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NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Health and Public Affairs Feb 13th, 2026 at 04:01 pm

Senate Health & Public Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Physician assistant that is inconsistent with New Mexico law.
  • Physician assistant, excuse me, I didn't say physical therapist, so that's better.
  • Next, we have House Bill 34 as amended, school nurse licensure provisions.
  • Charter schools are part of our public school system, so their nurses are part of this bill.
  • It adjusts contract language because in our 89 school districts, school-year contracts are varied lengths
Bills: HB10 , HB12 , HB34 , SB130 , SM21
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 15th, 2026

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • the response was that it is the Irrigation Works and Construction Fund.
  • to think of the name of it, the construction work, the Asakia Construction Works Fund?
  • and construction fund and mr.
  • It talks about the covered construction materials.
  • construction companies.
Bills: HB145 , HR1 , HB80 , SB29 , SB37 , HB206 , SB193 , SB58 , SB64 , HB153 , HB195 , HB234 , HB248 , HB255 , HB279 , HB287 , HB292 , HB303 , HB309 , HB371 , SB30 , SB35 , SB40 , SB43 , SB48 , SB96 , SB143 , HJM1 , HM7 , HM17 , HM4 , HM22 , HM23 , HM24 , HM26 , HM2 , HM16 , HM32 , HM13 , HM47 , HM20 , HM51 , HM1 , HM31 , HM35 , HM36 , HM46 , HM53 , HM54 , HM39 , HM29 , HM43 , HM59 , HM11 , HM14 , HM21 , HM34 , HM50
Summary: The meeting opened with prayers, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a series of announcements and personal remarks. Members then spent a large portion of the session honoring Representative Joanne Ferrary, who announced she will not seek re-election. Speakers from both parties praised her persistence, mentorship, and work on public safety, environmental protection, health care, women’s rights, and advocacy for workers and families. Ferrary thanked colleagues and said she hoped to continue supporting initiatives in the interim and beyond. The House also recognized Representative Matthew McQueen, who is running for commissioner of public lands and will leave the legislature after this term. Members highlighted his work on conservation, land grants, wildlife protection, legislative drafting, and his reputation for principled, detailed review of bills. McQueen thanked colleagues and said he hoped to remain involved in the building in another capacity. The House then moved to third reading and passed House Bill 371, the House Appropriations and Finance Committee substitute creating a temporary funding source for land grants and acequias from remaining sponge bond revenues. Supporters said it would provide a more stable, long-term funding mechanism for acequia and land grant infrastructure while preserving existing funding streams and requiring legislative appropriation and annual reporting. Some members raised concerns about oversight and the lack of a sunset or review clause, but the bill passed 63-2. The chamber also passed House Bill 248, authorizing $392 million in general obligation bond capacity, by a vote of 65-0. The House then debated House Bill 153, a committee substitute creating a market-based framework for carbon reduction and economic development. The bill includes an environmental product declaration act, a low-carbon materials rebate, and an industrial carbon reduction grant program. Supporters said it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions while encouraging economic development and new technology at industrial facilities. Members questioned the timing of the grants, anti-donation concerns, and whether companies would receive funding only after making investments, and sponsors explained that entities must pre-certify and then apply after beginning production or retrofits. Debate was ongoing at the end of the excerpt, with no final vote shown on HB 153.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Finance Committee 3/25/25

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
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  • chartered Public Schools Public Schools chartered Public Schools need<00:57:42.559><c> funds</c><00:
  • schools, deserve equal resources for safe school environments.
  • schools.
  • schools.
Bills: HF827 , HF1258 , HF2387 , HF2388 , HF2534 , HF2016
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Mar 18th, 2025

Alabama Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate resolution commending the Parker High School football team for winning the Alabama High School
  • , the mother school in Birmingham City Schools.
  • I just want to say congratulations to the Parker High School Thundering Herd and the Parker High School
  • I'm proud to say that I live in your school zone; this is my neighborhood school where I live.
  • public schools have been...
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Mar 18th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Some school districts, correct?
  • open. enrollment charter schools.
  • We're putting prayer in the school, back in the schools is a problem.
  • Not out loud during school as part of school hours.
  • of every school in America.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • We have other clients, like a family in Colorado who's middle school. daughter went on a school field
  • . schools and in public schools.
  • So I sent my kids to school. In fact, it's mandated that our kids are supposed to go to school.
  • My name is Andrew Yeager and I am the Vice President of the Carroll Independent School District School
  • Children even as young as middle school are being victims of sexual activities and indecency in school
Bills: SB240 , SB1183 , SB1184 , SB1577 , SB2043 , SB2051 , SCR42 , SJR68
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Assistance Program, known as SNAP, and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, known as.
  • . schools and in public schools.
  • So I sent my kids to school. In fact, it's mandated that our kids are supposed to go to school.
  • School districts.
  • And our independent school district.
Bills: SB240 , SB1183 , SB1184 , SB1577 , SB2043 , SB2051 , SCR42 , SJR68
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Administrative Rules Apr 7th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Administrative Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • about 6 or 8 months with our state AI officer and and OMEs we're trying to put together a process to assist
  • If we can utilize that process to assist us to where it can mark specific things.
  • Senate Bill 1457 extends the sunset on the construction. Would you please declare the vote?
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Administrative Rules Apr 7th, 2026

