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• I agree that we don't have a farm bill yet, but the House passed a budget bill last evening in Washington
• Bill last the house passed a budget Bill last evening<00:03:34.000><c> in</c><00:03:34.200><c> Washington
• and</c><00:03:35.000><c> now</c><00:03:35.120><c> it's</c><00:03:35.239><c> going</c> evening in Washington
• and now it's going evening in Washington and now it's going to<00:03:35.480><c> go</c><00:03:35.560>

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The committee took up House File 1101, which would add $1.5 million to the agricultural emergency account beginning July 1, 2026. Chair Anderson explained that the account was created after the 2015 bird flu outbreak, has been funded in the past, and currently has about $1.2 million remaining. He said the bill would strengthen the state’s ability to respond to livestock disease emergencies and support the Board of Animal Health and Department of Health. Representative Hansen offered the A1 amendment to shift $1.5 million from an unused $4 million dairy line item into the emergency account, arguing the funds were sitting unused, a federal farm bill was uncertain, and the money could help with immediate food testing and emergency response. Chair Anderson opposed the amendment, saying the dairy funds had been set aside for that purpose, he expected federal action in the coming months, and he was unsure the emergency account statute allowed the money to be used for food testing. He recommended a no vote. A roll call was taken on the A1 amendment, and it failed by a vote of 6-7. After brief additional comment in support of the bill, House File 1101 was laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill.

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• We need to move forward and do better as a state legislature and as a state.
• State your point.
• In 2003, state auditors report, it was revealed that the California State University system had almost
• This bill would require that the California State University system. audit their available land, and
• It's time that the state of California and California State Universities own up and be able to. to return

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• And so with that, please join me in welcoming Mario Celento, the president of the New York State AFL-CIO
• let me just say, Senator, I want to thank you on behalf of the two million members of the New York State
• AFL-CIO, every union member across the state.
• Every union member across the state, I want to thank you for the invitation this morning, of course,
• What does it affect on working people throughout the state?

Keywords: 993, senate, all

Summary: The Senate Standing Committee on Labor met for its second meeting of the 2026 session, with Chair Senator Ramos welcoming members and inviting Mario Celento, president of the New York State AFL-CIO, to speak. Celento thanked the committee for its past labor-related work and outlined the AFL-CIO’s priorities for the session, including fixing Tier 6 public pensions, responsible regulation of artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles, child care, staffing ratios in health care, housing-related labor standards, prevailing wage and project labor agreements, and protecting workers from federal actions affecting unions, organizing, OSHA, and collective bargaining. The committee then took up six bills. It reported Senate Bill 372A, relating to labor law and establishing certain notices, by a vote with one nay and an abstention. Senate Bill 681, concerning fingerprinting or mandatory iris and retina scanning of applicants, was reported with one nay. Senate Bill 1514, relating to support orders for a police classification, was reported unanimously. Senate Bill 4424A, the anti-labor of women rights bill, was reported with abstentions. Senate Bill 4479, requiring the Workers’ Compensation Board and Department of Labor to publish a list of DRMDs as open data, was reported unanimously. Senate Bill 7776A, relating to an act for a thinkless servant form act, was also reported with abstentions. All six bills were moved to the calendar, and the meeting adjourned.

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• and</c> industry, state government, and industry, state government, and academia.
• Other states. state as if they were going to locate at state as if they were going to locate at a<00:
• Other states. Uh, so I've talked go? Other states.
• The state of Georgia and some of these states are seeing results.

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Call to Order and Roll Call 00:00:22 Forging the Future: Kentucky's National Leadership in Metals Manufacturing 00:01:33 Improvements to Kentucky’s Incentive Programs 00:52:05, 958, all

Summary: The committee met for its third interim meeting, approved the prior meeting minutes, and heard a presentation from the Metals Innovation Initiative (MI2) on Kentucky’s metals industry. Speakers described metals manufacturing and recycling as a major economic backbone for the Commonwealth, including steel, aluminum, stainless steel, and copper operations, with broad impacts across production, fabrication, supply chains, and related businesses. They emphasized that the industry supports high-paying jobs, significant capital investment in Kentucky, and is aligned with broader efforts to expand U.S. manufacturing. A central theme was workforce development. MI2 leaders said the industry faces a persistent talent gap and that current education programs do not always produce the skills needed for modern metals jobs. They argued for stronger exposure and awareness, more direct industry involvement, and a dedicated metals career pathway through high schools, area technology centers, career and technical centers, and KCTCS. They also described pilot efforts in Logan, Warren, and Carroll counties that would introduce students to metals careers in middle school, move them into credits and pathways in high school, and connect them to internships, apprenticeships, and postsecondary training. Recycling and supply-chain security were the other major topics. Testimony stressed that recycled inputs are far cheaper than raw ore extraction and that recycling is increasingly important to competitiveness, environmental performance, and keeping materials from leaving the U.S. Speakers also raised concerns about China’s large steel and aluminum capacity and said unfair trade and global market manipulation make it harder for Kentucky producers to compete. Committee members and presenters framed MI2 as a collaborative effort among industry, state government, and academia to strengthen workforce pipelines, recycling, and long-term industry growth. No votes or formal actions were taken beyond approving the minutes.

