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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Working Group on Omnibus Jobs, Labor and Economic Development - 05/27/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, we passed and the governor signed a ban on non-compete agreements, non-compete provisions within
- Um we passed and the governor<00:00:53.360><c> signed</c><00:00:54.320><c> uh</c><00:00:54.559><c> a<
- /c><00:00:54.879><c> ban</c><00:00:55.199><c> on</c><00:00:55.440><c> non-compete</c> governor signed
- uh a ban on non-compete governor signed uh a ban on non-compete agreements,<00:00:57.120><c> non-compete
- Notably, in 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed a proposed ban on non-compete agreements, citing
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, May 14, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It's about justice, isn't about power.
- speak truth about power. unafraid.
- but to also speak truth about power but to also speak truth about power.<01:07:44.799><c> And</c><01
- They must meet certain firearms power.
- Attorney for the District of Columbia. everything in our power to counter the everything in our power
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 2/24/26
Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
Transcript Highlights:
- She said enforcement is a separation-of-powers issue and that people do not get to decide what the laws
- </c><01:15:30.239><c> that</c><01:15:30.560><c> you</c> specific separation of powers that you specific
- separation of powers that you don't<01:15:30.960><c> get</c><01:15:31.199><c> to</c><01:15:31.440><c
- Notably, artificial intelligence will make these reverse search tools even more powerful.
- The internet has been a more powerful.
Committee:
House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Air Mobility & Aviation Economic Development Task Force (11-4-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- So the power of the air network is what you see right here.
- So<00:10:17.680><c> the</c><00:10:17.920><c> power</c><00:10:18.160><c> of</c><00:10:18.320><c> the</
- of the air network is what So the power of the air network is what you<00:10:19.680><c> see</c><00:10
- grid to help power nearby homes and businesses.
- Um, there were three lieutenant governors that were able to attend the conference.
Summary:
The task force met on November 4, 2025, approved the prior minutes without objection, and then heard a presentation from Amazon on its Kentucky aviation and logistics operations. Amazon described its statewide footprint, including its Boone County air hub at KCVG, its investment of more than $60 billion in Kentucky since 2010, about 20,000 jobs in the state, and its use of Amazon Air as a middle-mile network supported by third-party carriers. The company also highlighted small-business support, community relief efforts, and workforce development through Career Choice, including partnerships with Kentucky schools and aviation maintenance training.
Members asked about Amazon’s most in-demand workforce needs, future operational challenges, and whether autonomous vehicles are used on the KCVG ramp. Amazon said it would follow up on workforce-demand details, identified customer-driven innovation and culture as ongoing challenges, and said autonomous vehicles are in testing but are not part of regular KCVG operations. Amazon also emphasized sustainability efforts, including alternative aviation fuel, and said it wants to work with the legislature to expand AAF production and supply in Kentucky.
The task force then heard from Secretary Jeff Noel of the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development and Matt Wingate on the state’s aviation economic development strategy. They said aviation and aerospace are central to Kentucky’s logistics and economic-development goals, with aerospace identified as the state’s top export and air cargo as a major strength. They discussed outreach to general aviation airports, support for local grant matching, airport funding projects, workforce and education partnerships, and efforts to market Kentucky at aviation trade shows such as Paris Air Show and MRO America. No formal votes or other actions were taken beyond approving the minutes.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
AGR Public Hearing - Wed Mar 19, 2025 @ 9:30 AM HST
Agriculture & Food Systems
Transcript Highlights:
- It allows the governor to negotiate land exchanges, subject to approval by the Board of Land and Natural
- residents are currently struggling with food insecurity, so we should really do everything in our power
- residents are currently struggling with food insecurity, so we should really do everything in our power
- residents are currently struggling with food insecurity, so we should really do everything in our power
- I think those power purchase agreement prices need to be bifurcated from the revenue from agriculture
Committee:
House Agriculture & Food Systems
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- We've got some I got got extra power.
- Infrastructure-ready sites like with water, sewer, roads, broadband, and power.
- And so, um, two governors ago they penciled out this framework, and then um Governor Cox's office has
- Um, so that's been, you know, incredibly powerful and beneficial to us.
- It's been, you know, incredibly powerful and beneficial to us.
Committee:
Joint Appropriations
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
JHA Public Hearing - Tue Feb 24, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST
Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- If the power goes off in the building here, we may have to reschedule the hearing or schedule a meeting
- If the power testimony as time permits.
- If the power goes<00:06:41.759><c> off</c><00:06:41.919><c> in</c><00:06:42.080><c> the</c><00:06:42.240
- in over the board's decision-m power in over the trust<02:28:14.399><c> funds.
