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CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 021 Feb 3rd, 2026
Colorado House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:30:43.120><c> pathways</c> protections and lawful labor pathways protections and lawful labor
- Their labor strengthens welfare programs like Social Security and Medicaid and has even shown to raise
- Leader on House Business Affairs and Labor for tomorrow only. Rep. Clifford will replace Rep.
- </c> and Labor for tomorrow only. Rep. and Labor for tomorrow only. Rep.
- </c><04:32:20.080><c> on</c> House Business Affairs and Labor on House Business Affairs and Labor on
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/26
Housing Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, I see the hour is late, so I don't want to be labor the point, but I'd be happy to answer any questions
- Uh, I see the hour is late, so I don't want to be labor the point, but I'd be happy to answer any questions
- :40.960><c> be</c> the hour is late, so I don't want to be the hour is late, so I don't want to be labor
- 01:25:41.920><c> I'd</c><01:25:42.080><c> be</c><01:25:42.239><c> happy</c><01:25:42.400><c> to</c> labor
- the point, but I'd be happy to labor the point, but I'd be happy to answer<01:25:42.719><c> any</c><
Committee:
House Housing Finance and Policy
Keywords:
HF4234, Minnesota private activity bonds, tax-exempt bonds, bond cap, aggregate bond limitation, residential rental projects, multifamily housing, affordable housing finance, housing bonds, public finance, bond allocation, private activity bond cap, Minnesota Statutes 474A.02, tax committee, natural gas, gas hookups, residential construction, energy policy, local control, state preemption
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 03/12/26
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
- Once we identify it as infectious waste, the labor-intensive work starts.
- </c> infectious waste, the labor-intensive infectious waste, the labor-intensive work<00:09:03.360><c
- We just had a hearing in the labor committee earlier this week specifically centering around how AI and
- I think, you know, Senator McEwen, you were talking about the conversation you had in labor.
- </c><01:41:11.520><c> I</c> the conversation you had in labor. I the conversation you had in labor.
Committee:
Senate Environment, Climate, and Legacy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 03/12/26
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:25:08.200><c> to</c> carpenter, instead of adding my labor to carpenter, instead of adding my
- We heard stories about pregnant women going through labor at home alone.
- </c><01:13:25.360><c> We</c><01:13:25.480><c> heard</c> through labor at home alone.
- We heard through labor at home alone.
- Minnesota's health care system runs on immigrant labor.
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- they shut down Department of Ed, that program was moved arguably again illegally to the Department of Labor
- they shut down Department of Ed, that program was moved arguably again illegally to the Department of Labor
- they shut down Department of Ed, that program was moved arguably again illegally to the Department of Labor
- they shut down Department of Ed, that program was moved arguably again illegally to the Department of Labor
- they shut down Department of Ed, that program was moved arguably again illegally to the Department of Labor
Committee:
House Education Finance
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- So the bid is when we say lump sum, that is labor and materials.
- So the bid is, when we say lump sum, that is labor and materials.
- So the bid is, when we say lump sum, that is labor and materials.
- Inflation has significantly increased the cost of materials, labor, and project financing for school
- She said with today's tight labor market, they cannot afford to have potential workers sitting on the
Committee:
House Taxes
Keywords:
property tax, exemption, leased land, public use, commercial property, HF632, Minnesota property tax, conservation easement, conservation restriction, assessed value, property valuation, tax assessment, real property, land conservation, farmland preservation, natural areas, riparian buffer, water quality, water quantity, county assessor
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 3/24/25
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- /c><00:21:06.880><c> and</c><00:21:07.120><c> industry</c><00:21:07.600><c> also</c> department of labor
- and industry also department of labor and industry also with<00:21:08.080><c> commerce.
- funding limitations, but in the last biennium you provided us additional resources so that we can do labor
- that team will work together with this team as to when a wage theft or misclassification turns into a labor
- </c> mclassification turns into a labor mclassification turns into a labor trafficking<00:22:00.320><
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- ><c> the</c><01:36:02.800><c> resilient</c> The second allocation supports reports, industrial and labor
- law, labor history, and organizing.
