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NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Public Works and Highways (03/18/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
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- University System of New Hampshire. I'm sorry, the license by SP, uh, Mr.
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- </c><03:25:38.160><c> the</c> disclosure I'm a project of the disclosure I'm a project of the University
- </c><03:28:55.319><c> to</c> university system Board of Trustees to university system Board of Trustees
Summary:
The committee held a public hearing and work session on House Bill 25/25A, the capital improvements budget. Representative David Mills introduced HB 25A, which makes appropriations for capital improvements for the biennium and extends certain lapses from prior appropriations, noting it is based on Governor Ayotte’s budget. The hearing then focused on requests to add or restore funding for several projects, including community college capital needs, Veterans Home ADA and safety upgrades, career and technical education renovations in Milford, and airport infrastructure funding.
Shannon Reed of the Community College System of New Hampshire asked for an additional $2.6 million for IT infrastructure, critical maintenance, and energy management systems, citing failing boilers, roof work, cybersecurity needs, and a recent costly water damage incident at Lakes Region Community College. John Graham, representing the New Hampshire Veterans Home, requested $1.5 million for ADA compliance and safety improvements such as floor replacement and wider doors, saying the work would help the home before an upcoming VA inspection and protect federal funding. Lance Whitehead testified for Milford CTE, asking the committee to keep $9.9 million in the budget for a scaled-down renovation; members discussed the town’s failed vote, the need for local matching funds, and the possibility of another vote next year. Tim Thompson of Concord and Margaret Burns of NHMA urged restoration of airport matching funds, arguing that about $3.6 million in state money would leverage roughly $62 million to $65 million in federal FAA funds for safety and infrastructure projects. Trisha Lambert and Andrew Pomroy of the Bureau of Aeronautics and airport management association explained the airport program, the 12 federally funded airports, and how projects are selected through airport master plans and a capital improvement program.
After public testimony, the committee closed the hearing on HB 25A. In the work session that followed, staff distributed supporting documents, including cost breakdowns and comparison sheets. The chair indicated the committee would work from the governor’s $143 million capital budget as a baseline and proposed reducing it by about $10 million, largely by removing the Milford CTE item because both towns had voted it down and would not have another vote for a year. The chair said the goal was to bring the overall budget to about $133 million and then repurpose the remaining funds through straw polls and further committee action.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House OKs nearly $4 billion higher ed budget that would offset state grant program deficit 4/28/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Government Contract Review Committee (8-12-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- The next item on the deferred list is with the University of Louisville.
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- The first item on the pulled list is for the University of Kentucky, and it's number 27 on the PSC routine
- The first item on the pulled list is for the University of Kentucky, and it's number 27 on the PSC routine
- Jennifer Frraer, Director of Government Relations at the University. Good morning. Barry Swanson.
Summary:
The Government Contracts Committee first approved the minutes from its July 8 meeting and then moved through a large agenda of contracts and deferred items. The committee deferred a Kentucky Education Television contract because the vendor was still not registered with the Secretary of State, and also deferred a University of Louisville contract to the September meeting at the university’s request. Both motions passed by roll call.
The committee then took up a contract with the Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities for Seven Counties Services. Committee members questioned why the state continues funding the provider despite its ongoing bankruptcy tied to unpaid retirement contributions, how the funding split is determined, whether the state had explored other providers or direct state delivery, and whether all services in the contract are truly required by statute. Agency officials said Seven Counties is the statutorily designated community mental health center for the region, serves about 24,500 people, and provides core safety-net services that would be difficult to replace; they also said the bankruptcy dispute is still ongoing and the contested amount is about $20 million. The committee ultimately deferred the contract to the next meeting and requested additional information on the scope of services and potential offsets or recovery of unfunded liabilities.
The final deferred item was a Department for Community Based Services contract with Youth Villages for the Intercept program. DCBS explained that the program is used because it is an approved evidence-based service under the Family First Prevention Services Act, that Youth Villages has Kentucky staff and offices even though it is headquartered in Tennessee, and that the contract is intended to support intensive in-home services, foster care stabilization, and family reunification. Members asked why the services could not be provided in-house, whether Medicaid should cover more of the cost, and whether the state requires the provider to bill Medicaid as a payer of last resort. DCBS said it would verify billing and funding details and provide them back to the committee. The committee then voted to defer the contract to the next meeting.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS Senate Floor - 12 February, 2026; 9:30 AM
Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Community College, Jones College, Pearl River Community College, and the University of Mississippi Medical
- </c><00:24:45.240><c> of</c> Community College, and the University of Community College, and the University
- Commemorate the 155th anniversary of Alcorn State University. Thank you, Senator.
