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ID
Transcript Highlights:
- And that is unfair and results in an unfair legal system overall because the Attorney General has, what
- And that is unfair and results in an unfair legal system overall because the Attorney General has, what
- that are nonfunctional or counterfeit, and installing parts that defeat diagnostic systems, such as
- That mens rea—you can't, someone couldn't just put in an airbag system and not know it.
- reads: illegal voting, interference with elections, tampering with voting machines, or vote tally systems
Committee:
House Judiciary, Rules and Administration
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Feb 24th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- It removes the requirement to obtain experience at specific system classifications for each license type
- Costs associated with the move to the Chinden campus and the creation of our new licensing system have
- I agree—we shouldn't be spending money and procuring large language models or systems that are not kind
- We shouldn't be spending money and procuring, um, large language models or systems that are, you know
- use that they have, how would we then monitor or verify that the system they're using that can't be
Summary:
The House Environment, Energy, and Technology Committee approved the minutes from February 10 and February 16, then heard a rule docket from the Drinking Water and Wastewater Professionals Board. The agency said the rule changes clarified licensure categories, exam score validity, experience and continuing education requirements, and auditing of exam providers, while also increasing fees to rebuild the board’s cash balance. After questions about the board’s finances and the Senate’s objection to the fee increase, the committee approved the docket with Section 400, the fee section, struck.
The committee then took up House Bill 593, a code cleanup bill from Representative Scott that would repeal obsolete hazardous waste planning committee provisions and the Big Payette Lake Water Quality chapter. Members raised concerns about overlap with another bill and whether the repeal would conflict with other hazardous waste provisions. After discussion and a brief recess, the motion to advance the bill was withdrawn and the committee voted to hold House Bill 593 in committee to the call of the chair. House Bill 714 was also held in committee without hearing.
Finally, the committee heard House Bill 687 from Representative Schurz, which would restrict state agencies from procuring, deploying, or using large language models unless they are developed and implemented without DEI principles and with truth-seeking, ideologically neutral standards. Schurz cited concerns about the Recidiviz vendor used by IDOC and said the bill would require contract language, agency procedures, and vendor accountability. Members questioned how agencies could verify compliance and whether the bill would affect other uses of AI, but the bill was advanced on a due pass motion and sent to the House.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- I believe it's a complete system. I'm not sure exactly who I would say specifically.
- And we've talked and talked and talked about the system being broken. The system isn't broken.
- The system is working exactly how it was designed to work. Thank you. They take...
- they're not going to play, if they're not going to play ball, if they're not going to change the system
- money and certain groups don't want to let go of the money, and that's the people coming into their system
Bills:
HB4336 , HB1818 , HB3194 , HB3538 , HB3682 , HB3762 , HB3793 , HB3930 , HB3931 , HB3934 , HB4124 , HB4200 , HB4410 , HB4457 , HB4473 , HB3884 , HB1912
Committee:
House Public Health
Keywords:
interventional pain management, pain management clinic, chronic pain, acute pain, spinal injections, epidural steroid injection, peripheral nerve block, nerve ablation, spinal cord stimulator, intrathecal infusion pump, endoscopic diskectomy, fluoroscopy, physician supervision, allopathic physician, osteopathic physician, CRNA, certified registered nurse anesthetist, nurse anesthetist, freestanding pain management facility, medical licensure
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Public Health - Part 1 Feb 18th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I believe it's a complete system. I'm not sure exactly who I would say specifically.
- Vertical integration system.
- And we've talked and talked and talked about the system being broken. The system isn't broken.
- The system is working exactly how it was designed to work.
- they're not going to play, if they're not going to play ball, if they're not going to change the system
Summary:
The Public Health Committee heard several bills, beginning with HB 4336, which updates definitions of acute and chronic pain to align with the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act and adds certain violations as unprofessional conduct. The committee adopted a PCS as the working draft, took no questions, and passed the bill 7-0. HB 3194, which would prevent pregnancy centers from being singled out for discrimination or censorship based on pro-life principles, drew questions about oversight, medical staffing, ultrasound interpretation, and contraceptive counseling; after discussion, it passed 6-1.
