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NH
Transcript Highlights:
- . in the Planning and Zoning process as a in the Planning and Zoning process as a promise<01:19:23.080
- That's, you know, part of the process when they do like a title search.
- </c><01:25:48.000><c> and</c> entirely closed out of the process and entirely closed out of the process
- It's going to have to be a bipartisan process.
- Any formal process to that?
Committee:
Senate Commerce
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 01/28/25
Housing and Homelessness Prevention
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:08:53.120><c> are</c> residential development processes are residential development processes
- </c><00:19:29.760><c> of</c> updated or or are in the process of updated or or are in the process of
- The variance process was not easy.
- The variance process was not easy.
- </c><01:30:02.520><c> we</c> is available it's an exciting process we is available it's an exciting process
Committee:
Senate Housing and Homelessness Prevention
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/23/26
Agriculture Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- She has multiple wholesale contracts, and she just moved her farm to that land from Big River Farms last
- She has multiple wholesale<00:55:08.319><c> contracts</c><00:55:08.960><c> and</c><00:55:09.200><c> she
- contracts and she just moved her<00:55:10.000><c> farm</c><00:55:10.240><c> to</c><00:55:10.400><c>
- </c> collect needed information, this process collect needed information, this process requires<01:12
- By streamlining the process, the bill allows the department to focus its resources where they matter,
Committee:
House Agriculture Finance and Policy
Keywords:
eggs, donation, quality assurance, food assistance, charitable programs, agriculture, grain indemnity, financial security, crop insurance, Minnesota agriculture, farm assistance, down payment, state funding, loan modification, rotational grazing, grazing management, livestock, pasture management, soil health, erosion control
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- inflation calculation, we get ourselves ready for future transit, we have a more holistic planning process
- </c> language to establish a grant process language to establish a grant process and<00:58:02.200><c>
- </c> issues that are going on in that process issues that are going on in that process so<01:22:40.239
- In 2018, we contracted with an engineering firm and conducted a water and sewer system analysis.
- </c><01:27:43.880><c> with</c> useful lives in 2018 we contracted with useful lives in 2018 we contracted
Committee:
Senate Capital Investment
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Veterans and Military Affairs Division 3/19/25
Veterans and Military Affairs Division
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> attached. uh the accreditation process attached. uh the accreditation process here.<00:24:13.600
- </c> track a claim through the whole process. track a claim through the whole process.
- I expedited the processing paper.
- </c> that they're okay during that process. that they're okay during that process.
- </c><01:35:46.040><c> Leort</c> process because you know Mr. Leort process because you know Mr.
Committee:
House Veterans and Military Affairs Division
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- But we'll still go through the process.
- But what we want to do is contract all the groundwork out to local pest control companies.
Committee:
Senate Agricultural Affairs
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Science, Technology and Telecommunications Sep 23rd, 2025
Science, Technology & Telecommunications Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- It's not the entire list of what we do at Eastern, but it's a list of projects, contracts, and grants
- So they have a wastewater modification process, and they have a plant there that basically recycles half
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
WAM, WAM, JDC-WAM, JDC-WAM, WAM DEFER, WAM Public Hearings 02-28-2025
Transcript Highlights:
- I'd like to add a non-impairment of contract language and then amend the enforcement and penalty section
- It clarifies the process by which the Hawaii Community Development Authority may approve residential
Summary:
The Ways and Means committee met in several decision-making agendas and took action on a number of Senate bills. Early in the meeting, members adopted a measure with amendments that removed a section due to legal issues identified by the Attorney General and set an effective date of July 1, 2050. The committee then passed SB 14, SB 1434, SB 1443, and SB 152 unamended, and SB 1612 with amendments clarifying that certain requirements apply to buildings constructed after December 31, 2025, and defining joint custody between the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of Health for inmate mental health services and medications.
In a joint Judiciary and Ways and Means agenda, the committee considered SB 242 on foreign ownership of agricultural land. Members agreed to amendments adding non-impairment-of-contract language and revising enforcement and penalty provisions so consideration exchanged in a violating transaction would revert to the respective parties. The bill was adopted with reservations noted by several members. The committee also took up SB 534 on the Hawaii Community Development Authority and residential development on certain Makakilo Makai parcels, but because there was no consensus, the measure was deferred indefinitely.
