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ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Senator Den Hartog, I ask unanimous consent that all bills on first reading be read by number, author
- House Bill 629 authorizes the Transportation Department to provide an electronic copy for registration
- So it specifically preserves lawful entry authority. ...forming essential duties.
- This specifically preserves lawful entry authority.
- And then it governs... ...preserves lawful entry authority, and then what these do is they govern county
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 01/28/25
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
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- </c> requested annual spending Authority requested annual spending Authority increase<00:35:18.599><c
- The second category here is increased authority, and so we're looking for the ability to authorize the
- </c> take care of the prior authorizations take care of the prior authorizations for<01:45:37.960><c>
- </c><01:52:35.840><c> our</c> being pushed onto our local counties our being pushed onto our local counties
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 02/20/25
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
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- In conjunction with County Human Services and what county? The county we have today.
- </c> not consistent across Minnesota counties not consistent across Minnesota counties 36<00:30:00.760
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Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 02/05/25
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- Senator Dibble [member_22609] is here as chief author, with a fine list of witnesses.
- You're the author. Do you want to speak to it?
- You know, we've got people living in some of the poorest counties.
- </c> dollars that go outside the seven County dollars that go outside the seven County Metro<00:56:39.359
- </c> live in some of the poorest counties live in some of the poorest counties we're<01:00:05.640><c>
NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York State Senate Session - 05/04/2026
New York Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- , our county jails, to hold those under ICE detention.
- DISCUSSED THAT WE WILL BE NOT ALLOWING OUR COUNTIES OUR COUNTY JAILS TO HOLD THOSE UNDER ICE DETENTION
- Only one of the ten has been done, and that's the one to authorize our continued payments of our debts
- ONLY ONE OF THE TEN HAS BEEN DONE AND THAT'S THE AUTHORIZE OUR CONTINUED PAYMENTS OF OUR DEBTS, WHICH
- Calendar 321, Senate Print 2458, Senator Comrie, an act to amend the Public Authorities Law.
Summary:
The Senate convened with ceremonial opening proceedings, approved the prior journal, and then moved through a series of calendar actions, including discharging and substituting identical companion bills from committee and restoring several bills to the Third Reading Calendar after reconsideration. The chamber also took up a supplemental budget calendar and a controversial supplemental budget extender, with Senator O’Mara questioning the delay in final budget negotiations, the size of the extender, table targets, and unresolved policy issues such as auto insurance reforms, SEQRA, New York for All, and CLCPA changes. Senator Serrano responded that negotiations were ongoing and that the extender was a clean measure to keep state government functioning. The budget extender bills were then passed, with Senator Weik voting in the negative on one of them. The Senate also adopted a resolution memorializing May 4, 2026, as 10th Mountain Division and Fort Drum Day, and hosted Major General Scott Naumann and other Fort Drum leaders and soldiers for remarks on the division’s deployments, readiness, economic impact, and requests for continued state support on items such as microreactors, health care, DMV services, dining facilities, airports, and mineral-related development.
The Fort Drum resolution drew extensive bipartisan praise from Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins, Minority Leader Ortt, Senator Scarcella-Spanton, Senator Ashby, Senator Walczyk, and others, who emphasized the division’s military history, its role as a major employer and economic driver in Northern New York, and the sacrifices of service members and their families. Several senators highlighted individual soldiers in attendance and their service records, while the resolution was opened for co-sponsorship and adopted. The Senate also recognized a visiting child author, Thomas Ortiz, who was introduced for publishing a book encouraging kindness and friendship.
After the ceremonial segment, the Senate returned to regular business and passed a series of bills on the calendar, including measures affecting environmental conservation, executive law, public service, education, public authorities, real property tax, criminal procedure, election law, and civil rights. Some bills drew negative votes from a bloc of senators, particularly on the environmental, criminal procedure, election, and civil rights measures, but all listed bills were ultimately passed. The Senate then adjourned until the next day.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Human Services Jan 28th, 2026 at 05:45 pm
Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- The Department of Health is authorized to do routine and unannounced inspections of private detention
- It's these privately held or private contracts that we need authority over through this legislation.
- I was in 2013 and 2014, a public defender in King County representing a client who began stalking me.
- The group selects two co-chairs, one from the legislature and one from the health care authority.
