Transcript Highlights:

• Without objection, the reading of the journal for Monday, February 2nd, 2026 is dispensed with and approved
• Without objection, the reading of the journal for Monday, February 2nd, 2026 is dispensed with and approved

Keywords: 1182, all

Transcript Highlights:

• <00:14:24.160> them<00:14:24.560> and means for the folks dispensing them and means
• for the folks dispensing them and how<00:14:25.279> that<00:14:25.760> uh<00:14:25.920
• Uh, and, you know, it goes on really the disposal part of it, not the dispensing part of it.
• Uh, and, you know, it goes on really the disposal part of it, not the dispensing part of it.
• Um, and, you know, it goes on really the disposal part of it, not the dispensing part of it.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• If there be no objection, the Clerk will dispense with reading the amendment. The Chair has none.
• If there are no objections, the Clerk will dispense with the reading. The Chair has none.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The House first adopted a series of resolutions, including memorial square dedications in Stoneham, congratulations to IBEW Local 103 on its 125th anniversary, and a commendation recognizing Massachusetts School Administrators Association in honor of National Principals Month. It also adopted orders extending committee reporting deadlines for several Public Health and Public Safety and Homeland Security matters, and concurred in a joint rule suspension to allow consideration of a sick leave bank petition for a Chief Medical Examiner’s Office employee. The Steering, Policy and Scheduling Committee then placed several bills on the calendar, and the House suspended Rule 7A to take them up. Those bills included measures on firefighter employment and retirement in Quincy, Bedford, and Lancaster; designation of Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties; a bill on obstructed views while driving; a disability pension for Lieutenant Deputy Sheriff Brian McPherson; and a cemetery matter in Norton. All were advanced to third reading. The House also considered and adopted amendments to charter bills for Cambridge and Medford, and later concurred in a Senate amendment to the Somerville charter bill. On final action, the House passed to be enacted the Cambridge, Medford, and Somerville charter bills. It also enacted sick leave bank legislation for Gregory Baker of the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office and Akita Jandara Patel of the Department of Corrections. Additional third-reading bills, including the Acton Memorial Library bill, an Air Library bill, and the John C. Murphy sick leave bank bill, were passed to be engrossed. The session included a moment of silence for the September 11 attacks and a special adjournment in memory of former Representative Robert F. Donovan before adjourning to meet again Monday at 11 a.m. in informal session.

Transcript Highlights:

• Without objection, the rules will be suspended, and the Senate will dispense with the reading of the
• Morning hour... ...and it will dispense with the reading of the journal.

Keywords: 1204, all

Summary: The Arkansas Senate convened, handled leave requests, prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several brief announcements, including recognition of visitors, a birthday acknowledgment, and a correction to the record about Senator Sullivan’s age. The chamber then moved to its business agenda, beginning with House Bill 1003, an appropriation for Arkansas House staff, which passed 33-0 with its emergency clause adopted. The Senate next took up multiple budget measures in batches. It approved House Bills 1079, 1012, 1015, 1019, 1021, 1025, 1026, 1027, 1028, and 1029 together, then separately approved House Bill 1049, a $25,000 appropriation for National Rescue Shelters, after brief questions about the funding source and distribution. A larger second batch of appropriation bills also passed 33-0, including measures for the Attorney General, Pulaski Technical College, Child Support Enforcement, Legislative Audit, the Governor’s Mansion Commission, the Court of Appeals, Commissioner of State Lands, Arkansas Waterways Commission, the Martin Luther King Jr. Commission, North Arkansas College, UAMS-related programs, public school facilities, and the Division of Labor, all with emergency clauses adopted. On the final page of the budget calendar, the Senate passed another group of appropriations, including bills for the Arkansas Public Employees’ Retirement System, Arkansas State University’s Bioscience Institute, Ozarka College, Southern Arkansas University, Henderson State University, Phillips Community College, the Oil and Gas Commission, the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture’s Biosciences Institute, and the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith. House Bill 1073 was held over for clarification and not considered. The session ended with additional announcements and adjournment until Tuesday, April 21 at 1:00 p.m.

