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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 22nd, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We are thankful that you love us infinitely and with a capacity that escapes us.
  • We are thankful that you love us infinitely and with a capacity that escapes us.
  • You made us better than that, and we know better than that, because your ministers have taught us so.
  • Not unto us, Lord, not unto us, but unto your name be all the glory.
  • By using the Thunder, $1 billion, $24 million. By using the Thunder... And down south, $64 million.
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, heard an invocation, and recognized several guests and groups in the gallery, including the Ponca City High School Poe High Steppers, the Edmond Democratic Women, family members of senators, a Grace Reform Baptist Church co-op group, and Oklahoma 4-H participants. The chamber also honored the Red Oak Lady Eagles state championship basketball team with a citation and remarks celebrating their first school basketball title and strong season. The Senate adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 22, supporting the Lights Out Oklahoma campaign to reduce bird mortality during migration by encouraging reduced exterior lighting in peak migration months. The chamber also adopted Senate Resolution 41, proclaiming April 22, 2026, as the 27th annual 4-H Day at the Capitol, with testimony from 4-H representatives emphasizing youth leadership, civic engagement, and workforce readiness. Several bills passed, including House Bill 169 (house amendments adopted and the bill passed as an emergency measure), House Bill 2123 on the Arkansas River bridge, House Bill 2650 on summary administration estate thresholds, House Bill 3260 on funeral director continuing education approvals, House Bill 3403 on a DEQ/OSU sewage sludge pilot study, House Bill 3649 on the Mental Health Department real property trust, House Bill 3742 on criminal discovery, House Bill 3831 on a Task Force One revolving fund, House Bill 3996 on indigent defense experts in capital cases, House Bill 4321 on limits on retroactive building rule application, and House Bill 4339 on summary administration notice timing. House Bill 1047, which would have authorized a tribal sports betting framework and related revenue distributions, drew extensive debate over gambling addiction, revenue, tribal compacts, geofencing, and NIL funding, but failed 21-27; Senator Coleman gave notice of intent to reconsider. The Senate then announced an Appropriations Committee meeting and adjourned until the next scheduled session.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EDU Informational Briefing 01-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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  • </c> decisions um using those resources. decisions um using those resources. &gt;&gt; Okay.
  • This is this is standard to us.
  • </c> buckets that the legislature allowed us buckets that the legislature allowed us to<00:59:49.040>
  • </c> "What will it take for us?"
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (01/16/2025)

Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • We use data to focus the resources available to us to be most effective in serving our residents and
  • cannabis program therapeutic therapeutic cannabis program therapeutic cannabis<00:30:13.840><c> is</
  • Thank you for having us.
  • will be giving us information.
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Keywords: 1189, house, all
US
Transcript Highlights:
  • So, but if there is some proven usefulness, a benign use, to use Senator Whitehouse's terminology, then
  • .. using test strips.
  • It's actually used by people who are using drugs to test their drug beforehand.
  • And you see this now common sense, people who are using drugs, who use test strips.
  • They want us to pass something.
Bills: SB331
Summary: In this committee meeting, the focus was primarily on S-331, the Halt All Lethal Trafficking and Fentanyl Act, aimed at addressing the fentanyl crisis. The bill's key components include making permanent the class scheduling of fentanyl-related substances, confirming existing sentencing penalties, and easing registration requirements for scientific research on Schedule I substances. Numerous parents shared heartbreaking testimonies about their losses due to fentanyl, which fueled an urgent call to pass the legislation without alterations. The committee members engaged in passionate discussions highlighting the urgency of the situation as overdoses continue to claim American lives.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services Feb 12th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • What is your definition of continued use? Mr.
  • Can you talk to us a little bit about why you believe that this bill is necessary?
  • Properly educating our nurses about use of the title.
  • Thanks so much for being with us. Senators, I don't have any more appearance forms.
  • Like I said, they don't know how to treat us. They don't know what to do.
Bills: S0006 , S0036 , S0560 , S0778 , S0844 , S0864 , S1002 , S1016 , S1022 , S1030 , S1630
Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services heard and advanced a series of health, child welfare, aging, disability, and public records bills. CS/SB 1002, on child welfare and parental substance abuse, was described as clarifying that acute or chronic parental drug abuse can constitute harm or neglect when it creates an ongoing risk to a child; it passed after limited questions and supportive testimony from Florida Smart Justice Alliance. CS/SB 1630, a broad aging and long-term care modernization bill, would streamline eligibility screenings, allow temporary DOEA services during emergencies or lead agency failures, tighten oversight of area agencies on aging, permanently establish the Florida Alzheimer’s Care Center of Excellence, and expand guardianship training and enforcement tools; it drew support from AARP, area agencies, and the Alzheimer’s Association and was reported favorably. The committee also approved SB 1022 to add Bay County and Pompano to the Florida Children’s Initiatives, and CS/SB 1030, via strike-all amendment, to streamline regulation of substance abuse and behavioral health providers and clarify background screening and privacy rules. Several bills focused on health care practice and patient access. CS/SB 36, with an amendment, allows nurses with doctoral degrees to use appropriate titles while requiring clear identification as nurses and making misuse grounds for discipline; nursing organizations supported it and it passed. CS/SB 844 requires physicians and nurses to complete a one-time, board-approved continuing education course on sickle cell disease care management, with multiple patients and advocates testifying about delayed care, bias, and the need for better provider education; the bill was reported favorably after an amendment aligning it with the House version. CS/SB 560 streamlines procedures for psychotropic medication for children in DCF custody by reducing duplicative reports, clarifying evaluator qualifications, limiting repeated background checks, and simplifying consent documentation; an amendment removed postsecondary education language, and the bill passed. The committee also approved a public records exemption bill for a uterine fibroids research database (CS/SB 864). The committee also advanced measures affecting disability services and forensic care. SB 6, a claims bill, would pay $3.8 million to a trust for a child who suffered severe abuse-related injuries after DCF involvement; it passed without opposition. SB 778 updates the definition of forensic clients so certain individuals with intellectual disabilities or autism found incompetent to proceed can be housed in the same secure forensic setting, reducing duplicative staffing and space needs; it was reported favorably. CS/SB 1016 codifies the Working People with Disabilities Program, allowing eligible developmentally disabled adults to work while retaining Medicaid waiver benefits and requiring notice to enrollees; advocates described the bill as essential to employment and independence, and it passed. Throughout the meeting, most bills received supportive public testimony, few questions, and unanimous or near-unanimous favorable votes.
MO

