Video & Transcript Research : 'gaming operators'
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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Ways and Means Jun 21st, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Transcript Highlights:
- It is somewhat operational in nature, but trying to get ourselves a couple of years.
- And in this shell game, our children are the victims.
- The next year the operating budget threshold went up to $1.3 billion.
- It's just how that intersection of operating budget and the total funds collected goes.
- And so that is why we must act urgently to stabilize the MBTA's operating budget now.
Summary:
The hearing focused on House Bill 55, the governor’s FY25 supplemental budget proposal to spend about $1.3 billion in surplus Fair Share revenue. House and Senate chairs framed the bill as a one-time opportunity to invest fairly in education and transportation, while also noting the need to protect the state’s long-term fiscal balance. Administration officials said the proposal should be considered alongside the FY26 budget and related bills, since the governor’s broader Fair Share plan aims for roughly an even split between education and transportation over time.
Secretary of Administration and Finance Matthew Gorzkowicz, Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt, and Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler outlined the administration’s priorities. Transportation funding would go mainly to the MBTA and related reserves, including money for the Federal Transit Administration reserve, MBTA stabilization reserve, low-income fares, winter resilience, RTA workforce support, MassDOT workforce and project delivery, and micro-transit grants. Education funding would support universal preschool expansion, early education and care capacity, early literacy tutoring, adult basic education and ESOL, early college and career technical education, MyCAP expansion, and special education circuit breaker funding. The administration emphasized that many of these investments are one-time or multi-year measures designed to address current needs without creating unsustainable recurring costs.
Committee members raised concerns about regional equity, especially the large share of transportation money going to the MBTA versus regional transit authorities and rural areas. Several members asked for more detail on how the proposal would benefit Western Massachusetts and other non-MBTA regions, and whether micro-transit and Chapter 90-related investments would be sufficient. Education questions focused on special education reimbursement shortfalls, federal funding cuts to school districts, and how CTE and vocational investments would align students with workforce needs. The administration said it would provide additional data on MBTA versus RTA investment and explained that the special education circuit breaker and transportation reimbursement changes were intended to improve predictability and relief for districts.
After the administration panel, Jessica Tang of AFT Massachusetts testified in support of using Fair Share funds to protect public education amid federal uncertainty and cuts. She argued that schools are facing a fiscal cliff, that vulnerable students would be hit hardest by funding losses, and that the Fair Share revenue should be used to preserve services and support students’ needs.
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Apr 11th, 2025 at 12:30 pm
North Dakota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We hire Game and Fish to be our biologists.
- Game and Fish has told me CWD doesn't infect livestock.
- Game and Fish has written 10 citations for baiting. Mr.
- And the last thing I heard is that the game belongs to the people. Game and Fish manages it.
- Game and Fish's ability to ban baiting.
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a quorum present, then received a gubernatorial message listing numerous bills signed by the governor. The chamber also handled conference committee business, including appointing conferees for House Bills 1003 and 1169 after refusing to concur with Senate amendments, and adopting a conference committee report on House Bill 1053, which repealed a Century Code section related to the length of the state highway system.
A major portion of the meeting focused on Senate Bill 2137, which would allow supplemental feed for hunting and include an expiration date. The House divided the proposed amendments into two parts. Division A, dealing with baiting limits and setbacks near livestock facilities, drew extensive debate over private property rights, enforceability, livestock protection, and hunting access, and failed 14-76. Division B, requiring chronic wasting disease surveillance and a report to Legislative Management, also drew debate over whether the reporting requirement was necessary or too late to be useful; it failed 44-46. With both divisions defeated, the House then passed the underlying bill 56-34.
The House also laid over Senate Bills 2340, 2326, and 2289. Later, it defeated Senate Bill 2325, which would have created a process for non-federal easements on wetland areas, by a vote of 4-84. It passed Senate Bill 2210, directing a legislative management study on watershed-based water management, 85-3; Senate Bill 2387, establishing rights for sexual violence survivors, 89-0; and Senate Bill 269, allowing state agencies to satisfy legal notice requirements by posting on their websites if newspaper publication is missed, 72-17. The House then excused absent members and adjourned until Monday, April 14, 2025.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/25
Public Safety Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- they'll be able to continue to operate they'll be able to continue to operate this<00:14:48.000>
- We want the state operation—did you say operations and maintenance? Yeah, that's what it's called.
- <00:39:58.240>
and operation did you say operations and operation did you say operations and - , that game gets cancelled on game day.
