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AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Mar 10th, 2026

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, ladies and gentlemen, next up we have House Bill 351. Y’all, this is a meaty one.
  • Um, ladies and gentlemen, next up we have House Bill 351. Y’all, this is a meaty one.
  • Um, ladies and gentlemen, next up we have House Bill 351. Y’all, this is a meaty one.
  • So one thing we really worked hard on was to not double regulate people.
  • </c> and on a tor short time frame. and on a tor short time frame.
Bills: SB292 , HB351 , HB141 , HB273 , SB292 , HB351 , HB141 , HB273
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - Senate Public Safety

Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • Committee on Public Safety is called to order. Will the Secretary please note the roll?
  • Chairman, members of the committee, again, John Thomas here on behalf of the Association of Chiefs of
  • Zero committee. May I add one thing? If you read 1416, that pertains to children only.
  • Chairman, members of the committee, Don Isaacson, on behalf of the Arizona Paternal Order of Police in
  • Chairman, members of the committee, John Thomas on behalf of the Association of Chiefs of Police.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Feb 4th, 2026

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • And call the first bill on calendar.
  • </c> first bill on calendar. first bill on calendar.
  • </c> &gt;&gt; Any questions from committee? &gt;&gt; Any questions from committee?
  • </c> &gt;&gt; Do I have a motion on amendment? &gt;&gt; Do I have a motion on amendment?
  • October one or upon? &gt;&gt; October? October one or upon?
Bills: HB247 , HB317 , HB318 , HB253 , HB271 , HB135 , HB247 , HB317 , HB318 , HB253 , HB271 , HB135
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Feb 3rd, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Everybody, the Committee on Judiciary will now come to order. Lisa, please call the roll.
  • Select Committee on the CCP, with reports such as the CCP on the quad, which I highly recommend.
  • And just to address, I know a number of the questions in the House Committee, and because we are on a
  • And just to address, I know a number of the questions in the House Committee, and because we are on a
  • To address, I know a number of the questions in the House Committee, and because we are on a limited
Bills: S0002 , S0002 , S0006 , S0018 , S0026 , S0028 , S0050 , S0178 , S0326 , S0538 , S0786 , S1004 , S1096 , S1178 , S1366 , S1632 , S1634
Committee: Senate Judiciary
Summary: The Judiciary Committee took up a long agenda of bills, including several claims bills and policy measures. It heard and approved, mostly unanimously, bills on curators of estates (SB 326, as amended), remedies under the Florida Civil Rights Act (SB 1096), a claim for Reginald Jackson against the City of Lakeland (SB 28), a DCF-related claim for L.E. (SB 6), trust administration reform (SB 786, as amended), a Broward County claim for the estate of a deceased minor (SB 18, as amended, 10-1), a DOT claim for the estate of Mark Legata (SB 26), veterans’ courts (CS/SB 50), extracurricular activities in public K-12 schools (CS/CS/SB 538, as amended), and pet sale protections for dogs and cats (SB 1004). The committee also considered the sovereign immunity claims bill (SB 1366), which was presented as a starting point for negotiations with the House and was reported favorably after testimony from local government, hospital, and school representatives who urged the Senate to hold to its current lower cap levels. The committee later approved a claims bill for the estate of Daniel Maudsley against DHSMV (SB 2). The meeting included repeated roll calls and favorable reports on each measure, with the only recorded no vote on SB 18 from Senator Osgood. Several bills drew testimony from supporters and, in some cases, objections. SB 50 on veterans’ courts received broad support from veterans’ groups, criminal justice organizations, and community advocates who said it would expand problem-solving court options for veterans dealing with service-related issues. SB 538 on extracurricular activities drew support and opposition, and was amended to address home education eligibility, a school activity fee issue, technical conforming changes, and compensation for extracurricular sponsors. SB 1004 was presented as consumer protection legislation aimed at retail pet dealers, requiring disclosure of animal health records and financing terms and creating a private right of action for violations. The committee also heard extensive testimony on SB 1178, which would create a foreign interference restriction and enforcement framework targeting foreign countries of concern and designated foreign terrorist organizations. Supporters described it as a national-security measure to limit foreign influence, protect critical infrastructure, and restrict gifts, contracts, and sister-city ties; the sponsor withdrew one amendment and the bill was reported favorably. Finally, SB 1632, dealing with ideologies inconsistent with American principles, prompted substantial questioning about due process, domestic terrorist organization designations, Sharia law references, student discipline, and notice procedures. The sponsor said the bill was intended to protect constitutional principles and target conduct rather than belief, but the transcript ends while public testimony on that bill is still underway.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Labor & Workplace Standards Jan 23rd, 2026 at 10:30 am

