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NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Municipal and County Government (01/27/2026)
Municipal and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
- by the legislative body. by the legislative body.
- legisl legislation has come why uh this legisl legislation has come forward?
- . legislation. legislation.
- </c> uh the legislation speaks for itself. uh the legislation speaks for itself.
- </c> meetings like of the legislative body. meetings like of the legislative body.
Committee:
House Municipal and County Government
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee 5/7/26
Rules and Legislative Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- We will call the hearing of the Rules and Legislative Administration Committee to order for Thursday,
- The Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration will designate Monday, May 11th for the adoption
- Comp Advisory Council meets annually and publishes deadlines recommendations that come after our legislative
- Committee on Rules and Legislative Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration<00:01:22.120><c>
- deadline, so it's after our legislative deadline, so it's been<00:01:49.240><c> standard</c><00:01:49.600
Committee:
House Rules and Legislative Administration
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- Jill Thayer, Bureau of Legislative Research. Thank you all so much for being with us here today.
- They passed all their legislation and they're moving to a new one-door and workforce services type of
- And so this kind of his, he's really been the main focus working on the legislation and moving things
- Jill Thayer, Bureau of Legislative Research.
- Marty Garrity with the Bureau of Legislative Research. This is a request.
Committee:
All ALC-EXECUTIVE SUBCOMMITTEE
Summary:
The Executive Subcommittee met and first considered a waiver request from the Stuttgart School District to use the TIPS interlocal purchasing system for a turf replacement project instead of the traditional competitive bid process. Superintendent Jeff McKinney explained that three bids were received but none fully met the RFP specifications, including warranty and insurance requirements. He said the district, with its architect’s guidance, determined that United Turf and Track was the best option because it met the 10-year warranty requirement, had resolved the insurance issue, had prior experience with the district, and could complete the work in time for summer installation. The committee approved the waiver request.
Members then approved a consultant services agreement between the Bureau of Legislative Research and WorkEd Consulting for work related to the workforce system study and potential legislation for the 2027 session. Senator Jane English and Representative Mary Bentley said the consultant would help the legislature develop reforms after prior audit findings showed the current workforce system was inefficient and ineffective. They noted WorkEd’s experience in other states, including Louisiana, West Virginia, Mississippi, and Virginia, and explained that some subcontractors would include people who had worked on the earlier Georgia Center for Opportunity study. The contract was approved.
The committee also approved a renewed actuarial and consultant services agreement with Perrin Knight for services related to the state’s new property insurance captive. Jill Thayer said the contract would provide independent actuarial support to legislative subcommittees, especially the State Insurance Properties Oversight Subcommittee, with services billed only as used. Members asked about budgeting, frequency of work, and overlap with existing executive branch contractors; Thayer and Senator Goodmore said the service had been anticipated from the start and would be separate and independent. Finally, Marty Garrity requested use of committee room funds to renovate Committee Room C in the Big Mac Building because its audio-visual equipment is outdated. That request was approved, and the meeting adjourned.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- Representative Mary Bentley, Senator Jane English, Jill Thayer, Bureau of Legislative Research.
- And so this is kind of his expertise; he's really been the main focus working on the legislation and
- Jill Thayer, Bureau of Legislative Research.
- Marty Garrity with the Bureau of Legislative Research.
- Marty Garrity with the Bureau of Legislative Research. This is a request.
Committee:
All ALC-EXECUTIVE SUBCOMMITTEE
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 111 May 4th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><01:43:55.119><c> I</c> that we're going to legislate for. I that we're going to legislate for.
- </c> within the scope of the legislation. within the scope of the legislation. this<03:18:36.640><c>
- Sure. check, you know, legislators.
- </c> need this additional legislation? need this additional legislation?
- </c><04:33:47.520><c> That's</c> opposed the legislation. That's opposed the legislation.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Legislation.
- Some legislation that might say, Process.
- Where you can't legislate, you can operate.
- And if you could draft registration or legislation, or legislation, to you, and if you could draft a
- Despite years of legislative efforts, the leaks keep coming.
