Transcript Highlights:

• like behavioral health and mental health providers and housing providers and things like that.
• like behavioral health and mental health providers and housing providers and things like that.
• Fadios, I also appreciate you providing the Ms.
• SROs provide a proactive and... Especially vulnerable.
• And then providing the funding would ensure that we would get those, right?

Committee: House Education

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• We do not provide fair market appraisals. We do not provide tax-deductible appraisals.
• It's put in by a provider, or an IUD, which is an intrauterine device.
• can change providers.
• We're just providing the tools, and hopefully it sparks conversations with their caregivers.
• I circled back and said to the provider, 'We've never discussed this.'

Committee: House House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs

Transcript Highlights:

• After the hearing, we will provide an opportunity for public comment to conclude.
• United, as well as provide parity proposals for non-represented child care providers.
• The Trey-Lobre language provides the additional detail needed.
• For context, for every one meal provided by food banks, CalFresh provides nine.
• The process of providing CalFresh to meet the need we're seeing immediately.

Committee: House Budget

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• NMFA provides the staff support. We administer the project fund.
• This means that community providers need an opportunity to plan their work.
• We have not provided our communities that opportunity since the...
• It's shocking to me that we only provided $5 million to begin with.
• Dinner's being provided at 5:30 at Maria's Italian Kitchen.

Committee: House New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Committee

Transcript Highlights:

• There are no callers wishing to provide support testimony at this time.
• There are no callers wishing to provide neutral testimony at this time.
• There are no callers wishing to provide neutral testimony at this time.
• This bill provides that life at the end of the tunnel.
• There are no callers wishing to provide public comment at this time.

Committee: Senate Judiciary

Keywords: 909, all

Transcript Highlights:

• services that we provide, and then I will go into the proposals that are before you today.
• I'll provide a brief overview of our department and then I'll proceed to the proposal.
• Thank you for providing the numbers of state workers, by the way.
• As a California state worker, I can provide you direct insight into this mandate. do.
• I'm sure you've heard it now, but I do want to provide an example.

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So there are costs to providing the convenience of using a credit card.
• that they already provide?
• These services, in addition to the services that they already provide?
• when they provide the service already?
• It is the seat belt that complements the airbag DFAL already provides.

Summary: The Assembly Banking and Finance Committee heard several bills, beginning with AB 407, which would expand the California Pollution Control Financing Authority. The author said the measure would increase flexibility and access to resources, and the bill was approved 7-0 and sent to the Committee on Local Government. The committee also adopted the consent calendar, which included AB 76, by a 7-0 vote. A lengthy portion of the meeting focused on AB 1065, which would prohibit swipe fees on the sales tax portion of credit card transactions. Supporters, including small business owners, restaurant and grocery representatives, and a payments-policy expert, argued the bill would reduce costs for merchants and consumers and rein in dominant card networks. Opponents, including banks, credit unions, and payment industry groups, argued the bill is likely preempted by federal law, would be difficult to implement, and could disproportionately affect community banks and credit unions. After extensive questioning about preemption, fraud, implementation, and consumer impacts, the committee rejected the bill on a 6-0 vote, but then granted reconsideration by a 7-1 vote. The committee then heard AB 1365, which would create the Cal Account Program, a zero-fee, zero-penalty state banking account for unbanked and underbanked Californians. Supporters said the program would help low-income households, survivors of abuse, and others facing barriers to traditional banking, while opponents from community banks and credit unions argued existing low-cost accounts and the Bank On program already address the need and raised concerns about cost, feasibility, and duplication. The bill advanced on a 6-0 vote and later received enough votes on the reopened roll to move forward to the Committee on Labor and Employment. The committee also approved AB 1052, which would create a legal framework for digital assets and address unclaimed digital property and restrictions on public officials issuing or promoting digital assets, and AB 1180, which would create a pilot program for paying state fees with digital financial assets and require a report on broader adoption. Both bills passed with broad support after brief testimony and discussion. Final roll calls later confirmed AB 1052 and AB 1180, along with AB 407 and AB 1365, were moved out of committee.

