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LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Administration of Criminal Justice Mar 31st, 2026

Administration of Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • Between now and the floor, I'm working with the clerk's office and the event.
  • Between now and the floor, I'm working with the clerk's office and the event.
  • We have the vice chair on the floor. Yes, Ms. Bush, right?
  • He had to have stitches and a procedure done that day.
  • Vice Chair, the floor, did you want to go ahead and take, oh, we did that all right.
Bills: HB54 , HB55 , HB125 , HB133 , HB158 , HB161 , HB168 , HB169 , HB191 , HB245 , HB280 , HB296 , HB399 , HB821 , HB995
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 8th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is a... ...in terms of procedure, this goes the way this bill is built.
  • Yes, that's standard procedure. Did you find any empty alcohol bottles? No.
  • So Article 18, the Code of Criminal Procedure. It has to do with blood specimens.
  • This procedural mess takes an incredible amount of time.
  • That's Article 18.067 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Summary: The committee first took up House Bill 2777 by Representative Rose, which would bar the death penalty for defendants who can prove by clear and convincing evidence that they had schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and active psychotic symptoms at the time of the offense. Rose said the bill would still hold defendants accountable through life without parole, would save money by avoiding lengthy capital litigation, and would address cases where severe mental illness was not adequately considered. Supporters from NAMI Texas, the Catholic bishops, and a forensic psychologist said the bill is narrowly tailored, consistent with neuroscience and moral principles, and would prevent executions of people whose psychosis substantially impaired reality testing. Committee members questioned how the bill interacts with existing competency and insanity law, whether the diagnosis is sufficiently defined, and whether the statute requires active psychosis at the time of the offense. An opponent argued the death penalty should remain available for juries to decide in all cases. The bill was left pending. The committee then heard House Bill 1221 by Representative Lozano, which would raise the cap on pretrial intervention program fees from $500 to $1,200. Lozano and a district attorney witness said the increase is needed because program costs have risen and the fees help make diversion programs self-sustaining, allowing first-time or low-level offenders to complete rehabilitation and potentially obtain expunction. Opponents from the Texas Fair Defense Project argued the higher fee could make diversion unaffordable for indigent defendants and undermine an important alternative to incarceration, especially where related supervision and monitoring costs already add up. Members discussed whether the fee applies only to PTI participants, how payment plans and waivers work, and whether ability to pay should be addressed more explicitly. The bill was left pending. Finally, the committee heard House Bill 1738 by Representative Jones, which would repeal Penal Code Section 21.06 and related Health and Safety Code references concerning homosexual conduct. Jones said the law is unconstitutional under Lawrence v. Texas, remains harmful on the books, and has led to confusion and unnecessary costs even though it is unenforceable. Supporters said the bill simply removes outdated language and protects civil liberties, while opponents from Texas Values argued the statute still serves as a statement that homosexual conduct is unacceptable and should remain as a warning, even if unenforceable. Members debated whether the law’s remaining language is merely symbolic or still harmful, and whether other criminal statutes already cover conduct such as prostitution, incest, and offenses involving minors. The bill was left pending after testimony.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Mar 12th, 2026 at 07:00 pm

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And everyone on this floor, lots of constituents and stakeholder input.
  • budget before us really is not much different than the one that we passed a few weeks ago off this floor
  • They prepare so we can be as smooth as possible on the floor.
  • I move that all measures on the floor calendar or being held at the desk be returned to the Committee
  • The middle aisle will be clear, or visitors will be asked to leave the floor.
Bills: SCR8410 , SCR8410
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Mar 12th, 2026 at 02:00 pm

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I will certainly miss him here on the Senate floor and wish him nothing but the very best.
  • Those are two things right alone that I will surely miss on the Senate floor.
  • Besides viewing the backside of him for all the... ...will surely miss on the Senate floor.
  • Besides viewing the back side of him for all these years on the floor, Mr.
  • Both Matt and I are... ...rotor head on the floor that I know of.
Bills: SCR8410 , SCR8410
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Mar 12th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The House made a number of changes to this bill after it left this floor.
  • We passed an amendment in committee to address that, and we held it on the floor.
Bills: SCR8410 , SCR8410
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Mar 12th, 2026

