Video & Transcript Research : 'internet platform'

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AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/11/2026 - House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections

Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • Our current law does not authorize any election equipment to be connected to the Internet.
  • Are elections officials' authority to connect elections equipment to the internet.
  • And frankly, anything that can be connected to the internet will be connected to the internet, and anything
  • that will be connected to the internet will be compromised.
  • There is no way to actually make anything cyber secure except by not connecting it to the internet.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Children and Senior Advocacy Committee Feb 4th, 2026

Children and Senior Advocacy

Transcript Highlights:
  • But as far as if you buy that particular platform, you got to go through that platform and through that
  • Let's say you're using Z platform.
  • </c> buy you got to go through that platform buy you got to go through that platform and<00:37:27.760
  • I mean, there is ways you can get paid by platforms if you bring enough people to the platform and you
  • </c> paid directly from platforms as well. paid directly from platforms as well.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs Feb 10th, 2026

House Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs

Bills: HB310, HB323, HM51, HB194
Summary: The committee first heard HB 310, which would appropriate $1 million to continue planning and development for a Lowrider Museum in Española. The sponsor said the project had already received prior capital outlay support and that the new funding would help complete the study and planning phase for a future world-class museum. Members asked about the increase from prior funding levels and discussed the broader cultural and economic value of the museum. The bill received a do pass recommendation. The committee then considered House Memorial 51, which addresses the economic and community impacts of ending civil immigration detention in affected rural counties. Sponsors said the memorial would call for planning around workforce retraining, economic diversification, community services, and possible repurposing of detention facilities. Testimony and discussion focused on the short-term harm to workers and local economies, the role of Workforce Solutions, and concerns about family disruption, housing, property tax revenue, and whether facilities might close or be repurposed. The memorial passed on a 7-0 vote. Finally, the committee took up HB 194, which would expand the Metropolitan Redevelopment Code to support housing shortage areas and workforce housing through property tax freezes and related incentives. The sponsor and Apartment Association representative described the bill as a tool to increase missing-middle housing, with affordability requirements, voucher acceptance, audits, and reporting provisions. Members raised concerns that the amendment was very large and difficult to absorb in the committee timeframe, and several said they preferred to see it as a substitute bill. No motion was made to adopt the amendment, HB 194 was rolled, and HB 323 was also rolled because the sponsor was unavailable. The committee then adjourned.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband May 2nd, 2025

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband

Transcript Highlights:
  • revises the definition of cable service and includes the language of other services offered over the internet
  • just urge you to reject Senate Bill 924 and ensure that all service providers, regardless of the platform
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband May 2nd, 2025

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband

Transcript Highlights:
  • This relates to increasing access to and reducing the tax on Internet services.
  • We just want to ensure that everyone has access to reliable and affordable internet services.
  • things were going to be moving over the internet.
  • It's just an internet backbone phone.
  • And you see that it says it will exempt anything that you can receive over an internet backbone.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband Apr 16th, 2025

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband

Transcript Highlights:
  • It wasn't that families couldn't afford internet; it's just that the infrastructure didn't exist.
  • These were built longer than 20 years ago, some of them probably before the advent of the internet, or
  • at the time when the internet was considered an amenity.
  • Wow, this is a great place to live; it's wired for the internet.
  • There are so many kids, even in our big urban cities, that do not have access to the internet.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> If we could call the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association and I think some Kentucky internet
  • When evaluating IT platforms, we inherited it became readily apparent that they were using legacy platforms
  • </c><01:46:45.920><c> we</c> Um when evaluating IT platforms we Um when evaluating IT platforms we inherited
  • For example, one of the platforms.
  • </c> platforms they were using was from 2013. platforms they were using was from 2013.
Summary: The committee first approved the July 9 minutes without objection and heard from Jay Hartz and Jonathan Harris of the Legislative Research Commission. Members asked about Capitol and legislator security in light of recent targeted shootings in other states. Hartz said LRC had removed members’ home addresses from its website, was reviewing other state-government records for similar information, and was working with the Speaker, Senate President, Kentucky State Police, and outside security experts on broader safety measures. He also said LRC is exploring commercial products to help block personal contact information from public view, but declined to name vendors publicly. Harris added that driver’s license scans at the Capitol are handled by Kentucky State Police, while LRC has a process for flagging high-volume or concerning contacts for police review. The LRC also reported that redistricting work has already begun, with census coordination underway, evaluation of redistricting software including Mapitude and open-source tools, and plans to make the same tools available to the public in the LRC library. The committee then heard from Kentucky Wired Operations Company CEO Robert Morphonius, COO Tom Snyder, and counsel Patrick Hughes about the Kentucky Wired network. They explained the corporate structure: Kentucky Wired Operations Company is a private for-profit special purpose entity that designs, builds, operates, and maintains the network; Kentucky Wired Infrastructure Company is a nonprofit instrumentality used for financing; and Open Fiber Kentucky handles commercialization of excess capacity under a wholesale agreement. They said Kentucky Wired Operations is in the operations and maintenance phase, with those obligations continuing until 2045, and that technical changes to the network generally require KCNA approval through formal change-order processes. They also said the company conducted a market test in June 2023 under Schedule 19 of its contract, considered proposals including Open Fiber and the incumbent service provider, and retained the existing provider. Members asked about KCNA’s role, procurement, network customers, and revenue. The witnesses said Quac operates outside normal state procurement because its process is governed by contract, while KCNA acts as the Commonwealth’s oversight authority and filter for changes. They identified current network users as including AOC, KCTCS, postsecondary education, and other Commonwealth agencies, with all requests routed through KCNA; they also said a separate change process for Exceliccom is in litigation. On funding, they said the operation is paid through monthly appropriations, with roughly a million dollars a month for the service provider and a couple hundred thousand for Quac’s oversight, not including debt service, which is bundled into the availability payment. The discussion ended as members began asking about responsibility for damage-related costs such as squirrel-related outages.