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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Director of the Office of School Safety and Security and members I'm doing this because he actually has water
Committee:
Senate Nominations
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- So we're not saying that we're just going to water down everything; let those focused degrees be at those
Committee:
Senate Senate Education
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Business and Commerce (Part II) Feb 27th, 2025
Business & Commerce
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Appropriations - S/C on Article III Feb 26th, 2025
Appropriations - S/C on Article III
Transcript Highlights:
- Water and energy is one of our main areas, as you would expect at an institution in the Permian Bay.
Committee:
House Appropriations - S/C on Article III
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
February 12, 2025 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- Is it microplastics from the bottle of water I'm drinking?
Summary:
The Health Care Budget Subcommittee held a panel discussion on Florida’s cancer research and funding programs, including the Casey DeSantis Cancer Research Program, the Florida Cancer Innovation Fund, the James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program, the Bankhead-Coley Research Program, and Live Like Bella. Dr. Ladapo and leaders from Moffitt, Sylvester/University of Miami, UF Health, and Mayo Clinic described how state funding has helped Florida’s four NCI-designated cancer centers expand research, recruit faculty, increase clinical trials, and build collaborations. They emphasized that the programs are intended to improve cancer care statewide, support innovation, and encourage more institutions to pursue NCI designation. The Governor’s budget recommendation was noted as including additional funding, and members asked about the cost and requirements of becoming NCI-designated and eventually comprehensive.
Panelists said NCI designation requires major infrastructure, compliance, research, and training investments, with de novo development estimated at about $1 billion. They described Florida’s collaborative model as unusual nationally, with annual symposia, shared pilot funding, and joint projects across the four centers. Members also asked about rural access, home-based care, and recruitment/retention. Mayo described its “Cancer Care Beyond Walls” home-treatment model and said it could expand to rural counties within months; Moffitt and UF discussed mobile screening, satellite sites, and affiliations with local hospitals and practices. Several members raised concerns about workforce shortages, licensure delays, and the need to reach underserved areas.
The discussion also covered outcomes, data reporting, and the broader economic impact of the cancer centers. Panelists cited growth in jobs, federal research funding, and clinical trial enrollment, and highlighted advances in immunotherapy, CAR-T, TIL therapy, carbon ion therapy, AI-driven screening, and the firefighter cancer initiative. They said the Florida Cancer Data System is being expanded to track recurrence and quality-of-life measures. Members also asked about philanthropy, medical tourism, and federal funding risks, including possible indirect cost reductions that could affect research budgets. The meeting ended with general support for continued investment, while some members noted an ongoing policy debate over whether future cancer research dollars should be concentrated in the four NCI centers or spread more broadly across the state.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Justice Feb 11th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- But I think there is any senator wish to be recorded as voting on the water gets.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Committee, May 4, 2026 - AM
Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- we've done traditionally in<01:41:27.920><c> Wyoming</c><01:41:28.440><c> are</c><01:41:28.600><c> water
- </c><01:41:30.240><c> And</c><01:41:30.800><c> like</c> in Wyoming are water projects.
- And like in Wyoming are water projects.
- We've used it oftentimes, maybe in water conservation, to use this water.
- And then that hole is going to translate into lots of water getting into your house.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- uh, they may open a satellite office or a clinic here at first to just kind of put their toe in the water
- uh, they may open a satellite office or a clinic here at first to just kind of put their toe in the water
- uh, they may open a satellite office or a clinic here at first to just kind of put their toe in the water
- uh, they may open a satellite office or a clinic here at first to just kind of put their toe in the water
- A clinic here at first to just kind of put their toe in the water and then see how things go.
Committee:
House Judiciary
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS Senate Floor - 4 February, 2026; 10:00 AM
Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Then you'll remember we were descended upon by the woman from New Jersey, Madame Fiji Water, with this
- when the Senate adjourns today, I would ask to do so for Landon Arbuckle, who was a seventh grader at Water
- Landon Arbuckle was a seventh grader for Landon Arbuckle was a seventh grader at<07:00:23.840><c> Water
- 24.558><c> Junior</c><07:00:24.798><c> High</c><07:00:25.040><c> that</c><07:00:25.200><c> lost</c> at Water
- Valley Junior High that lost at Water Valley Junior High that lost his<07:00:25.680><c> life.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Children and Family Law (04/03/2025)
Children and Family Law
Transcript Highlights:
- enforcement or by child protection because of the pre-questioning and the child's story then being watered
- enforcement or by child protection because of the pre-questioning and the child's story then being watered
- enforcement or by child protection because of the pre-questioning and the child's story then being watered
- enforcement or by child protection because of the pre-questioning and the child's story then being watered
- enforcement or by child protection because of the pre-questioning and the child's story then being watered
Committee:
Senate Children and Family Law
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division II (03/07/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- The problem is, without state funding, we are truly dead in the water.