- </c><01:58:41.920><c> of</c> chain of command and the link of of chain of command and the link of of
- . of. of.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session: 2025 First Special Session - part 3 Jun 9th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- the University of Minnesota.
- is we have very little oversight of the university.
- But the 100th salaried person at the University of Minnesota, as of right now, makes $354,000.
- They are the governing body of the University of Minnesota.
- University of Minnesota system, we have the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Emmanuel just finished his first year of law school at Florida A&M University in Orlando.
- Emmanuel just finished his first year of law school at Florida A&M University in Orlando.
- He has just finished his first year of college at Florida A&M University.
- Included in that was language that created a center for addiction research at the University of South
- University system, the Office of Ocean Economy, delayed background screenings, gate program enhancements
Summary:
The Senate convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several introductions, then moved into special order and returning messages. Early floor action included passage of HB 6503 (relief for Mandy Penny Lamon by Sarasota County), HB 1123 (sewer collection systems), HB 211 (farm products), and a joint resolution on ad valorem tax exemption for agricultural tangible personal property, all approved without opposition. Several other measures were temporarily postponed before the chamber recessed and later returned to messages from the House.
The Senate then took up a series of House amendments and conference-style motions on major bills. SB 180 on emergency preparedness and response was amended and concurred in after debate over hurricane recovery, local government moratoriums, evacuation timing in the Keys, and property tax and redevelopment provisions; it passed 34-1. CS/HB 1609 on waste incineration and auxiliary containers was heavily debated over plastic and polystyrene preemption, local beach and park regulations, and landfill/incinerator provisions, then passed 26-10. CS/HB 1205 on citizen initiatives was amended to allow volunteers to carry up to 25 petitions without registration/training and passed 28-9. The Senate also refused to concur in a House amendment to SB 234 on offenses against law enforcement, and in SB 116 on veterans, seeking to restore funding for veteran suicide prevention.
Later, the chamber approved or advanced several education and health-related bills. CS/HB 1255 on education was amended and passed, with changes to school readiness and other education provisions. CS/HB 875 on educator preparation passed after discussion of cognitive science, classroom management, teacher excellence programs, and the phaseout of the general knowledge test. CS/HB 1105, a large education package, passed after debate over charter school conversions, cell phone restrictions, and other school governance changes. In health care, CS/HB 1427 was introduced as a comprehensive package combining multiple health-related provisions, though the excerpt ends before final action on that bill. Throughout the day, the Senate also concurred or refused to concur in various House amendments on mental health, financial institutions, land development, brownfields, and out-of-network provider legislation, with votes generally recorded and several measures passing on divided but mostly favorable roll calls.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- THEY WILL STILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO GO TO A STATE COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY, JUST NOT THE INCENTIVE OF IN-STATE
- IF ALL OF THESE STUDENTS WHO ARE CURRENTLY ENROLLED IN A FLORIDA UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE HAVE TO DROP OUT
- THEY ARE COMPETING AT A MERIT-BASED LEVEL TO EVEN HAVE ACCESS TO MOST OF THE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
- Woodson: WHAT SHE JUST PRESENTED WAS A GOOD AMENDMENT, BUT SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE UNIVERSE OF DREAMERS
- EVER THINK OF: THE TOOL OF EDUCATION.
Keywords:
immigration enforcement, unauthorized alien entry, death penalty, capital felonies, 287G agreements, in-state tuition, undocumented students, DACA, TPS, Venezuelan immigrants, law enforcement funding, immigration detention, federal preemption, equal protection, constitutional challenges, immigration status determination, school resource officers, conscientious objection, clergy protection, teacher protection
Summary:
The Florida House passed two immigration enforcement bills during a special session. Senate Bill 4C creates new state offenses for unauthorized alien entry/reentry into Florida and mandates the death penalty for unauthorized aliens convicted of capital felonies. Senate Bill 2C establishes a state immigration enforcement board, provides $300+ million for local law enforcement immigration cooperation, creates a $1,000 bonus program for officers participating in federal immigration enforcement, and repeals in-state tuition for undocumented students effective July 1, 2025. Multiple amendments were proposed but failed, including protections for Venezuelan TPS holders, DACA recipients, students in critical professions, and conscientious objection provisions for clergy and teachers. Debate included constitutional concerns about federal preemption, equal protection violations, and mandatory death penalty provisions. The session also included a memorial urging DHS to provide 287G agreement training opportunities.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS Senate Floor - 24 February, 2026; 10:00 AM
Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- But God, most of and affect all of us.