Transcript Highlights:

• So road also provides access to markets.
• </c> other relevant agencies to provide other relevant agencies to provide increase<00:33:18.960><c>
• So, mahalo for the opportunity to provide support. Thank you.
• We provide direct contributions to the watershed partnerships.
• </c><00:48:59.760><c> increase</c> relevant agencies to provide increase relevant agencies to provide

Committee: House Agriculture & Food Systems

Keywords: 910, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Providing legal representation to the state, its officials, and agencies, 2.
• Providing legal representation to the State, its officials, and agencies. 2.
• **Michelle Price**: ...we're providing grants. We can, we can get that for you. Absolutely.
• **Senator Kolkhorst**: Right now, providing $5 billion in fraud just in the state of Texas.
• **Chair**: I want to provide full support from my office in order to do so.

Bills: SB 1

Committee: Senate Finance

Keywords: campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Other witnesses are limited to providing their name, the organization they represent, if any, and their
• ...in San Jose and Maine's approach to provide limitations on contributions to super PACs.
• This would be in addition to the language access services provided by the bill in print.
• protections provided by SB 73.
• with the same civil remedy that was provided in Senate Bill 73.

Committee: House Elections

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• , to provide for collective bargaining agreements or contracts, to provide for reporting and notification
• requirements, to provide for costs, and to provide for related matters.
• And the amendments also provide that the burden lies with the labor organization or union to provide
• Amendment number eight changes labor organization or union to provide an email address to employer-provided
• Providing electronic notification, you absolutely should.

Committee: House Labor & Industrial Relations

Keywords: 965, house, all

Summary: The House Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations met for its final meeting of the 2026 session and took up SB 312 by Senator Talbot, a bill concerning labor organizations, employee dues and fees, withdrawal from unions, annual notice requirements, and related reporting and notification provisions. The committee first adopted a technical amendment set, then debated a larger amendment set that shifted the cease-withholding request to the employer, required electronic confirmation, placed certain administrative costs on the labor organization, and added language about employer notification and authorization procedures. Members discussed whether the bill was needed, whether employees already have the ability to opt out, and whether the amendments would create confusion or unnecessary bureaucracy. Supporters said the bill protects employee choice and ensures dues stoppage happens at the nearest payroll period; opponents argued the added language was unclear and burdensome. The committee also adopted a separate technical amendment adding mass transit employees to the list of exemptions. Testimony came from the bill author and several stakeholders. Senator Talbot said the bill is meant to ensure workers know they do not have to join a union, can revoke dues authorizations, and can stop deductions without waiting for a fixed annual window. Representative Eccles defended the amendments as employee protections and a way to shift administrative costs away from taxpayers. Jim Patterson of LABI supported the amendments, saying they protect public employers and taxpayers from administrative costs. After the amendments were adopted on a roll call vote, union representatives Matt Wood of the Louisiana AFL-CIO, Peter Robbins-Brown of the AFL-CIO, and Larry Carter of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers and School Employees testified in opposition to the amended bill, saying they had worked in good faith on a simpler opt-in/opt-out framework and objected to the new cost and bureaucracy provisions. Several members also spoke in favor of the bill as a matter of freedom of choice and employee control over paycheck deductions. At the end of debate, Representative Wilder moved to report SB 312 with amendments. The motion passed on a roll call vote, and the bill was reported from committee with amendments. The committee then adjourned.

Transcript Highlights:

• We should provide that kind of oversight.
• But we should provide those updates. We should show people that it worked.
• We should provide that kind of oversight. Costa can receive those kinds of updates.
• We should provide that kind of oversight.
• Provide those updates.

Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a floor introduction welcoming Berkeley Mayor Adina Ishi. The body then moved through a series of third-reading bills, with most measures presented as responses to current policy concerns and several placed on call before roll votes were completed. Early measures included SB 1312 on abandoned cemeteries, SB 1112 increasing penalties for towing industry notice violations, SB 877 requiring insurers to disclose claim materials and revisions, SB 1046 directing Cal/OSHA to develop protections for workers exposed to transboundary pollution in the Tijuana River Valley, and SB 1091 creating a community anti-displacement and preservation housing program. These bills generally drew support and passed, with SB 1091 ultimately passing 34-2 after a call vote. The floor also considered SB 951 on AI-related layoffs and worker notice, SB 1030 repealing the “man in the house” rule in CalWORKs, SB 1218 tying vehicle registration renewal to payment of illegal dumping fines, SB 1013 tightening privacy and oversight rules for automated license plate readers, SB 1116 making technical changes to the Starter Home Revitalization Act, SB 1201 protecting veterans from food-assistance cuts, and SB 1164 strengthening state voting-rights protections. Debate on SB 1013 featured sharp disagreement over whether the bill’s 30-day retention limit and audit requirements were necessary guardrails or would hinder law enforcement investigations. SB 1164 also drew opposition over concerns about litigation and expanded Attorney General oversight, but supporters argued California should codify voting-rights protections amid federal uncertainty. Most of these measures passed, with SB 1013 and SB 1164 receiving notable no votes. A major portion of the session focused on AB 1768, an urgency measure authorizing Los Angeles and Contra Costa counties to place local sales-tax measures before voters to help offset federal funding cuts to health care and safety-net services. Supporters framed it as a local-control measure needed to backfill losses from federal disinvestment and protect Medi-Cal, CalFresh, hospitals, clinics, and county services; opponents argued it would worsen affordability, expand regressive taxation, and bypass normal committee review. After extensive debate, the urgency measure received the required votes and passed. The Senate also adopted SCR 171 designating May 20 as California Nonprofits Day by unanimous roll call. The session ended with committee announcements, including budget subcommittee meetings, and a notice that the Senate would recess and reconvene later in the week.

Transcript Highlights:

• I'm happy to provide more background or thoughts or answer any questions, understanding your full agenda
• I'm happy to provide more background or thoughts or answer any questions, understanding your full agenda
• The statute that we operate under provides us appropriate discretion, but not too much.
• I do not believe that the current labels provide transparency that's necessary.
• And I still say, let’s just take a scenario where a patient presents to a health care provider.

Summary: Senate Commerce approved the February 24, 2026 minutes and heard a gubernatorial reappointment of Jeff Seilich to the Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho board. The committee took no action on the appointment during the meeting, with the chair indicating a vote would likely occur later in the week. PERSI’s director and the nominee described the system as stable and well funded. The committee then advanced House Bill 543, a technical PERSI bill updating language to comply with federal Secure Act 2.0 requirements by changing post-tax catch-up contribution language to Roth contributions in the PERSI Choice Plan. Representative Ben Furman and PERSI Director Mike Hampton said the change was purely technical. The bill received a due pass recommendation to the Senate floor. House Bill 563, which revises CPA licensure pathways to address workforce shortages, also received a due pass recommendation. Representative Jeff Ehlers and Idaho Society of CPAs representatives said the bill would create three pathways to licensure, lower education barriers, preserve the exam requirement, and ease reciprocity for out-of-state CPAs. Supporters said the profession is facing retirements and declining exam candidates, while committee members generally supported the effort to reduce barriers. The committee spent most of the meeting on Senate Bill 1310, the Human Fetal Tissue Transparency Act, which would require product labeling when human fetal tissue or related cell lines were used in testing or production. Supporters argued the bill would provide consumer transparency and informed consent for moral and conscience reasons, while opponents raised concerns about federal preemption, enforcement, costs, and practical implementation, especially for medical products and retailers. After extensive debate, the committee adopted a substitute motion to hold the bill in committee by a 5-4 roll call vote, with Senators Guthrie, Nichols, Burns, Ruchti, and Lenney in favor and Senators Zito, Ward-Engelking, and Foreman opposed, resulting in SB 1310 being held.

Transcript Highlights:

• c> the</c><00:03:42.879><c> necessary</c> House Bill 576 provides the necessary House Bill 576 provides
• </c><00:04:24.320><c> a</c> communities are required to provide a communities are required to provide
• And then section three deals with retail electric providers.
• And then section three deals with retail electric providers.
• So, these are your electric providers.