Later Ways and Means agendas approved several additional bills, mostly unamended, including SB 878, SB 1146, SB 614, SB 891, SB 964, SB 1559, and SB 503. SB 1379 was passed with amendments adding a blank appropriation for acquisition of land for Community Readiness centers and an emergency operations center, with the funds to lapse on June 30, 2027. SB 1571 was amended to remove an advisory board and restore earlier authority language, and SB 1632 was amended to rank the appropriation and set the date to 2050. Across these votes, measures were generally adopted with some members recording reservations or being excused.
PA
Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session (Jul 12 2026)
Pennsylvania Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It is opposite in its thought process and logic.
- They're used in ways that we have not necessarily, through the legislative process, approved.
- This budget that we have before us reflects an imperfect product through an imperfect process.
- I'm sure we'll figure out later who gets that contract.
- And for a large company that processes these food processing residuals, it is not a deterrent.
Summary:
The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, communications, committee reports, and leaves of absence. The journal was approved 50-0. The chamber then took up House Bill 1505, which drew extended debate over school funding and adequacy/tax equity. Senators Coleman and Keefer argued the bill continued to pour money into districts like Allentown without accountability or improved results, while Senators Costa, Miller, Haywood, and Anthony Williams defended the funding as a response to historic underfunding and the Commonwealth Court decision. A motion allowing Senator Coleman a third speaking turn was adopted 27-23, and the bill ultimately passed 45-5.
The Senate then considered House Bill 2400, the General Appropriation Act. Supporters, including Senators Martin, Dush, Phillips-Hill, Costa, Ward, Street, Hughes, and Pittman, emphasized that the budget was balanced without using the rainy day fund or raising taxes, reduced the governor’s proposal, increased education and child care funding, supported nursing homes, rape crisis centers, infrastructure, and workforce programs, and shifted money from lapsed or unused accounts to current priorities. Opponents, including Senators Saval and Muth, said the budget failed to address structural deficits and omitted new revenue options, emergency services funding, and other major issues. The bill passed 44-6 with amendments and was returned to the House for concurrence.
The Senate also passed a series of other bills, including House Bills 2412, 2413, 96, 858, 1042, 1286, 1646, 1851, 1862, 2017, 2024, 2401, and 2559, with varying margins, and sent them to the House, some with amendments. House Bill 1042 drew a negative recommendation from Senator Costa over a late amendment involving second-degree murder/felony language, but after reconsideration and vote changes it passed 30-20 with amendments. House Bill 1862, creating an Ignition Interlock Driver’s License, passed 45-5 after support from Senator Judy Ward. House Bill 1248 passed 43-7 and designates Pennsylvania rye whiskey as the official state spirit, with Senators Bartolotta and Robinson speaking in support. The chamber also adopted Senate Resolution 216, after defeating Senator Haywood’s amendment to narrow the scope of a proposed Legislative Budget and Finance Committee study of managed care organizations; the resolution passed 31-19. Several other bills were held over in their order, and the Senate later moved toward a condolence resolution.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
CPN DEFER, CPN-HOU, CPN, CPN-EDT Public Hearings 02-03-2026
Commerce and Consumer Protection
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> through that grant application process. through that grant application process.
- They get the power to move and act as if they are a person, to form contracts and all of that.
- Contract that an entity is forming with the state.
- They get the power to move and act as if they are a person, to form contracts and all of that.
- </c><01:14:22.080><c> kind</c> really taking a methodical process kind really taking a methodical process
Committee:
Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection
Keywords:
combat sports, boxing, mixed martial arts, health regulations, safety standards, licensing, event regulation, 912, senate, all
Summary:
The committees first took up SB 2071 on rent-to-own housing. Testimony was generally supportive from HHFDC and Hawaii Realtors, but Sierra Club of Hawaii and others opposed the bill unless it was amended to exclude ceded lands from the 99-year lease provision. Members discussed the scope of ceded versus non-ceded lands and whether an inventory exists. The committees ultimately recommended passage with amendments, including HHFDC’s proposal to make the fixed-price period flexible by tying it to an option period and Sierra Club’s language limiting the program to non-ceded state or county land.
