Video & Transcript Research : 'local control'

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  • If a podiatric medical school had existed locally, I would have jumped at the chance to train closer
  • Privileging is based on a local basis at the hospital, through the medical staff and the bylaws.
  • We believe very firmly that each local hospital should be allowed to set that standard.
  • That same commitment is reflected in how we operate at our local military base.
  • We are seeing some cities make their decisions based on local control. In making that decision.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Apr 1st, 2026

Finance and Taxation Education

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  • leadership at the local level. leadership at the local level.
  • that um that really works with our local that um that really works with our local community<00:15
  • level for particular systems, we put in the back on pages 11 and 12 for locals a few local systems.
  • Some of you things in your local area.
  • <00:35:09.680> areas<00:35:10.240> and local areas and local areas and a<00:35:11.280><
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 29th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

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  • So it is no longer owning, it is no longer having control.
  • They are not controlling; you have your general partner that controls the limited partnership.
  • We said they cannot have a controlling interest. OK.
  • Yeah, I know it's in the bill that they cannot own a controlling interest.
  • They cannot own a controlling interest.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Transportation Apr 17th, 2025

Transportation

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  • reported favorably to the full House with the recommendation that do pass be printed and sent to the local
  • You don't want to send for local girl does not.
  • Um, so from a, from a kind of a control perspective, the, the debt sits as what's called essentially
  • It's not going to get done without the help of the local utilities, the roads, the local municipalities
  • We're relatively new to this on the ownership side and on the control side.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Transportation Apr 17th, 2025

Transportation

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  • With the recommendation that it do pass, may print and sent to the local consent calendar.
  • At year-end, when we bought that loan from the Japanese, the control of the senior secured lender.
  • So from a control perspective, the debt set is what's called essentially the fulcrum security, so it
  • Get done without the help of the local utilities, the roads, and the local municipalities.
  • We are relatively new to this on the ownership side and on the control side.
TX
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  • Local taxing unit approval, let me repeat that, would require HFCs to obtain local taxing unit approval
  • There is no accountability, no audit, no control; local control entities have no control at all.
  • Finance corporations can then look at local conditions, work with their local governments to identify
  • To safeguard our local taxpayers from the crippling financial burdens of unchecked non-payment on local
  • Since 1979, HFCs have been a local organization, a local tool that works within the municipalities and
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Capital Investment Committee 3/11/25

Capital Investment

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  • Yet what stands out for local taxpayers is a trickle-down of these looming issues.
  • Yet what stands out for local taxpayers is a trickle-down of these looming issues.
  • We've been investing local funds into improvements for decades, but now we face a major expansion.
  • We've been investing local funds into improvements for decades, but now we face a major expansion.
  • opportunities um there are uh local opportunities um there are uh local waterways<01:36:46.360><
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 03-19-2026 11:30am

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

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  • opportunities across all post-secondary pathways, including college, trades, military service, and our local
  • college, trades, military service,<00:26:57.600> and<00:26:57.920> our<00:26:58.080> local
  • <00:26:59.440> She service, and our local workforce.
  • She service, and our local workforce.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26

Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy

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  • Alexis Stouth, and I serve as assistant director of government relations at the Minnesota Pollution Control
  • receive the same notification that is already being given to downstream drinking water facilities, local
  • facilities, to downstream drinking water facilities, to downstream drinking water facilities, local
  • 15:52.280> and<00:15:52.400> members<00:15:52.720> of<00:15:52.800> the local
  • governments, and members of the local governments, and members of the public.<00:15:53.920> Thank
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Feb 4th, 2026

Ways and Means Education

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  • and um county that applied to local and um county taxes<00:48:07.440> sunset.
  • grandfather their state and local grandfather their state and local exemption<00:49:26.800> or
  • <00:49:40.720> and state taxes, not the locals and state taxes, not the locals and counties
  • Uh but that locals to to opt in on this.
  • So, it's locals do what they want to do.
Bills: HB187, HB341, HB4, HB175, HB326
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Healthcare Committee Mar 19th, 2025

