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WA
Transcript Highlights:
- Substitute House Bill 2365 relates to digital equity programs.
- to develop recommendations to advance digital connectivity and advise the broadband office on digital
- Lastly, regarding the Digital Equity Opportunity Program, it is renamed the Digital Opportunity Program
- equity plan, and supporting the digital equity forum.
- I'm a member of the statewide Digital Equity Partners Coalition and previously served on the State Digital
Committee:
House Appropriations
Keywords:
postsecondary education, homelessness, foster youth, education access, support programs, commission, gender equity, boys, men, advocacy, state policy, special education, parental rights, educational access, evaluation reports, disability services, behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Regulating Artificial Intelligence – Senator Eric Lucero Mar 17th, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Another one is a proposed constitutional amendment that would add digital data to have the same protections
- So it would require, if the government is going to handle digital data, personal data, they have to do
- So it would require, if the government is going to handle digital data, personal data, they have to do
- So it would require, if the government is going to handle digital data, personal data, they have to do
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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee Apr 16th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- By cutting off access to the digital public square, we don't quote unquote protect youth.
- This is a heated topic because everybody cares deeply about our children's digital futures.
- Vulnerable youth deserve safe digital spaces.
- AB 1921 protects video game users against premature shutdowns of digital games.
- off the servers that did digital rights management could be a deceptive or unfair practice.
Summary:
The committee heard AB 1988, which would require AI companion chatbots to respond to credible self-harm or violence-related crisis expressions by displaying the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, warning users, and pausing the chat for human review after repeated crisis signals. The author and supporters said the bill is a measured safety standard to redirect vulnerable users to human help, citing research and cases where chatbots worsened suicidal ideation or violent behavior. Support came from crisis and medical advocates, while no opposition testimony was offered. The chair and members expressed strong support, and the bill was held pending quorum before later action on the agenda.
The committee then took up AB 1709, which would set a minimum age of 16 for users to create or maintain accounts on social media platforms with harmful addictive features and would create an E-Safety Advisory Commission in the Attorney General’s office. The author argued the bill targets product design, not speech, and is intended to curb compulsive features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, and algorithmic feeds while allowing safer or non-addictive platforms to remain available. Supporters, including a psychologist and the Organization for Social Media Safety, described cyberbullying, predation, compulsive use, and mental health harms; opponents, including EFF, ACLU-Cal Action, TechNet, and youth advocacy groups, warned about privacy, First Amendment, and access-to-community concerns, especially for LGBTQ youth and other marginalized groups.
Committee members debated whether the bill is a ban or a delay, how age assurance would work, and whether the proposal would be effective or could push youth to less safe spaces. Several members said they would support the bill as a first step, while others raised concerns about enforceability, privacy, and constitutional issues. The author emphasized that the bill is limited to specific harmful design features, not content or general internet access, and that the new commission would monitor evolving technology and recommend future updates. No final vote was taken during the portion of the hearing provided.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Transportation Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Transportation
Transcript Highlights:
- Alex Marthews, Digital Fourth. Digital Fourth— is there an Alex?
- Alex Marthews, Digital Fourth. Digital Fourth— is there an Alex?
- Alex Marthews, Digital Fourth. Digital Fourth— is there an Alex?
- Alex Marthews, Digital Fourth. Digital Fourth— is there an Alex?
- So we're going to go to the digital then, right? Yep. We've got one digital?
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Transportation
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Transportation held a hybrid hearing on 31 bills covering driver privacy and data, distinctive license plates, public awareness signage, railroad safety, superload permitting, TNC/delivery data reporting, and MBTA safety measures. Chairs Jim Arciero and Brendan Crighton outlined the hearing process, and the committee heard testimony from state officials, advocates, family members of fallen officers and firefighters, transportation industry representatives, civil liberties groups, and others. No votes were taken during the hearing itself, and the meeting ended with a motion to adjourn.
Several speakers supported bills creating a Blue Star Family license plate to honor families of fallen law enforcement officers, and a separate motorcycle plate for fallen firefighters. Colonel Jeffrey Noble and others from the Healey-Driscoll Administration and law enforcement groups said the plates would complement existing memorial practices and provide a lasting public tribute. Family members of officers killed in the line of duty gave emotional testimony in support, and Representative Steve Ultrino and Paul Jakes backed the firefighter memorial motorcycle plate as revenue-neutral, with proceeds supporting the fallen firefighter memorial.