- labor news publication, and I understand it is the first of its kind in the United States.
- </c><01:36:46.639><c> law</c> such as leadership negotiation labor law such as leadership negotiation
- labor law labor<01:36:47.560><c> history</c><01:36:48.000><c> and</c><01:36:48.520><c> organizing</c
Committee:
Senate Higher Education
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Funding (01/14/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- phone, and communication will be made, and we can get a response here very, very quickly, not be laboring
- In fact, you're a year closer to the labor market.
- In fact, you're a year closer to the labor market.
- </c> a year closer to the labor a year closer to the labor market<01:52:41.599><c> but</c><01:52:41.760
- Department of Labor for behavioral health technicians to try and respond to the frontline needs of the
Summary:
The meeting was the first session of a newly created House Education Funding Committee, which also handles career technical education and higher education legislation. The chair explained that the committee was split off from the larger education committee because of the high volume of bills in the prior biennium, and said its focus would be on education funding policy and related fiscal issues. He noted that the committee had already reviewed major topics with the Department of Education, including the foundation formula, building aid, career technical education, special education aid, catastrophic aid, and higher education funding, and that chancellors from the university and community college systems were scheduled to appear later that morning.
The bulk of the meeting was an orientation on committee procedures and decorum. The chair reviewed attendance and replacement rules, hearing procedures, time limits for testimony, and how the committee would handle crowded hearings, early bills, and fiscal notes. He emphasized that hearings are not debates, that sponsors and co-sponsors may present but should not use their position to dominate questioning, and that the chair controls whether additional technical questions are asked of witnesses. He also stressed neutrality, saying members should not display buttons or placards or engage in running debates with testifiers, and that the committee should treat all testimony respectfully regardless of party or viewpoint.
Additional housekeeping guidance covered security procedures, use of cell phones and computers during hearings, breaks and hydration in the dry hearing rooms, and courtesy toward the clerk and other staff. The chair also asked members to notify leadership in advance of absences and explained that some bills may require larger rooms or overflow arrangements. No votes were taken and no bills were acted on during this portion of the meeting.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Jul 8th, 2026
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- states, including risk factors in this pregnancy, such as fertility treatments, or characteristics of labor
- Method of labor and delivery.
- Or treated during the pregnancy, method of labor and delivery, was there prenatal care, the source of
- or some process in which, you know, you're not handing them off to people that are going into slave labor
- The court concluded there are, in a civilized society, some things that money cannot buy, be it labor
Committee:
Senate Health & Human Services
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota House DFL school safety proposal fails committee vote 4/16/26
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm here today speaking on behalf of a labor union, but I do not feel the need to belabor the point about
- on</c><00:20:03.919><c> behalf</c><00:20:04.080><c> of</c><00:20:04.240><c> a</c><00:20:04.400><c> labor
- </c> here today speaking on behalf of a labor here today speaking on behalf of a labor union,<00:20:04.960
- 06.799><c> bel</c> union, but I do not feel the need to bel union, but I do not feel the need to bel labor
- the point about how important labor the point about how important Thank<00:20:10.160><c> you.
Summary:
The committee took up House File 4893, a school safety and gun violence prevention bill, and first adopted a DE1 amendment before hearing the bill. The author and supporters described the measure as a layered approach to school safety, combining increased funding for student support personnel, required school safety plans, and anonymous threat reporting systems. They cited research from the Violence Prevention Project and other sources arguing that many school shooters are insiders, often show warning signs, and frequently leak plans beforehand, making early intervention and trusted adults in schools important.
Members and testifiers also discussed the bill’s firearm storage provisions. Representative Green explained that the bill would require firearms on school property and in vehicles to be unloaded and locked, and would limit or remove principals’ discretion to allow firearms in school buildings, while preserving access for trained school security personnel. Supporters said the bill would improve clarity and safety for schools, while a representative from private schools raised concerns that the language could limit flexibility and create staffing and accountability problems for non-public schools, prompting discussion of possible amendments.
