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NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (03/11/2025)
Energy and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- or who ignore the approval criteria in an obtained permit.
- </c> approval crit IIA in an obtained permit approval crit IIA in an obtained permit in<00:02:32.319>
- </c> that will qualify for a Shoreland permit that will qualify for a Shoreland permit she<00:03:00.519
- Waters: Yes, I think you heard my earlier question.
- </c> amendment proposed by Senator Waters amendment proposed by Senator Waters there<00:26:29.000><c>
Committee:
Senate Energy and Natural Resources
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:23:37.120><c> quality</c> Waters do not meet water quality Waters do not meet water quality standards
- > and</c> drinking water and surface water and drinking water and surface water and groundwater<01:01
- <01:03:37.920><c> a</c><01:03:38.000><c> storm</c><01:03:38.279><c> waterer</c><01:03:38.559><c> permit
- </c><01:03:39.279><c> so</c><01:03:39.520><c> there</c> permit a storm waterer permit so there permit
- a storm waterer permit so there are<01:03:39.799><c> certain</c><01:03:40.119><c> things</c><01:03:40.400
Committee:
House Legacy Finance
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Agriculture and Wildlife Feb 23rd, 2026 at 10:00 am
Agriculture and Wildlife
Transcript Highlights:
- So, if someone wanted to, you know, start milking alpacas or We could permit facilities that milk water
- It also conserves water up to 55,000 gallons per acre.
- , and there was raw manure in the water.
- I'm involved in water quality issues across the state in GRD GRDA jurisdictional waters, but the Scenic
- Recreational stretches, as I recall, had 2,375 permits in it.
Committee:
Senate Agriculture and Wildlife
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:03:05.200><c> for</c> use of rainwater and storm water for use of rainwater and storm water for
- ><c> two</c> timber permits by two timber permits by two years.<00:03:48.799><c> Section</c><00:03:49.280
- </c> environmental permitting reform article. environmental permitting reform article.
- </c> some uh additional FTEEs for permitting. some uh additional FTEEs for permitting.
- These permitting FTEES just deleted.
Committee:
Senate Finance
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Environment and Agriculture (05/13/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- Those have already been permitted and should be permitted to go on.
- Those have already been permitted and should be permitted to go on.
- Those have already been permitted and should be permitted to go on.
- 41:46.240><c> a</c><00:41:46.400><c> permit</c><00:41:46.640><c> to</c> permit to construct and a permit
- </c> state and local permits for approvals. state and local permits for approvals.
Summary:
The Environment and Agriculture Committee held a hearing on a non-germane amendment to SB 302, a Senate bill originally requiring background checks for solid waste and hazardous waste facility owners. Representative Patenza explained that the amendment was intended to preserve and separate out language developed for the governor’s budget proposal and HB 2 concerning a solid waste facility site evaluation committee, a moratorium, and related public-benefit/site-benefit provisions, so the policy would still have a vehicle if the budget language did not advance. He said the proposal reflects extensive work by the House, the governor’s office, and DES, and he was open to further changes to align with any budget conference committee outcome.
Dr. Adam Finkele testified in support of the amendment and the underlying site evaluation concept, arguing that landfill siting decisions should be based on cost-benefit analysis that includes public harms, local impacts, and regional impacts rather than only private benefits. He praised the committee process and prior legislation requiring agencies to respond substantively to public comments, and said the new language improves on the governor’s version by moving the committee’s review earlier in the process and requiring more complete application information, including alternatives and impacts on nearby wells and aquifers. He also supported a three-year moratorium on new landfill applications, saying it would give the state time to address leachate, PFAS, waste reduction, and weak siting rules.
Members asked about possible conference committee changes, the value of having a separate review body, and whether the new rules would invite litigation. Dr. Finkele said he would likely sue over the rules because he считает them too weak, but also said the legislature could fix the problems through other bills such as HB 77. He acknowledged that the site evaluation committee is not a perfect solution, but said it is a useful intermediate step between the agency and the courts and likely would meet only rarely if capacity need remains the main trigger for future landfill decisions. No vote or final action was taken during the hearing.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, March 27, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:21:58.000><c> And</c> School's girls water polar team. And School's girls water polar team.
- [Music] It's waters. What's new?
- </c> permit geothermal energy projects. permit geothermal energy projects.
- </c> water um in uh western dams or any dams. water um in uh western dams or any dams.
- </c> there'll be enough water for everybody. there'll be enough water for everybody.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Appropriations Committee May 14th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Nearly 85% of Californians depend, in whole or in part, on groundwater for their public safety water
- That percentage increases even more for small water systems.
