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TX
Texas 89th Regular
Appropriations - S/C on Articles VI, VII, & VIII Feb 25th, 2025
Appropriations - S/C on Articles VI, VII, & VIII
Transcript Highlights:
- And many times, beyond just this committee here, you guys are the Appropriations Committee.
- Legislation and rule. And rule. Okay.
- Already in statute and in rule.
- Good morning, Chairman, committee members.
- Committee and chair.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee Mar 18th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- So I want to have new committee members and one replacement committee member.
- And we will be voting on and adopting the committee rules prior to starting the hearing.
- I'll move to adopt the rules. Good. I'll move to adopt the rules. We need to adopt the rules. Yes.
- To adopt the committee rules: Bauer-Kahan, aye. Berman, aye. Dixon, aye. Brian, aye.
- To adopt the committee rules: Bauer-Kahan, aye. Berman, aye. Dixon, aye. Brian, aye.
Summary:
The Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee met with a new membership roster and adopted its committee rules after quorum was established. The hearing then began with AB 412, the AI Copyright Transparency Act, which would require generative AI developers to provide copyright holders notice when registered copyrighted works are used in training data. The author and supporters, including SAG-AFTRA, the Transparency Coalition, voice actors, writers, labor groups, and other creators, argued the bill would give artists a practical way to learn whether their works were used and to vindicate their rights. Opponents, including EFF, CalChamber, RIAA, CCIA, Chamber of Progress, Bay Area Council, BSA, and TechNet, said the proposal was technically unworkable, could burden startups, conflict with existing law and pending litigation, and raise federal preemption concerns. Members discussed the bill’s amendments, including a fingerprinting approach and narrowing the bill to model developers, and the committee voted 8-2 to pass AB 412 as amended to the Judiciary Committee.
The committee then heard AB 446, which would prohibit “surveillance pricing,” or the use of personal data to charge different prices for the same product or service. The author and supporters, including Consumer Watchdog, UFCW, labor organizations, and consumer/privacy groups, described examples of differential pricing tied to device type, location, shopping behavior, and digital price tags, and argued the bill would protect consumers from discriminatory and predatory pricing. Business and industry opponents, including CalChamber, grocers, retailers, travel, broadband, and other associations, said the bill could conflict with the CCPA, interfere with loyalty and rewards programs, and create confusion about personalized discounts and dynamic pricing. The discussion focused on how the bill would treat loyalty programs, whether existing privacy law already covers the issue, and whether the proposal would unintentionally affect legitimate discounts and promotions.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Natural Resources Subcommittee REVISED: HB4155 (Hasenbeck) added Feb 16th, 2026 at 10:30 am
A&B Natural Resources Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you, committee. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, committee.
- Sorry, I was in another committee. Thank you.
- Thank you, committee members, very much.
- Thank you, committee members. Out as a do pass. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, committee members.
- I apologize to the committee.
Committee:
House A&B Natural Resources Subcommittee
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- action pursuant to Rule 12.7 of the Rules of the Florida Senate.
- As required by Rule 12.7, the committees conducted an inquiry into the qualifications, experience, and
- and the Appropriations Committee.
- As the chairs of the substantive committee and the Appropriations Committee dealing with K-12 education
- Madam Rules Chair, you are recognized? Thank you, Mr. President.
Summary:
The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several introductions, including recognition of Alpha Kappa Alpha Founders’ Day and a visiting debate student. The chamber then took up a committee report on 52 executive appointments. After explanation by Ethics and Elections Chair Don Gates, the Senate adopted the report and confirmed the appointments by a vote of 39-0.
The first major bill was SB 250 on rural communities. Senator Simon described it as a broad rural development package creating an Office of Rural Prosperity, a Renaissance Grant Program for counties losing population, housing and transportation investments, additional funding for rural education, and rural health care measures. Two amendments were adopted to remove overlapping health provisions in light of a new federal rural health grant and to update hospital funding estimates. Senators from both parties spoke in support, while also asking about eligibility and access to grant funds. The bill passed 39-0.
