Video & Transcript Research : 'community input'

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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Thu Apr 9, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 42

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

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  • Item number four, Senate communications. Mr. Clerk, are there any Senate communications?
  • communities across our state. communities across our state.
  • where we can actually map communities where we can actually map communities that<00:39:27.720>
  • :29.560> that that have art versus communities that that have art versus communities that don't
  • Thank you. of the Filipino community to Hawaii and our country.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Fri Apr 10, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 43

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

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  • Item number four, Senate communications. Members, any introductions? Representative Tam.
  • opportunity to recognize the industry that serves as the backbone of our economy and the heartbeat of our communities
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Tue Mar 24, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 33

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

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  • Item number four, Senate communications. Mr. Clerk, are there any Senate communications?
  • honoring Robert 'Bob' Toyofuku for his many years of service and contributions to Hawaii's legal community
  • :24:55.360> legal and contributions to Hawaii's legal and contributions to Hawaii's legal community
  • > resolution<00:24:57.120> is<00:24:57.240> offered<00:24:57.520> by community
  • This resolution is offered by community.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Wed Feb 11, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 13

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

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  • Item number four, Senate communications. Mr. Clerk, are there any Senate communications?
  • Clerk, are there any Senate communications? communications? communications?
  • You know, they played not just for wins, but for the pride of their communities, their family, and the
  • , their family, and the communities, their family, and the entire<00:21:50.720> state.
  • communities and show people that they have different kinds of opportunities.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Opening Day Floor Session 01-21-2026 10:00am

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

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  • It takes a kaulu, a community, to bring a vision to life.
  • committed and united school community committed and united school community comprised<00:15:04.560
  • dedicated Kumu, parents and community dedicated Kumu, parents and community members<00:15:16.160
  • And I got up this morning and community.
  • On page 22, miscellaneous communication On page 22, miscellaneous communication number<00:50:16.720
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 13th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Legislative Session Day 59 (4-14-26) - Part 1

Kentucky House Floor Meeting

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  • Clerk, please report any communications received from the governor. the journal.
  • This is an issue that we have debated back and forth about whether or not community engagement, otherwise
  • <00:17:33.440> It<00:17:33.679> is period for community engagement.
  • It is period for community engagement.
  • seriously, because people back community seriously, because people back home<02:19:58.319> depend
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/23/2026 - Senate Finance

Finance

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  • HB 2950 gives Arizona communities the option to use that tool that already works across the country.
  • created some bottlenecks that make us... ...tool, the community facilities district, but our current
  • So we have a community that operates under the current statute that allows CFDs, community facilities
  • You know, the project I referenced—if we didn't have that community facilities district, that project
  • This is an incredibly important tool for small to mid-sized quasi-rural communities like Queen Creek
Summary: The Senate Finance Committee approved the minutes from March 16, 2026, then heard testimony on a series of bills, with the chair noting that testimony and votes would be handled in batches because members were coming and going. HB 2939 would raise the rural qualified facilities tax credit from $20,000 to $25,000 per job for certain projects with initial investment under $2 billion. Lucid Motors supported the change as a tool to attract manufacturing jobs to rural Arizona, while opponents questioned whether the higher credit would actually create new jobs and pointed to a fiscal note that could reach $48 million. The committee later passed the bill 5-2. HB 2950 would authorize municipalities and counties to form tourism improvement areas funded by lodging business assessments for marketing and tourism promotion. The Arizona Lodging and Tourism Association and Visit Phoenix supported the measure, describing TIAs as voluntary, locally controlled tools already used in other states and useful for rural destinations; senators pressed on whether the assessments were truly voluntary and how the districts would be formed and administered. The bill passed 5-2. HB 2780, a technical cleanup bill related to property tax lien foreclosure and excess proceeds sales, was described as conforming changes to a prior law creating a mechanism for delinquent taxpayers to recover equity; it passed 6-1. HB 2502 would allow certain ASRS members who are elected officials to retire at normal retirement age without resigning their elected office, with the employer paying the alternate contribution rate. ASRS said it was neutral, and the sponsor and a lobbyist argued the bill would create parity with non-elected members who can retire and return to work; the committee passed it 5-2. HB 2140, as amended by a striker, would let the state treasurer invest up to 10% of trust and treasury monies in physical gold or silver bullion held in secure U.S. depositories. The sponsor and Sound Money Defense League supported it as a diversification and inflation hedge, while opponents argued gold is volatile, costly to store, and not a better use of taxpayer funds; the committee adopted the striker and passed the bill 4-2. HB 2398 would require commercial liability insurance for watercraft rented or hired in Arizona, including peer-to-peer boat-sharing programs, while not affecting ordinary personal boat ownership. The sponsor, insurers, and rental operators said the bill responds to uninsured boats being rented through apps and to safety and liability problems; some members said training should also be addressed. The committee adopted an amendment and passed the bill 6-1. Finally, HB 2999 would create state affordable infrastructure districts to finance public infrastructure for housing through bonds, taxes, and assessments, with unanimous landowner consent and disclosure requirements. Home builders and contractors said the districts could lower upfront housing costs and improve financing, but contractors sought stronger payment protections and some senators worried the bill could add red tape and costs without guaranteeing savings to homebuyers. After adopting a large amendment, the committee passed HB 2999, though at least one member voted no and another passed on the vote.
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  • And the people best situated to deal with that are you guys that are sitting here, living in your communities
  • , talking to your community leaders, identifying what challenges and opportunities there are that enables
  • Would you be willing to bring this to the Veterans Caucus as well and let us kind of have some input
  • Input on some of the consultation of design. We work with a lot of these families. Absolutely.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