Healthcare

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  • In a recent 13-month period, the FDA and the National Poison Control have seen an uptick in...
  • Poison Control have seen an uptick in adverse event reports involving Delta 8 THC-containing products
  • Of those reported to poison control, 70% required health care facility evaluation, and 45% were pediatric
Bills: HB194, SB87, SB237
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 9th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

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  • Reggie and I met through the program that I have at my local jail.
  • I have no control over that process.
  • The defendant is in complete control of the process.
  • or semi-control the outcome of their trial.
  • The state is controlling the selection.” “The state does not have control over the selection.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Apr 7th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Each bond is a tax increase, and we have a local debt crisis of $500 billion.
  • Senator Eckhardt: ...villainized our local governmental entities for going out for bond.
  • You just said that our local government concealing this.
  • Senate Bill 2015 by Creighton, relating to local government regulation, to Local Government.
  • District No. 7, to Local Government.
Summary: The Senate opened with a quorum call, invocation, approval of routine motions, and the reading of gubernatorial nominations and several honorary resolutions. The chamber adopted resolutions recognizing Jack and Jill of America Day and DJ Daniel Day at the Capitol, with multiple senators offering remarks praising youth leadership, perseverance, and public service. The Senate also introduced the Doctor of the Day and then proceeded to a long series of floor actions on bills. A major focus was Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 568, which overhauls special education funding and services in public schools by moving from a placement-based model to an intensity-based system tied to student needs and IEPs. Senators Bettencourt, Creighton, and Menendez emphasized transparency, parent input, evaluation funding, dyslexia services, and better alignment of funding with actual services; Senator Hinojosa shared a personal story about dyslexia and the importance of early intervention. The bill was advanced on second and third reading and finally passed 30-0. The Senate also passed SB 1396 to prohibit national sex education standards in public schools, SB 2065 on the Texas Emergency Services Retirement System, SB 1664 requiring clearer public disclosure of transmission and distribution utility rate changes, SB 1029 on advertising certain used motor vehicles, SB 1120 expanding rights for family violence victims, SB 1036 regulating residential solar retail transactions, SB 464 creating school-proximity restrictions and penalties for tobacco and vaping sales, SB 1035 giving farmers and ranchers equitable relief from certain local agricultural regulations, SB 1610 addressing civil commitment facility safety and prosecution issues, SB 1197 extending drone restrictions to spaceports, and SB 1386 changing legislative witness immunity from transactional to testimonial immunity. Another major bill was Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 1188, which updates electronic health record requirements. Senator Kolkhorst said the bill builds on Texas medical privacy law by requiring U.S.-based storage of EMR data, prohibiting recording of voter registration status and credit score information, requiring provider verification and disclosure for AI-assisted diagnosis or treatment recommendations, preserving parental access to minors’ records until age 18, and ensuring EMRs can capture metabolic health and biological sex information. A floor amendment clarified the bill’s scope and enforcement, and the bill passed 23-7. Several measures drew debate, especially SB 414 on bond ballot transparency, where Senators Eckhardt and Menendez questioned whether requiring estimated interest and total debt cost on ballots could be misleading or difficult to implement because interest rates and financing terms can change before issuance or over time. The transcript ends during that discussion, with no final action shown on SB 414.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Apr 3rd, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • For more control.
