Transcript Highlights:

• Senator Burgess, you're recognized to close on the bill close.
• Senator Burton, you're recognized to close it close.
• Senator Davis, you're recognized to close. Thank you, Madam Chair. I waive close.
• Senator Avila, you're recognized to close waive close.
• Is there any debate Senator Deciglie you're recognized to close. Waive close.

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• I will open and close.
• In closing. No seeing no further comments, any further discussion? In closing.
• Rule 19, indeed. We need, we... ...of order, Representative. Rule 19, indeed.
• Rule 19A. Mr.
• under House Rule 1A.

Summary: The House convened, approved the journal, and spent much of the opening portion recognizing guests and interns from both parties, along with former lawmakers and a newly seated member, Representative Sylvia Allen. The chamber then took up House Concurrent Resolution 2065 honoring the late Alfredo Gutierrez. Members from both parties gave extended remarks about his life as a civil rights advocate, student activist, legislator, and mentor, and the resolution was unanimously adopted and transmitted to the Senate. Family members of Gutierrez were recognized in the gallery during the memorial tribute. The House then moved into Committee of the Whole on the first budget-related measures. On House Bill 4138, the “feed bill”/budget operations measure, Democrats argued the budget favored corporations and data centers over seniors, health care, housing, universities, and vulnerable families, while Republicans defended it as a continuation of prior policy and said it preserved tax conformity and modest agency cuts. After debate and questions, the committee recommended the bill do pass and the House adopted that report, sending HB 4138 to engrossing. The chamber next considered House Bill 4139, the amusement/gaming-related budget bill. Members debated whether it was essentially unchanged from last year’s budget language, with Republicans saying it was a continuation bill and that gaming-related provisions would support rural economies and tourism, while Democrats questioned the broader budget context and its effects on working families. The committee recommended HB 4139 do pass, and the House adopted that recommendation. The House then began debate on House Bill 4140, the state budget implementation bill, focusing on the budget stabilization fund and a proposed government efficiency initiative; discussion was still underway at the end of the transcript.

Transcript Highlights:

• Senator Calatayud, you're recognized to close on the amendment. Waived close.
• Senator Calatayud, you're recognized to close on the bill. Waived close.
• Senator Calatayud, you're recognized to close on the bill. Waived close.
• Senator Rouson, you're recognized to close the amendment. Waived close.
• Senator Truenow, you're recognized to close on the bill. Waived close.

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• Okay, committee, we have one more rule before us. Mr.
• As a result, I stand before you to present eight pending rules which modify existing rules.
• And with that, I'll go over the eight rules.
• Page 169, Rule 259.03, the St.
• “The rule balanced preservation and sustainable use.

Committee: Senate Resources and Environment

Transcript Highlights:

• One is a temporary rule and one is a pending rule.
• I move to extend temporary rule docket number 166 I move to extend temporary rule docket number, 16-0602
• Same rule should be hopefully a little quicker.”
• be repealed in the state rules.
• That’s all we had on the agenda for rules.

Committee: House Health and Welfare

Transcript Highlights:

• Senator Wright to close on the amendment. Wave closed.
• Senator Mayfield to close. Debate closed.
• Senator Mayfield, to close. Waive close. Waive close.
• Senator Trunow, to close. Waive close.
• Senator Alvarez to close. Close.

Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, and heard several introductions and announcements before moving to a long special-order calendar. Early bills passed included a trust law measure allowing a nonjudicial process for trustee settlement and discharge, a military affairs bill expanding leave protections and retirement eligibility for certain Guard and Coast Guard-related public employees, a penny-rounding bill for cash transactions, a podiatric medicine bill restricting certain cellular/tissue-based products and adding notice and consent requirements, a veterans’ courts bill expanding access to those courts statewide, an RV assessment clarification bill, a military-installation jurisdiction bill giving juveniles on bases access to state juvenile justice resources, an alcohol-tax deduction bill restoring DBPR’s authority to allow deductions for unsellable alcohol, a bail bonds bill revising training, fees, remission timing, and electronic procedures, an eyewear insurance bill updating definitions for modern products, a nursing education fund bill expanding support to health science programs, a recovery residences bill streamlining regulation and background-check rules, a felony battery bill adding resisting an officer with violence as a qualifying prior offense, a child welfare bill extending visitor definitions, making the Step Into Success program permanent, and creating a best-practices repository, and a candidate qualification bill tightening party-affiliation requirements and, via the House version, adding a name-change disclosure provision. Most of these bills were substituted with House companions where applicable and passed on near-unanimous votes, with one recorded dissent on the bail bonds bill. Several measures drew brief debate or explanation. Senator Wright’s military affairs bill was amended to restore two Florida National Guard special project officer positions to retirement eligibility, and Senator Gates’ veterans’ courts bill was described as a way to better address PTSD, brain injury, and substance-abuse-related offenses through problem-solving courts. Senator Trunow’s bail bonds bill prompted questions about charitable bail bonds, with the sponsor saying the current statute would remain in place and that further discussion could occur later. Senator Massullo’s podiatric medicine bill was framed as a bipartisan patient-protection measure, and Senator Leak’s felony battery bill was presented as closing a loophole that allowed repeat violent offenders to avoid enhancement. The chamber also took up a candidate qualification bill that would create an enforceable party-affiliation requirement and, in the House version, restrict recent petition-based name changes for candidates. A major portion of the meeting was devoted to a farewell ceremony for Senator Lori Berman, with family, staff, former colleagues, and guests in attendance. Senators from both parties offered extended remarks praising her leadership, collegiality, policy work, and advocacy on issues including voting rights, women’s rights, Israel and antisemitism, school safety, breast cancer, Everglades restoration, and other constituent services. Berman’s own remarks reflected on her 16 years in the Legislature, her family, and her belief in dignity, respect, and practical problem-solving. The Senate then adopted a motion to spread her remarks upon the journal and recessed before returning to continue the calendar.

Transcript Highlights:

• rules.
• rules.
• It walks like a rule.
• If it walks like a rule, regardless of whether it's called a rule, it will be reviewed like a rule.
• Is that pretty close? The rules are different, but the principle is the same. Okay.

Committee: House Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:

• Would you like to close, Ms. Bonta? Thank you.
• Would you like to close? Respectfully, ask for aye vote.
• Would you like to close? Respectfully, ask for aye vote.
• Yeah, would you like to close? Yes.
• Yeah, would you like to close? Yes.

Summary: The Assembly Appropriations Committee met on May 14, 2025, for a regular order hearing with a large consent calendar and many individual bill presentations. The committee first approved numerous bills on consent, then heard a series of measures spanning reproductive health, child care eligibility, transportation, mental health diversion, county recorder fees, groundwater management, election deadlines, parking enforcement, consumer protections, housing, immigrant and student protections, and utility/CPUC oversight. Several bills were taken up only for presentation because they were on suspense, including ACA 4 on long-term housing funding, and the committee later approved a very large suspense calendar as a whole. Among the bills discussed, AB 260 would protect medication abortion access and providers; AB 904 would clarify child care subsidy eligibility during family leave or job search; AB 1014 would give Caltrans more flexibility on speed limits in rural highway segments; AB 46 would clarify judicial discretion in mental health diversion; AB 1413 and AB 929 addressed groundwater adjudication and SGMA-related protections for small community water systems and wetlands; AB 930 would count vote-by-mail ballots postmarked by Election Day and received within seven days; AB 1022 would end towing solely for unpaid parking tickets; AB 290 and AB 302 dealt with automatic payments for the California Fair Plan and medical data protections; AB 1303 would remove the need for a Social Security number for California Lifeline eligibility; and several housing bills, including AB 920, AB 956, AB 1470, AB 893, and AB 1021, sought to streamline approvals or expand housing options. AB 1318 and AB 49 focused on immigrant-serving nonprofits and keeping immigration enforcement out of schools, while AB 1532 extended telecommunications and transportation access programs and added CPUC accountability measures. Testimony was generally supportive for the bills heard, with authors and sponsors emphasizing low or absorbable fiscal impacts, consumer protection, housing production, public safety, and protections for vulnerable communities. Opposition appeared on a few measures, including concerns about ADUs, towing authority, charter school-related issues, and the scale of proposed housing funding in ACA 4. Several members also commented in support of the housing and immigrant-protection measures, and some bills were voted out with recorded no votes or not-voting members noted. After the suspense calendar was deemed approved, the committee opened public comment on bills not presented that day, heard a long list of supporters and opponents on various measures, and then adjourned.

