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• However, knowing the types of the weapons that are locked away... has no bearing on whether a potential
• When they come into your home to walk through it, they are verifying that all of the weapons are stored
• Everyone wants to make sure that the weapons are safely stored, which this bill does not touch.
• It is just saying that you do not have to provide a list of your weapons to these third-party private
• House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.

Bills: HB660 , HB4845 , HB3902 , HB5396 , HB4615 , HB1825 , HB1403 , HB4336 , HB4585 , HB4371 , HB863 , SB1589 , HB5223 , HB3195 , HB2734

Committee: House Human Services

Keywords: child protective services, adult protective services, caseload limits, call processing goals, child-care licensing, employee workload, reporting requirements, employee caseload limits, protective services, workload management, accountability, Department of Family and Protective Services, employee goals, call processing, child care, human resources, government accountability, Medicaid, provider enrollment, revalidation

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• Finally, technology is helping us find a better way.
• House Bill 511 by Representative Gloria Iso, pursuit intervention technology; create a grant program
• House Bill 511 by Representative Gloria Iso, pursuit intervention technology; create a grant program
• House Bill by Representative Coates: Louisiana State Radiological Technology Board of Examiners; powers
• House Bill by Representative Coates: Louisiana State Radiological Technology Board of Examiners; powers

Summary: The House convened with a quorum, received and accepted multiple resignation notices from members representing Districts 37, 39, 60, 69, 97, and 100, and then recognized the election and qualification of the members-elect who filled those vacancies: Doyle Boudreau, Reese Broussard, Chasity Verrett-Martinez, and Edwin Murray. Each member-elect was sworn in, and the House also appointed committees to notify the Senate and the governor that it was ready to conduct business for the 2026 regular session. The chamber then handled a large number of procedural actions related to prefiled legislation. By motion and without objection, the House suspended rules to refer prefile bills to committee and introduced a broad slate of House bills and resolutions. Topics included the state budget and appropriations, retirement system changes, carbon capture and sequestration, criminal justice and bail, public safety, education, health care, local government matters, transportation, and several memorial or commemorative resolutions. Several resolutions and bills were noted as lying over, and some prefiled bills were withdrawn from the files. The House also received a Senate message that SCR 1 had been adopted, and the resolution was taken up without objection. The chamber then recessed for a joint session with the Senate to hear the governor’s address and a presentation honoring Technical Sergeant Adam W. Brister with the Distinguished Flying Cross. In his remarks, Governor Jeff Landry highlighted his administration’s priorities, including education, tax reform, workforce development, health and nutrition, insurance reform, transportation infrastructure, fiscal discipline, and criminal justice reform, while urging support for his agenda and several related bills and constitutional amendments.

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• During that time period, my terminal assignment was as the Chief Technology Officer of the Air Force
• We did not develop technology for technology's sake.
• We have made a sensor that is used to sense weapons of mass destruction.
• This has happened over every technological epoch that we've gone through as a society.
• The technology is not going to go away. The work that people have to do is not going to go away.

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• AI surveillance is a weapon cameras.
• Ring came AI technology has either.
• It says, uh, so armed with a weapon means a weapon other than a firearm. Okay. Is that a car?
• </c><02:04:57.840><c> means</c> It says uh so armed with a weapon means It says uh so armed with a weapon
• </c><02:05:00.960><c> Is</c> a weapon other than a firearm. Okay. Is a weapon other than a firearm.

Committee: Senate State and Local Government

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• But in reality, it's being used to weaponize against certain people of certain faiths.
• It will absolutely be weaponized. Why?
• Because folks, this state administration has literally weaponized everything.
• History shows political labeling can be weaponized.
• This secrecy becomes a weapon for abuse.