Labor & Workplace Standards

Transcript Highlights:
  • For the record, Trudis Tango, staff to the committee. House Bill 2479.
  • There are no other amendments on that bill. Next on the list is House Bill 2190.
  • There are no other amendments on that bill. Next on the list is House Bill 2190.
  • Moving to the ninth bill on the list, House Bill 2303.
  • By your vote, House Bill 291 is reported out of committee.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Jan 22nd, 2026 at 10:30 am

Early Learning & K-12 Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Welcome, welcome everyone to the Early Learning K-12 Education Committee on January 22nd.
  • As this committee and the legislature knows, Washington's employers across the state rely on individuals
  • Chair Wellman, Ranking Member Harris, members of the committee, Tyler Munch here on behalf of the Superintendent
  • just how they perform on a single test on a single day.
  • just how they perform on a single test on a single day.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Natural Resources May 21st, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Committee on Natural Resources will come to order. The clerk will call the roll. Chair Harris?
  • that it do pass, be printed, and be sent to the Committee on Calendars.
  • the recommendation that it do pass, be printed, and be sent to the Committee on Calendars.
  • with the recommendation that it do pass, be printed, and be sent to the Committee on Calendars.
  • I could not have handpicked a better committee to serve on with me, and I do want to thank our...
Bills: SB612 , SB1855 , SB2568 , SB3058 , HB49
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence May 13th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence will come to order. Clerk, call the roll. Chair Smithee?
  • Okay, never mind on the committee photo. Well, you look nice every day.
  • Cook, are you ready on yours? Okay. Any particular one you want to go first on? Okay.
  • You realize you're still on the committee, don't you? Yeah, no. Okay.
  • I'll lay this one. I've got it on the computer. Okay. I'll lay it out on the fly. Is this the...
Summary: The Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence met with a quorum and heard a series of Senate bills, generally receiving sponsor explanations and, in most cases, no public testimony. SB 2595 would create a Class B misdemeanor for harassing, threatening, or intimidating someone while intentionally concealing identity with a mask, with broad affirmative defenses for legitimate mask use; SB 1980 would increase penalties for assaulting peace officers, parole officers, and community supervision officers and add related presumptions and interference protections; and SB 1896 would require magistrates to issue emergency protective orders in certain family violence, sexual assault, stalking, and aggravated cases, with law enforcement required to provide needed information. All three were left pending. The committee also heard SB 955, which increases trafficking of persons from a second-degree to a first-degree felony when the victim was recruited from a correctional facility, and SB 614, which would let the Texas Forensic Science Commission refer dismissed complaints to the Office of Capital and Forensic Writs when they reference a prior FSC report; both were left pending. Members then heard several forensic and criminal procedure bills. SB 1372 would resolve a discovery/access conflict involving the DPS crime lab portal by limiting portal access to defense attorneys rather than defendants directly, prompting questions from members about access for pro se defendants; DPS’s chief crime lab witness testified neutrally. SB 1936 would change the LSD “abuse unit” definition for unmarked/unperforated paper from a square-measurement method to a 10-milligram weight standard, and SB 1937 would require a subject matter expert from the testing lab to participate in pretrial meetings in capital cases involving biological evidence to help identify viable testing and conserve resources. SB 2580 would lower the population threshold for sheriff’s departments to independently use tracking equipment and access certain communications from 3.3 million to 500,000, expanding the authority beyond Harris County; it was described as a public safety and emergency response measure and left pending. The committee also considered SB 2798, which would extend the statute of limitations for certain financial crimes from three years to seven years, with testimony from a Montgomery County assistant district attorney supporting the change because fraud is often discovered late. SB 1099 would increase penalties for felony offenses committed by undocumented or unauthorized aliens, but drew strong opposition from the Texas Civil Rights Project, which argued immigration is a federal matter and that the bill would create difficult and potentially unfair status determinations for local courts; members raised concerns about the lack of an expert-testimony requirement. SB 1278 would create an affirmative defense to prostitution prosecution for trafficking victims compelled by their traffickers to commit the conduct, and testimony from advocates and a member’s personal account emphasized the coercive, traumatic nature of trafficking; members discussed whether the defense should be narrower or framed as mitigation, and the bill was left pending. Finally, SB 127 would extend the statute of limitations for failure to report or conceal child abuse, with members discussing mandatory reporting duties and the need to allow more time for delayed discovery of cover-ups; it too was left pending before the committee adjourned.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Apr 16th, 2025