The committee then passed HB 3934, described as a measure to help rural Oklahoma children get dental care through dental hygienists, with a question confirming parents could opt in or out. HB 3762, dealing with chiropractic practice and defining “serum” to cover vitamins, minerals, and nutrients while excluding blood products, was amended in committee but did not receive a motion and remained in committee. HB 1818, clarifying licensed social workers as licensed bachelor social workers and aligning Oklahoma with neighboring states, passed 6-0.
Later, HB 3538 on pharmacy benefit manager vertical integration and community pharmacy reimbursement passed 7-0 after extensive discussion about independent pharmacy closures, mail-order pharmacy issues, specialty drugs, and network access. HB 3682, the Oklahoma Clean Indoor Air Act, would prohibit smoking in most public gathering places while allowing certain exceptions and local governments to adopt stricter rules; it passed 7-0. The committee also heard HB 3793, a placeholder bill on nursing education and diploma programs intended to address workforce shortages, but no motion was made and it remained in committee. The meeting ended with a short recess for the swearing-in of a new representative-elect.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appr/Sub-Education Feb 4th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- This year, before the end of this year, we will have all of our transmitters placed in the system.
- So our entire system is not only replacing our transmitters but is also all fiber.
- That's a major accomplishment for our system. Quickly, I will talk about some of our challenges.
- When it comes to PBS learning media, we have a system that has 100,000 titles on it.
- The industry, it may not even be, but just overall, I just would like to hear how our current system
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Labor & Commerce Feb 3rd, 2026 at 10:30 am
Labor & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- These governance failures are compounded by major program shortcomings, including a traceability system
- These governance failures are compounded by major program shortcomings, including a traceability system
- that has failed to deliver reliable, actionable data, program shortcomings, including a traceability system
- the bill's passage is actually likely to have negative effects due to the interoperability of many systems
- if L&I determines that a worker is disabled under workers' comp, and the Department of Retirement Systems
Bills:
SB6290 , SB6282 , SB5379 , SB6197 , SB6158 , SB6302 , SB5882 , SB6303 , SB6180 , SB6195 , SB6196 , SB6204 , SB6287
Committee:
Senate Labor & Commerce
Keywords:
liquor regulation, cannabis board, reorganization, state agency, governance, apprenticeship, behavioral health, construction trades, workforce training, wellness, interest arbitration, parks and recreation, public employees, labor relations, employee rights, SB 6197, plumbing contractor, plumber, contractor licensing, licensing enforcement
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- , you know, not be required to take former PDF or some like that, but do it through an electronic system
- And those costs don't change, whether it's private or whether it's public costs of our permitting systems
- It's important that we have a uniform system and I think that's a really good thing.
- But again, the cash ATM's are regulated by entire financial system.
- And while some would tell you that it is a perk of the system to be able to walk into a supermarket and
Committee:
House Commerce Committee
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- 151,000 Arizonans living with dementia and 242,000 unpaid family caregivers and countless health system
- Director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System: Virginia Roundtree.
- Director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System: Virginia Roundtree.
- Director of the Arizona Healthcare Cost Containment System, Virginia Roundtree.
- Director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, Virginia Roundtree.
VT
Transcript Highlights:
- school brings local foods and agriculture into the classroom, enabling students to engage with food system
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TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Mar 31st, 2025
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, for, uh, getting back into the system. So we are quite supportive of the bill. Thank you.
- We show you registered as Katrina Daniel on behalf of the Texas Retirement Teacher Retirement System
- the evaluation and reporting of investment practices and performance of certain public retirement systems
- IPPE reports for retirement systems and for the Pension Review Board, which administers this reporting
- Excuse me, retirement systems with greater than $100 million in assets report every 3 years, and those
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
March 27, 2025 - 03:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- All right, the healthcare facilities and systems subcommittee will come to order.
- The whole point of it is to benefit not only the patient. but the hospital systems in making sure they
- They're able to, hopefully from the hospital systems' perspective, recoup some of these dollars.
