taxpayers while providing little relief to working families.
In closing, Dismang said Arkansas could be both compassionate and competitive and that no essential services would be cut because the state is operating with a surplus. After discussion, Senator Dismang moved do pass, Senator Petty seconded, and the committee approved SB 1 by voice vote. The committee then adjourned.