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • You're going to have a page, but you don't have one now. I have one in here. Yeah, tell them.
  • One is the county definition of rural... One is the county definition of rural.
  • One of them is they were up... One of them is they were for-profit at the time.
  • Committee, if you look at the first one that's three pages long, we'll deal with it first.
  • Chair, members of the committee. Um, this bill is very simple. committee.
Bills: HB46 , HB379 , SB22 , HB487 , HB273 , HB525
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Licensing & Administrative Procedures Apr 1st, 2025

Licensing & Administrative Procedures

Transcript Highlights:
  • recommendation that it do pass and be approved. and sent to the Committee on Local and Consent Calendars
  • I'm testifying on behalf of the Independent Electrical Contractors of Texas in favor of House Bill 1874
  • Paul, do you have a committee substitute before the committee? If you all have it... There is one.
  • This committee is to vote no on this bill and encourage the whole of the Texas wine industry to pull
  • Chair, members of the committee. My name is Rob Ramage. I support House Bill 3529.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/31/2026 - House Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Tuesday, March 31st, this is the Special Committee on Appropriations.
  • leader of each house to make one appointment each.
  • Committee on Appropriations.
  • For the same reason as I described on the House floor when we were voting on House Bill 2444, I'm not
  • Committee here in the House.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Mar 3rd, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Commerce & Economic Development Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, this is House Bill 2970.
  • People didn't know we have two formations, one in the Panhandle and one in southeast Oklahoma, where
  • I very much appreciate the chairman's Agreement on that, and that way, we will have that bill on the
  • Moving on back to you for the next one that is HB 3800. There's a PCR on that.
  • We will have one final committee this Thursday, so please be looking for that agenda.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Mar 3rd, 2026 at 10:30 am