The Senate then considered CS/SB 318 on educational scholarship programs. Senator Gates said the bill responds to Auditor General concerns by separating scholarship funding from public school funding, requiring student identification and enrollment verification, reducing administrative fees for scholarship funding organizations, requiring annual audits, and directing the Department of Education to develop a competitive selection and performance plan for those organizations. Three amendments were adopted, including removal of a declining-enrollment provision for later conforming legislation and changes to enrollment documentation and withdrawal procedures. Senators from both parties supported the bill while raising concerns about accountability, student oversight, and school quality. The bill passed 38-0.
Afterward, the Senate waived rules so SB 250 and CS/SB 318 could be immediately certified to the House. The session ended with announcements, including Palm Beach County Day at the Capitol and a reminder about the chamber group photograph, followed by adjournment until the next scheduled meeting.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, December 18, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Pursuant to House Resolution 951 and Rule 18, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole
- Pursuant to House Resolution 951 and Rule 18, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole
- They demanded that the Rules Committee attach language to further stall clean energy permitting and to
- Republicans refuse to accept that amendment in the rules committee.
- The committee do now rise. The question is on the motion that the committee rise.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Special Committee on Congressional Redistricting Jul 26th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Good morning, members of the committee. My name is Cecile.
- No maps have been proposed or presented to the committee.
- We all know the rules, we all know the law, and yet here we are, watching this committee bend the rules
- Bending the rules, no matter who's asking, is wrong.
- That's not that uncommon in a committee hearing.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 4/15/26
Children and Families Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- My name is Shannon committee.
- proposed rules proposed.
- Um I do share the committee.
- </c> we are not just a child care committee. we are not just a child care committee.
- </c> Means Committee. Means Committee.
Keywords:
child care, day care, child care center, family child care, family day care, group family day care, licensed child care, licensing modernization, early childhood education, preschool, infant care, toddler care, school-age care, drop-in child care, night care, sick care, community-based child care, provider training, staff ratios, group size
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Employee Retirement Apr 28th, 2026
Joint Committee on Public Employee Retirement
Transcript Highlights:
- The Joint Committee on Public Employee Retirement is now in session.
- The Joint Committee on Public Employee Retirement is now in session. Welcome to the committee.
- Defendants did not appeal the court’s ruling on the counterclaim.
- Thank you especially to the committee for making time.
- With no further business before the committee, the Joint Committee on Public Employee Retirement is adjourned
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Public Employee Retirement held an informational hearing on the Missouri State Employees’ Retirement System (MOSERS) to review its long-term financial condition, funding status, investment performance, experience study results, and possible legislation. MOSERS staff explained that the plan is a statutorily created defined benefit system covering state employees, several colleges and quasi-governmental entities, with an 11-member board and outside actuarial and investment consultants. They reported the June 30, 2025 valuation showed a funded ratio of 55.4%, assets of about $9.6 billion, liabilities of about $17.4 billion, and a FY27 actuarial employer rate of 27.44%, which the board raised to a 32% minimum contribution rate under a policy adopted in 2023.
MOSERS attributed the funding decline over time to several factors: reductions in the assumed investment return from 8.5% to 6.95%, mortality assumption updates, a move from open to closed amortization, and especially weak payroll growth and a shrinking active workforce. Staff said the minimum contribution policy is intended to accelerate UAL paydown and could bring the plan to 80% funded by 2037 rather than 2041, assuming all assumptions are met. The committee also discussed the recent experience study, which kept the investment return assumption at 6.95% and made only modest assumption changes, and a proposed 2026 bill package (SB 1557 and SB 1054) that would automatically refund small balances under $1,000 to terminated non-vested members and add auto-escalation to the deferred compensation plan.
