Video & Transcript Research : 'protected cell'
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OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee Jan 21st, 2026 at 09:00 am
A&B Education Subcommittee
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/34
Public Safety Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- I come to you here as somebody who has experienced what a cell feels like, right?
- I went through the pandemic inside of a cell and watched how something is vital to re-entry success as
- I come to you here as somebody who has experienced what a cell feels like, right?
- I went through the pandemic inside of a cell and watched how something is vital to re-entry success as
- I had my own 90-year-old grandmother turned away because they... has experienced uh what a cell feels
Summary:
The committee approved the March 22, 2024 minutes and then took up House File 3761, the Safety Through Support Act, with a motion to lay the bill over. Representative Lee Finke said the bill is intended to improve re-entry outcomes and public safety by expanding prison visitation, including mentoring and access for mental health and medical professionals, and by creating a task force to support rehabilitation and re-entry. Testifiers in support included Holly Bot, who described how family visits helped her through incarceration and later into successful re-entry and business ownership, and Zeke Caliguri, who argued that consistent visitation and community connection are essential to humanity, rehabilitation, and reducing recidivism. Elliot Bhai of NAMI Minnesota also supported the bill, framing visitation as a form of needed mental health support in prisons.
Members raised several concerns and suggestions. Representative Hudson questioned the bill’s strip-search limitation language, asking what would count as a credible, documented security concern, and also worried the task force could create discriminatory access or favor certain viewpoints. Representative Finke said she did not view a conviction as making someone permanently a security risk and said the task force was meant to ensure meaningful visitation for everyone, not to enable discrimination. Representative Hollins and Representative N. supported the bill’s overall goals while suggesting language could be tightened and noting that maintaining outside ties helps people return as productive members of society. Representative Witte asked about the Department of Corrections commissioner’s presence, and the chair said questions for him could wait for a later bill.
Representative Mu asked about the fiscal note and the research behind the bill. Staff said a fiscal note had been requested but not yet signed off by the LBO, which was one reason the bill was being laid over. Finke said she could share the visitation study and noted that the bill responds to research linking visitation to lower recidivism; she also said remote visitation data shows value but can be costly. After closing remarks emphasizing that visitation is “medicine” and that most incarcerated people will return to the community, the chair renewed the motion and laid over House File 3761. The committee then moved on to House File 4959, with a motion to re-refer it to the Committee on State and Local Government Finance and Policy.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Select Committee on Youth Mental Health and Treatment Accessibility Dec 2nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- face adversities, they also show a lot of resilience, which is so important because it's those protective
- They were described as protective factors. But to second Dr. Kane's comments and Dr.
- But there are schools who are banning cell phones now, and I just so respect that, that they're willing
- What do you think is the best approach for cell phone use on campus? I know there's a law now.
- What do you think is the best approach for cell phone use on campus? I know there's a law now.
Summary:
The hearing focused on youth mental health and treatment access in California, with opening remarks emphasizing that youth distress, self-harm-related emergency visits, and difficulty obtaining care remain elevated, while workforce shortages and reliance on one-time funding continue to limit access. Assemblymember Lori Davies echoed concerns about unstable funding and said lawmakers need to hear directly from providers and families as they prepare for the budget and legislation. The chair framed the hearing as a chance to hear from county, school, provider, and student perspectives, especially in San Diego County, where needs are high and investments have not always matched demand.
County and school officials described the current system and recent state initiatives, including the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, school-linked fee schedules, payment reform, and the Behavioral Health Services Act transition. San Diego County Behavioral Health said it serves Medi-Cal youth with specialty mental health needs through a broad continuum of care, including outpatient clinics, school-based services, crisis response, residential treatment, and new crisis and residential facilities. San Diego County Office of Education and San Marcos Unified School District described efforts to expand school-based services and reimbursement through CYBHI, but said implementation is slowed by complex billing rules, insurance-data collection concerns from families, administrative burden, and uncertainty about sustaining staff positions funded by grants or soft money. School counselor testimony highlighted reduced stigma through campus outreach and clubs, but also noted that counselor-to-student ratios remain well above national standards and that budget cuts threaten supports.