Transcript Highlights:

• Okay, I'd like to just dispense with the suspense calendar.
• Okay, I'd like to dispense with the suspense calendar.

Summary: The Assembly Appropriations Committee met on July 2, 2025, to consider 25 bills. After opening remarks and quorum, the committee approved a consent calendar of unanimously supported measures, including several Senate bills and committee bills, and then moved to individual items. SB 391, which would authorize the California Community College Chancellor’s Office to charge reasonable fees for data requests from research partners, drew support from the author and the California Teachers Association, which withdrew its opposition after amendments; the bill passed on a roll call. SB 251, an annual appropriations bill to pay three state claims totaling a little over $1.2 million, was supported by the Attorney General’s office and the Department of Finance and also passed. The committee then deemed the suspense calendar approved, covering SBs 748, 329, 388, 439, 458, 454, and 563, and took public comment on suspense-file bills. Commenters voiced support for SB 88 on biomass and SB 80. The committee next heard SB 477, which would clarify the Fair Employment and Housing Act to help the Civil Rights Department investigate and prosecute discrimination and harassment cases more efficiently; the author described changes to deadlines, complaint definitions, and venue rules, and the bill passed. SB 831, which updates the definition of geological hazards to reflect climate-change-related risks and clarify the California Geological Survey’s duties, received support from industry and passed without recorded opposition. Finally, SB 450, which clarifies California’s jurisdiction over adoption proceedings, including confirmatory adoptions for families who have moved out of state and requires all legal parents to be listed on adoption orders, was presented with support from Equality California and related groups. The bill was described as having no significant state cost and passed on a roll call. Several measures were approved with Republicans not voting, and the committee adjourned after completing its agenda.

Transcript Highlights:

• Flora seconds, that the reading of the previous day's journal be dispensed with.
• Flora seconds, that the reading of the previous day's journal be dispensed with.

Summary: The Assembly convened after a quorum call, heard a prayer focused on self-reflection and leadership, and observed the Pledge of Allegiance led by Assembly Member LaShae Sharp-Collins, who also marked the day as Juneteenth. The body approved the previous day’s journal and handled several procedural motions, including unanimous-consent actions to suspend rules for adjournment-in-memory remarks, guest seating, re-referrals of multiple Senate bills to different committees, and the removal of AJR 9 from the consent calendar. The Assembly also re-referred AB 470 to the Communications and Conveyance Committee and, by roll call, suspended Joint Rule 62A to allow that committee to hear the bill on June 23; the motion passed 46-8. On the daily file, the clerk read a series of Senate bills on second reading, and the Assembly passed and retained all items on both the Assembly and Senate third-reading files. The second-day consent calendar included ACR 93, recognizing Aromatic L-Amino Acid Decarboxylase Deficiency Awareness Day, and ACR 95, recognizing the 2025 International Day of Yoga. Sixty-one coauthors were added to the resolutions, and both items were adopted by unanimous 64-0 votes. The chamber then heard adjournment-in-memory tributes from Assembly Members Rubio and Michelle Rodriguez for Baldwin Park Police Officer Samuel Riveros, who was killed in the line of duty. Both members praised his bravery, service, and dedication, and the Assembly observed a moment of silence. The session concluded with announcements that there would be no floor or check-in session on Friday, June 19, and that the Assembly would reconvene Monday, June 23, at 1 p.m., before adjourning on motion.

Transcript Highlights:

• and that was uh created and dispensed and that was uh created and and<00:54:23.040> followed<
• Right now, they're directed to only dispense the generic even if it's more expensive.
• can dispense uh whatever's cheaper<01:24:15.199> to<01:24:15.360> Medicaid<01:24:15.920
• Right now, they're directed<01:24:20.639> to<01:24:20.880> only<01:24:21.199> dispense
• to only dispense the generic even<01:24:22.560> if<01:24:22.719> it's<01:24:22.960>