Transcript Highlights:

• Motions and resolutions under Rule 39 pursuant to the provisions of Rule 40 are now in order.
• That's not even close.
• The clerk will close the roll. Ayes... Clerk will close the roll. Ayes, 67; noes, 31.
• Clerk will close the roll. Clerk will close the roll. Ayes, 99; noes, 0.
• I'll close the roll. Ayes... ...close the roll. Ayes, 78; noes, 19.

Transcript Highlights:

• Rules on local rules were changed, and instead of filing for permission, it's now a file and use, to
• A CSR, for example, is required to know the Texas rules of appellate procedure, the Texas rules of civil
• That's my rule; the uniform format, by the way, is my rule. And so today...
• The rules of appellate procedure do have rules for court recorders in it, so obviously it's being done
• We have established local rules and divisional rules for each of the...

Bills: SB1538 , SB2883 , HB1734 , HB2340 , HB2350 , HB3376

Committee: Senate Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:

• Senator has closed. Any objection to rolling the... Senator has closed.
• Senator, you're free to close. I'm closed.
• Senator, you're recognized to close. I'm closed. We'll just get to the vote. Senator has closed.
• Senator, you're recognized to close. It's just time for the vote. Okay. Senator has closed.
• Senator, have you closed? I'm closed. Just get to the vote. Thank you, Senator.

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• The ayes have it; the rules are suspended. Question now is on suspension of Joint Rule 12.
• The ayes have it; Rule 7A is suspended. Second reading of the bill. Rule 7A is suspended.
• Rules are suspended. Suspension of the rules was requested. All those in favor say aye.
• Rules are suspended.
• For comparison, the FY20 close-out budget bill that we did last year closed the deficiency for those

Summary: The House took up several routine and ceremonial matters first, including a resolution honoring the Solomon Northup Committee and commemorating the arrival of the Solomon Northup sculpture in Boston, which was adopted. Members also adopted an order extending the Revenue Committee’s reporting deadline on House No. 4606, concurred in a Senate sick leave bank petition for Jeffrey Yatson, and suspended Joint Rule 12 for a similar sick leave bank petition for Jean McCarran. The House then advanced House No. 4413, a bill on the terms of certain Commonwealth bonds, to third reading and later passed it to be engrossed. The main floor debate centered on House No. 4601, the fiscal year 2025 supplemental appropriations bill. The bill was described as a $2.25 billion supplemental budget with a net Commonwealth cost of about $750 million, covering MassHealth, snow and ice deficiencies, Home Base, universal school meals, reproductive health care supports, a sports and entertainment fund, and other items. The bill also included outside sections on public health and finance, and it ratified seven collective bargaining agreements. The House adopted Amendment 70, which added Health Safety Net funding measures, including higher hospital assessments and a $50 million transfer from the Commonwealth Care Trust Fund, after supporters said it would help avert a projected shortfall and generate federal Medicaid revenue. A separate amendment on Home Base eligibility was rejected. The House also adopted a consolidated amendment that included provisions affecting western and central Massachusetts municipal health insurance costs and changes to violent injury benefit language for first responders, including clarifying the definition of a weapon and tightening the standard for covered injuries. Another consolidated amendment was adopted by roll call, and the bill itself was then passed to be engrossed by a recorded vote. The session ended with an order to meet the next day at 11 a.m. and a motion to adjourn in memory of former House members Thomas and George, which was agreed to before adjournment.

