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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 02/06/25
Housing and Homelessness Prevention
Transcript Highlights:
- with more energy efficient and windows<00:18:38.400><c> that</c><00:18:38.559><c> were</c><00:18:38.760
- efficient uh or uh certainly not energy efficient uh or uh have<00:19:10.200><c> much</c><00:19:10.440
- HRA has set up a revolving construction financing program for small developers building zero-net-energy
- for small developers building<00:29:09.760><c> zero</c><00:29:10.120><c> net</c><00:29:10.279><c> energy
- c><00:29:10.720><c> houses</c><00:29:11.720><c> and</c><00:29:11.880><c> we</c> building zero net energy
Committee:
Senate Housing and Homelessness Prevention
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Higher Education Institutions Committee Jun 18th, 2026
Higher Education Institutions Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Again, I want to thank a lot of people who put a lot of time and energy into this.
- Usually these things take a lot longer, but we're gonna put a lot of energy into that because this is
- Usually these things take a lot longer, but we're gonna put a lot of energy into that because this is
- And then when you think about the work we're doing in engineering and how that works in the energy sector
- Also, these efforts have one thing that's consistent: strong energy.
Summary:
The Higher Education Institutions Committee met at NDSU and heard an extensive presentation from President David Cook/President Stewart and NDSU leadership on the university’s priorities, including enrollment, student success, research growth, and use of New Horizons funding. Leaders emphasized NDSU’s land-grant mission, its role in workforce development, and its goal of becoming more distinctive through strategic planning, recruitment and retention, commercialization, and partnerships. They highlighted that NDSU awarded 2,370 degrees in 2025, produces a large share of the state’s engineering, nursing, and agriculture graduates, and reported strong outcomes for graduates staying and working in North Dakota. They also noted enrollment headwinds, competition from other institutions, and the need to manage tuition waivers more carefully through a scholarship optimization effort.
Provost Sherry Vale outlined academic stewardship efforts, including review or consolidation of low-producing programs, strategic hiring tied to institutional priorities, faculty workload policy changes, and expanded online and regional offerings. She said the university is using New Horizons dollars to strengthen advising, student support, and programs in engineering, agriculture, and health. NDSU leaders also described new or expanded academic offerings such as robotics and automation, artificial intelligence, material science and engineering, nuclear engineering certificates, accelerated nursing, nurse practitioner certificates, a Master of Health Administration, and a clinical research master’s program with Sanford Health. They stressed that these investments are intended to improve student completion, meet workforce needs, and increase return on public investment.
The committee also heard testimony from students and recent graduates who described the value of NDSU’s education, mentorship, internships, research opportunities, and support services. Alyssa Hodges spoke about pharmacy education, public health work, and campus support as a parent and student; Ethan Blessy described engineering coursework, internships with Marvin, and career preparation; and Aiden Freolic discussed neuroscience research, federally funded projects, and plans for graduate study. Their testimony was followed by presentations on partnerships with Gateway to Science for K-12 STEM outreach and with Sanford Research on biomedical research, clinical trials, obesity research, and a joint biostatistics hire. NDSU also highlighted systemwide shared services, Governor’s School programming, and research growth, including a reported 8% increase in research expenditures from $199 million to $215 million. No bill votes were taken; the meeting was informational and featured presentations, testimony, and discussion of future planning and partnerships.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- will be the center of the hockey world when we host the World Junior Hockey Championship at the XL Energy
- And just down the street at the Xcel Energy Center, the state hockey tournament and NCHC Frozen Faceoff
- </c> down the street at the Excel Energy down the street at the Excel Energy Center,<00:10:11.680><c>
- As was mentioned, we anticipate over 250,000 fans attending the games at XL Energy and 3M Arena and the
- and 3M Arena and the games at XL Energy and 3M Arena and Maruchi<00:12:56.160><c> and</c><00:12:56.399
Keywords:
tourism, World Junior Hockey Championships, funding, economic impact, sports events, Minnesota, economic development, livability, marketing, partnerships, labor and industry, electrical licensing, electrical inspection, continuing education, online course approval, Internet continuing education, power limited technician, maintenance electrician, master electrician, technology circuits
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:47:22.080><c> you</c><00:47:22.160><c> can</c><00:47:22.320><c> show</c> that purpose and energy
- and you can show that purpose and energy and you can show up<00:47:22.760><c> as</c><00:47:22.920><c
- I will say this though: retaining the energy and the professionalism of our educators at any cost so
- I will say this though retaining<01:05:33.920><c> the</c><01:05:34.240><c> energy</c><01:05:35.480><c
- > and</c><01:05:35.560><c> the</c> retaining the energy and the retaining the energy and the professionalism
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Sixty Two - Monday, May 4
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Claire brought such positive energy to our office, and we will... Claire Elmore.