- The problem is, without state funding, we are truly dead in the water.
- The problem is, without state funding, we are truly dead in the water.
- The problem is, without state funding, we are truly dead in the water.
- The problem is, without state funding, we are truly dead in the water.
Summary:
The Finance Division 2 work session first took up HB 506, a bill dealing with the return of seized firearms. Members discussed how the measure would shift background-check processing for firearm returns through the Department of Safety, while the physical firearms would still remain with local police unless State Police had taken custody. The department said the bill would change which cases come to it, and members clarified that the bill concerns the background-check decision rather than possession of the firearms. The committee then voted OTP on HB 506 FN by a 7-0 roll call.
The committee next discussed HB 671, establishing a kindergarten literacy readiness program. Department of Education staff explained that the bill grew out of a COVID-era Waterford contract that provided home-based early literacy support for families using federal relief funds, at a cost of about $600,000 per year, but that the program ended when those funds expired. Members raised concerns that the bill’s $1 appropriation was not realistic, that the prior program lacked sufficient outcome data, and that the references to ESSA tier-one benchmarks were unclear. The department said it was conducting a broader literacy needs assessment and updating the state literacy plan, including data from the zero-to-five range, K-5, and dyslexia-related work.
Waterford representatives described the program as an early-literacy, pre-K readiness service for children ages zero to five, originally designed to work in homes with computers and internet provided where needed, and later expanded in some settings such as daycares and pre-K classrooms. They said the program used assessments at the beginning and end, had served hundreds of children, and was intended to support family engagement and kindergarten readiness. Despite that testimony, members remained concerned about funding and the lack of clear results, and one member moved to retain the bill for more information. The discussion ended with the bill retained rather than advanced.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (01/23/2025)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- It's like water: if you have too much, it will kill you. So we should limit swimming pools?
- It's like water: if you have too much, it will kill you. So we should limit swimming pools?
- It's like water: if you have too much, it will kill you. So we should limit swimming pools?
- 00.480><c> like</c> you take too much it's poison it's like you take too much it's poison it's like water
- if you have too much will kill you water if you have too much will kill you so<01:48:03.080><c> we</
Committee:
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Day 59 (4-14-26) - Part 1
Kentucky Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Clerk, please take a drink of water and report the vetoes on House Bill 500. Thank you.
- take</c><05:43:13.920><c> a</c><05:43:14.080><c> drink</c><05:43:14.240><c> of</c><05:43:14.480><c> water
- Clerk, please take a drink of water >> Mr.
- Clerk, please take a drink of water and<05:43:14.958><c> report</c><05:43:15.280><c> the</c><05:43:15.600
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- the United States Barack Obama, a number of Hollywood celebrities, they all buy homes right on the water
- homes</c><02:15:24.960><c> right</c><02:15:25.199><c> on</c><02:15:25.440><c> the</c><02:15:25.599><c> water
- </c><02:15:26.239><c> despite</c> buy homes right on the water despite buy homes right on the water despite
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (01/22/2026)
Commerce and Consumer Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- We don't need them in our water system. We don't need them in our landfill system.
- don't need<03:32:34.800><c> them</c><03:32:34.960><c> in</c><03:32:35.200><c> our</c><03:32:35.439><c> water
- </c><03:32:36.080><c> We</c><03:32:36.239><c> don't</c> need them in our water system.
- We don't need them in our water system.
Committee:
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Ways and Means (04/29/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- They'll need roads, plow, water, sewer.
- They'll need roads, plow,<00:53:35.599><c> um</c><00:53:36.000><c> water,</c><00:53:36.480><c> sewer.
- </c><00:53:37.040><c> So</c><00:53:37.280><c> again,</c><00:53:37.599><c> you're</c> plow, um water,
- So again, you're plow, um water, sewer.