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The House made a number of changes to this bill after it left this floor.
  • We passed an amendment in committee to address that, and we held it on the floor.
Bills: SCR8410
Summary: The Senate opened with roll call, colors, pledge, and prayer, then approved the previous day’s journal and received gubernatorial appointments and House messages. It also introduced Senate Bill 6362 and referred it to the Law and Justice Committee. After caucus, the President signed a number of bills in open session. The chamber then took up several House-amended measures. Substitute Senate Bill 6225, a transportation bonding bill, was concurred in and passed 49-0 after remarks that it was needed to support the six-year transportation budget and historic maintenance investments. Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6354, allowing direct sales by electric vehicle manufacturers such as Rivian and Lucid, was also concurred in and passed 47-2 after supporters said the House changes lowered consumer fees while preserving the fiscal effect. Engrossed Senate Bill 6228, dealing with tax preferences and pharmacy-related provisions, passed 26-23 after concurrence; Engrossed Senate Bill 6347, concerning estate tax changes, passed 39-10 after concurrence; Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6260, which included changes to transitional kindergarten, National Board bonuses, alternative learning experience, Running Start, and electric bus depreciation, passed 26-23; and Substitute Senate Bill 6355, involving transmission authority governance, transparency, and eminent domain-related sideboards, passed 32-17. The Senate also resolved several House/Senate differences by receding or amending bills. Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1408, funding the Seattle Community Development Authority, passed 49-0 after the Senate receded from its amendments. Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1295, on literacy-related teacher standards and technical assistance, was returned to second reading, amended with a striking amendment, and then passed 48-1. Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 2215, concerning Climate Commitment Act compliance obligations for fuel supply, was similarly amended with a negotiated striking amendment to protect good-faith operators and then passed 49-0. The Senate then signed additional bills in open session and recessed for lunch and caucus.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Mar 11th, 2026 at 02:15 pm

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • procedure.
  • This floor was sparse.
  • Thank you, floor leader Ritelli.
  • She will have us take a moment to... ...touch the floor.
  • I think there's no debate on this floor, Mr.
Bills: SCR8410
Summary: The Senate took up several bills on final passage, beginning with Substitute House Bill 2689 on the Working Connections Child Care program. The chamber adopted a Ways and Means striking amendment, then passed the bill 33-16. Supporters said it would change provider payment to attendance-based reimbursement, require subsidy rates to reach at least the 75th percentile of market rates, update use of market rate surveys, and remove previously scheduled income-eligibility expansions. Opponents argued it would not treat all child care providers equally and could create unfair workarounds. The bill was immediately transmitted to the House. The Senate then passed Engrossed House Bill 2487, which clarifies how insurance companies and their affiliates are taxed, and Substitute House Bill 2089, which narrows a tax preference for certain financial institutions and dedicates the revenue to the Wildfire Mitigation Fund. HB 2487 drew criticism for applying the tax retroactively to 2019 despite prior court rulings, while HB 2089 was opposed on affordability grounds because it affects mortgage-related taxation. The chamber also passed Engrossed House Bill 2681, raising annual license fees for cannabis producers, processors, and retailers; opponents said the increase reflected broader budget pressures. A major portion of the meeting was devoted to Senate Resolution 8704 honoring Senator Rebecca Saldaña. Numerous senators from both parties praised her work on labor, environmental justice, child welfare, immigrant and worker rights, and her habit of centering marginalized communities and checking on colleagues personally. Saldaña responded with remarks about organizing, democracy, and the importance of collective action, saying she was grateful for the chamber and looking forward to the next chapter. The Senate adopted the resolution unanimously, and members agreed to add all senators’ names as co-sponsors. The Senate also adopted Senate Resolution 8702 honoring Senator Judy Warnick, with speakers from both parties highlighting her long service, agricultural background, calm leadership, bipartisan approach, and work on rural economic development, children and families, and capital projects. Warnick thanked colleagues and said she looked forward to spending more time with her family, farm, and horses. The meeting also included routine motions to move between orders of business and a message from the House concurring in Senate amendments to several bills.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Mar 11th, 2026