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• It was dealing with loss of life if the person manufactures, sells, or dispenses fentanyl.
• I have an issue with the amendment as written using the word 'dispenses.'
• I think we all have horrific dispenses I think we all have horrific stories<01:49:13.719> of<
• a medication whether which is dispensing a medication whether you're<01:49:23.760> paying<01:
• that that that child pill uh dispensing that that that child not<01:50:27.719> serve<01:50:28.159

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• The clerk will be directed to dispense with the printing of a calendar.
• The Senate stands adjourned to meet on Monday next at 11 o'clock a.m., and the clerk is ordered to dispense
• The Senate stands adjourned to meet on Monday next at 11 o'clock a.m., and the clerk is ordered to dispense

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Senate resumed debate on Senate No. 2696, An Act Regarding Free Expression, a bill addressing challenges to books and other library materials in school and public libraries. Senators supporting the bill argued it protects free expression and gives students, parents, guardians, and others a court path to challenge removals, while opponents raised concerns about parental rights, school control, and the scope and timing of the review process. Several speakers also emphasized the broader context of book bans and the impact on authors, librarians, and students. A number of amendments were considered. Amendment 4, offered by Senator Creem, was adopted and extended standing to authors and creators to challenge removals of their works, including in municipal libraries. Amendment 5, by Senator DiDomenico, was adopted and limited who may initiate challenges to those connected to the school community. Amendment 6, by Senator Comerford, was adopted to require that challenged materials be considered in their entirety. Amendment 8, by Senator Tarr, proposing parental notification of challenges, was rejected after a roll call. Subsequent Tarr amendments on parental opt-out, reporting, public process, and written policy were also rejected, while Amendment 19, requiring written reasons when librarians remove outdated or successor materials, was rejected as well. Amendment 7, a Ways and Means amendment, was adopted. The Senate then ordered the bill to a third reading and passed it to be engrossed by a roll call vote of 35 in favor and 3 against. The chamber also adopted an order to meet again the following Monday at 11:00 a.m., and then adjourned.

Transcript Highlights:

• Lackey seconds that the reading of the previous day’s journal be dispensed with.
• We've already dispensed with file item number 30.
• We have already dispensed with file item 67.

Summary: The Assembly met on May 23, 2025, after a quorum call, prayer, and Pledge of Allegiance. Members also made several guest introductions and memorial recognitions, including tributes to labor leader Louisa Blue and a Memorial Day moment of silence. The body adopted a motion to suspend Assembly Rule 63 for certain Appropriations Committee bills, and later took up a second-day consent calendar and several resolutions. The chamber adopted ACR 68, declaring July 2025 as Parks Make Life Better Month, and ACR 83, proclaiming California Maritime Day; both received broad support. On the floor file, members passed a series of bills covering child passenger safety, student financial aid, downtown office-to-housing conversion districts, rental vehicle theft prevention, fire hazard zone reviews, medical data protections, UC admissions transparency, office-to-housing streamlining, inoperable RV removal, domestic violence and child welfare, insurance classification for social service workers, sustainable aviation fuel CEQA review, UC hiring background checks, accessory dwelling units, fish and wildlife exemptions for Sutter County infrastructure, speed limit assessments, geothermal permitting, special education transfers, recorder fee adjustments, and a BIT program exemption for farmers and ranchers. Most measures passed with little or no opposition. AB 435, which would have implemented a five-step test standard for child passenger safety laws, was later reconsidered and failed on a vote of 36-12 after the call was lifted. The Assembly also adopted the second-day consent calendar, including multiple bills and resolutions, and added co-authors to several resolutions. The session ended with adjournments in memory and an adjournment until Tuesday, May 27 at 1 p.m.

Transcript Highlights:

• Flora seconds that the reading of the previous day's journal be dispensed with.
• Of the previous day's journal be dispensed with. Presentations and petitions: there are none.
• File item 29 has been dispensed with. File item 30, AB 310 by Assembly Member Alanis.