Several student and organizational testifiers supported the bill, including students from Edina High School, Education Minnesota, the Minnesota School Counselors Association, and the Children’s Defense Fund Minnesota. They emphasized the impact of gun violence on students’ mental health and learning, the value of anonymous reporting systems, and the need to invest in counselors, social workers, psychologists, and nurses. No final vote on the bill was taken in the portion provided, but the committee did adopt the DE1 amendment and continued discussion of possible changes, including with the BCA and school safety center.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (04/15/2026)
Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- realities about health care, particularly mental health, primary care, and other things, is we have labor
- This is part of that empowerment in an area where there are labor shortages, where their oversight is
- This is part of that empowerment in an area where there are labor shortages, where their oversight is
- This is part of that empowerment in an area where there are labor shortages, where their oversight is
- This is part of that empowerment in an area where there are labor shortages, where their oversight is
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Executive Departments and Administration (03/19/2025)
Executive Departments and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- We are also training the next generation of skilled builders to carry on New Hampshire's tradition of
- We are also training the next generation of skilled builders to carry on New Hampshire's tradition of
- We are also training the next generation of skilled builders to carry on New Hampshire's tradition of
- training the next generation of skilled Builders<01:45:07.840><c> to</c><01:45:08.080><c> carry</c><
- </c><02:16:38.719><c> birth</c> upend the certificate of skill birth upend the certificate of skill birth
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- <00:48:48.720><c> level</c><00:48:49.720><c> providing</c><00:48:50.240><c> respirations</c> skill level
- providing respirations skill level providing respirations providing<00:48:52.520><c> everything</c><
- Regardless of the skills and/or the knowledge that we come with, may we spend the time and effort to
- so regardless that was Albert Einstein so regardless of<03:16:06.560><c> the</c><03:16:06.760><c> skills
- and or the knowledge that of the skills and or the knowledge that we<03:16:08.960><c> come</c><03:16
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 6 on Public Safety Apr 20th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Is it a labor pool? What are the components that are straining that?
- Or she would be looking at the labor pool here in the state of California? Great question.
- And looking at the labor pool, right, certainly we would be more in favor of making sure that the labor
- That the labor pool in the state of California has utilized.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Senate Health Committee and Assembly Health Committee Mar 10th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I come as chair of the Senate Labor Committee to this discussion and want to say how important it is
- So a somewhat unlikely group of folks, including consumer advocates, labor unions, provider groups, health
- Chair Bontas stated, start with Miranda Dietz, who is director of health care programs at UC Berkeley Labor
- My name is Miranda Dietz, and I'm the director of the health care program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center
- At the Labor Center, we research issues that matter to workers and their families, including health insurance
Summary:
The joint informational hearing of the Senate and Assembly Health Committees focused on the cost of federal instability for California health coverage, access, and affordability. Opening remarks from members of both houses emphasized that California’s coverage gains under the Affordable Care Act are now threatened by federal policy changes, including the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits, H.R. 1, and new federal regulatory actions. Members repeatedly cited rising premiums, skipped care, medical debt, and the risk that low-income, immigrant, and working Californians could lose coverage or be pushed into less comprehensive plans.
The first panel reviewed the federal landscape and state response. Don Joyce described the ACA’s coverage expansions and warned that H.R. 1, regulatory changes, and broader federal retrenchment could reduce coverage and weaken meaningful benefits. Covered California Executive Director Jessica Altman said the loss of enhanced premium tax credits is driving major affordability problems, with average monthly premiums projected to rise sharply and enrollment already down, especially among middle-income consumers. HCAI’s Elizabeth Lansberg explained the Office of Health Care Affordability’s role in slowing spending growth, monitoring consolidation, and setting spending targets, including lower targets for high-cost hospitals and new primary care investment goals. Members asked about bronze plans, high-cost hospitals, administrative burdens, provider taxes, and whether federal advisory changes could affect required benefits such as immunizations.
