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AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- I appreciate your support. So, yeah, any other discussion, questions, comments?
- the support to those school districts—so they can shop.
- I stand here in strong support of SB 1424 because...
- I would support it in the school district context.
- We'd like to learn more about those as well so we can support families.
Summary:
The committee heard and advanced several education-related bills. SB 1572, the Return to Civics Instruction Act, would require Freedom Week, civics instruction on the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and a Declaration recitation for grades 3-12; it passed 3-2 after some members argued schools already provide civics instruction and that the legislature should not mandate curriculum. SB 1798, as amended, would require each high school to designate a FAFSA point person, post contact information, and implement a FAFSA awareness strategy; the Arizona Board of Regents supported it, while some members raised concerns about mandates on charter schools and staffing burdens. The committee also passed SB 1711, which directs the State Board of Education to develop and post age-appropriate resources on preventing and recognizing inappropriate contact, with testimony split between support for parent-accessible safety materials and concerns about sex-education compliance issues.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 13th, 2026 at 05:31 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- We're going to support House Bill 253 with this amendment, Mr. Chairman.
- And I think very few people support House Bill 253.
- So we are still working to support the EPDs.
- CATF supports this bill.
- Staff our academies and support the personnel we already have.
Committee:
House House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
distance learning, virtual instruction, public education, student enrollment, school funding, education standards, pandemic education response, low-carbon construction, construction materials, rebate, environmental product declaration, EPD, embodied carbon, carbon intensity, greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonization, industrial incentives, clean manufacturing, cement, concrete
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Agriculture & Natural Resources Jan 12th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Agriculture & Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- in our state, support research, and really support our farmers.
- And then finally, mental health support.
- I mean, you know, just overall commodity prices have been too low to support, again, to support cost
- So apologies for putting you on the spot, but we do appreciate your support.
- So we do have a few students, but they're kind of at a support level.
Committee:
Senate Agriculture & Natural Resources
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Budget Review Subcommittee on General Government, Finance, Personnel and Public Retirement (9-17-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- And we helped in cash support from KHS.
- </c> supported during crisis. supported during crisis.
- So we would appreciate your support. right now the support we we already have right now the support we
- ,</c><00:16:09.839><c> but</c> we know people will come to support, but we know people will come to support
- So would appreciate your<00:16:13.839><c> support.</c> your support. your support.
Keywords:
Meeting Start 00:00:00
Attendance Roll Call 00:00:20
Kentucky Humane Society 00:01:20, 958, all
Summary:
The committee heard a presentation from Alyssa Gray, president and CEO of the Kentucky Humane Society, on the organization’s statewide animal welfare work and its request for a $5 million matching contribution from the General Assembly for a new Kentucky Animal and Community Campus in Louisville. Gray said KHS, an independent nonprofit founded in 1884, serves cats, dogs, and horses, reaches 96 counties, provides shelter relief, spay-neuter services, low-cost veterinary care, and disaster response, and has supported communities during recent tornadoes and floods. She described the new campus as a hub for disaster housing, shelter transfers, veterinary training, and expanded services to reduce overpopulation and relieve pressure on county shelters and local governments.
Members asked about the campus’s location, staffing, veterinary student involvement, and the scope of KHS’s services. Gray said the new site would be next to KHS’s current spay-neuter clinic on Preston Highway, that the facility would include shelter medicine, high-volume spay-neuter, and a low-cost clinic, and that it could host veterinary students and interns for hands-on training. She also explained that KHS works with county officials and shelters to move animals during crises or cruelty cases, can connect counties with partner organizations when KHS is full, and provides mobile clinic services and occasional grant support for rural shelters.
Committee members praised the presentation and discussed how KHS could fit into disaster recovery planning. One member suggested the organization could be folded into long-term recovery efforts because of its role in post-disaster animal care. The presenter said KHS wants to be a formal disaster response resource and already works with the Kentucky Veterinary Medical Association and other partners. No vote on the funding request was taken during the meeting.
At the end of the meeting, the committee noted it still lacked a quorum, so approval of the minutes was postponed to the next meeting, tentatively scheduled for October 15. The meeting then adjourned.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
AGR Public Hearing - Fri Mar 21, 2025 @ 10:00 AM HST
Agriculture & Food Systems
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you for your consideration. support for House Bill HC HCR68 and support for House Bill HC HCR68
- No, none in Okay, we had one supporter.
