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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/26

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This outdated barrier is truly redundant to existing standards.
  • Rigorous masters or doctoral standards.
  • APRNs also hold a high standard for mentorship and collaboration in any setting that we work. support
  • APRNS also hold a high standard care.
  • So the terminology that aligns with the standards used in dental accrediting bodies is throughout the
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - House Transportation & Infrastructure

Transportation & Infrastructure

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  • In the schedule, we did enter into a pre-construction agreement with Sun Construction on February 10.
  • Heather, yeah. in the schedule we did enter into a pre-construction agreement with sun construction on
  • It began construction in May of 2024.
  • It began construction just last month.
  • It began pre-construction already, that’s sorry.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Ways and Means Education

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  • that are tied to our state standards. that are tied to our state standards.
  • And, um, that is supporting the standards and what's being taught in the academic school day.
  • and how do we attached to the standards and how do we best<00:32:48.240> equip<00:32:48.720><
  • 33:08.480> in<00:33:08.720> third are standards where students in third are standards where
  • <00:33:47.200> and that is supporting the standards and that is supporting the standards and
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EEP Public Hearing - Thu Feb 5, 2026 @ 9:00 AM HST

Energy & Environmental Protection

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:15:13.839> for septic systems u meet standards for septic systems u meet standards for
  • And that [clears throat] standards.
  • So I assume the intention was to empower the commission to set standards, and I'm not sure what standards
  • So I assume the intention was to empower the commission to set standards, and I'm not sure what standards
  • It's generally um and and I standards?
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several bills related to cesspools, wastewater, and clean water protections. On HB 2245, which would require additional denitrification capacity in wastewater systems near shorelines, the Department of Health offered comments, DLNR supported the bill, and multiple environmental and ocean groups testified in strong support, emphasizing nitrogen pollution from cesspools, reef damage, and the need to prioritize shoreline systems. Testifiers said the bill should move forward, with technical issues such as GIS mapping to be worked out later. No member questions or votes were taken on this measure. On HB 1985, concerning the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority and accessible conversion loans for cesspool homeowners, HGI supported the bill and suggested making the program a revolving loan fund; DLNR and the Public Utilities Commission also supported it, while the Department of Health supported the concept. Committee discussion focused on program design, possible forgivable loans for low-income homeowners, and whether the program should be administered through existing infrastructure rather than a new procurement process. The committee then moved to HB 1985’s companion discussion on cesspool conversion outreach and deadline extensions, where DLNR and DOH supported outreach but DLNR and ocean advocates expressed reservations about extending deadlines, especially for financial hardship, saying that issue would need careful work. The committee also heard testimony on HB 2079, which would reestablish the accessible upgrades inversion or connection income tax credit. The Department of Taxation raised administrative and fraud concerns about refundable credits, explaining that nonrefundable credits reduce tax debt while refundable credits can function like cash payments and require more oversight. DOH, DLNR, OPSD, counties, Hawaii Realtors, and environmental groups supported the bill, with one ocean coalition witness saying tax credits could help homeowners but grants would be preferable. Members asked about the difference between refundable credits and grants and about whether the credit would cover sewer connections versus individual wastewater systems. The committee then heard brief testimony on HB 1921, allowing certain priority-three cesspools to add a bedroom, with support from Hawaii Realtors and some other groups and no opposition discussion. HB 2232, preserving state water-quality protections at least as strong as the federal Clean Water Act, drew support from DOH and ocean advocates, with no questions. The committee also began hearing energy-related bills, including HB 1567 on energy equity and HB 1984 on self-certification for distributed energy resources, with a mix of support and some opposition or requested amendments, but no votes were taken in the portion provided.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Apr 29th, 2025