- Five of the 39 counties in Washington have providers trained in dialectical behavioral therapy, which
Committee:
Senate Human Services
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Human Services Jan 28th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- The Department of Health is authorized to do routine and unannounced inspections of private detention
- Some of the authorized inspections include inspections involving food service, food handling, sanitation
- We can, we have authority already to inspect, but it's these privately held or private contracts that
- we need authority over through this legislation.
- The group selects two co-chairs, one from the legislature and one from the Health Care Authority.
Summary:
The Senate Human Services Committee held an evening hearing on several bills. Senate Bill 6249, sponsored by Sen. Torres, would require all people convicted of stalking to be supervised by the Department of Corrections. Staff explained current community custody rules and said the bill would make stalking convictions subject to DOC supervision; the fiscal note had been requested but not yet received. The sponsor and several survivors and advocates testified in support, saying stalking is dangerous, victims need ongoing monitoring, and supervision could help prevent future harm. No vote was taken.
The committee also heard Senate Bill 6255, sponsored by Sen. Lovelett, which renames and updates the Legislative Executive Poverty Reduction Oversight Task Force (LuPRO) as the Legislative Executive Economic Justice and Well-Being Task Force, expands membership, and revises duties to monitor and update the state’s 10-year plan to dismantle poverty. Staff said the bill has a partial fiscal note showing a $4,000 OSPI cost for a report, with no additional cost beyond that this biennium. Testimony from DSHS and a constituent supported the bill as a way to improve coordination and accountability in poverty reduction efforts.
Senate Bill 6286, sponsored by Sen. Orwall, would authorize the Department of Health to fine private detention facilities that deny inspectors entry, with escalating daily fines and a new account to support people harmed by wrongful detention or ICE-related abuse. The sponsor and supporters framed the bill as a human rights and public health measure, citing complaints about food, sanitation, medical care, and mental health conditions in private detention facilities. The committee then heard Senate Bill 6224, sponsored by Chair Wilson, which would create a Children and Youth Behavioral Health Leadership Council to implement the Washington Thriving Strategic Plan and extend the existing work group. Supporters from state agencies, providers, parents, and advocates emphasized early intervention, cross-system coordination, and youth mental health needs; one witness opposed the bill, arguing it should focus more on non-psychiatric causes of distress. The hearing ended with no recorded votes or final action on the bills.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Finance Division I (04/20/2026)
Transcript Highlights:
- Well, if nothing else, there's two counties involved.
- There's at least two counties. >> There's a couple of counties, there's like nine different towns, um
- </c> counties involved. counties involved.
- </c> There's At least two counties. There's At least two counties.
- An appropriation is basically just an authorization, a permission to spend.
Summary:
The committee held a work session on House Bill 592, which concerns regional conservation and energy resources planning for habitat strongholds and wildlife corridors, and a commission to study transferring ownership of the Winnipesaukee River Basin Program to another authority. Jason Stock of the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association said his group was fine with the bill as printed, especially after Senate language clarified that habitat stronghold designations are for information gathering and not regulatory purposes. Ted Diers of the Department of Environmental Services strongly supported the bill’s Winnipesaukee River Basin provisions, saying the state’s role in operating the wastewater system is outdated and that the communities are now capable of taking more control; he also supported creating a higher-level engineering/director position to oversee aging infrastructure and help manage a possible transition. Committee members asked about the facility’s location, capacity, costs, staffing, the possibility of private operation, the commission’s membership, and whether the six-month study timeline was realistic. Diers said there would be no state savings beyond administrative time, that the communities already pay the costs, and that a report in six months should provide useful next steps even if it would not resolve everything. The chair closed the work session on HB 592 and announced a brief recess before later action, while a member indicated interest in proposing an amendment to change the commission’s membership.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Economic Development and Tourism Committee Apr 24th, 2025
Tourism
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, if you'll remember, we heard this bill last week regarding Green County.
- The Senate passed Loun County on Tuesday, and it is going to be coming here next week.
- This is not just a courtesy regarding one county.
- Um, what's the current status of gaming in Greene County? Well, gaming in Greene County...
- Greene County?
Committees:
House Tourism , House Economic Development and Tourism
Keywords:
alcoholic beverages, ABC Board, Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control, special event license, special events retail license, nonprofit special events retail license, special retail license, event storage license, government venue license, alcohol storage, alcohol transfer, beer, wine, liquor, on-premises consumption, public venue, government-owned property, municipal property, county property, state property
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- And whereas the city of Phoenix proudly maintains a sister city relationship with Ennis, County Clare
- Speaker Murphy was first elected as an independent TD for County Wexford in February 2020.