- Consumers and employers in the current system face high costs. and lack of choices in health insurance
- This was without having any confirmation of the illicit fentanyl already in his system.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- It also increases the number of programs the college system must offer as a money-back program from three
- but they cannot be any more stringent than our current requirements for the Florida unemployment system
- by allowing any individual who has withdrawn from high school and has not engaged in any education system
- First of all, if a student drops out of school and they are W-2'd out, they are now outside of the system
- They are now outside of the system.
Committee:
House Education & Employment Committee
Summary:
The Education and Employment Committee met with a quorum and heard four bills. CS/HB 1145 on workforce education clarified that public charter schools may receive CAP grant funds, expanded the number of college system money-back programs from three to six, and standardized eligibility rules while allowing institutions some flexibility. Supporters said it would help students access career training without adding new funding in the bill. The committee also heard CS/HB 1079, which expands dropout retrieval program eligibility to any individual who has withdrawn from high school and is not engaged in education, while resolving statutory conflicts about program structure; some members raised concerns about FERPA, student privacy, and third-party funding, but the bill was reported favorably despite one no vote from Rep. Valdes.
The committee then considered HB 251, which would designate January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Florida. The sponsor and supporters described the bill as a response to rising antisemitism and emphasized education, remembrance, and opposition to hate. Testimony came from a Miami-Dade school board member, a student, and other supporters, and members spoke strongly in favor of the measure. The bill was reported favorably with no opposition.
Finally, the committee heard CS/HB 261 on middle and high school start times. The bill revises the earlier mandated later-start-time law by allowing districts to comply through a report to DOE detailing start times, planning efforts, public input, and impacts, rather than requiring immediate uniform implementation. Supporters from small school districts, Miami-Dade, PTA, and other organizations said the change preserves the health goal while giving districts flexibility to address transportation, dual enrollment, athletics, and staffing constraints. Members debated the need for parental involvement and detailed reporting, but the bill was ultimately reported favorably on a unanimous vote.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Environment and Natural Resources Jan 14th, 2025
Environment and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- reallocate funds to get the most bang for the buck for reducing nitrates and phosphorus out of the system
- If central sewer is not available, instead of using traditional septic tanks, new septic systems are
- required to be nutrient-reducing septic systems.
- central sewer is not available instead of using traditional septic tanks requiring that new septic systems
- be nutrient-reducing septic systems.
Committee:
Senate Environment and Natural Resources
Summary:
The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources convened with a quorum present, heard opening remarks from Chair Rodriguez and member introductions, and discussed broad priorities including water quality, climate change, budget oversight, and accountability for environmental investments. Members emphasized concerns about nutrient pollution, springs, Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades, and the need for better data and measurable results.
The committee then received a presentation from DEP Deputy Secretary Adam Blaylock on the state’s water quality restoration framework. He explained how water quality standards, total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), Basin Management Action Plans (BMAPs), and reasonable assurance plans work together to address impaired waters, and noted that BMAPs are updated every five years with annual reviews in between. He also described recent statutory changes requiring five-year milestones, restrictions on new septic systems in certain areas, and public-facing data tools to track projects and water quality trends.
Members questioned whether BMAPs are producing enough improvement and whether the five-year update cycle is too slow. Blaylock said results can take years because of project lag and environmental variability, but that the department can adjust plans if data show they are not working. He also highlighted $2.9 billion in statewide water quality funding since 2019, nearly 1,100 funded projects, and a $1.1 billion water quality improvement grant program that now covers impaired waters beyond BMAP areas. The committee discussed agricultural projects, DEP and FDACS funding roles, and a new dashboard and centralized monitoring platform under development. No formal votes or other actions were taken, and the meeting ended with adjournment moved by the vice chair.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Appropriations Committee Jun 24th, 2026
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- It's like our water systems, our highways, and universities.
- It's like our water systems, our highways, and universities.
- I'm a trustee of UAW Local 4123, the union for academic student workers throughout the Cal State system
- Josh Gagra on behalf of the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems in support.
- Josh Gagra on behalf of the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems in support.
