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NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:10:53.680><c> and</c> where the people get the technology and where the people get the technology
- Um, is my cost per pupil community.
- </c> that taxpayers in different communities that taxpayers in different communities pay<03:29:47.920
- </c> towards poor communities and so on. towards poor communities and so on.
- </c> probably wouldn't have been technology. probably wouldn't have been technology.
Committee:
House Education Funding
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session May 22nd, 2026
California Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- California has taken strong action to protect kids and communities.
- African American, Latino, Native American, and Asian communities.
- Two, it would strengthen coordination and establish clear lines of communication.
- Two, it would strengthen coordination and establish clear lines of communication.
- SB 1135 gives communities the tools they need to prevent conflict and respond when it occurs.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- So other people in the community... either bring the case before a grand jury, right?
- Look to the guidance of the medical community.
- Look to the guidance of the medical community. And the medical community says the same thing.
- It wasn’t coming from the death penalty community that didn’t really exist then, right?
- The community did come to the table in-house to reiterate the cutoff score.
Committee:
Senate Judiciary C
Summary:
The committee first heard House Bill 137, which would strengthen penalties for knowingly making threats against schools, school activities, students, or school employees. The author said the bill responds to repeated false threats that disrupt schools, frighten families, and divert law enforcement, and it adds education and parental acknowledgment requirements. Members discussed possible juvenile consequences such as public service or physical work at schools, and the bill drew support from law enforcement, district attorneys, and Catholic bishops. It was reported favorably without objection.
House Bill 321 followed, addressing Louisiana’s Safe Harbor law by expressly exempting minors from prostitution offenses and treating them as trafficking victims rather than offenders. The author, clergy, trafficking advocates, and a survivor testified that children involved in commercial sex are typically coerced, groomed, or controlled by traffickers, often family members or caregivers, and should receive protection and services instead of arrest. Witnesses described statewide advocacy and crisis-response services created in 2022, and committee members asked about prosecution of perpetrators and the prevalence of trafficking in rural areas. The bill was reported favorably without objection.
The committee then approved House Bill 1246, a response to a fatal drunk-driving crash involving Jada Bright, which would allow law enforcement to keep intoxicated offenders in jail if they are not safe to release. An amendment was adopted to clean up the language, and the bill was reported favorably. House Bill 1104, creating a misdemeanor for possession of motor vehicle key-programming or emulating devices used to steal cars, also passed favorably with support from prosecutors and police. House Bill 552, a cleanup measure replacing references to intoxication with impairment in prior drug-related statutes, was reported favorably as well.
Finally, the committee took up House Bill 310, which would require random reassignment when a defendant waives a jury trial in districts with more than two judges, unless the prosecutor agrees otherwise. Supporters said it would prevent judge shopping and address concerns about unusually high acquittal rates before particular judges, while opponents argued it raises due process concerns and effectively lets prosecutors choose the judge. Despite the opposition, the bill was reported favorably. The last major item was House Bill 1107, dealing with post-conviction death penalty cases involving claims of intellectual disability; the bill would set a 75 IQ threshold and create procedures for Atkins claims. Supporters said it would bring finality to long-pending capital cases and follow U.S. Supreme Court guidance, while opponents argued it would be unconstitutional under Atkins, Moore, and Hall because intellectual disability cannot be reduced to a single number. After extensive testimony and debate over amendments, the committee adopted the amendment and then reported the bill favorably.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Education Finance Feb 24th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- So that kills our rural communities.
- Now we're seeing advances in technology.
- They're not great for anybody or communities.
- Most of the community burned, along with Walt Tyler Elementary School.
- Patel is a former elected school board member in her community.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Banking and Finance Committee Jul 14th, 2025
Banking and Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- We're modernizing a law that hasn't kept up with technology, making sure Californians can claim what's
- Digital assets such as Bitcoin and other currencies based on blockchain technology are currently undefined
Committee:
House Banking and Finance
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- We have numerous qualified people in our community.
- We have a community college, so we have lots of adults with an AA degree.
- We have numerous qualified people in our community.
- We have numerous qualified people in our community.
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Committee:
House Education Policy
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, January 15, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- </c> by example to protect our communities by example to protect our communities for<02:01:06.719><c>
- Our community, our raise a family.