Provider testimony stressed that the system remains fragmented and that youth often move between emergency rooms, inpatient care, outpatient therapy, schools, and county programs without smooth handoffs. A child psychiatrist described crisis cases in which the main choices are brief hospitalization or discharge with limited follow-up, and argued for stronger warm handoffs, more outpatient and intensive outpatient options, better school-clinic coordination, and broader use of mobile crisis and 988. Rady Children’s Hospital and Aurora Behavioral Health described large increases in behavioral health demand, expansion of integrated care, and major barriers tied to low reimbursement rates, delayed payments, and administrative complexity. Across the panel, witnesses called for more stable funding, clearer reimbursement rules, better parent education on warning signs, and stronger collaboration among schools, counties, hospitals, and community providers to reduce stigma and improve timely care for youth.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It's not about protecting women, because it sure as hell isn't protecting trans women.
- This bill has a stated goal of protecting women, but it does not protect women from any real threat.
- How does this protect anyone?
- protection and privacy.
- That's not hate; it's protection.
Keywords:
gender designation, civil penalties, private civil rights, multiple-occupancy spaces, Texas Women's Privacy Act, law enforcement, confidentiality, personnel files, employee records, misconduct, abortion, civil liability, abortion-inducing drugs, qui tam actions, Texas Citizens Participation Act, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, healthcare regulations, impact fees, water conservation, reuse projects
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- You also have to have towers, you have to have security measures and cells.
- Minimum-security inmates require cells, not dorms. approved the contract late last year.
- Neither one of those measures and cells.
- cells, not dorms. cells, not dorms.
- , giving them the same confidentiality protections provided to law enforcement officers and emergency
Bills:
HB1769
Keywords:
criminal justice reform, rehabilitation, private prisons, racial equity, Native Hawaiians, community well-being, mass incarceration, 910, house, all
Summary:
The committee heard House Bill 1769, which would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to incrementally reduce the number of people incarcerated in private out-of-state correctional institutions. The DCR director opposed the bill, saying the department does not control overall prison population levels because courts determine admissions, and arguing that Hawaiʻi’s in-state facilities are already over capacity, especially Halawa, which he said is 165% over design capacity. He said only a small portion of the population is under departmental control through furlough programs and argued that bringing people home would require building a new medium-security prison.
Supporters, including the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission, the Public Defender’s office, and several individuals, argued the bill creates a phased, accountable path to reduce reliance on mainland prisons and bring people home. Supporters emphasized the harms of separating incarcerated people from ʻohana and culture, the disproportionate impact on Native Hawaiians, and the need for diversion, treatment, re-entry support, and fair sentencing. Several testifiers also said the department has more control than it claimed, pointing to underused furlough options, reclassification, and empty beds at some in-state facilities, while others urged clearer statutory language and guardrails.
Members questioned the director about whether people could be reclassified or moved to available beds at facilities such as Kulani and Waiawa, and about whether the department could do more through staffing and contract changes. The director said some proposals had been sent to the Department of Human Resource Development, but that major facility changes would be costly and that minimum-security facilities would need substantial upgrades to house medium-security inmates. After discussion, the chair said the committee would defer HB 1769 to Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at 11:30 a.m. for decision-making and adjourned the meeting.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- I actually got a bill to ban, and right now, to ban cell phones in schools, and anyone else should sign
- Comprehensive Consumer Data Privacy Law that helps protect the digital privacy of residents of this state
- Your child doesn't have to have a cell phone. That is reality. You could just say no.
- , there's increasing research around the globe that kids being on devices in schools—not just your cell
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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MN
Transcript Highlights:
- And for those kids and grandkids that you protect them as they grow up.