- That percentage increases even more for small water systems, which have fewer than 3,300 connections
- and serve communities whose access to clean drinking water is most at risk.
- fails, these cities and campuses are still not permitted to tow for unpaid parking tickets alone.
Summary:
The Assembly Appropriations Committee met on May 14, 2025, for a regular order hearing with a large consent calendar and many individual bill presentations. The committee first approved numerous bills on consent, then heard a series of measures spanning reproductive health, child care eligibility, transportation, mental health diversion, county recorder fees, groundwater management, election deadlines, parking enforcement, consumer protections, housing, immigrant and student protections, and utility/CPUC oversight. Several bills were taken up only for presentation because they were on suspense, including ACA 4 on long-term housing funding, and the committee later approved a very large suspense calendar as a whole.
Among the bills discussed, AB 260 would protect medication abortion access and providers; AB 904 would clarify child care subsidy eligibility during family leave or job search; AB 1014 would give Caltrans more flexibility on speed limits in rural highway segments; AB 46 would clarify judicial discretion in mental health diversion; AB 1413 and AB 929 addressed groundwater adjudication and SGMA-related protections for small community water systems and wetlands; AB 930 would count vote-by-mail ballots postmarked by Election Day and received within seven days; AB 1022 would end towing solely for unpaid parking tickets; AB 290 and AB 302 dealt with automatic payments for the California Fair Plan and medical data protections; AB 1303 would remove the need for a Social Security number for California Lifeline eligibility; and several housing bills, including AB 920, AB 956, AB 1470, AB 893, and AB 1021, sought to streamline approvals or expand housing options. AB 1318 and AB 49 focused on immigrant-serving nonprofits and keeping immigration enforcement out of schools, while AB 1532 extended telecommunications and transportation access programs and added CPUC accountability measures.
Testimony was generally supportive for the bills heard, with authors and sponsors emphasizing low or absorbable fiscal impacts, consumer protection, housing production, public safety, and protections for vulnerable communities. Opposition appeared on a few measures, including concerns about ADUs, towing authority, charter school-related issues, and the scale of proposed housing funding in ACA 4. Several members also commented in support of the housing and immigrant-protection measures, and some bills were voted out with recorded no votes or not-voting members noted. After the suspense calendar was deemed approved, the committee opened public comment on bills not presented that day, heard a long list of supporters and opponents on various measures, and then adjourned.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
FIN-WAM Joint Info Briefing - Mon Jan 26, 2026 @ 1:00 PM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> haven't even started to get a permit. haven't even started to get a permit.
- </c> Department of Planning and Permitting. Department of Planning and Permitting.
- And the sensitivity on water and the conversation about water and our survival about water and all of
- </c> valleys with the water coming down. valleys with the water coming down.
- on potable water.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Agriculture (02/24/2026)
Environment and Agriculture
Transcript Highlights:
- . water. water.
- rather than just a solid waste permit rather than just a permit, permit, permit, >> I<03:46:56.960
- </c> quantity of the water. quantity of the water. >> Yes,<04:17:28.239><c> absolutely.
- </c> the full permitting process of a site. the full permitting process of a site.
- permitting.
Committee:
House Environment and Agriculture
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Local Government Jan 29th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And right now, that process is taking so long to get the permits.
- In that permit process.
- The next step is the construction permit. That's your civil... ...permit. That's your civil...
- The next step is the construction permit. That's your civil permit.
- The maps aren't going to be usable at the permit counter.
Summary:
The Senate Local Government Committee heard several land use and infrastructure bills. SB 5633 on subdivision of land drew the most discussion: staff described a broad rewrite that would move many subdivision decisions from legislative bodies to administrative personnel, limit or eliminate public hearings for preliminary plats, require notice to nearby landowners, set completeness and 100-day decision timelines, and streamline concurrent review of related permits. Builders, Realtors, and some cities supported the bill as a long-overdue modernization that could reduce delays and housing costs, while county and city representatives raised concerns about eliminating public hearings, implementation details, and local accountability. The committee also heard SB 6274 on street standards and frontage improvements, which would require jurisdictions to identify infrastructure barriers to infill and middle housing and periodically review street and frontage standards; supporters said frontage mandates can make housing infeasible, while local government witnesses warned about conflicts with safety, ADA, and transportation goals. SB 6309 on high-capacity transit permits would let Sound Transit apply for permits before acquiring property and before some land use decisions, and would allow certain development agreements and subdivision exemptions to speed transit delivery; Sound Transit and city representatives supported it, and the committee waived the five-day notice rule to hear it.