- </c> service and dedication to the community. service and dedication to the community.
- ,</c> workshops in science, technology, workshops in science, technology, engineering,<02:19:12.559><
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session (Full Formal with Calendar) Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:04 am
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And listening to my colleagues here today, I do believe that there are some good reasons for technology
- Brockton High School, Class of 1989, and received his associate's degree in fire science from Massasoit Community
- More recently, he was promoted to captain, where he was in command of the fire alarm and communication
Summary:
The Senate continued debate on a package of amendments to its rules, with many proposals focused on floor procedure, transparency, attendance, remote participation, and budget timing. Several amendments were debated at length, including changes to the dilatory timeline for laying matters on the table, reporting Senate procurements, electing Senate counsel, requiring best efforts for in-person attendance, identifying whether members vote remotely, and adjusting deadlines for budget documents and amendments. Most of the procedural and transparency amendments were rejected, while a few were adopted, including an amendment allowing another minority caucus member to call a caucus if the minority leader is absent, a change to the filing deadline for amendments on Thursday-dated bills, and a corrective amendment from Senator Lovely. An amendment to create a Senate Committee on Reproductive Rights and Freedom was also offered and supported in debate but was not adopted.
The Senate also adopted amendments extending the time for members to receive the Senate Ways and Means General Appropriations Act from five to seven days and increasing the minimum filing time for budget amendments from 48 to 72 hours. Another amendment requiring a two-thirds roll call vote to continue past 10 p.m. was rejected, as were proposals related to remote-vote designation and shortening the late-session tabled-bill rule from 14 days to seven days. The chamber briefly recessed several times during the amendment process, and votes were taken both by roll call and by voice vote, with many amendments failing on recorded votes.
The Senate paused to honor Brockton Fire Captain Stephen A. Montero, who died after a battle with occupational cancer. Senator Brady offered a motion that the Senate adjourn in his memory, and members observed a moment of silence. The Senate then completed its formal business, adopted an order to reconvene the following Tuesday at 11:00 a.m., and adjourned in memory of Captain Montero.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- fertilizer, fuel, all of the other things, and the induced, which are the contributions back into the communities
- It’s just amazing what technology and genetics can do, so really appreciate that.
- want to thank you all for the work that you do in this building and the work that you do in your communities
Committee:
House Agricultural Affairs
Summary:
The House Ag Affairs Committee approved the minutes from its March 16, 2026 meeting and then took up House Bill 879, which Representative John Scheris described as a pared-down version of an earlier industrial hemp bill. He said the measure would bring retail hemp product establishments under the Idaho Department of Agriculture’s oversight to address loopholes involving the sale of THC products such as Delta-8 and Delta-9, while avoiding overregulation of hemp seed, powder, and other legitimate products. Braden Jensen of the Idaho Farm Bureau supported the bill, saying it reflected stakeholder work and would help ensure retail products comply with state law. Representative McCann moved to send HB 879 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation and to place it on second reading, and the committee agreed.
The committee then received an update from Laura Wilder of the Idaho Barley Commission. She reviewed the commission’s funding, goals, and programs, and reported that Idaho remained the nation’s leading barley producer, growing 39% of the U.S. crop in 2025 on about 490,000 harvested acres. She highlighted research, market development, and education efforts, including work that has improved yields over time, reduced unnecessary input costs, and supported domestic and foreign market development. Wilder also noted current market softness, including expected declines in malt barley acres and flat prices, but said long-term demand remains promising because of brewing, feed, and food applications.
Maya Landa of the Idaho Grain Producers Association followed with a broader overview of the grain economy. She said growers are facing low commodity prices, rising input costs, weather and water risks, trade uncertainty, and policy changes, while noting that wheat and barley remain major Idaho crops and that exports are critical to profitability. She discussed the importance of federal programs, the Farm Bill, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, water infrastructure, workforce issues, and commodity commissions. Committee members asked about dam breaching concerns affecting the Columbia-Snake river system and about the stalled Farm Workforce Modernization Act; Landa emphasized the need for continued engagement on those issues. The meeting ended with no further business and adjournment.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- by justice, compassion, and unity, and for God's gracious blessings and protections upon Idaho's communities
- within their scope of practice, education, and training, and is consistent with best practice and community
- The House Environment, Energy and Technology Committee will not meet Friday, February 20th, Barbieri,
Summary:
The House opened with roll call, prayer, and the Pledge of Allegiance, then approved the House Journal and received messages from the Governor and Senate, including enrolled memorials and several Senate bills filed for first reading. Standing committee reports were also received on a number of House bills, with several measures reported out for second reading and others referred to committees. The House then introduced a series of new bills from the Ways and Means Committee covering vehicle titles and electronic ownership records, enforcement of the law, biometric identifiers, collective bargaining and taxpayer funding of unions, fire deficiency warrants, abatement districts, public records, city annexation, programmable money, and a sales tax rebate change.
