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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Apr 23rd, 2025

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • The chair lays out his pending business, SB916 by Zafiropoulos, relating to consumer protections against
  • Let's protect our communities and allow our police officers back on the street.
  • They protect that like the golden goose. What administrative costs are you talking about?
  • What we're talking about is agencies at the national level trying to impose policies on us.
  • This bill fixes this by setting clear guidelines for title agencies and companies reporting data to the
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's not an environmentally great practice.
  • uh great practice so an environmentally uh great practice so anything<00:25:53.960> we<00:25:
  • does limit it at $250,000 um the agency does limit it at that<00:45:10.440> cap<00:45:10.720>
  • In the bill language that is crossed out, it mentions $500,000, but the agency caps it at $250,000.
  • Horseman's benevolent and protective Horseman's benevolent and protective Association<01:32:34.040
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 29th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This helps to ensure that privacy protections are certain.
  • Villarreal led a successful transition of the agency to the governor's office effective September 1st
  • The result is that the conference committee report for Senate Bill 17 provides stronger protections for
  • Because of the work with all these folks, we now have the strongest bill in the United States protecting
  • We believe it's fair, we believe it's strong, we believe it will help protect this state.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/3/26

Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • ,<00:05:12.639> conserve, efforts that protect, conserve, efforts that protect, conserve,
  • executive director of environmental executive director of environmental initiative. initiative.
  • They also go to what we call agencies.
  • <00:20:32.240> um<00:20:33.120> state<00:20:33.360> agencies quasi state agencies
  • . um state agencies quasi state agencies. um state agencies I<00:20:34.000> think<00:20:34.080
Bills: HF3426, HF3428
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Agriculture and Forestry Committee Feb 12th, 2025

Agriculture and Forestry

Transcript Highlights:
  • officers that are out trying to... from our officers that are out trying to do the enforcement work and protect
  • There's no state agency that is really responsible for it, particularly on this.
  • Because some agencies can't really take money, you know, like the County Commission would take or the
  • They don't, most of the time, really receive money to the agency, you know, like in a county it would
  • I understand what you're trying to do, give it to that agency to help them enforce it.
Bills: HB55, HB212
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • There are no staff amendments or agency amendments.
  • Do we amendments or agency amendments.
  • There is also an agency amendment.
  • Are there any questions or discussion regarding the agency amendment?
  • the staff amendments and the agency the staff amendments and the agency amendment.<00:09:19.279>
Summary: The Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee met to reorganize its leadership for the new term, renewing Representative Derek Lewis as House co-chair and Senator Steven West as Senate co-chair. The committee then approved the minutes and moved through a series of agency regulations, generally adopting staff-suggested amendments without objection. Among the regulations reviewed were an Attorney General rule changing how a commission reviews and distributes funds and how grant reporting is handled; Personnel Board changes abolishing and renaming certain job classifications and adjusting probationary periods; an Education and Labor Cabinet rule removing references to local board of education members; several Public Protection Cabinet rules covering Board of Claims and Crime Victims’ Compensation procedures; an Alcoholic Beverage Control rule on direct-to-consumer shipping forms; and a Medicaid Services emergency regulation establishing the Kentucky Trauma Hospital Rate Improvement Program for rural hospitals serving many Medicaid patients. The committee also heard that the Board of Claims and Crime Victims’ Compensation regulations included both staff and, in one case, an agency amendment, which were approved. The most extended discussion came on the Department for Community Based Services’ regulation increasing per diem rates for private child-placing therapeutic foster care levels 2 and 3. Committee members questioned the estimated $10 million biennial cost, the source of the funding, and why the cabinet had not yet filed regulations implementing Senate Bill 151 on kinship care. DCBS staff said the rate increase was discretionary and intended to address placement crises for children with high needs, while acknowledging they could not personally explain the budget decisions. A kinship caregiver testified in support of the rate increase but urged the cabinet to also implement SB 151 and expand support for kinship families. The committee expressed frustration over the lack of SB 151 implementation but stated the rate increase itself was appropriate and allowed the regulation to proceed.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 2/19/26