Commerce & Economic Development Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • I with 14, I one nay. We will declare your bill out of committee to the floor. Thank you, Mr.
  • Thank you, committee.
  • of tourism working on this.
  • Hold on one second. I'm going to make a change on that.
  • And I even on page six, let's see Now I'm not seeing it, but I specifically put in there, oh, on pay
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • for Senate Bill 1202, and you're on Senate Bill 1202's committee substitute.
  • On for or against Senate Bill 1877 of the committee substitute hearing None.
  • Senator Milton sends up the committee substitute for one. 2, 3, 9, and you're recognized on the committee
  • Senator Nichols sends up the committee substitute for One, two, five, nine, and you're recognized on
  • Senator Menendez sends up a committee substitute for Senate Bill 783 and you're recognized on your committee
Summary: The Senate Business and Commerce Committee met with a quorum and first took up pending business, voting out several bills. Senate Bills 1697, 1569, 1202 as substituted, 1029, 1364, 1185, 924, 1008 as substituted, 264, 1376, and 1358 as substituted were reported favorably, with some sent to the local and uncontested calendar. The committee also adopted a substitute for SB 1202 and later corrected votes on several measures. SB 924 and SB 1376 drew some opposition, while the rest of the pending bills were reported without dissent or with limited nays. The committee then heard testimony on SB 1856, which would create an annual capacity-cost recovery rider for Entergy Texas customers in the MISO region. The author and Entergy argued the bill would better match rates to actual capacity costs and improve transparency, while the Texas Association of Manufacturers and the Public Utility Commission raised concerns about the short 10-day review period, rider proliferation, and the preference for full rate cases over piecemeal adjustments. The bill was left pending. The committee also heard and left pending SB 522 on CPA reciprocity, SB 1664 requiring TDUs to provide clearer, standalone rate-change disclosures, SB 1877 expanding OPUC’s access to market data, SB 1254 and SB 1255 as TDLR cleanup bills on professional employer organizations and mold assessors, SB 1341 updating manufactured housing rules, SB 1239 on sovereign debt and Texas governing law, and SB 1259 streamlining the surveyor-in-training licensing process. Additional bills discussed included SB 1977, which would cap recoverable legal expenses in electric, water, and sewer rate cases; OPUC and some consumer advocates supported the idea as a way to reduce ratepayer costs, while utility representatives warned it could discourage participation and increase rate shock. The committee also heard SB 1762 clarifying that geothermal energy conservation wells are not battery resources, and SB 783 allowing SECO to proceed with future energy-code rulemaking for state-funded buildings. Both drew supportive testimony from industry and environmental groups. All remaining bills heard during the meeting were left pending, and the committee recessed subject to the call of the chair.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, June 24, 2026)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Housing affordability Housing affordability is the number one issue that I hear from constituents.
  • President, come on back and sign this housing bill so we can deal with this housing crisis. Mr.
  • It is why I have said in committee of homeland and I'm going to say it on this House floor.
  • I appreciate the time here on the House floor.
  • I served on the Veterans Affairs Committee for two terms before I joined the Rules Committee.
Bills: HR915 , HB7401 , HB2478 , HR1381
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Joint Committee Report on Senate Bill 1174.
  • Joint Committee Report on Senate Bill 1175 without objection. That will be the order.
  • The Clerk will read the Joint Committee Report on Senate Bill 1176 by Caldwell of the House and Hall
  • Clerk, will you read the Joint Committee Report on Senate Bill 1146 by Caldwell of the House and Hall
  • Clerk, will you read the Joint Committee Report on Senate Bill 1481 by Caldwell of the House and Senate
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Bills and resolutions, conference committee reports and joint committee reports and motions, placing
  • new business for the House.
  • Please let's welcome them to the House.
  • The house will stand at ease.
  • House Transportation Committee members and AMB Transportation Committee members, remember we have lunch
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 22nd, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The House then received a privilege report from the Committee on Enrollment.
  • Marcelle to urge and request the House Committee on Municipal, Parochial Affairs to study the effectiveness
  • House Resolutions reported by committee.
  • House bills reported by committee.
  • House Bill 752 from that committee report.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 17th, 2026

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • First bill on the calendar is by the illustrious chairman of the County and Municipal Government Committee
  • Committee. Okay, now for the fun one. Um, only Senator Albritton would do this to me.
  • on on the full impact and it starts<00:23:08.720><c> it's</c><00:23:08.960><c> on</c><00:23:09.120><
  • Good committee work, guys. Um, we got one more.
  • </c> committee members. committee members.
Bills: HB268 , SB279 , SB304 , SB303 , SB298 , HB268 , SB279 , SB304 , SB303 , SB298