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OK
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  • Was the religious defense of child abuse used by their defending attorney, or were they not convicted
  • Did you consider how this might impact those working families where a child that is between the ages
  • And the child could swim if they met all the requirements.
  • I just want to clarify this is the part that puts or restores the child abuse response team.
  • Members, this makes some modifications regarding the penalties for unpaid child support.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Forty-five minutes a day for a young child is a long time for them to sit still, and after about 20,
Summary: The House met in session, opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, and then held an extended OU Day presentation recognizing the University of Oklahoma women’s gymnastics team for its 2025 national championship and honoring athletic director Joseph Castiglione. OU President Joseph Harris and Castiglione both spoke about the university’s growth, affordability efforts, health care expansion, and research progress, and the championship team was introduced and thanked the Legislature for its support. The chamber also received several gallery introductions, including visitors from Stigler, North Rock Creek, and Charles Page High School, along with the Doctor and Nurse of the Day. The floor then took up a package of public finance and procurement bills sponsored by Representative Strom. House Bills 3413 through 3420 focused on transparency, contract reporting, subcontractor disclosure, post-contract assessments, central purchasing rules, restrictions on bid information sharing, and limits on pilot programs and CIO contract justifications. Each bill was advanced and passed, with vote totals ranging from 87-95 in favor and only a few nays on some measures. Strom described the package as a response to audit findings and concerns about fraud, waste, and abuse in state and local spending. The House also passed several other measures. House Bill 3706, as amended, requires more elementary school math instruction time and drew questions about balance with reading and other subjects; it passed 74-19, and its emergency was approved. House Bill 3711 requires school districts to post instructional spending percentages and include them in bond materials, passing 79-16 with the emergency clause approved. House Bill 4139 created the Oklahoma Home Service Transparency Act and passed 89-5. House Bill 1268 created a deferred option retirement plan for certain emergency responders and law enforcement personnel and passed 92-1 after a title strike request. House Bill 3660, concerning natural organic reduction/cremation, passed 59-37 after debate over licensing and public health concerns. House Joint Resolution 1023 updating the workers’ compensation fee schedule passed unanimously, and House Bill 3298 standardizing judicial interviews of children in family proceedings passed 95-0. House Bill 3056, allowing sales of unpasteurized milk at farms, feed stores, and farmers markets, prompted extensive debate over safety, labeling, liability, and market access, but ultimately passed 43-11. The House then recessed until 1 p.m.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Did you consider how this might impact those working families where a child between the ages of 16 and
  • Whatever reason a parent picks to put their child in charter school or homeschool, that's separate and
  • This amendment came to me after speaking with many providers across Oklahoma, child care providers.
  • I just want to clarify: this is the part that puts or restores the child abuse response team? Yes.
  • This makes some modifications regarding the penalties for unpaid child support.
Summary: The House convened after lunch, established a quorum, and then took up a long series of measures. Early debate centered on H.J.R. 1084, which would amend the Oklahoma Constitution to reaffirm that courts must follow the Oklahoma and U.S. Constitutions and not recognize or enforce religious codes that conflict with them. The author said it was meant as a safeguard against unconstitutional courtroom practices; several members questioned its practical effect and constitutional basis. The resolution passed the House 70-19. The chamber then passed a number of bills on workforce, public safety, tax, and administrative issues, including HB 3934 on dental hygienist workforce gaps, HB 3919 allowing county commissioners to adjust fair board membership to reach quorum, HB 4118 creating a family caregiver tax credit, HB 4119 requiring a bond in certain real-property title disputes, HB 426 on workers’ compensation for first responders suffering heart attack or stroke after strenuous shifts, HB 4178 on sales tax exemptions for municipal-beneficiary public trusts, HB 4215 to aid small post-production companies, HB 4324 allowing district attorneys to adjust sentences after initial sentencing with an amendment clarifying jury verdicts are unaffected, HB 3270 cleanup language for farmed cervidae/chronic wasting disease law, HB 4352 adopting the Uniform Mortgage Modification Act, HB 4305 clarifying ad valorem assessment of low-income housing tax credit properties, HB 2955 modernizing captive insurance law, HB 3315 creating a 90-hour degree program, HB 3066 reestablishing and funding a behavioral health workforce program, HB 1245 changing retirement coverage for certain DHS law enforcement officers, HB 4125 restoring firearm rights for certain nonviolent felons after five years with expungement or pardon, HB 3075 creating a penny-rounding rule for public-sector cash transactions, HB 3129 creating a process for university security fees, HB 3239 modernizing the Veterinary Practice Act, HB 4153 reinstating prior driver-licensing rules tied to an eighth-grade reading test with a hardship exception, HB 3265 defining mental health specialists for police pension disability cases, HB 4491 allowing school districts to opt in to extracurricular participation by charter, virtual charter, and homeschool students, SB 680 creating a tobacco tax incentive for lower-risk products, HB 4263 aligning retirement options for CareerTech employees, and HB 4268 creating the Teacher Effectiveness and Excellence Act with a compensation pilot and National Board stipend. Most measures passed with little or no debate, though several drew extended questioning, especially the school extracurricular bill, the driver’s-license literacy bill, and the tobacco tax measure. Emergency clauses were adopted on several bills, including HB 3934, HB 3270, HB 3315, HB 3066, HB 3075, HB 3129, HB 4153, and HB 4268.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary Committee, March 2, 2026 AM

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
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  • had a lady one time say um it's nothing against you all but um we need to pay our ex-wifeives back child
  • had a lady one time say um it's nothing against you all but um we need to pay our ex-wifeives back child
  • had a lady one time say um it's nothing against you all but um we need to pay our ex-wifeives back child
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Bills: HB0070 , HB0043 , HB0103 , HB0157 , HB0092 , SF0092
Committee: Senate Judiciary
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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  • </c><01:32:21.719><c> they</c> and we'll pray for those child they and we'll pray for those child they
  • And I know we're not going to get him back, but we'll make sure that no more child is going to happen
  • And I know we're not going to get him back, but we'll make sure that no more child is going to happen
  • And I know we're not going to get him back, but we'll make sure that no more child is going to happen
Bills: HF1355 , HF1469 , HF1768
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Concerns have been raised about residential child detention facilities in Texas, including allegations
  • To achieve this, House Bill 3120 would require the owner or operator of a residential child detention
  • It also mandates that owners or operators of residential child detention facilities receiving at least
  • These girls, like every child, deserve to be protected.