- them as they as they grow you protect them as they as they grow up.<00:03:00.760>
Lord, <00:03 - The bill would require labels on cell-cultured meat, and that's a very important part of this bill.
- And as long as you keep using a cell And as long as you keep using a cell phone, phone, phone, as
- Um, like I said, existing businesses are protected.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Criminal Jurisprudence S/C New Offenses & Changed Penalties Apr 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- get a grasp on this is we worked with our parents because we wanted our parents to know that their cell
- We, we did, uh, we found for that cell, uh, we arrested, uh, we, we actually had the house demolished
- It will protect animals and people and make our neighborhoods safe. Thank you. Thank you.
- HB 285 is to protect pets from those who commit animal abuse through criminal negligent actions.
- This bill does not offer greater protection or justice. It doesn't uphold the law.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- Solid, long-lasting protections that are carved in the law.
- Yes, this would allow a protection for these nursing mothers and... ... protection for these nursing
- Cell phone usage extortion can lead to terrible consequences, absolutely.
- You know, you have to protect people's rights.
- We've got to have protections... ...We've got to have protections here so that when the accusation comes
Keywords:
jury duty, nursing mothers, exemption, legal rights, parental responsibilities, sexual extortion, criminal law, felony, threat, blackmail, SB116, machine gun conversion devices, switches, pistol conversion device, auto sear, firearm accessories, machine gun, automatic weapon, semiautomatic pistol, gun control
VA
Transcript Highlights:
- We believe that setting and enforcing a consistent expectation about cell phones is critical.
- So when students do make the poor choice of having their cell phones away, we are educating them.
- And this bill is strictly focused on the well-being of children and their cell phone usage.
- And this bill is strictly focused on the well-being of children and their cell phone usage.
- And they, it's really hard to enforce the cell phone policy during One Lunch.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- our licensed professions, and this is the one I want to protect.
- to make sure we're kind of protecting to make sure we're kind of protecting our<00:29:25.200>
- So, the A15 is regarding cell phones in schools.
- It adds smart classes, as we heard that it's not only cell phones and watches now, but also the smart
- So, the A15 is regarding cell phones in schools.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- take place away from school property, ensuring instructional time and district resources remain protected
- take place away from school property, ensuring instructional time and district resources remain protected
- the base contract, but you didn't mention all the goodies that come along with it: deferred comp, cell
- phone, vehicle, civic and Deferred comp, cell phone, vehicle, civic engagement stipends, lots of other
- While we have teachers and other key staff that don't get cell phone benefits, car allowances, deferred
Summary:
The committee first heard House Bill 2266, which would change school district and charter governing board policy from permissive to mandatory for excusing students for religious instruction during the school day. The sponsor and supporters framed it as a parental-choice and religious-liberty measure that preserves release-time programs, while opponents argued it would reduce local control, take students out of core instruction, create peer pressure and bullying, and raise constitutional concerns. After testimony from Secular AZ, a LifeWise Academy board member, and a school board president, the committee voted 7-5 to give HB 2266 a do pass recommendation.
The committee then took up House Bill 2193, a cleanup measure related to student directory information and parent organizations such as PTOs/PTAs/APTs. Supporters said the bill would restore parent-to-parent communication that had been unintentionally limited by prior privacy legislation, while some members raised concerns about how the information could be used and suggested narrowing the language to prevent political or lobbying uses. The bill advanced on a 10-1 vote, with members generally supporting school-community communication but asking for possible amendments.
Finally, the committee heard House Bill 2075, which requires public school districts to submit superintendent and other top administrator contracts or attestations to ADE and have the information posted in a searchable database. The sponsor and Goldwater Institute supporters said the bill is a transparency measure because base salary reports do not show total compensation, benefits, or allowances; opponents from school administrator groups and rural districts argued the bill singles out districts while ignoring charters and other publicly funded education providers, and they said superintendent pay is already publicly available in other forms. Discussion also touched on whether the bill should be expanded to charters and private schools. The sponsor closed by emphasizing transparency and the committee continued discussion of the measure.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - Part 2 - 03/19/26
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- amendment protections are one of them. amendment protections are one of them.