- </c> the board having discretionary power the board having discretionary power over<02:28:47.200><c>
Committee:
House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs
Summary:
The House Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs heard testimony on HB 1875, which would expand Hawaii’s existing protections to include gender-affirming health care, clarify permitted disclosures of protected health information, and bar certain adverse actions by malpractice insurers and health carriers against providers of lawful reproductive or gender-affirming care. The Insurance Division of DCCA supported the bill with a technical amendment, suggesting language tied to actuarial analysis rather than the phrase “actuarially sound.” The Office of Information Practices also provided comments.
Most testimony was strongly in support. State agencies and advocacy groups, including the Hawaii State Youth Commission, State Health Planning and Development Agency, Commission on the Status of Women, Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, Hawaii Public Health Institute, Stonewall Caucus, ACLU of Hawaii, PFLAG Oahu, Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates, the Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said the bill would protect patient privacy, reduce chilling effects from out-of-state litigation, and help retain providers in a state already facing shortages. Several testifiers said gender-affirming care is medically necessary, evidence-based, and life-saving, and emphasized that Hawaii should protect its own health care decisions from outside political pressure.
A few individuals testified in opposition, arguing the bill was unnecessary or that it protected providers more than opponents of the bill, but these views were not echoed by most of the testimony. The chair repeatedly reminded testifiers to keep comments brief and maintain decorum. The transcript provided does not include a final committee vote or disposition on the bill.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - Part 3 - 03/19/26
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- It happened because Governor Walz chose to flout Minnesota as a place to come and have sanctuary.
- It happened<00:25:50.440><c> because</c><00:25:50.679><c> Governor</c><00:25:50.920><c> Walz</c><00:25
- :51.600><c> chose</c><00:25:51.840><c> to</c> happened because Governor Walz chose to happened because
- Governor Walz chose to flout<00:25:52.679><c> Minnesota</c><00:25:53.240><c> as</c><00:25:53.400><c>
- or authority as a result of of power or authority as a result of that<02:31:41.880><c> shared</c><02
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Public Safety
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, January 21, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We're tired of the empty talk, Governor.
- ><00:24:36.360><c> the</c><00:24:36.440><c> empty</c><00:24:36.720><c> talk</c><00:24:37.000><c> Governor
- </c> we're tired of the empty talk Governor we're tired of the empty talk Governor president<00:24:38.159
- Unfortunately, unelected billionaire Musk's last-minute power play on the CR scuttled that modest package
- Unfortunately, unelected billionaire Musk's last-minute power play on the CR scuttled that modest package
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- However, that bill was designed to address a very real problem that this body and the House and the governor
- They have their powers, their due powers, derived as delegated by the state government.
- They they have their powers,<01:55:58.400><c> their</c><01:55:58.719><c> due</c><01:55:59.040><c> powers
- </c><01:55:59.440><c> derived</c><01:56:00.000><c> as</c> powers, their due powers derived as powers,
- their due powers derived as delegated<01:56:00.800><c> by</c><01:56:01.040><c> the</c><01:56:01.199>
Committee:
Senate Education
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
FIN Info Briefing - Tue Jan 7, 2025 @ 9:00 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- The governor was extremely receptive.
- The governor was extremely receptive.
- The governor was extremely receptive.
- The governor was extremely receptive.
Summary:
The Committee on Finance received an informational briefing from the Department of Law Enforcement on its priorities following the January 1 transfer of law enforcement assets into the department, including the sheriff’s division, narcotics enforcement, criminal investigations, homeland security, and the inspector general’s office. DLE said its goals are to improve public safety, accountability, communications, training, and standards. The department outlined planned initiatives such as stronger federal partnerships, narcotics and gun-violence enforcement, an agricultural crime unit, traffic and commercial vehicle enforcement, an explosive/fireworks enforcement section, gun buybacks, new police facilities in the airport area, Aahu, and the leeward side, a state training center, upgraded law-enforcement IT, and efforts to narrow salary gaps with county departments to improve recruitment.
A major portion of the discussion focused on illegal fireworks enforcement after the recent explosion tragedy. DLE said its current task force is small and relies on ad hoc support from HPD, the Attorney General’s office, criminal investigations, and sheriffs, which is not sustainable. The department requested eight FTEs for the effort—one administrator, two clerical staff, and six investigators—plus funding for a laboratory, equipment, storage, disposal, vehicles, safety gear, and a criminalist. DLE said the explosive enforcement section would use an existing facility and that the initial lab startup cost is about $2 million. Members asked for follow-up materials, and DLE said it would send the explosive enforcement forms and additional details to the Finance and Judiciary chairs.