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you, [Applause] Representative Standards. The Gulf of... Representative Standards.
  • Research, we began to realize that our state does not have a standardized building code.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • It is standard practice, as you said, Chairman, to do this.
  • It's in construction contracts, so the bill would apply broadly to construction contracts that the government
  • Dunn Construction Company.
  • I'm a board-certified construction lawyer.
  • standards.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The bill keeps the grid safe with technical and operational standards to ensure...
  • That doesn't mean, by the way, that interconnection standards or safety aren't important.
  • direction for the commission as they go into the rule-making process on supporting consistency and standardization
  • That's a reasonable standard to uphold the interest of taxpayers.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce (Part II) Apr 1st, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • Importantly, the bill keeps the grid safe with technical or operational standards to make sure the distribution
  • That doesn't mean, by the way, that interconnection standards are... ...the opposite direction.
  • That doesn't mean, by the way, that interconnection standards or safety aren't important.
  • That's a reasonable standard.
  • That's a reasonable standard to uphold in the interest of taxpayers.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce heard Senate Bill 2021 by Senator Johnson, as substituted, on distributed energy resources (DERs). Johnson said the bill was intended to create a regulatory framework for DERs and virtual power plants, address interconnection and registration issues, and prevent regulatory capture as the industry grows. Testimony was split: Texas Electric Cooperatives asked for clarification so co-ops would not be unintentionally excluded from owning or operating DERs; AECT supported the bill as providing needed rules and customer protections; TABA, Texas Solar and Storage Association, Sierra Club, Texas Solar Energy Society, and several others opposed it or raised concerns that it was too utility-centric, imposed red tape, and could burden homeowners and small businesses with registration and interconnection requirements. Johnson repeatedly said the bill was not meant to stop rooftop solar or backup systems and that he was open to specific redlines and further changes. SB 2021 was left pending after testimony. The committee then took up Senate Bill 2330 by Senator Parker, which would end government payroll deduction for dues to certain public employee organizations, while exempting first responders under Chapters 143 and 147 and making other conforming changes in a committee substitute. Parker argued the bill was about government neutrality, transparency, and employee freedom from coercion, and said organizations can collect dues directly using modern payment methods. Supporters from Texas Public Policy Foundation, Texas Business Coalition, Freedom Foundation, ABC Texas, and Texans for Fiscal Responsibility said taxpayer-funded payroll systems should not be used to collect dues for private organizations, especially ones involved in political activity. Opponents, including ATPE, Texas Classroom Teachers Association, Texas Public Employees Association, and correctional employees, said payroll deduction is a convenient, secure service that helps professional associations and employee groups, and argued the bill would burden teachers and other public employees. Several witnesses and senators focused on the bill’s exemptions and whether it treated teachers differently from first responders. Senator Menendez questioned why some public employees were excluded while others were not, and a Houston police union representative said he moved from opposing to supporting the bill after being told the substitute would preserve meet-and-confer deductions under Chapters 143 and 147. Senator Parker closed by saying the bill was not meant to eliminate associations or payroll deduction entirely, only to remove the state as a middleman. SB 2330 was left pending, and the committee then recessed subject to call.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce (Part I) Apr 1st, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • It is standard practice, as you said, Chairman King, to do this.
  • Senate Bill 776 is about government construction contracts.
  • delays construction, the contractor suffers the financial consequence.
  • But the idea is government contracts, government construction contracts.
  • And I am board certified in construction law.
