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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 5/5/25
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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- Thank you. all want to be sure we're being careful all want to be sure we're being careful about.<01:
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Health care is provided at these county jails. They are required to provide it.
- We are tasked to implement the directives that are given to us by the state.
- His response is generally, Microsoft doesn't care.
- The attacks side of it goes one direction and the cost side of it goes another.
- It falls into the careful what you ask for category. That's exactly right.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm directing the clerk to keep the public comment portal open until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, August 22nd
- I don't care how you grade the score, but it needs to be accurate. This test needs to be accurate.
- But you do come forward and give us advice about the direction we ought to go.
- But you do come forward and give us advice about the direction we ought to go.
- House Bill 8 is an important step in the right direction.
Bills:
HB8
Keywords:
HB 8, Texas public school accountability, school accountability, public school transparency, STAAR, state assessments, instructionally supportive assessment program, Student Success Tool, Texas Education Agency, TEA, accountability ratings, A-F ratings, through-year assessment, benchmark testing, norm-referenced assessment, college career military readiness, CCMR, local accountability plan, school district performance, campus turnaround
Summary:
The House Committee on Public Education met to hear House Bill 8, which would replace STAAR with a new assessment and accountability system beginning in the 2027-28 school year. The chair described the bill as reducing testing time, limiting benchmark tests, adding beginning-, middle-, and end-of-year assessments, requiring faster score turnaround, involving Texas teachers in test development, and tightening accountability timelines and transparency rules. Members also discussed provisions on A-F ratings, cut scores, CCMR, local accountability plans, and TEA reporting requirements.
Committee members and invited witnesses split sharply on the bill’s approach. Supporters, including the chair, TEA Commissioner Mike Morath, and Ed Trust’s Nicholas Munyon Penny, argued the bill would reduce high-stakes pressure, provide quicker and more actionable data, limit over-testing, and better align assessments to Texas standards while preserving criterion-referenced accountability. They said the new system would help teachers and parents intervene sooner and would improve transparency, including parent access to student responses and automatic rescoring in some writing cases.
Opponents, including Rep. Hinojosa and student witness Ella Moran, argued the bill still increases testing and replaces one high-stakes test with multiple TEA-created tests. Moran testified that STAAR creates anxiety, disrupts instruction, and does not reflect real learning, while Hinojosa said the House had previously passed a better bill based on a nationally norm-referenced model and criticized the new proposal as a concession to the Senate. Questions also focused on AI scoring of writing, rescoring rates, and whether the bill’s new accountability rules would be reliable and fair. The committee did not take a final vote during the portion provided, but the chair said a vote on HB 8 would be called after public testimony later in the day.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources Committee, February 17, 2026 - PM
Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- But none of them are as direct as this one is.
- You know, the the direct as this one is.
- </c> the whole amendment that would take care the whole amendment that would take care of<00:51:29.920
- So I just wanted to reiterate that I think this is a good step in the right direction.
- And by the way, Senator Jones is taking good care of Sweetwater County for you.
Keywords:
landowner licenses, hunting, wildlife management, quota hunt areas, game and fish commission, game management, hunting regulations, black bear, tracking dogs, wildlife conservation, conservation, contracting, supervisor, funding, districts, hunting licenses, donated licenses, life-threatening illness, vision impairment, nonprofit organizations
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
AGR Public Hearing - Fri Jan 30, 2026 @ 9:30 AM HST
Agriculture & Food Systems
Transcript Highlights:
- Let's take care of those farmers who are currently farming, like Haiti.
- We're focused mostly on direct-to-consumer. >> Um, and we're still not able to provide enough for direct-to-consumer
- . >> So it is your market is direct local consumption?
- </c><00:48:42.000><c> to</c><00:48:42.240><c> consumer</c> mostly on direct to consumer mostly on direct
- </c><00:48:46.079><c> to</c><00:48:46.319><c> consumer</c> enough for direct to consumer enough for direct
Keywords:
biosecurity, invasive species, Hawaii Invasive Species Council, Department of Land and Natural Resources, appropriation, agriculture, land use, farm dwelling, renewable energy, income qualification, solar energy, geothermal resources, hydropower, agricultural tourism, aquaculture, commercial activity, swine production, Korean natural farming, land leases, Hawaii
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on the Judiciary Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on the Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- Many of you may have your paychecks direct deposited.