Summary: The Assembly convened after a quorum call, prayer, pledge, and a moment of silence for Marysville Police Officer Osmar Rodarte. Members then handled several procedural motions, including re-referring bills and moving items on the file, with AB 567 re-referred by a recorded vote of 42-17 and the remaining referral requests approved without objection. The chamber also heard a brief personal statement from Assembly Member Macedo thanking colleagues and staff for support during a health episode. On the floor, members presented and passed several measures. AB 310 by Assembly Member Alanis, requiring youth sports organizations to have AED access, emergency response plans, and coach training, passed 56-0. AB 437 by Assembly Member Lackey, expanding CIF reporting to include sports-related injuries and medical problems, passed 59-0. ACR 55 by Assembly Member Jeff Gonzalez, commemorating the 40th anniversary of ARC v. DDS and the Lanterman Act, received 62 co-authors and was adopted by voice vote. The Assembly also adopted HR 28 recognizing Major League Baseball Opening Day 2025, with extended lighthearted remarks about the Dodgers, Giants, and Athletics, and HR 23 honoring Cesar Chavez Day, which drew broad support from caucus leaders and members speaking to Chavez’s labor and civil rights legacy. Both resolutions were adopted by voice vote after adding co-authors. The chamber then approved the second-day consent calendar, including ACR 39 on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Month and ACR 53 on Women’s Equal Pay Day, and later adjourned in memory of Ralph Miller after tributes from Assembly Members Hart and Gibson. The House adjourned until Tuesday, April 1 at 1 p.m.

Transcript Highlights:

• I move we dispense with the reading of the journal.
• :05:40.440> of<00:05:40.520> the dispense with the reading of the dispense with the reading
• I move we dispense with the reading of the committee reports.
• Senator moves to dispense with the reading of the committee reports.
• I move we dispense with the reading of the titles of the bills and resolutions.

Keywords: MS Senate Floor - 11 March, 2026; 10:00 AM, 925, all

Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, opened with an invocation by Reverend Anthony Phillips, and dispensed with the reading of the journal and committee reports. The chamber also recognized several guests in the galleries, including family members of senators, medical professionals for Early Childhood Day, and advocates and local officials. After introductions, the Senate moved into the calendar and began considering bills and motions. Among the measures taken up, the Senate passed House Bill 1393 to create the Mississippi Energy Infrastructure Fund, with the sponsor explaining it would allow MDA to support energy projects and require compliance with state procurement laws. The Senate also passed House Bill 420, which provides a full homestead ad valorem tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans age 85 or older and allows an unremarried surviving spouse to keep the exemption; senators asked about eligibility, age limits, and safeguards against improper exemptions. Another bill passed was House Bill 1941 on the Mississippi Outdoor Stewardship Trust Fund, which would allow funding through bonds or other means in addition to direct appropriation and raise the DFA processing cap from 2% to 3%; several senators raised concerns about state debt and the funding mechanism. The Senate concurred in Senate Bill 2906, which gives the Secretary of State additional time to establish minimum cybersecurity standards for county election systems. It also adopted motions to table reconsideration on several House bills, including House Bill 908 on absentee ballot receipt dates, House Bill 525 on mandatory minimum penalties for sexual battery, and House Bill 538 on sanctuary policies and immigration enforcement. The chamber voted to reconsider and then again pass House Bill 1613, described as a bill on aggravated trafficking weight and pill counts that also included a chemical abortion ban, after some senators who were absent earlier asked to go on record. For House Bill 2409, dealing with a comprehensive mitigation program for retrofitting insurable homes, the Senate voted not to concur and invited conference. The Senate also passed and retained numerous other items as it worked through the calendar.

Transcript Highlights:

• Without objection, the reading of the journal of Thursday, January 15, 2026, is dispensed with and approved
• The reading of the journal of Thursday, January 15, 2026, is dispensed with and approved as written.

Keywords: 1182, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Um, the college pharmacy would have to pay for the medication before they could dispense it.
• medication before they could dispense medication before they could dispense it.<01:47:05.679>
• <02:14:28.800> the off-campus pharmacy or dispensing the off-campus pharmacy or dispensing
• visits and dispensing being a requirement<03:16:09.120> to<03:16:09.359> it<03:16:09.600
• them dispense it to her in person. them dispense it to her in person.