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• You may not know this, but I'm from and represent Washington Parish, and Washington Parish is a very
• But across our state, we can diversify that. ...on any particular industry, but across our state, we
• So this puts it in state law.
• Banks have used this strategy throughout the United States, and most of the southern states have that
• Other states have done this. We're not doing the state. Like I said, Florida's tied up right now.

Summary: The committee first deferred House Bill 1102 without hearing it. It then took up House Concurrent Resolution 66, which urges Louisiana Economic Development and other state agencies to continue studying rural parishes’ economic assets, infrastructure, workforce, and development opportunities. Representative Weible and Secretary Bougoir described the resolution as part of a broader effort to align state rural programs and create a strategic framework for rural development. Members emphasized infrastructure, workforce training, local coordination, and retaining young people in rural communities. An amendment requiring LED to report to the legislature by January 1, 2027 was adopted, and HCR 66 was reported favorably as amended. The committee next considered Senate Bill 102, which would allow qualified trade associations for motor vehicle dealers to bring declaratory and injunctive actions against manufacturers on behalf of dealers. Senator Presley and the Louisiana Automobile Dealers Association said the bill would consolidate similar disputes into one action, reduce costs, and help smaller dealers avoid retaliation or uneven litigation. Questions focused on standing, the limited remedies, and whether the bill would affect nontraditional sales models. Technical amendments were adopted, and SB 102 was reported favorably as amended. Senate Bill 521, concerning banks’ continued use of a non-surviving bank’s name after mergers or consolidations, drew the most debate. Senator Boudreau and former Senator Fred Mills said the bill would preserve community-bank identity while following FDIC guidance on clear disclosure and consumer notice. Several members raised concerns about codifying federal guidance, future changes to federal rules, and whether the bill should instead set a fixed transition period; an amendment to limit use of the old name to 24 months was adopted after discussion. Another proposed amendment tying the bill to 1998 FDIC branch-name guidance failed on a roll call vote. The bill, as amended, was then reported favorably. The committee also advanced House Bill 387, which narrows the scope of incidental engineering work by architects and clarifies the state fire marshal’s authority to review plans under both architecture and engineering laws, and House Bill 1228, which updates hearing-aid dealer licensing and consumer-protection rules, including testing periods, cooling-off rights, and refund/cancellation procedures. Both bills were reported favorably with technical amendments. The transcript then shifted to additional measures, including House Bill 975 on Public Service Commission reconstitution and several Senate bills by Senator Abraham on self-storage facilities and contractor licensing, but the provided text cuts off before those items are fully concluded.

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• Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of the State of Washington seems to be regular

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Monday, January 6, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• We do have another state fair, but this is not our state fair.
• for expenses related to the Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C.
• of the State.
• Other states don't do it the way we do it. Other states are...
• sources and state support?

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• I believe it's 37 states, including Washington, D.C.
• Okay, so I really like paid family leave, but I think of ...my kids that live in Washington State.
• I think about our state and compared to a state like Washington with the tax base and the amount of money
• In the 13 states that have implemented it, some of them have done like you described in Washington with
• In the 13 states that have implemented it, some of them have done like you described in Washington with

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• refining our in-state oil and somehow make it a lot better to ...on our in-state refining, our in-state
• Yes. ...imported gasoline as well as in-state refined crude.
• One is the facilities in state, where we give allowances to minimize leakage for those assets in state
• just like producers of in-state fuel do.
• Mike Monaghan, on behalf of State Building Trades.