- The act to study the delivery of care.
- people he cared for superbly.
- Medical care.
- Timely medical care is a basic human right.
Summary:
The Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a wide range of criminal justice, victim services, and records-sealing bills. Early testimony focused on H.1811, the Clean Slate automated record-sealing bill, with supporters arguing that automatic sealing after existing waiting periods would remove barriers to jobs, housing, and education without changing eligibility rules. Advocates from legal aid, business, and housing organizations said the current petition-based system is underused, burdensome, and costly, while opponents of expanding surveillance-related laws urged the committee to preserve privacy protections. The committee also heard testimony on H.1693, which would immediately seal records in cases ending without conviction and clarify the presumption of innocence, with speakers describing how dismissed cases still create lasting collateral consequences and prevent people from moving forward. No votes were taken during the hearing.
Several bills centered on victim safety and domestic violence. Senator Michael Moore testified for S.1201, which would keep child-protective orders in effect even if the parent or guardian who filed them dies, and for S.1204, which would update the wiretap statute. Multiple survivors and advocates supported S.1215 and S.1222, arguing for a narrow wiretap defense for recordings made to document threats or abuse and for making GPS tampering a separate felony offense. Testifiers described situations in which GPS devices were cut off or disabled and said current law leaves victims at risk and gives abusers too much leeway. The committee also heard emotional testimony on H.1685/S.1238, a bill prompted by the suicide of Stavri Yanka in custody, with the sponsor, his mother, and the sheriff describing the need for better information-sharing so suicide-risk information follows a person into custody.
Law enforcement and prosecutors supported several due-process and dangerousness-related bills. MassCOP, the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, and the State Police Association backed H.1828/S.1039/S.1235, which would require de novo Superior Court review for POST Commission suspensions over two weeks or decertifications, arguing officers need a meaningful appeal beyond administrative review. The committee also heard support for H.1691, expanding the dangerousness statute to additional offenses; Bristol County District Attorney Quinn said the changes would let prosecutors seek detention in serious cases such as child rape and manslaughter when facts warrant it. In contrast, the Committee for Public Counsel Services opposed expanding dangerousness detention, warning that pretrial detention causes serious harms and disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic defendants. The hearing also included testimony on H.1654/S.1063 to enhance victims’ rights and H.1525, which would rename and expand community corrections into community justice programs, with supporters emphasizing reentry, reduced stigma, and broader service access.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Budget Review Subcommittee on Economic Development, Tourism, and Environment Protection (6-3-26)
Transcript Highlights:
- know on the business sides where I have come from it's always trying to figure out how do you take care
- of your existing company so they never leave you, how do you take care of those customers and so that
- of your existing how do you take care of your existing company<00:05:10.720><c> so</c><00:05:10.960>
- of those customers and so you take care of those customers and so that<00:05:15.440><c> they</c><00:
- Not only do we have a project direction.
Keywords:
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Summary:
The subcommittee met with Secretary Jeff Null and General Counsel Matt Wing of the Cabinet for Economic Development for an overview of the cabinet’s main economic development tools, strategy, and compliance practices. Null said the cabinet uses a data-driven approach focused on competitiveness, site readiness, wages, workforce training, and long-term assets such as roads, rail spurs, water, and sewer improvements. He emphasized that the cabinet tries to balance attracting new employers with supporting existing businesses, and said compliance is a core value of the agency.
Null walked members through several programs, including the closing fund, Kentucky Business Incentive (KBI), Bluegrass State Skills Corporation training support, and the KIA sales-tax refund tool for construction materials and equipment. He said the closing fund has received $80 million over two years for projects generally involving at least $10 million in investment, though some flexibility exists. He also explained that Bluegrass State Skills funding is typically about $2,000 to $3,000 per job and can be used flexibly for training, including sending Kentucky workers to be trained elsewhere or paying trainers to come to Kentucky. He described KBI as a pay-as-you-go, incremental tax credit tied to actual jobs and investment, and said the legislature’s tiered refundable credit structure allows more targeted use of incentives in heritage and non-heritage counties.
