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TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

State Affairs Aug 15th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm disgusted with the government. I'm disgusted with the politicians.
  • But he believed firmly in small government.
  • The government should not meddle in those things. And yet here we are.
  • Every single one of you is opposed to the concept of small government.
  • Or is it because chaos and control are y'all's entire vision of governing?
Bills: SB6 , SB7 , SB8 , SB11 , SB12 , SB13 , SB15 , SB17
Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 8, the Texas Women's Privacy Act, and heard extensive public testimony both for and against the measure. Supporters, including representatives of Texas Values and Texas Values Action, argued the bill was needed to protect women’s privacy and safety in restrooms, locker rooms, showers, prisons, domestic violence shelters, and other government-controlled spaces, and said it would provide clear, sex-based rules. Opponents, including many transgender Texans, civil rights advocates, clergy, business and public safety voices, and others, argued the bill would invite harassment, gender policing, lawsuits, and invasive inspections, while harming trans, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people as well as cisgender women who do not fit stereotypes. Several witnesses said the bill would conflict with federal law or prison standards, worsen safety in shelters and prisons, and hurt Texas’s reputation and economy. The chair repeatedly noted the compressed special-session schedule and said flood relief remained the session’s top priority. Public testimony on SB 8 was eventually closed, and the bill was left pending. The committee then moved to Senate Bill 6, dealing with consumable hemp product restrictions. Testimony on SB 6 focused on whether the bill went too far in restricting hemp-derived THC products. Opponents argued hemp and THC have medical and economic value, that the bill would criminalize conduct and burden courts, and that regulation—not prohibition—was the better approach. Some witnesses supported tighter rules such as testing, child-resistant packaging, and limits on marketing to children, but still opposed the bill’s broad THC ban, higher fees, and age restrictions. Several speakers emphasized benefits for veterans, chronic pain patients, and small businesses, and warned that prohibition would push consumers toward the illicit market. The committee heard the testimony and then continued with additional witnesses, with no final vote or disposition reported in the excerpt.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Transportation May 8th, 2025

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • to this government and that he would be for it.
  • As a commissioner, I have the duty to advocate for fair and effective regional governance.
  • And yet our voices, municipal and county have no vote in the governance of the port.
  • This is not going to be a bloated government. We're not asking the taxpayers to pay for this.
  • I think this is government efficiency.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Transportation May 8th, 2025

