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LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Senate and Governmental Affairs May 6th, 2026
Senate & Governmental Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- HB 210 is a cleanup bill in relation to Act 492 of the 2024 Regular Session.
- When we got to what is now Act 492, it got to the Senate...
- Acting Chair. Mr.
- Acting Chair.
- Acting Chair. All right. Thank you, Senator Miller. Senator Talbot. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Committee:
Senate Senate & Governmental Affairs
Keywords:
Senate rules, Louisiana Senate, Senate Chamber, smart glasses, recording eyewear, audio recording, video recording, wearable technology, covert recording, legislative security, media access, chamber decorum, Senate President, internal rules, public access, lobbyists, official journal, public notices, competitive bid, Louisiana legislation
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
House and Governmental Affairs Apr 14th, 2026
House and Governmental Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Just real quick, we said this at 9 o'clock before we went on the air, but I want to repeat it in case
- Just real quick, we said this at 9 o'clock before we went on the air, but just I want to repeat it in
Committee:
House House and Governmental Affairs
Keywords:
juror confidentiality, public records, criminal procedure, privacy, court disclosure, official journal, public notices, government transparency, local government, municipal website, school board notices, parish council, police jury, special districts, levee district, drainage district, road district, navigation district, sewerage district, newspaper publication
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
House and Governmental Affairs Apr 8th, 2026
House and Governmental Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Acting Chair. Representative, excuse me, David Bordelon, Ethics... Thank you, Mr. Acting Chair.
- Acting Chair.
- did not file those disclosures that would be necessary under the act?
- Acting Chair.
- And does that include dry cleaning? That does include dry cleaning.
Bills:
HB88 , HB181 , HB210 , HB250 , HB486 , HB529 , HB544 , HB639 , HB996 , HB1036 , HB1071 , HB1113
Committee:
House House and Governmental Affairs
Keywords:
local law, special bill, legislative process, transparency, election amendment, lobbying, public service, ethics, statewide officials, compensation, disclosure requirements, government employment, financial disclosure, public servants, immediate family, psychology, telepsychology, interjurisdictional practice, compact, licensure
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Ethics and Campaign Finance Committee Mar 17th, 2026
Ethics and Campaign Finance
Committee:
House Ethics and Campaign Finance
Keywords:
hemp, hemp beverages, psychoactive cannabinoids, psychoactive hemp products, delta-8 THC, delta-9 THC, delta-10 THC, cannabidiol, CBD, intoxicating hemp, hemp-derived THC, cannabis regulation, marijuana alternatives, alcoholic beverage control, ABC Board, licensing, permit, excise tax, age verification, under 21
HI
Committee:
House Finance
Keywords:
appropriations, legislative expenses, auditor, legislative reference bureau, state ethics commission, ombudsman, government transparency, HB2272, Act 026, public employment cost items, emergency appropriations, collective bargaining, bargaining unit 11, BU-11, state employees, excluded employees, salary increases, cost adjustments, health premium payments, benefits
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Technology and Telecommunications REVISED Feb 19th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Technology and Telecommunications
Transcript Highlights:
- we're just trying to comply with the definitions that are previously in a previous section of this act
- So, a different section within that act that we put in place last year.
- I don't have that full act from last year in front of me, but that's where we said reasonable standards
- where that private right of action comes in and you're not protected by the other Provisions of the act
- We would have to go back to when we put the act in place. There was a physical impact on it.
Committee:
Senate Technology and Telecommunications
Keywords:
higher education, state regents, university research, technology transfer, intellectual property, patent ownership, royalty income, commercialization, startup companies, research partnerships, public universities, faculty inventions, student inventions, innovation policy, economic development, medical technology, biotechnology, energy technology, telecommunications, aerospace and defense
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Public Safety Subcommittee Feb 11th, 2026 at 04:30 pm
Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- This dovetails with the Sarah Act by adding a high school equivalency diploma to the inmate's release
Committees:
House Public Safety , House A&B Public Safety Subcommittee
Keywords:
rural law enforcement, grant fund, public safety, financial assistance, coordination districts, grant funding, law enforcement coordinators, municipal assistance, education, inmates, literacy, high school equivalency, Department of Corrections, parole, rehabilitation, HB3595, Safer Counties Revolving Fund, Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, county grants, traffic barrier equipment
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House State Government & Tribal Relations Jan 30th, 2026 at 08:00 am
State Government & Tribal Relations
Transcript Highlights:
- The Gambling Act permits bona fide charitable or nonprofit organizations to conduct bingo games, raffles
- Under the Gambling Act, the legislative authority of a local government may provide for the taxing of
- So that's nature's natural way of keeping our ocean clean.