- gets cancelled on security that game gets cancelled on game<01:59:32.560>
day <01:59:33.280>
Keywords:
public safety, law enforcement, mental health, domestic violence, appropriations, criminal justice, Minnesota corrections, victim services, task force, personal safety, Independent Use of Force Investigations Unit, criminal sexual conduct, sexual assault, peace officers, law enforcement oversight, Minnesota National Guard, U.S. armed forces, military installation, armory, air base
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/25
Transportation Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- This adds an appropriation of $1,000 in fiscal year 2026 from the driver and vehicle services operating
- driver and vehicle services operating driver and vehicle services operating account<00:03:49.519
- We had planned on staying for the varsity game, but as things go in between the games, the bands play
- go in between the games the bands things go in between the games the bands play<00:15:03.839>
there's - Not normally how we'd like to operate, but sometimes that's what happens.
Keywords:
accident reporting, law enforcement, data privacy, contracted service providers, public safety, HF639, Minnesota driver license, Department of Public Safety, driver medical review, loss of consciousness, voluntary control, seizure, nonepileptic seizure, epilepsy, antiseizure medication, physician statement, medical certification, commercial driver, CDL, medical examiner's certificate
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (02/05/2025)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- recommendation on the book um operation recommendation on the book um operation greylord<01:42:55.560
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under treble damages whoever operating under treble damages whoever operating - <04:01:55.279>
themselves again because fishing game themselves again because fishing game - , who's operating them.
- :19.160>
been <06:19:19.478>an operating them um there's been an operating them um there's
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- Let's be honest, Donald Trump lit this fire when he pressured Texas to change the rules mid-game.
- So don't sit here and play games. We know what's at stake. Don't interrupt me. Madam Chair.
- You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. Point of order. And that's what you are doing.
- We heard in the testimony that changing the rules of the game in the middle of it are unacceptable.
- I realize that we like to play gotcha games today, but let's keep it in check.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Select Federal Natural Resource Management Committee, May 15, 2026
Select Federal Natural Resource Management Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Game and Fish.
- Department of Agriculture, Wyoming Game Department of Agriculture, Wyoming Game and<02:47:39.760
- we set up these support operations? we set up these support operations?
- , sawmill, one-man kind of operation, sawmill, one-man kind of operation, Powers<03:09:18.400>
- he's a small operator, good operator. he's a small operator, good operator.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Expanding accessibility by encouraging autonomous vehicle adoption in MN | Senator John Jasinski Apr 10th, 2026
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- So I think it's just to make sure that they operate smoothly.
- at at US downtown or a football game at at US Bank<00:04:57.440>
Stadium. - They're not holding up operate smoothly.
- Um, again, there are these operating in Arizona, California, and places like that.
- It's got to be able to be operating in that city because if, for example, if you want to get here to
Summary:
The discussion focused on Minnesota legislation for autonomous vehicles, with Sen. John Jasinski arguing the state should create a clear statewide regulatory framework that welcomes driverless ride-share services without imposing so many rules that companies avoid investing here. He said autonomous vehicles are already testing and mapping in the Twin Cities area, and that the main benefits would be improved accessibility and independence for people who cannot drive because of disabilities or medical conditions, as well as broader transportation options for work and travel.
Jasinski described his bill, Senate File 4010, as a public-safety framework that would rely on existing MnDOT and governor’s connected automated vehicle task force structures rather than creating a new, more restrictive process through DPS. He contrasted that approach with Sen. Dibble’s bill, which he said would be much more restrictive and could amount to "death by regulation." He also said he supports some guardrails, such as geomapping around downtown events, safe loading and unloading zones, and procedures for human takeover if a problem occurs, but wants to avoid a patchwork of city-by-city rules.
He said the legislature is considering several autonomous-vehicle bills this session and that the timing reflects years of study by the state task force. Jasinski also discussed his earlier bipartisan Senate File 75, which authorized MnDOT to research autonomous mower technology after he noticed traffic delays caused by ditch mowing along highways. He said that pilot is still in testing at an MDOT facility, but he sees potential for the technology to reduce traffic disruption, improve worker safety, and lower costs. No votes or formal committee actions were described in the interview.
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- When we were working with the gaming commission before it was a gaming commission, this was one of those
- commission before it was a the uh gaming commission before it was a gaming<00:21:19.440>
commission - <00:21:31.919>
So gaming. So they do the accounting. So gaming. - operating as efficiently as possible. operating as efficiently as possible.
- have in statute to actually operating have in statute to actually operating like<03:25:43.439>
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- operator.
- I'm just a port operator.
- The CBP operates the bridge, correct? The CBP operates the port itself? Yes.
- We lease that land to the operator. Okay, and the operator is?
- Rethink their operation.
