Bills: SB6084 , SB6044 , SB5950 , SB6046 , SB5763 , SB6215 , SB6160 , SB6123 , SB6049 , SB6164 , SB6313 , SB5784 , SB5046 , SB5489

Committee: Senate State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections

Keywords: elections, double voting, voting twice, multiple voting, same-day election, primary election, general election, special election, cross-state voting, ballot fraud, election fraud, voter misconduct, RCW 29A.84.660, State v. Padilla, civil infraction, class C felony, Secretary of State, Washington elections, election law, voter eligibility

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• </c><04:40:27.040><c> sanctions</c> act or IPA property blocking sanctions act or IPA property blocking
• </c> the developing overseas mineral the developing overseas mineral investments<04:47:06.400><c> and
• </c><04:49:18.718><c> minerals</c> Biden administration's mineral minerals Biden administration's mineral
• </c><04:54:11.440><c> security</c> America's energy and mineral security America's energy and mineral
• I urge my mineral supply chains.

Bills: HB8428 , HB8466 , HB5248 , HB6338 , HB7668 , HB8665 , HB7037 , HB6230 , HB6297 , HB1744 , HB3429 , HB2505 , HB6028 , HR428 , HB8107 , HB8340 , HB8467 , HB6916 , HB8463

Keywords: fraud prevention, improper payments, anti-fraud training, government oversight, federal program administration, grants management, internal controls, waste and abuse, Treasury Department, Office of Management and Budget, Office of Personnel Management, GAO fraud framework, OMB Circular A-123, Do Not Pay, data analytics, payment integrity, state and local governments, tribal governments, federal grants, program integrity

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• Arthur, I'm kind of reading through your bill here, and as a landowner and a mineral owner as well, I'm
• Sir, I would agree when you talk about oil and gas that the mineral estate is the dominant domain.
• And I would agree that there are instances where people who own the surface do not have the mineral right
• And that mineral right owner does have a right... ...right and that mineral right owner does have a right
• We are not taking minerals out of the ground, sir.

Bills: HB4338 , HB3977 , HB2100 , HB2975 , HB3056 , HB3406 , HB3720 , HB4316 , HB3405 , HB1907 , HB3142 , HB3173 , HB3270 , HB3728 , HB2440 , HB2596 , HB3466 , HB3469 , HB4338 , HB3977 , HB2100 , HB2975 , HB3056 , HB3406 , HB3720 , HB4316 , HB3405 , HB1907 , HB3142 , HB3173 , HB3270 , HB3728 , HB2440 , HB2596 , HB3466 , HB3469

Committees: House Energy , House Energy and Natural Resources Oversight

Keywords: HB4338, Oklahoma Brine Development Act, brine unitization, produced water, produced water unit, oil and gas wastewater, produced water recycling, reclaimed water, constituent elements, brine rights, solution gas, Corporation Commission, unitization, royalty interests, surface owner, oil and gas produced water, recycling and reuse, wastewater disposal, mineral extraction, lithium extraction

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• Critical minerals are essential to modern life.
• CRITICAL MINERALS ARE ESSENTIAL TO MODERN LIFE.
• H.R. 3006, the Securing America’s Critical Minerals Supply Act, builds on that effort.
• H.R. 3006, the Securing America’s Critical Minerals Supply Act, builds on that effort.
• H.R. 3006, the Securing America’s Critical Minerals Supply Act, builds on that effort.

Bills: HCR74 , HJR72 , HR1042 , HR1048

Keywords: joint session, Congress, communication, President, HCR74, national emergency, government authority, Executive Order, legislative action, rule, special rule, House resolution, floor procedure, procedural resolution, firearms, gun laws, less-than-lethal weapons, weapons technology, National Marine Sanctuaries Act, undersea fiber optic cables

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• expanding the scope of the foreign government adversary property law to include our critical rare earth minerals

Bills: HB1245 , HB2588 , HB3024 , HB3172 , HB3279 , HB3919 , HB3306 , HB3383 , HB3431 , HB3435 , HB4352 , HB3883 , HB3942 , HB4193 , HB4203 , HB4303 , HB4311 , HB4484

Committee: House Government Oversight

Keywords: retirement, pension, public employees, Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System, benefits, survivorship, contribution rates, disability retirement, owners associations, membership requirements, property ownership, board governance, residency requirements, salary increase, state employees, public finance, bonus limits, job performance, Fair Banking Act, financial institutions

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• It's like he can smell it from two blocks over, and he's terrified of it.
• It's still active right now, but it's on the chopping block in Eatonville.