  • ; House Bill 1392, Local Government; HJR 1, Local Government; HJR 4, Finance.
  • taxing entity, to Local Government.
  • taxing entity, to Local Government.
  • Health care services, to Local Government.
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum present, heard an invocation, and approved the previous day’s journal. The chamber then adopted Senate Resolution 358 honoring the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on its 10th anniversary, with senators highlighting the university’s growth, medical school, research expansion, and role in serving South Texas. The Senate also adopted Senate Resolution 368 honoring outgoing Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp, with numerous senators praising his long public career, leadership in higher education, and statewide impact. Senate Resolution 361 recognizing Texas HBCU Day and Senate Resolution 362 recognizing Denton County Days at the Capitol were also adopted, along with other routine recognitions and gubernatorial appointments being read into the record. The Senate then took up several bills. Committee Substitute Senate Bill 27, relating to rights and support for public school educators, was debated and amended to shorten vacancy posting requirements, allow bilingual certification candidates to retake only failed test sections, give teachers more flexibility with paid leave, clarify classroom removal procedures, and ensure parents are informed of appeal rights. The bill passed to engrossment, the three-day rule was suspended, and it was finally passed unanimously. Senate Joint Resolution 12, proposing a constitutional amendment to establish a parent’s right to direct a child’s education, was also brought up and passed to engrossment after a contested suspension vote. The Senate next passed Committee Substitute Senate Bill 1741, which would require reporting of foreign funding at public universities, bar gifts from adversarial governments, and require training and reporting systems to prevent foreign influence and intellectual property theft in higher education. Committee Substitute Senate Bill 29, the so-called “Dexit” bill, was debated at length for its corporate governance changes, including codifying the business judgment rule and altering internal corporate litigation and records rules; it passed to engrossment, the three-day rule was suspended, and it was finally passed by a 30-1 vote. Senate Bill 857, allowing law enforcement discretion to tow vehicles driven by unlicensed or uninsured drivers, passed after discussion of towing abuses during flooding and disaster conditions. Committee Substitute Senate Bill 1536, requiring dementia and Alzheimer’s training for certain guardians, passed with broad support, and Senate Bill 922, addressing delayed electronic disclosure of sensitive medical test results so physicians can discuss them first, was taken up and passed to engrossment as the chamber continued through its calendar.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session May 20th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • control that come with having an independent group.
  • Or indirect ownership or control interest of 5% or more in a Medicaid provider.
  • Donated foods cannot be time and temperature control for safety foods.