Committee: House Economic Development & Workforce Investment

Keywords: Meeting Start: 00:00 Roll Call: 00:38 HB 576 discussion: 01:56 HB 576 voting: 06:54 HB 593 discussion: 08:25 HB 593 voting: 21:58, 958, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So except as provided in subsection C.
• </c> except as provided except as provided to<00:10:51.200><c> subsection</c><00:10:51.760><c> C</c><
• I believe it'll provide additional protections for youth.
• </c> um I think the goal is to provide um I think the goal is to provide additional<00:18:04.720><c>
• </c><00:19:02.880><c> as</c> what our member agencies provide as what our member agencies provide as

Bills: SF0009

Committee: House Judiciary

Keywords: fentanyl, controlled substances, minors, drug distribution, enhanced penalties, 916, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Madam Witt members, Houseville 2040 requires a public educational institution to provide students 38
• This provides them an opportunity to transfer our patients around.
• Our health care provider up there is Summit; it really helps us. So please, I'm asking...
• Thanks. and provides exceptions. I'm available for questions. Questions for staff?
• It provides a stakeholder process. Good bill. Further discussion? Seeing none.

Keywords: 1182, all

Summary: The meeting was a rapid review of a very large bill package, with the chair repeatedly asking staff to keep descriptions high level and many bills placed on third-read consent or consent calendars. A major theme was artificial intelligence: bills would require minors to be told when they are interacting with AI, allow AI-assisted divorce arbitration by consent, create an AI education program, privilege certain AI communications, and require K-12 instruction on ethical and practical AI use. Other education measures addressed school district superintendents, health instruction, anti-Semitism prohibitions, fetal development standards, and school safety, including a bill allowing concealed firearms on school grounds under specified conditions. Several health and public safety bills were also discussed. These included funding and oversight measures for childhood cancer research, nursing care complaint timelines, firefighter cancer data collection, limits on pharmacy penalties, and a bill making it a felony to administer abortion-inducing drugs without consent. Members also heard bills on overtime wage enforcement, domestic violence evidence standards in parenting cases, probation limits for dangerous crimes against children, and a measure expanding manslaughter liability to online encouragement of teen suicide. One sponsor strongly opposed a provisional medical licensing bill for foreign-trained applicants, while other sponsors emphasized rural health access, nurse anesthetist reimbursement parity, and the need for a dental board member who is an oral surgeon. A large portion of the meeting focused on water, land, energy, and state agency oversight. Bills would streamline or change rules for small modular reactors, new power plants, water supply determinations, groundwater transportation fees, water hauling, and state land disposition. Members also considered measures affecting the State Land Department, including audits, oversight boards, continuation, land-use maps for data centers and energy projects, and rules for mineral leases and solar or wind siting. Other topics included wildlife and ranching, Mexican wolf policy, annexation, housing and development incentives, transportation and towing rules, digital driver licenses, and a proposed four-year moratorium on municipal and county fee, tax, and utility-rate increases, which drew questions about stakeholder input and the impact on enterprise funds and local utilities. No recorded roll-call votes were taken in the transcript; most items were simply presented, briefly discussed, and left on consent or calendar status, with one bill noted as held in rules and another pulled for further discussion.

Transcript Highlights:

• Is that something that we're constitutionally obligated to provide the inmates?
• So the tablets are provided as part of the phone contract.
• We are not constitutionally required to provide that.
• So the tablets are provided as part of the phone contract.
• We are not constitutionally required to provide that.

Summary: The joint Senate Finance and House Appropriations committee reviewed the Idaho Department of Correction budget, beginning with an agency-wide overview and then moving through management services, state prisons, county and out-of-state placement, community corrections, community-based substance use disorder treatment, and medical services. Analysts and the director explained that the department’s budget is heavily driven by personnel, contracts, medical costs, and population pressures, with dedicated funds such as inmate labor and probation/parole receipts declining in cash balance. Members asked about vacancies, overtime, holdback impacts, software licensing, hepatitis C funding, and the department’s use of contracts and technology. The committee also heard that some planned reductions tied to the governor’s holdback remain in place despite the agency being exempted, including cuts to Recidivis, GEO-related services, and some technology purchases, while body-worn cameras were kept in place because of safety and accountability benefits. A major portion of the discussion focused on rising incarceration and housing costs. The director said the department is near capacity, with more people coming in than leaving, and that county jail and out-of-state placements are increasing because state facilities are full. Analysts described the county jail and out-of-state placement budget as highly volatile and based on updated population forecasts, with supplemental and ongoing requests increasing significantly. Members also asked about mandatory minimums, criminal aliens in custody, and the cost of housing inmates in state versus out-of-state facilities. The director said Idaho’s per-day direct prison cost is about $85, or about $95 with administrative costs, while the Arizona contract rate is about $85 per day. The committee also discussed rehabilitation and recidivism-reduction programs, including education, work programs, community reentry centers, and the Bridge 8 tablet system. The director said the tablets are funded through inmate phone-related charges and are used for educational and rehabilitative purposes, not because the state is required to provide them. She said community reentry centers have shown an 11% lower recidivism rate for participants, and that the department has previously eliminated ineffective programs after evaluation. Members asked for more information on inmate labor contracts, hepatitis C treatment funding, and the cost and effectiveness of various programs. The meeting ended before all questions were resolved, and the committee adjourned to continue work groups the next morning.