A substantial portion of the presentation focused on compliance and monitoring. Null said incentive agreements are written with commercial terms and spell out jobs, investment, wages, and training commitments. The cabinet requires regular reporting, invoices, and sampling, and can use clawbacks or suspend benefits if companies fail to meet obligations or lose required environmental permits. He said the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority reviews incentive applications in public meetings and often requires company representatives to answer questions before preliminary approval is granted. No votes or formal actions were taken during the meeting.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Depending on where you live and what kind of care your child needs, you may be able... upwards to 400
- Specialists allowing better care for the children of our state.
- Currently, many families in Texas face significant barriers to accessing pediatric subspecialty care.
- We also obviously support those that continue in the educational direction of going to university for
- So medical school is more about sick care than health care. I think in some ways it is.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- If they cannot afford child care now, being able to deduct their child care costs will not help them.
- If you can afford child care, those who can afford the most expensive child care might get $900 back
- I don't see any direct lines at all, because the child care, child care normally does help with jobs.
- Now people who are paying for child care are apparently wealthy, just by virtue of paying for child care
- Again, child care deduction was attacked.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/26 - Part 1
Public Safety Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Criminals do not care what laws we put in place. Criminals do not care what you do.
- Criminals don't care. Uh-huh. through. Criminals don't care. Uh-huh.
- </c> I direct to the testifier from the AG. I direct to the testifier from the AG.
- care in the future.
- </c> for their health care needs. Thank you. for their health care needs. Thank you.
Bills:
HF2354, HF3407, HF4359, HF4192, HF3356, HF3695, HF1597, HF3155, HF3871, HF4437, HF4446, HF3990
Keywords:
medical assistance, fraud prevention, subpoena authority, criminal penalties, consumer protection, ghost guns, unserialized firearms, 3D-printed guns, 3D printer firearms, CNC milling, home-built firearms, firearm serialization, serial numbers, unfinished frame, unfinished receiver, ghost gun ban, gun control, firearm design files, CAD files, digital gun blueprints
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> care of us. Thank you, Mr. President. care of us. Thank you, Mr. President.
- </c> care of that part. care of that part. >> That's<02:30:19.760><c> right.
- </c> We'll get it taken care of. We'll get it taken care of. All<05:38:43.680><c> right.
- And uh careful doing that.
- ><c> access,</c> health care quality, health care access, health care quality, health care access, and
Summary:
The Alabama Senate convened with prayer, the pledge, and a quorum present, then adopted a resolution honoring Dr. Todd Freeman, Superintendent of Vestavia Hills City Schools, as Alabama Superintendent of the Year. Senators praised his leadership in public education and noted the recognition was especially meaningful as one of the last such honors in the current chamber. The Senate also adopted a resolution commending the 2026 Alabama Law Institute Senate interns for their service, and members offered personal remarks thanking the interns and encouraging them to remain and contribute to Alabama in the future.
The chamber then took up several conference committee and House messages. The Senate concurred in the conference report on Senate Bill 341 after extended remarks, and later concurred in the conference report on Senate Bill 32, described as a veterans-related bill that would make benefits automatic for those under the federal poverty level and allow cities and counties to opt in for veterans above that level. The Senate also received House amendments to Senate Bill 199, concerning sex offenders, and voted to non-concur and send the bill to conference, naming conferees.
In resolutions from the Rules Committee, the Senate adopted an amended House Joint Resolution 198 establishing the Alabama Mental Health Task Force. It also adopted House Joint Resolution 326, which recognizes the need for a north-south transportation route in East Alabama. Throughout the meeting, senators made extended floor remarks about slowing down on legislation, focusing on rural hospitals and other priorities, and the importance of treating children, seniors, and low-income residents fairly.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Bill proposes Minnesota constitutional amendment to fund affordable housing 4/8/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- One, to address the direct housing assistance through housing vouchers, to make sure that Minnesotans
- housing assistance through uh the direct housing assistance through uh<00:04:49.560><c> housing</c><
- ,</c> restaurants, retail, home health care, restaurants, retail, home health care, and<00:08:45.480>
- I also bring a lived experience with me of homelessness after being in foster care.
