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ID
Transcript Highlights:
- By centralizing this reporting through the State Controller, the law will promote some uniform standards
- Just to note that this does not limit forfeiture authority, and it does not change evidentiary standards
- You have to meet a whole bunch of standards in order for people’s property to be forfeited civilly when
- There is nothing beyond that from a legal standard for them to be able to interpret.
- in a legislative district with the prerequisite prior to meeting that general election standard, but
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- Is there a standardized test? What's the process? Some of them have a standardized test.
- You're going to follow the International Building Code, which is a standard among... Codes.
- As I said, the International Building Code is a standard, depending on what year.
- I believe in one statewide standardized test, just like we heard that the electricians test statewide
- As I said, the International Building Code is a standard, depending on what year.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- These standards will help protect wild oyster populations, prevent disease, and ensure ecological balance
- The standard, are you generally familiar that Texas law already... sets out the standards that must be
- And in and of itself, a standard, is that right?
- Material impact is a standard; however, it is certainly a standard.
- They made a finding, and we've set, you know, there's either a standard or metrics that, and they've
Keywords:
construction, wildlife impact, height restrictions, national wildlife refuge, environmental regulations, HB 3887, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Parks and Wildlife Code, performance bond, payment bond, contractor bonding, public works, construction contracts, public building, procurement, bid security, subcontractors, suppliers, contractor payment protection, project completion
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Nov 5th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- mechanism and how easy it would be to have a standard mechanism.
- would I Wrote it down, standardized evidence-based way to identify them.
- Protocol to simply implement instead of that question as standard evidence-based practice.
- So, it's both trying to look at cost, but it also tries to standardize for.
- I already talked about the behavioral health standards. I get too excited.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 4/14/26
Public Safety Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> standards as well as career pathways. standards as well as career pathways.
- </c><00:20:02.560><c> and</c> clarifying standards and clarifying standards and and<00:20:04.000><c>
- Clarifying standards and then I'm sorry.
- This standards are for the onboarding.
- standards standards that<00:21:10.680><c> they</c><00:21:10.800><c> currently</c><00:21:11.240><c> have
Keywords:
public safety officer, survivor benefits, line of duty death, occupational cancer, firefighter, police officer, paramedic, EMT, correctional officer, first responder, workers' compensation, death benefits, occupational exposure, carcinogen, cancer presumption, mesothelioma, leukemia, lung cancer, post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
WAM-HHS, WAM-EDU Informational Briefings 01-14-2026
Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- To ensure a common standard of care and support for all of our students, regardless of the campus they
- To ensure a common standard<00:58:52.400><c> of</c><00:58:52.559><c> care</c><00:58:52.720><c> and</c
- 52.960><c> support</c><00:58:53.200><c> for</c><00:58:53.440><c> all</c><00:58:53.599><c> of</c> standard
- of care and support for all of standard of care and support for all of our<00:58:53.920><c> students
- order to continue to really spur that type of growth and development where people don't meet the standards
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/5/26
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- standardized request for contract standardized request for contract advance<00:27:59.240><c> for</c>
- </c> through the development of standardized through the development of standardized processes<00:30:
- </c><00:32:11.680><c> and</c> grant staff to state-wide standards and grant staff to state-wide standards
- So, the fact that runs are standard.
- Do you best practices and standards.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Housing Jun 18th, 2026
Joint Committee on Housing
Transcript Highlights:
- Okay, so if we make the technical corrections in Seasonal Communities, which is a pretty standard, right
- That's pretty standard operating procedure up here.
- That's pretty standard operating procedure up here.
- That's pretty standard operating procedure up here.
- That's pretty standard operating procedure up here.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Housing held a hybrid hearing on two bills: H. 5447, a home rule petition concerning the Town of West Tisbury’s affordable housing trust fund, and H. 5317/H. 5314, relating to condominium conversion or partition of co-owned two-unit buildings. Chair Richard Haggerty and Senate co-chair Julian Cyr opened the hearing and explained the format, including three-minute testimony limits and a July 31 deadline for written testimony.