- There are over 500 exemptions to disclosure throughout the Public Records Act and other statutes.
- Act for all this information in specific instances where it's necessary that it not be disclosed.
Committee:
House State Government & Tribal Relations
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 27th, 2026 at 04:11 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- years ago to This is part of a multi-year effort that you all kicked off two years ago to start cleaning
- sheets, but this is giving you every single line item that you'll find in the General Appropriations Act
- And the difference is that UNM is covered by the New Mexico Court Claims Act.
- They're not part of the New Mexico Tort Claims Act. So there's just some disparity there.
Committee:
House House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
high-quality literacy instruction, science of reading, structured literacy, reading instruction, literacy assessment, dyslexia screening, phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, biliteracy, English language learner, ELL, bilingual education, dual language program, reading intervention, reading difficulty, reading improvement plan, literacy coach
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- And that's a $3.3 million supplemental for the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, the CARA program
- And that's a $3.3 million supplemental for the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, the CARA program
- for the Department for FY20. for the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, the CARA program for
- Additionally, $250,000 to continue the clinical mentoring program for the long-acting reversible contraceptives
- supplemental request for $3.4 million to the Department of Health for the Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act
Committees:
Senate Senate Finance , Senate House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
high-quality literacy instruction, science of reading, structured literacy, reading instruction, literacy assessment, dyslexia screening, phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, biliteracy, English language learner, ELL, bilingual education, dual language program, reading intervention, reading difficulty, reading improvement plan, literacy coach
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- So this is the High-Quality Literacy Instruction Act.
- Excel and Ed in Action supports the High Quality Literacy Instruction Act because it represents a comprehensive
Committees:
Senate Senate Education , Senate House Education
Keywords:
SB29, math requirements for teaching license, teacher licensure, teacher endorsement, mathematics methods, elementary education, secondary education, special education, early childhood education, reciprocity, Public Education Department, Mathematics and Science Education Act, mathematics instructional leadership framework, professional learning plan, K-3 screening, mathematics screening assessment, mathematics difficulty, support plan, multilevel support, intervention
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- In front of you is Senate Bill 5937, an act relating to the use of smart access system in a residential
- property subject to the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act, or the RLTA.
- you happen to know how much utilization of this opportunity has taken place since the bill's been acted
- As you recall, the Foreclosure Fairness Act started back during the Great Recession.
- As you recall, the Foreclosure Fairness Act started back during the Great Recession.
Committee:
Senate Housing
Keywords:
sales tax, redevelopment, economic incentive, underutilized property, infrastructure, affordable housing, religious organizations, zoning laws, land use, community development, smart access system, smart lock, residential landlord-tenant act, tenant privacy, biometric data, fingerprint, face scan, iris scan, key fob, key card
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Committee Apr 9th, 2025
Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Transcript Highlights:
- I mean, at first, we didn't love the bill because of the hair and the cleaning and all the sanitary issues
- I didn't look any further because once we found the 1858 Local Act or the Act of Alabama, that's determinative
- ... open up all the lake to us, which they're not, you get out on the other side of the lake with clean
Keywords:
HB352, cotton, cotton bale assessment, cotton levy, cotton producers, agriculture, forestry, Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Committee, per bale fee, commodity assessment, producer referendum, cotton sales tax, Alabama Code 2-8-199, cotton commission, agricultural funding, HB366, Lakyn Canine Act, police dog, K9, K-9
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- It's meant to just clarify and clean things up.
- It's meant to just clarify and clean things up.
- It is not meant and and clean things up.
