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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 10th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm a senior at McAlester High School.
  • I'm a junior at Ponca City High School.
  • And so the author has taught in school for a long time.
  • School for two years and graduated from a public or private high school in Oklahoma, and they have resided
  • Other, and those are the people that are in Oklahoma, that ride to school with our kids on the school
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 10th, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • taken a lot of feedback and have a number of friends who are parents of children in Edmond Public Schools
  • Senate Bill 1630 allows a school district or charter school to count up to one day, or six hours, of
  • instruction toward the two days, or 12 hours, of virtual instruction allowed if the high school site
Summary: The Senate took up a long series of bills, mostly on third reading, with several unanimous or near-unanimous votes and a few more contested measures. Early action included House Bill 1427, which was substituted to add the bank privilege tax section to an existing clean-burning motor vehicle fuel tax credit without changing the cap or creating a fiscal impact; it advanced 45-0. Senate Bill 1403, an IEC recommendation affecting Quality Jobs incentives by requiring rebate claims within one year and eliminating the statewide wage threshold, passed 32-15. Senate Bill 1448, narrowing exclusions under the Consumer Protection Act to improve enforcement, passed 47-0. Senate Bill 1489, codifying IDEA-related procedures in state law and adding principal training and parent participation provisions, was amended on the floor, debated at length about implementation and special education services, and then passed 47-0 as an emergency measure. Senate Bill 1546 renamed and expanded the teacher scholarship program to Next Ed, increasing scholarship amounts while keeping the service commitment, and passed 37-10 as an emergency measure. Senate Bill 1557 transferred behavior analyst licensure duties from DHS to the State Board of Psychologists and passed 47-0. Senate Bill 1614 closed a loophole allowing adjunct teachers to teach early elementary reading and math and passed 46-0 as an emergency measure. Senate Bill 1377, requiring DHS to provide foster children with duffel bags and essentials, passed 46-0 as an emergency measure. Senate Bill 1990 strengthened the incentive evaluation report by requiring analysis of whether incentives actually changed business behavior, and passed 47-0. Senate Bill 1439, with amendments, barred certain climate-change-related lawsuits against fossil fuel entities operating within the law, and passed 40-7. Senate Bill 1630 allowed limited virtual instruction days during statewide testing and passed 47-0 as an emergency measure. Senate Bill 1632 moved career readiness assessment authority to the State Department of Education and clarified college-credit translation, passing 46-0 as an emergency measure. Senate Bill 1696, a local recruitment grant program to attract new residents to Oklahoma, failed 17-30, with notice of possible reconsideration. Senate Bill 1796 shortened the time for informal foster care arrangements from seven days to 72 hours and added guardrails, passing 46-0. Senate Bill 1824 updated the corporation and LLC statutes and passed 46-0. Senate Bill 1362 standardized in-person early voting hours across election types and passed 36-9. Senate Bill 1849 allowed the Podiatric Medical Examiners Board to approve certain medical marijuana continuing education for credit and passed 44-0. Senate Bill 2066 relaxed recording margin requirements for documents filed in multiple counties and passed 45-0 as an emergency measure. The final major item, Senate Bill 2071, a Department of Agriculture request bill updating milk regulation to cover all hooved mammals and align with federal authority, drew extensive debate over an amendment to remove the fee increase and over concerns that the bill would harm a small donkey dairy’s ability to advertise; the fee amendment was laid over, a motion to suspend the rules for an untimely amendment failed, and the bill itself was then advanced for further consideration after lengthy questioning.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 6th, 2026 at 11:19 am

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Alamo Navajo School Board member Rick Padilla. Alamo Navajo School Board Superintendent Bill Green.
  • Alamo Navajo School Board member Carol Vicente.
  • He is a former Navajo Prep School Board member.
  • He is a former Navajo Prep School Board member.
  • I remember the days going to public schools.
Bills: HB111 , HJR1 , HB61 , HB8 , HB30 , HB43 , HB156 , HJM2 , HM7 , HM17 , HM4 , HM22 , HM23 , HM24 , HM26 , HM2 , HM16 , HM11 , HM14 , HM21 , HM34 , HM50 , HB70 , SB3 , HJM3
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 6th, 2026