- </c><00:33:57.440><c> Concurrent</c> system supports the House Concurrent system supports the House Concurrent
- </c> and the board of water supply supports and the board of water supply supports house<00:35:18.240
- <00:46:14.319><c> testimony</c> supporting testimony supporting testimony um<00:46:16.480><c> and</c>
Committee:
House Agriculture & Food Systems
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 4/14/26
Children and Families Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> I encourage your support. I encourage your support.
- </c> been broadly supported, so. been broadly supported, so.
- </c> won't support this bill. won't support this bill.
- I will not be supporting this.
- Uh first, I I support the support.
Keywords:
child welfare, African American children, racial disproportionality, family preservation, reunification, foster care, kinship care, relative placement, noncustodial parent, guardian ad litem, ombudsperson, Department of Human Services, county social services, active efforts, reasonable efforts, child protection, placement, out-of-home placement, Northstar kinship assistance, data disaggregation
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
HF2312, the higher education finance bill, passes out of committee 4/21/25
Transcript Highlights:
- Line 133 is for student support.<00:15:41.199><c> It's</c> support. It's support.
- <c> which</c> supporting init support initiative which supporting init support initiative which is<00
- </c><00:53:50.559><c> You</c> support. You have a choice today. You support.
- </c> those supports.
- It creates a support those supports.
Summary:
The committee took up House File 2312 and first adopted the DE1 amendment, after which the amended bill was discussed. Nonpartisan fiscal staff walked through the spreadsheet and explained the bill’s higher education budget changes, including increases for state grants and tribal college assistance, unchanged funding for several existing programs, and reductions or eliminations for items such as state work study, summer academic enrichment, student loan counseling, concurrent enrollment, and the student parent support initiative. Staff also noted transfers to special revenue funds, the cancellation and reappropriation of ALS research funding, and a new licensing/registration revenue item. The committee was told the bill met the committee’s zero target overall, with a net general fund change of zero relative to the February forecast, while also adding some non-general fund expenditures for program licensing and registration.
Members asked several questions about the transfers and specific line items, including whether any new special revenue accounts were being created, the foster care wraparound services line, and the treatment of the University of Minnesota and Centric Care partnership. Staff explained that the transfers generally did not create new accounts, that some items were not in the base, and that the U of M/Centric Care partnership was a one-time appropriation in the prior bill but was now being built into the base at a different amount. The University of Minnesota section also included new or continued funding for medical school development, health training restoration, emergency assistance grants, ALS research, and a weather resiliency program, while the Mayo Foundation section eliminated funding for Mayo Medical School and the Mayo family medicine residency program.
The policy portion of the DE1 was then introduced. It included a maximum tuition and fee amount for state grants, direct appropriation of emergency assistance grants to Minnesota State, a juvenile justice appropriation for Metropolitan State University, and the ALS research reappropriation to the University of Minnesota. It also contained repealers for unfunded programs, including a delayed repealer for the student parent support initiative. In the higher education policy article, the bill would allow Minnesota State to offer applied doctoral degrees in cybersecurity, make technical changes to hunger-free campus and sexual misconduct procedures, extend pregnant and parenting student protections to private institutions, allow OHE to retain up to 10% of certain competitive grants for administration, consolidate reports, change the state grant formula so negative FAFSA contributions count as zero, and reduce the state grant lifetime credit cap from 180 to 120 credits. The Northstar Promise provisions would limit tuition and fees to resident rates and require MnState, and request the University of Minnesota, to ensure eligible students receive the benefit.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Suicide prevention in bridge design and construction 3/18/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I want to thank you for your support and your work in the Washington Avenue Bridge last year and this
- So on behalf of SAVE, thank you and we support this unconditionally. >> Thank you sir.
- </c><00:02:44.800><c> this</c> thank you and we support this thank you and we support this unconditionally
- We're currently building support policy.
- So, in supporting House File 3169, I applaud you if you do.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources Feb 12th, 2026 at 09:04 am
House Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- And we're here in support of SB 193. Association, and we're here in support of SB 193.
- And we therefore urge you to support this legislation. Thank you.
- And I respectfully ask you to support this bill.
- I respectfully ask you to support this. Thank you very much. Thank you.
- I hope we can support this bill. Thank you very much. I hope we can support this bill.