Administrative Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're trying to put together a process to assist us with this.
  • do spell-check corrections and all these things that we rely on, if we can utilize that process to assist
  • Senate Bill 1457 extends a sunset on the Construction Industries Board. Move for adoption.
Summary: The committee first advanced Senate Bill 1721, which extends the sunset date for the Oklahoma Advisory Council on Indian Education and requires appointed members to represent a tribe or be involved in tribal education. It then passed Senate Bill 1433, a mirror bill requiring agencies to publicly post guidance documents and state that such documents do not have the force of law. Both bills were adopted without opposition and reported out favorably. The bulk of the meeting focused on Senate Bill 1316, which would create a rotating, eight-year review of administrative rules modeled on Idaho law. Members questioned whether the process would duplicate existing rule review, whether it would be used as a rubber stamp or to remove needed protections, and how AI tools might assist. The sponsor said the goal is to verify statutory authority, identify obsolete or duplicative rules, and use a limited AI system built from Oklahoma constitutional, statutory, and code materials only as a research aid, not a decision-maker. The committee then passed the bill unanimously. The committee also advanced a series of sunset-extension bills for various boards and agencies, including oil and gas tax apportionments, the Board of Governors of Architects, Landscape Architects, and Licensed Interior Designers, the Board of Tests for Alcohol and Drug Influence, the Construction Industries Board, the Oklahoma Abstractors Board, OETA, the Polygraph Examiners Board, the Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Surveyors, and the Advisory Committee on Midwifery. Most passed unanimously, though the Construction Industries Board bill passed 11-1, OETA passed 7-5, and the midwifery bill passed 10-2. The committee also approved H.J.R. 1088, which ratifies education agency rules, by an 11-1 vote. At the end, the chair outlined the committee’s remaining workload and said several bundled rule resolutions and a few major rules would be coming soon, including a large health-agency bundle. Members were asked to return rule assignments quickly so resolutions could be prepared before the end of session. The meeting adjourned after the chair said the next meeting would likely be brief and focused on one or two resolutions.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Agriculture and Wildlife Feb 23rd, 2026 at 10:00 am

Agriculture and Wildlife

Transcript Highlights:
  • some of the programs that they administer they require in-state processing like the local food for schools
  • we have a growing elk herd in western Oklahoma, and this is letting the Oklahoma State Veterinary School
  • and boost economic value, increasing lease revenues for the $1.1 billion school fund.
  • John Fisher is the Assistant Secretary of CLO. You can sit right there and just use that mic.
  • John Fisher, Assistant Secretary for the Commissioners of the Land Office, we don't have any conclusive
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Agriculture and Wildlife Feb 23rd, 2026