They then heard SB 2191 on limited profit housing associations. HHFDC supported the measure, while the Tax Foundation of Hawaii and the Office of the Auditor urged caution about tax exclusions and asked for clearer, more targeted limits and measurable outcomes. The committees adopted amendments to add a statement of purpose, include measurable metrics, apply the tax provisions to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025, and delay the effective date to allow for administrative changes. SB 2191 was recommended for passage with amendments.
The committees also considered SB 2197, which would have replaced the five-year fixed-price period in rent-to-own housing with an option period set by HHFDC, but deferred it indefinitely because its issues were addressed in SB 2071. SB 2180 on deposits of public funds drew comments from the Hawaii Bankers Association questioning definitions and noting banks are already subject to Community Reinvestment Act requirements; decision-making was deferred to the next day in the CPN committee and to a later date for the housing committee. Finally, SB 2210 on housing discrimination received support from disability advocates and the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, which asked for one additional investigator; the committees passed it with amendments adding a blank appropriation for one full-time position and planned to notify Ways and Means for possible re-referral.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, June 9, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- TIME PULLING NONVIOLENT, NONCRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS OUT OF COURT WHERE THEY'RE GOING THROUGH A LAWFUL PROCESS
- IT TAKES HARD WORK, SKILL, EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE, AND A DEEP Understanding of the legislative process to
- H.R. 252 prevents certain foreign entities from entering into contracts for the ownership, leasing, or
- H.R. 252 prevents certain foreign entities from entering into contracts for the ownership, leasing, or
- And was caught in that process.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/26
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> legislature is a part of that um process legislature is a part of that um process to<00:05:02.080
- </c> bills this year on what what the process bills this year on what what the process is<00:10:42.640
- </c><00:15:04.160><c> up</c> this process up this process up by<00:15:06.079><c> just</c><00:15:06.320
- </c> system that will help deter the process system that will help deter the process of<00:21:44.159>
- Um CMS did contracts with counties.
Bills:
HF3379
Committee:
House Human Services Finance and Policy
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- Medical Malpractice Task Force to study and make recommendations to improve the medical review panel process
- Medical Malpractice Task Force is to study and make recommendations to improve the medical review panel process
- medical malpractice task force to study and make recommendations to improve the medical review panel process
- State Board of Medical Examiners to study the feasibility of establishing a physician review panel process
- a safe harbor tied to compliance with the adopted workers' compensation reimbursement and review processes
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- recovery for the Office of the State Controller, providing reappropriation authority for the Data Processing
- If they're in the process of divorce, we're going to need both parents.
- Let me tell you just real quickly, there are processes in place that the Idaho High School Activism Association
- Should there ever be a problem, there's a process in place where they can get, a problem there's a process
- Parents that breach juvenile probation contracts only face up to $1,000.
Summary:
The House convened with a quorum, approved the journal, and received messages from the Governor and Senate. The Governor reported signing House Bill 624, while the Senate transmitted enrolled Senate Bill 1332 for the Speaker’s signature, sent Senate Bill 1361 to the First Reading Calendar, returned several House bills for enrollment, and reported House Bill 610 had failed in the Senate. Committee reports moved multiple bills forward, including appropriations measures and policy bills on elections, youth service organizations, agriculture, health and welfare, revenue and taxation, and general government. House Joint Memorial 19, calling for elimination of the U.S. Department of Education, was referred for printing. Several new appropriation and policy bills were introduced and referred, including House Bills 866 through 874 and Senate Bill 1361.
The main floor debate centered on House Bill 822, a parental-notification bill concerning minors’ requests related to social or medical transition in schools, child care, and health care settings. Supporters argued it protects parental rights and prevents schools or providers from withholding important information from parents, while opponents said the bill’s definitions were vague, its notification standard was unclear, and the potential penalties—up to $100,000—would chill teachers, coaches, child care workers, and medical providers. Concerns were also raised about committee procedure and the burden on professionals, while supporters responded that the bill only applies when a minor requests help facilitating a transition and that existing processes would prevent the hypothetical problems raised.
House Bill 822 passed the House on a 59-9 vote, with two abstentions and two excused, and was sent to the Senate. After passage, the House suspended Rule 27 by a 57-11 vote to prevent a minority report on the bill from being printed in the journal, prompting objections from minority members about procedural fairness. The House then held remaining third-reading bills one legislative day, made announcements, and adjourned until 10:30 a.m. on March 12, 2026.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- If they're in the process of divorce, we're going to need both parents.