A substantial portion of the hearing focused on investment strategy and why MOSERS has lagged some peers. The investment consultant said historical underperformance was driven mainly by asset allocation choices that emphasized a more risk-balanced, diversified portfolio with less public equity exposure than peers during a period when equities performed very strongly. He said the board adopted a more equity-oriented allocation in 2024 and is phasing it in over eight quarters, with recent short-term results improving and the portfolio outperforming its policy benchmark. Members also asked about the effect of inactive members, the rationale for the higher employer contribution, and whether the current board should be held responsible for past decisions; MOSERS officials emphasized that the current board is trying to correct course and that pension funding changes take time. The hearing also touched on ongoing litigation against a former private equity manager, Catalyst Capital, with MOSERS saying it has spent about $20 million in legal fees so far and that the case remains on appeal. The committee took no formal vote and adjourned after the informational presentation and questions.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment & Energy Jan 13th, 2026 at 04:00 pm
Environment & Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- Thanks, Chair Dolio, members of the committee.
- Members of the committee, Jacob Lipson, staff to the committee.
- Members of the committee, Jacob Lipson, staff to the committee.
- Good afternoon, members of the committee.
- So rather than trying to change the rules, we ask for enforcement of the existing rule so that small
Committee:
House Environment & Energy
Keywords:
nuclear energy, renewable energy, energy strategy, sustainable development, state energy policy, climate change, fuel regulations, compliance obligations, sustainability, environmental policy, consumer-owned utilities, clean energy, port districts, market customers, energy transformation, ski areas, winter sports, terminology update, recreation, regulatory changes
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> the rule here today. So, okay, great. the rule here today. So, okay, great.
- Thank you, committee.
- So, um, by rule, always do it by rule.
- </c> that the committee might have. that the committee might have.
- Chairman, uh, committee. My name is >> Mr. Chairman, uh, committee.
Committee:
House Revenue
AR
Arkansas 2026 Regular Session
ALC-GAME & FISH/STATE POLICE Feb 18th, 2026
ALC-GAME & FISH/STATE POLICE
Transcript Highlights:
- I appreciate you taking time to appear before this committee.
- Any questions from the committee? Any questions from committee members?
- Our rules and regulations don't allow for just a...
- Committee members, no further action for this committee. This committee meeting is adjourned.
- Committee members, no further action for this committee. This committee meeting is adjourned.
Committee:
All ALC-GAME & FISH/STATE POLICE
Summary:
The committee first heard from Arkansas State Police Director Mike Hager and other agency leaders about vehicle pursuits and tactical vehicle interventions (TVIs, formerly PIT maneuvers). Hager said Acts 734 of 2020 and 82 of 2022, which increased penalties for fleeing in a vehicle, along with a public campaign and work with prosecutors, helped reduce pursuits by 29% from 2023 to 2025, or 180 fewer pursuits last year than in 2023. He said the agency also added 120 troopers during that period and that the goal is to protect innocent civilians, officers, and suspects. Members asked about where pursuits occur most often, prosecution practices, the possibility of making fleeing charges non-pleadable like DWI, and a recent mistaken TVI incident involving the wrong vehicle; Hager said no one was injured in that incident and called it inexcusable.
The committee also discussed the Arkansas State Police Foundation. Hager explained that the foundation is a private support group made up largely of businesses and citizens that raises money for trooper-family scholarships, emergency relief for troopers affected by disasters or family hospitalizations, and facilities and training support, including the driving track. He said he was not aware of any lobbying activity by the foundation and praised its staff and leadership for supporting the agency beyond what the state budget can provide.
Next, Director Chris Chapman of the Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training described the state’s decertification and officer accountability process. He said every separation from an agency must be reported, and if an officer leaves under circumstances that may warrant decertification, the file is flagged so any future hiring agency must be told the full history before the officer can be added to a roster. Chapman said the commission has increased decertification requests from 158 in the prior three years to 256 in the last three years, with 147 officers currently pending hearings, and that the backlog has been reduced from about four and a half years to about a year and a half. Members asked about resignations during investigations, appeal rights, citizen complaints, and FOIA access to decertification records; Chapman said those matters can trigger review, appeals go to circuit court, and the records are generally public. No votes were taken, and the meeting adjourned after discussion of a possible future committee visit to a fish hatchery in Lonoke County.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-01-14 (4:00PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- SEEING NONE WE WILL CONTINUE WITH THE ORDER OF BUSINESS, ARE THE REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEES. >> ON THE
- FOR ACTION PURSUANT TO RULE 12.7 OF THE RULES OF THE FLORIDA SENATE.