AEN-WLA, AEN Public Hearings 02-11-2026

Agriculture and Environment

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  • This bill is important because it will help the coconut trees be able to communicate with the community
  • , years, neither the cultural community, years, neither the cultural community, the<00:25:44.000>
  • ><00:25:46.159> the the subsistence community, yeah, or the the subsistence community, yeah, or
  • coconut trees be able to communicate coconut trees be able to communicate with<00:26:45.120>
  • > us<00:26:46.960> which with the community and tell us which with the community and tell
Summary: The committee heard several measures related to agriculture, invasive species control, trees, reef protection, and land use. SP 2489 would require Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity leases to include access, invasive-species control, and termination provisions; DAB and DLNR supported it, as did several outside groups, while the Hawaii Farm Bureau and Hawaii Cattlemen’s Council raised concerns about notice, cooperation with lessees, and placing penalties on leaseholders for preexisting infestations. The chair noted six testifiers in support, one opposed, and three with comments. SP 2310 would appropriate funds to remove overgrown vegetation from the Kohola stream. DAB supported the bill but explained that the work already completed by its contractor stopped at a DOT boundary, and that the affected parcel appears to be a DOT highway segment on ceded lands; the committee discussed whether the appropriation should instead go to DOT. SP 2372, on exceptional and significant trees, received support from DNR and Outdoor Circle, with testimony describing trees as critical infrastructure and suggesting technical amendments to committee membership and the process for recommending trees to county councils. SP 2426, which would authorize DNR to contract with private parties to maintain sunscreen dispensers at state beaches and promote mineral-based sunscreen as reef-protective, drew support from DNR and reef advocates, while another witness questioned the science behind claims about mineral versus chemical sunscreens and urged broader environmental solutions. SP 2334 would impose a land conversion fee on agricultural land converted to other uses, create a fee fund for programs including healthy soils, and require state agricultural lands to use a conservation metric. DAB offered comments, and testimony from climate and farm groups generally supported the conservation goals but questioned references to programs not yet in place and objected to language excluding solar and wind uses, with one witness urging that agri-voltaics remain allowed. SP 2925, concerning coconut trees, would recognize them as food, water, and cultural resources, require signage for landscape palms, set labeling standards, and create a tax credit for naturally managed consumable coconut trees. DAB shifted from opposition to comments, DNR supported, and testimony from cultural and subsistence advocates strongly backed the bill as a response to coconut rhinoceros beetle impacts; committee questions focused on enforcement of signage, inspection resources, and the proposed tax credit.
TX
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  • However, this has left a loophole for illegal activities through communication platforms such as social
  • definition of barratry and the legal solicitation of professional services to incorporate digital communication
  • Additionally, the committee's substitute adds false, misleading, or deceptive electronic communication
TX
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  • This is vital to the local communities across the state.
  • In these communities, we need this summertime.
  • I give back to my community every single day.
  • The policy for community colleges versus general academics is that if I want to go to Cook County community
  • Communities will have to probably pick up.