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I move that Rule 46 be suspended to allow committees to meet during the day's floor sessions and caucus
  • I move that Rule 20 be suspended to allow consideration of additional floor resolutions as well as waiving
  • We will be taking up a much smaller striking amendment on the floor, so I encourage members to look at
  • Yes, we don't all agree here on the Senate floor. And you know what, Mr. President?
  • President, as the member on this floor that gets to share...
Bills: SCR8410
Summary: The Senate convened, approved the prior day’s journal, suspended rules to allow committee work and additional floor resolutions, and referred committee and gubernatorial appointment reports as designated. It then took up several gubernatorial appointments in third reading. Megan Matthews was confirmed as director of the Washington State Office of Equity by a 45-2 vote, and Robert A. Zupon, Denise E. Gideon, Andrea Buchanan, Michelle R. Smith, and Edison A. Valerio were each confirmed to various community and technical college boards of trustees by large bipartisan margins. The chamber then considered Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2711, a transportation revenue and policy measure. After rejecting the Transportation Committee’s original striking amendment and adopting a narrower floor striking amendment, senators debated the bill’s changes, including repeal of the luxury aircraft tax and replacement with higher aircraft fuel taxes, registration fees, and an annual excise tax, along with technical corrections and safety-related transportation provisions. Supporters said the bill was a workable compromise that would sustain transportation funding and support future aviation investments; opponents argued it would raise costs on small aircraft owners and general aviation. The bill passed final passage 33-15. The Senate also adopted Senate Resolution 8703 honoring Senator Steve Conway for his 34 years of legislative service. Multiple senators spoke in praise of his leadership on labor, pensions, veterans, and district advocacy, as well as his institutional knowledge, mentorship, and personal integrity. Senator Conway then offered a personal statement thanking colleagues, staff, family, and constituents, and saying he would continue advocating for working people after leaving the Legislature. The Senate then recessed for lunch and caucus.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, April 8, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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  • John Lewis, came up to me on the House floor. It's very crowded on the House floor.
  • Speaker, on this House floor.
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Bills: HB1526 , HR300 , HR293 , HR294 , HR164
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Administration of Criminal Justice Apr 23rd, 2026

Administration of Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • I do believe it got out of the House floor. I do.
  • But we are talking about criminal procedure.
  • We already have procedures, all right?
  • Representative Knox then took the floor.
  • Head to the floor. Peeps, we are late.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 29th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • everyone, I think on the committee and in the audience, is aware that We're supposed to be on the floor
  • at 10 o'clock this morning, and so we'll have to break around 9:30 or a little after to go to the floor
  • Then we'll resume as soon as the floor is completed.
  • However, the Code of Criminal Procedure does not currently address this issue. require the trial court
  • I think it may be necessary to be said that criminal justice, criminal procedure, and criminal cases
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 29th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • In 2013, the Texas Legislature enacted Article 11.073 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, commonly referred
  • Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence examined whether the junk science law and criminal appellate procedure
  • that the Court of Criminal Appeals be permitted to consider subsequent writs that fail to meet procedural
  • that the Court of Criminal Appeals be permitted to consider subsequent writs that fail to meet procedural
  • Fourth and finally, HB 115 eases procedural bars that prevent courts from considering the merits of these
Summary: The Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence reconvened with a quorum present and announced it would likely not vote that night because of confusion over the bill list; members were told a definitive list would be circulated the next morning and a formal meeting would be scheduled later. The chair then heard a series of bills, generally taking testimony and leaving each pending without action. House Bill 1847 would set maximum caseload standards for private attorneys handling indigent criminal appointments through the Texas Indigent Defense Commission; House Bill 2417 would expand compensation eligibility for some wrongfully imprisoned people; House Bill 2813 would require earlier and more specific victim notice of scheduled court proceedings; and House Bill 2309 would expand state and local authority in certain civil asset forfeiture cases involving human trafficking, health care fraud, and organized crime. Each bill was laid out by its author or a member, with no opposition witnesses registered, and each was left pending. The committee also heard House Bill 4733, which would require sealing records for people acquitted of charges when they were not convicted on the related allegation; House Bill 2328, which would modernize expunction service by encouraging electronic notice, setting a standardized fee when electronic service is unavailable, extending clerk retention of expunction orders, and preserving certain mental health commitment orders; and House Bill 115, which would revise Texas’s “junk science” post-conviction writ law by providing counsel, changing the relief standard, requiring written decisions, and easing procedural barriers. Testimony on HB 2328 was mixed: county clerks supported the bill as a cost-saving modernization, while legal advocates warned that permanent retention of expunction orders could undermine true expunction and create privacy risks. HB 115 drew support from innocence and defense organizations, with some concern about a provision affecting subsequent writs. All were left pending after testimony. Later, the committee heard House Bill 2046, which would allow affirmative family-violence findings for any Penal Code offense rather than only Title V offenses; testimony from a Dallas County prosecutor and a committee member emphasized that family violence can involve arson, burglary, fraud, and other non-Title V conduct, and the bill was left pending. House Bill 1765 would tighten restrictions on no-knock warrants by requiring higher-level approval, judicial review, and identifiable officers; members discussed the dangers highlighted by the Harding Street raid and similar incidents, and the bill was also left pending. The meeting ended with the chair noting that some bills had been removed from the agenda at the author’s request and that members should be prepared to finalize the vote list the next day.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Justice (Part I) Mar 25th, 2025

Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • Unlike the government code, the Code of Criminal Procedure does not require interpreters to be licensed
  • Chair now opens the floor for public testimony. There is no. registered.
  • The floor is open for invited testimony. We call up Governor...
  • You are trained by your departments, by your academies, your policies and procedures. procedures allow
  • Members, we have to be on the floor in about six minutes, so if it's okay with you.
Summary: The committee heard a series of criminal justice bills focused on victim protections, law enforcement tools, notary/deed fraud, sexually violent predators, veterans in jail, tribal policing authority, and peace officer records. Several bills were laid out, heard, and left pending because the committee lacked a quorum for final action on those items. Testimony was generally supportive on bills addressing interpreter appointments, fuel theft investigations, deed fraud, survivor privacy, veteran jailer training, tribal peace officer authority, and officer-record confidentiality, though some bills drew concerns about due process, scope, or drafting. Senate Bill 1537 would clean up criminal procedure language on appointing interpreters and align it with Government Code standards requiring licensed or certified interpreters; it received no public opposition and was left pending. Senate Bill 993 would let Comptroller Criminal Investigative Division officers directly seek warrants for mobile tracking devices in fuel-theft and tax-fraud investigations; it also drew support and was left pending. Senate Bill 693, as substituted, would create a criminal offense for notarizing documents without the signer personally appearing, with a higher penalty when real property is involved, and would add notary continuing education; a Dallas County prosecutor testified that notary fraud is a major driver of deed theft, and the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 1610, as substituted, would address safety, registration, and criminal penalties at the Texas Civil Commitment Office for sexually violent predators, including assaults on staff and sex-offender registration issues; agency witnesses described increased assaults and operational problems, while a public witness urged waiting for Sunset review and raised due-process concerns. Senate Bill 836 would add privacy protections for sexual assault survivors by limiting livestreaming of trials, expanding pseudonym use, and protecting forensic exam and invasive-recording evidence; survivors and advocates strongly supported it, and defense lawyers said they had no opposition to the substitute. Senate Bill 1563 would require county jailer training on interacting with veterans, with testimony from the Texas Veterans Commission and veterans’ advocates emphasizing suicide risk, PTSD, and the need for better identification and support in jails; the bill was left pending. The committee also heard Senate Bill 906, which would authorize the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo tribal police to be commissioned as Texas peace officers like two other federally recognized tribes in Texas; tribal leaders said the change would improve response times and coordination, and the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 781, as substituted, would standardize confidentiality rules for peace officer personnel and departmental files statewide, mirroring Chapter 143 civil-service practices; law enforcement witnesses supported it as a way to protect personal information and create uniform records practices, but several senators raised concerns that the bill could blur existing disclosure rules or bury misconduct complaints, and public testimony included an opposition witness describing a police shooting involving her brother.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Civil Law and Procedure Apr 13th, 2026

Civil Law and Procedure

Transcript Highlights:
  • A vote yes sends the bill to the floor. A vote no keeps it in committee. Mr.
  • a general Code of Civil Procedure article on venue.
  • The Code of Civil Procedure article applies as a general proposition.
  • a general Code of Civil Procedure article on venue.
  • This is also a normal part of our procedure.
Bills: HB27 , HB71 , HB214 , HB225 , HB244 , HB306 , HB366 , HB446 , HB473 , HB514 , HB1043 , HB1082 , SB127
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management May 8th, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • It is under condemnation procedure. Now, this is the latest version, Chairman Gates, from 2022.
  • It outlines the process and some of the procedures.
  • Thank you for having me back again before we get down the floor.
  • I know we're trying to get to the floor.
  • I know we're trying to get to the floor.
Bills: HB5489 , HB5695 , HB5699 , SB291 , SB292
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Mar 25th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • So it will likely be necessary for us to stand in recess for a while while the members go to the floor
  • If that is the case, we will resume our committee hearing as quickly as possible after the floor session
  • So we will resume our hearing as soon as possible after we leave the floor, according to the terms of