On third reading, House Concurrent Resolution 28 passed unanimously after debate urging Idahoans to observe March 1, 2026, as a day of fasting and prayer for guidance, unity, and moisture. Members also discussed House Bill 639, updating Idaho’s midwifery statute to allow medication administration within scope of practice; it passed 67-0 with three absent. House Bill 532, dealing with DMV identity and Social Security number documentation, passed 66-1, and House Bill 629, allowing drivers to show proof of registration on a phone, passed 43-26 despite concerns from opponents and sheriffs about officer safety.
The House also passed House Bill 503, moving the Soil and Water Conservation Commission to the Department of Water Resources while preserving its voluntary, non-regulatory mission and projecting savings, and Senate Concurrent Resolution 115, a companion resolution emphasizing that any consolidation should protect that mission. House Bill 543, updating Percy’s retirement plan language to comply with SECURE Act 2.0 and allow Roth contributions, passed 67-0. House Bill 671 was returned to committee for a replacement, the remaining third-reading bills were held over until Monday, and the House adjourned until 10:30 a.m. on February 23, 2026.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Schools, families, and community partners to expand and sustain community school efforts throughout the
- It was a very poor community at that time.
- It was a very poor community at that time.
- And then we also recognize the Basque Autonomous Community Flag.
- And then we also recognize the Basque Autonomous Community Flag.
Summary:
The House convened with a quorum, opened with prayer and the Pledge, and approved the journal. A lengthy pages’ recognition program followed, with lighthearted awards and remarks about the students’ backgrounds and plans. The House then received messages from the governor and Senate, including notice of signed bills and enrolled measures, and reports from standing committees on enrolled, engrossed, and printed legislation.
The chamber considered several measures under suspension of the rules. House Resolution 32, relating to administrative rules review, passed 68-1. Senate Bill 1270 as amended, requiring labeling and disclosure for cell-cultured animal protein, passed 70-0. Senate Bill 1335 as amended, addressing veterinary education and requiring recipients of state-funded out-of-state vet training to return to Idaho and practice large-animal veterinary medicine, passed 54-16 after debate about the state’s veterinarian shortage and the need to recoup the state’s investment. Senate Bill 1299 as amended, barring government from requiring digital identification for access to services and preserving physical ID options, passed 70-0 after questions about whether it affected police dogs. Senate Bill 1376, an elections cleanup bill shifting some candidate filing duties to county clerks and adding verification steps, passed 64-6.
The House also passed Senate Bill 1416, the appropriation for the new Office of Species, Minerals, and Energy Coordination, by 55-14, and Senate Bill 1417, Parks and Recreation enhancements funded by fees and federal dollars, by 69-30. House Bill 494 as amended in the Senate, on background-check cleanup for Health and Welfare, passed 69-30; House Bill 728 as amended in the Senate, on education-related transparency and continuity, passed 68-7; House Bill 703 as amended in the Senate, on land surveyor board cleanup, passed 67-0; House Bill 825 as amended in the Senate, on the America 250 license plate and Heritage Trust Fund flexibility, passed 67-2; House Bill 788 as amended in the Senate, a medical preceptorship pilot with a sunset, passed 39-30; House Resolution 33, covering committee review of several natural resources and licensing agencies, passed 68-2; House Bill 949, a net-zero trailer bill consolidating STEM Action Center and Workforce Development Council appropriations, passed 69-1; House Bill 950, appropriating $200,000 for a Medicaid managed care consultant, passed 60-10; and House Bill 951, an Attorney General enhancement bill tied to the Consumer Protection Fund and ICAC support, failed 33-37 after debate over whether the funding was truly needed. Senate Bill 1294 as amended, requiring newborn hearing-screen referrals outside hospitals while preserving parental choice, passed 37-32 after discussion of early hearing loss detection and the bill’s referral-based structure. The House also agreed to send Senate Bill 1351 to the amending order and recessed, then reconvened to take up additional messages and first-reading bills, including child protection and related measures.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session May 22nd, 2026
California Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Colleagues, file item eight is the confirmation of Chris Ferguson to the appointment to the Community
- California has taken strong action to protect kids and communities.