Summary: The committee first took up pending business and favorably reported several bills without objection or by recorded vote, including SB 783, SB 1238, SB 1706, SB 1791, SB 458, SB 1644, and SB 1810, with some of them also sent to the local and uncontested calendar. The committee then moved into hearings on additional bills. SB 1968, by Senator Schwertner, would update the Real Estate License Act by repealing subagency, requiring written buyer-agent agreements before showings, and clarifying when a formal buyer representation agreement must be signed. Texas Realtors testified in support, saying the bill modernizes agency rules and increases transparency, while a committee substitute corrected drafting issues. SB 2411, the annual update to the Texas Business Organizations Code, was also laid out and left pending after supportive testimony from the Texas Business Law Foundation and drafting committee representatives. The committee also heard SB 2321, which would codify ERCOT’s current practice of notifying TCEQ when backup generation needs enforcement discretion for grid reliability; Sierra Club and a chamber of commerce witness supported it with suggestions for clearer emissions reporting, and the bill was left pending. SB 2077 would broaden eligibility for the Texas Mutual Insurance Company board by narrowing conflict restrictions tied to insurance-related interests; Texas Mutual supported the change and the bill was left pending. SB 1405, a broadband bill, would align state law with FCC standards and streamline Broadband Development Office processes; it was left pending after supportive testimony. SB 1299, protecting nonprofit donor privacy, drew support from privacy advocates and concerns from one witness about transparency for publicly funded nonprofit operations; it was left pending. The committee then heard SB 776, which would bar government construction contracts from shifting delay damages to contractors when delays are caused solely by the public owner. Contractors, surety representatives, and water infrastructure advocates supported the bill, arguing it would improve fairness and reduce inflated bids, while water utilities and critical infrastructure entities opposed it, warning of more litigation and higher costs; the bill was left pending. Finally, SB 715, which would apply reliability requirements retroactively to all generation resources in ERCOT, drew opposition from renewable and storage groups and support from some critics of renewable subsidies, with witnesses split over whether it would improve reliability or raise costs; testimony was underway when the transcript ended.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Mar 26th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • , including high-capacity power sources, freight routes, and the ability to to construct operation hubs
  • So we're well behind where we should be compared to the NRC standards.
  • Back on a path towards a gold standard?
  • But the other reason I think we abandoned the gold standard, you can correct me if I'm wrong.
  • In 1971, we effectively went off the gold standard.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Mar 26th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • help with early notification to our state's military bases of the possibility of wind turbine construction
  • Currently, what the bill does is require, by rule, notification from construction of wind turbines.
  • Several of these view corridors will be affected by this construction.
  • So that's kind of the bracket of the standard. Well, I can also share.
  • But up until some point in time in the future where that becomes more standard as companies continue
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 22nd, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Now, this bill does not eliminate safety standards. It does not stop inspections.
  • Now, this bill does not eliminate safety standards.
  • When you say, when I think you said when safety standards were not problematic...
  • really should be gauging it to the standards of when it was implemented.
  • Would the previous safety standards be sufficient for today's buildings and times?
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, heard an invocation, and recognized several guests and groups in the gallery, including the Ponca City High School Poe High Steppers, the Edmond Democratic Women, family members of senators, a Grace Reform Baptist Church co-op group, and Oklahoma 4-H participants. The chamber also honored the Red Oak Lady Eagles state championship basketball team with a citation and remarks celebrating their first school basketball title and strong season. The Senate adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 22, supporting the Lights Out Oklahoma campaign to reduce bird mortality during migration by encouraging reduced exterior lighting in peak migration months. The chamber also adopted Senate Resolution 41, proclaiming April 22, 2026, as the 27th annual 4-H Day at the Capitol, with testimony from 4-H representatives emphasizing youth leadership, civic engagement, and workforce readiness. Several bills passed, including House Bill 169 (house amendments adopted and the bill passed as an emergency measure), House Bill 2123 on the Arkansas River bridge, House Bill 2650 on summary administration estate thresholds, House Bill 3260 on funeral director continuing education approvals, House Bill 3403 on a DEQ/OSU sewage sludge pilot study, House Bill 3649 on the Mental Health Department real property trust, House Bill 3742 on criminal discovery, House Bill 3831 on a Task Force One revolving fund, House Bill 3996 on indigent defense experts in capital cases, House Bill 4321 on limits on retroactive building rule application, and House Bill 4339 on summary administration notice timing. House Bill 1047, which would have authorized a tribal sports betting framework and related revenue distributions, drew extensive debate over gambling addiction, revenue, tribal compacts, geofencing, and NIL funding, but failed 21-27; Senator Coleman gave notice of intent to reconsider. The Senate then announced an Appropriations Committee meeting and adjourned until the next scheduled session.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 2nd, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