The committee also heard testimony on transportation policy and safety bills. Industry witnesses urged modernization of Massachusetts superload permitting rules, saying current requirements are slower and more expensive than neighboring states and delay public projects. Advocates supported a human trafficking awareness bill requiring hotline signage in transit facilities, a driver privacy bill limiting automatic license plate reader data retention and sharing, and a bill requiring two-person crews on freight trains and other railroad safety measures such as hotbox detectors and transportation for railroad employees. Senator John Keenan also testified for expanded naloxone availability in MBTA stations and said the MBTA had not fully complied with prior legislative directives.
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
January 20, 2026 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- So, I would love to know what the update is on moving to digital. Yes, so.
- But the majority of it is headed to digital, and a lot of it already is.
- I know we had discussed last year the coverage or not coverage of your digitized elements.
- You said some of our organizations Is digitized and some is not.
- So when they're coming back in, we are digitizing those.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency - Room 210, 3 March, 2026; 2:30 P.M.
Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency
Transcript Highlights:
- And the money goes into this machine and it goes into a digital wallet.
- For some companies it may be a digital wallet in your name and in others it may be someone else's digital
- For some it goes into a digital wallet.
- And then someone else's digital wallet.
- But who owns these digital currency ATMs?
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:24:47.520><c> design</c> administrator for the digital design administrator for the digital design
- </c> are present in the broader digital are present in the broader digital landscape.<00:27:04.320><c
- </c> digital unfiltered world for our youth. digital unfiltered world for our youth.
- 02.400><c> materials</c> curriculum or digital literacy materials curriculum or digital literacy materials
- </c> digital equity purposes. digital equity purposes.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- It authorizes each post-secondary system management board to digitize student IDs for use in LA Wallet
- Maybe there is a better fit for this digital ID versus saying that it has to go to one specific vendor
- Maybe there is a better fit for this digital ID versus saying that it has to go to one specific vendor
- Maybe there is a better fit for this digital ID versus saying that it has to go to one specific vendor
- Maybe there is a better fit for this digital ID versus is. and letting this just go out.
Committee:
House Education
Summary:
The House Education Committee met on May 12, 2026, and first approved SB 518, which gives LSU limited authority to buy and sell certain real estate within one mile of campus as a two-year pilot program. Supporters said the bill would let LSU respond more quickly to deteriorating properties near campus and improve the student experience, while keeping protections such as appraisals and fair-market-value requirements. Members asked about whether the authority would affect residential property or be expanded to other universities, and the bill was reported favorably without objection.
The committee then advanced SCR 33, creating a one-year Work-Based Learning Coordination Task Force to study and better align apprenticeships, internships, job shadowing, and related programs across state agencies and employers. Testimony emphasized the need to reduce duplication and improve coordination so students and employers can more easily connect. HR 168 also passed, directing the Board of Regents to study collegiate athletic program funding after concerns raised by athletic directors about deficits and accounting practices.
Members next approved SB 488, establishing a school safety drone response pilot program to supplement school crisis plans. The bill drew detailed testimony from a vendor describing drone deployment, response times, and coordination with law enforcement; an amendment was adopted to require coordination with the Department of Education, State Police, and the Sheriffs’ Association. The committee also favorably reported HCR 97, asking BESE and Wildlife and Fisheries to study adding age-appropriate hunting, conservation, and shooting sports education in grades 5-12, with members clarifying that no live firearms would be used on campus.
Finally, the committee approved SB 112, allowing local school boards to adopt parental-consent release-time policies for religious instruction, with amendments adding instructor qualifications, reporting requirements, electronic delivery flexibility, and constitutional safeguards. It also reported SB 504, expanding individual graduation plans to include vocational options and apply to charter schools, with an amendment for standalone elementary charters. The committee then passed SB 346 and SB 347, both dealing with deepfakes—one prohibiting their use against K-12 students and the other adding unlawful deepfakes to campus power-based violence rules—and SB 353, authorizing postsecondary systems to digitize student IDs for use in LA Wallet. Several members raised concerns about naming LA Wallet specifically, but the bill was still reported favorably. The meeting ended with adjournment.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- It will encourage school districts to share secure storage information on digital platforms, including
- It will encourage school districts to share secure storage information on digital platforms, including
- According to the Center for Countering Digital Hate, 3 million sexualized images were created on the
- To safely navigate an increasingly digital world.
- For students, in particular, digital technology... ...communicate, and build relationships.
Committee:
House Education
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Science, Technology and Telecommunications Nov 12th, 2025
Science, Technology & Telecommunications Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm with a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grant-funded organization called US Digital Response.
- The second thing, establish a state digital service.
- Yes, that's a state digital service.
