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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 6th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Increasing these internal administrative costs, particularly for highly federally regulated entities
  • Care services contractor regulated under Chapter 48.44 RCW.
  • Care services contractor regulated under Chapter 48.44 RCW.
  • The good member from the 17th district, Representative Waters, to move the amendment.
  • Representative Waters: Thank you, Madam Speaker. I hope you're having a good evening.
Summary: The House took up and passed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5292, which modifies the paid family and medical leave program. Supporters said the bill uses an actuarial model to set rates and maintains a four-month reserve to improve program stability. It passed final passage 95-1. The House then considered Substitute Senate Bill 5841, dealing with completion of course and financial aid-related requirements. An amendment was adopted to add a financial aid calculator and require outreach to students who indicate they have completed a financial aid form, with supporters saying it would help students understand aid eligibility and access college opportunities. The bill then passed as amended, 92-4. The most extensive debate was on Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5981, concerning the 340B drug pricing program and contract pharmacy relationships. Members offered many amendments seeking to limit the bill’s scope, add transparency, or direct 340B savings toward patient care, low-income patients, rural areas, or charity care; most were rejected. Supporters argued the bill would help safety-net providers, hospitals, and FQHCs, while opponents warned it would mainly benefit large hospital systems, create administrative burdens, and likely face litigation. After the House adopted the committee amendment and rejected the floor amendments, the bill passed 67-30. The transcript then moved on to other business, including Senate messages and the start of debate on House Bill 2487 on taxes, with one technical amendment to clarify taxpayer definitions.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Community Affairs Feb 10th, 2026

Community Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • But regardless of which of these water safety features... ...the water.
  • one water safety feature to comply.
  • Water is everywhere.
  • And now, of course, we have this, which brings consistent water safety regulations to our state that
  • And what you get are sewage spills, unsafe water lines, you name it.
Summary: The committee heard and advanced a wide range of bills focused on water safety, utilities, housing, transparency, and claims relief. CS/SB 848 on stormwater treatment was presented as a follow-up to prior water-quality legislation and reported favorably with one support waiver. SB 28, a claims bill for Reginald Jackson against the City of Lakeland, was also reported favorably. CS/SB 658, a bipartisan child-drowning prevention bill for rental properties, drew extensive testimony from child advocacy and drowning-prevention groups in strong support; amendments required rental license applicants to certify compliance and removed local-government add-on authority, and the bill was reported favorably. CS/SB 18, a claims bill involving the estate of a deceased minor and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, prompted questions about settlement and responsibility but was ultimately reported favorably despite opposition from a waiver form. Several utility and infrastructure measures were considered. CS/SB 1724 would regulate municipal utility service outside city limits, limit revenue transfers, require public meetings, and cap rate differences; an amendment added gas utilities, and the bill was reported favorably after testimony from municipal utility representatives and small-county advocates. CS/SB 1014 would require municipal utilities to extend water and wastewater service to certain nearby residential properties without conditioning service on annexation; an amendment narrowed the bill to residential uses and clarified capacity and grandfathering provisions, and it passed favorably. CS/SB 1102 would allow local infrastructure surtax revenue to fund body camera programs, with an amendment making the surtax authorization prospective and requiring a new referendum; it was reported favorably. CS/SB 260 on electric-vehicle storage in towing yards was amended to focus on storage only and to tie the higher fee to the period before fire-risk inspection, then reported favorably after testimony from insurers, fire officials, and EV industry representatives. The committee also advanced education, housing, and ethics-related bills. SB 1264 would ease zoning and code barriers for small private schools and micro-schools, with supporters arguing it would expand school choice and opponents raising implementation concerns; it was reported favorably. SB 934 on Florida Keys areas of critical state concern was amended to remove a tax-exemption section that conflicted with the Live Local Act, then reported favorably. SB 1622 would provide a one-time waiver of late financial-disclosure fines under specified conditions and was reported favorably. Finally, CS/SB 1566 on local government spending and transparency required online posting of budgets and related materials, and an amendment added utility revenue reinvestment and other changes while removing DEI spending restrictions; the bill drew support for transparency but concern from small cities and counties about cost and workload, and it was reported favorably. The meeting ended with adjournment after senators recorded votes on selected bills.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government & Tribal Relations Feb 20th, 2026 at 08:00 am