Transcript Highlights:

• May I have a motion on the committee rules? Mr. Chair, I move we adopt the rules.
• May I have a motion on the committee rules? Mr. Chair, I move we adopt the rules.
• The rules are adopted. Quirk-Silva, five to zero. The rules are adopted.
• Proposed rules? Proposed rules. No, aye. You're adding on. It's okay. McKinnor, aye. Great.
• Vice Chair, you may close.

Summary: The Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation held its first regular hearing of the 2025-26 session, adopted its proposed committee rules on a 5-0 vote, and reinstated a suspense file for bills with fiscal impacts over the committee threshold. The chair explained that only AB 418 would be eligible for an immediate vote, while several other measures would be held for suspense consideration because of budget constraints. AB 330 was pulled by the author. AB 418 by Wilson, which would create a clearer process and administrative remedy for county Chapter 8 tax sales, received support from county tax collectors and housing and taxpayer groups. Supporters said the bill would add transparency, due process, and a noticed public hearing for negotiated sales of tax-defaulted properties, while helping counties dispose of low-value or problematic properties more efficiently. The committee voted 6-0 to send AB 418 to Appropriations. Several other bills were heard and then referred to suspense: AB 27 by Chau, which would exclude Chiquita Canyon landfill relief payments from gross income and protect recipients’ eligibility for public benefits, drew strong support from affected residents and environmental advocates; AB 258 by Conley would increase funding for California fairs, with supporters emphasizing fairs’ emergency-response role; AB 397 by Gonzalez would expand the California Young Child Tax Credit into a broader child tax credit for older children; and AB 398 by Aaron would set a $300 minimum refundable Cal EITC benefit. The committee also heard AB 231 by Tye, which would offer a tax credit to microbusinesses that hire formerly incarcerated people, and it too was referred to suspense after supportive testimony from reentry and small-business advocates.

Transcript Highlights:

• I move that pursuant to Rule 17K, House Bill...
• Let's amend the Rules Committee amendment.
• There is a Rules Committee amendment. Mr.
• The system is closed.
• System is closed. Secretary, record the vote.

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• That closes our public hearing on Senate Joint Memorial 8016. We'll move.
• That closes our public hearing on Senate Joint Memorial 8016.
• That closes our public hearing on Senate Bill 6230.
• To the Rules Committee.
• I move Senate Bill 6238 with a due-pass recommendation to the Rules Committee.