Summary: The Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policy heard an overview from CARB on proposed amendments to California’s Cap-and-Invest program, which was reauthorized through 2045 by AB 1207 and SB 840. CARB said the draft rules are intended to preserve affordability, market certainty, and progress toward the state’s 2030 and 2045 climate targets. The agency described the program’s main features, including the declining emissions cap, utility and industrial allowance allocations, offset changes, the allowance price containment reserve, and new reporting and oversight requirements. CARB also said the rulemaking is on a public comment timeline, with board consideration planned for late May and an effective date targeted for September 1, 2026. Committee members focused heavily on electricity affordability, the planned shift of free allowances from natural gas utilities to electric utilities, and whether the proposal would raise rates for investor-owned and publicly owned utilities. CARB said the proposal is meant to protect ratepayers from compliance costs and that the utility allocation is based on updated data showing utilities are greener than before, but members and utility representatives argued the transition should happen faster and that the current draft could reduce expected revenues and disrupt long-term planning. Members also pressed CARB on carbon capture and sequestration, asking that the regulations clearly recognize it as a compliance pathway, and on whether the SB 905 rulemaking for carbon capture should move forward on schedule. A second major topic was industrial allocations, especially for refiners and other sectors at risk of leakage. CARB said it is keeping all industries at high leakage risk through 2030, maintaining the current cap-adjustment approach, and leaving room for additional comments and data on whether refiners need more allowances to avoid economic leakage and preserve in-state refining. Members also questioned how imported gasoline is treated, and CARB explained that transportation fuel is regulated at the rack and through the low-carbon fuel standard, while cap-and-invest covers in-state tailpipe and smokestack emissions rather than full life-cycle emissions. CARB said it is open to using additional data, including SB 253 reporting, to improve fuel carbon-intensity estimates. The panel of outside experts largely agreed that the program must balance affordability, ambition, and leakage concerns, but they differed on how much allowance value should go to utilities, industry, and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The Legislative Analyst’s Office emphasized that the Legislature should scrutinize CARB’s allocation choices now because they will be hard to change later. An IEMAC representative said the proposal appears to shift more allowance value to industry and utilities, which could reduce GGRF revenues, while EDF argued the cap could be tightened further in the near term without triggering price containment. SCAPA, representing publicly owned utilities, warned that the proposal would reduce utility allowances and could raise costs for ratepayers and undermine early decarbonization investments. No votes were taken at the hearing.

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• on the labeling requirements of Washington State and Colorado, if you could sort of talk about that
• by 2030, while states like Virginia, Texas, and neighboring states Arizona and Nevada are continuing
• The number of data centers throughout the state.
• There are two state wildlife area complexes consisting of six units, one state park, and six units of
• A conservancy is also very timely to achieve state goals.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• and state-operated facilities.
• Missouri is one of the states with the highest level of prevalence among all the states.
• Missouri is one of the states with the highest level of prevalence among all the states.
• Thirty-nine other states have already done so, including every state around Missouri.
• problem in our state, the crisis, the state will invest as well.

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• refining our in-state oil and somehow make it a lot better to On our in-state refining, our in-state
• One is the facilities in state, where we give allowances to minimize leakage for those assets in state
• just like producers of in-state fuel do.
• just like producers of in-state fuel does.
• Those are the ones that are set by the state.

Summary: The committee heard an overview and discussion of CARB’s proposed amendments to California’s Cap-and-Invest program, implemented under AB 1207 and SB 840. Chairs and members emphasized the program’s role in meeting climate targets while balancing affordability, and CARB described the proposal as intended to preserve market certainty, strengthen cost containment, address utility affordability, and support the state’s 2045 carbon-neutrality goal. CARB also noted the public comment period, the planned board hearing, and the goal of an effective date of September 1, 2026. Members questioned CARB on several implementation issues, including whether the rulemaking would be completed on time, the treatment of carbon capture and sequestration, the timing of the transfer of allowances from natural gas utilities to electric utilities, and the impact on ratepayers. CARB said it was on track to meet the May deadline, that CCUS/CDR could be further refined in the proposal and would also be addressed in a separate SB 905 rulemaking later in the year, and that it was seeking to protect ratepayers while inviting more utility data during the comment period. The committee also discussed refining-sector leakage risk, gasoline imports, and how imported fuel is accounted for under cap-and-invest versus the low-carbon fuel standard. A second panel of outside experts and stakeholders then testified. The Legislative Analyst’s Office and IEMAC representatives explained the major statutory changes, including putting offsets under the cap, shifting allowances from natural gas to electric utilities over time, and changing how allowance value is divided among utilities, industry, and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. They stressed that CARB has significant discretion in setting the allowance “pie,” and that more free allocations to utilities or industry reduce GGRF revenues. EDF’s representative argued the proposal should be adopted this spring, said the utility transition should happen faster, and urged a tighter near-term emissions cap. SCAPA, representing publicly owned utilities, opposed the proposed utility allocation changes, saying they would reduce expected allowances, undermine long-term planning, and could force higher rates or reduced decarbonization investments.