State Government & Tribal Relations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 6137 concerns regulation of the sports wagering industry.
  • It simply redirects it into a regulated and safe environment.
  • activity, and working directly with regulators.
  • Representative Waters is excused. Walsh: Nay, do not pass.
  • Representative Waters is excused. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed?
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Labor & Commerce Feb 3rd, 2026 at 10:30 am

Labor & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • so we can have more people to attend and participate in all of the different industries that are regulated
  • Too often, regulated businesses experience requirements being inconsistently interpreted by individual
  • Too often, regulated businesses experience requirements. facilitator of public policy.
  • Too often, regulated businesses experience requirements being inconsistently interpreted by individual
  • We don't need a bigger and more costly agency to enforce cannabis regulation.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Apr 7th, 2025

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • It would encourage projects that turn flood water or storm water into a valuable water supply, improving
  • He could not use their water. He had to use the water from the CCN.
  • water rights.
  • , water supply, drainage, as well as water users and those who support the water industry.
  • water troughs and our water wells.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Apr 7th, 2025

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • We've been told by the water company and TCEQ that this water is drinkable.
  • He could not use their water; he had to use the water from the CCN.
  • We established a Texas Water Bank in 1993 to facilitate the transfer, sale, and lease of water and water
  • and irrigation, water supply, drainage, as well as water users and those that support the water industry
  • get water.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs heard several water-related bills, with testimony focused on drinking water quality, groundwater contamination notice, flood infrastructure funding, water rights conservation, and utility service areas. SB 1662 would limit TCEQ’s advance notice to public water systems to no more than 24 hours before testing after a consumer complaint, to reduce the chance of temporary treatment affecting results. SB 1663 would allow TCEQ to notify private well owners, groundwater conservation districts, and nearby residents by direct means about known groundwater contamination, rather than relying mainly on first-class mail and annual reporting. SB 2124 would move the deadline for publishing the Texas Groundwater Protection Committee’s annual report from April 1 to June 1. Witnesses on the first two bills described long-running water quality problems and delayed notice in their communities and supported the measures. No opposition was recorded, and each bill was left pending for a later vote. The committee also heard SB 1967, which would expand eligibility for Flood Infrastructure Fund financing to multipurpose projects that both reduce flooding and create water supply. Senator Hinojosa and Hidalgo County representatives described the Delta Reclamation Project as a shovel-ready example that would capture flood and drainage water, treat it, and produce new potable supply while also providing detention and flood mitigation. A Sierra Club witness also supported the bill, saying such projects could help manage floodwaters and reduce polluted discharges to bays and estuaries. The bill was left pending. A lengthy and divided discussion followed on SB 1413, which would expand the streamlined expedited release process for landowners seeking removal from a water or sewer CCN in additional counties. Senator Nichols said the bill was a property-rights measure aimed at legacy monopolies and bad actors who use CCNs to hold landowners hostage, while supporters described cases where developers could not get timely service, including fire flow, or were asked to fund infrastructure without reasonable recoupment. Opponents from rural water corporations and utility associations argued the bill would undermine investment in water infrastructure, strand debt, and weaken the return on planned expansion. PUC and TCEQ resource witnesses explained that compensation is handled case by case through appraisal and can include stranded costs, planning, design, construction, and some legal fees, but members noted the statute is unclear and discussed possible committee substitute language. Public testimony was closed with the bill left pending. Later, SB 1624 would allow the Texas Water Trust within the Texas Water Bank to hold donated water rights for conservation purposes and protect them from use-it-or-lose-it cancellation, and SB 863 would address Edwards Aquifer utilities that straddle the aquifer boundary by allowing them to continue using Edwards water within their certificated areas under specified conditions. Both bills were laid out, received no public opposition in the hearing, and were left pending.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 5th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Waters. Aye. No. No. Waters: Aye. Ybarra. Zahn. Madam Speaker. No. No. Abbarno. Abbarno: Yes.
  • Waters. Waters. Walsh. Waters. Wiley. Ybarra. Zahn. Madam Speaker, Defoe.
  • Thomas, Timmons, Valdez, aye, Bowles, Wallin, Wals, Walsh, Walsh, Waters, Waters, Wylie, Ybarra, Zahn
  • Remarks, Representative Waters. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Representative Waters. Thank you, Mr.
  • Waters. Wiley. Wiley. Waters. Wiley. Ybarra. Ybarra. Zahn. Madam Speaker. Corey. Springer.
Summary: The House took up Second Substitute Senate Bill 5974, a bill modernizing and strengthening laws concerning sheriffs, police chiefs, volunteers, youth cadets, and related law enforcement roles. Members first considered a striking amendment and then a series of floor amendments, with debate repeatedly focusing on sheriffs as elected constitutional officers, the scope of state authority over local law enforcement, and whether the bill would create unfunded mandates or practical problems for counties. Supporters of the bill and many amendments argued for clarifying language, local flexibility, and state payment for new requirements; opponents generally warned the bill would weaken elected sheriffs, impose costs on counties, or overreach into local control. Amendment 2343, which would have added intent language emphasizing that sheriffs are directly accountable to the electorate, was debated at length and defeated on a roll call vote, 41 yeas to 56 nays. Amendment 2373, shifting background-check costs to the state through the Washington State Patrol, was also defeated, 44 yeas to 53 nays. Amendment 2374, narrowing provisions affecting private security and specially commissioned officers, failed 41 to 56. Amendment 2369, clarifying rules for volunteers and youth cadets, failed 41 to 56. Amendment 2371, limiting surveillance-related provisions to situations requiring a warrant, failed 42 to 55. Amendment 2372, clarifying that only non-public information would be restricted from disclosure, also failed 41 to 56. Later, Amendment 2370, which would have aligned the bill’s definition of volunteer law enforcement officers with existing statute, was defeated 42 to 55. Finally, Amendment 2352, which would have exempted current sheriffs from the bill’s new decertification rules, was debated as a protection against changing the rules midstream but was opposed on the grounds that the bill already grandfathered in the one sheriff who did not meet the new experience requirement; the amendment’s vote was not completed in the excerpt provided. The transcript also begins with the Speaker signing several bills, including Substitute House Bill 1570 and Substitute Senate Bill 6248.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Natural Resources Apr 30th, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • Most of our members are nonprofit water supply corporations and districts, water districts.
  • water quality.
  • the water caucus.
  • This was the statute that the old Board of Water Engineers used for regulation of free flowing artesian
  • There's so much need for water. That's all we've heard about how important water is.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Natural Resources Apr 30th, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • Most of our members are nonprofit water supply corporations and water districts.
  • In terms of water quality protections, as Representative Garcia said, there are dozens of laws and regulations
  • in place to protect customers, including the Safe Drinking Water Act, state laws, and rules regulated
  • water quality.
  • This was the statute... ...that the old Board of Water Engineers used for regulation of free-flowing
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Members of the committee, Texas Water Code 16.343 and local government.
  • I don't have a water company, but I have been blessed with eight different MUDs and water control districts
  • We would love to have water coming out of our taps that wasn't brown because right now we get water out
  • The bulk of what I heard was related to water and wastewater.
  • Yeah, so she says no water service.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Local Government (Part II) Mar 31st, 2025