- African American, Latino, Native American, and Asian communities.
- Two, they would strengthen coordination and establish clear lines of communication.
- SB 1135 gives communities the tools they need to prevent conflict and respond when it occurs.
Summary:
The Senate convened with a quorum, offered a Memorial Day prayer, and welcomed a third-grade class from Sacred Heart Parish School to the chamber. Members then handled several procedural motions, including suspending a joint rule to allow budget subcommittees to meet during blackout period and removing certain bills from inactive or consent files.
The chamber confirmed multiple gubernatorial appointments, including Nicholas Mueller to the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission, Arthur Krantz to the Public Employment Relations Board, Chris Ferguson to the California Student Aid Commission, and Brian Haynes to the same commission. The Senate also adopted several resolutions, including SR 102 recognizing National Safe Boating Week, SCR 172 proclaiming Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month, SCR 177 declaring World No Tobacco Day, SR 107 for Lupus Awareness Month, and SR 115 marking the 50th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris in California wine history.
On third reading, the Senate passed a series of bills on topics including beverage container recycling fees (SB 1341), school employee misconduct procedures (SB 1083), wildfire preparedness for water suppliers (SB 1153), insurance cost-sharing accounting (SB 1199), nonprofit government liaison services (SB 1240), energy coordination and fuel supply planning (SB 1337), language access in elections (SB 1360), gaming fee transparency (SB 920), mental health evaluation in Care Court-related cases (SB 1016), reckless driving penalties (SB 1198), greenhouse gas reporting for subsidized medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (SB 1213), the Go Green financing program (SB 1265), repossession transport interference (SB 1338), and wildlife coexistence (SB 1135). Most measures passed on unanimous or near-unanimous votes; SB 920 passed 28-1, SB 1265 passed 26-5, and SB 1135 passed with two no votes.
The session concluded with a Veterans Caucus adjournment-in-memory ceremony honoring 82 fallen service members, followed by adjournment until the next scheduled floor session.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- We're able to close that, and we will have the Basque autonomous community flag. It is allowed.
- The same goes for the purchase of these homes and residential communities.
- Whatever issues may exist within a local community about how those regulations are being handled, the
- The same goes for the purchase of these homes and residential communities.
- There are many communities who I represent who are deeply affected by this legislation.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Transportation Jan 13th, 2026 at 04:00 pm
Transportation
Transcript Highlights:
- Yukimi Fujisawa is our committee assistant, and Dean Cripps is helping us with the technology in the
- in, set up, and those communities can still get the services they need in their community, even though
- Bainbridge Island is a ferry community.
- Thank you for this opportunity to testify and for considering our ferry communities. Thank you.
- Kofa community members in the state of Washington.
Bills:
SB6005
Committee:
Senate Transportation
Keywords:
transportation budget, transportation appropriations, capital budget, supplemental budget, Washington State Department of Transportation, WSDOT, Washington State Patrol, Department of Licensing, ferries, Puget Sound ferries, tolling, express toll lanes, highway safety, traffic safety, impaired driving, ignition interlock, speed cameras, transit funding, public transit, multimodal transportation
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The founders designed a system where judges are to be elected by their community, and it is strained
- It also hurts our community, our county.
- And I think all of that is important because it's work. towards a safer community. Thank you.
- You can't build your community. It's a central tenet of any good civil society.
- And that obviously impacts the entire community and the overall operation of El Paso County.