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Representative Curry is for bloated government and adding an additional legislative member of this government
  • As a commissioner, I have the duty to advocate for fair and effective regional governance.
  • Yet our municipal and county voices have no vote in the governance of the port.
  • This is not going to be bloated government. We're not asking the taxpayers to pay for this.
  • I think this is about government efficiency.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • libraries in Oklahoma and ensured that their impact is recognized at the highest levels of state government
  • He was ahead of government affairs for Occidental Petroleum in Washington, D.C. He was so excited.
  • We know that the federal government has been trying to roll back these sorts of incentives and things
  • It moves the state definition of hemp to the definition the federal government has adopted that will
  • federal government moved the state or is moving the state's medical marijuana to Schedule 3.
OK
Summary: The House met in session with a roll call establishing a quorum, followed by prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including the Doctor and Nurse of the Day and youth groups visiting the chamber. Special presentations honored the Oklahoma City Blazers under-10 ice hockey team for winning a Texas state championship and MacArthur High School JROTC cadets for repeated drill team success. The chamber also adopted House Resolution 1055 declaring April 29, 2026, as Oklahoma Agriculture Day, and House Resolution 1056 recognizing Denim Day during Sexual Assault Awareness Month; both were adopted without objection. Members then considered a series of Senate bills. SB 2170 on child custody passed 77-0 and requires supervised visitation when a court finds child abuse or sexual exploitation. SB 1833 codifies a federal waiver barring SNAP purchases of candy and soft drinks and passed 62-17. SB 1198, requiring the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to file releases on county- and municipally-owned properties at the request of local officials, passed 79-0. SB 1730, which requires law enforcement sexual abuse reports to be forwarded to OSBI for investigative use, drew debate over victim protection versus due-process concerns and passed 52-29. The House also passed SB 1379 creating a two-year grant pilot for services to labor and sex trafficking victims, including services regardless of immigration status, and approved the emergency. SB 1645 on Medicaid audit procedures, SB 2155 allowing the Route 66 Commission to use MOUs for administrative oversight, and several sunset-extension bills for boards and commissions also advanced, many with emergency clauses approved. SB 1461 extending the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority passed 67-20, but its emergency failed 55-20. Other measures passed included SB 1344 creating an insulin access and affordability program, SB 1309 increasing Roads Fund debt-service capacity, and multiple board-extension bills for construction, polygraph examiners, engineers and surveyors, and midwifery, most with emergency clauses adopted. The House then moved to announcements and recessed until 1:30 p.m.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • He was head of government affairs for Occidental Petroleum in Washington, D.C.
  • We know that the federal government has been trying to roll back... ...statewide.
  • The federal government has adopted that will go into effect in November.
  • To make sure that it fully hit the definition that the federal government had for hemp.
  • had. to make sure that it fully hit the definition that the federal government had for hemp.
Summary: The House convened under quorum call and began with several recognitions and presentations, including visits from Comanche County 4-H, the Muskogee Police Department officers who completed EMT training, the March of Dimes, and Ag Day honorees, including the Ag Hall of Fame recipient Ron Justice. The chamber also adopted House Resolution 1054 designating April 2026 as Library Month, with a special presentation honoring library leaders and advocates for their work on the first Library Day at the Capitol. The House then considered and passed a series of bills, mostly on broad bipartisan votes, covering state symbols, fireworks sales, oil and gas royalty protections, AP exam access, veteran records access for grandchildren, Medicaid support for a food-is-medicine grant, law library representation, controlled substances, public health, state security staffing, financial exploitation protections, credit union modernization, workforce data, staffing contracts, enterprise zone incentives, conveyance/title theft protections, hospice narcotics disposal, duplicate statute cleanup, and memorial highway/bridge designations. One major bill, SB 237 on eliminating the solar and battery storage manufacturing tax exemption, was laid over after discussion and questions about tax policy and local incentives. Several measures drew brief explanation and questions, including SB 2159 on state symbols and wheat, SB 1948 on fireworks sales, HB 1371 on oil and gas royalty payments and bankruptcy protections, SB 1975 on AP testing locations, SB 2026 on access to veterans’ discharge papers, SB 1565 on food-is-medicine Medicaid support, SB 1642 on splitting short opioid prescriptions, and SB 933 creating a right-to-try pathway for individualized treatment. Most of these bills passed with little or no debate, and several emergency clauses also passed by the required two-thirds vote. Not all measures advanced: SB 1771, expanding Workforce Commission data authority, failed on a 27-46 vote, and the House later gave notice of intent to reconsider. SB 1365 was reconsidered and then passed, but its emergency clause failed. The session also featured an extended personal privilege speech by Rep. Scott Fetgatter marking his departure, in which he thanked colleagues and staff and reflected on his tenure and legislative work.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part I) Apr 10th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 1059 relating to the authority of the governing body of a home rule municipality to submit
  • the Hayes Trinity Groundwater Conservation District to be withdrawn from the Committee on Local government
  • I move to suspend the 24 hour posting rules, Senate Rules 11.10 and 11.18 to allow the local government
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House and Governmental Affairs Apr 8th, 2026

House and Governmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'd rather us do it than the federal government step in here and do it for us.
  • So this is a good government bill. This is an anti-fraud bill.
  • That's our structure of government. We have to vote on certain things.
  • Well, because that's our structure of government.
  • So we have structural government that is in some ways great and in some ways puzzling.
Bills: HB88 , HB181 , HB210 , HB250 , HB486 , HB529 , HB544 , HB639 , HB996 , HB1036 , HB1071 , HB1113
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House and Governmental Affairs Mar 25th, 2026

House and Governmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Amendment number 22 is deleting the word governing board.
  • Amendment number 22 is deleting the word governing board.
  • Yeah, this is just good government.
  • We want to make our government leaner, more accountable, and just good government.
  • Chairman and members, we have just good government.
Bills: HR9 , HR15 , HB202 , HB206 , HB338 , HB379 , HB547 , HB691 , HB843 , HB861 , HB908
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Budget Feb 4th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Capital Budget

Transcript Highlights:
  • Duer from the most recent local government committee meeting on this bill, the building industry is the
  • Duer from the most recent local government committee meeting on this bill, the building industry is the
Bills: HB2273 , SB5188 , HB2353 , HB2420 , HB2470
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Human Services Mar 11th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • up to the kinship placement to go after those benefits, or is this something you're wanting the government
  • Under current law, the Office of Inspector General faces challenges in procuring expert witnesses due
  • This bill clarifies the process aligning the Office of Inspector General's expert witness procurement
  • Of the government code ensuring clarity and consistency in statute.
  • My name is Carolina Cano, and I am the government relations manager with the Houston Food Bank.
Bills: HB 26 , HB 140 , HB 141 , HB 142 , HB 215
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • This would lead to increased costs for both state and local governments.
  • Most of the local governments, I think all of the local governments actually in Southern Nevada, have
  • Most of the local governments, I think all of the local governments actually in Southern Nevada have
  • That gave the local governments time to ramp up and for the local governments to work with the housing
  • That gave the local governments time to ramp up and for the local governments to work with the housing
Bills: AB6 , AB102 , AB131 , AB212 , AB213 , AB220 , AB259 , AB282 , AB376 , AB396 , AB479 , AB503 , AB570 , AB572 , AB574 , AB576 , AB593 , SB185 , SB207 , SB507 , AB6
Committee: Senate Finance
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Community Affairs Feb 10th, 2026