Committee:
House Elections
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/26
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- We're now dealing with the executive branch legislating, taking away codified legislation that says we
- >> We're dealing with the executive branch legislating, taking away codified legislation that says we
- </c> community members from legislators community members from legislators ourselves<00:14:31.839><c>
- </c><00:14:52.480><c> are</c> to an agency when the legislators are to an agency when the legislators
- So legislation of course passes around So legislation of course passes around May<00:37:00.320><c> or
Bills:
HF3379
Committee:
House Human Services Finance and Policy
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (10/08/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> the HHS panel who wrote the legislation the HHS panel who wrote the legislation for<00:05:36.400
- </c><00:18:21.280><c> has</c> hence where this this legislation has hence where this this legislation
- </c><00:23:58.080><c> was</c> the in intent of this legislation was the in intent of this legislation
- </c><00:28:33.760><c> I</c> cost analysis of this legislation. I cost analysis of this legislation.
- </c> inexpedient legislation motion. inexpedient legislation motion.
Summary:
The committee first took up an insurance-related chronic pain bill and an amendment modeled on language from Massachusetts and Maine. The sponsor explained the amendment was developed after stakeholder meetings because the original bill would have created an unaffordable insurance mandate in New Hampshire. The amendment was intended to improve access to non-opioid therapies by limiting prior authorization and step-therapy barriers so they are not more restrictive than for other treatments, including opioid therapies. After questions, the committee took a straw vote and advanced the amendment.
The next item was a department-sponsored bill involving the state’s all-payer claims database. Insurance Department officials explained that the bill would encourage self-funded employer plans to opt in voluntarily by giving them aggregated, deidentified claims information in return. They said self-funded plans cannot be required to report data because of federal law, but the bill would provide an incentive while protecting employee privacy. Members asked detailed questions about who would see the data, whether individual employees could be identified, and how privacy would be enforced; the department said access would be aggregated and deidentified, and employer privacy issues would be governed by ERISA and the U.S. Department of Labor.
The committee also discussed a glucose-monitoring bill. Members debated whether the bill was aimed at type 1 diabetes coverage or broader access to continuous glucose monitors, and whether it would amount to an unnecessary insurance mandate that could raise premiums. Department testimony estimated the equipment cost and said the annual impact per member would be modest, but also noted that non-insulin therapies have not consistently shown clinically significant A1C reductions. The chair and some members emphasized that the bill should be considered on its own terms as a CGM coverage issue, not as a general diabetes mandate. The committee discussed the bill’s cost implications and asked the department for any prior cost analysis.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Municipal and County Government (04/28/2025)
Municipal and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> legislators is serving our constituents. legislators is serving our constituents.
- Vice Chairman McDonald, yes. us is inexpedient to legislate on Senate us is inexpedient to legislate
- Without objection, the legislate.
- </c> a motion to inexpedient to legislate. a motion to inexpedient to legislate.
- </c><02:35:02.000><c> that</c> accomplished, then um legislation that accomplished, then um legislation
Committee:
House Municipal and County Government
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 02/25/25
Housing and Homelessness Prevention
Transcript Highlights:
- I work for the Legislative Coordinating Commission in a research analyst capacity, and I was responsible
- I'm nonpartisan staff with the Legislative Coordinating Commission.
- <00:44:56.680><c> members</c> legislative members legislative members one<00:44:58.119><c> from</c><00
- </c> not saying that there isn't legislation not saying that there isn't legislation that<01:14:28.000
- </c> to get the the best piece of legislation to get the the best piece of legislation possible<01:20
Committee:
Senate Housing and Homelessness Prevention
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- One was the legislative work group for the deaf, blind, and hard of hearing; that legislative report
- One was the legislative work group for the deaf, blind, and hard of hearing; that legislative report
- One was the legislative work group for the deaf, blind, and hard of hearing; that legislative report
- </c> heart of hearing that some legislative heart of hearing that some legislative report<00:21:03.799
- </c><00:35:41.440><c> and</c> support of this vital legislation and support of this vital legislation
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Executive Departments and Administration (01/28/2025)
Executive Departments and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> or have been on the joint legislative or have been on the joint legislative committee<00:19:39.760
- As a legislator, I get your newsletters delivered to my legislative inbox all the time, and I do have
- "As a legislator, I get your newsletters delivered to my legislative inbox all the time, and I do have
- "As a legislator, I get your newsletters delivered to my legislative inbox all the time, and I do have
- </c> we we uh we support uh this legislation we we uh we support uh this legislation um<01:55:49.960>
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 1/22/25
Elections Finance and Government Operations
Transcript Highlights:
- There are 2011 legislative districts.
- </c><00:09:36.760><c> districts</c> there are 2011 legislative districts there are 2011 legislative districts
- </c> um yes the board has had legislative um yes the board has had legislative recommendations<00:37:
- platform for the next legislative year.
- as the League's legislative platform for the<00:56:33.680><c> next</c><00:56:34.319><c> legislative</
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- By the way, I represent Legislative District 1, if I didn't say that.
- By the way, I represent Legislative District 1, if I didn't say that.
- It's going to be future legislation.
- But this legislation has not been vetted.
- This bill addresses those issues that we've heard from legislators.
Bills:
HB2128 , HB2255 , HB2397 , HB2429 , HB2591 , HB2680 , HB2834 , HB2868 , HB2911 , HB2951 , HB2979 , HB2991 , HB2996 , HB2999 , HB4001 , HB4011 , HB4017 , HB4020 , HB4026 , HB4086 , HB4088 , HB2244 , HB2342
Committee:
House Commerce
Keywords:
homeowners associations, condominiums, open meetings, governance, transparency, Arizona Teachers Academy, teacher preparation, education funding, public schools, scholarships, teacher certification, community colleges, HOA, homeowners association, planned community, condominium, CC&Rs, covenants, conditions and restrictions, resale disclosure, association disclosure
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/27/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- He said stories change the world and the impact legislation that we do in St. Paul.
- I look forward to supporting that legislation this year.
- We simply ask legislators to pay for the board's actions or render them an effective...
- Seeing no further discussion, the committee Legislative Assistant will take the role.
- </c> discussion the committee Legislative discussion the committee Legislative Assistant<01:44:47.280
Committee:
House Human Services Finance and Policy
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Housing Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Housing
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm here to speak in support of legislation.
- I also want to thank the Somerville delegation for putting this legislation forward.
- If we pass this legislation, we would not be the first state to do so.
- We need legislative action.
- This legislation is a critical step toward ensuring that... ...from displacement.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Housing
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Housing held a hybrid hearing on a broad slate of landlord-tenant and home rule bills, with most testimony focused on rent stabilization, tenant opportunity to purchase (TOPA), tenant fees, access to counsel, algorithmic rent fixing, and tenant protections in subsidized housing. Chairs Cyr and Haggerty outlined the hearing procedures and noted that written testimony could also be submitted. Several members and invited speakers emphasized that the committee was hearing from both local officials and residents affected by housing instability, especially in Somerville and other communities facing high rents and displacement.
Supporters of rent stabilization and local-option rent control argued that Massachusetts needs tools to prevent displacement while new housing is built. Senator Eldridge, Senator Jalen, Somerville officials, tenant organizers, and residents described steep rent increases, no-fault evictions, and the loss of naturally occurring affordable housing. Somerville’s home rule petition was described as allowing annual increases tied to CPI plus 2%, capped at 5%, with exemptions for owner-occupied two- and three-family homes and a 15-year exemption for new construction. TOPA supporters said it would let tenants or their designees buy buildings before speculative buyers, preserving affordable housing stock; opponents, including small landlords and property managers, argued rent control would reduce supply, discourage investment, and that TOPA could delay sales and harm properties.
The committee also heard testimony on bills to curb junk fees and regulate tenant charges, including limits on late fees, lease renewal fees, payment portal fees, attorney’s fees, and other add-on charges. Advocates said these fees can add hundreds of dollars a month and disproportionately harm low-income renters and renters of color. Another major topic was algorithmic rent fixing: Senator Moore and Representative Sabadoza said landlords should not use software such as RealPage to coordinate pricing, citing federal antitrust actions and arguing that competition is essential to lowering rents. Additional testimony supported a statewide right to counsel in eviction cases, with legal services providers saying representation dramatically improves outcomes and can save the state money, and a bill to create an office of tenant protections to better enforce sanitary code violations. No votes or final actions were taken during the hearing.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- As regarding our proposed legislation.
- </c> consider legislation in this session. consider legislation in this session.
- We're extremely grateful for this committee's support of this legislation, or the legislation approved
- </c> committee's support of this legislation committee's support of this legislation or<00:34:36.840>
- :34:38.320><c> 2025</c> or the legislation approved in 2025 or the legislation approved in 2025 to<00
Committee:
House Taxes
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Appropriations Mar 2nd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I had the privilege of being an intern for last year's legislative session, and it's true.
- I had the privilege of being an internship for last year's legislative session. and it's true.