Peter Harrington testified in support of updating the partition law so courts could use condominium conversion when dividing co-owned property. He said the current law is rooted in medieval-era rules and can hinder preservation of middle-class housing, especially where a two-family home might otherwise be sold and redeveloped. He argued the change would give judges a modern tool to preserve existing housing stock and noted the issue arises in some partition cases, though not every day.
Laura Silber testified for West Tisbury in support of H. 5447, saying the town wants its affordable housing trust fund expanded to serve households up to 180% of area median income and to support seasonal-community workforce needs, including public sector essential workers. She said the town and Martha’s Vineyard Commission also support broader seasonal-community housing tools and a future local option transfer fee. Senator Cyr questioned whether the home rule petition was necessary given the Seasonal Communities law, and Silber responded that the petition was a short-term measure while technical fixes and a pooled year-round housing trust are developed. No votes were taken, and the hearing ended with adjournment after testimony concluded.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business. Apr 30th, 2025 at 09:00 am
Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- at a hearing earlier this month, a shift to either permanent daylight savings time or permanent standard
- While I know there are strong opinions on this issue, whether daylight saving time or standard time,
- My amendment Young 1 proposes making standard time permanent.
- start their day in darkness supported by the American Academy of Sleep medicine moving to permanent standard
- Actually, the voters of Texas decide whether Texas will be under Standard Time or Daylight Savings Time
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division I (09/18/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- We think these changes will not impact the value of the renewable portfolio standard.
- </c><00:27:44.080><c> just</c> everybody up to a certain standard just everybody up to a certain standard
- There are also cost benefits to the renewable portfolio standard.
- </c> of the renewable portfolio standard of the renewable portfolio standard whenever<00:50:13.119><c
- So the way the portfolio standard.
Summary:
The committee first took up House Bill 219, which would revise the renewable portfolio standard. Representative Bose explained that the bill would modify class one definitions, eliminate class two, reduce the utility obligation for class one thermal renewable energy certificates from 2.2% to 1.7%, and adjust alternative compliance payments for classes one, three, and four. He said the changes were intended to save ratepayers an estimated $5.7 million annually, would not materially harm the renewable portfolio standard, and would have little effect on class two because that market is already saturated. Members questioned the impact on consumers, the state budget, and the renewable energy fund; Bose said the fund had already been redirected in the state budget, and another member noted an amended fiscal note showing a $1.2 million reduction in general fund revenue. The committee also discussed the bill’s history, including that it had been added to HB 2 and later removed by the Senate, and Bose said the Senate’s eventual action was hard to predict.
The committee then heard House Bill 164 on local records retention from Secretary of State David Scanlan. He said the long-standing local records manager position had never been funded, but that the need for it had grown as towns increasingly digitize records and must ensure accessibility, including ADA compliance. He described the bill as a way to provide state support and expertise to municipalities, especially smaller towns with limited resources, and said the fiscal note for hiring the position remained accurate, though broader website and storage costs could rise over time. Members asked about retrieving lost records, the cost of a public website, and whether records should remain local or be stored at the state level; Scanlan said the state would serve as a resource rather than take control of local records.
Finally, the committee began work on House Bill 365, also with Secretary Scanlan, concerning proof of U.S. citizenship for indigent voters. He said the bill would help voters who may lack required documents under the new voter registration law by allowing the state to verify qualifications through federal, private, or other state databases and by providing vouchers to cover the cost of obtaining documents such as birth certificates. He compared the proposal to earlier voter ID accommodations and said the goal was to help qualified voters meet the new requirements without weakening them. Members raised questions about defining “indigent,” how out-of-state birth records would be handled, and the practicality of the verification process; Scanlan said the term would likely need further discussion and that the state would try to assist voters before election day whenever possible.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/03/2026 - Senate Natural Resources
Senate Natural Resources Committee of Reference
Transcript Highlights:
- Currently, there are no federal standards for cloud seeding and chemical uses, and ADEQ is unaware of
- ADEQ determines environmental impacts measured against developed standards that, when complied with,
- currently lacks the resources and expertise to perform such studies necessary to establish these standards
- resources to scale up the expertise and capacity of the agency to develop defensible and robust standards
- transparency, because data is what's needed, especially when ADEQ says that there are no federal standards
Summary:
The Natural Resources Committee approved the minutes from January 20 and January 27, 2026, and then heard several bills dealing with water policy, environmental regulation, wildlife management, and cosmetics testing. SB 1278 would ban intentional solar radiation management activities in Arizona and bar public entities and recipients of public funds from supporting such technologies; supporters argued it was needed to stop geoengineering, while opponents said it would block research and distract from real pollution problems. The committee voted 5-2 to give SB 1278 a do pass recommendation.
