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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on the Judiciary Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on the Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm here to talk about the Dirty Deeds Project and also to thank our supporters that are here in the
- Question and kind of comment: Could you speak to the work that you've done with the register of deeds
- stuff and any work you've done in looking up and finding out about dirty deeds in your area?
- So the Dirty Deeds Project occurred a couple years ago, and Harbor Light, along with the NAACP, were
- able to find over 400 deeds...
Summary:
The Joint Committee on the Judiciary heard testimony on a wide range of bills, with much of the discussion focused on housing stability and maternal mental health. On H. 1924/S. 1171, supporters including Sen. Joan Lovely, Rep. Jim O’Day, physicians, advocates, and people with lived experience urged the committee to create legal protections and treatment pathways for defendants who experienced postpartum psychosis or other perinatal mood disorders within 12 months of giving birth. Testimony emphasized that these conditions are rare but severe, often treatable, and can lead to tragic outcomes if criminalized rather than addressed through screening, expert evaluation, treatment, and, in some cases, resentencing or mitigation. Committee members asked about diagnosis years after the fact and how the Illinois law has worked; witnesses said retrospective diagnosis is possible and that the Illinois model has led to some successful resentencing petitions and broader awareness.
Housing-related bills drew substantial testimony. On H. 1983/S. 1071, witnesses described “zombie” subordinate mortgages that were sold years after borrowers believed they had been resolved, then resurfaced with large balances and foreclosure threats. Supporters said the bill would require disclosures and court review to prevent unlawful servicing and foreclosure practices. On H. 1952, advocates from the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, tenants, and legal services providers backed a permanent statewide right to counsel in eviction cases, citing data showing strong tenant outcomes and the importance of quality control, multilingual outreach, and full representation. On H. 1895/S. 1184, testimony supported codifying a two-tier summary process in eviction court and prohibiting defaults at the initial case-management stage. On H. 1883, a small property owner supported rent escrow as a way to protect landlords from bad-faith nonpayment while preserving tenant rights.
The committee also heard testimony on bills addressing discriminatory housing covenants, tenant oversight, and homelessness. On H. 1762/S. 1080, a housing advocate supported removing void restrictive covenants from deeds, describing the Dirty Deeds Project and the lingering harm of racist language in property records. On H. 1814, tenants and advocates described harassment, retaliation, security problems, and lack of accountability in subsidized housing, arguing for an Office of the Tenant Advocate within the Attorney General’s Office. On S. 1120, multiple witnesses supported a bill of rights for people experiencing homelessness, saying it would affirm the right to rest and seek shelter, reduce criminalization, and extend anti-discrimination protections. No votes or final actions were taken during the hearing; the committee primarily received testimony and questions on the bills.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jun 3rd, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The amendments would gut and amend my bill and take over ownership from him.
- We know what this money will do: It's 40,000 new homes for folks who need it that are deed-restricted
- So this is a bill about making sure that we have more home ownership opportunities for the people of
- For them to take ownership of, meaning our community won't be able to have access to either ownership
- But you can make a very strong case that if you remove the corporate ownership that's out there, that
Summary:
The Assembly met after a quorum call and first dealt with a procedural dispute over four amendments to AB 1240. The Speaker ruled the amendments out of order as not germane, and the Assembly sustained that ruling on a 49-16 vote. Members then added co-authors to several consent-calendar resolutions, including measures on the National Conference of State Legislators, Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, ALS Awareness Month, and Men’s Mental Health Month, before adopting the consent calendar. The chamber also heard guest introductions, including a welcome for Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, and took up a motion to bring AB 41 up out of file, which failed 19-48.
The bulk of the meeting was floor action on a long series of bills and resolutions, many of which passed with broad bipartisan support. Measures approved included ACR 40 supporting immigrant students and FAFSA privacy; AB 917 on permanent status for certain school employees; AB 985 on anesthesia access; AB 7 and AB 42 on higher education and student services; AB 245 providing property tax relief for wildfire victims; AB 255 allowing funding for drug-free recovery housing; AB 279 updating K-12 library standards; AB 289 creating a pilot for automated speed enforcement in highway construction zones; AB 291 on an educator apprentice program; AB 327 addressing swatting; AB 340 on confidential union communications; AB 341 creating an oral health technical assistance center for people with disabilities; AB 356 on San Diego health care infrastructure; AB 410 on bot disclosure; AB 476 on copper theft enforcement; AB 477 on educator pay targets; AB 485 on stolen wages and business licensing; AB 487, the insurance committee’s technical omnibus bill; AB 573 on tobacco retail license fees; AB 598 on school mapping technology; AB 635 on mobile home law enforcement referrals; AB 651 on remote participation for incarcerated parents in dependency hearings; AB 654 on homelessness hotline assistance in Los Angeles County; AB 662 creating a South County higher education task force; AB 667 on language access in professional licensing; AB 669 limiting early denial of addiction treatment; AB 670 on naturally occurring affordable housing; AB 695 on online continuation of community college for deported students; AB 723 on disclosure for digitally altered real estate images; AB 727 placing Trevor Project information on student IDs; and AB 736, a $10 billion affordable housing bond for the June 2026 ballot, which passed on a 61-11 urgency vote after extensive debate.