The committee also took testimony on SB 6279, which would incorporate the wildland-urban interface code into the state building code after statewide wildfire maps are completed and require state and local coordination on defensible space and local amendments. Supporters framed it as needed wildfire resilience planning, while opponents from counties, builders, environmental groups, and local officials argued the bill was premature, too rigid, and potentially inconsistent with environmental laws, local conditions, and insurance realities; several asked for more local flexibility, clearer map processes, and changes to the timing and scope of adoption. SB 6291 would extend from two to four years the period during which local health jurisdiction staff may inspect on-site wastewater systems under supervision before certification; public health officials supported it as a workforce and training fix, saying the current timeline is too short and costly. The committee also heard SB 5903, SB 6016, SB 5820, SB 6132, and SB 6189 in executive session, adopted substitutes on some bills, and advanced SB 6016, SB 5820, SB 6132, and SB 6189 out of committee by due-pass votes, with SB 6016 receiving a substitute and a member noting support but remaining concerns.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 03/19/25
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- This is and lead leech into the water.
- I don't know if you'd get the permits in twice that much time.
- It was mentioned already about how long it can take to get permits in place.
- </c><00:31:29.039><c> on</c> that they need to issue those permits on that they need to issue those permits
- So, uh, their lands or their waters.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- And then tackling on other unrelated preemptions on permitting, fences, parking, Preemptions on permitting
- in certain places where otherwise constructed structures would not be permitted, correct?
- ...constructed structures would not be permitted, correct? Yes. Okay. Any other questions? No.
- We also replaced connected to public water system or a public sewer system with connected to public water
- The only thing you need to build is the promise of water and sewer being available.
Committee:
Senate Community Affairs
Summary:
The committee took up a broad agenda of local government, land use, housing, and public notice bills. It reported favorably SB 984 on firefighter cancer benefits, SB 1612 requiring local governments to accept electronic payments, SB 1180 creating a recall process for community development district board members and adding related CDD provisions on synthetic turf and compact urban mixed-use districts, SB 936 on temporary door locking devices, CS/SB 380 expanding options for publishing legal notices, SB 962 clarifying that the Live Local zoning preemption does not unintentionally capture farms and farm operations, SB 1444 on state preemption involving religious gatherings, private clubs, and certain permitting issues, SB 218 narrowing hurricane-related land-use protections to affected counties, SB 1020 regulating chickee huts, and SB 1434 creating a redevelopment framework for environmentally impacted parcels in certain urban counties. Several of these bills were amended before passage, including SB 1180, SB 380, and SB 948.
Testimony was mixed on the more controversial measures. Supporters of SB 984 said the bill clarifies benefits for firefighters diagnosed with occupational cancer. On SB 380, the Florida Press Association and Common Cause opposed shifting legal notices away from newspapers and warned that publication would become more fragmented and harder to find, while the sponsor argued the bill would save money and reflect digital practices. SB 1444 drew support from Florida Family Voice on religious freedom grounds, but the Florida League of Cities and Florida Association of Counties warned that the bill was broad, undefined in places, and could create unintended consequences for local zoning, parking, and permitting. SB 1434 on redevelopment of environmentally impacted land drew support from housing advocates but opposition from counties and cities, which said it would bypass local development review and could allow overdevelopment.
The committee also heard substantial testimony on SB 948, which would create a statewide framework for starter-home and lot-split regulations in residential areas. Supporters, including housing advocates, a Gainesville city commissioner, and an urban economist, said local regulations have constrained housing supply and that the bill would help produce more starter homes. Opponents, including the Florida Association of Counties, 1,000 Friends of Florida, and the Florida League of Cities, argued it would function as a statewide zoning code, reduce local planning authority, and create infrastructure and litigation concerns. The bill was amended and then laid over for further consideration after extensive debate and public comment.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government Apr 10th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- clear roadmap to address the significant environmental impact of inadequately tweet, treated waste water
- issue, we work very closely with FWC on manatee protections in springs are critical, natural, warm water
- The bill divides 825 permit allocations among Monroe County item Rod, a marathon and the city of Key
- They have sure about flood waters during storms.
- In general, up in the water management districts have booked with the mitigation banks.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Friday, December 12, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- permits for pipelines.
- </c><00:24:22.559><c> permits</c><00:24:22.960><c> for</c> with state clean water permits for with state
- clean water permits for pipelines.<00:24:24.159><c> But</c><00:24:24.320><c> as</c><00:24:24.559><c>
- </c> burdensome federal permitting process. burdensome federal permitting process.
