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WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary Committee, March 2, 2026 AM

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • type of protection.
  • This is only to get to the very beginning of it to protect people against being, um, slapped.
  • This is only to get to the very beginning of it to protect people against being, um, slapped.
  • This is only to get to the very beginning of it to protect people against being, um, slapped.
  • This is only to get to the very beginning of it to protect people against being, um, slapped.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education May 14th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • That's protected by FERPA. The federal law that protects your grades and things of that nature.
  • the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services and the Department of Education, and to provide
  • We worked with the Department of Education on this, as well as a plethora of early learning centers.
  • Ashley Townsend, Department of Education.
  • teachers and submitting to the Department of Education.
Summary: The Senate Education Committee met with four members present and took up a long agenda of education-related bills. Early items included SCR 65, which would create a K-12 student success task force to study statewide career and academic pathway advising; the committee adopted a substantive amendment adding designees and then reported the resolution favorably. The committee also reported favorably on SCR 119, honoring Coach D.D. Breaux, after brief remarks about her LSU gymnastics legacy and the request that LSU study naming its gymnastics training facility in her honor. Several bills affecting school operations and student support were heard and reported favorably, including HB 434 on probationary school bus driver employment and superintendent authority over dismissal; HB 484 expanding scholarship benefits for children and spouses of fallen or disabled firefighters and police officers; HB 749 and HB 1059 on savings accounts and TOPS math eligibility alignment; HB 218 adding food insecurity questions to student questionnaires, which was amended and reported favorably; HB 325 expanding TOPS Tech eligibility through dual enrollment and part-time use; HB 476 requiring Safe Haven law postings in middle and high school restrooms; HB 1249 clarifying access to school-based health centers, with an amendment adopted; HB 1242 allowing more than one early learning center license at the same location under certain circumstances; HB 632 improving data protections and functionality for LA First; and HB 352 on behavioral health services for public school students, which was amended to address IEP and dispute-process concerns before being reported favorably. Two bills drew extended debate over transparency, privacy, and school autonomy. HB 608 would create confidentiality for intercollegiate athletics revenue-sharing documents; LSU representatives argued the bill was needed to protect student-athletes and competitive information, while PAR and the Louisiana Press Association opposed it as an improper secrecy carve-out for state-generated revenue. Despite the opposition, the committee reported HB 608 favorably. HB 1112, which would exempt BESE-approved non-public pre-K programs from certain licensure and safety requirements and adjust related definitions, was amended and then heard with testimony from the Pelican Institute in support, arguing it corrects overreach from prior law and protects private school autonomy and parental choice.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Child Committee Meeting - 2025-04-02

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Outside of the advocacy side of my work, I do a ton of transit canvassing.
  • And protecting the future of our small rural communities. Thank you so much.
  • Members, during the first Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services established
  • As we move forward, we will continue working closely with advocates, providers, and the Department of
  • I think especially when you hear that the federal government may be allocating Department of Transportation
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 4/2/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • During the first Trump administration in 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services established
  • As we move forward, we will continue working closely with advocates, providers, and the Department of
  • department of children youth and department of children youth and families<00:54:19.119> in
  • She also noted that the federal government may be allocating Department of Transportation projects related
  • Information to protect children reducing the<01:46:01.760> scope<01:46:02.080> of<01:46
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • It provides... layers of patient protection and also for the physician involved.
  • Conversely, the lack of protections drives doctors out of the profession.
  • No, I am the president of Protecting Texas Children now.
  • Here as a resource witness with the Texas Department of Insurance.
  • Department of Defense, not NIH, and...
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Feb 3rd, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • of government. of government.
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  • Uh, what this does is simply establish a statute of limitations of 5 years.
  • the victims of that, the result of us bringing this legislation to kind of close these loopholes, is
  • >> We took care of that. >> We took care of that.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:16:01.360> of of upfront through the department of of upfront through the department of
  • to my left is Dana Feldman, the executive director of Consumer and Environmental Protection.
  • They rarely, if ever, leave because of environmental issues at the department or the job itself.
  • They rarely, if ever, leave because of environmental issues at the department or the job itself.
  • <00:49:50.800> of<00:49:50.880> the department of a around some of the department of a
Summary: The committee heard first from Kentucky Farm Bureau leaders, who outlined the organization’s current priorities and recent work on farmland transition. Eddie Melton said Farm Bureau is working through 983 county and advisory committee resolutions and highlighted support for the updated selling farmer tax credit, now law through House Bill 775, as well as Senate Bill 28’s agriculture economic development provisions. He said Farm Bureau’s likely priorities include maintaining the 50% share of the tobacco settlement fund for agriculture, protecting funding for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, preserving sales tax exemptions on farm inputs, keeping property taxes controlled, and exploring additional tools to keep farmland in active farmers’ hands, including possible loan or inheritance-tax changes. He also raised concerns about eminent domain transparency, nuisance deer permits, and access to agricultural inputs and crop protection products. Alita Bots described the farmland transition initiative in more detail, saying the revised state tax credit is generating strong interest and that a new federal tax provision now allows eligible land sales to actively engaged farmers to spread capital gains taxes over time. She said the initiative has reached 22 counties and more than 1,300 people this year through outreach and meetings, and that Farm Bureau is pairing policy work with resources to help farm families plan transitions and prepare wills and other estate documents. Drew Graham added that the effort is also meant to bridge the rural-urban divide and support rural communities, and Farm Bureau invited members to its annual meeting in early December. Members asked about rising insurance costs and deer damage. Farm Bureau representatives said severe convective storms, inflation, and higher repair and material costs have driven insurance rate increases, citing five major storm events since 2021 and a recent Owensboro hailstorm that caused about $350 million in losses; they said the company is moving toward percentage deductibles to help moderate increases. On deer, they said crop-loss totals are hard to quantify but acknowledged the problem and discussed possible coordination with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and Hunters for the Hungry. Commissioner Jonathan Shell then began the Department of Agriculture presentation, reporting gains from the department’s school agriculture outreach program, including a 23% increase in county participation between March and September and improved teacher-reported student learning, before continuing into the department’s legislative priorities.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Judiciary Feb 14th, 2026 at 09:36 am

House Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thankfully, your department has taken control of so much of that, the Environment Department as well,
  • the Department of Public Safety.
  • When someone is fleeing abuse, going to court for an order of protection, Luxury; it's a protection.
  • And it really needs to be broader to protect all of us.
  • And then in terms of violations of the specific protections that are set forth in this bill, the Section
Bills: HB294, SB40, SB43, SB35
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Delivery of Government Efficiency Mar 12th, 2025

Delivery of Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • for very departments within the city of Prairieland.
  • the fire department and the police department and to me, the oddities of the way they're paid and compensated
  • Of the $58 million worth of payroll, how much of that is in your department?
  • B.L.R. in 1989 following a sunset review of its predecessor, the Department of Labor and Standards.
  • Thank you. registered as Doug Jennings on behalf of the Texas Department of using a regulation and you'll
Bills: HB10, HB 12, HB675, HB10, HB12
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Children, Youth and Family Services REVISED: HB3637 - Added Feb 18th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Children, Youth and Family Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • So I wanted to make sure that we protected all of our DHS funding we get federally, and so I worked with
  • House Bill 3886 provides the case of an immediate jeopardy determined by the Department of Health with
  • The State Department of Health personnel shall remain on site until the nursing home facility plan of
  • Health Department already oversees a lot of these things that are there.
  • In my view, the Department of Health does not have the current responsibility for this.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 46

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • of uh House of And welcome to your class of uh House of Representatives.
  • of all of the we will clap at the end of all of the announcements. announcements. announcements.
  • House of Representatives. House of Representatives.
  • the Department of Health to engage with the U.S.
  • Department of Defense. That should read Department of War. So for those reasons, with reservations.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Thu Apr 16, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 45

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • House of Representatives. House of Representatives.
  • House Resolution number 214, relating to the committee assignments of the House of Representatives of
  • of assignments of the House of Representatives<00:18:11.240> of<00:18:11.320> the<00:18
  • <00:19:40.240> more front lobby of of my office for more front lobby of of my office for more
  • of on behalf of the House Chair of Transportation<00:21:53.280> and<00:21:53.400> myself,
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EEP Info Briefing - Thu Apr 16, 2026 @ 9:00 AM HST

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're here for an informational briefing of the Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection.
  • Um, thank you, Chair Lowen, Vice Chair, and members of the Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection
  • I'm a professor in the Department of Economics at UH Mānoa.
  • I'm a professor in the Department of Economics at UH Mānoa.
  • I'm a professor in the Department of Economics at UH Mānoa.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services May 12th, 2025

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Texas Department of Banking website lists 180 companies that have this type of license in Texas.
  • of what they say their terms of service are.
  • their terms of service.
  • Senate Bill 1024 seeks to protect the will of the voters by prohibiting a taxing entity from issuing
  • And it's kind of... ...one of the tools you want us to use instead of using long-term debt.
Bills: SB512, SB1024
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Transportation Apr 17th, 2025

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Our, our interpretation of what the Department of Transportation released a couple of days ago is that
  • And so Amtrak applied for a corridor ID grant, and I think what the Department of Transportation is concerned
  • And so I think what the Department of Transportation is saying, and we agree with, they don't want them
  • And so we support what the Department of Transportation is saying.
  • We look forward to working, continue to work with the Department of Transportation.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Transportation Apr 17th, 2025

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Department of Defense.
  • Um, our interpretation of what this department released a couple of days ago is that number one, they
  • And so I think what the Department of Transportation is saying, and we agree with, is they don't want
  • And so, we support what the Department of Transportation is saying.
  • We look forward to continuing to work with the Department of Transportation.