Agriculture and Wildlife

Transcript Highlights:
  • some of the programs that they administer, they require in-state processing, like the Local Food for Schools
  • we have a growing elk herd in western Oklahoma, and this is letting the Oklahoma State Veterinary School
  • It's also a win for our schools and education, clearing...
  • John Fisher is the assistant secretary of the CLO. You can sit right there and just use that mic.
  • John Fisher, Assistant Secretary for the Commissioners of the Land Office.
Summary: The committee first considered Senate Bill 2122, which would give the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry more flexibility to allow out-of-state poultry processing when in-state processing is unavailable. Supporters said the bill would help poultry producers who face short processing windows and lack sufficient in-state capacity, while opponents raised questions about food safety and environmental standards. The bill passed 13-0. The committee then took up Senate Bill 330, as amended, to help the Oklahoma State Veterinary School Committee study and support the state’s growing elk herd in western Oklahoma. An amendment updated dates and removed a fiscal section, and the bill passed 11-2. Senate Bill 271 followed, updating dairy regulation authority from milk from cows and goats to milk from all hoofed mammals and increasing the milk production fee from one cent to two cents per hundredweight. The Department of Agriculture said the change was needed to preserve Grade A status, maintain interstate milk shipping, and cover program costs without subsidizing the dairy program from poultry fees. After extensive debate over fees, federal pressure, raw milk safety, and state sovereignty, the bill passed 8-7. Later, the committee approved Senate Bill 2169, which creates a framework for managing invasive woody species and cedar removal on state lands to improve forage, reduce wildfire risk, conserve water, and increase school land revenues; it passed 12-1. Senate Bill 269, addressing baiting in migratory bird hunting and related penalties for guides, also passed 12-1. Senate Bill 2095, setting fees and fines for hunting guides and outfitters, passed 12-1 after questions about misdemeanor versus felony penalties. Finally, Senate Bill 2157, creating a Southeast Scenic Rivers framework, passed 8-5 after testimony that it would protect water resources and avoid federal scenic river designation, while critics argued it could expand government and affect property and agricultural rights.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Apr 2nd, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • It just makes the public and private construction projects with the same statute are opposed.
  • Yeah, like Yeah, the law school hypothetical. OK. But if the Constitution addressed.
  • That's why we make every effort to assist people, even those unfamiliar with the filing process. but
  • They give back, they support the local schools, they do covered dish.
  • I went to funeral director school right in Dallas right after high school and I love my profession, I
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Apr 2nd, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you require assistance in registering, you can come up here and ask Cassidy, our committee clerk,
  • or Molly, our assistant committee clerk, who will be out in just a second.
  • enjoined the release of the accountability ratings for the 2023-2024 school year.
  • The contractor who constructs or repairs the highway has to...
  • Stop, which is to construct and repair the highway.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Representative, would you agree that your bill is solely geared toward assisting district attorneys by
  • This just narrows down when you can declare emergency for schools, approving emergency contracts whenever
  • The impact to schools, the impact to our police and fire departments, county roads and bridges, when
  • I know we have to worry about schools, but individuals matter too, at least to me in my district, they
  • I know we have to worry about schools, but individuals matter too, at least to me in my district, they
Committee: House Rules
Summary: The committee first announced that House Bills 3568 and 3891 and H.J.R. 1019 would be laid over and not heard that day. It then took up a series of bills, adopting PCS versions where offered and generally moving them forward with do-pass recommendations. House Bill 3015 would allow Oklahomans to add a driver’s license to a digital wallet and use it as an optional credential; members questioned why legislation was needed now versus the 2019 digital ID effort and whether the state would work directly with Apple and Google rather than a third-party vendor. The bill passed 10-0. Other measures included House Bill 314, which adds a DOC electronic monitoring ineligibility item; House Bill 3567, which increases transparency in campaign fund use and was amended to correct a citation; House Bill 3749, which lets county clerks, county court clerks, and county commissioners retain outside counsel; House Bill 4229, which narrows when schools may declare emergencies for contracts when facilities are unusable; and House Bill 4237, which modernizes collection of criminal court fees, fines, and costs. Each of these bills advanced, with HB 3749 drawing the most discussion over whether it duplicates district attorney services and whether county commissioners would be approving their own outside-counsel contracts. The committee also advanced House Bill 4253, a union-related bill that the author said he was carrying as a vehicle and would substantially revise before final passage; members discussed federal labor-law concerns and the bill passed 10-0. House Joint Resolution 1046 would exempt homeowners from property tax for a year if a residence is uninhabitable for six months after a disaster; members debated the impact on local tax bases and whether existing ad valorem refund mechanisms should be used instead, and it passed 10-0. House Joint Resolution 1084, which states that Oklahoma and U.S. constitutional standards govern courtroom matters and no court should enforce incompatible religious law, passed 8-2 after questions about whether it addressed a current problem. Finally, House Bill 3411 on biosolids and PFAS testing would require DEQ testing and disclosure to landowners and authorize treatment protocols; it passed 9-1. The meeting ended with notice that the next rules meeting was moved to Thursday at 11:30 in a different room due to technical difficulties.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management Apr 17th, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • And after the improvements have already been agreed upon and constructed, it doesn't really make a lot
  • The school was trying to build a school there, and when they found them, they had to stop and just kill
  • I mean, if they approved putting in a school, they should know that that school is not going to pay property
  • , elementary schools, or high schools, for wastewater treatment plants, for cemeteries, for facilities
  • I'm an assistant chief.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management Apr 17th, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you require assistance, please contact committee staff.
  • To date, one building has been constructed as a manufacturing and distribution facility.
  • MUD Number 70 will have the power to finance the construction of water, sewage, and drainage facilities
  • So from the start of planning to actually starting construction could be anywhere from 18 to 24 months
  • It's typically done with construction, and obviously that construction has to be approved by all governmental
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 4/9/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um I would support this author's amendment, and um it just adds some technical assistance as the chair
  • and um you it just adds some amendment and um you it just adds some technical<00:02:50.000><c> assistance
  • </c> technical assistance as the chair said. technical assistance as the chair said.
  • We're happy to provide that assistance.
  • </c> We're happy to provide that assistance. We're happy to provide that assistance.
Bills: HF2436
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 4/8/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh assistance federal compliance items.
  • The first article is the economic assistance article.
  • , child care, homes, and assisted living?
  • There are ways we can assisted living?
  • We recognize the state level assistance.
Bills: HF2436
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 6th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • your plans after high school.
  • I am paging for Senator Fricks and my school that I go to is Alcoll High School.
  • I'm a senior in high school.
  • , and after that, hopefully, law school.
  • She's a freshman in high school at Mount Saint Mary High School, currently playing flag football.