- AS REQUIRED BY RULE 12.7 THE COMMITTEES CONDUCTED AN INQUIRY INTO THE QUALIFICATIONS EXPERIENCE AND GENERAL
- PUBLIC HEARINGS WERE CONDUCTED FOR CERTAIN APPOINTEES BY THE COMMITTEES OF REFERENCE, THE COMMITTEE SUBMITS
- MOTIONS RELATED TO COMMITTEE REFERENCE. >> NONE ON THE DESK MR. PRESIDENT. >>Pres.
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Jan 26th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Call the Senate Health and Welfare Committee to order at this time. Committee, welcome.
- Then we also usually have a November board meeting where we approve rules, a large set of rules, usually
- The committee thanked Mr.
- Okay, committee.
- Committee. Any questions? None.
Summary:
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee first considered the gubernatorial reappointment of Clayton Steele to the Board of Environmental Quality. Steele described his background in environmental work at DEQ and Clearwater Paper, his experience with air quality and rulemaking, and said he brings a balance of public- and private-sector perspectives to the board. Senators asked about major challenges, including a contested case involving Perpetua, and whether his employment created any conflicts of interest; Steele said he had not encountered conflicts. The committee thanked him and indicated the vote on his reappointment would likely occur at the next meeting.
The committee then received a Legislative Services Office presentation on the Department of Health and Welfare budget, with emphasis on non-Medicaid programs. LSO analysts reviewed the department’s staffing, expenditures, and the state budget process, then outlined FY 2027 requests. Highlights included no-change maintenance budgets for Youth Safety and Permanency, Licensing and Certification, Substance Abuse Services, and the independent councils; a $16 million one-time federal request for Idaho Child Care Program capacity plus ongoing staffing for program integrity; a $600,000 ongoing general fund request for court-ordered evaluation and treatment; $180,000 for the Kinship Navigation Grant; $4.2 million for the Idaho Home Visiting Program; and a larger ongoing dedicated-fund request for the Immunization Assessment Fund, along with ARPA grant funding scheduled to sunset.
Members asked several questions about the Home Visiting Program, including the source of the $1 million general fund transfer and whether it was being counted toward the department’s 3% holdback. The chair explained the program’s history as a prevention effort and expressed concern about the department’s treatment of the pass-through funds. The presentation also covered Division of Welfare requests tied to H.R. 1, including a $4.3 million general fund shift for SNAP administration, $1.8 million for Medicaid expansion work requirements, and a one-time $1.9 million eligibility system change. Mental health and psychiatric hospitalization budgets were noted as decreasing on the general fund side while relying more on dedicated endowment funds.
Finally, LSO outlined the Rural Health Transformation Program, a new federal grant under H.R. 1. Idaho received $925 million over five years, with an initial $185.9 million award, and the governor recommended a FY 2026 supplemental and FY 2027 enhancement to begin implementation, including 12 limited-service FTPs, $1.3 million ongoing personnel costs, and $294 million one-time for program activities. Senators asked about allowable uses, timelines, tribal participation, and oversight, and the chair noted additional legislative proposals would be coming. The committee adjourned after indicating it would meet again the next day.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Is there any discussion concerning the rules that we're talking about?
- Discussion concerning the rules that we're talking about?
- rule.
- And my position hasn't changed... ...late to committee, but I'm assuming this is the Fish and Game rule
- Committee, that concludes our business today.
Committee:
Senate Resources and Environment
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- Chairman, and thank you, committee. Allowing me the privilege to go first.