The second panel examined population impacts and cost drivers. UC Berkeley Labor Center’s Miranda Dietz said most Californians get coverage through employers, Medi-Cal, or Covered California, and that affordability problems are widespread across all groups. She projected that California could have up to 2 million more uninsured residents by 2030, largely from Medi-Cal losses, and said higher premiums reduce wages and increase medical debt. Christoph Stremakis of the California Health Care Foundation highlighted survey data showing widespread concern about medical bills, skipped care, and medical debt, and argued that a large share of spending is wasted through administrative complexity, inflated prices, and underinvestment in prevention. Committee members pressed the panel on whether California can sustain coverage without new revenue, how cost-growth targets affect workers and families, how medical debt relief programs like Los Angeles County’s could be expanded, and how OCA can address uncompensated care, consolidation, and prior authorization burdens.
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
House Select Committee on Women and Children Mar 5th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- So we developed two special tools, one for child sex trafficking and one for child labor trafficking.
- Our child labor trafficking tool is one of the only tools in the country to be developed for this population
- Our child labor trafficking tool is one of the only tools in the country to be developed for this population
- The second part of this bill is it expands our human trafficking victim advocacy services to labor trafficking
- Through their own will to address the problem, my little labor and delivery department at that hospital
Summary:
The committee held its inaugural meeting and heard opening remarks from the chair and vice chair about the committee’s purpose: studying issues affecting women and children in Louisiana, including health, education, economic opportunity, safety, and criminal justice. After roll call, the committee proceeded with informational presentations rather than taking any formal votes. Members emphasized the committee’s role in gathering testimony and identifying policy solutions.
The first major presentation came from the Governor’s Office of Human Trafficking Prevention. The director reviewed 2025 data showing 2,963 identified victims, 15,437 service instances, and trafficking reports in 62 of 64 parishes. She explained Louisiana’s coordinated response system, including screening tools, child advocacy center referrals, and the DCFS hotline option for trafficking reports. She also described familial trafficking, new victim outreach and identification tools, and two priority bills: HB 321, which would create immunity from prostitution offenses for child victims under Safe Harbor principles, and SB 83, which would require school board trafficking policies and expand victim advocacy services to labor trafficking victims and survivors up to age 21. Committee members asked about reporting procedures, school use of the tools, service gaps, and whether the data showed increases due to better identification.
The committee then heard from the Attorney General’s office on online child exploitation and child sexual abuse material. The presenter said the Louisiana ICAC Task Force received 31,203 tips in 2025, made 545 arrests, identified or rescued more than 80 child victims, and executed over 1,500 search warrants. He described rapid tip-to-arrest responses in recent cases, the expansion of partner agencies statewide, and the creation of an Orleans Metro ICAC task force. Members asked about community presentations, the role of social media in exploitation, the use of geolocation, the prosecution of out-of-state offenders, and the need for more analysts and outreach staff. The discussion also covered sadistic online enticement, sextortion, live-streamed abuse, and the need for parents and schools to monitor children’s online activity.