- Claire brought such positive energy to our office, and we will miss her enthusiasm when she leaves next
Summary:
The House convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then approved the House Journal for the 61st day by roll call vote, 137-1. Members then used points of personal privilege to recognize the death of Rep. Sims’s father, Rev. Leslie Sims, and to congratulate Sherry DeVoe on becoming the first woman trainer to win the Kentucky Derby.
The chamber also introduced several special guests, including family members celebrating an engagement, a child with osteogenesis imperfecta and his family during Awareness Week, a Missouri Lions Club peace poster award winner, and a Brown School practicum student recognized for her work assisting a member’s office. Committee reports were received, including a recommendation that Senate Bill 1000 do pass.
The House then took up several conference motions on Senate Bill 975, addressing ambulance district consolidation and community paramedics, and Senate Bill 973, involving a land bank provision and a drafting correction; both motions to refuse to recede and go to conference were approved, and conference committees were appointed. The House also voted to refuse adoption of the Senate substitute for House Bill 2818, which concerns St. Joseph’s airport annexation and related local provisions, and requested the Senate recede or else go to conference. The House adjourned until Tuesday, May 5, 2026, with several Senate bills listed for future consideration.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Feb 13th, 2026
California Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Joe embraced life with energy and style. If they would seek him out.
- Joe embraced life with energy and style. He was always impeccably dressed and fit.
Summary:
The Senate convened with a quorum, opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, and then moved through a series of floor introductions and recognitions. Senators honored Jesuit High School’s 2025 CIF Division 2 boys cross-country championship team, noting it was the school’s 11th title, and also welcomed YMCA Youth and Government delegates, including a large Culver City Palms YMCA delegation in the gallery. Members spoke about the educational and civic value of the Youth and Government program and congratulated the student delegates on their participation.
The chamber then took up the special consent calendar, which included Senate Resolution 73 and Assembly Concurrent Resolutions 71, 115, and 117. The consent items were approved on a roll call vote, with the record showing 38 ayes and 0 noes. No other substantive legislative debate or bill action was described in the transcript beyond the consent calendar approval.
The remainder of the session was devoted to adjournments in memory. Senators honored Superintendent Pastor Lawrence Champion Blake Sr. of West Angeles Church of God in Christ, San Jose community leader Joseph Anthony De Maria, and Marine Corps Major Tyler R. Bracone, each highlighting their service, faith, and community impact. The Senate then announced that the next floor session would be held on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, at 2 p.m., and recessed until later that day for adjournment motion.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Feb 13th, 2026
California Senate Floor Meeting
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Transcript Highlights:
- So we have six of those: business and commerce, education, energy and natural resources, general government
- We have energy and natural resources. We have general government.
Committee:
House Administrative Rules
Summary:
The meeting was an opening orientation for the Administrative Rules Committee. The chair explained that, under recent legislation including the Raines Act, HB 20, HB 2728, Senate Bill 995, and Senate Bill 1024, administrative rules now require affirmative approval and must be reviewed more carefully and on a tighter timeline. He emphasized that the committee’s role is procedural and compliance-based, not to relitigate policy, and outlined four review standards: statutory authority, fiscal analysis and cost methodology, legislative intent, and compliance with the Administrative Procedures Act.
The chair also described new procedures for the session. Rules will be grouped into six oversight bundles: business and commerce, education, energy and natural resources, general government, health, and judicial and public safety. Members will be assigned packets based on workload, with an effort to balance page counts, and major rules must be flagged immediately because they must be reviewed by the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency within 21 days. He said oversight chairs may provide input, but assigned members will make the recommendations back to him. Staff support and reference materials on Title 75 and the APA were also highlighted.
No formal votes were taken. In response to a question, the chair said new members would generally receive a heavier workload, consistent with prior years. He closed by noting that the committee had seven bills assigned for later consideration and that a committee meeting would likely be held the following week to begin substantive work on the rules and legislation.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- SB 1385, public utilities renewable energy resources as... SB 1386, watershed health survey use.
- SB 1419, solar energy inspection contractors — Natural Resources.
Summary:
The Senate convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then recorded 30 members present and approved the prior journal without objection. Several members used personal privilege to welcome guests, including students from Aliento for an annual education day at the Capitol, a coalition of gun safety advocates, constituents visiting individual senators, and a guest shadowing Senator Gobildone. Senators also recognized a visitor from Tempe and a group from the area agencies on aging.