Missouri 2026 Regular Session

Professional Registration and Licensing Mar 11th, 2026 at 08:00 am

Professional Registration and Licensing

Transcript Highlights:
  • They use a national license, and so this immediately will match that to the...
  • But this will help us with those needs that we have in the pulmonology background.
  • And someone's using this for a tool.
  • I was a respiratory therapist prior to us having even licensure.
  • I've not seen us go down a path before that has done that, so I don't know.
Keywords: 959, house, all
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships May 5th, 2025

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

Transcript Highlights:
  • substitute and House bill 1928 not hearing any not seeing any chair And I just hope you'll encourage us
  • When using this training as the basis by which these judges determine abuse or neglect, there must be
  • I understand, but the main goal for us is to make sure. works. Right.
  • . and not based on the exchange of resources, but us putting our son at the forefront of this.
  • Thank you for joining us. It's 28 and testifying for herself. Is that correct? That's correct.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Civil Law and Procedure May 5th, 2026

Civil Law and Procedure

Transcript Highlights:
  • an amendment to allow the legislature to appropriate $500,000 from the lottery proceeds fund to be used
  • Ma’am, just give us your name. She’s representing herself. My name is Jillian Edwards Coburn.
  • I ask us to focus on what is fair, not merely on what some institutions think is right.
  • HB 603 provides relative to the authorized uses of public funds.
  • The proposal... ...the authorized uses of public funds.
Bills: HB165 , HB603 , SB77 , SB140 , SB185
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships May 5th, 2025

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

Transcript Highlights:
  • When using this training as the basis by which these judges determine abuse or neglect, there must be
  • That they presented to us and so it was kind of in the same um. Vein as your bill is.
  • I understand, I understand, but the main goal for us is to make sure it works. Right.
  • , but us putting our son at the forefront of his.
  • And so the judges actually contacted us, rural judges said, would you all please get us the same $500,000
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Civil Law and Procedure May 5th, 2026

