Transcript Highlights:

• As you might have seen, the governor has included in his budget some funding for this, and we believe
• A fiscal note was not requested. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Any questions?
• A fiscal note is requested, but is not yet available.
• A fiscal note is requested, but is not yet available.
• Do you mind emailing that request? We'll take care of that. Thank you. Perfect.

Summary: The Senate Business, Trade, and Economic Development Committee met for its first session under the committee’s new name and heard a work session on Washington’s economic development policy from the Department of Commerce. Commerce described its Office of Economic Development and Competitiveness, including small business finance, export assistance, business attraction, and sector development work, and emphasized the need for a statewide economic development strategic plan with regular review, stakeholder input, and attention to rural and regional needs. Members asked about foreign trade offices, federal funding uncertainty, tax competitiveness, workforce programs, and the role of the Keep Washington Working program. Commerce said the state’s trade and investment efforts are valuable but face funding challenges, and that Washington must compete on more than taxes, including its business ecosystem and workforce. The committee then heard public testimony on Senate Bill 5919, which would encourage fire districts and insurers to develop voluntary incentives for wildfire mitigation best practices related to agricultural activities. The sponsor described the bill as a way to reward farmers for practices such as defensible space, fire breaks, equipment storage, and avoiding high-risk work during red flag conditions. A fire chief testified in support, citing recent standing grain fires and the need for practical incentives in rural areas. The bill was described as having no appropriation and no requested fiscal note. Members also heard testimony on Washington in the Making 2040 from the Association of Washington Business and a business owner. Supporters said the 16-year economic vision plan was built from broad public engagement and focuses on workforce, business climate, infrastructure, housing, and community. They argued Washington needs more housing, a more competitive regulatory and tax environment, and reliable energy to support growth. Senators questioned how the plan would achieve its housing goals and what specific regulatory changes were needed; AWB said it would provide a regulatory study soon. The committee also received a wildfire mitigation work group update from the Office of Insurance Commissioner, which recommended stronger community mitigation, better data sharing, consumer transparency, and a possible grant program for home hardening, though it did not reach full consensus on a single property mitigation standard. Finally, the committee held a public hearing on Senate Bill 5871, which would prohibit assignment of benefits in property and casualty insurance and set new rules for motor vehicle glass repair claims, including ADAS-related disclosures and limits on steering and inducements. The sponsor and supporters, including the Office of Insurance Commissioner, Safelite, NAMIC, and the Northwest Insurance Council, said the bill would reduce auto glass fraud, improve transparency, and help stabilize premiums. Independent glass shop owners and the Independent Glass Association opposed the bill as written, arguing it would favor large vertically integrated companies, restrict small businesses, and fail to address insurer steering and conflicts of interest. Several witnesses requested technical amendments, and the committee took no final vote before adjourning.

Transcript Highlights:

• With that, I'm happy to answer any questions and respectfully request the opportunity to close.
• And in terms of what is being in the House budget now, uh, what, what did we put in the Texas grant in
• Yeah, so in, in the House budget has passed the House floor, um, funded 70% of total eligible recipients
• I respectfully request the right to close. Thank you, Chairman.
• Always at my place, orchard tours and presentations are available upon request.

Committee: House Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:

• With that, I'm happy to answer any questions. respectfully request the opportunity to close.
• And in terms of what is... being in the House budget now, why did we put in the Texas grant?
• Yeah, so in the House budget has passed the House floor. funded 70 percent of total eligible recipients
• If so, okay, there is, and I respectfully request the right to close. Thank you, Chairman.
• Presentations are available upon request and I've given you a lot more than this.

Bills: HB3032 , HB3434 , HB3574 , HB5339 , HB5646

Committee: House Higher Education

Keywords: nursing education, clinical sites, health facilities, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, legislative study, healthcare training, tuition, financial assistance, higher education, public institutions, student support, nonresident students, Texas Education Code, resident tuition, scholarships, regenerative agriculture, grants, sustainable farming, soil health, bioremediation

Transcript Highlights:

• Request of the agency.
• Chairman, I do have a rider in the budget on this particular bill, and I'm hoping that it would stay
• seven million dollar kind of... cost a year compared to the billions that we've been adding to the budget
• We're not asking or requesting them to spend money. There’s no fiscal note on this.
• Request the right to close. All right, what's that? I request the right to close. Yeah.