Summary: The Senate Transportation Committee held a work session focused on ignition interlock device compliance and broader traffic safety data. Traffic Safety Commission staff described a Yakima County pilot that provides enhanced probation supervision and support for DUI offenders, reporting that compliance with ignition interlock installation rose from roughly 16%–20% before the pilot to 41% among medium- and high-risk offenders, with barriers including cost, confusion about requirements, transportation access, and communication gaps. JLARC staff presented a statewide preliminary audit finding an overall 41% installation rate, with higher installation rates among higher-income drivers and limited use of financial assistance; JLARC recommended clearer goals for the assistance program and a formal coordination agreement between the Department of Licensing and State Patrol. State Patrol also reported on a Snohomish County outreach pilot that used troopers and door hangers to contact noncompliant drivers, found many were unaware of financial aid, and identified some drivers as physically unable to drive, without vehicles, or on warrant status. The committee then received a broader traffic safety update showing that serious injuries and fatalities rose sharply in recent years before declining somewhat in 2024; impaired-driving fatalities fell 15% from 2023 to 2024, while pedestrian fatalities remained near record highs. The Traffic Safety Commission also highlighted telematics-based research showing that targeted enforcement and visible patrols can reduce speeding, and that anonymized telematics data is being used to analyze speeding and distracted driving patterns statewide and at the corridor level. Members asked about privacy, enforcement methods, and how the data are used, and staff emphasized that the data are aggregate and opt-in through insurance or similar programs. After waiving five-day notice, the committee held a public hearing on Senate Joint Memorial 8016, which asks Congress and federal agencies to treat the Fairfax Bridge closure and replacement as an emergency and to expedite federal review and remove historic-register barriers. Supporters from Wilkeson, Carbonado, recreation groups, and nearby communities testified that the bridge closure has harmed tourism, emergency response, recreation access, and daily travel. The committee then heard Senate Bill 6230, which would require cash transactions to be rounded to the nearest five cents in light of the federal penny phaseout; staff said the Department of Licensing fiscal note showed a $186,000 technology cost, and retail and food industry representatives supported the bill but requested amendments for permissive language, safe harbors, consumer protections, and local preemption. In executive session, staff briefed members on several bills and substitutes, including snowmobile registration fee increases, gender designation record confidentiality, salvaged title transfer streamlining, fish-barrier/utility relocation changes, emergency highway work thresholds, a Traffic Safety Commission public-health-authority proposal, special parking privilege renewal changes, parked vehicle registration enforcement, and oil tanker tug-escort requirements. No final votes or bill actions were recorded in the excerpt beyond the motion to waive notice and the completion of the public hearings.

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• Speaker, last night the Rules Committee met and reported a rule. House...
• Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act under a closed rule.
• This rule needs to pass. Mr.
• There's a lot in this rule, Mr. Speaker, and this rule needs This rule needs to pass.
• 23 of the rules of the... ...clause 9 of rule 23 of the rules of the House of Representatives as it

Bills: HR1399 , HCR108 , HR1398

Keywords: HCR108, H. Con. Res. 108, War Powers Resolution, Lebanon, Lebanese Armed Forces, U.S. Armed Forces, hostilities, military withdrawal, troop removal, concurrent resolution, Congressional war powers, executive war powers, foreign policy, Middle East, diplomatic facilities, security cooperation, cease hostilities, military engagement, war authorization, non-authorization of force

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• adjustment on this allocation, it has to conform as closely as possible to the primary results.
• freedom of association on a national party rule adjustment.
• But it also needs to be as close as it can to this.
• Clear rules strengthen confidence in the integrity of our democratic process.
• Clear rules strengthen confidence in the integrity of our democratic process.

Committees: House Elections , House Local Government, Elections and Pensions

Transcript Highlights:

• The chair rules that the amendment has passed.
• The chair rules that the amendment is adopted.
• At the close of quarter four in 2025, the department's ratio was 98 percent, meaning we're very close
• At the close of quarter four in 2025, the department's ratio was 98 percent, meaning we're very close
• . close of quarter four in 2025, the department's ratio was 98 percent, meaning we're very close to issuing

Bills: SCR8406 , SB5825 , SB5842 , SB5863 , SB5840 , SB5827 , SB5968

Committee: Senate State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections

Keywords: civic health, community engagement, committee reestablishment, public participation, governance, Washington State Leadership Board, WSLB, gift acceptance, grants, endowments, private funding, public funding, fundraising, state board, youth leadership, civic engagement, leadership development, Washington World Fellows, sports mentoring, Boundless Washington

Transcript Highlights:

• And so even for the rules we want to keep, we want to make sure at the end of the day Our rules are clear
• We've worked really closely.
• And the rules we're going to be posting for formal comment in May will cut the number of rules for kinship
• Because we have so many child care rules.
• now overrides all other rules.

Bills: HB150 , HB869 , HB876 , HB 1043 , HB1494 , HB1522 , HB150

Committee: House Delivery of Government Efficiency

Keywords: cybersecurity, state command, information resources, data protection, incident response, information technology, classification officer, job descriptions, state positions, competency-based, information sharing, government efficiency, public sector, private sector, distributed ledger, title registry, real estate, property liens, pilot program, healthcare

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