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• And most federal employees aren't in Washington, D.C.; they're in Minnesota and the other states, so
• throw 50 state budgets into they'll throw 50 state budgets into chaos<00:08:58.279><c> and</c><00:08:
• </c> authorized about a thousand new state authorized about a thousand new state positions<00:16:08.399
• State State history<00:18:57.679><c> Senator</c><00:18:58.240><c> when</c><00:18:58.440><c> we</c><00
• </c> year's sovereignty day at the state year's sovereignty day at the state capital<00:26:22.799><c>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• I stated that's been last weekend. Okay.
• I stated that's been last weekend. Okay.
• beginning to see in this state.
• In 2025, the United States produced an average of 13.5...
• Just last year, the state made great strides on a But just last year, the state made great strides on

Keywords: 965, house, all

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• That state exclusion would begin in tax year 2026. Under federal law.
• So not everybody in the state gets $300 per person or $600 per couple.
• We all traveled together all over the state.
• It's not complaining about what Trump and Washington, D.C.
• . ...enforcement and fire protective agencies in the state.

Keywords: 970, all

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• This really is about state payments and how we're going to handle some state payments and innovation
• to opt in to be paid in state-enabled stablecoin, the state would purchase that amount of stablecoin
• of the topography of states.
• Then there's the state-specific exam, and every state has its own state-specific exam.
• to state?

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• Um, and those are are state funded only.
• So when addition to our state dollars?
• Our state agencies have to do better and they failed.
• Our state agencies have to do better and they failed.
• If he wants more of what he state legislator, right? I don't know if state legislator, right?

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Other support and opposition witnesses will be stated at the standing mic when called upon; simply state
• more investment into the state.
• The bank lobby stated that establishing a California state public bank would cost billions of dollars
• Washington State has done a study of all the studies, and no public banks have been created because they
• Washington State has done a study of all the studies, and no public banks have been created because they

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• Every state has eyes on what we're doing here, well, every state in the northwest, I should say, and
• Every state has eyes on what we're doing here, well, every state in the northwest, I should say, and
• So there's a lot of states that never even try, and there's no other state that can show results like
• What we have heard over and over again, particularly from Oregon and Washington, is that those states
• Jessup, please state your name.

Keywords: 989, all

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• There are more people that leave the state than are coming into the state.
• of the State, and it's number one issue for the state, and that's housing.
• </c><01:43:52.800><c> it's</c> in his State of the State and it's in his State of the State and it's
• Her son is a pilot with Alaska Airlines for the past three years, based in Washington state.
• </c><02:37:30.279><c> state</c> three years based in Washington state three years based in Washington

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The joint hearing of the Water and Land, Hawaiian Affairs, and Housing committees on January 29, 2025 focused on SB 534, with the chairs outlining hearing procedures, public testimony limits, and plans to allow extended presentations from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) and the Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA) before moving to other testifiers. The hearing was presented as a public, transparent discussion of OHA’s plans for Kakaʻako Makai, with committee members noting that decision-making would follow if time permitted. OHA testified in strong support of SB 534. The chair of OHA’s Board of Trustees said the bill was a novel proposal for the legislature and emphasized that OHA was bringing together a broad coalition of partners and stakeholders, including representatives from construction, hospitality, education, law enforcement, civil service, and schools, as well as longtime community advocates who have opposed development in Kakaʻako Makai. OHA’s presentation reviewed the history of the area, the creation and role of HCDA, prior master plans, the 2012 land conveyance to OHA, and the argument that OHA has not been able to realize the full economic value of the lands because desired entitlements were not secured. OHA linked the bill to its constitutional mission to improve conditions for Native Hawaiians and argued that the state’s housing crisis makes additional development, including residential use, especially important. A major theme of the testimony was housing. OHA argued that Hawaiʻi faces severe affordability pressures, out-migration, and workforce shortages, and said that residential development in Kakaʻako Makai would help address those needs while also supporting the value of the trust lands. The presentation described HCDA’s authority over zoning and development in Kakaʻako, the existing reserved housing requirements, and the need for a master plan that could move forward if SB 534 becomes law. No votes or final committee action were taken in the portion of the hearing provided; the discussion remained in the presentation and testimony phase.