Community Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • It also allows local governments to adopt additional water safety requirements, which we will remove
  • Senators will take up Tab 10, SB 1566 on local government spending by Senator DeSigley.
  • and local government utilities have had the chance to speak with Senator DeSigley.
  • and local government utilities have had the chance to speak with Senator DeSigley.
  • bill intends to push onto our local governments.
Bills: S0018 , S0028 , S0260 , S0848 , S0934 , S1014 , S1102 , S1264 , S1566 , S1622 , S1724
Summary: The committee heard and advanced a wide range of bills focused on water safety, utilities, housing, transparency, and claims relief. CS/SB 848 on stormwater treatment was presented as a follow-up to prior water-quality legislation and reported favorably with one support waiver. SB 28, a claims bill for Reginald Jackson against the City of Lakeland, was also reported favorably. CS/SB 658, a bipartisan child-drowning prevention bill for rental properties, drew extensive testimony from child advocacy and drowning-prevention groups in strong support; amendments required rental license applicants to certify compliance and removed local-government add-on authority, and the bill was reported favorably. CS/SB 18, a claims bill involving the estate of a deceased minor and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, prompted questions about settlement and responsibility but was ultimately reported favorably despite opposition from a waiver form. Several utility and infrastructure measures were considered. CS/SB 1724 would regulate municipal utility service outside city limits, limit revenue transfers, require public meetings, and cap rate differences; an amendment added gas utilities, and the bill was reported favorably after testimony from municipal utility representatives and small-county advocates. CS/SB 1014 would require municipal utilities to extend water and wastewater service to certain nearby residential properties without conditioning service on annexation; an amendment narrowed the bill to residential uses and clarified capacity and grandfathering provisions, and it passed favorably. CS/SB 1102 would allow local infrastructure surtax revenue to fund body camera programs, with an amendment making the surtax authorization prospective and requiring a new referendum; it was reported favorably. CS/SB 260 on electric-vehicle storage in towing yards was amended to focus on storage only and to tie the higher fee to the period before fire-risk inspection, then reported favorably after testimony from insurers, fire officials, and EV industry representatives. The committee also advanced education, housing, and ethics-related bills. SB 1264 would ease zoning and code barriers for small private schools and micro-schools, with supporters arguing it would expand school choice and opponents raising implementation concerns; it was reported favorably. SB 934 on Florida Keys areas of critical state concern was amended to remove a tax-exemption section that conflicted with the Live Local Act, then reported favorably. SB 1622 would provide a one-time waiver of late financial-disclosure fines under specified conditions and was reported favorably. Finally, CS/SB 1566 on local government spending and transparency required online posting of budgets and related materials, and an amendment added utility revenue reinvestment and other changes while removing DEI spending restrictions; the bill drew support for transparency but concern from small cities and counties about cost and workload, and it was reported favorably. The meeting ended with adjournment after senators recorded votes on selected bills.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Taxes Committee Meeting - 2025-05-06

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • We should not be farming out this function, this basic function of government.
  • I think that it's... you know, we heard a lot from our local governments.
  • We very much appreciate the minimization of impact on local governments.
  • Article 4 in this bill regarding local government aid.
  • We know that local government aid is very helpful to local governments, and we also appreciate the maintenance
Bills: HF2730 , HF2257 , HF2768 , HF1932 , HF2437
Committee: House Taxes
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 5/6/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
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Bills: HF2730 , HF2257 , HF2768 , HF1932 , HF2437
Committee: House Taxes
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 1266 and AB 166 will amend the Government Code so that the provider support team... ...Medicaid
  • Good government bill. We will leave this bill pending at this time.
  • Just as a point of reference, is the federal government just going after their 40%?
  • It also extends DFPS's authority to utilize emergency procurement processes to contract with another
  • During the pandemic, the federal government under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Mar 19th, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • The outcome could fundamentally change how these products are governed at the federal level.
  • We propose aligning marketing and signage laws that govern alcohol and tobacco to laws that govern alcohol
Bills: SB210 , SB225 , HB280 , HB287 , HB94 , HB88 , SB157 , HB7 , HB8 , HB42
Committee: Senate Judiciary