  • House Bill 3063 to Local Government. House Bill 3177 to Criminal Justice.
  • House Bill 3483 to Local Government. House Bill 4662 to Transportation.
Bills: SJR60, SB203, SB317, SB397, SB511, SB524, SB731, SB781, SB801, SB867, SB1071, SB1232, SB1319, SB1444, SB1483, SB1633, SB1798, SB1944, SB1978, SB2082, SB2233, SB2363, SB2603, SB2607, SB2717, SB2797, SB2841, SB2919, SB2928, SB2969, SB3038, SB3063, HB102, HB107, HB130, HB132, HB148, HB647, HB668, HB677, HB694, HB748, HB754, HB923, HB1193, HB1240, HB1318, HB1397, HB1584, HB1639, HB1875, HB1893, HB1922, HB2071, HB2187, HB2254, HB2350, HB2510, HB2513, HB2516, HB2522, HB2559, HB2712, HB2713, HB2733, HB2775, HB2788, HB2789, HB2894, HB2960, HB3033, HB3126, HB3211, HB3370, HB3376, HB3751, HB3805, HB3810, HB4187, HB4219, HB4238, HB4273, HB4325, HB4344, HB4384, HB4506, HB4529, HB4643, HB4753, HB4783, HB4850, HB4885, HB5342, HB5424, HB5560, HCR90, HCR98, SJR5, SJR34, SB9, SB27, SB40, SB458, SB482, SB493, SB529, SB541, SB693, SB841, SB843, SB912, SB963, SB1173, SB1241, SB1350, SB1383, SB1388, SB1559, SB1646, SB1734, SB1789, SB1833, SB1883, SB1951, SB1968, SB2143, SB2544, SB1, SB17, SB260, SB509, SB1506, SB1637, SB1833, SB2308, HB2525, SJR36, SJR50, SJR63, SJR60, SCR12, SCR39, SB2023, SB511, SB62, SB666, SB847, SB284, SB854, SB810, SB1505, SB583, SB507, SB1434, SB1772, SB2016, SB1122, SB731, SB397, SB508, SB1436, SB287, SB1882, SB393, SB1791, SB209, SB2429, SB1085, SB1975, SB2717, SB1262, SB636, SB2056, SB884, SB1200, SB1845, SB2458, SB801, SB3014, SB3013, SB758, SB2797, SB2076, SB2876, SB1640, SB1449, SB1181, SB1234, SB2926, SB2841, SB1528, SB1854, SB317, SB1250, SB2082, SB1237, SB2819, SB629, SB2608, SB1602, SB2009, SB867, SB640, SB1698, SB2680, SB913, SB1071, SB1086, SB1087, SB1483, SB1444, SB1553, SB1556, SB1703, SB2133, SB2297, SB2298, SB2622, SB2955, SB2334, SB1367, SB2044, SB2363, SB2565, SB1888, SB3036, SB3057, SB3043, SB3063, SB3035, SB203, SB2688, SB2522, SB2459, SB2655, SB2251, SB1884, SB2928, SB2566, SB1749, SB2549, SB2553, SB2919, SB1944, SB1232, SB1798, SB2603, SB2607, SB2233, SB2683, SB1319, SB1978, SB3038, SB3045, SB1633, SB1538, SB719, SB3071, SB3065, HJR34, HB1393, HB26, HB3810, HB388, HB2712, HB1633, HB685, HB4753, HB762, HB2286, HB1606, HB132, HB1458, HB1240, HB2788, HB2791, HB3146, HB1893, HB4850, HB4187, HB1397, HB3751, HB2061, HB647, HB2522, HB4738, HB3033, HB2563, HB128, HB581, HB766, HB2259, HB2358, HB4384, HB748, HB793, HB1734, HB2340, HB2350, HB3104, HB5180, HB1584, HB4219, HB3806, HB3804, HB3803, HB1522, HB3597, HB1612, HB4224, HB1314, HB2254, HB4643, HB1237, HB3126, HB2856, HB3114, HB3505, HB4205, HB5652, HB3687, HB5424, HB4506, HB3370, HB2025, HB4273, HB3395, HB3376, HB2733, HB2495, HB4325, HB2071, HB2510, HB138, HB18, HB107, HB694, HB923, HB1639, HB1700, HB2187, HB3211, HB4529, HB4655, HB5342, HB2516, HB4783, HB1894, HB1965, HB102, HB300, HB1875, HB2513, HB2713, HB39, HB114, HB24, HB3088, HB4163, HB3479, HB2842, HB519, HB609, HB1275, HB1592, HB3348, HB120, HB6, HB247, HB1533, HB2421, HB2273, HB2464, HB2011, HB3575, HB3788, HB4370, HB4809, HB5057, HB5084, HB5534, HB5668, HB3424, HB2715, HB2564, HB2760, HB2765, HB2898, HB3260, HB3800, HB4396, HB5195, HB4341, HB43, HB5686, HCR90, HCR98, SJR60, SB1633, SB2233, HB102, HB107, HB132, HB694, HB923, HB1639, HB1875, HB1893, HB2071, HB2187, HB2510, HB2513, HB2522, HB2733, HB2788, HB3033, HB3211, HB3370, HB3376, HB3751, HB3810, HB4187, HB4219, HB4273, HB4325, HB4506, HB4529, HB4643, HB4753, HB4783, HB4850, HB5342, HB5424, SB511, SB1978, SR533, SR554, HCR90, HCR98, HCR144, SJR34, SB529, SB541, SB693, SB1173, SB1646, SB1734, SB1833, SB3074, HB1233, HB1285, HB1828, HB1876, HB2091, HB2301, HB2725, HB3063, HB3177, HB3483, HB4662, HB5606, HCR9, HCR10, HCR40, HCR76, HCR118, HCR127, HCR135, HCR141, SB3074, HB1233, HB1285, HB1828, HB1876, HB2091, HB2301, HB2725, HB3063, HB3177, HB3483, HB4662, HB5606, HCR9, HCR10, HCR40, HCR76, HCR118, HCR127, HCR135, HCR141