Debate on AB 736 was the most extensive of the day, with supporters arguing the bond would help address California’s housing crisis and give voters a chance to weigh in, while opponents criticized the state’s bond debt and past spending results. The Assembly then recessed for caucus meetings and later returned to continue the daily file, where additional measures were taken up, including AB 798 adding diapers and wipes to the emergency food bank reserve program, which passed 56-0, and AB 821 on career technical education, which was presented as bipartisan-supported as the transcript continued.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota House passes the human services finance bill, HF2434 5/5/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- abuse, and we allow the commissioner to review all license holders within 12 months after change of ownership
- abuse, and we allow the commissioner to review all license holders within 12 months after change of ownership
- abuse, and we allow the commissioner to review all license holders within 12 months after change of ownership
- So, those were the words, but what are the deeds? What we've seen so far? Total chaos.
- </c><02:06:44.800><c> the</c> January of 26 through deed the January of 26 through deed the department
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> we do have a letter from DEED we do have a letter from DEED raising<00:14:36.360><c> concern</c>
- And we even have a letter from DEED stating that they have concerns on this program as well.
- We have a grant-making organization in DEED.
- We have a grant-making organization in DEED.
- We have a grant-making organization in DEED.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Business meeting to markup an original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034. Feb 12th, 2025 at 09:00 am
Senate Budget
Transcript Highlights:
- No good deed goes unpunished. And the document says so: stopping the methane emissions fee.
- is a huge factor destroying the major source of wealth for middle-class Americans, which is home ownership
- This would create a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the impacts of hedge fund ownership on single-family
- I acknowledge high interest rates are an issue affecting home ownership, but there's no question... that
- Chairman, and colleagues, for all of you who have a significant amount of federal ownership of the land
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 024 Feb 6th, 2026
Colorado House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill incentivizes corporate ownership.
- It incentivizes people, the ownership.
- when I first got onto the board, I thought, well, some, there's a chair, there's a commissioner of deeds
- there's a well some there's a chair there's a commissioner<03:50:44.960><c> of</c><03:50:45.120><c> deeds
- </c><03:50:45.600><c> then</c><03:50:45.760><c> there's</c><03:50:46.000><c> a</c> commissioner of deeds
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement - 03/25/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- In the bill, uh, we are looking at DEED for that support.
- </c><01:50:30.480><c> And</c><01:50:30.639><c> I</c> at uh, deed for that support.
- And I at uh, deed for that support.
- Our next listed testifier is Evan Row from DEED. Mr.
- </c> provide more security asurances to deed. provide more security asurances to deed.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- House File 1792, number five on the calendar for the day, an act relating to contracts for deed, the
- the Minnesota legislature enacted a comprehensive set of changes governing contracts for property deeds
- to address predatory practices by some investors and speculators against deed purchasers.
- It primarily makes several technical corrections, and it adds two additional exempt contracts for deed
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:49:05.200><c> to</c> call center, it's instructing deed to call center, it's instructing deed
- The bill before the body funds DEED. It has policy changes related to DEED.
- </c> has policy changes related to deed. has policy changes related to deed.
- </c> statutory appropriation we expect deed statutory appropriation we expect deed to<00:52:36.559><c
- </c> deed today that falls in their purview. deed today that falls in their purview.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House/Senate DFL Press Conference 4/10/25
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, the bill also includes money for DEED to promote this program to veterans across the country who
- Uh, the bill also includes money for DEED to promote this program to veterans across the country who
- Uh, the bill also includes money for DEED to promote this program to veterans across the country who
- In theory, I mean, the money would be appropriated to DEED.
- In theory, I mean, the money would be appropriated to DEED.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/25
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- One area that we're seeing at least some television ads and promotion for, Consumer Benefit, is deed
- complaint yet, these false deeds and false encumbrances on the home.
- complaint yet, these false deeds and false encumbrances on the home.
- complaint yet, these false deeds and false encumbrances on the home.
