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TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education Mar 5th, 2025
S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education
Transcript Highlights:
- to recognize Chairman Brad Buckley and express my commitment to assisting him and the Committee on Public
- Also for those of you that know me know I like to run an efficient committee and so all public testimony
- As a subcommittee, our purpose is to assist the productivity of the full committee on public education
- I'd also like to thank each of you for your public service.
Keywords:
applied sciences, career education, high school diploma, certificate program, work-based learning, job placement, high-growth jobs, technical training, career readiness, education reform, workforce training, public schools, financial aid, fraudulent solicitation, disaster relief, nonprofit organizations, criminal penalties, consumer protection, fraud prevention, charitable donations
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- I went to Louisiana public school. That's what it was. Mr.
- to me about transparency and having things done in public settings.
- Where is the confidence for the public that there will still be transparency?
- But the bids and the decisions made on those bids will be public? Correct. Yes.
- Everything would still be public.
Bills:
HB12 , HB42 , HB205 , HB222 , HB324 , HB325 , HB350 , HB416 , HB482 , HB610 , HB749 , HB797 , HB807 , HB821 , HB979 , HB992 , HB1193
Committee:
House Appropriations
Keywords:
survivor benefits, law enforcement, reserve officer, auxiliary officer, public safety, Medicaid, dental coverage, healthcare access, medical necessity, Louisiana Department of Health, judicial salaries, judges, judiciary compensation, cost of living adjustment, COLA, Louisiana Supreme Court, court of appeal judges, district court judges, city court judges, parish court judges
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Taxation and Revenue Feb 14th, 2026 at 10:35 am
House Taxation & Revenue
Transcript Highlights:
- We'll go to public comment first.
- As a public record, or... State? Would this apply to them as well?
- And just as a matter of public policy, with Mr.
- And again, just FYI, this online feature is for public comment.
- It will lead to increased job opportunities and public safety.
Committee:
House House Taxation & Revenue
Keywords:
general obligation bonds, GO bonds, capital projects, bond election, property tax levy, state debt, state finance, capital outlay, senior centers, senior citizen facilities, aging services, long-term services, libraries, library acquisitions, broadband for libraries, higher education, university capital projects, community colleges, tribal schools, special schools
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Taxation and Revenue Feb 13th, 2026 at 08:35 am
House Taxation & Revenue
Transcript Highlights:
- My name is Carlos Lucero, with the public service company.
- My name is Carlos Lucero, with the public service company in New Mexico.
- If you wish to make some public comments, our Sergeant will hold the mic.
- Make some public comments. Sergeant will hold the mic. Thank you, Mr.
- If you wish to make public comment, you're welcome to come up to the front.
Committee:
House House Taxation & Revenue
Keywords:
general obligation bonds, GO bonds, capital projects, bond election, property tax levy, state debt, state finance, capital outlay, senior centers, senior citizen facilities, aging services, long-term services, libraries, library acquisitions, broadband for libraries, higher education, university capital projects, community colleges, tribal schools, special schools
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Right now, all public records, all records that are held by any public entity, are public records.
- a public notices link on the home page that links to all statutorily required public notices listed
- a public notices link on the home page that links to all statutorily required public notices listed
- They have their print publication.
- We like our publications.
Bills:
HB2015 , HB2060 , HB2129 , HB2170 , HB2210 , HB2228 , HB2352 , HB2460 , HB2533 , SB1019 , SB1045 , SB1050 , SB1078 , SB1083 , SB1167 , SB1184 , SCR1006
Keywords:
budget procedures, late filing penalty, accounting standards, financial reporting, state appropriations, abortion, educational institutions, health education, state aid, public schools, municipal libraries, annual reporting, state legislation, transparency, government accountability, procurement, foreign adversary, China, state contracts, information technology
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Jan 21st, 2026
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
- Public four-year institutions are not required to do this annual report right now.