The chamber then moved through second reading of a long list of bills and resolutions covering topics such as solar radiation management, veterinary telemedicine prescriptions, pharmacist prescribing standards, public records and digital media copies, health facility complaints, utilities and renewable energy, water and groundwater management, juvenile and criminal justice, school funding and records, insurance licensing, autonomous vehicle safety data, digital currency, county and municipal governance, behavioral health appropriations, and several election, tax, and constitutional measures. Standing committee reports on the calendar were not read and were entered into the journal.
Before recess, Senator Ortiz spoke in support of student walkouts across the Valley protesting immigration enforcement, praising the students’ nonviolent activism and describing it as part of a broader civil rights tradition. After recess, the Senate took up first reading and committee referral of additional bills on public benefits eligibility, workforce reporting, tribal consultations, insurance settlements, missing kidnapped children reporting, small modular reactors, firearm safety instruction in schools, election petition cures, housing and HOA issues, public records fees, water quality testing, groundwater withdrawal fees, and cargo theft. The only recorded vote was on adjournment, which passed by voice vote, and the Senate adjourned until Thursday, January 29, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jan 5th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
December 3, 2025 - 03:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE AND OVER THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS WE HEARD A LOT ABOUT TELECOMMUNICATIONS, ENERGY
- INFRASTRUCTURE FROM BROADBAND AND NATURAL GAS AND ADVANCED NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY BUT WE HAVE NOT
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Emergency Management Committee Jun 30th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- The first crisis threatens the clean energy transition.
- The second The first crisis threatens the clean energy transition.
Summary:
The committee met to hear four Senate bills, with SB 345 (Hurtado) and SB 793 (Arreguín) placed on the consent calendar and both approved without discussion. The committee then heard SB 326, presented by Assembly Member Calderon on behalf of Senator Becker, which would create a framework for evaluating wildfire mitigation investments and require the State Fire Marshal’s office to develop planning tools, risk baselines, and mitigation scenarios. The only testimony was in support from the League of California Cities, and the bill was moved and passed to the Committee on Natural Resources on a vote of 5-0, with two members not voting.
The final bill heard was SB 629 by Senator DeRazo, also presented by Assembly Member Calderon, as part of the Senate’s fire response, recovery, rebuilding, and prevention package. The bill would apply WUI building code and defensible space requirements to areas burned in wildfires, require urban conflagration modeling in fire maps, and mandate annual defensible space inspections in fire-prone areas. Local government representatives said they had concerns but appreciated amendments worked out with the author, while Assembly Members DeMaio and Hadwick spoke in opposition, citing burdens on private property owners and local governments. Despite those concerns, the bill was moved as amended to the Committee on Natural Resources and passed 4-3, with no roll held open before adjournment.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session - part 2 / Joint Convention of the House and Senate / State of the State Address Apr 23rd, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Our state, and growing our economy with an eye towards green energy and innovation jobs that will shape
- are not walking away from the commitments we've made to our schools, to our healthcare, to green energy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on State and Local Government - Part 2 - 03/27/26
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> of time and energy that goes into that. of time and energy that goes into that.
- </c> energy networks. energy networks.
- uh thermal energy networks as water<02:16:54.080><c> works.
- </c> of uh underground thermal energy of uh underground thermal energy networks. networks. networks.
- Thermal energy. Mr. Hunter: Thank you, Madam Chair and Senator Bahr.
Committee:
Senate State and Local Government
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 03/02/26
Jobs and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- We have active research in, I know that energy usage, for example, is a big issue in AI, but we have
- usage for example is a big issue energy usage for example is a big issue in<00:14:07.440><c> in</c><
- You know, energy consumption, those are important things. I'm not dismissing that.
- Um, I think we're all concerned about the energy usage that some AI systems and data centers have.
- A follow-up, Senator Jan. about the energy usage um that that some about the energy usage um that that
Committee:
Senate Jobs and Economic Development
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- HB 224 is relative to the rebates to taxpayers of the renewable energy fund. you said you didn't.
- I believe this one kept the administrative structure of the renewable energy fund in place, but other
- committee. ...which they really ought to rename to the energy committee.
- Makes New Hampshire energy sources less reliable and efficient.
- <01:21:15.600><c> reliable</c><01:21:16.400><c> and</c> energy sources less reliable and energy sources
Committee:
House Ways and Means
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session-Day 3, February 11, 2026-PM
Wyoming Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I've chased energy meetings across this country on my own dollar just because I'm in the legislature.