Bills: HB2720 , HB2073 , HB2681 , SB5467 , SB5820 , SB5863 , SB5892 , SCR8406 , HB2487 , HB2711 , SB5816 , SB5919 , SB5995 , SB6278

Keywords: behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access, mental health funding, premium assistance, funding, healthcare, subsidies, cannabis, license fees, regulatory framework, revenue generation, legalization, SB 5467, water-sewer district, water sewer district, surplus property, public property sale, local government

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• There is the block boundary suggestion program.
• There is the Block Boundary Suggestion Program, which is housed really through the Oklahoma House, through

Bills: HB3622 , HB3621 , HB3151 , HB3882 , HB3661 , HB4273 , HB3644 , HB3706 , HB3708 , HB2021 , HB3986 , HB3972

Committee: House Appropriations and Budget

Keywords: HB3622, 2030 Census, Decennial Census, U.S. Decennial Census Revolving Fund, Oklahoma Department of Commerce, Commerce Department, census preparation, federal census, state treasury fund, revolving fund, continuing fund, deemed appropriated, technology upgrades, census outreach, redistricting, population count, Title 74, OMES, State Treasurer, budgeting

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• help out salmon ...talked about their desire to help out salmon and fish habitat that is currently blocked
• interest in understanding both the challenges and opportunities counties face in addressing fish-blocking
• to replace 27 fish-blocking culverts at 18 sites and restore over 28 miles of fish habitat.
• those counties, to adopt development regulations to assure agricultural lands, forest lands, and mineral
• lands adjacent to short line railroads may be developed for freight rail, ...and mineral lands adjacent

Bills: SB6132 , SB6181 , SB6154 , SB6189 , SB5903 , SB6037 , SB5983 , SB5995 , SB6016 , SB5820 , SB6064 , SB6077 , SB6101 , SB6013 , SB6066

Committee: Senate Local Government

Keywords: indebtedness limits, inland port districts, federal funding, infrastructure improvements, economic development, city incorporation, local governance, municipalities, state law, government structure, culvert replacement, fish passage, hydraulic project approval, Department of Fish and Wildlife, stream crossing, bank stabilization, flood control, erosion control, emergency permit, expedited permit

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• There's an incentive problem blocking wide deployment of GETS; transmission owners in Texas make money
• We've got, due to data centers and Bitcoin miners, the Stargate project that's kind of...
• Is it Ted Block? Block. Ted Block-Rubin on behalf of... SmartWires Inc. is testifying for the bill.
• government controls the manufacturing process, it can, with the right political majority, actively block
• You can't develop the minerals.

Bills: HB551 , HB 1281 , HB1378 , HB1617 , HB2868 , HB2881 , HB3374 , HB4439 , HB4726 , HB4732 , HB4878 , HB4914 , HB4921 , HB4958 , HB5200 , HB5318 , HB5360 , HB5402 , HB5568 , HB5573 , HB5623 , HJR218

Committee: House State Affairs

Keywords: political contributions, address privacy, Texas Ethics Commission, election transparency, campaign finance, international organizations, World Health Organization, jurisdiction, state law, enforcement, United Nations, World Economic Forum, attorney general, Texas attorney general, state sovereignty, legal enforcement, Texas Attorney General, electric energy storage, municipal regulation, county regulation

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• the right to speak, but we do not have the right to destroy property, or to harm other people, or to block

Bills: HB551 , HB 1281 , HB1378 , HB1617 , HB2868 , HB2881 , HB3374 , HB4439 , HB4726 , HB4732 , HB4878 , HB4914 , HB4921 , HB4958 , HB5200 , HB5318 , HB5360 , HB5402 , HB5568 , HB5573 , HB5623 , HJR218