- So I hope that you'll join me today in supporting this legislation. Thank you.
- legislation.
- Garfield Memorial Hospital who have asked me to support this piece of legislation.
Summary:
The committee heard public testimony on Substitute Senate Bill 5828, which would restore and adjust Washington College Grant and College Bound Scholarship award levels for students attending private, not-for-profit four-year institutions. Staff explained the bill would set the awards at 90 percent of the regional and state college rate rather than 50 percent of the research rate, with an estimated fiscal impact of $3.3 million in fiscal year 2027 and $18.6 million over four years. Testimony was largely in support from private college presidents, students, and school counselors, who said the bill would help low-income and first-generation students and preserve access and enrollment choices; some public college student representatives said they did not oppose the bill but argued that cuts to public-school aid should be restored first.
The committee also heard Substitute Senate Bill 5911, which would prohibit DCYF from using benefits or funds of youth in extended foster care as reimbursement for their cost of care beginning in 2027, while requiring support for benefit management and payee arrangements and allowing protected accounts such as ABLE accounts. Staff estimated a net fiscal impact of $608,000 in fiscal year 2027 and $2.2 million per biennium thereafter. Testimony in support said the bill would end the practice of withholding SSI and other benefits from youth in care and better support disabled youth transitioning to adulthood. Members asked questions about fiduciary responsibility and representative payee arrangements.
In executive session, the committee adopted amendments and advanced several bills. It adopted Amendment Clark 350 to House Bill 2689, raising the required provider response rate for the child care market rate survey to 65 percent, and then reported the bill out with a due pass recommendation by a vote of 18-11, with two excused. It adopted Amendment H-3743.1 to Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5395 on retrospective prior authorization denials and reported that bill out unanimously. It also adopted Amendment Pool 272 to Senate Bill 5420 and reported that bill out unanimously. For Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5496, the committee adopted several amendments clarifying scope and penalties but rejected amendments that would have delayed the bill or replaced it with a study; the bill was then reported out with a due pass recommendation. The committee also heard amendment briefings on other bills, including 5981, 6026, 6160, 6184, and 6211, but deferred action on some items heard that morning.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session-Day 14, February 25, 2026-AM
Wyoming Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- <00:22:06.960><c> legislation.
- </c> legislators legislation. It can change. legislators legislation. It can change.
- </c><00:31:21.679><c> We</c> in this legislation. It's a fallacy. We in this legislation.
- Just talk about binding future legislative bodies in this legislation. It's a fallacy.
- legislation legislation uh<00:31:48.960><c> alive</c><00:31:50.000><c> because</c><00:31:50.320><c>
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session (Full Formal with Calendar) Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This legislation has been long overdue. Thank you. Better.
- This legislation has long been vetted now. This legislation has long been vetted now.
- Obviously, we move forward some great piece of legislation here in this body.
- I'm excited to see these policies incorporated in the legislation here today.
- I hope that my colleagues join me in supporting this piece of legislation. Mr.
Summary:
The Senate considered a series of amendments to a primary care health care bill and also took up a separate literacy bill. Several amendments were withdrawn, including one on artificial intelligence in health care and others related to cost controls, direct primary care, and provider studies. The Senate adopted amendments on preserving access to treatment for serious mental illness, modernizing the definition of primary care, clarifying payment rates for community health centers, excluding pharmaceutical spending from primary care expenditure calculations, and strengthening health equity reporting. Other amendments on rate bands, alternative payment systems, private equity reporting, scope of practice, and ownership disclosure were rejected. The Senate then approved the Ways and Means amendment and ordered the primary care bill to a third reading.
The chamber also took up final passage of An Act Relative to Teachers Preparation and Student Literacy, with senators describing it as a long-awaited compromise focused on improving early reading outcomes. Supporters said the bill requires evidence-based K-3 literacy curricula, regular student screening and family notification, dyslexia screening protocols, professional development for teachers, and a free state-developed curriculum option. Senators emphasized the need to address declining third-grade reading proficiency and equity gaps. The bill passed to be enacted by a unanimous roll call and was sent to the Governor.
After the literacy bill, the Senate returned to the primary care bill, where senators again debated cost containment, innovation, and access. The final version included the adopted amendments and was passed to be engrossed by a roll call vote of 35-4. The Senate then adopted an adjournment order and recessed, adjourning in memory of Henry Thomas III, former Representative Ben Swan, and Mr. Dennis Frane.