- </c> cuz I serve on taxes as well and care cuz I serve on taxes as well and care about<00:20:06.040><
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Children and Families Jan 13th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Children and Families
Transcript Highlights:
- I don’t care where it comes from.
- They know law enforcement don't care. They know social services don't care.
- So we'll take, that'll be taken care of.
- You stay here in this house, and we’ll take care of you.”
- And we care. You are so brave, and we care. Thank you.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
TRN Public Hearing - Tue Mar 18, 2025 @ 10:00 AM HST
Transcript Highlights:
- That includes a culture of caring for everyone's health.
- It reflected people caring and saying, “Let’s not let that happen again.”
- </c> enhancing access to Medical Care enhancing access to Medical Care supporting<00:46:42.480><c> overall
- </c><00:52:35.079><c> a</c><00:52:35.200><c> reasonably</c><00:52:35.680><c> careful</c> reasoning care
- a reasonably careful reasoning care a reasonably careful pedestrian<00:52:36.520><c> would</c><00:52
Summary:
The House Committee on Transportation met on March 18, 2025, to hear several measures and later take up amendments and votes. Early items included a budget measure to increase the mass transit special fund expenditure ceiling, a bill extending lapse dates for drug and alcohol toxicology testing laboratory funds, and a measure creating buffer zones for parking near crosswalks and intersections. Testimony on the crosswalk-parking bill was broadly supportive from transportation, law enforcement, planning, bicycling, public health, and advocacy groups, with the Department of Health emphasizing visibility and roadway safety. The committee also heard a bill establishing the Mokai air carrier subsidy program for Molokaʻi, which drew support from the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii and comments from the Department of Transportation. The committee then heard SB 106 on pedestrian rules, which generated mixed testimony: the Office of the Public Defender, Hawaii Appleseed, Hawaii Public Health Institute, Hawaii Workers Center, and the Department of Health supported it, while the Honolulu Police Department and Kīpuka Injury Prevention Coalition opposed it. Supporters argued the bill would reduce inequitable jaywalking enforcement and reflect a broader safety culture; opponents warned it could create confusion and risk. Members also discussed whether the bill would affect other traffic-code provisions and asked about crash data in other jurisdictions; the Department of Health said crashes had not increased in other places and cited California data showing decreased crashes and fatalities.
In decision-making, the committee voted to pass SB 934 SD2 with amendments, with Representative Miyake reserving and Representative Cochran excused. It then passed SB 1526 SD2 with amendments. SB 1195 SD1 was also passed with amendments after the chair proposed adding language tying fines for illegal parking near crosswalks and intersections to the Safe Routes to School special fund and establishing a fine range of $100 to $500 per violation, with collected fines dedicated to pedestrian safety improvements. Members voiced support for the dedicated revenue source and community safety rationale.
The committee next passed SB 1638 SD2 with amendments to strengthen the constitutional/public-purpose findings for subsidizing air carriers serving Molokaʻi and to add annual audit requirements and penalties for misuse of funds. The amended findings emphasized that affordable air service is essential for health care, employment, education, and overall well-being in remote island communities, and that the subsidy program is intended to improve access and competition while lowering costs for residents. The chair then recessed the meeting after the final vote.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Mar 19th, 2026
California Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It is a time when homes are filled with warmth, tables are prepared with care, elders are honored, children
- His heart and care also extended to the people who made this work happen in this building — the staff
- And nowhere was that clearer than in his care for foster youth.
- That is who John was, a man of grit and heart, a man who cared more about justice than approval, a man
- My dad ran foster care for the state of California at one point, and he was my business partner.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- The VA was created on the decree from Abraham Lincoln to care for those who've borne the battle.
- Secondly, with taking care of the spouses, there's one thing we haven't mentioned: taking care of the
- So there's many, many, many people—Gold Star families, if we can take care of them.
- take care of the community, too. ...the money in the community.
- take care of the community, too.
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum and first went into executive session, where it adopted committee substitutes and voted do pass on House Bills 383, 2940, and 1869 by unanimous roll-call votes. The chair then moved to public hearings and announced shortened testimony times because of the late hour.