- They contacted Deed.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House environment committee approves HF8 1/23/25
Transcript Highlights:
- This section would create a new ombudsman for businesses or for business permitting at DEED.
- Having it at DEED puts this advocate at arm's reach to those applying, and arguably at arm's length from
- uh</c><00:09:15.200><c> having</c><00:09:15.480><c> it</c><00:09:15.640><c> at</c><00:09:15.800><c> deed
- </c><00:09:16.320><c> puts</c><00:09:16.720><c> this</c> deed uh having it at deed puts this deed uh
- having it at deed puts this Advocate<00:09:17.720><c> at</c><00:09:18.279><c> Arms</c> Advocate at Arms
NE
Nebraska 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Afternoon Session Apr 8th, 2026
Nebraska Unicameral Floor Meeting
Bills:
LB878, LB958, LB958A, LB762, LB1187, LB966, LB929, LB962, LB1209, LB937A, LB962A, LB1050, LB1050A, LB965, LB1022, LB753, LB788, LB913, LB1055, LB1195, LB429, LB721, LB722, LB727, LB745, LB749, LB778, LR293, LR296, LR422, LR495, LR496, LR497, LR498, LR499, LR500, LR501, LR502, LR503, LR504
Keywords:
paid parental leave, state employees, workplace benefits, family support, economic impact, Medicaid, Medical Assistance Act, home and community-based services waiver, HCBS waiver, waiver participant, assessment tool, clinical interviewing, service tier, retroactive coverage, doula, doula reimbursement, maternal health, prenatal care, pregnancy, birth outcomes
NE
Nebraska 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Morning Session Apr 8th, 2026
Nebraska Unicameral Floor Meeting
Bills:
LB878, LB958, LB958A, LB762, LB1187, LB966, LB929, LB962, LB1209, LB937A, LB962A, LB1050, LB1050A, LB965, LB1022, LB753, LB788, LB913, LB1055, LB1195, LB429, LB721, LB722, LB727, LB745, LB749, LB778, LR293, LR296, LR422, LR495, LR496, LR497, LR498, LR499, LR500, LR501, LR502, LR503, LR504
Keywords:
paid parental leave, state employees, workplace benefits, family support, economic impact, Medicaid, Medical Assistance Act, home and community-based services waiver, HCBS waiver, waiver participant, assessment tool, clinical interviewing, service tier, retroactive coverage, doula, doula reimbursement, maternal health, prenatal care, pregnancy, birth outcomes
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 02/25/26
Jobs and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh deed is also on hand been impacted.
- ,</c><00:48:00.880><c> our</c> the department of uh deed, our the department of uh deed, our department
- </c> deed if they know of anything. deed if they know of anything.
- </c><01:04:13.839><c> administered</c> programs that deed administered programs that deed administered
- </c> deed about UI. deed about UI.
NY
Transcript Highlights:
- S-5177, Comrie, requires notaries public and commissioners of deeds to complete and retain certain documents
- Commissioners of deeds to complete and retain certain documents relating to the transfer of residential
- This is very important because of the active fraud taking place around mortgage and deeds and people's
Summary:
The Senate Finance Committee met on March 5 and moved a series of bills, with brief discussion on most measures and several members noting support for the proposals. Bills advanced included loan forgiveness and reimbursement for attorneys serving Indigenous clients (S161A), a study of lithium-ion battery fires and prevention (S257), annual housing and zoning reporting to the Department of State (F919A), a temporary state pesticide commission (S1368), an emergency repair pilot program for hazardous building code violations (S1838), a searchable veterans resources database (S2070), Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution (S2587), expanded fraud and tax-fraud provisions (S32), a NYSERDA rebate program for lithium-ion batteries for mobility devices (S3560), directing certain fines and penalties to a conservation enforcement account (S4033B), Veterans Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day (S4152A), expansion of Fresh Connect to supermarkets and grocery stores (S4162), restrictions on executive-branch contracting during a hiring freeze (S473), real-property transfer documentation and forgery-related protections (S5177), changes to retirement beneficiary options after a beneficiary’s family offense conviction (S6750), and a deposit placement program for public monies (S8357). Several bills were described as addressing fraud, housing, veterans’ services, public safety, and commemorations, and members generally spoke in favor of the measures.
A few bills drew more specific comments: supporters emphasized the importance of honoring Fred Korematsu and recognizing the injustice of Japanese American detention, and the fraud-related bill was framed as a response to white-collar tax fraud and government losses. The real-property bill was highlighted as a response to mortgage and deed fraud affecting homeowners. On the housing reporting bill, there were three negative votes, and on the pesticide commission bill there were two members without recommendation. The lithium-ion battery rebate bill also drew several negative votes, while most other measures passed with little or no opposition.