- A digital service as they exist in federal agencies and in other states.
- their PFML program supported the creation of their digital service.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill isn't just about the use of 3D machines and digital codes to manufacture firearms.
- Digital firearm codes are speech protected by the First Amendment.
- It is the first native digital manufacturing process.
- Ask yourself how, point three, ask yourself, how does legislating that an even unusable digital...
- Ask yourself: how does legislating that an even unusable digital file solve the problem?
Committee:
Senate Law & Justice
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Transportation Infrastructure Revenue Subcommitee Jul 16th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Napier, who we'll hear from later, and Borderplix Digital Assets.
- BorderPlex Digital Assets is a company that is building digital infrastructure campuses throughout the
- The way to think about a digital infrastructure campus is the following.
- That's in essence what we're talking about when we say digital campus.
- It creates hundreds of jobs in the six digits.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- To home appliances that have digital electronic equipment.
- But central bank digital currency has the potential of violating those freedoms.
- Central digital bank currency.
- What if this just said we're not going to have central digital bank currency?
- It includes central bank digital currency, yes. CBDC. Sorry.
Bills:
HB 106 , HB144 , HB145 , HB252 , HB1732 , HB2221 , HB2467 , HB2468 , HB2517 , HB2518 , HB2963 , HB3016 , HB3689 , HB3960 , HB4386 , HB4490 , HB4751 , HB5247 , HJR175 , HB2213 , HB106 , HB144 , HB145 , HB252
Committee:
Senate Business & Commerce
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- They must read the digital course book their instructor selects and answer its digital prompts and questions
- Their instructor selects and answer its digital prompts and questions, such as these questions that one
- Students and faculty are largely unaware of how their personal information on these digital services
- Today’s youth are navigating a digital landscape that is fundamentally...
- Motion is due pass to the Senate, privacy, digital technologies, and consumer protection.
Committee:
Senate Education
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration, June 25, 2026 - AM
Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration
Transcript Highlights:
- There was also some questions about the textbook market and the digital versus...
- And then in assessment, adaptive learning Adaptive learning is mostly digital.
- K-12 publishers, and nine of the majors have both print and digital.
- Nine are digital with limited or minimal print, and then one is digital only.
- The Wyoming digital learning plan from...
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing BR Sub. on Econ. Dev., Public Protection, Tourism, and Energy (2-12-25) - Reupload
Transcript Highlights:
- There's usually a digital component where we get some retargeting.
- There's usually a digital component where we get some retargeting.
- There's usually a digital component where we get some retargeting.
- There's usually a digital component where we get some retargeting.
- There's usually a digital component where we get some retargeting.
Summary:
The committee met for its second Budget Review on Economic Development, Public Protection, Tourism, and Energy and first approved the minutes from the prior meeting. Members then heard a presentation from the Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet and the Kentucky Department of Tourism on the 1% tourism marketing fund. Witnesses explained that the fund supports statewide tourism promotion, advertising, research, regional marketing, and matching grants to local tourism commissions, and that it cannot be used for capital construction. They reported that the General Assembly and governor increased appropriations in the 2024 session, adding $3 million in FY25 and $7 million in FY26, and set aside funding for the Kentucky Mountain Regional Recreation Authority, the National Quilt Museum, and the Southern Kentucky Tourism Initiative.
Tourism officials emphasized that Kentucky tourism is a major economic driver, citing 2023 figures of $13.8 billion in economic impact, 79.3 million visitors, $9.7 billion in direct spending, more than 95,000 jobs supported, and nearly $1 billion in state and local tax revenue. They said the department now uses targeted digital and over-the-top advertising in selected domestic and international markets, with 62% of media placements digital and 80% of the budget spent out of state. Members asked about market selection, how the department measures return on investment, and what attracts visitors from places such as Dallas, Orlando, Toronto, and Washington, D.C.; officials said research shows a mix of family visits, outdoor recreation, and varied Kentucky offerings, and that 81% of overnight visitors are repeat visitors. They also discussed the potential impact of tariffs and trade tensions on bourbon-related tourism and international visitation, especially from Canada, and officials said they were monitoring the situation with U.S. Travel Association and Brand USA.
The committee then heard from Kentucky State Parks officials on capital projects funded through HJR 76, HJR 56, and House Bill 6. They said they are providing quarterly project reports and have been meeting regularly with the Finance Cabinet’s engineering and contract staff. The presentation focused on campground utilities, broadband, and structural upgrades, including $40 million for campground improvements across the park system, with completed bathhouse renovations at Barren River and Nolin Lake and additional projects underway or in planning. Officials said the work is based on camper survey feedback, such as requests for better Wi-Fi, sewer and electric upgrades, frost-free spigots, and improved site layouts, and noted that the My Old Kentucky Home campground project is under construction and expected to be completed by spring 2026.