Keywords:
overweight vehicle, vehicle weight limits, hazardous materials, hazmat, cargo tank, fuel transport, trucking, commercial vehicle, Transportation Code, criminal penalty, second-degree felony, loading violation, truck weight, axle weight, gross weight, public safety, commercial carrier, Texas, commercial truck, truck route
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Indian Affairs Jun 2nd, 2025
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- the contribution, um, you know, for jobs, all of the other, uh, components, so it's not just the gaming
- So I think that would be something to look at, especially with our gaming compacts.
- Uh, also the tribal uh impact of tribal gaming in New Mexico like Senator Lopez talked about.
- So that's a challenge for some of the smaller tribes and non-gaming tribes.
- Anything further as far as we move forward, I think gaming was another one that we know the compacts
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- This helps them with their insurance needs for the operation of that equipment.
- House Bill number 509 by Representative Sorrells, relating to gaming reader licenses.
- Until recently, licensed game breeders tested more deer than anyone.
- And I do know gaming, anything relative, excuse me, to animals.
- We have actively participated in support research on numerous game and non-game species and have been
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Louisiana Advanced Aviation and Drone Advisory Committee Jun 17th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We have a 90-day operational window that they want first operations.
- So as it applies to Lift Off Louisiana in the operations that we're conceiving of under that program,
- They're going to be operating, or conceived to be operating, in that environment, and they don't have
- So, yeah, this is going to be a big game for the state.
- So, yeah, this is going to be a big game for the state. Thank you, Mr. Ray. Anyone else? Mr.
Summary:
The Louisiana Advanced Aviation and Drones Advisory Committee met and was told this would likely be its final meeting because the committee sunsets after the 2026 regular session unless legislation reconstitutes it. Members discussed the need to reduce the committee’s size and adjust quorum rules so it can function more reliably, and they later adopted a motion supporting reconstitution of LADAC with a smaller membership and new appointments effective July 1, 2027. The committee also approved the June 2025 minutes and added a legislative briefing item to the agenda.
Under subcommittee and project updates, members heard about the new counter-drone effort tied to House Bill 940 and the “Let’s Go” initiative, which would create a joint task force of State Police, sheriffs, and municipal police chiefs to develop training standards and equipment standards for counter-UAS work. The committee also received a briefing on the state’s advanced air mobility work from newly named Advanced Aeronautics Director Josh Deplanis, including Louisiana’s selection for the FAA’s eVTOL/AAM Integration Pilot Program, branded “Lift Off Louisiana,” and the development of a statewide strategic plan covering airspace integration, vertiport infrastructure, charging networks, economic development, education, and community engagement.
Deplanis and members emphasized that Louisiana is among a small number of national EIPP sites and that the state’s proposal is notable for also addressing international airspace and “high seas” operations beyond 12 miles offshore, which could help inform FAA and ICAO policy. Members praised the state’s leadership, the work of DOTD, OMC, GOSEP, State Police, and legislative partners, and noted the potential economic importance for oil and gas logistics and other advanced aviation uses. No public testimony was offered, and the meeting adjourned after the committee’s votes and updates.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- And we do have our newest Game and Fish commissioner, Jessica Manuel, here in the back.
- And we do have our newest gaming fish commissioner, Jessica Manuel, is here in the back.
- Craven to the Arizona Game and Fish Commission Appointment Recommendation Board.
- Craven to the Arizona Game and Fish Commission Appointment Recommendation Board. Mr.
- Reese as a member of the Arizona Game and Fish Commission Appointment Recommendation Board.
NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York State Senate Session - 06/03/2026
New York Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- >> Because we are playing a game That we're not playing alone.
- To get in the game, we heard to have a little looser pen, a freer hand with the pen.
- But now we have to "get in the game." That's what this does, in a couple of sentences.
- It is easier to win the game when you keep changing the rules when you don't like the outcome.
- And they are tired of the political games.
Summary:
The Senate convened, approved the journal, and then moved through a large number of motions to discharge bills from committees and substitute identical Senate bills for third reading. The chamber also received and accepted a Finance Committee report on nominations for Kathleen Mosier as Commissioner of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Terrence O’Leary as Commissioner of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, and John Kagia as Executive Director of the Office of Cannabis Management. All three nominees were confirmed, with Mosier and O’Leary confirmed unanimously and Kagia confirmed 57-1, with Senator Walczyk voting no.
The Senate adopted previously approved resolutions recognizing June 2026 as LGBTQIA+ Pride Month and mourning the death of Susan Irene Wright of Harlem. Senators Brisport and Bottcher spoke at length in support of Pride Month, emphasizing LGBTQ+ history, resilience, and ongoing threats to the trans community. On the Susan Wright resolution, Senators Cleare, Bailey, and Bottcher praised her community leadership, philanthropy, and family legacy, and Assembly Member Jordan Wright was recognized in the chamber.