Bills: S0500 , S0536 , S0762 , S1582 , S1632 , S1634 , S1742 , S1750 , S1792

Committee: Senate Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

Summary: The committee first considered SB 536, which updates Florida’s criminal gang statutes to reflect modern recruitment and communication methods, including social media and encrypted messaging. Senator Martin and supporters said the bill does not criminalize gang membership, but helps law enforcement and prosecutors establish gang-related connections for warrants and sentencing enhancements. Senator Smith raised concerns about the lowered threshold for being observed with gang members and possible unintended impacts on business owners and others; Martin said the language was not intended to cover ordinary business interactions and that a gang tattoo must be one used by the gang. After an amendment aligning the Senate bill with the House version was adopted, the committee reported CS/SB 536 favorably. The committee also favorably reported CS/SB 762, which allows chief judges to assign capital conflict cases across regional counsel offices, with an amendment requiring judges to consider judicial economy and geographic proximity. Testimony from regional counsel emphasized projected long-term savings, estimated at about $150 million over 10 years. The committee then approved CS/SB 1742, creating a new indecent exposure offense involving sexual conduct directed at minors, and CS/SB 1750, which increases penalties for serious sex crimes and child sexual abuse material offenses; both bills were amended before passage, with law enforcement groups appearing in support. The committee next took up SB 1582, which creates statewide data sharing for secondhand dealer and pawnbroker transactions without creating a new state-run database, while preserving confidentiality protections and law enforcement access. An amendment was adopted, and pawnbroker and recycling stakeholders testified in support. The linked public records bill, SB 1792, creating an exemption for those transaction records while allowing certain information to be released to alleged owners, was also reported favorably. The committee then approved CS/SB 500, which provides FDLE protective security details to major party nominees for governor, lieutenant governor, and cabinet offices after primary certification and until the general election is resolved; a technical amendment was adopted, and the bill was described as mirroring federal candidate protection practices. The longest and most contentious discussion was on CS/SB 1632, which would bar Florida courts from enforcing foreign or religious law in a way that overrides the U.S. or Florida constitutions and would create a process for designating foreign or domestic terrorist organizations, with related consequences for schools, funding, and student conduct. Senator Grall said the bill is intended to protect constitutional principles and target violent, criminal conduct rather than protected speech or religious practice, and she explained that designations would follow a public process with judicial review. Senators Smith and Polsky pressed repeatedly on First Amendment, due process, vagueness, and academic-speech concerns, asking how “promotion” would be defined and whether students, attorneys, or advocacy groups could be swept in; Grall said she was open to clarifying language but maintained the bill is aimed at furthering illegal acts, not mere opinion. Numerous speakers opposed the bill, warning it could be used to target Muslim students, religious communities, advocacy groups, and political dissent, while a few supporters argued it was needed for public safety. The transcript ends during public testimony on SB 1632, with no final committee vote shown in the excerpt.

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• Aggravated battery causing great bodily harm or deadly weapon on a person is a third degree.
• Battery causing great bodily harm or deadly weapon on a person is a third degree.
• Chairman, members: aggravated assault with a deadly weapon against a peace officer is actually a second
• We have your vehicles or mine have anti-rollover technologies and braking technologies and airbags and
• It would be enough for manufacturers to put on all this technology.

Summary: The committee first took up House Bill 61, which would raise aggravated battery on a peace officer from a third-degree to a second-degree felony in cases involving great bodily harm or a deadly weapon. The sponsor and supporters said the bill fixes an inconsistency in current law, where aggravated assault on an officer can be punished more severely than aggravated battery causing serious injury. Law enforcement representatives, the Chiefs Association, CBRC, and chamber representatives testified in support, and the New Mexico Sentencing Commission was noted as having endorsed the bill by a 6-3-4 vote. After questions about proportionality and plea bargaining, the committee voted due pass on HB 61 without objection. The committee then returned to House Bill 99, a medical malpractice reform bill, and several members made conflict-of-interest disclosures before debating amendments. The discussion focused heavily on the patient compensation fund, surcharge setting, and whether an advisory board or the superintendent should control rates. Amendments to segregate future fund money, require surcharges no lower than the advisory board’s recommendation, and create a commission with more actuarial and financial expertise were debated at length; the committee rejected the first two amendments. Members and witnesses argued over whether past undercharging of hospitals and doctors led to insolvency and taxpayer bailouts, and whether the bill should require more transparency and oversight. The committee also debated amendments on punitive damages. One proposal would have delayed punitive damage claims until after substantial discovery; opponents said it would conflict with civil procedure, prolong litigation, and likely be struck down. Another would have tied punitive damages to a multiple of compensatory damages or a percentage of net worth; supporters said that would better deter harmful conduct, while opponents said it would create uncertainty and more discovery. That amendment also failed. A final punitive-damages amendment would have removed caps in cases involving sexual assault or intoxication by a health care provider and protected the first $5 million of an independent provider’s personal assets; it too was rejected after members said it would shield egregious misconduct and go beyond the bill’s purpose.

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• We've been updating our courtroom technology. We're asking for a courtroom modernization project.
• We've been updating our courtroom technology for several years now and have really appreciated the funding
• On a bill... ...or it's directed to, or to weapon.
• We're stepping in at some point when they're using the weapon to commit another crime when it comes to
• We’ll continue to see it when it comes down to trying to ban what are so-called assault weapons.

Committees: Senate Senate Judiciary , Senate House Judiciary

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• They are both commercial platforms and potentially military or paramilitary sensors and weapons.
• UAS and UAS sensors and weapons.
• </c> though is that it's with the technology though is that it's with the technology we<00:13:59.680>
• </c> lists that are there use the technology lists that are there use the technology that's<00:26:56.480
• </c><04:32:04.479><c> every</c> of warfare designed to weaponize every of warfare designed to weaponize

Committee: House Commerce and Consumer Affairs

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• </c> surveillance technology. surveillance technology.
• </c> feature of retail pricing technology. feature of retail pricing technology.
• Pick your technology.
• I I technology comments here.
• . technology. technology.

Bills: HF3794 , HF3408

Committee: House Commerce Finance and Policy

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• changing the way the United States, our country, designs, manufactures, and scales hypersonic strike weapons
• . ...with breakneck speed where mistakes are okay because we need this weapon system to defend and deter
• An act relating to firearms, enacting the Stop Illegal Gun Trade and Extremely Dangerous Weapons Act,
• So if we do things that actually, at least in my opinion, cannot be done technologically, we can't do
• Senate Bill 68, introduced by Senator Bergmans, an act relating to technology, enacting the Artificial

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• weapon now?
• So we're going to let you keep those weapons.
• weapons, whether they can go buy a weapon, which you get on a certain registry, any of those sort of
• About that time, I heard a weapon clear leather. and I see a camouflaged tarp.
• This is about a law-abiding citizens having the right to carry weapons.

Committee: House Crime and Public Safety

Summary: The committee met with a quorum and first went into executive session, where House Bills 3012, 2997, and 3058 were combined into a House committee substitute and then voted do pass by a 17-0 roll call. House Bill 2868 was set aside for further work on a substitute. The committee then moved into public hearings, beginning with House Bill 1740, “Melanie’s Law,” which would increase penalties for intoxicated driving cases involving injury or death and expand ignition interlock requirements, including for high-BAC offenders. The sponsor and family members of victims described the bill as a response to fatal crashes involving loved ones, while law enforcement, MoDOT, prosecutors, and MADD supported the measure as a prevention tool and cited data on recidivism and fatal crashes. Members asked about BAC thresholds, whether the bill would cover drug impairment, fiscal impacts, and the relationship to existing sentencing and parole rules. No vote was taken on HB 1740 during the hearing. The committee also heard House Bills 3049 and 368, described by the sponsors as technical cleanup bills to resolve conflicts in Missouri’s sex offender registry statutes after court rulings and to reorganize and clarify the law. A prosecutor testified in support, and members discussed registry tiers, age-of-consent issues, and how the changes might affect people whose offenses were tied to older laws or unusual fact patterns. The bills were presented as consistency and cleanup measures, and no opposition testimony was offered. Next, House Bill 2311 was heard, proposing to raise the age of consent to 18 and reduce the close-in-age exception from four years to three. The sponsor said the change was intended to align the law with recent marriage-age changes and avoid mixed signals. Members raised concerns about criminalizing high-school relationships and about consistency with existing law, but there was no testimony in opposition or a vote. Finally, House Bill 3105, a revised Second Amendment Preservation Act-style bill, was heard. The sponsor said it would remove unconstitutional language from the prior law, bar state and local officials from knowingly violating law-abiding citizens’ firearm rights, and preserve cooperation with federal law enforcement. Supporters, including sheriffs, argued it protects constitutional rights while allowing officers to act against dangerous criminals and people in crisis. Opponents, including gun-rights advocates, argued the bill still lacked a meaningful deterrent to federal overreach and raised concerns about vague language such as “danger to self or others,” which they said could function like a red-flag law and be misused. The hearing ended without a vote on HB 3105.

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• I represent the Baker Technology Association, which is a trade association. ...Association, which is
• of conspiracy to commit murder as well as shooting or discharging a firearm, explosive, or other weapon
• into firearm, explosive, or other weapon into an occupied dwelling, building, railroad locomotive, car
• original bill had state and local law enforcement as part of a place in which you could surrender your weapon

Bills: SB210 , SB225 , HB280 , HB287 , HB94 , HB88 , SB157 , HB7 , HB8 , HB42

Committee: House Judiciary

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• My name is Paul Zimmerman, and I'm the Director of Technology in the Blank County School District, and
• with some greatly needed boundaries from the perspective of a technology director.
• There's a few things about this bill that need further clarification as to the role of technology and
• Recommendations in terms of amendments: Number one, no technology used in teaching until students are
• I know parents are paying attention to how technology is shaping their lives.

Committee: House Education

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• between a patient and their provider without the threat of a state-mandated paper trail being used as a weapon
• which was 30 years ago if we're talking about lifers as we are in the statute, you know, whether a weapon
• which was 30 years ago if we're talking about lifers as we are in the statute, you know, whether a weapon
• This flexibility helps centers focus on retention, wellness, emerging technologies, and professional
• initial certification has taken place. ...help centers focus on retention, wellness, emerging technologies

Bills: HB99 , HB49 , HB164 , SB30 , SB43 , SB50 , SB136

Committee: Senate House Judiciary

Summary: Senate Judiciary began by announcing that Senate Bill 136 would be rolled over because the sponsor was unavailable. The chair then addressed criticism from the floor over how a prior bill had been handled, defending the committee’s practice of using committee substitutes and amendments without waiting for a new version from council, and emphasizing his authority to set hard stops and limit debate when he believes discussion is repetitive or dilatory. Several members responded, with some supporting the chair’s approach and others arguing that contentious bills deserve more time and fuller committee vetting. The committee then heard Senate Bill 30, which would repeal New Mexico’s requirement that induced abortions be reported to the state registrar. The sponsors argued the reporting law is outdated, unnecessary for public health, and potentially dangerous because provider information can be disclosed under broader vital statistics statutes; supporters from the ACLU, League of Women Voters, Bold Futures, and NOW echoed privacy and safety concerns. Opponents argued the reporting requirement provides transparency and public health data. After debate, the committee approved SB 30 on a roll call vote. Next, the committee heard Senate Bill 43, a bipartisan measure to modernize the Adult Parole Board statute after a prior veto. The bill would update parole factors for life-sentenced inmates, authorize per diem and closed hearings, and prevent parole hearings from being scheduled on victims’ birth or death dates. It received support from corrections officials and victims’ advocates, and the committee passed it without objection. The final major item was Senate Bill 50, which would remove several statutory in-service training mandates for law enforcement and give the Standards and Training Council more flexibility to set curriculum. Supporters said the current requirements are outdated and too rigid; opponents warned the bill could weaken recurring training in domestic violence, sexual assault, crisis intervention, and other high-risk areas. A motion to table failed, and the committee ultimately passed SB 50 on a roll call vote, despite divided member views.