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • The legislature charged the GCA with a broad mission to protect waters of the state of Texas, including
  • There are no broader regulations of government executive severance payments.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Wed Mar 4, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • under the Hawaii Water Carrier Act.
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  • 01:09:53.520><c> collective</c> regulated, and we're under collective regulated, and we're under collective
  • More for water carrier.
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Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 1984 HD2, which would require government entities issuing building permits to create a self-certification process for certain behind-the-meter rooftop solar and energy storage systems, allowing approved applicants to proceed without waiting for standard permit review. The Public Utilities Commission and DLNR offered comments, and the Hawaii Solar Energy Association, Holoholo Energy, Photon Works Engineering, Malama Solar, RevoluSun, and others testified in strong support. Supporters said the bill would reduce permitting delays, lower costs, and help meet Hawaii’s renewable energy goals while still relying on licensed engineers, electricians, and county inspections for safety. Committee members asked about risk, existing county pilot programs, and whether self-certification had been used before; witnesses said the professional liability remains with licensed signers and that current automated review systems often flag minor issues that slow projects. The committee also noted 16 additional written testimonies in support. The committee then took up HB 1593 HD1, which would require HHFDC-financed affordable rental housing projects to allow residents to own or keep common household pets. The Hawaiian Humane Society testified that the bill is a top priority because housing restrictions are a major reason pets are surrendered and because many unhoused residents with pets avoid housing that does not allow animals. In response to questions, the Humane Society said concerns about pet-related damage are overstated, suggested pet behavior screening as a safeguard, and said it would be willing to work on broader private-market pet-friendly housing policies. Members raised concerns about whether allowing pets in public housing could create problems for residents who later transition to the private market, and the witness said California has a similar law and no major negative effects had been identified. Finally, the committee heard HB 2423 HD2, which would require that by January 1, 2028, diesel fuel sold in Hawaii for on-highway vehicles contain at least 5% biodiesel by volume. The Hawaii State Energy Office offered comments, and Hawaii Transportation Association and Pacific Biodiesel Technologies testified in support. Pacific Biodiesel argued the mandate would improve energy security, stabilize fuel prices amid global supply disruptions, and support local clean-fuel production. In response to questions, the company said its nameplate capacity is 5.5 million gallons per year and it has produced over 6 million gallons annually, but much of its output is tied up in standby generator contracts that can fluctuate. Witnesses said the mandate would provide a stable market signal and could support future investment in expanded local biodiesel production, including agricultural feedstock development and a possible second refinery. No votes or final actions were taken during the portion of the meeting provided.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Business, Trade & Economic Development Jan 28th, 2026 at 08:00 am

