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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Jan 15th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Emily, we'll be seeing you all session, so good to have you here. Thank you.
  • when we see it's unanimous, so it saves her going through the entire list as you recall from last session
Bills: SR1 , SR2
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 4/16/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • We respectfully ask for your support in advancing this special legislation so that our residents, blue-collar
  • </c><00:41:24.440><c> legislation</c><00:41:25.600><c> so</c> advancing this special legislation so advancing
  • this special legislation so that<00:41:26.080><c> our</c><00:41:26.360><c> residents,</c><00:41:27.520
  • As a special district, our funding options are limited.
  • </c> this legislation. this legislation.
Committee: House Taxes
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 4/13/26

Transportation Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, first of all, it's great to see it's former legislator day, right?
  • </c> session, to move forward with things. session, to move forward with things.
  • This is a special curling plate.
  • This is a special curling plate.
  • </c> equal number of hearings this session. equal number of hearings this session. that<01:45:27.360>
Bills: HF3373 , HF4449 , HF3486 , HF4180 , HF4227 , HF2505
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Jan 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am

Early Learning & K-12 Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • into formal executive session.
  • This is the top priority for both WASA and WASBO this legislative session.
  • This is the top priority for both WASA and WASBO this legislative session.
  • And that concludes our session.
  • And that concludes our session. We are at ease. And that concludes our session. We are at ease.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Natural Resources May 14th, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're up here every session fighting against dilution of licenses.
  • session.
  • Uh, there have been attempts, uh, in each of the last 5 legislative sessions to try to pass some sort
  • of legislation to help this district.
  • There's, there's nothing special happening there.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Natural Resources May 14th, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're up here every session fighting against dilution of licenses.
  • session.
  • There have been attempts in each... of the last five legislative sessions to try to pass some sort of
  • legislation to help this district.
  • There's nothing special happening there.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Jun 1st, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It was my first session from the day we won. People reached out to myself and my wife welcoming us.
  • I'd just like to recognize my new legislative assistant.
  • Senator Price creates a task force on construction management at risk to set a historical purpose of legislation
  • provides for the task force on construction manager at risk to study the historical purposes of legislation
  • the chairperson of the Natural Resources Department, since they're going to be dealing with any legislation
Summary: The House convened with a quorum, opened with prayer, the pledge, and a national anthem performance, then moved through several personal privileges and recognitions. Members welcomed a student cancer survivor and entrepreneur, Bella of Brave Bella Bead Company, and also recognized a new legislative assistant, a page leaving for college, and a resolution honoring National Mississippi River Day. The chamber also received conference committee reports and enrollment reports, and returned some previously failed measures to the calendar, including H.R. 119 and H.B. 410. The main floor action centered on a series of Senate concurrent resolutions, most of which were adopted overwhelmingly. These included SCR 59 on re-evaluating flood maps and insurance rates tied to the Comite River Diversion Canal, SCR 61 urging higher reimbursement for behavioral health crisis centers, SCR 62 calling for review of school-zone safety and speed limits, SCR 68 creating a blockchain and digital innovation task force, SCR 69 encouraging continued research to reduce sugarcane burning, SCR 70 supporting the Major Richard Star Act for medically retired combat-wounded veterans, SCR 54 supporting the Mississippi River Basin Fishery Commission Act, SCR 55 designating the Peggy Martin Rose as the official state rose, SCR 64 creating a construction manager-at-risk task force, SCR 75 studying a Louisiana maneuvers museum and trail, and SCR 80 creating a task force on the minimum foundation program and long-term teacher pay funding. Most passed with little or no opposition, with SCR 84 on earthquake seismic activity in several parishes amended to adjust task force membership before final adoption. The House also heard a personal privilege statement honoring the late Ponder P.C. Clinton Jr., a noted Black farmer, cattleman, and community leader in Shreveport’s Cedar Grove neighborhood, and expressed condolences to his family. Later, members received a hurricane-season reminder from Rep. Jay Galle about disaster response procedures and the need to work through parish emergency offices. The transcript ends as the House moves into additional concurrent resolutions returned from the Senate with amendments.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Jun 1st, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I mean, that is, I mean, it would be these sessions, not fiscal sessions.
  • The Constitution already, you know, mandates that you have a regular session and a fiscal session.
  • We supported this from this legislation.
  • Speaker, members, we've had a long session but a great session.
  • We've had a long session, but a great session.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets Apr 7th, 2026

Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets

MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Finance Committee 3/20/25

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> legislative representative. legislative representative.
  • Um uh there are costs legislative staff.
  • </c> if other people feel like legislators if other people feel like legislators need<00:51:54.640><c
  • /c><01:10:00.000><c> walking</c> legislators, it's all like walking legislators, it's all like walking
  • </c><01:20:24.000><c> seasonal</c> same as other specialized seasonal same as other specialized seasonal
Bills: HF1048 , HF1049 , HF745 , HF2210
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Betancourt, relating to the prohibition on the marketing and acceptance of political contributions during special
  • legislative sessions.
Bills: SB 8 , HB7 , HB15 , HB 265 , HCR 13 , SB 8 , HB 7 , HB 15 , HB 265 , HCR 13
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • and in this special session, we find ourselves back to beat a dead horse on the request. of really no
  • Another harmful piece of legislation that we're putting forward this session.
  • session right after the loss of hundreds of lives due to this kind of legislation.
  • We have a bill that we passed in the 87th legislative session.
  • Session after session, this legislature has passed legislation to create obstacles to abortion health
Bills: SB 8 , HB7 , HB15 , HB 265 , HCR 13 , SB 8 , HB 7 , HB 15 , HB 265 , HCR 13
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce May 20th, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • In fact, you authored legislation, SB 1741, preventing espionage at Texas universities this session.
  • and ones that are currently moving here this session.
  • this session.
  • I guess what's the risk if we do nothing in this session?
  • I'm in support of this legislation for three reasons. First...
Summary: The committee took up several pending business items and reported a series of House bills out of committee, including HB 2467, HB 2468, HB 2518, HB 4310, HB 4386, HB 4490, HB 5323, and HB 149. Most of these were advanced on committee substitute motions and sent to the local and uncontested calendar or reported favorably to the full Senate. HB 2467 drew one nay vote, while the others were approved without opposition. HB 4310 and HB 4386 were described as committee-substitute versions with changes narrowing disclosure requirements and preserving attorney-client privilege in certain circumstances. A major portion of the meeting focused on HB 149, an AI governance bill. The substitute was explained as addressing biometric identifier capture and storage, exempting certain AI uses for security and fraud prevention, clarifying definitions, restricting AI systems that simulate explicit child sexual content, adjusting Attorney General investigative authority, refining sandbox program waivers, reducing Texas AI Council powers and membership, and adding DIR coordination provisions. The committee adopted the substitute and reported the bill favorably. The committee then heard extensive testimony on HB 1500, the DIR sunset bill. The author said the bill would continue DIR for 12 years, restructure its board, update advisory committees, require regular cybersecurity assessments and penetration testing for state agencies, improve IT procurement training, and transfer the e-grants program to the Comptroller. A Texas 2036 witness supported the bill as a way to strengthen governance, procurement, and cybersecurity. Members asked detailed questions about the bill’s structure and then left HB 1500 pending. The committee also heard a lengthy presentation on HB 150, which would create the Texas Cyber Command as a component of the University of Texas System, administratively attached to UTSA and located in San Antonio. The author argued the command would centralize cyber threat intelligence, incident response, and digital forensics, and would be able to support state and local entities, with optional services for local governments. Members raised concerns about university mission drift, governance, security, chain of command, procurement authority, gifts and donations, and civil liberties implications of proactive cyber monitoring. Witnesses from UTSA/NSCC and SecurityScorecard testified in support, emphasizing the security of the downtown San Antonio facility, the existing cyber ecosystem there, and the need for a dedicated cyber capability. The bill remained under discussion with no final committee action announced in the excerpt.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Corrections Apr 9th, 2025

Corrections

Transcript Highlights:
  • Last session, we recognized the need to help formerly incarcerated individuals. to get back on their
  • I brought this last session, but this time I'm hoping for better results. This is a simple bill.
  • Last session, I passed legislation which... ...created a similar program for Texas game wardens.
  • them to participate in the legislative process while maintaining their commitment to duty.
  • Um, I don't know a lot about it, but I do know there is sort of a special review that's very limited.
Committee: House Corrections
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Mar 31st, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • The committee substitute is a Legislative Council draft.
  • I would like to thank Speaker Burroughs for making this bill a priority piece of legislation this session
  • session.
  • I sit on this committee for the second session.
  • From last session because it works.
Committee: House Public Health