Video & Transcript Research : 'Exec Sessions'
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NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Public Works and Highways (03/18/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm sorry, I've got one small quick update before we go into our afternoon session.
- So I would say we would not ask for the remainder of that in this session.
- That's on our work session as $4,650,000. We have just reduced that to $3 million.
- to exec before the end of day Wednesday?
- <04:33:44.359>
time we might have an executive session time we might have an executive session
Summary:
The committee held a public hearing and work session on House Bill 25/25A, the capital improvements budget. Representative David Mills introduced HB 25A, which makes appropriations for capital improvements for the biennium and extends certain lapses from prior appropriations, noting it is based on Governor Ayotte’s budget. The hearing then focused on requests to add or restore funding for several projects, including community college capital needs, Veterans Home ADA and safety upgrades, career and technical education renovations in Milford, and airport infrastructure funding.
Shannon Reed of the Community College System of New Hampshire asked for an additional $2.6 million for IT infrastructure, critical maintenance, and energy management systems, citing failing boilers, roof work, cybersecurity needs, and a recent costly water damage incident at Lakes Region Community College. John Graham, representing the New Hampshire Veterans Home, requested $1.5 million for ADA compliance and safety improvements such as floor replacement and wider doors, saying the work would help the home before an upcoming VA inspection and protect federal funding. Lance Whitehead testified for Milford CTE, asking the committee to keep $9.9 million in the budget for a scaled-down renovation; members discussed the town’s failed vote, the need for local matching funds, and the possibility of another vote next year. Tim Thompson of Concord and Margaret Burns of NHMA urged restoration of airport matching funds, arguing that about $3.6 million in state money would leverage roughly $62 million to $65 million in federal FAA funds for safety and infrastructure projects. Trisha Lambert and Andrew Pomroy of the Bureau of Aeronautics and airport management association explained the airport program, the 12 federally funded airports, and how projects are selected through airport master plans and a capital improvement program.
After public testimony, the committee closed the hearing on HB 25A. In the work session that followed, staff distributed supporting documents, including cost breakdowns and comparison sheets. The chair indicated the committee would work from the governor’s $143 million capital budget as a baseline and proposed reducing it by about $10 million, largely by removing the Milford CTE item because both towns had voted it down and would not have another vote for a year. The chair said the goal was to bring the overall budget to about $133 million and then repurpose the remaining funds through straw polls and further committee action.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (01/27/2025)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- The first Monday of March, we will sprinkle in some executive sessions along the way to get bills done
- Um, yes, I have had input on this from last session.
- we didn't do that executive session we didn't do that executive session rather<04:21:26.159>
- If you want to discuss it, you should go into exec.
- If we want to discuss it, we have to go into exec. We can't go into exec, so I guess we're done.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Motion to go into executive session. Second.
- All those in favor of executive session, the Senate Education Committee will be in executive session.
- I mean the executive session on it. Did we? We did. We did. Okay.
- <00:17:39.039>
Did mean the uh executive session on it. - I'll make a motion to pass. dedicate one session during the week of dedicate one session during the week
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Municipal and County Government (01/13/2025)
Municipal and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
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NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (02/24/2026)
Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- All of the execs earn over $300,000 a year. American Friends, etc. It goes on.
- All of the execs earn over $300,000 a year. American Friends, etc. It goes on.
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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee May 5th, 2026
Utilities and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- That's why we had that extraordinary session. Since then, we have not seen any of that evidence.
- I know I've asked this of you before during the last two rounds, the special sessions.
- Yeah, not to rehash the second special session, but that was also legislation that we opposed.
- The special session reforms of 2020.
- And Chair Petrie-Norris, you were a champion in the second special session on an E-15 bill.
Summary:
The Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy held a hearing on California’s petroleum supply and price volatility amid the Iran conflict and Strait of Hormuz disruptions. Committee members and administration witnesses focused first on short-term supply conditions: the California Energy Commission said crude and refined-product imports were still arriving at healthy levels, West Coast inventories were generally adequate, and there was no expected near-term supply shortfall, though diesel inventories were tighter than gasoline or jet fuel. Officials said California’s reliance on imports has grown as in-state refining capacity has declined, and they described ongoing work to track import flows, inventories, refinery outages, and pricing.
The Division of Petroleum Market Oversight said the conflict was driving real price increases, but also highlighted California’s persistent branded-gasoline premium and unusually wide station-to-station price dispersion. DPMO reported that some major-brand stations were charging far above the statewide average, that several outlier stations reduced prices after contact from the division, and that investigations and subpoenas were ongoing. Professor Severin Borenstein argued that while crude oil is a global price driver, much of California’s higher retail price gap is a downstream “mystery gasoline surcharge,” not explained by crude costs alone, and he said the state should focus on imports, port and storage capacity, and competition rather than expecting refinery subsidies or an E15 blend to solve the problem.