Civil Law and Procedure

Transcript Highlights:
  • an amendment to allow the legislature to appropriate $500,000 from the lottery proceeds fund to be used
  • to transfer $500,000 annually from the lottery proceeds fund to the Veterans Service Grant Fund for use
  • Ma’am, just give us your name. She’s representing herself. My name is Jillian Edwards Coburn.
  • I ask us to focus on what is fair, not merely on what some institutions think is right.
  • HB 603 provides relative to the authorized uses of public funds.
Summary: The Civil Law Committee met on May 5, 2026, and first considered House Bill 165 by Representative Abear, a constitutional amendment to dedicate $500,000 annually from lottery proceeds to a veterans service grant fund. The committee adopted a technical amendment removing “up to,” approved the 6.8A report, and reported the bill with amendments without objection. The committee then heard Senate Bill 185 by Senator Presley, which would make nondisclosure agreements in civil settlements involving child sexual abuse victims against public policy and unenforceable. Senator Presley and Elizabeth Phillips testified in support, describing the bill as part of the “Trey’s Law” movement to prevent survivors from being silenced. Additional supportive testimony came from Gillian Edwards Coburn, and committee members discussed how NDAs work in civil cases and the need to protect children’s ability to speak. The bill was reported favorably without objection. Next, the committee considered Senate Bill 77 by Senator Miller, a Law Institute measure on the effects of leases of movable property. Testimony explained that the bill is intended to protect good-faith lessees of items such as heavy equipment when a merchant leasing the property lacks authority to do so. The bill was reported favorably without objection. The committee also heard Senate Bill 140 by Senator Miller, which clarifies that multiple successions may be handled in the same proceeding when jurisdiction is proper. Members discussed the cost and efficiency benefits for families, and the bill was reported favorably without objection. Finally, the committee took up House Bill 603 by Representative Wright, a constitutional amendment authorizing state investment in digital assets and precious metals. Members questioned whether the language could include Bitcoin and how such investments would be monitored, with the sponsor saying implementation would be handled later by statute and public officials. The committee adopted the 6.8A report and then voted 5-3 to report the bill favorably. The meeting then adjourned.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - Part 2 - 03/27/25

Judiciary and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
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  • </c> not relying on case law that none of us not relying on case law that none of us have<00:27:12.000
  • </c> more in the bill we had in front of us more in the bill we had in front of us last<01:20:03.480>
  • > it</c> benign uses that you and I may use it benign uses that you and I may use it for<01:25:30.920
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Keywords: 1187, senate, all
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Children and Family Law (02/24/2026)

Children and Family Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • so the rest of us could live safely. so the rest of us could live safely.
  • </c> us. Thank you. us. Thank you.
  • I will ask our committee researcher to find that and email it to us. Can you do that for us?
  • do that for us? Thank you. Kindly, can do that for us? Thank you.
  • </c> us about anything else? us about anything else?
Keywords: 1189, house, all
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Health Committee Apr 21st, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • I mean, a lot of us do it.
  • Thank you for hearing us today.
  • Thank you for hearing us today. hearing us today.
  • Many drugs used to treat serious mental illness and substance use disorders also carry serious safety
  • That would be the win-win for us.
Summary: The Assembly Health Committee heard a long agenda of health-related bills, with most items presented for later vote once quorum was reached. Early in the hearing, the committee adopted a consent calendar of multiple bills with motions for due pass to Appropriations, and it noted that AB 2029 had been pulled from the agenda. The committee also took up AB 1973, a bill by Aguiar-Curry to expand who may provide procedural abortion care. Supporters, including physicians and certified nurse midwives, argued the bill would align law with current training and improve access, while opponents said later-term abortion procedures require physician-level surgical training and raised safety concerns. The author emphasized hands-on training, consultation, and transfer protocols, and the bill was held pending quorum with a motion and second recorded. The committee then heard AB 1558 by Arambula, which would adopt the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act to speed the use of out-of-state licensed volunteers during declared disasters. Supporters from the Uniform Law Commission and the Red Cross said the bill would reduce delays and clarify legal authority for volunteer health workers; there was no opposition testimony. AB 2282 by Alanis, a temporary rural emergency stabilization center for Patterson while a permanent hospital is built, drew support from local emergency responders and a late opposition from the California chapter of ACEP. The chair praised the bill as a creative local solution and agreed to coauthor it; a motion and second were recorded, with the vote to occur later. Several public health access bills followed. AB 1843 by El-Hawari would limit prior authorization and align hepatitis C treatment coverage with medical guidelines; supporters said it would remove barriers to a curable disease, while health plans opposed it as a mandate, citing premium impacts and the recent SB 306 prior-authorization process. AB 2247 by El-Hawari would create the THRIVE program for mental health services for youth affected by gun violence; Youth Alive and other supporters described trauma-informed, community-based care, and the chair and another member asked to be added as coauthors. AB 2138 by Krell would expand access to certified peer support specialists in enhanced care management and remove automatic disqualifications based solely on criminal history; supporters said peers are essential to engagement and recovery, and the bill was held with a motion and second. Later, AB 1682 by Hart would require coverage of scalp cooling for chemotherapy patients, with emotional testimony from cancer survivors and clinicians; insurers opposed it as another mandate, but the author stressed the modest per-member cost and the bill was moved with a motion and second. AB 1879 by Dixon would standardize data reporting for alcohol and drug treatment facilities, including private providers, to improve statewide information on outcomes and access; the bill drew broad support from recovery organizations and the prior opposition was withdrawn after amendments. AB 1906 by Aguiar-Curry would require coverage of at-home cervical cancer screening kits without cost sharing; supporters cited improved access for rural and working Californians, insurers opposed it on affordability grounds, and the bill passed on a recorded roll call after quorum was established. Finally, AB 1556 by Haney would clarify and support drug-free recovery housing and return-to-use policies; supporters said it would expand sober housing options, while opponents warned it could allow evictions after relapse and conflict with Housing First principles. The hearing ended with the bill still under discussion and opposition-unless-amended concerns noted.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part II) Aug 18th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • last year that it can be used.
  • And I guess this, I used this example last week, so I hate to use it again.
  • They don't use SB15; they use Chapter 143. I'm sorry, could you say that again?
  • They don't use a bill that hasn't passed. They use Chapter 143. It's just not happening.
  • I got a memo here for us.
Bills: SB2 , SB3 , SB5 , SB9 , SB10 , SB14 , SB16 , SB18 , SB34 , SB6 , SB7 , SB8 , SB11 , SB12 , SB13 , SB15 , SB 2 , SB 3 , SB 5 , SB 9 , SB 10 , SB 14 , SB 16 , SB 18 , SB 34 , SB 6 , SB 7 , SB 8 , SB 11 , SB 12 , SB 13 , SB 15 , SB 17 , SB 4 , SB1 , SB2 , SB3 , SB5 , SB9 , SB10 , SB14 , SB16 , SB18 , SB34 , SB6 , SB7 , SB8 , SB11 , SB12 , SB13 , SB15 , SB17 , SB4
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part I) Aug 18th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We ask, Father God, that you bless the people of Texas. that you guide us each and every day in the decisions
  • Be with us as we craft legislation to address these needs and to make certain, Father God, in their memory
  • that horrible things like this don't happen again in this wonderful state that you've given us.
  • We pray. are your blessing on all that you do for us.
  • Give us guidance in every action and every step each and every day.
Bills: SB2 , SB3 , SB5 , SB9 , SB10 , SB14 , SB16 , SB18 , SB34 , SB6 , SB7 , SB8 , SB11 , SB12 , SB13 , SB15 , SB 2 , SB 3 , SB 5 , SB 9 , SB 10 , SB 14 , SB 16 , SB 18 , SB 34 , SB 6 , SB 7 , SB 8 , SB 11 , SB 12 , SB 13 , SB 15 , SB 17 , SB 4 , SB1 , SB2 , SB3 , SB5 , SB9 , SB10 , SB14 , SB16 , SB18 , SB34 , SB6 , SB7 , SB8 , SB11 , SB12 , SB13 , SB15 , SB17 , SB4
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Aug 15th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It is in the name of Jesus who has saved us, who keeps us saved, and who's coming again that I pray.
  • and their mothers from the harm of abortion. ...prohibiting taxpayer-funded lobbying, including the use
  • Senate Bill 8 by Middleton et al. relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities
  • Senate Bill 13 by Middleton et al. relating to the use by political subdivisions of public funds for
Bills: SB2 , SB3 , SB4 , SB5 , SB6 , SB7 , SB8 , SB9 , SB10 , SB11 , SB12 , SB13 , SB14 , SB15 , SB16 , SB18 , SB34 , SB2 , SB3 , SB4 , SB5 , SB6 , SB7 , SB8 , SB9 , SB10 , SB11 , SB12 , SB13 , SB14 , SB15 , SB16 , SB18 , SB34 , SB 2 , SB 3 , SB 4 , SB 5 , SB 6 , SB 7 , SB 8 , SB 9 , SB 10 , SB 11 , SB 12 , SB 13 , SB 14 , SB 15 , SB 16 , SB 17 , SB 18 , SB 34 , SB2 , SB3 , SB4 , SB5 , SB6 , SB7 , SB8 , SB9 , SB10 , SB11 , SB12 , SB13 , SB14 , SB15 , SB16 , SB17 , SB18 , SB34
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Higher Education - 01/28/25

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
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  • <00:55:47.960><c> um</c><00:55:48.799><c> Workforce</c> us um Workforce us um Workforce scholarships<
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  • One might ask what makes us different, what makes us unique.
  • One might ask what makes us different, what makes us unique.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Session (03/06/2025)

New Hampshire House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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  • </c><04:02:05.399><c> to</c> come to us the legislature and ask us to come to us the legislature and
  • uh for us to overturn it and move the us uh for us to overturn it and move the liability<06:25:29.040
Keywords: 1189, house, all