Committee:
House Appropriations
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Jun 22nd, 2026
California Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- True pride demands that we dismantle all systems of oppression. Thank you.
- True pride demands that we dismantle all systems of oppression, not just the ones that target the ones
- we love, but also the systemic racism that threatens our very lives.
- built into the infrastructure of schools through policy, professional learning and student support systems
- where every student can learn. as well today and remains focus on building durable, equitable systems
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Health Care Financing Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Health Care Financing
Transcript Highlights:
- That's why I am here today to let you know we need to ensure the health care system serves us all as
- I've had to navigate the mental health care system for my own son, for his care and support.
- The entire system is starting to collapse under the strain.
- When care workers aren't paid fair wages, they leave the field and the entire system suffers, and the
- This has led to a staffing crisis in the care delivery system, leaving patients and providers stranded
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Health Care Financing held a public hearing focused largely on senior long-term care issues, family caregiving, post-acute care access, and direct care workforce pay. Testimony strongly supported bills to raise the personal needs allowance for nursing home and rest home residents (including H. 1411, S. 482, and related bills), with speakers from Mass Senior Action, Dignity Alliance, nursing home residents, providers, and former state officials arguing that the current $72.80 monthly allowance has been unchanged since 2008 and is inadequate for basic items like clothing, toiletries, haircuts, and transportation. Witnesses also backed bills to increase MassHealth asset and income limits for seniors and to stop counting life insurance as cash, describing the current rules as outdated and harmful to low-income elders.
The committee also heard testimony on bills allowing family members, including spouses and guardians, to be paid caregivers (H. 1394/S. 886), with supporters saying this would help families keep loved ones at home and reduce reliance on costly institutional care. Another set of bills (H. 1412/S. 903) drew support from a physician who said clearer MassHealth communication and improved post-acute care determination processes would help reduce delays and backlogs for patients awaiting skilled nursing, rehabilitation, or other post-acute placement. Several speakers emphasized that better home- and community-based care can prevent hospital readmissions and support independence.
A major portion of the hearing focused on S. 877, which would establish an enhanced care worker minimum wage of $25 per hour, indexed to inflation, for certain home care and human services workers. Union representatives and direct care workers from SEIU Local 509, 1199 SEIU, and the AFL-CIO described severe staffing shortages, burnout, low wages, and high turnover across home care, mental health, disability services, and crisis response. They argued that higher pay is necessary to recruit and retain workers and to stabilize services for vulnerable residents. Committee members asked about costs, comparisons with other states, and whether non-wage incentives could help, but witnesses repeatedly said wages were the central issue. The hearing concluded after all registered testimony was heard, with the committee noting it would continue accepting written testimony and then adjourning.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Financial Services Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am
Joint Committee on Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- And we need to mandate this bill mandate a kill switch in case of any bridge of the safety of the system
- No, I think that's the purpose of the point system, right?
- It's a simple bill, but that's a complicated system. We totally acknowledge that.
- The system is neither convoluted nor cumbersome, and it could not be more clear for folks.
- Additionally, autonomous vehicles promote sustainable transportation systems.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Financial Services
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Financial Services held a public hearing on a wide range of auto insurance and vehicle-related bills. Testimony focused heavily on autonomous vehicle regulation, auto insurance rating by ZIP code, rental car liability coverage, and surcharge thresholds for minor accidents. Representative Polito supported a bill to regulate autonomous vehicle testing and deployment, arguing for school-zone restrictions, slower speeds, a remote kill switch, and minimum insurance requirements to protect the public. Representative Mendez and Senator Payano testified for legislation to reduce racial and socioeconomic inequities in auto insurance pricing by limiting the weight insurers may place on territorial loss costs, while the Mass Insurance Federation and Consumer Federation of America offered opposing and supporting views, respectively, on the fairness and actuarial impact of geographic rating. The committee also heard support for a bill to remove inspection-sticker violations from license-point calculations, and for a bill to raise the damage threshold for insurance surcharges and minor/major accident classifications.