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Alamo Navajo School Board member Rick Padilla. Alamo Navajo School Board Superintendent Bill Green.
  • Alamo Navajo School Board member Carol Vicente.
  • He is a former Navajo Prep School Board member.
  • I remember the days going to public schools.
  • Adelina Begay from Shiprock High School. Thank you. And Deshawn Begay from Newcomb High School.
Bills: HB111 , HJR1 , HB61 , HB8 , HB30 , HB43 , HB156 , HJM2 , HM7 , HM17 , HM4 , HM22 , HM23 , HM24 , HM26 , HM2 , HM16 , HM11 , HM14 , HM21 , HM34 , HM50 , HB70 , SB3 , HJM3
Summary: The House convened for a special American Indian Day celebration, with prayers, flag citations, a Navajo national anthem, and many members introducing tribal leaders, students, veterans, and community guests. Speakers emphasized Native sovereignty, government-to-government relations, cultural preservation, education, and the importance of representation in state government. The Speaker announced plans for a future tribal summit to discuss funding, capital, and policy priorities with tribes and nations. After the celebration, the House received executive messages, including gubernatorial authorization for new bills and notice that House Bill 9 had been signed into law. Committee reports were adopted on several measures, including House Bills 128, 285, 20, 52, 57, 58, 206, 109, 38, 66, 178, 198, 202, 224, 257, 103, and 247, with several health-related bills advanced via committee substitutes and referred onward. The House also adopted House Memorial 32 and enrolled House Bill 50 with a certificate of correction. On the floor, House Joint Resolution 1, as amended, passed 67-0. The resolution would create nominating committees for certain constitutionally named institutions, require no single party majority on those committees, and shift the student regent appointment to an elected student government body; members discussed the one-year party-registration requirement and the timing of implementing legislation. House Bill 8, which creates and funds the Major Capital Projects Fund for higher education projects, was then debated at length over its graduation-rate criteria and waiver provisions, and an amendment was offered to require Higher Education Department waiver findings to be reported to and approved by the State Board of Finance for added oversight.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 5th, 2026 at 12:10 pm

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • They are members from Crown Point High School.
  • Valerie Wangler, who is a school board member.
  • Are all schools set up to receive telehealth counseling? Mr.
  • Speaker, Representative, what kind of school do you mean?
  • Public schools, or could you clarify, please? Yes, ma'am. Public schools. Mr.
Bills: HB95 , HB111 , HJR1 , HB32 , HB33 , HB61 , HJM2 , HM7 , HM17 , HM4 , HM22 , HM23 , HM24 , HM26 , HM3 , HM11 , HM14 , HM15 , HM21 , HM34 , HM50 , HB8 , HB30 , HB43 , HB156 , HM2 , HM16
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 5th, 2026

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Joan has been with Gallup-McKinley County School District for over 20 years.
  • They are members from Crown Point High School.
  • Valerie Wangler, who is a school board member.
  • Speaker, that we had 24 schools here today.
  • Public schools. Mr.
Bills: HB95 , HB111 , HJR1 , HB32 , HB33 , HB61 , HJM2 , HM7 , HM17 , HM4 , HM22 , HM23 , HM24 , HM26 , HM3 , HM11 , HM14 , HM15 , HM21 , HM34 , HM50 , HB8 , HB30 , HB43 , HB156 , HM2 , HM16
Summary: The House opened with a quorum, prayer, pledge, and a series of announcements and recognitions tied to Gallup-McKinley County Day, including the presentation and passage of House Memorial 15 designating February 5, 2026, as Gallup-McKinley County Day. Members spoke at length in support of Gallup and McKinley County, its Native communities, cultural traditions, Route 66 heritage, economic development, and local schools and guests in the gallery. House Memorial 15 passed unanimously, 70-0. The chamber then took up House Memorial 3 recognizing nurses and other health care professionals. Several members and guests from labor and health care organizations spoke in support, emphasizing the dedication of frontline workers and the importance of honoring nurses. The memorial passed unanimously, 70-0. The House also passed House Bill 32, a counseling licensure compact, after adopting a technical amendment, by 63-0; House Bill 33, a psychologist compact, by 64-0; and House Bill 95, creating a fifth judge position in the Second Judicial District family court division, after a friendly amendment removing an appropriation because funding was already in the budget, by 65-0. During committee reports, the House adopted favorable reports on several measures, including House Bill 70 substitute, Senate Bill 3 as amended, House Bills 246, 254, 271, 276, 288, and House Joint Memorial 3. In introductions, the House referred several memorials and Senate bills, including measures on teacher workload study, detention facility reuse, health insurance affordability, gifted education endorsements, special education, and burglary definitions. The House also announced committee meetings, upcoming events, and the annual House-versus-Senate basketball game, then recessed until the next morning.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/24/2026 - House Natural Resources, Energy & Water