Members also questioned staffing vacancies, interagency coordination, and whether new specialized units could be filled. DLE said it has about 119 vacancies and that recruitment is hindered by a roughly $28,000 starting pay gap with county police departments; academy classes are down to about 12 to 14 recruits. The department said it is streamlining hiring, using QR-code recruitment, and hopes specialized units will attract applicants. On coordination, DLE said it works closely with HPD and other agencies on operations such as fireworks enforcement and public events, and that DOCARE remains a case-by-case partner but is not currently moving into DLE. The committee also received updates on the Silver Alert program, which is nearing rollout with county MOUs and a coordinator expected later in the month, the special duty officer program, which is being moved to a web-based vendor-managed system at no cost to the department, and the SaferWatch school safety system, which is being deployed statewide with annual software costs of $3,500 per school in the first year and $2,500 thereafter. No votes or formal actions were taken.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 2/12/25
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- kind</c><00:16:07.920><c> of</c> ...and also get an understanding of kind of where our enforcement powers
- department process started from what the department to<00:52:57.480><c> the</c><00:52:57.640><c> governor
- c> should</c><00:52:58.720><c> see</c><00:52:58.839><c> from</c><00:52:58.960><c> the</c> to the governor
- or should see from the to the governor or should see from the governor<00:52:59.319><c> through</c><
- through the department um are governor through the department um are outlined<00:53:01.760><c> as</c
Committee:
House Commerce Finance and Policy
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Just as importantly, financial accessibility is incredibly powerful.
- Uh then Governor on a bipartisan basis.
- I was appointed in September of '15 by Governor Dayton and then have been reappointed twice by Governor
- </c><01:14:10.159><c> Um,</c> reappointed twice by Governor Walls.
- Um, reappointed twice by Governor Walls.
Committee:
Senate Education Policy
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- to put into this, that maybe we don't necessarily have our policy that just comes straight to the governor
- Whether it's gun owners, faith communities, or political minorities, these systems create a quiet but powerful
- constantly on all your mistakes, and if you're speaking out against the government entity that has the power
- on all your all your mistakes and if you're speaking out against the government entity that has the power
- you have I kind of get the Prima. if you're speaking out against the government entity that has the power
Bills:
HB2118 , HB2181 , HB2308 , HB2309 , HB2402 , HB2476 , HB2682 , HB2698 , HB2875 , HB2877 , HB2903 , HB2910
Committees:
House Commerce , House House Commerce Committee of Reference
Keywords:
mobile food vendors, licensure, food safety, statewide regulations, health standards, zoning, temporary vendors, HB2181, death certificate, death certificates, vital records, funeral establishment, funeral home, human remains, medical certification of death, death registration, state registrar, local registrar, county medical examiner, alternate medical examiner
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/25
State Government Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- That power already exists, so that's why we have the confusion on, I think, that's why we have a disagreement
- That power already exists, so that's why we have the confusion on, I think, that's why we have a disagreement
- That power already exists, so that's why we have the confusion on, I think, that's why we have a disagreement
- We don't report to the governor. He's not our boss. We answer directly to the people of Minnesota.
- And, of course, you have the power of the purse as well.
Committee:
House State Government Finance and Policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 3/12/25
Elections Finance and Government Operations
Transcript Highlights:
- compensation specifically for lobbying, for example, I'm on the Serve Minnesota Board, was appointed by Governor
- But frankly, folks who are making a million dollars or if you're Elon Musk, you have a lot more power
- have</c><00:51:53.359><c> a</c><00:51:53.480><c> lot</c><00:51:53.760><c> more</c><00:51:54.079><c> power
- </c><00:51:54.520><c> than</c><00:51:54.680><c> that</c> you have a lot more power than that you have
- a lot more power than that person<00:51:55.160><c> in</c><00:51:55.280><c> my</c><00:51:55.440><c> district
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- In fact, Governor Sununu had a summer committee study commission that had a diverse group of people from
- Uh, and the governor said she'd vote for it.
- Uh, and the governor<00:06:22.000><c> said</c><00:06:22.319><c> she'd</c><00:06:22.479><c> vote</c><00
- </c><00:06:23.039><c> So</c> governor said she'd vote for it. So governor said she'd vote for it.
- </c><00:50:02.640><c> Cenounu</c> recall, this is what um Governor Cenounu recall, this is what um Governor
Committee:
Senate Education
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Policy and Administration (02/12/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- office about, but the AG does review and approve our contracts, and then our contracts go through governor
- office about, but the AG does review and approve our contracts, and then our contracts go through governor
- </c><00:27:11.799><c> new</c><00:27:12.000><c> governor</c><00:27:12.320><c> and</c><00:27:12.559><c>
- coun</c> the governor new governor and coun the governor new governor and coun executive<00:27:13.640
- </c> this government overreach power this government overreach power excellence<06:15:00.440><c> and<
Summary:
The committee first addressed House Bill 415, which would remove the requirement that schools provide menstrual products. Members supporting an ITL said the mandate was unfunded, had been in place since 2019, and was already working without complaints from districts. Other members opposed the bill, arguing menstrual products are essential and that the requirement helps students, especially those with fewer resources. The committee voted ITL on HB 415 by a roll call of 17 yeas, 0 nays.