- Let me tell you just real quickly, there are processes in place that the Idaho High School Activities
- Should there ever be a problem, there's a process in place where they can get..." "...a problem, there's
- a process in place where they can gather for communications.
- Parents that breach juvenile probation contracts only face up to $1,000.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Business and Insurance 2ND REVISED Feb 19th, 2026 at 09:30 am
Business and Insurance
Transcript Highlights:
- This kind of would streamline the process and probably make it more efficient and cut some costs in The
- about the other one coming up, but I do understand we want vehicles continue to move through the process
- It's an important contract and relationship between the consumer and the insurer, and It's incredibly
- , but I don't think it was necessarily homeowner's insurance that may have been going through the process
- I do not see this as a vehicle that needs to be moved through the process because I I just think it would
Bills:
SB1969 , SB1953 , SB1277 , SB1287 , SB1061 , SB1916 , SB1589 , SB2178 , SB1444 , SB1438 , SB1501 , SB1873 , SB1364
Committee:
Senate Business and Insurance
Keywords:
massage therapy, licensing, multistate compact, regulation, healthcare, professionals, Employer Health Plan Transparency Act, health insurance, claims data, contract provisions, health care providers, auditable materials, HIPAA compliance, insurance regulation, unemployment benefits, employment security, work search, job search, reemployment, jobless benefits
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Jan 29th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Each time it helps you understand a little better what the overall process is.
- And the typical process, we come into the Senate floor, one of our JFAC members will stand up and they'll
- is an opportunity by having us come into these committees to try to shed more light on the whole process
- And the typical process, we come into the Senate floor, one of our J-FAC members will stand up and they'll
- is an opportunity by having us come into these committees to try to shed more light on the whole process
Summary:
The committee held a courtesy presentation from JFAC members and staff on the state’s fiscal outlook, with a focus on the general fund, Medicaid, and the budget pressures facing fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Senator Groh and staff explained that JFAC raised the revenue forecast above the governor’s recommendation, but that projected costs from tax conformity and other factors largely erased that gain, leaving a very small ending balance. They also noted that the governor’s budget relies on some one-time money and that JFAC had asked agencies for additional 1% to 2% reduction plans beyond the governor’s proposed 3% cuts.
Alex Williamson presented the Medicaid portion of the budget, saying the Division of Medicaid faces an ongoing FY 2027 increase of about $235 million. She said about $84.8 million of that is offset by the already-implemented 4% provider rate cut, and another $67 million in governor-recommended reductions would require legislative action. Those options include further hospital rate reductions, cuts to residential habilitation rates, review of managed care administrative costs, and removal of some services in Idaho Code. Members asked whether reserve funds could be used instead of additional cuts, and Williamson deferred the broader fiscal picture to Mr. Bybee.
Keith Bybee then walked the committee through the state’s structural balance, cash reserves, and sales tax distribution. He said the state’s revenues and expenditures are no longer aligned over the long term, that the 2025 revenue forecast missed by more than $100 million, and that the current projected ending balance could fall to about $29.8 million if the governor’s plan and tax conformity are adopted. He emphasized that the Legislature must decide whether to use one-time money, make more cuts, or restore structural balance. Members debated whether the budget problem was driven by recent tax cuts and revenue assumptions, and several said they were reluctant to cut Medicaid further. No formal votes or actions were taken, and the committee adjourned after asking members to send feedback before the chair’s upcoming JFAC presentation.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- jurisdictions, we know of no other state or city that requires such a uniquely burdensome and impractical process
- I'm just bothered that y'all didn't raise your head at all during the process in the House, and now you're
- And again, you know, there's their permitting process that they go through, the chances of stopping them
- And again, you know, there's their permitting process that they go through, the chances of stopping them
- its associated private roads and across a public highway between the private roads under certain contracts
Committee:
Senate Transportation
Summary:
The Senate Transportation Committee heard a series of mostly local transportation and memorial designation bills. Several measures would rename highway segments in honor of fallen service members or public servants, including HB 2026 (Gary C. Johnston memorial highways in Archer County), HB 4429 (McIlroy Family Memorial Highway in Blanco and Burnet counties), SB 3062 (Hamby-Webb Memorial Highway in Panola County), HB 3510 (Sergeant Mark Butler Memorial Highway in Brazos County), and HB 3986 (Corporal Speedy Espiriueta Memorial Highway in Mission). The committee also heard HB 2560, which would create an optional county-road “adopt-a-road” style program allowing donations for county road repair and maintenance.