House Natural Resources, Energy & Water Committee of Reference

Transcript Highlights:
  • minerals sourced right here in Arizona, much of it from state trust lands managed to support our schools
  • on minerals source right here in Arizona much of it from state trust lands managed to support our schools
  • Sierra Vista, they have an area that they diverted the reuse, and it has turned into a beautiful bird sanctuary
  • So, Madam Chair, when I was in Colorado during my high school years, I had interaction or encounters
  • It took over areas of that state that I spent my high school years in. And up there I'd...
Summary: The committee began with a presentation from the Arizona Water Banking Authority on its role storing Colorado River water underground and holding long-term storage credits for CAP municipal and industrial subcontractors, on-river contractors, the Hualapai Tribe, Mojave County Water Authority, and Nevada. Members asked about future firming for CAP subcontractors, recovery constraints, funding sources, and whether the authority could use groundwater withdrawal fee credits for Indian firming and CAP users. The manager explained the authority has no post-2026 firming policy yet for CAP M&I subcontractors, relies mainly on withdrawal fees and ad valorem taxes, and distributes credits on paper through ADWR transfer forms rather than delivering wet water. No action was taken on the presentation. The committee then heard SB 1445, which would allow certain small municipalities to conduct bacteriological testing on site with EPA-approved equipment and originally limited ADEQ sampling requirements to no more than four times per month. The sponsor and the mayor of Kearny argued the bill would reduce costs and travel burdens for rural towns while allowing more frequent testing. Committee discussion focused on whether the change was already possible under existing law and whether the amendment would weaken testing requirements. The Griffin amendment removed the language restricting ADEQ’s sampling frequency. The bill passed as amended on a 6-4 vote. The committee also considered SB 1137, a modernization measure for Arizona’s 811 call-before-you-dig system that sets procedures for large project coordination meetings, positive response communication, and related enforcement. Supporters from Associated General Contractors and an underground utility contractor said the bill reflects stakeholder consensus and would improve safety and efficiency without adding state costs. The Taylor amendment shifted implementation procedures from the Corporation Commission to the One Call Notification Center and made other technical changes. The bill passed unanimously, 10-0. SB 1287, which extends to all active management areas the ability of holders of irrigation grandfathered rights to withdraw up to 10 acre-feet annually for stockwatering or domestic use, also passed 9-1. The committee next approved SB 1335, as amended by a strike-everything amendment tied to the Ag-to-Urban program, allowing a groundwater savings holder to continue irrigating for up to two years after issuance of groundwater savings credits. DWR and irrigation district representatives said the change would address timing problems between relinquishing irrigation rights and finalizing development, while some members objected that it could increase groundwater pumping. The bill passed 5-4. Finally, SB 1336, which continues the State Land Department for four years and adds reporting, planning, and oversight provisions including a new oversight board, passed 5-4 after debate over whether another board was necessary and whether the reauthorization period was long enough. The committee concluded with SB 1677, appropriating $3 million for salt cedar mitigation along the lower Gila River and the Gila-Colorado confluence. Supporters from Audubon Southwest, the City of Buckeye, and local landowners described flood, fire, habitat, and water-supply benefits, while members questioned herbicide use and the need for data. The bill passed 9-0, and the meeting adjourned after all votes were completed.
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Agenda Feb 25th, 2026

Resources and Conservation

Transcript Highlights:
  • So we have created essentially a sanctuary for wolves in our backcountry, in our roadless areas. ...for
  • administers the property and the assets for the benefit of a third party, which is our beneficiaries—our schools
  • That's $100 million that the taxpayers don't have to come up with to help fund our public schools and
  • I grew up in Idaho and wasn't that meeting when I graduated from high school.
  • I grew up in Idaho and weren't that meeting when I graduated from high school.
Keywords: 989, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/3/26

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:37:26.160><c> states</c><00:37:26.640><c> and</c> about being sanctuary states and about being
  • sanctuary states and blocking<00:37:27.359><c> cooperation</c><00:37:28.400><c> between</c><00:37:28.720
  • Those dollars come from local taxes, our tax dollars, which takes away from local schools, roads, and
  • There is still cooperation to some extent by law enforcement, even in sanctuary cities, right?
  • </c> which means kids don't go to school. which means kids don't go to school.
Bills: HF3405 , HF3413 , HF3769 , HF3768 , HF3771 , HF3465
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education Mar 18th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • school portion of this.
  • Schools of demand.
  • schools and the other schools.
  • schools with the same grades.
  • There's lots of schools, not just charter schools, but around the state, all types of schools.
Bills: HB28 , HB50 , HB196 , HB268 , HB271 , HB285 , HB316 , HB649 , HB807
Committee: House Education
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/18/2026 - Senate Judiciary and Elections