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- with the chairman of universities and colleges<00:39:59.839><c> with</c><00:40:00.079><c> chair</c><
- </c><00:40:47.599><c> our</c> failing programs on behalf of our failing programs on behalf of our universities
VA
Transcript Highlights:
- It remains standing for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, which will
- before you with gratitude for the privilege of serving the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- The pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it
- before you with gratitude for the privilege of serving the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- Speaker, we are joined in the gallery by the members of the George Mason University Student Government
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm here on behalf of the Stewards of Washington State Lands.
- Members of the committee, I'm David Biorari from Eastern Washington University.
- I'm Steve DuPont with Central Washington University here in support of the House Capital Budget.
- I'm the CEO of Homestead Community Land Trust, speaking on behalf of the Washington Coalition of Community
- Chair, ranking members of the committee, I'm Morgan Hickel with the University of Washington testifying
Bills:
HB2295
Committee:
House Capital Budget
Keywords:
Washington capital budget, supplemental capital budget, capital appropriations, state building construction account, taxable building construction account, climate commitment account, natural climate solutions, housing trust fund, affordable housing, supportive housing, homelessness, manufactured home communities, mobile home parks, school construction, school modernization, school seismic safety, healthy schools, school electrification, SCAP, behavioral health facilities
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jul 10th, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- He continued his education at California Polytechnic University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science
- A native of Los Angeles, George attended Los Angeles public schools, Columbia University, and graduated
- from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Arts with honors.
- A native of Los Angeles, George attended Los Angeles Public Schools, Columbia University and graduated
- from the University of Southern California, Bachelor of Arts with honors.
Summary:
The Assembly met with a quorum present after a roll call and prayer, then proceeded through routine journal, procedural, and guest-introduction business. Members recognized several guests, including local district officials, Japanese business leaders, and students/interns, and the chamber also observed remarks about the Texas flooding tragedy during the prayer. The body then moved through the daily file, including second-reading items and concurrence votes on AB 390, which expands the slow-down/move-over law to stationary vehicles, and AB 1478, which allows retailers to absorb mattress recycling fees; both measures had Senate amendments concurred in by recorded vote.
The Assembly adopted AJR 12, a bipartisan resolution recognizing Head Start Month and urging Congress and the President to protect and increase Head Start funding. Multiple members spoke in support, emphasizing the program’s role in early education, health, nutrition, and family support, especially in rural and low-income communities; the resolution received 70 ayes and no noes after 69 co-authors were added. The chamber also adopted ACR 96, designating a portion of Highway 101 in Humboldt County as the Patty Berg Memorial Highway, and SCR 50, which calls for state review of climate adaptation and maladaptation criteria to improve climate resilience planning; both measures passed without opposition.
On the consent calendar, the Assembly added co-authors to ACR 81 and adopted the second-day consent calendar and remaining consent items, all by unanimous or near-unanimous votes. The body also approved a motion to return AB 529 from engrossing and enrolling to the Senate for further action. The session concluded with numerous adjournment-in-memory tributes, most notably for Rincon Tribal Council Chairman Bo Mazzetti and former legislative secretary George Steffes, followed by a moment of silence for each and adjournment until Monday, July 14 at 1 p.m.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- technical questions as we met with the University of Idaho, with State Board of Education, with, of
- I was sitting on a task force with the University of Idaho, then Dr.
- Well, let me just start by saying part of the reorg of this section of code... ...part of the reorg of
- Well, let me just start by saying part of the reorg of this section of code, part of the reorg of this
- I think part of this request is to establish the level of clarity that a lot of our kind of sub-state
Committee:
House Agricultural Affairs
Summary:
The Agricultural Affairs Committee first approved the minutes from March 18, 2026, and then took up Senate Bill 1335 as amended, which would require Idaho veterinary students whose out-of-state tuition is underwritten by the state to return and practice large-animal veterinary medicine in Idaho for four years. The sponsor said the bill is meant to address the state’s shortage of licensed veterinarians and does not create new funding. Idaho Farm Bureau, the Idaho Cattle Association, and the Idaho Wool Growers Association supported the bill; the Idaho Veterinary Medical Association said it was neutral but supportive of the concept. The committee voted to send the bill to the floor with a due pass recommendation.