The committee then took up House Bill 388, concerning public reports on special education. Supporters of ITL said they agreed with the goal of transparency but were concerned about student privacy, especially in small districts, and thought the bill’s information requests went too far. They noted that related issues could potentially be addressed in another bill, HB 557. The committee voted ITL on HB 388, 17-0.
House Bill 730, which would require schools and some colleges to provide information on adoption, was also moved ITL. The sponsor said adoption is personally important to him but that the bill was not the right vehicle and involved entities such as colleges and the Attorney General unnecessarily; he said related ideas might be folded into other bills later. The committee agreed and voted ITL, 17-0.
The committee then discussed House Bill 671, a preschool/early literacy proposal involving a statewide nonprofit digital program, likely Waterford. Members raised questions about who would be covered, data privacy, prior use of federal ESSER funds, whether the program had measurable results, and whether the bill’s nonprofit requirement was too restrictive. Department of Education witness Melissa White said the state had spent $400,000 in FY22 and $600,000 in FY23 on a Waterford contract using ARP ESSER funds, but she did not have participant counts and said the department could not measure literacy gains for that population. She also said the bill’s funding level would likely require an RFP and that, if enacted as written, the program would probably still be Waterford-based. The discussion continued without a final vote in the portion provided.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- clarifies that should any violations occur, DES can and must still employ its array of enforcement powers
- So, we were going out to procure, and we did go out to procure, and we went to Governor and Council last
- 41.840><c> to</c> we did go out to procure, and we went to we did go out to procure, and we went to Governor
- :42.880><c> last</c><01:35:43.720><c> week,</c><01:35:44.680><c> and</c><01:35:45.480><c> um</c> Governor
- and Council last week, and um Governor and Council last week, and um secured<01:35:46.560><c> the</c
Committee:
Senate Finance
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
JHA Public Hearing - Tue Apr 7, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST
Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- If the power goes out here in the building and we need to reschedule, I'll make sure to post appropriate
- Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Office of the Governor, Michael Champion?
- is Michael Champion, senior advisor on mental health and the justice system in the Office of the Governor
- testimony and am available for questions if there are any. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Office of the Governor
- is Michael Champion, senior advisor on mental health and the justice system in the Office of the Governor
Committee:
House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs
Summary:
The committee heard a series of resolutions and a few bills, with testimony largely in support across the agenda. Early measures included HCR 15/HR 17 supporting Kamehameha Schools’ admissions policy, and HCR 22/HR 22 urging Congress to pass federal kidney disease legislation; both drew support and no opposition. The committee also heard HCR 146 HD1/HR 138 HD1 on “excited delirium,” with testimony from advocates urging the resolutions be broadened to include related terms such as hyperactive delirium and agitated delirium, and from family members and disability-rights advocates describing the issue as harmful pseudoscience tied to police-custody deaths and calling for a ban on the term and better mental-health responses.
The committee then took up HCR 123/HR 115 on creating a coordinated support and stabilization task force for Native Hawaiians experiencing homelessness or extreme low income. Department of Hawaiian Home Lands testified in support, describing its transitional housing work and saying collaboration and data-sharing with the state homelessness office would help beneficiaries and others; members questioned whether existing entities already do similar work and whether the proposal would extend beyond beneficiaries. HCR 32/HR 32, which asks the governor’s senior advisor on mental health and the justice system to develop a plan to increase access to Hawaii State Hospital for certain criminal defendants, drew support from the Department of Health, the governor’s office, and disability-rights advocates, who emphasized coordinated planning, diversion from arrest when appropriate, and matching people to the right level of care.
Additional resolutions addressed a range of policy issues: renaming Leeward Community College to Puloulou Community College (with no testimony), creating an ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi pathway under the Niʻihau dialect at UH (UH noted existing courses already cover the dialect but not a degree pathway), moving to a demerit-point driver licensing system (support only), and coordinating transportation infrastructure planning for Hawaiian home lands (DHHL supported the measure and said an expired DOT memorandum of understanding had covered related collaboration). The committee also heard support for expanding DHHL financial literacy and homeownership-preparedness programs, a resolution asking the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission to examine algorithmic discrimination, and a resolution urging the Oahu Metropolitan Planning Advisory Committee to follow its rules, comply with the Sunshine Law, review its executive director, and strengthen accountability; the last measure drew 11 written supports and no opposition. No final votes or decisions were taken in the portion provided, as the hearing focused on testimony and questions.