Committee: House State Affairs

Keywords: political contributions, address privacy, Texas Ethics Commission, election transparency, campaign finance, international organizations, World Health Organization, jurisdiction, state law, enforcement, United Nations, World Economic Forum, attorney general, Texas attorney general, state sovereignty, legal enforcement, Texas Attorney General, electric energy storage, municipal regulation, county regulation

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• You still own that block.
• Whether you do anything or not to that block, the value of that block is going to go up because you own
• Miners are basically the backbone.
• They bundle transactions into blocks, and they add the newest block to the chain of prior blocks.
• That block is then rewarded to the miners.

Committee: House Investments & Pensions Oversight Committee

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• You have three eyes, two excused. >> That bill has snuck by the minerals committee, Senate Minerals Committee
• You have three eyes, two excused. >> That bill has snuck by the minerals committee, Senate Minerals Committee
• be blocked.
• </c> block a manufactured product. block a manufactured product.
• So 220,000 or so that it's asking for. our heritage mineral industry. our heritage mineral industry.

Bills: SF0102 , SF0123 , SF0021 , SF0099

Committee: Senate Minerals, Business & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:

• He said they are not exchanging their mineral rights; mineral rights were never on the table.
• </c> Waters we are not exchanging our mineral Waters we are not exchanging our mineral rights<00:12:19.839
• 12:20.920><c> on</c><00:12:21.120><c> the</c> rights mineral rights were never on the rights mineral
• mineral rights when they sell land as well.
• The minerals may take time, and after that there may have to be another bill to transfer the minerals

Summary: The committee took up HF 1425, which would prohibit the sale of state-owned school trust lands in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to the federal government and instead require a land trade. Representative Skraba argued the federal wilderness law requires an exchange, not a sale, and said the state should trade Boundary Waters school trust lands for federal lands elsewhere, citing potential benefits for logging, mining, and school trust revenue. He said the current proposed sale price was too low and moved to lay the bill over for possible inclusion in a future bill. Later, he withdrew a DE1 amendment and instead moved to re-refer the bill to the Education Finance Committee, but that motion failed. Testimony was largely opposed to the bill. Aaron Vandal of the Office of School Trust Lands said the exchange option was no longer viable, that the lands have produced no revenue for education for decades, and that selling them is the trust’s last opportunity to generate returns for schoolchildren. Bob Meyer of the DNR supported Vandal’s position and said the agency could not negotiate mineral rights in the way suggested. Aon Clems of the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and Amanda Hefner of Save the Boundary Waters both opposed HF 1425, though they emphasized different reasons: Clems argued a sale best fulfills the state’s fiduciary duty to maximize long-term returns for education, while Hefner said a sale would harm public education funding, align with the trust’s original purpose, and help consolidate federal ownership in the wilderness. Members then questioned the valuation and the practical differences between a sale and an exchange. Representative Jacob challenged the low per-acre price and asked about the federal government’s set-aside amount, while Representative Fischer asked how the appraisal was determined. DNR lands and minerals director Joe Henderson explained the valuation came from an independent appraiser, was based on the wilderness restrictions and lack of development potential, and was from a 2020 appraisal that is now being updated. Representative Schultz supported the sale approach and said the state should not transfer the land at such a low price. The committee did not advance the bill to the Education Finance Committee.

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• We're blessed with minerals in Campbell County. We've done a lot of things with minerals.
• Uh we got to uh be Wyoming block.
• </c><01:17:34.880><c> interim</c> appropriations joint minerals interim appropriations joint minerals
• ,</c><01:18:51.840><c> the</c> appropriations, joint minerals, the appropriations, joint minerals, the
• </c> joint minerals is is is a heavy lift. joint minerals is is is a heavy lift.

Bills: HB0150

Committee: House Appropriations

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• Uh, nonetheless, the Joint Minerals Committee requested a draft. It has not yet been...
• That's a place where the Minerals Committee has chosen to define capital...
• The staff comment on the bottom of page five includes potential text that in the Minerals...
• So, the Mineral Royalty Grant Program has lost pace with keeping up with inflation.
• When those building blocks are in place, Wyoming wins.