By the end of the meeting, the committee had completed its agenda and announced it would resume more regular meetings, while noting that the state budget process would continue to affect scheduling.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 4/7/25
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> really need to get to the deed really need to get to the deed presentation.<01:05:01.440><c> So,
- I'd like to invite Commissioner of DEED and his team to come on up.
- I'd like to invite Commissioner of DEED and his team to come on up.
- So, um thank lift for the the deed team.
- </c> report that they did not evaluate deeds report that they did not evaluate deeds efforts<01:26:04.400
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 02/03/25
Jobs and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- as well as deed and then also<00:15:52.040><c> the</c><00:15:52.160><c> Department</c><00:15:52.519>
- And I think that these are key messages that we have built so that folks at places like DEED, when they
- We have fully transitioned all of the financial components of that from DEED to Explore Minnesota, and
- of that from deed to explore Minnesota<00:23:37.200><c> and</c><00:23:37.440><c> we</c><00:23:37.600
- I will also note that we've had such a great partnership with DEED on this.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Apr 2nd, 2025
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- So then now their ownership is in question, and it becomes...
- intentions by restricting land ownership for certain groups.
- The ownership of real property is important for a person.
- So just to be more clear, home ownership doesn't determine domicile.
- So, they, without ownership, they cannot come.
Bills:
HB17, HB34, HB41, HB 118, HB 119, HB 127, HB 128, HB 129, HB 130, HB132, HB133, HB17, HB41, HB118, HB119, HB127, HB128, HB129, HB130, HB132, HB133
Keywords:
foreign ownership, real estate, national security, designated countries, Texas property law, lobbying, foreign adversaries, compensation prohibition, transparency, civil penalties, higher education, foreign adversary, research security, trade secrets, academic partnerships, HB 128, sister city, sister-city agreement, international exchange, municipal diplomacy
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- CDDs and HOAs are planned communities which have deed restrictions, and as a regulatory authority, they're
- statute from last year creates an unintended consequence that will prevent CDDs from enforcing their deed
- This amendment will allow CDDs to operate as a regulatory authority and enforce their deed restrictions
- statute from last year creates an unattended consequence that will prevent CDDs from enforcing their deed
- This amendment will allow CDDs to operate as regulatory authority enforce their deed restrictions in
Summary:
The committee took up a broad agenda of local government, land use, housing, and public notice bills. It reported favorably SB 984 on firefighter cancer benefits, SB 1612 requiring local governments to accept electronic payments, SB 1180 creating a recall process for community development district board members and adding related CDD provisions on synthetic turf and compact urban mixed-use districts, SB 936 on temporary door locking devices, CS/SB 380 expanding options for publishing legal notices, SB 962 clarifying that the Live Local zoning preemption does not unintentionally capture farms and farm operations, SB 1444 on state preemption involving religious gatherings, private clubs, and certain permitting issues, SB 218 narrowing hurricane-related land-use protections to affected counties, SB 1020 regulating chickee huts, and SB 1434 creating a redevelopment framework for environmentally impacted parcels in certain urban counties. Several of these bills were amended before passage, including SB 1180, SB 380, and SB 948.
Testimony was mixed on the more controversial measures. Supporters of SB 984 said the bill clarifies benefits for firefighters diagnosed with occupational cancer. On SB 380, the Florida Press Association and Common Cause opposed shifting legal notices away from newspapers and warned that publication would become more fragmented and harder to find, while the sponsor argued the bill would save money and reflect digital practices. SB 1444 drew support from Florida Family Voice on religious freedom grounds, but the Florida League of Cities and Florida Association of Counties warned that the bill was broad, undefined in places, and could create unintended consequences for local zoning, parking, and permitting. SB 1434 on redevelopment of environmentally impacted land drew support from housing advocates but opposition from counties and cities, which said it would bypass local development review and could allow overdevelopment.
The committee also heard substantial testimony on SB 948, which would create a statewide framework for starter-home and lot-split regulations in residential areas. Supporters, including housing advocates, a Gainesville city commissioner, and an urban economist, said local regulations have constrained housing supply and that the bill would help produce more starter homes. Opponents, including the Florida Association of Counties, 1,000 Friends of Florida, and the Florida League of Cities, argued it would function as a statewide zoning code, reduce local planning authority, and create infrastructure and litigation concerns. The bill was amended and then laid over for further consideration after extensive debate and public comment.