The committee then heard Senate Bill 1270 as amended, a labeling bill for cell-cultivated animal protein. The sponsor said it is intended to ensure transparency for consumers by requiring clear labeling, restricting use of meat terms such as steak or brisket unless authorized by USDA, and requiring restaurant menu disclosure. Supporters included Idaho Farm Bureau and livestock groups, who said consumers should know what they are buying and that the bill aligns with similar laws in other states. Food Northwest opposed state-by-state labeling requirements, arguing they increase costs and that labeling should be handled nationally. The committee approved the bill and sent it to the floor with a due pass recommendation.
House Bill 781, dealing with county authority to declare rats and related pests as agricultural pests, drew the most discussion. The sponsor said the bill was intended to clarify existing law and respond to Norway and roof rat problems, but members raised concerns about broad county authority, private property rights, and whether the language could be overbroad or better handled in other parts of code. Several members said the issue may be more appropriate for local governments or another statutory framework. After motions to send the bill to the floor, hold it in committee, and send it to general orders, the committee adopted the motion to send House Bill 781 to general orders. The meeting ended with thanks to the Department of Agriculture director and notice of a brief final meeting to wrap up committee business and recognize the page.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- technical questions as we met with the University of Idaho, with State Board of Education, with, of
- The work we've had with Farm Bureau and the livestock industry and the University of Idaho. Mr.
- I was sitting on a task force with the University of Idaho, then Dr.
- Well, let me just start by saying part of the reorg of this section of code Part of the reorg of this
- I think part of this request is to establish the level of clarity that a lot of our kind of sub-state
Committee:
House Agricultural Affairs
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Dyslexia training requirement 3/25/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And so, like, our teachers aren't coming out of our Minnesota universities or colleges with any dyslexia
- 10.920><c> or</c> out of our Minnesota universities or out of our Minnesota universities or colleges<
- </c> requirements of 2 hours of professional requirements of 2 hours of professional development.<00:
- reading, and one of them has to be of reading, and one of them has to be dyslexia
- So, I these couple of hours of training.
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- Chairman, I believe all of the ballots are on Friday, and I believe there are four of them: Livestock
- Board, University of Wyoming, State Parks and Cultural Resources, and the Treasurer's Office.
- Livestock board, there are four of them.
- Livestock board, University<00:01:06.080><c> of</c><00:01:06.320><c> Wyoming,</c><00:01:07.760><c> state
- </c><00:01:08.080><c> parks</c><00:01:08.479><c> and</c> University of Wyoming, state parks and University
Committee:
Joint Appropriations
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Kogan holds both a Ph.D. in pharmacology and an M.D. from the University of Utah and is board-certified
- He served on the faculty at the University of Utah and later at the University of Arizona Health Science
- Center and the VA hospital in Tucson, at the University of Arizona Health Science Center and the VA
- Points of personal privilege, introduction of guests.
- Members, points of personal privilege at the beginning of the day are for introduction of guests who
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Health and Human Services REVISED Apr 30th, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- University, as well as a master's of social work from the University of Oklahoma.
- Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and as far as workforce and both neurology
- and psychiatry have worked closely with Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and
- Having a neurology residency, and through the efforts of Oklahoma State University Center for Health
- If we can measure helium at the edges of the universe light years away, we can figure out a way to change
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
January 13, 2026 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- statements and the scholarship summaries so that we have the kind of the universe of what's happening
- And so it was telling us that it collectively that we were looking at a change in the universe of K through
- So it's a forecast that encompasses the entire universe of what funded in the fefp. >> To that there
- So wood in Miami-Dade County, there are a lot of families that were moving out of my day because of affordability
- It is that net in gress into the state of of K 12 students?