Business, Trade & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • It prohibits and regulates a number of practices.
  • So, John, travel insurance is currently now regulated even without the bill. Is that right?
  • It's important for consumers, regulators, and the industry alike.
  • It's important for consumers, regulators, and the industry alike.
  • All right, now we go on to Senate Bill 6137, regulating sports wagering.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part II) Mar 31st, 2025

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • The legislature charged the Gulf Coast Authority (GCA) with a broad mission to protect the waters of
  • There are no broader regulations governing executive severance payments in government.
  • So I firmly believe that it's time for the legislature to establish stricter regulations on these severance
Summary: The meeting of the Senate Committee on Local Government was marked by significant discussions on multiple bills aimed at enhancing governance and protecting taxpayer interests. Among the notable legislations was SB1951, where Senator Paxton emphasized reforms to reduce erroneous penalty notices imposed by appraisal districts, eliminating the financial incentive for such penalties. The session concluded with public testimonies that highlighted the importance of transparency and accountability in taxpayer dealings. Additionally, Senator Middleton presented SB1504 and SB2237, focusing on the operational frameworks of local authorities and executive severance payments, respectively, both of which sparked considerable debate among committee members.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 6th, 2026 at 04:30 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Increasing these internal administrative costs, in particular for highly federally regulated entities
  • with you, however, the federal appellate court has affirmed that the state has the authority to regulate
  • Care services contractor regulated under Chapter 48.44 RCW.
  • The good member from the 17th District, Representative Waters, to move the amendment.
  • Representative Waters: Thank you, Madam Speaker. I hope you're having a good evening.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 6th, 2026 at 12:45 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This amendment would permanently exempt them from the Climate Commitment Act and remove any regulation
  • Clerk will read: An act relating to the Boston Regulated Sports Wagering Integrity Act.
  • For the remarks, the good member from the 17th, Representative Waters.
  • Programs and applicable federal regulations. There are no amendments.
  • With the consent of the house. and applicable federal regulations. There are no amendments.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Jan 28th, 2026 at 11:02 am

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I mean, they don't just produce jobs, but they're always trying to help, including giving away water
  • That's more precious than gold: water.
  • With strong environmental regulations and oversight, New Mexico has enacted nationally leading methane
  • Speaker, your House Agriculture, Acequias and Water Resources Committee will be meeting tomorrow at 9
  • Quality Control Commission to promulgate rules allowing for specified uses of treated produced water
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Local Government Jan 22nd, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Independence from taxation and regulation is why they're not incorporated.
  • ...obstruct or change the natural flow or bed of any of the salt or fresh waters of the state.
  • It's got compressible soils, and our surface water team is working on the design right now.
  • It's got compressible soils where our surface water team is working on the design right now.
  • It's on our list. but the emergency surface water team is working on the design right now.