Bills:
SB193
Keywords:
SB193, acequia, community ditch, irrigation works construction fund, water infrastructure, ditch infrastructure, irrigation, New Mexico water law, agricultural water, farmers, Rio Grande, acequia association, forest land protection revolving fund, state fund transfer, irrigation projects, 996, all
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Tripp Hunter, Florida Farm Bureau, waving in support.
- Cameron Fink, Associated Industries of Florida, waving in support.
- Gene Adams, Feed Florida Association, waving in support. Lena Juarez, waving in support.
- Feed Florida Association, waving in support.
- , waving in support.
Committee:
Senate Fiscal Policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session - part 3 May 19th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I just want to say that I am rising in support of this bill. This is an act of solidarity.
- So I ask, please, please support this bill. Stand up for our iron workers.
- , it supports the entire state.
- supporting a region, and when we lose the miners because there's not...
- How can we make sure to keep supporting that? And that's what this chamber is going to do.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Banking and Finance Committee Mar 3rd, 2025
Banking and Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- In closing, thank you, and we ask for your support on AB 238. Thank you.
- Are there any additional witnesses in support in the room?
- Matt LeJay on behalf of SEIU California in support.
- Yesenia Jimenez on behalf of End Child Poverty in California here in support.
- Any witnesses in support? Any witnesses in the room in opposition?
Committee:
House Banking and Finance
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> support that I did. support that I did.
- </c> detained, or they are working to support detained, or they are working to support their<00:30:11.640
- </c><01:09:45.120><c> Bill</c> support of SF 3570 as amended. Bill support of SF 3570 as amended.
- </c><01:19:47.680><c> I'm</c> can and should do to support us. I'm can and should do to support us.
- </c> feel safe, valued, and supported. feel safe, valued, and supported. Thank<01:20:12.000><c> you.
Committee:
Senate Higher Education
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/25
Agriculture Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- I’d like your support to send this bill to the General Register as a vehicle bill.
- Yes, this is language supported by the department and the board.
- So I’ll just leave it at that, and I encourage support for my bill today. Thank you.”
- </c><01:04:40.680><c> ensuring</c> provide critical early support ensuring provide critical early support
- </c><01:07:49.160><c> my</c> products this program has supported my products this program has supported
Committee:
House Agriculture Finance and Policy
Keywords:
HF363, property tax credit, agricultural water quality credit, Minnesota agricultural water quality certification program, clean water fund, class 2a, class 2b, certified acres, conservation incentive, water quality, agricultural property, county assessor, county auditor, Department of Revenue, Department of Agriculture, property tax reimbursement, school district reimbursement, legacy finance, taxes committee, southeastern Minnesota
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 2/13/25
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> Opportunity for the state to support Opportunity for the state to support these<00:09:30.839><c>
- </c><00:21:13.279><c> services</c> maintain class sizes support services maintain class sizes support
- The city of Becker strongly supports House File 28, and I urge the committee support.
- house file 28 and I urge the supports house file 28 and I urge the committee<00:36:23.359><c> support
- </c><00:45:55.160><c> last</c> data centers our Union supported last data centers our Union supported
Committee:
House Energy Finance and Policy
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on the Judiciary Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on the Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- And I come to present in support of this bill, House 2013.
- So I do support this bill. I support this bill for all of us.
- Next, we strongly support people and grace judicial resources.
- And I am, as Chair Day mentioned, in support of all five of the bills.
- I urge you with everything in me to support H. 1631.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on the Judiciary
Summary:
The hearing covered a wide range of Judiciary Committee bills, with much of the testimony focused on criminal justice, public safety, and civil asset forfeiture reform. Several lawmakers and advocates supported bills to increase penalties or create new offenses related to assaults on sports officials, assaults on transit workers, reckless discharge of firearms, fires and explosives, pill press machines, and drug-induced homicide. Testifiers described rising harassment and violence against youth sports officials and transit workers, as well as the fentanyl overdose crisis and the need for stronger tools to prosecute dealers whose conduct leads to death. Supporters of the sports-official and transit-worker bills emphasized declining referee availability and repeated assaults on commuter rail and MBTA workers. District attorneys also backed bills on reckless firearm discharge and fires/explosives, saying current law does not adequately address dangerous conduct that endangers bystanders.