Bills:
HB4011 , HB2680 , HB4325 , HB4327 , HB4944 , HB1761 , HB4688 , HB3453 , HB40 , HB1707 , HB4749 , HB2322 , HB3647 , HB4139 , HB4081 , HB2203 , HB2100 , HB4170 , HB3104 , HB4623 , HB40
Committee:
House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
Keywords:
partition, heirs' property, real estate, co-ownership, family property, non-heir cotenant, right of first refusal, pilot services, liability limitation, maritime commerce, Matagorda Bay, Lavaca Bay, transportation code, maritime industry, civil liability, barratry, penalties, legal actions, damages, wrongful death
TX
Texas 89th Regular
89th Legislative Session - Second Called Session Aug 26th, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- With limited cell phone coverage in many of these areas, we must rely on proven technology like outdoor
- This bill ensures that communities across Texas are better prepared for future flood events. Mr.
- It is left to the municipalities and to the developers and the community to work together to come up
- They are kind of a check within the school community. Are we on track for the STAR?
- And you did believe in the decision that the Community Court of Appeals ruled.
Bills:
HB8 , HB12 , SB 3 , HJR1 , SB 11 , SB 16 , SB 14 , HB 8 , HB 12 , SB 3 , HJR 1 , SB 11 , SB 16 , SB 14
Keywords:
HB 8, Texas public school accountability, school accountability, public school transparency, STAAR, state assessments, instructionally supportive assessment program, Student Success Tool, Texas Education Agency, TEA, accountability ratings, A-F ratings, through-year assessment, benchmark testing, norm-referenced assessment, college career military readiness, CCMR, local accountability plan, school district performance, campus turnaround
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- Because I have, for instance, many communities, I represent many communities where people can address
- communities anymore.
- Overuse in one community will impact other communities.
- We're a nonprofit community farm.
- We're a nonprofit community farm.
Summary:
The hearing covered a broad set of environmental and water-related bills, with much of the testimony focused on blue economy and circular economy proposals, drought management, drinking water safety, flood resilience, and water infrastructure funding. Supporters of bills such as H. 987 and H. 988 described grant programs for blue economy workforce development, research, small businesses, and public education about a circular economy. Other speakers backed measures on coastal erosion research, recreational boating dredging, cranberry water-right transfers, sand mining oversight, and a voucher program for home water filtration in PFAS-impacted communities. Several elected officials and advocates also urged passage of bills to require private well testing, improve school drinking water safety, and address sand mining pollution and PFAS contamination.
Water supply and drought issues drew extensive testimony. Senator Eldridge and others supported legislation to let the state, through DEP and the drought management task force, impose regional water-use restrictions during droughts and make the task force permanent in statute. Advocates from watershed groups, farms, and environmental organizations said the current town-by-town approach is inconsistent and ineffective, and they described drought impacts on rivers, farms, private wells, and wildfire risk. A related bill on private wells was supported as a way to help homeowners test and remediate contaminated wells, especially in rural areas without public water.
The committee also heard testimony on a bill to allow the Lynnfield Water District to join the MWRA, with local officials saying the move would help address PFAS and other contamination and improve supply reliability. Another major panel supported a water infrastructure funding bill, arguing that aging drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater systems need major new investment, including support for PFAS treatment, sewer rate relief, biosolids research, and regional interconnections. Members asked about costs, funding sources, and the relationship to existing revolving loan funds; witnesses said the bill would need to be paired with future bond funding and new revenue ideas. No votes were taken during the hearing, and the chairs repeatedly invited written testimony and noted the large number of speakers.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, June 5, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It connects It empowers communities.
- </c> and for always putting our community and for always putting our community first. first. first.
- For the benefit of my communities.
- I yield back. community. He graduated from Carter High community.
- </c> community from harm. community from harm.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (01/13/2026)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- Community College.
- Community College. Um between training Community College.
- </c> They have Manchester Community College. They have Manchester Community College.
- </c> these in our in our communities, right? these in our in our communities, right?
- </c> those burdens for smaller communities. those burdens for smaller communities.
Committee:
House Science, Technology and Energy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection - 04/16/26
Commerce and Consumer Protection
Transcript Highlights:
- it is to go after the individuals and applications and and uh that are using this notification technology
- heard it to now on 1.24, there's an exemption um where we've differentiated between notification technology
- water down the bill so that companies that are actively advertising something that is notification technology
- advertising something that<00:03:32.880><c> is</c><00:03:33.040><c> notification</c><00:03:33.760><c> technology
- </c><00:03:34.560><c> wouldn't</c> that is notification technology wouldn't that is notification technology
Committee:
Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection