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Transcript Highlights:
- We believe that to be patently incorrect, and we're asking for y'all to maintain oversight.
Committee:
All ALC-ADMINISTRATIVE RULES
Summary:
The Administrative Rules Subcommittee reviewed several agency rules and requests. The Arkansas Insurance Department presented an amendment to its holding company system rule to implement Act 261, adding a group capital calculation requirement and related guidance for insurer holding company groups; it was reviewed and approved. The State Board of Election Commissioners presented two rules: one clarifying poll watcher conduct, vote challenges, and provisional voting procedures, and another increasing pay for certified election monitors and defining training, observation, and report-writing compensation; both were reviewed and approved. The Arkansas Financial Education Commission updated its rules to remove DEI-related membership requirements to comply with Act 938, and that rule was also reviewed and approved.
The committee held over the Department of Education’s request to be excluded from reporting requirements for a month. The main discussion centered on the Department of Human Services’ request to be excluded from reporting requirements for Acts 567, 568, 967, and 1025. DHS explained that CMS had raised comparability and other federal issues with the Medicaid-related acts, especially the dental provisions in Act 1025 and the diagnostic lab cap in Act 567, and said it was exploring options including a waiver, medical-necessity-based approaches, and splitting the pediatric rate increase from the special-needs cap increase. The Arkansas State Dental Association disputed DHS’s interpretation, arguing Act 1025 is workable, that the pediatric rate increase should move forward separately, and that DHS should continue pursuing federal approval rather than declining to adopt rules. Public testimony from a special-needs advocate also emphasized unmet dental needs and long waitlists for waiver services.
After extensive questioning, a motion to deny DHS’s request to be excluded from reporting requirements for Acts 567, 568, 967, and 1025 passed. The committee then reviewed the Division of Higher Education’s Act 781 report, which asked to repeal three of its 32 rules and continue enforcing the remaining 29; that request was approved. The committee also received routine written updates on outstanding 2023 and 2025 rulemaking items, with no questions raised, and then adjourned.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Jul 22nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- We know that there's a lot of secret sauce in what we do, so we do have over 130 patents across the globe
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Investments and Pensions Oversight Jul 18th, 2025
Investments & Pensions Oversight Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- We know that many issues, including some of the patents and things that happen at the manufacturer level
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session - part 2 Apr 28th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- What this bill does is perpetuate the tired and patently false narrative that it's either good jobs or
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Apr 15th, 2025
Health & Human Services
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Tobacco Settlement Agreement Fund Oversight committee (9-18-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> late 90s when the tobacco settlement late 90s when the tobacco settlement master<00:24:08.960><c
- And we're proud to use a little bit of tobacco settlement money on that program.
- And so, committee, just to kind of say it again, the tobacco settlement, 50% of it is for agriculture
- Not just including tobacco settlement, but total — like, what is your all's budget?
- /c><00:39:53.280><c> total</c> including tobacco settlement but total including tobacco settlement but
Summary:
The committee met on September 18, 2025, approved the July 10 minutes, and received Brandon Reid’s monthly report on Kentucky agriculture development and finance activity for July and August. Reid emphasized the long-running structure created under House Bill 611 and Senate Bill 28, the role of county agriculture development councils in all 120 counties, and the importance of the program as a national model for supporting Kentucky agriculture. He also introduced new staff and interns, including a new loan programs manager, Rachel Coward, and project manager Kylie Davis.
For July, the development board reported $3.4 million invested in agriculture and the finance corporation reported $3.1 million in loans. Highlights included 11 county council meetings, site visits, program reviews, and 18 project reports. July approvals included county agriculture incentive programs, deceased farm animal removal programs, youth incentive programs, county/state projects, infrastructure loans, an agriculture processing loan, and beginning farmer loans. Staff also noted that all 120 counties had submitted their required five-year comprehensive plans on schedule.
Bill McCloskey then highlighted several funded projects, including Dino’s Farm LLC in Jefferson County, which received support to purchase a meat processing facility and equipment, with the goal of creating market opportunities for goat, sheep, and cattle producers and establishing Kentucky’s first halal meat processing facility. Other projects included a veterinarian facility project to address large animal vet shortages and Grow Appalachia at Berea College, which provides technical assistance and market support for small-scale and eastern Kentucky producers. Members discussed the need for programs such as high tunnels and other small-scale opportunities in rural areas, and staff noted related resources such as CAPE and NRCS funding.
For August, the board reported $500,000 in development board investments and just over $3 million in finance corporation loans, along with fewer staff activities than July but continued county council, site visit, and project review work. August approvals included county agriculture incentive programs, deceased animal removal programs, youth incentive programs, county/state projects, agriculture infrastructure loans, beginning farmer loans, and a horticulture incentives loan. Additional project updates included another veterinary equipment purchase, emergency safety equipment in Graves County, and a food safety and efficiency incentive for Jared Cornet.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- And finally, we determined how initial fine amounts were later reduced through post-citation settlement
- processes, and we attempted to ascertain the rationale... ...settlement processes, and we attempted
- After reductions through settlements and other processes, that amount was reduced to $28.2 million in
- And when there's negotiations and settlements that dramatically reduce...
- And when there's negotiations and settlements that dramatically reduce the amount of the fines, that
Summary:
The hearing focused on a state audit of Cal/OSHA titled “The Division of Occupational Safety and Health: Process Deficiencies and Staffing Shortages Limit Its Ability to Protect Workers.” Committee leaders and the audit team described serious workplace tragedies, argued that California’s worker protections are not being adequately enforced, and said the audit was prompted by concerns that Cal/OSHA was too often relying on letters instead of inspections, delaying investigations, and closing cases without enough documentation. Members repeatedly emphasized that the issue was not just staffing, but also outdated policies, weak oversight, and inconsistent enforcement.
State Auditor Grant Parks said the audit found a 32% vacancy rate in 2023-24, heavy reliance on hard-copy files, outdated or unclear policies, and inconsistent decision-making in complaints, accidents, citations, and fine reductions. He said Cal/OSHA conducted on-site inspections in only about 20% of complaints, used letter investigations more than 80% of the time, often lacked evidence that hazards were corrected, and sometimes failed to inspect serious injury cases on time. The audit also found weak documentation for fine calculations and settlement reductions, with some penalties reduced substantially without clear explanations. Parks said the agency had accepted the findings and would provide progress updates later in the year.
Committee members pressed the auditor on vacancy rates, the use of letter investigations, the low rate of criminal referrals, and whether fines were being reduced too often. Cal/OSHA and DIR officials responded that the vacancy rate had fallen to 12% partly because 66 vacant positions were eliminated in a statewide budget reduction and partly because of hiring; they said 126 people had been hired in the first half of the year. They also said they had hired a policy writer, were updating several policies, were planning periodic internal audits, and were developing a new data management system expected to go live in late 2026 or early 2027. On fines, officials said Title 8 sets base penalties and allows adjustments based on factors like employer size, history, and good faith, with appeals and informal conferences also affecting final amounts. No votes or formal actions were taken during the hearing.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Committee of Conference on HB 1260, HB 1574, HB 1816, HB 1499, HB 1709 (05/26/2026)
Transcript Highlights:
- What we don't want to be a public record is their the financial details of their settlement agreed upon
- What we don't want to be a public record is their the financial details of their settlement agreed upon
- agreed upon between of their settlement agreed upon between them.<00:24:19.600><c> Uncontested.
- Um, C and D, I already crossed them out, but it's property settlement agreements or stipulation.
- property settlement agreements or stipulation. stipulation. stipulation.
Summary:
The meeting covered two committee of conference items. On HB 1260, the House and Senate debated a Senate amendment dealing with sealing certain divorce-related financial records. House members argued the amendment conflicted with the Keane Sentinel decision and would improperly flip the burden of proof on public access to court records, raising constitutional concerns under the state constitution’s open government and privacy provisions. Senate members responded that the privacy amendment and modern conditions support more protection for sensitive financial information, especially in limited uncontested divorces, but several members agreed the issue should be studied in a separate bill with a full hearing next year rather than resolved in conference. The committee ultimately voted unanimously to have the Senate recede and pass HB 1260 in the form originally passed by the House, preserving the underlying bill without the Senate amendment.
The committee then took up HB 1574, which extends free and reduced-price breakfast and lunch programs and provides funding for SNAP administrative costs. The main dispute was the Senate’s addition of $4.4 million for SNAP administration. Senator Gray and DHHS officials said federal changes will shift more administrative costs to the state and that underfunding administration could raise the SNAP error rate, which could trigger future federal penalties and larger state costs; DHHS reported a current error rate of 7.57%, below the national average, and said a higher error rate could cost the state roughly $12 million in a partial fiscal year and nearly $16 million in a full year. Representative Papovich said he understood the department’s needs but was reluctant to support the bill as amended, noting the Senate language resembled a prior bill that had already failed in the House. The discussion ended with the committee still considering the Senate amendment, with members weighing the immediate appropriation against possible future costs.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
FIN Info Briefing - Mon Jan 5, 2025 @ 1:00 PM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- agreement in the opulando uh settlement agreement in the opulando uh lawsuit<00:13:11.600><c> case.
- DOJ than have a settlement agreement of a million dollars because this person killed themselves.
- than have a settlement agreement of a<00:34:49.280><c> million</c><00:34:49.520><c> dollars</c><00:34
- </c> >> Thank you. >> Um, this is a question about the operational settlement.
- But this settlement is driving us, I think, to have a better system of health care within the prisons
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
WAM, WAM-JDC Informational Briefings 01-14-2025
Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- If it goes forward, then $4.37 billion of the total settlement will go mostly to the people of Maui,
- This next slide is a quick breakdown just so you have it of the cash settlements.
- This next slide is a quick breakdown just so you have it of the cash settlements.
- This next slide is a quick breakdown just so you have it of the cash settlements.
- This next slide is a quick breakdown just so you have it of the cash settlements.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/26/2026 - House Rural Economic Development #1
Transcript Highlights:
- And as you know, the Arizona Water Settlement Act of 2004 was a large... ...for our water.
- And as you know, the Arizona Water Settlement Act of 2004 was the largest water settlement in U.S. history
- And because of the water settlement, the community has a huge impact in these negotiations.
- people would come to my father and they say, you know, how come, you know, we prevailed in our water settlements
Summary:
The committee began with a series of presentations highlighting tribal communities as part of rural economic development. Representative Mae Peshlakai described Legislative District 6, emphasizing its large geographic size, the eight tribal nations within it, and the cultural and scenic importance of the Navajo Nation and other tribes. Governor Stephen Roe Lewis then presented on the Gila River Indian Community, focusing on its history, Hohokam heritage, water rights, the MAR-5 aquifer recharge project, cultural traditions, and the importance of collaboration with state lawmakers. Members praised the presentations and noted the need for greater attention to tribal issues in the legislature.
The committee then took up SB 1016, with a strike-everything amendment that moved the property-owner petition requirement earlier in the process for municipal improvement districts and allowed certain notice and protest requirements to be waived. Supporters, including the mayors of Camp Verde and Clarkdale, said the change would improve transparency, reduce financial risk for small towns, and help rural communities build needed infrastructure such as wastewater systems, water lines, and housing-related improvements. The committee adopted the strike-everything amendment and passed SB 1016 on a 5-0 vote, with one member present and one absent.
Next, the committee considered SB 1401, the Workforce Housing Accelerator Act, using a strike-everything amendment that would allow municipalities to create expedited plan review and permitting for qualified workforce housing projects and exempt project proceeds from the state portion of the prime contracting sales tax. Habitat for Humanity representatives said the measure would lower carrying costs and help build more affordable homes, while one member noted the tax exemption would reduce general fund revenue but supported the bill as a targeted tradeoff to address housing shortages. The committee adopted the amendment and passed SB 1401 by a 5-1 vote.
The meeting concluded with Representative Myron Sosec’s presentation on barriers to economic development on the Navajo Nation and other tribal lands. He discussed lower workforce participation, higher unemployment and poverty, limited access to capital, trust-land financing barriers, dual taxation, infrastructure deficits, and delays caused by federal and tribal review processes. He also highlighted Navajo economic strategies such as loan guarantees, renewable energy development, and tourism investments, and urged state action on tax reform, matching funds, and annual tribal field hearings. The committee then adjourned.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/26/2026 - House Rural Economic Development #1
Transcript Highlights:
- And as you know, the Arizona Water Settlement Act of 2004 was a large... For our water.
- And as you know, the Arizona Water Settlement Act of 2004 was the largest water settlement in U.S. history
- And because of the water settlement, the community has a huge impact in these negotiations.
- people would come to my father and they say, you know, how come, you know, we prevailed in our water settlements
Summary:
The committee devoted much of the meeting to presentations highlighting tribal communities in rural Arizona. Representative Peshlakai opened with a video and remarks about Legislative District 6, describing it as the state’s largest district and emphasizing its many tribal nations, scenic landmarks, and her personal Navajo background. Governor Stephen Roe Lewis then presented on the Gila River Indian Community, discussing its Akimel O’odham and Piipaash heritage, water rights history, the MAR-5 aquifer recharge project, cultural traditions, and the community’s role in regional water and infrastructure issues. A presentation on the Pasqua Yaqui tribe followed, focusing on cultural resilience, ceremonial traditions, and the history of displacement and freeway construction in Tucson. Representative Sosei later outlined barriers to tribal economic development, including trust land financing limits, federal and tribal review delays, infrastructure gaps, dual taxation, and the need for broadband, water, and road investment, while proposing reforms such as tax changes, state match funds, and annual tribal field hearings.
The committee then considered SB 1016, a strike-everything amendment that would move the property-owner petition requirement earlier in the municipal improvement district process and allow waivers of certain notice and protest procedures. Supporters, including mayors from Camp Verde and Clarkdale, said the change would improve transparency, reduce financial risk for small towns, and help rural communities build wastewater and other infrastructure. The committee adopted the strike-everything amendment and passed SB 1016 on a 5-0 vote, with one member present and one absent.
Next, the committee heard SB 1401, the Workforce Housing Accelerator Act, which would let municipalities create expedited plan review and permitting processes for qualified workforce housing projects and exempt project proceeds from the state portion of the prime contracting sales tax. Supporters from Habitat for Humanity said the measure would reduce carrying costs, speed approvals, and help build more affordable homes for working families. One member noted the bill would reduce general fund revenue but supported it as a targeted tradeoff to address housing affordability. The committee adopted the amendment and passed SB 1401 on a 5-1 vote, with one member absent.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- The groundwater district's 2024 settlement agreement commits IGWA and its members to conserve 205,000
- However, the groundwater district settlement agreement allows for and anticipates that groundwater users
- Even though we had the settlement agreement in place in 2024, which was adopted as a mitigation plan
- I recognize that there will be no incentive for participation in the 2024 settlement agreement or any
- That resolution supported the surface water and groundwater district settlement agreement from 2020.
Committee:
Senate Resources and Environment
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
CPC Public Hearing - Tue Feb 3, 2026 @ 2:00PM HST
Consumer Protection & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><01:22:52.800><c> but</c> of those cases are in settlement but of those cases are in settlement but
- </c> involved with if there is a settlement involved with if there is a settlement um<01:22:59.040><c
- And, you know, oftentimes that doesn't necessarily lead to a settlement at the Contractor Repair Act.
- </c> doesn't necessarily lead to a settlement doesn't necessarily lead to a settlement at<01:26:46.320
- </c> about the um the offer of settlement about the um the offer of settlement section.<01:27:31.120>
Committee:
House Consumer Protection & Commerce
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on HB 1991, which would change Hawaii’s liquor excise tax structure to an ABV-based system. The Department of Taxation and the Tax Foundation of Hawaii took no position and stood on written comments. Supporters, including the Hawaii Public Health Institute and an individual testifier who described surviving a drunk-driving crash, argued that higher alcohol taxes reduce alcohol-related harms, save lives, and generate additional state revenue. The public health witness cited alcohol-related harms as a major preventable cause of death and said the tax increase would have only a small annual cost for most consumers.
Most industry testimony was in opposition. Representatives of Lanikai Brewing Company, Maui Brewing Company, the Wine Institute, and the Hawaii Food Industry Association said the bill would sharply raise taxes on beer and wine, squeeze already thin margins, and threaten local jobs and businesses. They argued Hawaii producers already face high costs for labor, energy, shipping, and compliance, and said an ABV-based tax would be difficult to administer, would require additional testing and labeling work, and could reduce consumer choice. Several industry witnesses urged lawmakers to instead adopt a small-producer or class 18 carveout, with one suggesting a cap tied to 60,000 barrels.
Committee members questioned the brewers about alcohol content testing, labeling, and whether smaller producers already measure ABV. Witnesses said many local producers do not certify ABV for in-state sales, that yeast and fermentation can vary by batch, and that an ABV-based system could require more testing than current practice. No vote or final action on the bill was taken during the portion of the meeting provided.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- Of note, TikTok and Snap, both defendants in the case reached settlements with the plaintiff just before
- Those three criteria are: one, the warning required by the settlement complies with Prop 65; two, the
- However, the Attorney General has found several settlements lack public benefit and, in fact, are not
- Those three criteria are: one, the warning required by the settlement complies with Prop 65; two, the
- However, the Attorney General has found several settlements lack public benefit and, in fact, are not
Committee:
House Judiciary
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Forty - Tuesday, March 24
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- dollars, the opioid settlement that we received in the state.
- They, I'm sure, were part of that settlement too.
- But certainly every county also has received these settlement dollars.
- Louis has received small amounts of opioid settlement funds.
- I'm not supporting any additional appropriations out of the opioid settlement fund.
Summary:
The House convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, approved the previous day’s journal by a 126-0 vote, and suspended business for the Speaker to sign several bills and substitutes. Members then spent much of the day introducing guests, including county assessors, students, civic groups, and visitors from local schools and universities.
The chamber then took up House Bill 2002, the elementary and secondary education budget. Members adopted several amendments, including technical fixes to allow board-operated schools to use personal service funds for career ladder payments, clarifications to child care subsidy language, and changes to Parents as Teachers rules so that enrollment remains voluntary and virtual visits are not reimbursable. An amendment to shift $1 million from one child care facilities line to Child Care Works passed, as did an amendment to fund a new Success-Ready Student Assessment with $2 million to help replace the MAP test. A proposal to pay child care subsidies for foster children based on enrollment rather than attendance failed 53-93, and an amendment to divert $10 million in Title I funds into a competitive grant program also failed. A later amendment to send budget reports to the ranking minority member passed, while an attempt to remove child care subsidy language from the bill failed.
The House then moved to higher education and workforce development appropriations. Members approved an amendment broadening a pre-apprenticeship program statewide and supported funding for Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries through a transfer from dual credit scholarship funds. The most extensive debate centered on House Bill 2003’s higher education funding model, where the chair defended an FTE-based approach as more transparent than the long-standing status quo, while opponents warned it would sharply cut funding for institutions such as Harris-Stowe, Lincoln, Truman State, and some community colleges, and would ignore factors like graduation rates, research, and workforce needs. A compromise amendment to soften the transition was withdrawn, and a separate amendment to restore the governor’s recommendation was also debated at length, with members arguing over the fairness and consequences of the proposed model.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Restrictive Housing Legislative Working Group (RHG) - Tue Jan 13, 2025 @ 9:30 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> uh a copy of the opental settlement uh a copy of the opental settlement uh<00:20:50.880><c> experts
- </c><00:20:55.039><c> tracker</c><00:20:55.600><c> as</c> as well as the settlement tracker as as well
- as the settlement tracker as these<00:20:56.720><c> are</c><00:20:56.960><c> the</c><00:20:57.200><c
- So if we can have settlement tracker.
- I believe those original recommendations came out of a 2007 settlement, and a lot has changed in the
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Another $14 million decline, and I, as I said, I pulled out the court settlement.
- </c> said, I pulled out the court settlement. said, I pulled out the court settlement.
- Reimbursements, which is where the 3M settlement money is going, went up by the $55 million.