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • protection.
  • protection.
  • Minnesota for consumer protection. Minnesota for consumer protection.
  • today's technology to protect kids. today's technology to protect kids.
  • impinge slightly to protect children. impinge slightly to protect children.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • So the agency does not advise them.
  • The board is allowed to adopt their own rules, and the agency doesn't have to.
  • Let's protect and strengthen 988. Please support 988.
  • And so there was a lot of protection. ...in there. We agreed to anti-retaliation.
  • We've addressed those concerns directly in this bill, with clear, strong protections.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services May 14th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • So the agency does not advise them.
  • And the agency doesn't have it; it just becomes a recommendation.
  • Let's protect and strengthen 988. Please support HB 5342.
  • Let's protect and strengthen 988.
  • Let's protect and strengthen 988. Please support HB 5342.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on a series of health and human services bills and left each one pending after public testimony. HB 4655 would expand financial literacy instruction for youth aging out of foster care to include credit scores, predatory lending, scams, banking, budgeting, and related consumer topics; the sponsor and Buckner International described the need to protect foster youth from financial pitfalls. HB 923 would add three public members and one physician to the Texas Medical Disclosure Panel; supporters said it would improve informed consent and patient voice, while a witness raised concerns about a House amendment requiring a physician majority for decisions and senators questioned scope-of-practice limits. HHSC said the panel is an independent body and the bill expressly bars it from changing scope of practice.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Banking, Financial Services and Pensions Apr 7th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Banking, Financial Services and Pensions

Transcript Highlights:
  • It has a lot of consumer protections and ensures that those who are doing the transaction are aware that
  • I just spoke with him today, and this bill carries over all the consumer protections that we worked on
  • You'd probably like to know the general topic of this bill has to do with the protection of vulnerable
Bills: SB1623, SB2067, SB2132
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, so what it does when I say how it protects immigrants, it defines what?
  • And you also can't give a kickback to labor brokers if you're a staffing agency.
  • So I think in my mind that is very much a protection to legal immigrants.
  • We've operated locally and compliantly since 2018 and will be given no guidance or protection.
  • Um, there's no protection for existing licensed hemp farmers or processors.
Bills: HB1
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Apr 1st, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Child Placing Agency Administrator.
  • Those recommendations went to the agency, or both agencies, for review.
  • We think that will protect the best interest of kids, but also protect parents' rights when those...
  • The agency and the agency know who's taking foster care, foster kids, and sometimes nobody is.
  • Now, it is important that we protect children. and protect the public from individuals who do pose a
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Apr 1st, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • When I'm reviewing a case, I am looking at what has been filed by our local police agency.
  • They look at these cases with a much different view than the police agency.
  • put protections in place to protect the rights of the innocent?
  • And so do you see this bill as providing an extra level of protection?
  • Did they request it from the agency or from the local agency?
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairman, for giving me the opportunity today and standing up to protect children in Oklahoma.
  • state agency would further clarify that it wasn't the Abbel commission's jurisdiction.
  • The landowners are protected in this version, and we'll be protected going forward.
  • This protects Oklahoma landowners and hunters.
  • Now I see the OwRB a little bit different than a lot of the different agencies.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Transportation Apr 22nd, 2025

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • What would your agency expect us, the legislative body, to do?
  • Currently, Texas law enforcement agencies prepare collision reports. and both local law enforcement agencies
  • Agency to access collision information. With that, Mr.
  • It protects it from TPIA.
  • That's what we're asking protections for.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Committee, February 24, 2026

Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • The top priority for protection during the Elk Fire was the municipal water facilities.
  • The top priority for protection during the Elk Fire was the municipal water facilities.
  • <00:13:30.399> or<00:13:30.639> local either state agencies or local either state agencies
  • So I hope that answers your question. to the protection of those resources. to the protection of those
  • I represent the water industry and watershed protection as part of this bill.