Industry and labor witnesses took different positions on the causes and solutions. The Western States Petroleum Association said state policy had weakened California’s refining system, making it more dependent on long, fragile supply chains and vulnerable to global shocks, and urged the state to protect remaining refining capacity and reduce regulatory burdens. United Steelworkers Local 675 emphasized that refinery reliability and staffing matter for market stability. Members pressed witnesses on whether California should set fuel-supply targets, how to prepare beyond the next six weeks, whether more import dependence increases risk, and what additional data or authority the state needs. No formal votes or actions were taken during the hearing.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Budget Review Subcommittee on Economic Development, Tourism, and Environment Protection.(6-3-26)
Transcript Highlights:
- And I was one of those hard-nosed company execs.
- We may come back during the interim session and show you the largest non-public health or public school
- d just like to echo some of the comments and to thank Secretary and Matt for all their input last session
Summary:
The speaker outlined Kentucky’s economic development strategy and how the cabinet evaluates and awards incentives. He emphasized using national benchmarks such as Site Selection and Area Development magazines, focusing on real data, competitiveness, and performance-based incentives. He said the state is performing well nationally in investment rankings, and credited the legislature with providing tools that help attract and retain jobs, especially through speed to market, site readiness, transportation, and workforce coordination.
A major portion of the remarks described the “anatomy” of an incentive package: first improving sites and infrastructure such as water, sewer, roads, and rail spurs; then using sales tax benefits for construction materials and equipment; then training support through the Bluegrass State Skills Corporation; and finally the Kentucky Business Incentive (KBI) program, which reimburses qualifying expenses from incremental tax revenue. He said incentives are negotiated, data-driven, and targeted toward companies with strong wage levels, training plans, growth potential, and, in some cases, agricultural benefits or industry leadership. He also noted special treatment for heritage communities and said the state has expanded KBI beyond heavy manufacturing to include R&D, headquarters, and service businesses.
The speaker also described compliance and oversight. Incentive agreements are written with job, wage, investment, and community-benefit terms, and companies must file regular reports and invoices. Cash incentives can be clawed back if commitments are not met, while tax credits are tied to actual investment and job creation. He said the Revenue Cabinet and Environment and Energy Cabinet play important monitoring roles, and that projects go through application review and preliminary approval by the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority before final approval and payment. He closed by thanking legislators for their support and for allowing more flexible, capped, and data-driven incentive tools.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- My committee is in session today and I need to get back to my committee room to continue the work that
- My committee is in session today and I need to get back to my committee room to continue the work that
- Why can't we why can't we amend session.
- You’ll be having an executive session on it, I’m sure.
- I'm sure uh I'm executive session on it.
NE
Nebraska 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Morning Session Apr 17th, 2026
Nebraska Unicameral Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- So every session at the end of the session, we start the, I wonder if we're going to get the bills turned
- Number four would be the end of session amending where an LB becomes an AM, would be the end-of-session
- So, colleagues, we're coming to the end of our 60-day session, and while the second session of a legislature
- is considered the short session, this session was definitely not short on extended debate.
- So if we had a longer session, perhaps that would have been possible, but given the 60-day session, there
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Executive Departments and Administration (01/22/2026)
Executive Departments and Administration
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Education Policy and Administration (02/24/2026)
Education Policy and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- Lots of hearings, work sessions, executive sessions.
- Lots of hearings, work sessions, executive sessions.
- hearings, work sessions, executive hearings, work sessions, executive sessions. sessions. sessions
- school district deliberative sessions school district deliberative sessions and<02:14:32.239>
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and we have at our deliberative sessions and we have at our deliberative sessions
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Legislative Administration (05/06/2026)
Legislative Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- so, uh, I'll open the executive session so, uh, I'll open the executive session on<00:13:44.720>
- Um and it goes this this session.
- that action that we took this session that action that we took this session establish<00:31:50.320>
- <00:34:15.440>
uh of your colleagues during session uh of your colleagues during session uh- Um, after our caucus and discussion, and based on information that we heard during our exec session,
- <00:34:15.440>
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Delivery of Government Efficiency Apr 2nd, 2025
Delivery of Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- States like Florida already allow these types of closed sessions, giving them a competitive edge when
- In some cases, the only practical setting for such a meeting is an executive session.
- This is a small carve-out to the open meetings to allow executive session.
- I'm always concerned that these get abused, and then people that are in the executive sessions. they
- When you're in executive session to talk about employment matters or legal matters, you know, to the
Bills:
HB512, HB2248, HB2679, HB2832, HB3112, HB3368, HB3490, HB3512, HB3623, HB3666, HB3700, HB3711, HB3770, HB3963
Keywords:
grievance procedures, state agency, employee rights, workplace regulations, employment law, employees, employment actions, appeal, state employees, workplace rights, disciplinary actions, employment conditions, employment disputes, job protections, public information, transparency, government accountability, information access, notification requirements, federal funding
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- So that means we have to hear them all and then have them exec by that date, and then also on top of
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Exact <00:14:34.560>session. - Exact session. Go for at the hearing. Exact session.