- These sections really just clean up incorrect references, update statutory references to the National
- These sections really just clean up incorrect references, update statutory references to the National
Keywords:
tourism, World Junior Hockey Championships, funding, economic impact, sports events, Minnesota, economic development, livability, marketing, partnerships, labor and industry, electrical licensing, electrical inspection, continuing education, online course approval, Internet continuing education, power limited technician, maintenance electrician, master electrician, technology circuits
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Mar 19th, 2025
Ways and Means General Fund
Transcript Highlights:
- automatically, like other states, jumped in when they passed that law in 2022, the Federal Jobs Cut Act
Committee:
House Ways and Means General Fund
Keywords:
judicial compensation, salary adjustments, district attorneys, Judges, local officials, district attorney, compensation, constitutional amendment, job security, Alabama Constitution, tobacco tax, heated tobacco products, heated tobacco, cigarettes, nicotine, vape alternative, smokeless tobacco, snuff, cigars, excise tax
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Delivery of Government Efficiency Mar 12th, 2025
Delivery of Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- The last AIR I submitted.
- I mean, I own an air conditioner.
- Oh, before who acts on it, before the counties? Before the counties to act on it, yes, ma'am.
- And so when we see those, we try to act.
- It cleans up old rules and regulations.
Committee:
House Delivery of Government Efficiency
Keywords:
regulatory reform, government efficiency, administrative law, rulemaking, agency deference, judicial review, de novo review, Texas Government Code, Administrative Procedure Act, state agencies, plain language, regulatory burden, regulatory reduction, cost-benefit analysis, fiscal note, public benefits and costs, contested case, rule challenge, Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office, advisory panel
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/10/25
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- The Department of Health got funding for a comprehensive overdose morbidity and prevention act, which
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- He said public health and safety officials can then act quickly to share information, distribute in the
- That data is classified as nonpublic and private under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, and
Committee:
House Health Finance and Policy
Keywords:
HF696, rural EMS, ambulance, emergency medical services, uncompensated care, payment pool, rural health, Office of Emergency Medical Services, public safety answering point, PSAP, nontransport, unpaid ambulance calls, EMS reimbursement, rural ambulance provider, general fund appropriation, Minnesota health finance, specialized life support, metropolitan counties, emergency response funding, HF1429
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Natural Resources & Energy (3-5-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- We also know that there are steep penalties for violations of Clean Air Act requirements, so we want
- So the actual words of the Clean Air Act include all information available to the administrator.
- Air Act.
- This is very, very specific because we're talking about a Clean Air Act.
- Air Act or the EPA?
Summary:
The Natural Resources Committee met with prayer and the Pledge, approved the prior minutes, and recognized visiting guests, including representatives from Nucor Steel and students from Eastern Kentucky University. The main business was House Bill 137, which would require air-pollution enforcement actions by the Energy and Environment Cabinet and Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District to rely on EPA-approved monitoring methods or scientifically defensible, quality-assured data. The sponsor and industry supporters argued the bill would ensure reliable evidence and protect manufacturers from enforcement based on questionable data.
Opponents, including the Kentucky Resources Council, the West Jefferson County Community Task Force, and a former cabinet employee, argued the bill would conflict with the Clean Air Act’s allowance for “any credible evidence,” could exclude community air-monitoring data and citizen complaints, and might weaken enforcement by limiting the use of lower-cost sensors, photos, video, and other nontraditional evidence. Committee members questioned how credible evidence and the Daubert standard would apply, and supporters and opponents debated whether the bill would simply set evidentiary rules or improperly narrow enforcement authority. One member also raised concerns that the bill’s title and scope could be read as affecting the broader air program. House Bill 137 was ultimately approved favorably by roll call vote, with Senator Webb’s aye vote later clarified for the record.
The committee then took up House Bill 346, as amended by a subcommittee. The bill was described as helping about 708 companies and carving out emergency generators used for safety purposes in distilleries, with support from the Kentucky Chamber. The subcommittee amendment was adopted, and the bill passed the committee favorably by roll call vote. The meeting ended with an attempted adjournment and a brief record correction on the vote for House Bill 137.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm testifying in support of H. 3475 and S. 2276, An Act Promoting a Just Transition and Clean Energy
- advancing clean energy equity.
- I urge the Chair to report an act advancing clean energy equity favorably.
- I urge the Chair to report an act advancing clean energy equity favorably. Thank you. Thank you.
- I urge the Chair to report an act advancing clean energy equity favorably. Thank you. Thank you.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy held a hearing on grid transmission and distribution, green financing, environmental justice, renewable portfolio standards, and clean energy workforce policy. Testimony on H. 352/S. 2268 focused on eliminating or scaling back the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard, with Green Energy Consumers Alliance arguing it costs ratepayers about $30 million annually and largely subsidizes fossil-fuel combined heat and power, biodiesel blending, and woody biomass. Committee members raised concerns that a full repeal could affect heat pumps and solar thermal projects that currently receive APS credits, and the witness acknowledged those technologies are the strongest part of the program but said Mass Save would be a better home for them.
Renew Northeast supported H. 3497 on renewable portfolio standard review and clean energy procurements, but urged an indexed renewable energy credit model like New York’s rather than an attribute-only arrangement, arguing it would reduce financing risk and consumer costs. Vote Solar and Senator Liz Miranda testified in support of H. 3540/S. 2303 on clean energy equity, saying environmental justice communities and renters receive too few benefits from clean energy spending and need stronger tracking, tenant protections, and measurable benefit allocation. Miranda described long-standing environmental harms in Roxbury and called for data and accountability to ensure benefits reach environmental justice communities.
A major portion of the hearing was devoted to H. 3475/S. 2276 on just transition and clean energy workforce standards. Labor representatives from the pile drivers, building trades, electrical contractors, SEIU, United Steelworkers, the AFL-CIO, and Climate Jobs Massachusetts Action backed the bill, emphasizing prevailing wage, project labor agreements, apprenticeship requirements, workforce transition plans, and protections for gas workers and other fossil-fuel employees as the state shifts to clean energy. They argued the bill would create family-sustaining jobs, support training, and prevent workers from being left behind during the transition. The hearing concluded after all sign-ups were heard, and the committee voted to close the hearing.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets
Transcript Highlights:
- In Chelsea, air pollution is a daily reality. In Chelsea, air pollution is a daily reality.
- For us, clean air is not a luxury. It is a public health and civil rights issue.
- She said it will take at least 10 years for newly planted trees to begin delivering shade, clean air,
- air stormwater retention and other climate mitigation benefits we must act now as we race against the
- The Mass Ready Act has so many things that impact our community, particularly clean air and clean water
Summary:
The committee held a hearing on S.2542, the Mass Ready Act, a $3 billion environmental bond bill aimed at climate resilience, water infrastructure, conservation, and related permitting reforms. Secretary Rebecca Tepper and administration officials described the bill’s major investments in flood control, coastal resilience, DCR roads/bridges/dams and parks, drinking water and wastewater upgrades, PFAS remediation, land conservation, food security infrastructure, and expanded Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness funding. They also explained proposed streamlining measures for environmental permitting, flood risk disclosures, a Connecticut River Resilient Commission, and a new Resilience Revolving Fund to provide low-cost financing for municipal resilience projects. Committee members asked about affordability, useful life of projects, how the revolving fund would be capitalized, and how the bill would help communities such as Lawrence, Methuen, and coastal towns; officials said the fund would initially use existing trust resources, not new fees, and could later support special obligation bonds once it has a track record.
Several witnesses supported the bill but urged larger authorizations or additional provisions. Boston Harbor Now asked for more funding for MVP and the state’s resilient coast plan, and supported permitting reforms for nature-based and hybrid solutions. The Massachusetts Rivers Alliance urged inclusion of drought-management language from separate bills, plus a statewide flood buyout program and a water reuse commission. Green Roots called for dedicated funding for outdoor and indoor air quality monitoring and indoor air quality improvements, especially in environmental justice communities affected by traffic and airport pollution. Conservation and forestry advocates requested more funding for urban tree canopy, local nurseries, and workforce training, while also raising concerns about PFAS impacts and the need for clearer municipal reforestation language.
Agriculture and water infrastructure groups focused on food security and drinking water needs. The Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership and the Mass Food System Collaborative backed the food security infrastructure grant program and farmland protection funding, warning that the program needs continued support in fiscal 2027 and that farmland loss is accelerating. The Massachusetts Waterworks Association said the bill does not go far enough on drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure, citing large statewide capital needs and PFAS compliance costs, and asked for recurring funding and broader eligibility for climate resilience grants. A Product Stewardship Council representative also urged funding for a waste reduction needs assessment, citing growing landfill constraints and rising disposal costs. No votes were taken during the hearing."}{