VT
Transcript Highlights:
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FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government Feb 18th, 2026
Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Transcript Highlights:
- it creates the local government cybersecurity protection program to be administered by the Florida Digital
- Under the bill, Florida Digital Service is authorized to contract for information technology commodities
- And it requires rulemaking by Florida Digital Service. And as I said, one more thing.
- The state would be required through Florida Digital Service.
- The state would be required through Florida Digital Service to actually do the purchasing.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee Apr 9th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- The Fresno Digital Inclusion Alliance, one of our partners in CADE, has replicated these findings with
- Hi, Orazio Gonzalez, on behalf of NextGen California and the California Alliance for Digital Equity,
- Equity and the Broadband and Digital Equity Commission.
- To oversee this agency, the bill also establishes an 11-member Broadband and Digital Equity Commission
- , which would include members with backgrounds in broadband, digital equity, labor, the industry, and
Summary:
The Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee met to adopt its 2025-2026 rules and hear three bills. The committee first adopted the rules on a roll call vote, then heard AB 1303 by Assemblymember Valencia, which would clarify that a Social Security number is not required to apply for California Lifeline and would restrict sharing subscriber information with immigration enforcement absent a court warrant or subpoena. Supporters said the bill would help vulnerable Californians, including undocumented residents, domestic violence survivors, unhoused people, and identity theft victims, access essential communications services; there was no opposition. The bill passed on a due pass motion and was re-referred to Judiciary.
The committee next heard AB 1271 by Assemblymember Bonta, which would require broadband providers to report pricing and speed-performance data to the Department of Consumer Affairs and make the information publicly available, with privacy protections and a standardized reporting template. Supporters argued the bill would improve transparency and help consumers, local governments, and the state understand what broadband service Californians are actually receiving; testimony highlighted disparities in speed and pricing in low-income communities. The bill was amended in committee and passed on a due pass as amended motion to the Committee on Business and Professions.
Finally, the committee heard AB 693 by the chair, Assemblymember Boerner, which would consolidate broadband and digital equity functions into a new Department of Broadband and Digital Equity and create an 11-member commission with decision-making authority. Supporters said the current split between agencies creates delays and coordination problems, while members discussed governance, geographic representation, and whether the proposal would require follow-up constitutional or statutory changes. The bill passed 9-0 and was re-referred to Appropriations. Afterward, the committee added AB 1303 and AB 1271 as later add-ons, both of which were also reported out, and the meeting adjourned.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (02/18/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- V2 is that page holding in use of private digital currency? Page 3 is that on the new page?
- </c><00:20:46.760><c> asset</c> determine against the digital asset determine against the digital asset
- Representative Bros raised a question about the rate schedule for digital asset mining.
- He said that a rate schedule for digital asset mining creates a discriminatory rate for digital asset
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Summary:
The subcommittee first took up an amendment to a bill dealing with digital assets, zoning, utilities, and noise. Members discussed removing the “private key” language, clarifying that the bill would prohibit state or local governments from treating digital asset mining differently from other industrial uses, and narrowing several provisions based on feedback from the Municipal Association. There was also discussion about electricity use, rate schedules, and whether the bill would allow payment of electric bills in Bitcoin; members clarified that bills would still be paid in dollars and that discriminatory rates were not allowed. The amendment was approved on a straw vote, and the committee then voted 7-1 to adopt the amended bill.
The committee then considered a separate bill related to a paint stewardship program. The sponsor explained that the amendment would remove references to a fee structure that had troubled him in public hearing, while still preserving the plan and oversight by the Department of Environmental Services. Members discussed whether the bill’s liability and disclosure language affected antitrust concerns, and a representative from the American Coatings Association testified that the program’s environmental management practices and liability provisions were intended to ensure responsible handling and cleanup. The committee ultimately voted 7-1 to adopt the amended bill.
Later, the subcommittee moved to liquor-related business. It first voted unanimously, 7-0, to retain a cannabis-related item. It then discussed a tavern license bill that would create a 21-plus tavern category, with the Liquor Enforcement Division explaining that the restriction was tied to alcohol-only venues and the potential for late-night entertainment and nightclub-style operations. Members raised concerns about local control and public safety, and the discussion referenced existing cocktail lounge rules and the possibility of towns opting into such a license. The transcript cuts off before a final vote on that item is shown.