Judiciary and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • Twenty-two percent of high school youth students seriously considered suicide.
  • anti-bullying definition, to make sure that we're going after kids who are bullying others in our public schools
  • I know because my own daughter went to public school in district and charter, and we endured the whole
  • State to expand access to the EQUAL system to candidates who are running for the governing board of school
  • State to expand access to the EQUAL system to candidates who are running for the governing board of school
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations REVISED Feb 18th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • City, Edmond public schools, multi-multicampus.
  • I've got 33 school sites and had been public schools.
  • So, I don't know your school districts.
  • While I recognize that giving a school district with 10,000 students $96,000 versus giving a school district
  • So, anybody who walks in the doors of the school building or interacts with school children should be
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations REVISED Feb 18th, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so when I look at the larger school districts...
  • Oklahoma City, Edmond Public Schools, multi-campus, I've got 33 school sites in Edmond Public Schools
  • And while I recognize that giving a school district with 10,000 students $96,000 versus giving a school
  • So anybody who walks in the doors of a school building or interacts with school children should be going
  • and school districts within the state of Oklahoma.
Summary: The committee met in an appropriations setting and first laid over Senate Bill 1946. It then advanced Senate Bill 1344, creating an insulin access affordability program at the Health Department, on a 19-1 vote. Senate Bill 1295, establishing a Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board revolving fund and database, was amended to delete a section and then passed 21-0. Senate Bill 1355, creating a program for memorials and headstones for eligible National Guard veterans, also passed unanimously. Members then advanced several other measures, including Senate Bill 1998 to help smaller towns qualify for quality events incentives, Senate Bill 1330 raising Pardon and Parole Board salaries, Senate Bill 1297 creating a decennial census revolving fund to support outreach for the 2030 census, and Senate Bill 1189 extending the school security fund for three more years at $50 million annually. The committee also passed Senate Bill 1338 making the Heroes Literacy Instructional Team permanent, and Senate Bill 1546 increasing scholarship support for teacher preparation students. Additional bills passed included Senate Bill 1378 creating the Olympics and Oklahoma Revolving Fund, Senate Bill 1859 creating an OSBI cyber crime and fraud unit fund, Senate Bill 1341 creating a Career Counseling Revolving Fund, Senate Bill 1377 directing DHS to provide bags for foster children’s belongings, and Senate Bill 1990 broadening the Incentive Evaluation Commission’s comparative analysis of incentives. Several bills had appropriations stripped by amendment at the chair’s request before passage, and the committee repeatedly discussed fiscal impacts, local matching expectations, transparency, and whether programs should remain state-funded or rely on local or philanthropic support. The meeting ended with adjournment and notice of a meeting the following week.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • So school districts and cities get to play the potty police.
  • Schools or family violence shelters or here at the Capitol.
  • I talked to my daughter about safety in school.
  • Would a school district, or must a school district allow that person entry into the school to verify?
  • Our public schools. This bill is not about Texas.
Bills: SB 8 , HB7 , HB15 , HB 265 , HCR 13 , SB 8 , HB 7 , HB 15 , HB 265 , HCR 13
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • What I'm seeing in the and some of the schools, not all the school districts, but some of the schools
  • It relates to the election of certain school districts and open enrollment charter schools to participate
  • The short version is that the bill would allow school districts and open enrollment charter schools that
  • It would change all the references regarding small school districts and charter schools to participating
  • Schools for unrelated reasons, putting them in an out-of-school suspension for disruptive behavior is
Bills: HB1022 , HB2856 , HB3114 , HJR5 , HB6 , HB120 , HB210 , HB1458 , HB1188 , HB3126
Committee: Senate Education
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Before law school, I was a high school English teacher, so I also have a teacher's perspective.
  • I am a teacher at a Title I school.
  • So the front of the school is the elementary, the middle of the school is middle school, and the back
  • of the school is high school.
  • From a 1A school to offerings of a 5A school, what does a 5A school get to offer?
Bills: HB1022 , HB2856 , HB3114 , HJR5 , HB6 , HB120 , HB210 , HB1458 , HB1188 , HB3126
Committee: Senate Education
VA

Virginia 2026 Regular Session

March 09, 2026 - Regular Session

Virginia House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • They are present in 62 schools and across 43 school divisions in Virginia and continue to grow their
  • It adjusts the school opening commencement date for certain school divisions to 14 days before September
  • It adjusts the school opening commencement date for a certain school. 7 to 0.
  • It adjusts the school opening commencement date for certain school divisions to 14 days before September
  • Legislation amend the code of Virginia relating to school boards, classes, public middle, and high schools