- <02:25:39.439>
around session there's further debates around session there's further debates - Hold comments till we have a work session. >> Okay.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Children and Family Law (02/10/2026)
Children and Family Law
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, and now I will open the executive session on House Bill 1036. House Bill 1036.
- We're going to close the exec on 1036 and we're going to open the exec session on House Bill 1225.
- You'll pass it into the chair at the end of the exact session, please. Yes, Madam Chair.
- Because it's so late. >> Can we postpone the exact session till next Tuesday?
- the exact session till Tuesday?
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- I move that the session adjourn from the late session. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. No.
- early session. early session.
- I can bang through 15 bills in exec session, I swear, in 20 minutes, and he's always got everything right
- I can bang through 15 bills in exec session, I swear, in 20 minutes, and he's always got everything right
- The early session is adjourned. We are now in the late session.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Children and Family Law (02/24/2026)
Children and Family Law
Transcript Highlights:
- Last session we had a substantially similar bill.
- Would you believe that would be very helpful to me before we exec the bill?
- >> Monday and Tuesday I have slated for us to do executive sessions on all of the bills that we've heard
- Some of them we may decide not to exec right away because we may want to do further investigations and
- Some of them we may decide not to exec right away because we may want to do further investigations and
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Legislative Administration (01/22/2026)
Legislative Administration
Transcript Highlights:
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It own lobbyist for that session. It own lobbyist for that session. - exact session. exact session.
- . session. session.
- So when you say executive session I was glad that their executive session was held in a public forum
- Kind of the um executive session.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- recognizes a member from Auburn, Representative Osborne, who moves that the House adjourn from the session
- The clerk said that after the session concluded last week, the chair of the Ways and Means Committee
- concluded last week uh the the session concluded last week uh the chair<00:23:25.520>
of <00:23 - However, when we were ready to exec it, we were given what I call word salad.
- We rejected a similar bill last session, and we should do the same today.
Summary:
The House opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, the national anthem, leaves of absence, guest introductions, and memorial remarks honoring former Representative Carolyn Gargas of Hollis, who was remembered for her long House service, work on child and family issues, and community involvement. The House then adopted a consent calendar and approved a motion to withdraw House Bill 431, which would have created a commission to review draft rules on minimum standards for public school approval and state academic standards; the motion failed after a roll call vote, so the bill remained in play.
The House next took up House Bill 109-FN, relative to false reports to law enforcement. The majority supported the bill as a way to add penalties for knowingly false reports about law enforcement officers, arguing officers deserve protection from false accusations and that the knowingly standard is a high bar. The minority opposed it as duplicative of existing law and warned it could chill legitimate complaints against police. After debate and a division vote, the majority committee report of ought to pass was adopted, 198-173.
The House also considered House Bill 218-FN, which would provide victims of crime a free police report. The committee amendment changed the bill so victims would receive a written confirmation that a crime occurred rather than the initial police report, to avoid conflicts with right-to-know law and active-investigation confidentiality. Supporters said the change was a small but important clarification agreed to by law enforcement and domestic violence advocates, while opponents argued the original language was already workable and that the floor amendment was unnecessary. A division vote was requested on the amendment, and the transcript ends during that debate before the final outcome on HB 218 is shown.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
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on< - So, unlike your colleagues in the Senate who will sometimes exec things right on the spot, you let me
- /c> colleagues in the Senate who will colleagues in the Senate who will sometimes<01:29:28.399>
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let <01:29 - We had that happen in the last session when we had a CACR before us.
Summary:
The Judiciary Committee opened a hearing on House Bill 1067-FN, which would formalize and expand mental health courts in New Hampshire and create a grant-based funding structure for them. Representative Mark Pearson, the prime sponsor, described the bill as a bipartisan, compassionate, and cost-effective approach that would connect people with mental illness to treatment and supervision instead of incarceration, while still holding them accountable. He said the proposal was developed with input from the judicial branch, law enforcement, corrections, mental health organizations, and others, and emphasized that local courts could tailor programs to their needs.
Committee members questioned the bill’s fiscal note, whether the legislature had previously studied the issue, how the program would be funded, and whether the bill should more explicitly address treatment, prevention, and data collection. Representative Buzz Sher, who helped develop the bill, explained how mental health courts work, including referral, clinical and public-safety assessments, case management, goal-setting, and graduation from the program. He said existing New Hampshire mental health courts are mostly partial and county-funded, and that the bill would formalize them, set standards, and allow grant funding. He also cited data from Georgia and New Hampshire suggesting significant savings from reduced incarceration and related costs.
Members also raised concerns about due process, whether people not formally charged could be swept into the system, and whether individuals with violent offenses or domestic violence histories could be diverted inappropriately. Sher responded that only people already in the criminal justice process are eligible and that courts use safety assessments to screen out most violent cases. The committee requested that Sher file supporting financial data from other jurisdictions, and he agreed to do so. No vote or final action was taken during the hearing.