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• But I believe technology is the great enabler.
• We could do them with basic technology that's out there.
• So I know we're working a lot on the technology.
• You build a middle layer. and then you put in modern technology in front of it.
• What's the technology that we need to do the job?

Committee: Senate Finance Committee

Keywords: Social Security, Medicaid, Frank Bisignano, Elon Musk, benefit processing, office closures, public testimony, administration policies, health care, vulnerable populations

Summary: The committee meeting focused heavily on the nomination of Frank Bisignano as the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, with intense discussions around the current state of Social Security and its management under the current administration. Members voiced significant concerns regarding potential changes to Social Security and Medicaid, specifically addressing issues such as office closures, delays in benefit processing, and the perceived policies from Elon Musk's association with the administration. Public testimonies highlighted fears that these changes would severely impact the accessibility of benefits for seniors and vulnerable individuals, resulting in a chaotic environment at the SSA. Members expressed a unified opposition to the notion of dismantling these critical programs, emphasizing the long-term implications on their constituents' well-being.

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• </c><00:13:33.280><c> And</c> firearms into automatic weapons. And firearms into automatic weapons.
• House Bill 810, Representative Gordon, an act relating to information technology.
• To Small Business and Information Technology, House Bill 692. To State Government, House Bill 699.
• To Small Business and Information Technology, House Bill 692. To State Government, House Bill 699.
• To Small Business and Information Technology, House Bill 692. To State Government, House Bill 699.

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• multiple people. ...and it goes to a class B felony if it involves multiple people and use of a deadly weapon
• And depending on their level of technology, they could be anywhere from a quarter of a mile away and
• And depending on their level of technology, they could be anywhere from a quarter of a mile away and
• And depending on their level of technology, they could be anywhere from a quarter of a mile away and
• And depending on their level of technology, they could be anywhere from a quarter of a mile away and

Bills: HB227 , HB454 , SB323 , HB266 , SB52 , SB53 , SB296 , HB37 , HB429 , HB93 , HB249 , HB328 , HB111 , HB132 , HB26 , SB261 , HB227 , HB454 , SB323 , HB266 , SB52 , SB53 , SB296 , HB37 , HB429 , HB93 , HB249 , HB328 , HB111 , HB132 , HB26 , SB261

Committee: Senate Judiciary

Keywords: firefighter benefits, occupational disease, line of duty, disability pension, death benefits, retirement benefits, hypertension, heart disease, respiratory disease, cancer presumption, HIV, hepatitis, municipal firefighters, state firefighters, fire districts, workers' compensation, public safety employees, post-retirement benefits, benefit eligibility cutoff, occupational illness

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• Thank you. work at zero as we provide this type of technology as well.
• Yes, sir, that suggests that it's technologies and things that already exist.
• Nichols, what I'm hearing is technology hasn't caught up with any other lethal weapon that might do harm
• Hopefully, we get some better technology in the future, and we can carry on. But that's it.
• So anything concealed carry would not be identified by this technology.

Committee: Senate Senate Education

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• I look forward to teaching him how to handle weapons responsibly.
• We so often leave out adequate training on how to utilize these weapons.
• the end of the day, if you're law enforcement, You're responding to a call and you want to get a weapon
• It's a committee on technology that they have that is going to this session end.
• That position also has the obligation of the Technology Crimes Advisory Board, and that advisory board

Bills: SB156

Committee: Assembly Government Affairs

Transcript Highlights:

• We should be threatened by their cameras, you know, because of their weapons and the armor that they
• "Oh, they have a weapon! Oh, there's a weapon involved! Oh, where's the weapon?"
• The video doesn't show a weapon. There's no weapon. They're lying. They lie to the media.
• requested by law enforcement to clarify that the bill does not limit their ability to use existing technology
• Somebody feels like a weapon, actually. Thank you, yes. I know when those are.

Bills: SB552 , SB1099 , SB1124 , SB1208 , SB1372 , SB1506 , SB1667 , SB1804 , SB1806 , SB1870 , SB1936 , SB1937 , SB2180 , SB2405 , SB2569 , SB2570 , SB1646

Committee: Senate Criminal Justice