Summary:
The Ways and Means Committee held a public hearing on Senate Bill 291, which would update religious land-use and property tax exemption rules for church-owned parsonages, parish houses, and similar properties. Senator Tim Lang, speaking for the sponsor, said the bill was intended to address situations where former parsonages are no longer occupied by clergy and are instead used for church-related purposes such as housing staff, religious education, or congregate living tied to ministry, including addiction recovery. He emphasized that the bill was not meant to create commercial rental housing and that it also preserves reasonable zoning and environmental regulations.
Committee members pressed the sponsor on how the bill would be applied, especially the meaning of “religious purposes,” the six-unit limit, the “same lot” language, and whether churches could use the exemption to rent units for revenue. The sponsor said the six-unit cap was added to prevent large-scale commercial rental use, that congregate housing would be limited and defined, and that the bill was meant to cover uses like substance abuse recovery, homes for unwed mothers, and religious education, but not apartments converted for ordinary rental. He also said churches would still file annual exemption paperwork and towns could challenge claims they believed were commercial. Questions also raised concerns about whether the bill treated religious and nonreligious housing trusts differently; the sponsor responded that the bill was aimed at church-owned property used in pursuit of a religious mission.
Several witnesses testified in support. Representative Mark Pearson, an active clergyman, said the bill would not remove additional property from the tax rolls because clergy housing allowances typically lead clergy to buy taxable homes elsewhere, while the church-owned parsonage remains exempt. Nick Taylor of Housing Action New Hampshire supported the bill as a modest expansion that could help create more attainable housing by allowing better use of existing religious land and structures, though he noted his organization would support even broader use. The hearing ended without a vote or final action, and the chair closed questions after the testimony.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 4/11/25
Transportation Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- We all deserve clean air and water and the confidence of a better future.
- Our folks across the state build the transportation networks, infrastructure, water, roads, bridges,
- Our folks across the state build the transportation networks, infrastructure, water, roads, bridges,
- highway bonding would gobble up our ability for a bonding committee to also address other needs of clean water
Bills:
HF2438
Committee:
House Transportation Finance and Policy
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS House Floor - 4 February, 2026; 10:00 AM
Mississippi House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We're going to make them create rules and regulations for all available water sources.
- We're going to make them create rules and regulations for all available water sources.
- Well, if you're familiar with utilities and water and all that stuff, the town can't forgive the debt
- Well, if you're familiar with utilities and water and all that stuff, the town can't forgive the debt
- and all that stuff, they the and water and all that stuff, they the town<01:46:24.320><c> can't</c><
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division III (03/28/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- I had to go out to get a little bit<00:28:25.520><c> of</c> bit of bit of water.<00:28:27.600><c> Um<
- 28:28.720><c> that</c><00:28:29.440><c> what</c><00:28:29.760><c> you</c><00:28:30.240><c> lay</c> water
- Um I I think that what you lay water.
- I had to go out to get a little bit of water.
Summary:
The Division 3 work session focused largely on amendment 1176 to HB 2, which would have incorporated the substance of HB 548FN, a House-passed bill creating a direct-pay or membership-based model for health care facilities. Representative Mlan described the proposal as a way to increase competition in health care by extending the direct-care model used in primary care to facilities, arguing it could encourage innovation and that concerns about widespread harm to critical access hospitals were overstated. He pointed to Oklahoma’s long-standing Surgical Center model as evidence that the approach had not spread broadly or displaced hospitals there.
Several members and witnesses raised concerns. Representative Stringham questioned whether the model would shift profitable services and patients away from existing hospitals, potentially worsening their finances and affecting Medicaid-related funding. David Ross, speaking for county nursing homes, opposed the language because it also removed moratoriums on nursing home, skilled nursing, inpatient rehabilitation, and self-pay beds, warning that it could increase pressure on Medicaid rates and undermine community-based care. Ben Bradley of the New Hampshire Hospital Association said the proposal appeared to create a separate regulatory framework for direct-pay facilities and raised concerns about patient safety, CMS participation rules, and a separate patient bill of rights.
The chair concluded that, because HB 548 was already moving through the Senate, the HB 2 process was not the best vehicle for the policy and that the issue should be left to the Senate’s more deliberative committee process. Representative Ferski moved to not accept or remove amendment 1176 from the agenda, and the committee approved the motion by roll call, 9-0, withdrawing the item from HB 2.