The committee also heard testimony on several proposals related to youth diversion and prison mitigation. Supporters of the youth court justice fund bill said youth courts are peer-led diversion programs with strong compliance and low recidivism, and argued for a stable funding source rather than annual earmarks. A representative from Bridgewater supported a prison mitigation fund for municipalities that host state prisons, saying the costs of public safety and emergency services are not fully covered. On gun policy, testimony split between supporters of a bill to ban in-state manufacture of assault-style rifles for civilian sale and opponents or skeptics of other firearm-related measures, including a bill on collateralizing firearms and a bill to increase penalties for drug trafficking combined with illegal firearm offenses.
A major portion of the hearing was devoted to civil asset forfeiture reform. Advocates from the ACLU, CPCS, the Boston Bar Association, the Institute for Justice, and others supported bills to increase the burden of proof, improve transparency and reporting, require counsel, and limit or eliminate the current practice of directing forfeiture proceeds to law enforcement. They argued the current system creates perverse incentives, lacks adequate due process, and is insufficiently transparent. District Attorney Paul Tucker defended current forfeiture practices, saying his office has reporting and oversight, uses the funds for investigations and community programs, and warned that reducing forfeiture revenue would hinder crime fighting. No votes or final committee actions were taken during the hearing; the chairs repeatedly thanked witnesses and indicated the bills would remain under consideration.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
House Chamber - Mon Apr 21, 2025, 11:30AM HST - Day 54
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- In support, please proceed. you. In support, please proceed.
- I rise in support.
- </c> that again I just stand in support. that again I just stand in support.
- I rise in support. I just Speaker. I rise in support.
- In support, please proceed. Speaker. In support, please proceed.
AZ
PA
Transcript Highlights:
- I ask for your support.
- So please vote yes on this amendment to support our firefighters.
- I rise today in support of House Bill 1239.
- Like him, I too rise in support of House Bill 2146.
- Support our small businesses, support our local broadcasters, and vote no on House Bill 2558.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- The green cards are for support, red cards are in opposition.
- Laurie Adams and Jim Patterson are both present in support.
- Present would like to speak in support: Jim Patterson with Lobby.
- Present would like to speak in support: Jim Patterson with Lobby.
- So that's why everyone supported 511, because the concept that you have here, we all support.
Committee:
House Appropriations
Keywords:
literacy, adolescent, teacher education, high-dosage tutoring, reading intervention, workforce development, training programs, Bayou Growth Opportunity, funding, employment, skills gap, qualified employer, credential recognition, government growth limit, recurring revenue, state finance, Louisiana Income Tax Elimination Fund, fiscal responsibility, legislative sessions, regular sessions
Summary:
The House Appropriations Committee met on April 22 and first considered Chairman Beaulieu’s House Bill 646, a constitutional amendment limiting the amount of State General Fund money that may be appropriated in a fiscal year. After adopting a set of amendments creating the Louisiana Income Tax Elimination Fund and making conforming changes, the committee reported the bill favorably as amended. The companion bill, House Bill 824, which establishes the growth limit formula based on CPI, medical CPI, and population change, was also amended and reported favorably as amended. Supporters framed both measures as a way to keep spending within recurring revenues and create a path toward reducing or eliminating the state income tax.
The committee then reported favorably as amended House Bill 1157, creating the Louisiana State Infrastructure Fund to help finance infrastructure-related projects, with testimony that it would leverage private and federal dollars and initially focus on rail, port, road, and bridge projects. House Bill 316, which provides a framework for student literacy reforms for grades four through eight, was presented as having no new cost because the Department of Education said the work was already covered by existing resources; it was reported favorably. House Bill 549, creating the Bayou Growth Opportunity Workforce Program to provide employer-based training grants, also received support from business groups and was reported favorably as amended.
House Bill 1129, dealing with the sale of state-owned surplus movable property, drew support from Louisiana auctioneers who argued local firms should be allowed to bid on the state’s auction contract instead of relying on an out-of-state vendor; it was reported favorably. House Bill 873, which would fund pursuit intervention technology through a $2 driver’s license fee, generated significant concern about adding fees and whether the money should instead come from existing budgets. After discussion of the proposed technologies and training, the committee deferred the bill voluntarily to work on alternatives, including a possible sunset and other funding options. Finally, House Bill 752, which would change the timing and duration of regular legislative sessions by joint rule, was reported without action after members noted the revised fiscal note showed a decrease in state general fund expenditures. The meeting then adjourned.