Committee: Joint Appropriations

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• Senator Block, Well, Mr.
• Thank you, Senator Block.
• Senator Block voting no.
• You may have high minerals.
• Senator Block voting no.

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• And we have seven to eight minutes sort of blocked out for both of you.
• Seven to eight minutes sort of blocked out for both of you. Not together.
• We're transporting it to a block company that's embedding it in concrete blocks, and then it's going
• This is a mineral that's naturally forming in the subsurface.
• minerals mining with carbon sequestration.

Committee: House Environment & Energy

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• Representative John Block from House District 51 and Alamogordo.
• Thank you, Representative Block. First, the...
• Great, and Madam Chair, Representative Block, I think so.
• And Madam Chair, Representative Block, thank you.
• I came in, as you stated earlier, Representative Block, I came in.

Committee: House House Energy, Environment & Natural Resources

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• We are housed within the Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department.
• The operator has to own the mineral claim or claims.
• Chairman, Representative Block, my view is that we are a permitting agency.
• Chairman, Representative Block.
• Thank you, Senator Steinborn and Representative Block.

Committee: House Radioactive & Hazardous Materials Committee

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• And we have seven to eight minutes blocked out for both of you.
• We're transporting it to a block company that's embedding it in concrete blocks, and then it's going
• This is a mineral that's naturally forming in the subsurface.
• And this has implications for the severed mineral rights that DNR holds.
• And this has implications. or part of the mineral estate.

Summary: The committee held an interim work session focused first on carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS), then on hazardous waste and extended producer responsibility (EPR). On the CCUS topic, industry and nonprofit presenters described point-source capture, direct air capture, mineralization, and geologic sequestration, emphasizing Washington’s basalt formations and state trust lands as strong candidates for storage. They argued that CCUS can help hard-to-abate industrial sectors, support jobs and investment, and provide a pathway for compliance, while also noting the need for clearer permitting, subsurface rights, pipeline authority, and storage infrastructure. Ecology and Commerce staff explained current state policy touchpoints, including Cap-and-Invest offsets and exemptions for permanently stored CO2, the public comment process underway to define “thousand-year” permanence, and how CCUS might fit within the Clean Energy Transformation Act without counting emitting generation as non-emitting. Some presenters supported more state action and primacy over federal permitting, while others warned about costs, energy use, uncertain capture performance, and the need to ensure real net greenhouse gas reductions and long-term liability protections. Members asked about public meetings, whether mineralized carbon would qualify as exempt under the Climate Commitment Act, the timeline for Ecology guidance, aquifer and water-quality concerns, energy intensity of capture systems, and liability if storage later proves problematic. Responses said Ecology’s guidance process is already underway, public meetings will be virtual, mineralized carbon would likely qualify if it meets the permanence standard, and EPA rules require storage in deep saline formations below drinking water aquifers. Industry speakers said capture energy use varies by source and concentration, and one presenter noted that some states use trust funds funded by injectors to address long-term liability. The second half of the session shifted to hazardous waste and EPR. Ecology staff reviewed existing product stewardship programs for electronics, paint, batteries, and mercury lights, and described moderate risk waste and household hazardous waste management in Washington. They highlighted that E-Cycle and PaintCare are producer-funded, that the battery stewardship program will begin in 2027, and that the mercury lamp program is in transition after its prior stewardship organization exited, prompting enforcement notices and a pending replacement plan. Ecology recommended best practices for future EPR programs, including clear producer and product definitions, full producer funding, convenience standards, annual reporting, and strong agency enforcement and plan approval authority. Local government speakers from King County and Douglas County described rising collection costs, equity and access barriers, rural travel distances, and the need for stable funding and flexible local implementation. King County said it collected over 3 million pounds of hazardous products in 2025 and supports EPR as a way to shift costs from ratepayers to producers, while Douglas County emphasized that rural residents will participate when services are accessible and that future systems should account for geography and local infrastructure.