Bills: HB231 , HB231 , HB475 , HB488 , HB632 , HB821 , HB1786 , HB1955 , HB2036 , HB2060 , HB2659 , HB2677

Committee: House S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health

Keywords: HB 231, Texas Water Code, TCEQ, permit exemption, dam, reservoir, erosion control, flood control, floodwater control, sediment control, watershed protection, Natural Resources Conservation Service, NRCS, Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act, local sponsor, water appropriation, small dam, water diversion, maintenance, rehabilitation

Transcript Highlights:

• under the existing compact. existing compact, if a receiving state says no, we do not have further request
• Request passage Thank You representative noble if there's no objection the bill will be left pending
• Madam Chairman, I respectfully request passage. Thank you, Representative Noble.
• Cooking nutritious meals on a tight budget under food labels or managing dietary restrictions can be
• So, in those screenings, our MCOs are required to refer and provide resources to, if the member requests

Bills: HB26 , HB140 , HB141 , HB142 , HB215 , HB26 , HB140 , HB141 , HB142 , HB215

Committee: House Human Services

Keywords: Medicaid, nutrition support, maternal health, chronic conditions, pilot program, DFPS, Department of Family and Protective Services, child protective services, child abuse investigations, child neglect, child exploitation, advisory committee, Family and Protective Services Council, council abolition, foster care, due process, investigative procedures, child welfare, parental rights, family preservation services

Transcript Highlights:

• I respectfully request an aye vote. Thank you, Assembly Member Bonta.
• I request an aye vote. Thank you, Assembly Member Papin.
• I respectfully request an aye vote. I respectfully request an aye vote. Thank you.
• I respectfully request an aye vote. Thank you, Assembly Member Papan.
• I respectfully request an aye vote. Thank you, Assembly Member Papin.

Summary: The Assembly convened, established a quorum after a roll call, observed a moment of silence for John Burton, and proceeded with the Pledge of Allegiance and routine procedural motions. Members approved a rule suspension to allow floor amendments on SB 271 and SB 67, and several committee notices and bill referrals were handled. The chamber then moved through a long third-reading file, with many bills passed and a number of items temporarily passed or retained on file. Among the major measures approved were bills on civil rights and public safety (SB 477, SB 19, SB 36, SB 571, SB 580), health care and coverage (SB 257 on pregnancy as a qualifying life event, SB 530 on Medi-Cal access standards, SB 660 on health data exchange, SB 754 on menstrual product contaminant disclosure), housing and disaster recovery (SB 610, SB 655), transportation and climate (SB 533 on EV charging payments, SB 30 on diesel locomotives, SB 71 on CEQA exemptions for transit, SB 263 on tariff impacts), and natural resources/energy (SB 283 on battery storage safety, SB 88 on biomass emissions, SB 427 extending the Habitat Conservation Fund). The Assembly also passed urgency measures including SB 864 on tribal gaming compacts, SB 663 on wildfire-related property tax relief, SB 471 expanding DDS ombudsman authority, and SB 497 on privacy protections for legally protected health services. Several bills drew notable debate. SB 41 on pharmacy benefit managers saw opposition over concerns about moving ahead before broader PBM data and licensing reforms take effect, but it still passed. AB 1340, a concurrence item on gig worker collective bargaining rights, prompted extended debate over labor rights, consumer costs, and union influence. Other concurrence items included AB 671 on restaurant permitting, which passed without opposition. The Assembly also took up SB 640 on direct admission to CSU, SB 702 on demographic reporting for appointees, SB 710 preserving a solar property tax exclusion, and SB 793 on counterfeit lighter safety, all of which passed. The session ended with the Assembly continuing through the file, including concurrence votes and additional bill actions, with most measures approved by substantial margins.

Transcript Highlights:

• Our budget is now $7.2 billion, and that includes both the Olympics and Paralympics.
• I will say that, you know, in the governor's budget, there's a 90... You know, we can't do that.
• And, you know, as you know, we have budget challenges.
• And so we are engaging the corporate world in exactly that kind of request as well.
• So I want to share some context for our budget gap to the Legislature.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• </c><00:25:11.679><c> and</c> responding to information requests and responding to information requests
• &gt;&gt; Budget,<00:26:01.360><c> right?</c> &gt;&gt; Budget, right? &gt;&gt; Budget, right?
• The NIL request. request. request.
• Uh, I respectfully request your support of her nomination.
• So, yeah, we would request if you could send that in.

Committee: Senate Education

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This is actually something that they have requested. Many of their employers have requested it.
• .<00:25:51.520><c> Anybody</c> requested.
• While we run a balanced balanced budget.
• I have a request and an announcement. Okay. Well, how about the request, Senator?
• I request &gt;&gt; Thank you, Mr. President.