- Speaker Murphy was first elected as an independent TD for County Wexford, renewable energy.
- Speaker Murphy was first elected as an independent TD for County Wexford in February of 2020.
- Whereas the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME, ...
Summary:
The House convened, opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, approved the journal, and recognized the Doctor of the Day, Dr. Jasleen Chatwal. Members also introduced a number of guests and visiting groups, including Irish dignitaries for St. Patrick’s Day recognition, labor organizations such as AFSCME and CWA, the Arizona Farm Bureau, the Arizona chapter of the American College of Surgeons for Stop the Bleed training, and advocates for rare skeletal conditions. A proclamation recognizing St. Patrick’s Day was read, and the House later heard a proclamation honoring AFSCME Arizona.
On the floor, the House took up several procedural motions, including requests to have the Senate return HB 4027 and HB 2444 for reconsideration, and received multiple Senate bills on first and second reading. The chamber then moved into Committee of the Whole and approved HB 2750 with a friendly floor amendment, sending it forward as amended. The House also sent HB 2999 to an additional Committee of the Whole, adopted a floor amendment, and advanced it as amended for engrossing.
During third reading, HB 2197, relating to water access and camping near water sources, failed on reconsideration after members debated whether it imposed unnecessary criminal penalties and enforcement concerns. HB 2429, relating to vacation and short-term rentals, passed after supporters said it restored local control to cities and towns. HB 2950, creating special districts for tourism improvement areas, passed after amendments made participation voluntary and added notice requirements. HB 4001, relating to nicotine products, also passed after debate over youth vaping, enforcement authority, and whether the bill struck the right balance between regulation and parental responsibility. The House then made committee announcements and adjourned until Tuesday, March 17, 2026.
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Mar 10th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And my latest spiel is that I only represent part of Ada County.
- So those of you who get to list all of the many counties that you represent, I represent a small portion
- of Ada County. 22, and my latest spiel is that I only represent part of Ada County.
- of Ada County.
- Verifying legal work authorization is essential to protecting Idaho's workers.
Summary:
The Senate Commerce Committee first approved the minutes from February 26, 2026 by voice vote. It then heard House Bill 738, which would allow an additional option for LLC organizers to list a commercial registered agent’s address instead of a residential/home address on the Secretary of State’s website, with the stated goal of improving privacy and safety for home-based businesses while preserving existing LLC formation options. Representative Dygert said the bill was developed with input from the Secretary of State’s office and that other states use similar approaches. After questions about the definition and use of commercial registered agents, the committee voted to send HB 738 to the Senate floor with a do pass recommendation.
The committee then took up House Bill 645, a proposal to create voluntary portable benefits accounts for independent contractors and other 1099 workers. Majority Leader Den Hartog and a supporting witness described the bill as a way for contractors and hiring entities to contribute to worker-owned accounts that could be used for benefits such as health, disability, life, retirement, income replacement, and unemployment insurance, with administration by approved third-party providers under Department of Insurance oversight. Supporters argued the bill would expand flexibility and access to benefits without changing worker classification, and noted similar laws in other states. Opponents, including the Idaho AFL-CIO, warned the bill could worsen worker misclassification, blur the line between employees and contractors, and create concerns about immigration verification, workers’ compensation, and tax treatment.
Committee members raised repeated questions about whether the bill could affect the right-to-control test, workers’ compensation, federal classification rules, and whether the accounts might be used without health coverage. The sponsor and witness responded that the bill would not alter existing classification law, would not create an employer-employee relationship, and would remain subject to federal law. After closing debate, the committee approved HB 645 on a 5-4 roll call vote and sent it to the Senate floor with a do pass recommendation. The committee then adjourned after completing its agenda.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, January 9, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- </c><00:11:25.800><c> Historical</c> society and the herd County Historical society and the herd County
- County Sheriff Todd Skarban, Door County Sheriff Tim Wills, Kewaunee County Sheriff Tammy Sternard,
- Shawano County Sheriff Matt Joski, Marinette County Sheriff George Lesnar, Calumet County Sheriff Randy
- Miller, Brown County Sheriff Brett Bommon, and Winnebago County Sheriff John Matz.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, Senator Swedzinski. that bounce back our our counties and that bounce back our our counties and everybody
- Well, that question of the bill author.