- </c><00:14:54.720><c> Public</c><00:14:55.120><c> for</c> funding is reduced.
- Public for funding is reduced.
- Public for institutions,<00:14:56.160><c> public</c><00:14:56.480><c> four-year</c> institutions, public
- </c><00:26:42.720><c> institutions</c> and other all the public institutions and other all the public
Committee:
House Ways and Means Education
Keywords:
illegal alien, enhanced sentencing, criminal offenses, minor victims, felonies, Alabama legislature, HB116, Alabama Sunset Law, sunset bill, sunset review, Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board, bail bonding, bail bonds, bail bond industry, professional bail bondsman, licensing board, state agency continuation, agency reauthorization, regulatory board, criminal justice
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Jan 14th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Early Learning & K-12 Education
Transcript Highlights:
- With that, we're going to go, we're ending our public hearing temporarily.
- I'm not going to tap it again to say that we're back in a public hearing. You all know that.
- I'm not going to tap it again to say that we're back in a public hearing. You all know that.
- In 2025 in Washington State, our state, a public... ...and invasive.
- I'm a parent of public school students and I serve as a school board director. Ms.
Committee:
Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education
Keywords:
school construction, school facilities, capital budget, school plant project, state funding assistance, school construction assistance program, on-base schools, military base, Department of Defense school, military families, public school facilities, instructional space, Superintendent of Public Instruction, SIP, school district capital funding, school housing burden, rapid growth, enrollment growth, free and reduced-price meals, alternative learning experience
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- That's often out of reach without public-private partnerships.
- access, and vital services. oversight of commercial traffic in high-risk areas.
- toll without a public vote on tolls.
- . ...public in the event of a declared emergency or a natural disaster.
- Public safety vehicles are exempted from tolls, and very few public safety employees are issued department
Bills:
HB1589 , HB2208 , HB2297 , HB2560 , HB2725 , HB3080 , HB4417 , HB4473 , HB4520 , HB4662 , HB4888 , HB4905 , HB4906
Committee:
House S/C on Transportation Funding
Keywords:
HB 1589, toll road, toll project, toll project entity, voter approval, local control, county election, commissioners court, Transportation Code, Chapter 372, road construction, highway funding, infrastructure, public referendum, ballot measure, transportation policy, Texas toll roads, regional mobility, toll collection, vehicle registration
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Beyond the economic toll, these crimes pose a public safety risk.
- Could you clarify how this law would apply to public sidewalks and other public areas that happen to
- And then secondly, how this would affect normal public use of public spaces?
- And it's not that we want to illegalize that person carrying a firearm in public.
- Public Policy at the Texas Council on Family Violence, and I'm here in support of HB 2703.
Bills:
HB316 , HB353 , HB 1160 , HB1414 , HB1422 , HB1443 , HB1713 , HB1789 , HB1902 , HB2073 , HB2666 , HB2695 , HB316
Committee:
House Criminal Jurisprudence
Keywords:
motor fuel, criminal offense, metering device, organized crime, Texas Penal Code, trespassing, school safety, day-care centers, education, trespass, public safety, utility employees, criminal penalties, assault, harassment, public duties, safety, law enforcement, driving offenses, license regulations
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Mar 26th, 2025
Trade, Workforce & Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Oversights like these are common, as workforce bills typically lack input from the workers themselves
- With session, we passed HB1543, which added a notification process for the transfers located in public
- I serve as the Associate Director of Public Policy for Texas Realtors.
- To prevent abuse of this new opportunity, clotheslines that threaten public health or safety are located
Keywords:
HB 431, Texas Property Code, Property Code Chapter 202, solar roof tiles, solar shingles, solar energy device, homeowners association, HOA, property owners' association, POA, renewable energy, residential solar, distributed solar, roof-mounted solar, homeowner rights, architectural control, restrictive covenants, real estate, subdivision regulations, multi-zoned subdivisions
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I would venture, I'm confident that the public will pass this. ballot measure.