- </c> requirement under the Clean Water Act. requirement under the Clean Water Act.
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Natural Resources and Environment May 12th, 2026
Natural Resources & Environment
Transcript Highlights:
- And the water quality is horrible in there.
- That this is ruining the water quality, is what it's doing. Gotcha.
- They're not just moving water to the ocean; they're moving water and sediment to the ocean.
- For the permit, because of the permit, you can't do it in three years?
- This will be the grant cycles be permitted for the trust fund for the tanks. ...grant cycles be permitted
Committee:
House Natural Resources & Environment
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- As trees planted by streams of living waters, may we extend our roots, ourselves, our energy, our work
- Joseph was told he'd been working in 6 to 8 feet of water, but he was found in 20t of water with his
- </c><00:22:38.400><c> when</c> makes loud noise under the water when makes loud noise under the water
- So, I didn't like four feet of water.
- Um if they their permits can be revoked.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Environment and Natural Resources Mar 25th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- The C 9 and common area is a key component of the Broward County Water Preserve areas project.
- We really can't water wide in the water to allow individuals, too, to use the waterways the way there
- Please vote down this bill so that all voters can enjoy our public waters, provide economic benefits,
- Lot of salt water, very, very coastal voting has been a large part of my life.
- This amendment changes the number of permit allocations to 825 not 888 as I stated previously.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Special Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Mar 30th, 2026
Special Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- And so these particulates attract water molecules.
- because of the ways we use the water.
- Permitting jurisdiction—it's county versus others.
- , ask for a modification, or deny that permit.
- There's no water resources out there.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Environment and Natural Resources Oct 7th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- something that has been the most passionate for me being able to talk about important resources like water
- I have concerns about the permit that was issued for the man to Re Lake Okeechobee.
- In the last year alone, we remove nearly 500 derelict vessels from state waters on average, about 600
- Vessels typically don't just appear on the water in the their conditions.
- The new electronic permitting system for long term current permits is currently in development.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- In 2025, only 3% of all bait permits for horseshoe crabs...
- In 2025, only 3% of all bait permits for horseshoe crabs, roughly only five beach harvesting permits,
- BHA works to protect public lands, waters, and wildlife.
- BHA works to protect public lands, waters, and wildlife.
- I'm also here today representing Community Land and Water Coalition.
Summary:
The committee hearing covered a wide range of animal, wildlife, hunting, and environmental bills. Early testimony focused on deer management, with Rep. Markey urging creation of a deer commission to address crop damage, vehicle collisions, and Lyme disease, and Sen. Durant supporting bills to allow Sunday bow hunting, expand crossbow use, and reduce the 500-foot dwelling restriction for archery hunting. Supporters framed these measures as practical wildlife-management tools, while questions centered on how they would differ from existing Fish and Wildlife authority and whether they would allow hunting closer to residences. Later, Rep. Sena also spoke in support of a bill to increase protected wildlife management areas and another to require non-lead ammunition, arguing both would benefit biodiversity and reduce environmental harm.
A substantial portion of the hearing addressed animal welfare and commerce. Multiple witnesses supported bills to ban or phase out the retail sale of dogs, cats, rabbits, and guinea pigs in pet shops, arguing that pet stores rely on puppy mills and obscure the source of animals, while opponents said the bills would hurt responsible breeders, small businesses, and consumer choice. The committee also heard strong testimony for bills to ban the sale of cats and dogs in pet shops, with supporters citing sick animals, consumer deception, and the need to cut off the puppy mill supply chain. In a separate animal-testing segment, witnesses backed bills requiring non-animal testing methods for cosmetics and household products, saying alternatives are more accurate and humane; biomedical research representatives opposed those bills and a related research-animal measure, warning of unintended restrictions on research institutions and arguing animal models remain necessary for many studies.
The committee also heard testimony on horseshoe crab conservation, with supporters of H. 898 urging an end to taking horseshoe crabs for bait because of population declines, shorebird impacts, and the species’ importance to biomedical science. On wildlife trafficking, witnesses backed bills to ban intrastate sales of ivory and rhino horn, saying Massachusetts should close loopholes that aid poaching and align with federal law and other states; one antique dealer testified in support, saying he avoids such items and still sees them in the marketplace. Additional testimony supported bans on fur products from factory farms and on force-feeding birds for foie gras, with advocates emphasizing cruelty, public health, and environmental concerns. The hearing was lengthy and heavily attended, with the chairs repeatedly limiting testimony to three minutes and inviting written submissions; no committee votes or final actions were taken during the transcript excerpt.