- I think some of these probably author.
- Hennepin County is a fourth of the state.
- Henipin County is a judicial districts.
Committee:
Senate Elections
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- You all may not know this, but Mississippi County is the largest steel-producing county.
- counties surrounding that.
- I'd like to Other counties surrounding that.
- Mississippi County appreciates your support.
- We love being in Mississippi County, and we're looking forward to at least 40 more.
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
January 28, 2026 - 03:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- Living in a coastal community down in northern Palm Beach County, there was a section of the Jupiter
- Chair Botana: Peter Oreo, Florida Association of Counties, waives in support.
- Deputy County Administrator, Escambia County. Derelict vessels is as Rep.
- Andrade said, a big problem in our county as well as other coastal counties.
- Next we have Peter from Florida Association of Counties waives in support.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Republican Press Conference 2/24/25
Transcript Highlights:
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- </c><00:18:55.200><c> are</c> Council and hennipen County are Council and hennipen County are purposely
- Just start driving some buses down County Road 81.
- Just start driving some buses down County Road 81. It's ready to go.
- Just start driving some buses down County Road 81.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services May 27th, 2026
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- We don't exercise any authority like that.
- Well, all of a sudden, it requires a prior authorization.
- Well, all of a sudden, it requires a prior authorization.
- There's other forms of this: prior authorizations.
- How many counties do you have guaranteed access in versus nobody in your group in the counties?
Committee:
Senate Health & Human Services
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Corrections and Public Institutions Apr 8th, 2026
Corrections and Public Institutions
Transcript Highlights:
- A court cost surcharge for a law library has been authorized by statute for all counties since 1945.
- Louis County and Jackson County, which already have a $20 surcharge.
- Louis County is authorized to go up to $20, but they have other sources of funding.
- Those are grassroots folks who are nominated by their counties. They're county presidents.
- Auburn County, right down the road from my house, and in Calaway County, $12,000.
Committee:
House Corrections and Public Institutions
Summary:
The committee first took up executive action on Senate Bill 890. Members explained that the House committee substitute combined provisions from related bills, changed the title to accommodate an amendment, and restored language that had been unintentionally repealed in section 217.550. The amendment was adopted, the substitute was adopted, and the House Committee Substitute for SB 890 was voted do pass by a roll call of 11 ayes and 1 no.
The committee then heard Senate Bill 945 from Senator Carla May, which would raise the civil filing surcharge in the city of St. Louis from $15 to up to $20 to support the law library and related court services. Senator May and a representative of the Law Library Association of St. Louis testified that the surcharge had not been raised since 1996, that costs had increased, and that the increase would help maintain legal research resources and public access. Questions focused on whether the amount was sufficient and what other funding sources existed; there was no opposition testimony.
Finally, the committee heard House Concurrent Resolution 29, which urges Congress to restore mandatory country-of-origin labeling for beef and pork. The sponsor and supporters argued that consumers should know where meat comes from, that independent cattle producers are harmed by consolidation in the packing industry, and that voluntary labeling is inadequate. Opponents from the Missouri Farm Bureau, Missouri Chamber of Commerce, and Missouri Pork Association argued that mandatory labeling adds regulatory burden, is not supported by consumer purchasing data, and should remain voluntary. The hearing included extensive testimony from cattle producers and consumers, but no vote on HCR 29 was taken in the portion provided.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- He was an icon in Bastrop County. People demanded answers: How did this happen?
- I'm the District Attorney in Montgomery County, Texas.
- Williamson County had this archaic policy called a closed-file policy.
- County.
- Yeah, the D.A. for Williamson County at that time lost his license.
Bills:
SB552 , SB1099 , SB1124 , SB1208 , SB1372 , SB1506 , SB1667 , SB1804 , SB1806 , SB1870 , SB1936 , SB1937 , SB2180 , SB2405 , SB2569 , SB2570 , SB1646
Committee:
Senate Criminal Justice
Keywords:
community supervision, criminal justice, illegal alien, deferred adjudication, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, SB 1099, undocumented immigrant, unauthorized immigrant, immigration status, felony sentencing enhancement, criminal penalty increase, Texas Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, affirmative finding, judgment finding, deportation, public safety, immigration enforcement, sentencing reform, felony offense
AZ