- It's time for the legislature to give the public a chance to vote on public safety and before I answer
- Law, even if they know that that person can sedate to the public. or can commit a violent crime, or even
- make sure that by clear, convincing evidence that their defendant is not a threat. are safe to the public
- You know, the public not only feeling safe, but being safe true.
Bills:
SJR5 , SJR36 , SJR5 , SJR5 , SR105 , SR121 , SB17 , SB19 , SB25 , SB28 , SB17 , SB19 , SB25 , SB28
Keywords:
bail, felony offenses, criminal justice reform, public safety, constitutional amendment, school safety, mental health, emergency response, education policy, law enforcement, SR 121, Senate Resolution 121, Pete Alfaro, Pedro Cuellar Alfaro, Pedro Alfaro, Baytown, Texas Senate tribute, in memory, memorial resolution, condolence resolution
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Delivery of Government Efficiency Apr 16th, 2025
Delivery of Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- the public. to the public with only very narrow exceptions, creating an exception for all records that
- public officials may contact and ask for. questions about the Texas Public Information Act.
- I love public information hotlines.
- I can think of no truer public service than operating a toll-free hotline to help Texans access public
- The public officials can no longer delegate their training requirement to a public information officer
Bills:
HB3146 , HB3719 , HB3895 , HB3923 , HB4748 , HB4751 , HB4936 , HB4952 , HB4990 , HB4991 , HB5061 , HB5196 , HB5238 , HB5246 , HB5487
Committee:
House Delivery of Government Efficiency
Keywords:
State Office of Administrative Hearings, SOAH, administrative hearings, contested case, contested case hearing, administrative law judge, ALJ, final decision, proposed decision, agency hearing, hearing continuance, rescheduling, Texas administrative law, Government Code Chapter 2001, workers' compensation, Department of Human Resources, Texas Labor Code, Transportation Code, Agriculture Code, Insurance Code
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee Feb 4th, 2026
Education Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Chairman, members, Jason [clears throat], Examiners of Public Accounts.
- Uh, I understand we have a public hearing.
- Uh, I understand we have a public hearing.
- I attend public school in Tuscaloosa County.
- ><c> Tuscaloosa</c> attend public school in Tuscaloosa attend public school in Tuscaloosa County.<00:
Bills:
HB329 , HB8 , HB353 , HB329 , HB8 , HB353 , HB50 , HB78 , HB225 , SB75 , SB209 , HB50 , HB78 , HB225 , SB75 , SB209
Committee:
Senate Education Policy
Keywords:
military installations, tall structures, local government, construction approval, wind energy facilities, tobacco regulation, vaping, sales restrictions, youth protection, tobacco compliance, public health, education programs, electronic nicotine delivery systems, judicial compensation, salary adjustments, district attorneys, Judges, local officials, computer science, education reform
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/16/2026 - Senate Military Affairs and Border Security
Military Affairs and Border Security
Transcript Highlights:
- Money should go to public safety.
- I want money to go to Arizona's public safety.' When this is what the bill...
- Arizona's public safety.
- So two of them are private institutions and one's public. Okay, Mr. Chair, Kendall.
- It is for all the schools in Yavapai County, both public and private.
Committee:
Senate Military Affairs and Border Security
Keywords:
border security, drug trafficking, human smuggling, law enforcement funding, Arizona, public safety, immigration, military leave, national guard, employment rights, paid leave, disaster response, veterans services, education programs, funding, appropriation, Yavapai county, lawful presence, public programs, verification
TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband Apr 16th, 2025
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband
Transcript Highlights:
- land, our public right-of-way.
- of the city for that public works project to be forced to change either.
- entities for public works projects across the state.
- The city would have no oversight. oversight over what those costs are.