Transcript Highlights:

• By way of background, the school construction assistance program, or SCAP, provides school districts
• Do you know what that cost is and how that is provided? I don't know.
• Do you know what that cost is and how that is provided? Absolutely.
• It's providing free child care. Because we're going to pay for the bill.
• So that would be providing it, or not providing it, but making it possible. It's still free.

Bills: SB5901 , SB5860 , SB5956 , SB5574 , SB5922 , SB5858

Committee: Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education

Keywords: school construction, school facilities, capital budget, school plant project, state funding assistance, school construction assistance program, on-base schools, military base, Department of Defense school, military families, public school facilities, instructional space, Superintendent of Public Instruction, SIP, school district capital funding, school housing burden, rapid growth, enrollment growth, free and reduced-price meals, alternative learning experience

Transcript Highlights:

• By way of background, the school construction assistance program, or SCAP, provides school districts
• Do you know what that cost is and how that is provided? I don't know.
• Do you know what that cost is and how that is provided? Absolutely.
• It's providing free childcare. Because we're going to pay for the bill.
• So that would be providing it, or not providing it, but making it possible. It's still free.

Summary: The committee first heard Senate Bill 5901, which would change the school construction assistance program so that instructional space on military bases is excluded from a district’s available space inventory when calculating state construction aid. Staff explained the bill would also require state assistance to equal approved project cost minus federal funding received. Senator Christian said the measure is intended to prevent military-base facilities from unfairly reducing districts’ ability to modernize or build schools. Testimony in support came from OSPI, Clover Park School District, and Medical Lake School District, which said the current formula penalizes districts serving military families and can leave them unable to secure needed renovation funding. No opposition was heard, and the bill was later described as having an indeterminate fiscal impact. The committee then took up Senate Bill 5860 on school board compensation. The bill would raise director pay from $50 to $100 per day, increase the annual cap, allow child care expenses to be reimbursed, require OFM to periodically adjust compensation, and direct WASDA to develop finance training for school directors. Senator Cortez said the changes are needed to broaden who can serve on school boards and to help working families participate. Supporters from OSPI, WASDA, and South Sound superintendents said compensation could improve diversity and help recruit and retain board members, though WASDA noted concerns about diverting district funds and said its members do not have consensus on mandatory training. Opponents argued the bill would misuse levy funds and that child care and other expenses should not be paid from local education levies. The committee also heard Senate Bill 5956 on artificial intelligence, student discipline, and surveillance in schools, which would bar automated systems from being the sole basis for discipline decisions, prohibit risk scores and biometric surveillance, require OSPI guidance updates, and direct WASDA to create model policy. Senator Nobles and supporters said the bill is needed to protect students from discriminatory and inaccurate AI-driven decisions; no vote was taken in the hearing. Finally, the committee heard a proposed substitute for Senate Bill 5574, which would require districts to include instruction on Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, Latino American, and Black American history in required social studies courses during the regular curriculum review cycle, with reporting beginning in 2030. Senator Nobles said the bill is meant to address exclusion and bias in history education and to help students see themselves reflected in the curriculum. Testifiers from education, student, parent, and community groups overwhelmingly supported the measure, saying it would improve belonging, reduce bullying, and build on existing curriculum resources without creating a new course or major new cost. The hearing ended without a vote or other formal action on SB 5956 or SB 5574.

Transcript Highlights:

• Senate Bill 1458 6 to provide consistency and transparency in the administration.
• The bill requires the local education agency and the Pre-apprenticeship apprenticeship training provider
• Citizens provides residency exemption for members who graduated from the Florida Public University.
• I will provide you that immediately. Madam Chair.
• Greatly enhanced our college experience and provided a specific skill set.

Keywords: 999, senate, all