A substantial portion of the hearing addressed House Bill 1301 on rental car liability. Enterprise Mobility, the American Car Rental Association, and a small Massachusetts rental company supported the bill, saying personal auto insurers should be primary when their insureds drive rental cars, that Massachusetts is an outlier compared with most other states, and that the change would reduce costs and simplify claims handling. The Mass Insurance Federation opposed the bill, arguing that current Massachusetts law already clearly makes the vehicle owner’s policy primary and that shifting liability would raise costs for private-passenger policyholders. Committee members asked detailed questions about how rental coverage works, whether premiums or rental rates would change, and how other states handle the issue.
The committee also heard testimony on a bill to adjust surcharge rules for at-fault accidents, with sponsors arguing that repair costs and vehicle values have risen sharply and that the current thresholds are outdated. Members discussed how the point system affects drivers, whether the proposal should apply cumulatively or per incident, and how Carfax and out-of-pocket repairs factor into consumer costs. At the end of the hearing, the chair noted written testimony could still be submitted and, during a brief personal privilege, recorded support for two underinsurance bills, H. 1109 and S. 748. The committee then moved and seconded a motion to adjourn, and the hearing ended without any votes on the bills themselves.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee Jun 3rd, 2026
Energy, Utilities and Communications
Transcript Highlights:
- So what it suggests again is there is a significant amount of surge capacity still in the system, and
- the system is using that during these extraordinary moments.
- The redundancy, the reliability of a system.
- The California system was built for basically a one-fuel system.
- So when you start having For basically a one-fuel system.
Committee:
Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 118 Part 2 May 12th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, so briefly, this bill under our current system, social media platforms have 35 days to respond to
- They use accounting software, payroll software, scheduling platforms, point-of-sale systems, customer
- management tools, cybersecurity products, design programs, inventory systems, and basic productivity
- What kind of tax system are we trying to build?
- That means higher costs for accounting platforms, payroll systems, project management software, cyber
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Apr 27th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- She's guided by a deeply personal conviction that no family should have to navigate our immigration system
- Speaker and members, AB 2323 modernizes California's public notice system while preserving its role in
- It happens because systems, our systems, allow it, protect it, excuse it, and that includes spaces like
- We will continue to build systems that protect, support, and uplift survivors.
- Behind the screens we touch and the systems we rely on every day lies a legacy of a man whose strength
Summary:
The Assembly convened after a quorum call, offered prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, and then spent much of the early session on guest introductions recognizing students, interns, advocacy groups, sorority members, and other visitors. Members also noted Assembly Member Castillo’s birthday and announced a later floor photo for members wearing denim. The chamber then moved to the Daily File and took up a series of bills and resolutions.
Among the major actions, AB 2323 by Assembly Member McKinnor, on modernizing public notice while preserving transparency and due process, passed 57-0. ACR 149 by Assembly Member Hart, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the California Coastal Act and the Coastal Conservancy, drew extensive debate both in support and opposition before being adopted by voice vote, with 46 co-authors added. AB 2011 by Assembly Member Hart, codifying mental health parity standards, was also taken up, and AB 2691 by Assembly Member Addis, expanding disqualifying felony convictions for elected office to include sexual assault and human trafficking, passed 53-0. The Assembly also adopted HR 31 on Denim Day and Sexual Assault Awareness Month after lengthy testimony from members describing personal experiences and the need to support survivors.
The body then approved several policy bills with broad support, including AB 1621 on housing permitting timelines (64-0), AB 1704 on studying the cost of low-embodied-carbon building materials and pausing standards if cost parity is not reached (58-0), AB 1916 updating the definition of certified interpreter to include ASL interpreters (59-2), AB 2559 on returning construction and demolition permit deposits when compliance is documented (61-0), AB 2663 as an urgency sunset extension for alcoholic beverage law (64-0 on urgency and measure), and AB 2731 expanding on-sale general alcohol licenses in Santa Cruz County (63-0). The Senate consent calendar was also adopted. The session ended with an adjournment in memory of Josado Dado Banatao, honoring his life, engineering achievements, and philanthropy, followed by a motion to adjourn until April 30 at 9 a.m.