- This has to do with that settlement funds that Sue Carlson was talking about.
- was settlement funds that Sue Carlson was talking<01:01:59.599><c> about.
Committee:
Senate Finance
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee SB 5167 2025-27 Operating Appropriations Apr 26th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Other revenue adjustments, diligent enforcement settlement, that was included in the House proposal,
- Other revenue adjustments, diligent enforcement settlement, that was included in the House proposal,
- Several things to point out on the add side: the Trueblood Settlement—these are funds for phase four
- of the settlement for things like housing and crisis stabilization and outpatient competency restoration
Summary:
The conference committee met on Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5167, the state operating budget, and received a detailed staff briefing on the proposed conference report. Staff explained how to read the comparison documents, the four-year balanced-budget outlook, and the main resource assumptions, including use of the March 2025 revenue forecast, exclusion of the statutory 4.5% growth assumption, revenue legislation totaling about $8.7 billion, numerous fund transfers, and reversion assumptions. They also noted the proposal does not include a temporary salary reduction or furloughs.
The briefing highlighted major policy areas and their net five-year impacts, including increases for state and higher education employee compensation, K-12 education, long-term care and developmental disabilities, corrections, information technology, and other policy items. It also described net reductions in behavioral health, children/youth/families, higher education, natural resources, other human services, and health care/public health, with many of the changes tied to delayed programs, rate adjustments, fund shifts, and savings options from Governor Ferguson. The committee then heard member comments, with supporters emphasizing K-12 funding and fiscal responsibility, and Senator Gildon opposing the process and the closed-door nature of the budget development.
A motion was made and seconded to recommend adoption of the conference report and pass the bill. The roll call showed one member voting do not recommend, one member excused, and the remaining members recommending adoption. By vote of the committee, the conference report was adopted, and the committee adjourned.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- And just looking at a list, it's over $25 million in settlements that has been received, just to highlight
- It was a multi-state settlement over the sale of millions of vehicles lacking standard anti-theft technology
- Sun Run, $1.25 million settlement over deceptive solar sales practices.
- Sun Run, 1.25 million settlement over deceptive solar sales practices.
- We have also choice home warranty, 11.8 million settlement involving allegations the company misrepresented
Summary:
The Senate convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, roll call, and a series of personal privilege introductions recognizing guests including the Doctor of the Day, realtors visiting for Realtor Day, and the family of former Senator Barbara Leff. The chamber also adopted House Concurrent Resolution 264 honoring Barbara Leff, followed by a moment of silence in her memory. The Senate then moved through a large number of bill introductions and first readings, as well as Committee of the Whole consideration of several measures.
In Committee of the Whole, senators considered and advanced multiple bills, often with technical or negotiated floor amendments. Among those reported out as do pass or do pass as amended were SB 1494, SB 1497, SB 1503, SB 1535, SB 1544, SB 1580, SB 1582, SB 1584, SB 1585, SB 1602, SB 1632, SB 1723, and SB 1798. The amendments addressed topics such as technical corrections to mining and pension language, classical learning tests, sex trafficking record sealing, probation reporting, school safety funding, kinship foster care stipends, DES credentialing, domestic violence release conditions, and a school safety/threat identification pilot program that was revised into a FAFSA awareness recognition program. The Committee of the Whole report was adopted.
The Senate then took up third-reading votes on several bills. HB 4115, SB 1012, SB 1213, SB 1416, SB 1474, SB 1511, SB 1549, SB 1573, SB 1634, SB 1647, SB 1649, SB 1664, and SB 1725 were considered, with most passing on party-line or near-party-line votes; SB 1416 and SB 1664 passed unanimously, while SB 1549 passed with broader support. Several members explained votes on immigration enforcement, concealed carry in establishments serving alcohol, commercial driver licensing, campaign finance, and a digital asset reserve fund. HB 2993, dealing with DPS legal representation funding, passed 16-13 after debate over constitutional concerns, funding sources, and the use of the Attorney General’s consumer fraud fund. The session ended with the Senate adopting the Committee of the Whole report and transmitting the passed bills to the House.