Two bills drew more substantive policy discussion. HB 2427 and HB 2455 concerned oversized/overweight freight corridors and permit authority in Hidalgo County tied to cross-border trade near the FARR International Bridge. Supporters, including the bridge director, said the measures would correct prior road descriptions, put existing TxDOT actions into statute, improve truck routing, and support trade and bridge expansion. The committee substitute for HB 2427 also removed Roma permit language, barred certain hazardous-material permits, raised permit fees, required local cost responsibility for road maintenance, and made the bill contingent on SB 2949. HB 5436 would allow licensed automotive recyclers to buy certain older, long-unregistered vehicles for dismantling or scrap without a title, with reporting, lienholder notice, and anti-theft safeguards; recyclers and dealers supported it as a way to curb illegal untitled-vehicle sales and VIN cloning.
HB 3966, authored by Sen. Alvarado, was the most contested bill. It would require commercial passenger bus companies to mail advance notice to residents within one mile before opening a new stop or terminal. Alvarado said the bill responded to the relocation of a Greyhound terminal into a Houston neighborhood without notice and to resulting crime and nuisance concerns. Greyhound opposed the bill, arguing the notice requirement would be burdensome and could delay emergency relocations during hurricanes, flooding, or lease changes. After testimony, the committee voted to report most bills favorably, with HB 3966 passing on a 5-2 vote; the other reported bills passed unanimously. Several bills were also placed on the local and uncontested calendar, and the committee recessed to the call of the chair.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
State government committee hears anti-fraud bill, HF2 1/23/25
Transcript Highlights:
- 00:03:15.200><c> Financial</c> Section five deals with mandatory reporting on violations of grant processes
- mandatory reporting on violations of mandatory reporting on violations of Grant<00:03:40.519><c> processes
- c> a</c><00:03:41.400><c> state</c><00:03:41.720><c> employee</c><00:03:42.159><c> who</c> Grant processes
- a state employee who Grant processes a state employee who discovers<00:03:42.959><c> evidence</c><00
- Representative Davis, is there any thought in paragraph one to including contract employees so that they
Summary:
The committee took up House File 2, a bill on mandatory fraud reporting and grant oversight. Representative Davis described the bill as a response to recent fraud scandals and said it would require state agencies to report suspected fraud immediately to law enforcement and legislative leaders, post organizational charts and staff contacts online, require unannounced site visits to verify grant recipients and financial stability, mandate reporting of grant-process violations to supervisors, the commissioner or designee, and the legislative auditor, and suspend or terminate grant agreements when recipients are charged with or convicted of related criminal offenses. He also said the bill’s concepts would apply to nonprofits through grant-making and oversight provisions.
Members asked several clarifying questions about whether reporting obligations were either/or or cumulative, whether whistleblower protections would cover those making reports, and whether contract employees should be included. One member suggested adding language for inspectors general or other appropriate law-enforcement contacts for clarity, and another raised the idea of halting funding immediately when fraud is reported; the author responded that section 10 already provides for immediate suspension upon criminal charges. Representative Joy supported the bill but suggested funding should stop during investigations, and Representative Anderson noted surprise that the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits was listed as an opponent. The author said he was open to considering contract employees and additional wording.
The chair announced the bill would be laid over because a fiscal note was not yet available, stating a commitment not to move bills out of committee without one. He said members could continue refining the bill and that the committee administrator could help contact the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits to seek more detailed concerns. The author closed by emphasizing the bill as a nonpartisan effort to address waste, fraud, and abuse in state spending.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 02/25/25
Housing and Homelessness Prevention
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> developments with expiring contracts developments with expiring contracts also<00:04:02.799><c>
- </c><00:08:22.680><c> to</c> fundings resources and processes to fundings resources and processes to
- </c> opportunities for industrywide processes opportunities for industrywide processes Staffing<00:09
- <00:51:23.000><c> uh</c><00:51:23.720><c> process</c><00:51:24.720><c> additionally</c> process uh process
- continue the process.
Committee:
Senate Housing and Homelessness Prevention