Keywords: 981, all

Transcript Highlights:

• statewide order issued by the commissioner of statewide Health Services authorizing a pharmacist to dispense
• Packaging, labeling, distribution, sale, testing, transportation, delivery, transfer, storage, dispensing

Transcript Highlights:

• First I would like to thank Assemblymember Alanis for filling in for us. dispense file by the committee
• I'd like to dispense with the suspense calendar.

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Further proceedings of the roll call be dispensed with.
• Senator Murphy moves that further proceedings of the roll call be dispensed with.

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• jurisdiction where the death took place or the jurisdiction where the manufacturing, selling, or dispensing
• manufacturing jurisdiction where the manufacturing selling<00:04:02.360> or<00:04:02.519> dispensing
• of<00:04:03.120> the<00:04:03.239> deadly<00:04:03.560> drug selling or dispensing
• of the deadly drug selling or dispensing of the deadly drug took<00:04:04.239> place<00:04:05.040
• not in Hampshire when the dispensing not in Hampshire when the dispensing occurs<00:12:32.120>

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• It also sets a professional dispensing fee based on what the Louisiana Department of Health has already
• established through its cost-of-dispensing studies, surveys, and data.
• The amendments make the dispensing fee retroactive to January 1st, so...
• Yes, sir, like I was saying, those amendments make the dispensing fee retroactive to January 1st.
• Yes, sir, like I was saying, those amendments make the dispensing fee retroactive to January 1st.

Bills: HR179, HR180, HR181, HR182, HR183, HR184, HR185, HR186, HR187, HCR75, HCR76, HCR77, HCR78, HCR79, HR165, HR166, HR168, HR169, HR170, HR171, HR172, HR173, HR174, HR175, HR176, HR177, HR178, HCR65, HCR66, HCR67, HCR68, HCR69, HCR70, HCR71, HCR72, HCR73, HCR74, SCR34, SB34, SB43, SB52, SB56, SB165, SB173, SB189, SB190, SB260, SB322, SB345, SB374, SB387, SB401, SB448, SB449, SB455, SB487, SB496, SB502, SB505, HB362, HB893, HB990, HB1007, HB1153, HB1243, HR1, HR17, HCR5, HCR4, HCR47, HB55, HB385, HB394, HB396, HB406, HB608, HB622, HB676, HB772, HB897, HB1030, HB1035, HB1038, HB1045, HB1049, HB1056, HB1058, HB1059, HB1092, HB1100, HB1117, HB1160, HB1161, HB1162, HB1177, HB1180, HB1189, HB1216, HB1239, HB1240, HB59, HB74, HB159, HB330, HB364, HB414, HB458, HB525, HB568, HB786, HB1008, HB1033, HB1034, HB1041, HB1062, HB1070, HB1079, HB1112, HB1118, HB1139, HB1151, HB1176, HB1182, HB1196, HB1214, HB1241, HB87, HB115, HB162, HB368, HB433, HB441, HB447, HB466, HB481, HB741, HB1242, SB162, SB349, SB350, SB382, SB383, SB127, SB244, HB977, HB181, HB31, HB664, HB9, HB192, HB225, HB306, HB310, HB366, HB635, HB911, HB1230, HB1236, HB615, HB864, HB1103, HB1175, HB901, HR20, HR74, HB284, HB393, HB459, HB577, HB582, HB605, HB614, HB682, HB733, HB773, HB996, HB1003, HB1082, HB1113, HB1234

Keywords: neighborhood, crime prevention, security districts, law enforcement, community safety, funding, Counseling Day, mental health, Louisiana Counseling Association, community support, mental wellness, Louisiana State University, athletics, NAIA, sports achievements, recognition, success, competition, education, higher education