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- So what I can provide is what I'm saying is through University of Florida, Schimberg Center for Housing
- So when you said this, how the developers are selected, I was reading a report that the University of
- The University of Florida did a very extensive report as it pertains to affordable housing in the state
- The University of Florida Schimberg Center for Affordable Housing Studies estimated that in 2022, 18%
- The University of Florida Schimberg Center for Affordable Housing Studies estimated that in 2022, 18%
Committee:
Senate Community Affairs
Summary:
The Committee on Community Affairs held its first meeting and heard presentations focused on affordable housing implementation under the Live Local Act. Florida Housing Finance Corporation described its role in administering rental and homeownership programs, including SAIL, SHIP, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, disaster recovery efforts, supportive housing, and the Live Local funding and tax incentives. Officials said the first year’s $150 million Live Local rental allocation was fully committed to 23 developments producing 3,171 units with mixed-income set-asides, and they outlined how projects were selected through competitive solicitations tied to statutory priorities such as mixed-use development, publicly owned land, foster youth, rural areas of opportunity, redevelopment, and housing near military installations. They also discussed the tax credit contribution program, the missing-middle property tax exemption, sales tax rebates, and the year-one ad valorem exemption for qualifying affordable projects.
Members asked detailed questions about the data and program design, including the use of area median income figures, per-unit subsidy levels, county targeting, tenant relocation during redevelopment, and whether the programs were helping lower-income households. Florida Housing said it uses competitive scoring and data from the Schimberg Center and that redevelopment projects are supposed to include tenant relocation plans. The homeownership portion of the presentation covered the Hometown Heroes program, which provides down payment and closing cost assistance to first-time homebuyers, with exceptions for active-duty military and veterans. Staff said the program has assisted more than 21,000 families and leveraged over $6.5 billion in first mortgages, and members asked about repayment rates, credit scores, and whether participants were staying in homes long enough to show the program was serving intended buyers.
The committee then heard from OPAGA on two required Live Local evaluations: affordable housing strategies in other states and affordable housing policies in Florida. OPAGA reported that Florida has a high share of cost-burdened households, with 1.5 million households cost burdened and 1.4 million severely cost burdened, and that Florida’s counties and municipalities reported more than $1.4 billion in affordable housing expenditures in fiscal year 2023-24. The report identified 13 innovative out-of-state programs, with three considered high-potential for Florida implementation, and summarized Florida local government practices such as SHIP-funded homeownership and rental assistance, expedited permitting, mixed-income zoning, rehabilitation programs, and interlocal cooperation. No votes were taken, and the meeting adjourned after the presentations and questions.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee Mar 25th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Good morning, Missy Maseko, also with the American Association of University Women of California, Ms.
- Maseko, also with the American Association of University Women of California, we are in support of the
- Kathleen Harper, also here on behalf of the American Association of University Women of California, with
- Amy Haum, also with the American Association of University Women of California, in support.
- Senri Saadaar, also with the American Association of University Women, and we are in support.
Summary:
The committee heard and advanced several labor, workforce, and public works bills. SB 1166 would place AC Transit employees under PERB jurisdiction for unfair labor practice disputes; supporters said it would reduce costly court litigation and align AC Transit with other transit agencies, while AC Transit was neutral. The bill passed 4-1 to Judiciary. SB 1054 would add wage-data elements to state reporting systems to improve Medi-Cal/Calfresh verification and workforce-program accountability; supporters emphasized reducing administrative burdens and improving data for education and training outcomes. It passed 4-0 to Appropriations. SB 1149 would expand bereavement leave to cover a “designated person” and align it with other California family-leave laws; supporters cited chosen-family and LGBTQ+ concerns, and the bill passed 5-0 to Appropriations.
The committee also considered SB 909, which would raise and index public works contractor registration fees and prevailing-wage penalties and direct more penalty revenue to enforcement. Supporters argued stronger penalties and funding are needed to deter wage theft and backlogs, while contractor groups warned of higher costs, uncertainty, and no fix to staffing delays; it passed 4-1 to Judiciary. SB 1132 would require a standardized know-your-rights curriculum in the workforce development system, with supporters saying workers need labor and immigration rights information at job-entry points; it passed 4-1 to Appropriations. SB 1241 would strengthen enforcement of skilled-and-trained workforce requirements on public works projects by defining substantial compliance plans and limiting repeated noncompliance; labor supporters said it closes loopholes, while contractor groups argued the market lacks enough workers and the bill is too rigid. It passed 4-1 to Appropriations.
The committee later took up SB 1038, which would require CalPERS to notify unions when employer audits are initiated so they can help members respond to potential pension or pay corrections. Supporters said members need representation when audit findings can create repayment obligations, and there was no opposition. The bill passed 4-0 to Appropriations. After a brief recess, the committee returned and formally closed the roll on SB 1038, then adjourned.