- is protected against this heinous crime? is protected against this heinous crime?
- protection or clarifies the protection protection or clarifies the protection around<01:26:32.960
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TX
Texas 89th 1st C.S.
Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select Aug 5th, 2025
Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select
Transcript Highlights:
- It falls on us to protect Texans.
- To ensure they meet basic safety standards and will effectively protect campers during flood emergencies
- And campgrounds to ensure that we create good public policy to protect our children, campground, staff
- In every part of the state, intelligent infrastructure is more than just a broadband or cell coverage
- I don't know their cell phone number. I don't know who they are.
Keywords:
youth camps, emergency preparedness, safety standards, health regulations, camp licensing, disaster preparedness, emergency management, flooding, mass fatality, mass casualty, fatality tracking, body recovery, autopsy, justice of the peace, medical examiner, county judge, sheriff, mayor, emergency coordinator, emergency manager license
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I had legislation on the Lone Star Protection Act and started it.
- I I'm not an expert on how these 2197 protections happen.
- I think some of the protections have been put in place around sort of size of wall, size of protection
- It's not the solar panel or the battery cell, the hardware or the equipment.
- Barclay, we have a copy of the Ratepayer Protection Pledge.
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce held its first interim hearing on securing critical infrastructure and supply chain integrity, with a focus on Texas’s electric grid and the Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act. The chair also highlighted Texas’s relatively low electricity prices and welcomed new committee members. ERCOT, the Public Utility Commission (PUC), and the Attorney General’s office were invited to explain how the state screens market participants and grid equipment for ties to China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, and how the agencies respond to noncompliance.
ERCOT testified that it has implemented the requirements of three related Senate bills by requiring attestations on corporate affiliations and on critical grid equipment and services. ERCOT said it has processed thousands of attestations, used additional requests for information and third-party verification tools such as Dun & Bradstreet, and terminated nonresponsive market participants. ERCOT also said it has not seen a case requiring direct Attorney General involvement, but it does refer matters to the PUC when needed. The PUC said it can investigate suspected violations and impose penalties of up to $1 million per violation per day, and that most investigations into late or missing attestations have been resolved through compliance, market exit, or removal by ERCOT. The Attorney General’s office said its role is currently limited to audits and court involvement, and that it lacks broad independent investigatory authority under the act.
Members pressed the panel on whether the current system is too reliant on self-reporting and whether it adequately addresses indirect foreign influence, especially through supply chains for batteries, inverters, transformers, and other equipment with routable connectivity. ERCOT acknowledged that the current attestation process has gaps and said it plans to refine definitions of critical grid equipment and grid services, improve information requests, and continue stakeholder rulemaking. The panel also discussed possible legislative changes, including tying prohibitions to the Department of Defense Section 1260H list and the Texas Prohibited Technologies list, clarifying warranty and service access, and expanding the statute to cover grid services more directly. Several senators raised concerns about cost, reliability, and the extent to which foreign-sourced components remain embedded in Texas infrastructure, while others suggested incentives for domestic manufacturing and stronger verification tools, including possible work with national labs such as Sandia.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We need to protect the disabled. We need to make sure that we protect the people.
- The Bus Patrol way is: we want to protect every student in the district.
- Please help us protect our students. I respectfully urge your support for this bill.
- Right now with all technology, technology can be for us or against us if we have a cell phone.
- We must do whatever is necessary. ...protect our students.