Summary: The House opened with a prayer, pledge, quorum call, and several personal privileges recognizing visiting groups and guests, including Junior League members, a Louisiana Renewable Energy Day proclamation, Wholesalers Day, the Louisiana Home Builders Association, and other visitors. Members also adopted or laid over a number of resolutions honoring local events, organizations, and individuals, including condolences resolutions and commemorations such as ALS Awareness Month and Junior League Day. The most extended debate centered on House Bill 385 by Rep. Bamberg, which would require certain TOPS scholarship recipients to repay one semester of aid if they lose eligibility, subject to several exemptions and a possible move into career and technical education. Members raised concerns about whether the bill would turn a merit scholarship into a loan, its effect on student decision-making and brain drain, constitutional notice issues, administrative costs, collection methods, and whether the Board of Regents had been consulted. After debate, a motion to recommit the bill to Appropriations failed by a 34-16 vote, and the bill was later returned to the calendar. The House then passed House Bill 55, prohibiting disclosure of juror information with exceptions for juror interviews, by a 94-2 vote; House Bill 394, extending the conditional parole period from nine to 24 months; House Bill 396, making autopsy photographs admissible in criminal proceedings; and House Bill 406, directing the Department of Education to study whether it should oversee interscholastic high school athletics, by a 97-1 vote. The chamber also passed House Bill 622 aligning criminal history record handling with federal requirements and House Bill 676 creating the crime of fraudulent patient referrals, or body brokering. Several other bills were introduced, referred, or returned to the calendar, including measures on criminal history confidentiality, parole, autopsy evidence, athletics oversight, and non-emergency medical transportation for mental health care.

Transcript Highlights:

• adds to this trafficking bill the creation, sell, barter, transfer, manufacture, distribution, dispensing
• prescribing, or possessing with intent to create, sell, barter, transfer, manufacture, distribute, dispense
• abortion-inducing drug, which is defined as the medicine, drug, or other substance prescribed or dispensed
• drug, or other substance<00:04:14.200> prescribed<00:04:14.760> or<00:04:14.800> dispensed
• <00:04:15.320> with substance prescribed or dispensed with substance prescribed or dispensed

Keywords: Judiciary, Division B - Room 409, 3 March, 2026; 9:00 A.M., 925, all

Summary: The committee first took up House Bill 1131, which would revise penalties for procuring prostitution by increasing the misdemeanor fine from $200 to $1,000, increasing the felony fine from $1,000 to $2,000, and adding 100 hours of community service. Representative Ford explained that the bill had been changed from an earlier version that made the first offense a felony. The committee approved the bill after brief discussion. Members then discussed a strike-all for House Bill 1613, a drug trafficking bill that had been amended to add a pill-count threshold for aggravated trafficking and to include language addressing abortion-inducing drugs. The added provisions would make certain conduct involving abortion-inducing drugs a felony punishable by one to ten years and would authorize the Attorney General to seek civil enforcement. Senators raised questions about whether the House and Senate versions were identical, and one member expressed concern about mail-order abortion pills and the lack of medical oversight. Another senator raised a concern about the definition of "clinically diagnosable pregnancy" and ectopic pregnancies. The committee adopted the strike-all and passed the bill. House Bill 525, dealing with sexual battery sentencing, drew the most extended debate. Representative Rimac said the bill was prompted by constituent concerns about what he viewed as lenient sentences in a few cases and would add minimum sentences of five years for a first offense and ten years for a second offense. After discussion, the committee adopted a friendly amendment narrowing the bill by striking language related to age-difference provisions, with members noting that those provisions could affect cases not intended to be covered. Several senators then debated whether mandatory minimums were appropriate, with some arguing the bill was needed to ensure meaningful punishment for sexual battery and others arguing it would remove judicial discretion and respond to a small number of outlier cases. The committee ultimately passed the bill as amended. The committee also considered House Bill 538, which would require political subdivisions to cooperate with immigration detainers and give the Attorney General enforcement authority, but only after adding a reverse repealer. Senators raised concerns about possible sovereign-immunity issues and the breadth of the cooperation language, while others urged narrowing the bill to avoid unintended consequences. The committee adopted the strike-all and passed the bill. At the end of the meeting, the chairman introduced House Bill 1612, a Department of Public Safety restructuring bill, and noted that Commissioner Tindell would present it with a possible conceptual amendment, but that bill was not yet discussed in the portion of the transcript provided.