Keywords: MS Senate Floor - 9 February, 2026; 2:00 PM, 925, all

Transcript Highlights:

• years, this is the first time that I've been on the jobs committee, and when I saw in the governor's budget
• years, this is the first time that I've been on the jobs committee, and when I saw in the governor's budget
• in the jobs committee and when I saw in the governor<00:03:54.200><c> Wall's</c><00:03:55.079><c> budget
• ><00:03:55.439><c> proposal</c><00:03:56.400><c> that</c><00:03:56.560><c> he</c> governor Wall's budget
• proposal that he governor Wall's budget proposal that he wanted<00:03:57.079><c> to</c><00:03:57.400

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• I know there are people on a time budget today, so we're going to just jump right in.
• This is not a request, but it is. For not contacting each of you individually.
• This is not a request, but is born from multiple inquiries and concerns, both in my district and across

Committee: House Rules

Keywords: 914, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Arizona, the House of Representatives of the 57th Legislature, second regular session, accede to the request
• Constitution of Arizona, the House of Representatives of the 57th Legislature, second regular session, request
• HB 2015, budget procedures, late filing. HB 2016, late filing.

Summary: The House convened with prayer by Deacon Ernesto Ramirez and the Pledge of Allegiance led by Representative Rachel Keshel. The journal from January 12 was approved, and Dr. Andrew Carroll was introduced as Doctor of the Day. Members also heard a proclamation recognizing January 13 as Arizona Human Trafficking Awareness Day, with remarks highlighting the work of the Arizona Human Trafficking Survivor Coalition and the importance of survivor-led prevention and awareness efforts. The chamber then handled routine business, including messages from the Senate and two motions related to adjournment. The House agreed to grant the Senate consent to adjourn after Thursday, January 15, 2026, until Tuesday, January 20, 2026, and also requested the Senate’s consent for the House to do the same. Members observed personal remarks for former Senator Barbara Left and Representative Kyle Powell. A long list of bills and resolutions was introduced and read for first and second reading, covering topics such as elections, water policy, education, public safety, health care, agriculture, taxation, and several memorials and resolutions. No substantive debate or votes on those measures occurred in this transcript. Committee announcements were made for several meetings, and the House adjourned until 1:15 p.m. on Wednesday, January 14, 2026.

Transcript Highlights:

• And it was hard not to support the bill, but we're basically doing everything that the bill is requesting
• So we appreciate the bill, but we're basically doing everything the bill requests now, and it's working
• We do have in our budget to fill the other positions; we’re just unable to hire at the moment.

Committee: Senate Hawaiian Affairs

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committees considered several Senate bills and one House bill across multiple decision-making segments, with testimony focused mainly on SB 903, SB 439, SB 938, and HB 1440. For SB 903, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs supported the measure and emphasized that the Public Lands Trust Working Group should complete its scope of work before baseline settlement discussions. The committees then adopted chair-recommended technical amendments to SB 903, including blanking the appropriation and changing the effective date to June 30, 2059, and the measure was adopted with members voting aye or excused. A later agenda included many bills that were mostly advanced with technical amendments, effective-date changes, or recommittals to Ways and Means. Among them, SB 934 and SB 935 were recommitted; SB 65, SB 328, SB 465, SB 576, and several others were passed with amendments that often blanked appropriations or changed dates; SB 329, SB 448, SB 744, SB 1023, SB 1269, SB 1361, SB 1381, SB 1491, SB 1530, and SB 1547 were passed unamended; SB 828, SB 1220, and SB 1487 were deferred. The committee also adopted amendments on bills such as SB 125, SB 558, SB 789, SB 997, SB 1234, SB 1388, and SB 1543, generally to clarify definitions, narrow scope, or add effective-date or governance language. For SB 439, the Division of State Parks testified that it already performs the fee studies and park-designation work contemplated by the bill, but supported the measure overall; OHA, the Care for ʻĀina Now Coalition, and other supporters testified in favor, while two individuals opposed it. The committees adopted SB 439 with LRB technical amendments. SB 938 received only departmental comments from the Department of Taxation and was passed unamended. HB 1440, which drew support from the State Ombudsman, the Legislative Reference Bureau, the State Auditor, and the Ethics Commission, was also passed unamended. In each decision-making segment, the committees voted to adopt the chair’s recommendations and then adjourned.

Transcript Highlights:

• It happens with every budget, every little tiny budget cycle that we have to go through.
• And for those reasons, we respectfully request a no vote. Thank you.
• Which requests amendments to give businesses the option to treat a deletion request as an opt-out of
• One of the things we try to ask requesters is, can you please narrow your request?
• the request?