A large portion of the hearing focused on several nearly identical proposals to provide property tax relief to disabled veterans and, in some versions, surviving spouses. Representatives Jobe, Crosley, Bolerking, Schmidt, and Jones described different approaches: tiered exemptions based on VA disability ratings, homestead-based exemptions, county opt-in or opt-out provisions, sunsets, and in some bills relief tied to assessed value or personal property/vehicle taxes. Committee members raised questions about acreage limits, transfer of benefits to new residences, remarriage of surviving spouses, annual recertification, and whether counties should have discretion. Several witnesses in favor, including veterans and veterans’ advocates, urged broader eligibility, especially for 100% permanent and total veterans and those with individual unemployability, and argued the benefit would help veterans remain in Missouri. A public advocate opposed the bills on fiscal grounds, citing large projected costs to local governments, school districts, and state funds.
The committee also heard testimony from veterans and advocates on the importance of recognizing spouses and families, and on the need to avoid burdensome county administration. Representative Schmidt presented two related bills, one offering a percentage-based property tax discount and another creating a homestead tax credit with county participation and a market-value cap; members discussed combining the measures and revising sunset and spouse language. Representative Jones presented bills extending relief to 100% disabled veterans and to personal property/vehicles, emphasizing that counties could opt in and that the credit should not shift costs to other taxpayers. The hearing ended before the final witness finished, and the committee adjourned.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill mainly makes changes to the Uniform Probate Code, that's Title 15, Chapter 5, and the care
- Idaho Continuum of Care Association, that's ICCA.
- Well, how can we, we don't, the person doesn't need hospital level of care and doesn't need to spend
- When there's something this large contemplated, taking the time to be careful and try to get it right
- Okay, Senator Ruttee, I'll let you kind of direct the conclusion.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/02/2026 - House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs
House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee of Reference
Transcript Highlights:
- I think that we should care equally about communist entities and fascist governments buying land in Arizona
- I think that we should care equally about communist entities and fascist governments buying land in Arizona
- I don't care who you are. You could be responsible for that.
- voted we didn't want an AMA in that in that water district but the governor came in said we don't care
- We know that the county supervisors down there, and their job is to be able to take care of the county
Summary:
The Land, Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee heard several measures focused largely on foreign land ownership, historic preservation administration, and limits on the Attorney General’s nuisance-enforcement authority. HCM 2005, which urges Congress to study restrictions on foreign governments from communist or authoritarian countries owning property, drew debate over a proposed amendment to add fascist governments; that amendment failed, and the memorial then received a do pass recommendation. HB 2171, a related bill prohibiting sales or leases of Arizona real property to persons acting for China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea and assigning enforcement duties to state and county agencies, also passed after members debated whether it duplicated existing law and raised constitutional concerns. HB 2790, which would change reporting and administrative structure for the State Historic Preservation Office and appropriate $1 million, received testimony from Arizona State Parks and Trails and the Arizona Preservation Foundation; supporters said it would improve autonomy and efficiency, while others warned about internal inconsistencies and federal funding implications. It was approved on a 5-3 vote.
The committee then considered three bills aimed at curbing the Attorney General’s public nuisance actions. HB 2168 would require county board of supervisors consent before the AG could bring a nuisance case in Superior Court; supporters said it would add local control and protect rural industries, while opponents argued it would hinder statewide enforcement and protect large foreign corporations. HB 2169 would make the AG liable for defamation per se if a nuisance action lacks a reasonable basis and is publicized; HB 2167 went further, creating damages, attorney-fee, lost-profit, and treble-damages liability payable from the AG’s operating fund. In testimony, supporters said the bills were needed to check what they described as aggressive or unfair nuisance litigation against rural businesses and water users, while opponents said the measures would chill legitimate enforcement and accountability. All three bills passed on 5-3 votes.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- That event brings about $6 million of direct economic impact to one of my cities.
- So I just want to be careful in answering so that it's not put out erroneously.
- Jude, which is providing care for children that cannot, under bills like this, provide appropriate care
- It’s his call,” and I don’t have any direction.
- Again, it's related to health care.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Aug 21st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- So what would be the best direction we should take that in? Mr.
- We will need direction today to support LFC and DFA staff to develop criteria.
- So as we move forward, let's keep the discussion directed towards that fund itself.
- Looks like we're all in favor to direct staff to move forward.
- What we are looking for at this point is direction on next steps.