- Chairman, and thank you, members of the committee.
- Any other questions from the committee? Chair, does have a question, sir?
- We will report House 3142 out of committee. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, committee members.
- We will report House Bill 436 out of committee. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and committee.
Committee:
House Energy
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 076 Mar 31st, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Pursuant to Senate Rule 21C, I move that the Senate grant leave to the Joint Budget Committee to meet
- The Committee of the Whole will come to order, and the coat rule is relaxed. Mr.
- The Committee will come to order and the coat rule is relaxed.
- will come to order and the The Committee will come to order and the coat<00:56:01.800><c> rule</c><00
- To the committee Committee Report. To the committee report. report. report.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We appreciate you taking part in our committee hearing this morning.
- And the rules are something that can be pushed out. We do not have a rule on recusal, right?
- There is a committee substitute. The chair lays out the committee substitute to House Bill 748.
- The committee substitute to House Bill 748 is very simple.
- The committee sub expands that. Yep. The committee substitute does expand that to all cases.
Committee:
House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee Jun 24th, 2026
Utilities and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- Madam Chair and committee members, I'd like to begin by accepting the committee amendments, and I really
- With the committee amendment, Senate Bill 931 reauthorizes the essential services. committee amendment
- I want to thank the committee chair and the committee for the thoughtfulness. I urge your aye vote.
- Okay, bringing it back to committee.
- All right, coming back to committee: questions, comments from committee members.
Committee:
House Utilities and Energy
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- for action pursuant to Rule 12.7 of the Rules of the Florida Senate.
- As required by Rule 12.7, the committees conducted an inquiry into the qualifications, experience, and
- and the Appropriations Committee.
- As the chairs of the substantive committee and the Appropriations Committee dealing with K-12 education
- Madam Rules Chair, you are recognized? Thank you, Mr. President.
Summary:
The Senate convened with a prayer, pledge, doctor-of-the-day introduction, and several recognitions, including a Founders’ Day tribute to Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and a welcome to a nationally ranked student debater in the gallery. The chamber then took up a committee report on 52 gubernatorial executive appointments; after explanation by the Ethics and Elections chair, the Senate adopted the report and confirmed the appointments by a vote of 39-0.
The first major bill was SB 250 on rural communities. Senator Simon described it as a broad “Rural Renaissance” package creating an Office of Rural Prosperity, a Renaissance Grant Program, housing and transportation investments, education funding, and rural health care improvements. Two amendments were adopted to remove overlapping health-care provisions in light of new federal rural health funding and to update hospital funding amounts. Senators from both parties spoke in support, emphasizing the bill’s focus on rural infrastructure, health care access, and local flexibility. The bill passed 39-0.
The Senate then considered CS/SB 318 on educational scholarship programs. Senator Gates explained that the bill responds to Auditor General concerns by separating scholarship funding from public-school funding, tightening enrollment verification, reducing administrative fees, requiring student identification numbers, improving reimbursement processes, and directing the Department of Education to develop a business plan for scholarship funding organizations. Three amendments were adopted, including removal of a declining-enrollment provision from the bill, with that issue expected to move elsewhere. Senators discussed transparency, accountability, and protections against overpayments and unverified enrollments, while also noting the need to preserve support for school districts. The bill passed 38-0.
After both bills passed, the Senate waived rules to immediately certify SB 250 and CS/SB 318 to the House. The chamber also heard announcements recognizing Palm Beach County Day at the Capitol and scheduled a group photograph for the following Thursday before adjourning until January 22 or upon the President’s call.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Pursuant to rule 5.1, I move that House File 1290 be withdrawn from the Committee on State and Local
- Pursuant to rule 5.1, I move that House File 1290 be withdrawn from the Committee on State and Local
- Senate Resolution 38 will be referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
- The problem I see with an amendment, and why I supported removing it in rules committee, is that when
- </c> why I supported removing it in rules why I supported removing it in rules committee<03:54:35.520