The body then considered and passed many bills on the calendar, including measures on insurance, environmental conservation, public health, education, business law, labor, social services, highway law, and local tax exemptions. Several bills drew brief explanations of vote, including a measure to end higher insurance premiums for widows, a bill to prohibit correctional facilities from denying visitation because of menstrual products or IUDs, and a Medicaid-related bill to expand access to blood pressure monitors for pregnant people. Most bills passed with broad support, though some had notable opposition from a small group of senators.
Late in the session, the Senate took up a proposed constitutional amendment on redistricting. Senator Stewart-Cousins sponsored the measure, and Senator Walczyk questioned it extensively, arguing voters had previously approved an independent redistricting process and objecting to changes that would remove the Legislature’s two-thirds map-approval requirement and alter the commission’s role. The sponsor said the changes were needed in response to aggressive partisan redistricting in other states and would still require voter ratification in future sessions. The transcript ends during that debate, with no final vote on the amendment shown.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Appropriations Committee on Higher Education Mar 26th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- We put a $100 million increase into operations funding for...
- We put a $100 million increase into operations funding for our Florida College System.
- And we do have a big game tomorrow. Yes, we do have a big game tomorrow.
- I’ve also met with facilities and operations specialists at the university.
- , basketball games, internationally and throughout the United States.
Summary:
The committee first took up a confirmation for UCF trustee reappointment candidate Mr. Christie, who described his long service on the board, his UCF business-school background, and his focus on strengthening UCF’s financial foundation, workforce alignment, and engineering and technology programs. Members praised his service and asked about UCF’s future direction, including its role in Florida’s space and engineering sectors. He was allowed to leave early for a meeting with the governor.
The committee then heard the Higher Education Appropriations budget presentation for fiscal year 2025-26. The chair outlined a proposed $11.5 billion higher education budget emphasizing workforce education, Florida College System operations, career and technical education, the GATE program, nursing education through the Florida Center for Nursing, UF/IFAS agriculture technology, tutoring, autism and neurodevelopment services, student financial aid, and $250 million for state universities through the Board of Governors. Senator Davis asked about line grant flexibility, and the chair said a conforming bill would address details. The committee adopted a motion allowing technical corrections and then adopted the budget proposal as a recommendation to the full Appropriations Committee.
The remainder of the meeting focused on confirmations for university boards, especially the University of West Florida, where several nominees were questioned about Title IX compliance, free speech, workforce readiness, military/veteran ties, and prior statements about privatization and higher education. Rebecca Matthews, Rachel Moyah, Ashley Ross, and Adam Kessel each described their backgrounds and goals for UWF; Kessel faced extensive questioning about his past writings on privatization, the GI Bill, and speech suppression, and said he would not recommend privatizing Florida universities and supported veterans’ education benefits. Public testimony on UWF was largely opposed, with speakers arguing the nominees lacked local ties and warning the slate would harm the university and community. The committee also heard from FAMU reappointment nominee Judge Belvin Perry, who emphasized student success, workforce quality, and FAMU’s continued rise, and from UCF nominee Mark Philburn and FSU nominee Peter Jones, both of whom highlighted their professional experience and commitment to student success and prudent stewardship. The meeting extended its time to 6:30 p.m. to continue hearing nominees and public testimony.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Then on an operating basis to maintain.
- Then on an operating basis because<00:25:47.840>
the <00:25:48.720>you <00:25:48.880> - Um, one of the things we did and had an appropriation for in the last gaming commission was we hired
- appropriation for in the last gaming appropriation for in the last gaming commission<01:21:22.800
- <01:21:42.719>
research preeminent problem gaming research preeminent problem gaming research
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- But if you're the Catholic Charities running a business operation out of... money running a business
- Well, I represent the video game people. This won't take but two minutes. Okay.
- We're requesting an exemption for video games.
- All of them exempt video games.
- Um, it's also going to increase the penalties if you damage or interrupt the operations.
Keywords:
Morgan County, judge of probate, legal qualifications, equity jurisdiction, constitutional amendment, campaign finance, electronic notifications, civil penalties, Fair Campaign Practices Act, Secretary of State, sex offenders, treatment programs, electronic media, post office box restrictions, Class C felony, parole, probation, human cloning, criminal penalties, embryo
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Friday, February 7, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- What is the end game for me?
- That's the end game for me.
- <03:17:33.160>
the interest you think this is a game the interest you think this is a game - This isn’t a game.
- This isn’t a game.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Agriculture (02/11/2026)
Environment and Agriculture
Transcript Highlights:
- We're late to the game. We're late to the game. We need to do something.
- Well, that's the end of my testimony. the game. We're late to the game. We the game.
- We're late to the game.
- We're late at the game. something now. We're late at the game.
- So current operators the year 2030.