The committee then considered SB 1279, which updates Arizona’s weather modification/cloud seeding permitting process by adding ADWR and ADEQ review, public notice and meetings, and a licensing database. A nine-page amendment shifted complaint enforcement to ADWR, added cease-and-desist and fine authority, and changed rulemaking timelines; the amendment was adopted, and the bill passed 5-2. Testimony was mixed: supporters emphasized transparency and safety, Salt River Project was neutral after stakeholder work, and ADEQ said it was neutral but warned it lacked standards, resources, and time to develop the required chemical limits and rules.
SB 1005, which would prohibit the sale of cosmetics developed with animal testing beginning in 2027, received a do pass recommendation 4-2 after supporters cited cruelty concerns and the availability of non-animal testing methods. SB 1202, requiring ADWR to include outline data in five-year groundwater supply-and-demand assessments, also passed 4-2 despite agency concerns that the bill would require extensive hydrologic modeling, significant resources, and could produce misleading conclusions about available water. SB 1280, barring state transport or use of public resources to move Mexican gray wolf pups into Arizona, passed 4-2 after testimony split between conservation advocates, who said it would hinder recovery, and supporters concerned about livestock impacts; Game and Fish was neutral. Finally, SB 1287, with a conforming amendment, passed 5-1 to extend a groundwater-use provision for irrigation grandfathered rights from initial AMAs to subsequent AMAs, which ADWR said would reduce burden and create parity across management areas.
VT
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Legislative Ethics Commission (11-18-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- The standard for dismissal of an action is not appropriate where you bring in extraneous information,
- So that gets us to what the standard is for summary judgment, and that is whether there is a genuine
- The standard for dismissal of an action is not appropriate where you bring in extraneous information,
- So that gets us to what the standard is for summary judgment, and that is whether there is a genuine
- The standard for dismissal of an action is not appropriate where you bring in extraneous information,
Summary:
The Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission met on November 18, 2025, approved the October 14 minutes, and then took up five motions in ethics matters 24LEC3 and 24LEC6. Those motions included a renewed motion to dismiss and motion to quash by Representative Daniel Gberg, a renewed motion to compel/sanctions and continuance request by Mr. Jenkins, and competing motions in limine concerning evidence and redaction of deposition transcripts. Vice Chair Mike Schaw was appointed hearing officer for the motion practice, and the commission agreed to hear the motions one at a time in open session. Representative Chris Lily joined later by Zoom.
Counsel for Representative Gberg argued the remaining allegations were minor, that the commission lacked key exculpatory materials such as an alleged LRC report, policies, procedures, and training materials, and that the record did not support the ethics charges. She also argued the case had been broadened by extraneous allegations and that the respondent had been unfairly prejudiced. Enforcement counsel responded that he had produced all materials in his possession, that any LRC materials were not in the commission’s custody, and that the commission’s probable-cause findings were based on sworn testimony and affidavits already in the record. He argued the motions to dismiss and for summary judgment should be denied because genuine issues of material fact remained and the commission had already found probable cause on three ethics violations.
Commission members questioned both sides about the alleged LRC report and whether it was part of the commission’s record. The chair stated the commission had not relied on any LRC report and had not withheld anything, while another member emphasized that the proceeding concerned alleged violations of the ethics code, not LRC sexual-harassment policy. A commissioner also noted the unusual structure of the proceeding and questioned whether the complaints, taken as true, stated a basis for dismissal. The transcript ends during continued discussion of the standard for dismissal and summary judgment, with no final ruling on the motions captured in the excerpt.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- , the strict scrutiny standard, and that's the strictest standard judicial standard that we have under
- </c><01:21:36.719><c> established</c> the strict scrutiny standard established the strict scrutiny standard
- </c><01:21:54.480><c> Who</c> standard. What's the process? Who standard. What's the process?