At the end of the meeting, the committee began receiving a legislative auditor’s presentation on the treatment and care of incarcerated women, focusing on jail policies, health care, restraint use, and reentry, but the transcript cuts off before that presentation is completed. No committee votes or formal actions were recorded in the portion provided.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division I (10/02/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- was made a contracted position administratively attached to the Office of State and Public Sector Labor
- was made a contracted position administratively attached to the Office of State and Public Sector Labor
- :42.079><c> sector</c> the office of state and public sector the office of state and public sector labor
- 00:11:44.880><c> bill</c><00:11:45.200><c> 2</c><00:11:45.519><c> when</c><00:11:45.680><c> we</c> labor
- relations in house bill 2 when we labor relations in house bill 2 when we passed<00:11:46.160><c> house
Summary:
The committee opened a work session on 17 retained bills and moved through several measures, often with motions to ought to pass or inexpedient to legislate. House Bill 54, allowing alternative treatment centers to operate for profit, was supported as a way to improve efficiency and potentially lower costs for medical cannabis users, and it was recommended OTP by a 9-0 vote. House Bill 97, an appropriation for wastewater infrastructure, drew mixed views: supporters said the Senate’s reduced funding still met the bill’s intent, while opponents argued the funding was inadequate for critical infrastructure needs; the committee voted 5-4 to ITL. House Bill 111, extending the Right to Know Ombudsman and exempting certain assistance from unauthorized practice of law, was recommended ITL 9-0. House Bill 197, concerning state payment of a portion of local retirement contributions, was discussed as a recurring issue; members noted an amendment could fund it starting in fiscal 2027, but the committee ultimately voted 5-4 to recommend the bill itself rather than ITL. House Bill 215, requiring landfill permit applicants to submit a harms-and-benefits report, was amended to narrow its scope to future privately owned landfills only; the amendment and the bill as amended both passed 9-0. House Bill 216, on workers’ compensation credit toward retirement service, was ITL’d 9-0 after the sponsor said the proposal was too open-ended and could affect unknown numbers of people.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Energy (7-24-25) - Reupload
Transcript Highlights:
- doing that this summer and hoping to have some new updated public opinion research for you all around Labor
- research for you updated public opinion research for you all<00:45:49.520><c> around</c><00:45:50.000><c> Labor
- 51.280><c> But</c><00:45:51.440><c> for</c><00:45:51.560><c> now,</c><00:45:52.000><c> I</c> all around Labor
- But for now, I all around Labor Day.
- recognize this polling is from 2023, and we hope to have more updated numbers for you all again around Labor
Keywords:
Meeting Start 00:00:00
Attendance Roll Call 00:00:26
Approval of Minutes 00:02:27
LIHEAP Presentation and Public Hearing 00:02:42
Conservation Opportunities in Kentucky 00:29:52, 958, all
Summary:
The committee first took up a public hearing and presentation on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). Shannon Hall of the Department for Community Based Services and Rick Baker of Community Action Kentucky explained that LIHEAP is a 100% federally funded block grant that helps low-income households pay heating and cooling bills, avoid utility disconnects, and support weatherization. They outlined the program’s components, eligibility limits, seasonal application periods, and recent participation figures, including tens of thousands of households served through the summer cooling, fall subsidy, winter crisis, and spring subsidy components. They also described weatherization priorities, the partnership with Kentucky Housing Corporation, and the role of Community Action agencies in administering the program statewide.
Members asked about Assurance 16, the balance between need and available funding, summer cooling assistance, weatherization measurement, renter versus homeowner participation, and whether federal changes could affect LIHEAP. Hall and Baker said Assurance 16 supports energy-burden reduction through education, case management, and conservation strategies; that funding has generally been sufficient in recent years but crisis funds have sometimes been exhausted quickly in the past; and that summer assistance is primarily electric utility support. They also said weatherization uses return-on-investment testing and that Kentucky still has a large backlog of homes needing service. On federal funding, they said the recently passed federal bill did not directly cut LIHEAP, but future appropriations could still affect it, and any major reduction could leave a gap the state might need to consider filling. The committee approved the minutes and later approved the LIHEAP finding of fact; no members of the public signed up to testify.
After concluding LIHEAP, the committee heard a presentation from Heather Jeff of The Nature Conservancy on conservation opportunities in Kentucky. She described the organization’s voluntary land-protection work and highlighted the Cumberland Forest project, a conservation easement on about 55,000 acres in Bell, Knox, and Leslie counties supported in part by a $3.875 million state appropriation. She also reported on mine-land reforestation, elk habitat work, and the rapid allocation of a $2 million appropriation for the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund. Jeff emphasized the economic value of conservation for tourism, hunting and fishing, agriculture, forestry, bourbon, and flood protection, and said the group is finalizing a Kentucky conservation needs assessment and related feasibility research.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 4 on State Administration and General Government May 21st, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And I appreciate the questions by the Labor Committee Chair as well on this.
- obviously, CTC is not just the educational institutions and all of that, but the workforce system, our labor
- obviously, CTC is not just the educational institutions and all of that, but the workforce system, our labor
- Our labor and workforce partners need to be a part.