- President, that would be how we make appointments to Energy Council or anything you want.
- President, that would be how we make appointments to Energy Council or anything you want.
- 46:54.680><c> this</c> chased energy meetings across this chased energy meetings across this country<
- </c> would make appointments to Energy would make appointments to Energy Council<00:48:10.120><c> or<
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Joint Appropriations Jan 21st, 2026 at 12:30 pm
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- to having the commission access funds to support litigation it is involved in before the Federal Energy
- State utility commissions have special standing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, who I
- State utility commissions have special standing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, who I
- I copied off some information from the EIA, the Energy Information Administration.
- So Basin Electric and every other co-op, they have energy flowing on the power lines that are owned by
Bills:
HB1623
Committee:
Joint Appropriations
Keywords:
HB 1623, North Dakota, rural health, rural health transformation program, medical facility infrastructure loan fund, medical facility infrastructure loan program, rural health loan program, Bank of North Dakota, Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, federal grant, health care infrastructure, rural hospitals, critical access hospitals, nonprofit health care providers, gap financing, loan fund, public health funding, healthcare financing, Medicaid
Summary:
The committee first heard House Bill 1624, the “Universal Lunch Bill,” from Rep. Mike Nathie. He argued the proposal should be placed in Century Code rather than the Constitution so future legislatures can adjust it if state finances tighten, and said the bill would start the program a year earlier with a $65 million appropriation for one school year. DPI testified that the estimate did not include nonpublic schools that do not participate, and members questioned the impact on Title I, free-and-reduced applications, private-school accountability, breakfast mandates for schools that do not currently serve breakfast, and whether the funding could come from the DPI budget or other sources. Supporters, including North Dakota United, the North Dakota Catholic Conference, a pediatrician, and the American Heart Association, said universal meals improve student health and learning, reduce family costs, and are better handled in statute than by constitutional amendment. No opposition testimony was offered, and the chair closed the hearing for later work-session action.
The committee then took up House Bill 1627, introduced by Rep. Tye Dressler, which would raise the income threshold for the state-funded school lunch program from 225% to 300% of poverty, with an estimated cost of about $7 million for 2026-27. Dressler said the bill is intended as a targeted, budget-friendly alternative to the ballot measure and emphasized that the state should maximize federal meal dollars while improving participation in the current program. Members questioned whether raising the threshold would actually increase utilization, whether a dollar amount would be clearer than a percentage, and how the change would affect federal reimbursements and application rates. DPI said it could quickly calculate additional percentage levels, and the chair closed the hearing, directing DPI to prepare more numbers for the work session.
Finally, the committee opened Senate Bill 2403, presented by Sen. Schiable, to create a short-term bridge-loan program for financially distressed hospitals, centered on Jacobson Memorial Hospital in Elgin. The bill would authorize up to $5 million per loan, with a $10 million appropriation available on a first-come, first-served basis, and would run only through June 30, 2027. Schiable said the hospital’s debt and operating problems threaten local health care, ambulance service, and the community’s economy, and that the proposal was designed narrowly with Bank of North Dakota review to avoid creating a broad precedent. Committee members asked whether the appropriation could be reduced and whether the bank would still apply commercial feasibility and repayment standards; Schiable said yes, the bank would still evaluate the loan and could reject it if it was not sound.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Day 52 (3-24-26)
Kentucky Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Resolution 24; to the Judiciary Committee: House Bills 422, 762, and 780; to Natural Resources and Energy
- 48:42.000><c> Natural</c><00:48:42.520><c> Resources</c><00:48:43.200><c> and</c><00:48:43.320><c> Energy
- ,</c><00:48:44.160><c> Senate</c> to Natural Resources and Energy, Senate to Natural Resources and Energy
- President, I move that House Bill 398 be taken from the Natural Resources and Energy Committee, given
- its first reading, and returned to the Committee on Natural Resources and Energy.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Legislative Session Day 52 (3-24-26)
Kentucky House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- degree paths to train the workforce that will construct and operate the next generation of nuclear energy
- c> and operate the next generation of and operate the next generation of nuclear<00:05:59.240><c> energy
- role in strengthening our workforce, preparing students for careers in agriculture, conservation, energy
- ,</c><01:04:52.560><c> and</c><01:04:52.720><c> outdoor</c> conservation, energy, and outdoor conservation
- , energy, and outdoor tourism,<01:04:54.200><c> industries</c><01:04:54.800><c> that</c><01:04:54.920