- And I would standard, judicial standard.
- standard of review being used.
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Mar 5th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- First, the bill shifts the standard towards serious harm or imminent risk of serious harm.
- In short, H691 moves Idaho's neglect standard In short, H691 moves Idaho's neglect standard towards a
- We don't want to subject our children to the standard of serious harm.
- That standard of neglect has to be met, but to remember. ...16-11, that standard of neglect has to be
- are also completely separate from the criminal standards for child abuse.
Summary:
The House Judiciary and Rules Administration Committee approved the minutes from March 3, 2026, then heard House Bill 691, which would narrow Idaho’s definition of child neglect to align more closely with federal language. The sponsor and supporters argued the current definition is too broad, leads to many unsubstantiated CPS referrals, and can unnecessarily harm families, while opponents from child welfare and law enforcement said the bill would raise the intervention threshold and make it harder to protect children from chronic neglect or medical neglect. After debate over the bill’s impact and a question about existing faith-healing language, the committee rejected a motion to send H 691 to the floor on a 8-7 roll call vote.
The committee then heard Senate Bill 1240, a comprehensive rewrite of Idaho’s guardianship and conservatorship statutes. Sponsors said the bill modernizes laws that have not been updated since 1972, improves clarity and due process, and reflects years of work with courts, attorneys, disability advocates, and other stakeholders. AARP testified in support, saying the bill better balances protection and independence for vulnerable adults. No opposition was presented, and the committee voted to send SB 1240 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation.
Next, the committee considered Senate Bill 1226, which adds misdemeanor sexual battery and domestic violence to the offenses requiring DNA samples and thumbprints. Sponsors said the change would help solve crimes and close gaps where serious offenders had pleaded down from felonies, and Idaho State Police testified that the bill would improve the DNA database and clarify collection procedures. The committee moved the bill forward with a do-pass recommendation. Finally, the committee heard Senate Bill 1239, which clarifies that residency restrictions for registered sex offenders apply near daycares licensed, permitted, or approved by cities or counties. Sponsors said it closes a loophole in current law, and the committee approved the bill for the floor by voice vote.
ID
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Commerce and Economic Development Feb 9th, 2026 at 06:32 pm
House Commerce & Economic Development Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- And at some point, you have to apply that kind of standard.
- And at some point, you have to apply that kind of standard.
- I think that the standard of profanity, you know what you see it.
- I think that the standard of profanity, you know when you see it.
- I wish we had a standard that we could really hang our hat on.
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
January 28, 2026 - 08:00 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- These are managing the hospital standards for review and procedures for sale these for management.
- Nix: It does nothing to change the environmental standards.
- Without a definition there is no standard to neutrally and fairly apply the standard of compatibility
- It improves accountability, eliminates confusion, and reflects modern standards.
- But it fails to provide guidelines, proposed standards, or stipulations that set a minimum threshold
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
December 10, 2025 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- ADDITIONALLY, EVERY LICENSE NURSING HOME MUST COMPLY WITH ALL APPLICABLE STANDARDS AND RULES SET FORTH
- ASSESSING THE SAFETY CULTURE WITHIN NURSING HOMES AND ENSURING FACILITIES ARE MEETING THE HIGHEST STANDARDS
- THE SURVEY IS BASED ON A STANDARDIZED SET OF QUESTIONS DESIGNATED TO CAPTURE KEY ASPECTS OF CONSUMER
- THE MAJORITY OF THE PERFORMANCE MEASURES USER MEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE ARE FOR STANDARDIZED
- MANAGED CARE PLAN MONTHLY TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH CONTRACT STANDARDS AND QUALITY OF CARE FOR ENROLLEES
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Transportation Infrastructure Revenue Subcommitee Aug 21st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- sure that we're coordinating them for the best impact, and making the connection for them to be standard
- The other thing that we're doing with this is making sure that we have a standard test across all of
- We can increase transportation safety and reduce fatalities by going beyond our standards, increasing
- There are a lot of policies we can implement to achieve that zero, but there are also many standards
- . ...and turn it into standardized practices.