Bills:
HB767, HB 1242, HB1373, HB1404, HB1708, HB1936, HB2041, HB2198, HB2270, HB2315, HB2415, HB2427, HB2455, HB2457, HB2522, HB2523, HB2686, HB2763, HB2775, HB2944, HB3034, HB1683, HB1695
Keywords:
highway designation, memorial, Montgomery County, Paul P. Mendes, transportation, HB 1242, Texas Transportation Code, U.S. Highway 281, Brooks County, Ernesto Soliz Cantu, memorial highway, road naming, TxDOT, road signage, commemorative resolution, memorial markers, county road 304, Huppergate Road, Los Robles Trail, Farm-to-Market Road
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- Do you see any problem with the cell phone situations of students during classroom time?
- Every school currently sets their own policy regarding the use of cell phones.
- Like they have these little pockets that kids can put their cell phones into that locks and then open
- Thank you for Senate Bill 684, relating to the Board of Education and the usage of cell phones at DOE
- <00:44:34.680>
phones education and the usage of cell phones education and the usage of cell
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Education and Labor and Technology heard Senate Bill 420, which would extend Department of Education workers’ compensation coverage to newly graduated high school students participating in DOE-sponsored work-based learning programs through July 31 after graduation. DOE testified in support, estimating the bill could affect about 50 to 100 students in the first year and saying it would help students gain experience and transition to employment. Members asked about current coverage, costs, and partnerships; DOE said current coverage ends at graduation, there had been no incidents, and the bill would create no additional cost. The committees voted to pass SB 420 with amendments, including an amended effective date, and the bill was adopted.
The Committee on Education then took up several education measures. It adopted a proposed SD1 for SB 894, a Farm to School measure that would appropriate funds to help meet a goal of serving 30% locally sourced food in public schools. The committee also heard SB 789 on school cafeteria meal costs; DOE said it wanted the existing requirement lowered from 50% of meal preparation cost to 25% rather than repealed, to align with its administrative package, and explained current prices were about $2.75 while meal costs were about $9. Testifiers from the Hawaii Public Health Institute and Hawaiʻi Appleseed supported removing the requirement entirely or at least reducing it, saying it would avoid large price jumps and move toward free school meals. The committee later voted to pass SB 789 with amendments lowering the threshold to one-fourth of meal cost and changing the effective date.
The committee also heard SB 449 on a school facilities planning database. DOE said it supports better planning but believes the database should be housed within DOE rather than duplicated under the School Facilities Authority, while SFA supported the bill as a proactive decision-making tool. The Attorney General’s office suggested clarifying language to make clear references to the Board of Education. In later agenda items, the committee heard SB 423, which would add Head Start-related ex officio members to the Early Learning Board; EOEL and the board chair supported it and suggested technical language to preserve required representation. The committee also heard SB 1384, a housekeeping bill redirecting repaid early childhood educator stipend funds to the Early Learning special fund after the prior special fund was repealed; EOEL supported it and said about $31,864 was being recouped from nine recipients. Finally, SB 684 would require the Board of Education to adopt rules banning cell phones at DOE schools; testimony was in support, and members discussed the need for a consistent statewide policy, with the board expected to work on one in collaboration with DOE.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
December 2, 2025 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- . >> Chair Anderson: AS WE BEGIN I WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE TO SILENCE YOUR CELL PHONES AND ELECTRONIC
- THIS IS THE TITLE PROTECTION FOR SURGICAL SMOKE TO BE HEARD IN THIS COMMITTEE.
- NO MASK PROVIDES 100 PERCENT PROTECTION.
- I STAND BEFORE YOU REPRESENTING THE OVER 400,000 NURSES IN THE STATE SUPPORTING HB 93 PROTECTION FROM
- AS WELL AS EXAMPLES TO PROTECT THE HEALTH OF YOUR RESIDENCE?
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
April 22, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- Which aims to protect children in our communities.
- If our goal is to truly reduce incarceration, protect victims and truly rehabilitate offenders, we must
- As I stated before, members and the ADA and fair housing protects people with substance abuse disorder
- I'm presenting this bill is designed to protect patients and the public at large from being confused
- Next up, we will take CS for HB 1617, stem cell therapy by Representative Buchanan.