Summary: The committee began as a subcommittee due to the lack of a quorum and heard several privacy- and technology-related measures. The first item was H.R. 117, a resolution urging Congress to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The author and supporters argued the law is outdated and shields platforms from accountability for harms such as harassment, exploitation, scams, and other online abuse. Witnesses, including a survivor parent and a gender justice advocate, described harms to children, women, and LGBTQ people and urged a two-year sunset to force federal reform. Some members supported the resolution as a call for federal action, while one member said he could not support it because the resolution was too general and lacked specificity about the reforms being sought. No vote was taken because the committee lacked a quorum. The committee then heard SB 898, which would require manufacturers of connected consumer products to disclose how long they will support the software and to notify consumers when products approach end of life. The author said consumers deserve transparency about security updates and continued functionality, and supporters from Consumer Reports and PIRG emphasized cybersecurity risks, consumer confusion, and electronic waste from unsupported devices. Opponents, including business and industry groups, raised concerns about enforcement through the unfair competition law, notice burdens, labeling issues, and compliance challenges, especially for products with long support windows or third-party dependencies. One member expressed support, noting the cybersecurity risks of end-of-life devices, but again no vote was taken because there was no quorum. The committee also heard SB 435, which would narrow the CCPA definition of publicly available information to limit how businesses classify data as public. The author and supporters said the bill would close a loophole that allows data brokers and others to monetize personal information without meaningful consent and could help prevent surveillance and misuse of data, including by government agencies. Opponents argued the bill would upset the balance between privacy and the free flow of information, create compliance uncertainty, and retroactively reclassify information that businesses reasonably believed was public. Some members said they supported the goal of stronger privacy protections, while others said the bill was too broad. The committee again could not vote due to the lack of a quorum. Later, the committee heard SB 923, which would expand Californians’ right to delete personal information to cover data obtained from third parties and require online businesses to offer a web form or similar method for deletion requests. Supporters, including the California Privacy Protection Agency and consumer advocates, said the bill would make deletion rights meaningful and better address data broker practices. Opponents sought an opt-out-of-processing alternative and raised operational and legal concerns, but supporters said deletion is not the same as retention or processing limits. Members largely spoke in favor of the bill’s privacy goals, but no action was taken. The committee also heard SB 947, the “No Robo Bosses Act,” which would require human review for certain automated employment decisions and limit predictive analysis in workplace discipline and termination. Labor groups supported the bill as a safeguard against biased or erroneous AI-driven decisions, while business, public employer, and local government groups opposed it as overbroad and burdensome. Members voiced support for human oversight in employment decisions, but the item was not voted on because the committee still lacked a quorum. Finally, the committee began hearing SB 1114, the SOGI Data Privacy Act, which would restrict disclosure of sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersex data to federal agencies absent a court order or legal requirement; the author and witness framed it as a response to federal efforts to obtain sensitive LGBTQ-related data.

Transcript Highlights:

• And we have, Representative Thomas, we have amended it, as he requested.
• I'm just curious why on page 2, line 12, "request the hearing and proves by" was stricken.
• "Request the hearing and proves by" was stricken.
• The judge is getting the evidence. request for a hearing or necessarily proof by the prosecutor.
• , because this is the most requested thing for the people and should be voted on for the people.

Committee: House House Consumer & Public Affairs

Keywords: 996, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Louis budget, which will completely bankrupt the city. ...of the city of St.
• A roll call vote has been requested. All those in favor will vote yes.
• "Usually only if they're requested." "Okay. So usually only.
• heard the claims from the other side, I think that what will happen is that it will accelerate a budget
• The next order of business will be bills carrying request messages, and I also recognize the gentleman

Keywords: 959, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• As long as we get this budget approved and we make sure we have some of these funds left over for some
• cutting things out, we've been talking about cutting fundamental things that people need from our budget
• Medicaid controls the budget. The budget is controlled by Medicaid.'
• The budget is controlled by Medicaid.
• And that's controlling and becoming metastatic to our budget.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• As this body works through the state budget, grant us clarity of mind and unity of purpose.
• Lord, help us craft a meaningful budget that works for all Arizonans.
• As this body works through the state budget, grant us clarity of mind and unity of purpose.
• Lord, help us craft a meaningful budget that works for all Arizonans.
• Lord, help us craft a meaningful budget that works for all Arizonans.

Keywords: 1182, all

Transcript Highlights:

• last bill is basically all the residents of Hawaii; part of their state income tax goes to the state budget
• 32.400><c> state</c> their state income tax goes to the state their state income tax goes to the state budget
• <00:22:33.840><c> state</c><00:22:34.039><c> budget</c><00:22:34.360><c> goes</c><00:22:34.559><c> towards
• </c><00:22:34.840><c> feeding</c> budget state budget goes towards feeding budget state budget goes towards
• So, with reservations, and request to submit written comments, so ordered.

Keywords: 910, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• And so the 2023 legislature passed some language requesting that the Department of Human Services embark
• We did it in a budget-neutral way, and I'll come back to that in a moment.
• What you're seeing here is a bit of a depiction of that budget-neutral concept that I mentioned.
• </c><00:07:43.319><c> uh</c> sometimes to address uh budget uh sometimes to address uh budget uh budgetary
• </c> you'll see that in the governor's budget you'll see that in the governor's budget with<00:18:57.159

Bills: HF1005

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy

Keywords: health insurance, medical assistance, behavioral health, reimbursement rates, primary care services, physician fee schedule, managed care, residential services, 1183, house