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  • Can you tell me how that does not align with Oklahoma standards?
  • So, some of the costs, some of the national costs of standards that they're trying to have trained in
  • And so, Oklahomans have overwhelmingly rejected, as well as nationally rejected DEI and DEI standards
  • Central Standards Center Brooks, chair, pairing to cloth close the roll.
  • I know what we're doing now is addressing what is correcting what is already standard.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 31st, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • For conducting protectiveness reviews of standard permits, which will now occur every eight years.
  • We talk about community standards, and I know that even as someone who does not have children in public
  • that support a community to have a say, or at least a pathway to determine what those community standards
  • Because it's a freaking double standard.
  • And finally, the Senate applied the bill to any structure whose construction begins 90 days after the
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Commerce May 11th, 2026

Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is Senate Bill 398 by Senator Foyle, relative to the Uniform Standards Code for Manufactured and
  • So this is not really inspection of the actual construction of the house? That's correct.
  • The construction of the home is regulated by HUD, by the federal government, obviously.
  • What we're trying to ensure is that we meet the HUD standards that those homes are designed for.
  • If that created a standard that we agreed with, then we would let the federal standard supersede it.
Summary: The House Committee on Commerce met on May 11, 2026, and first advanced several Senate measures with little or no opposition. It reported favorably Senate Bill 79 recreating Louisiana Economic Development, Senate Concurrent Resolution 5 establishing the Louisiana-Ireland Trade Commission, and Senate Bill 375 on Class B firefighting foam, after adopting a technical amendment clarifying use in declared emergency firefighting operations. The committee also advanced Senate Bill 398, which moves manufactured and modular housing regulation under the Louisiana Contractors Licensing Board and expands inspection and enforcement provisions, after adopting two sets of mostly technical amendments and hearing testimony that the change would improve consumer safety and increase inspection coverage without adding net cost to locals. It then reported favorably Senate Bill 163 on virtual currency business licensing, after adopting an amendment providing that any future federal licensing law would preempt the state act, and Senate Bill 287 on virtual currency kiosks, which adds refund timelines, disclosure requirements, customer support, and reporting duties; witnesses from the banking and law enforcement community said the bill responds to common fraud complaints and improves consumer protection. The committee also reported favorably Senate Bill 54, which allows estheticians to blow-dry hair after certain services, despite strong opposition from cosmetology board representatives and industry witnesses who argued the service is outside esthetics training, could create scope-of-practice and facility issues, and should instead be addressed by lowering or revising separate blow-dry licensing requirements. The committee then considered House Resolution 197, which urges the Louisiana Public Service Commission to study the feasibility and value of distributed energy generation and storage resources. After adopting technical amendments and a second amendment changing mandatory language to requests and urging the PSC to coordinate with the LSU Energy Institute, the resolution was reported favorably. Testimony from solar and energy industry representatives, the PSC, and LSU focused on how distributed resources, batteries, rooftop solar, and virtual power plants could improve reliability, reduce costs, and help meet rising demand; members also discussed how the study would evaluate market value, avoided costs, and capacity benefits. Questions centered on methodology, grid impacts, and comparisons to Texas’s ERCOT system and Winter Storm Uri, with PSC officials emphasizing that the study would help determine whether such resources benefit ratepayers. Representative Wright presented House Bill 744, a proposed constitutional amendment to transfer regulation of certain New Orleans utilities from the city council to the Public Service Commission. He argued the change could reduce rates through consolidation and eliminate duplicative regulatory costs, while PSC officials explained the city’s authority is a constitutional exception dating back to 1921 and that Entergy New Orleans and Entergy Louisiana operate as separate companies with different regulatory environments. After discussion of rate impacts, utility structure, and whether the proposal should instead become a study, the bill was deferred. The committee then began Senate Bill 386, the Louisiana Data Privacy Act, which would give consumers rights to access, correct, delete, and opt out of certain uses of personal data; the sponsor introduced the bill and the committee started considering technical and substantive amendments, but the transcript ends before final action on that measure.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/17/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • On your standard state-issued...
  • But we use the same camera for the standard ID as we do for...
  • Department of Defense cybersecurity standards.
  • However, the bill you have in front of you does nothing to increase the standards here in Arizona.
  • Let us deal with it on the federal level where we have federal standards.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part I) Aug 6th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • could lose federal funding if they comply with this provision but fail to meet inclusive service standards
  • It says, "Construction of the Chapter.
  • Would your bill, Senate Bill 7, provide a standard so that every school district and every school board
  • A standard statewide policy.
Bills: SB15, SB9, SB7, SB1, SB2, SB67, SB15, SB9, SB7