- Lastly, there would be the public works bucket that we mentioned, including facilities, public arenas
Committee:
House S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband
Keywords:
telecommunications, local exchange companies, universal service fund, rate maintenance, business expansion, broadband access, internet service, multiunit residential properties, urban areas, affordability programs, fiber-optic cables, public land, construction permits, environmental impact, notification requirements, municipal projects, infrastructure, facility relocation, public right-of-way
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Commerce and Economic Development Oversight REVISED: SB1101 and SB1966 - Added Apr 16th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Commerce & Economic Development Oversight
Transcript Highlights:
- I would like to express my gratitude over the last several years of chairing this oversight...
- We retain 5% of the grant for administrative oversight, training, and compliance standards.
Keywords:
SB80, legislation, state law, public safety, community impact, local governance, dental coverage, insurance reporting, healthcare access, dental loss ratio, community benefits, Oklahoma law, Athletic Trainer, Compact, interstate practice, licensure, public health, workforce development, military spouses, telehealth
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Special Joint Committee on Initiative Petitions Mar 3rd, 2026
Special Joint Committee on Initiative Petitions
Transcript Highlights:
- meetings, and public testimony submitted to committees would become public records.
- We actually voted on a public records reform bill where we updated public records laws.
- Maybe it's an oversight.
- Public records accessible to the general public? But can you answer the question?
- is on the public website.
Bills:
H5004
Keywords:
public records, public records law, transparency, open government, government accountability, legislature, general court, governor's office, executive records, legislative records, constituent communications, policy drafts, deliberative process, freedom of information, FOIA, records access, Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 66, Chapter 4, veterans services records, initiative petition
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Labor & Commerce Feb 23rd, 2026 at 10:30 am
Labor & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- For this, we'll go ahead and move into the public testimony on Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2476.
- And then we'll go ahead and move through public testimony.
- So we'll go straight into public testimony, and Senator Conway, if you want to call up the first panel
- With that, that closes all of our public hearing on good House bills, and we will bring our staff up
- with certain employee information to all public employers under the Personnel System Reform Act.
Committee:
Senate Labor & Commerce
Keywords:
liquor license, snack bar, state regulations, alcohol sales, business licensing, collective bargaining, retirement benefits, employee rights, public sector, supplemental benefits, education, funding, student loans, affordability, higher education, public employers, employee information, bargaining representatives, labor relations, union representation
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Local and County Government Feb 17th, 2026 at 02:00 pm
Local and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
- funds shall be equally shared by the state and political subdivisions of the state that received public
- amendments, federal. laws, and oftentimes we're seeing police officers, government officials, these public
- Do are we trying to do this, or are we contributing to public safety? Will there be questions?
- Would you agree that we do use public tax dollars for such initiatives, and sometimes it can be subjective
- the jail a safer place, create a safer environment for jailers and inmates, and further the aim of public
Committee:
Senate Local and County Government
Keywords:
emergency management, federal funding, disaster relief, cost sharing, public assistance, bail reform, public funds, nonprofit organizations, political subdivisions, injunctive relief, criminal procedure, surety bond, judicial discretion, uniform bond schedule, liability insurance, judgments, insurance fund, Oklahoma, county sheriff, commissary
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- I don't know how much more of a threat that could be to public education, in my opinion.
- Technical Colleges to establish a policy. ...to establish a pilot program in partnership with local public
- It's established a pilot program in partnership with city-parish and other local public school systems
- governing authorities, and public schools with respect to adolescent literacy, to provide with respect
- When they enter a public school, it would be tied to whatever student identification number they get
Bills:
HCR26 , HB28 , HB195 , HB283 , HB316 , HB319 , HB363 , HB380 , HB386 , HB392 , HB406 , HB636 , HB738 , HB807 , HB905 , HB992 , HB1146
Committee:
Senate Education
Keywords:
human growth, development education, prenatal education, state standards, biological science, teacher certification, certification appeals, BESE, State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Teacher Certification Appeals Council, educator licensure, teaching license, teacher licensure, appeals process, certification denial, administrative appeal, special meeting, board president, retroactive application, education board