  • A range of public health and general welfare initiatives.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill creates a pilot program for rural community-based care designed to improve child welfare services
  • ... welfare services.
  • welfare across the Permian Basin and the Concho Valley.
  • West Texas Together has laid the groundwork for local collaboration and child welfare. showing the potential
  • I've had a child-placing agency there.
Bills: SB502 , SB513 , SB622 , SB670 , SB731 , SB732 , SB916 , SB961 , SB1122
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill promotes child welfare services in rural Texas, ensuring that vulnerable children and families
  • We have our unique challenges, as was stated this morning, in rural child welfare services.
  • Families face significant barriers to accessing child welfare services, including a lack of local providers
  • As a child, I spent a good portion of my childhood in foster care.
  • Our greatest resource in West Texas is every child, and every child deserves the support of their local
Bills: SB502 , SB513 , SB622 , SB670 , SB731 , SB732 , SB916 , SB961 , SB1122
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part II) Mar 5th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm the associate judge for the child protection court of the Concho Valley.
  • The bill promotes child welfare services in rural Texas, ensuring the vulnerable children and families
  • We have our unique challenges, as was stated this morning in rural child welfare services.
  • So families face significant barriers to accessing child welfare services, including lack of local providers
  • As a child, I spent a good portion of my childhood in foster care, and as an adult, my husband and I
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Feb 24th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • How do you check for debt owed to the state like child support?
  • Child support, you know, nothing showed up on any of those. So if I owe a lot of child support...
  • So the purpose is to engage the child in civic engagement. not to have a child there who is going to
  • I think we should be careful about giving the privilege to a child who's underage. age.
  • SJR 34 acknowledges the enormous responsibility and liberty inherent in child rearing.
Summary: The meeting was a crucial session for discussing several important bills including SB992, which aims to establish a clear time frame for the Attorney General's approval on outside legal counsel for state agencies. Senator Nichols presented the bill, emphasizing its necessity for timely responses to ensure efficient legal processing. Another notable discussion centered around SB523, which seeks to allow parole and probation officers to use a business address on their driver's licenses for safety and security purposes. This bill passed favorably out of the committee, with public testimony supporting the need for such provisions due to the risks these officers face.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Feb 16th, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, opened with prayer and pledges, and recognized several guests and Senate family members, including the psychologist and nurse of the day. Members then moved to the agenda, laying over items 1 and 4 before taking up several bills. Senate Bill 1395, a recommendation from the Incentive Evaluation Commission, would eliminate the tax credit portion of the investment and new jobs tax credit incentive and limit carry-forward of the investment portion to seven years; it passed 48-0. Senate Bill 1456, as amended, extended the sunset of the Board of Tests for Alcohol and Drug Influence, with the amendment changing the sunset date to 2031; it passed 48-0 and was also approved as an emergency measure. Senate Bill 1562, requested by the Oklahoma Hospice and Palliative Care Association, was described as protecting terminally ill patients and families from aggressive hospice marketing practices; it passed 48-0. Senate Bill 1613, requested by the Oklahoma Liquefied Gas Association, was revised to remove language the governor had previously objected to regarding vehicle ownership and leasing outside OMES; it passed 48-0. Senate Bill 1983 directed the Department of Human Services to provide de-identified foster care data to resource family partners, including information on children without placement, demographic and geographic trends, areas of high need and low availability, placement disruptions, sibling separations, and distance from original homes. After a question from Senator Deevers about the scope of the data, the bill advanced and passed 48-0. The Senate then heard announcements about committee meeting times and adopted a motion to adjourn until Tuesday, February 17, 2026, at 1:30 p.m.