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NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy Aug 14th, 2025
Revenue Stabilization & Tax Policy Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Sourcing is something that You'll hear a lot about this as members of tax committees and legislators.
- In 2022, there was legislation that increased the surtax from 1% to 3.5%.
- I think we passed this legislation, and then the program was implemented.
- Madam Chair, Representative, the district legislation basically...
- session. interim period before the legislative session.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Health committee approves HF2464, the omnibus health policy bill 4/2/25
Transcript Highlights:
- And my job as a legislator is first and foremost to look out for my constituents, to look out for their
- And my job as a legislator is first and foremost to look out for my constituents, to look out for their
- And my job as a legislator is first and foremost to look out for my constituents, to look out for their
- And my job as a legislator is first and foremost to look out for my constituents, to look out for their
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HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
House Chamber - Fri Mar 14, 2025, 12:00PM HST - Day 32
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- And with her is my ASM, Sharon Clao, and my legislative aide, Aiden Waldrip.
- And with her is my ASM, Sharon Clao, and my legislative aide, Aiden Waldrip.
- </c> connect with fellow Legend legislators connect with fellow Legend legislators and<01:03:56.920><
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Republican Press Conference 2/6/25
Transcript Highlights:
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- Representative Nash, what are your hopes for anti-fraud legislation?
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FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Higher Education Jan 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- So for students that exit our program is has guided through the legislation.
- I'm so excited about this because I was very instrumental in doing the legislation that created this
- And so we were fortunate to be able to present 2 different legislative committees.
- It's a piece of legislation in Senate Bill 1326, from 2020.
- And I do annual reporting to our county commissioners to really engage our local legislators and into
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Public Employment and Retirement Committee Jun 24th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- proceedings in the last few years because we seek to protect the rights of all who participate in the legislative
- It's the reason why I moved forward SB 848 last year, which was really landmark legislation to create
- It's the reason why I moved forward SB 848 last year, which was really landmark legislation to create
- I expect to continue working on legislation in this space for years to come because it's an important
- I expect to continue working on legislation in this space for years to come because it's an important
Summary:
The Assembly Committee on Public Employment and Retirement heard several bills, beginning with SB 1166 by Senator Arreguín, which would allow AC Transit and its employees to use the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve unfair labor practice charges instead of the courts. The author and union supporters said PERB would provide a faster, fairer, and more specialized process, while no opposition testified. The committee members expressed support, and SB 1166 was approved on a due pass motion and re-referred to Appropriations.
The committee also took up consent items SB 1024, SB 1207, and SB 1444, which were moved on consent and placed on hold for absent members. Later, SB 1083 by Senator Perez was heard; it would refine last year’s school misconduct database law by adding an administrative law judge review process for classified employees, requiring stronger employer notification and record-sharing procedures, and extending vetting requirements to certain contracted workers. Supporters, including classified employees and labor groups, argued the bill adds due process and fairness while preserving student safety. Opponents, including school administrators, school districts, and liability organizations, argued it could create gaps in misconduct records, increase liability, and weaken protections for students.
After discussion, the author said he was continuing to work with opponents on amendments and emphasized the bill’s goal of balancing due process with child safety, referencing his own experience with grooming as a student. SB 1083 was passed on a due pass motion and re-referred to the Committee on Education. The chair then announced that all bills had passed and adjourned the meeting.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Higher Education Committee Jun 9th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We will not permit conduct that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of legislative
- No engaging in conduct that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of legislative
- So as I read the actual legislative text, 89500.3... ...89500.3A2.
- Thank you so much, Senator Cervantes, for authoring this legislation.
- Thank you so much, Senator Servantes, for authoring this legislation.
Summary:
The Assembly Higher Education Committee heard two Senate measures focused on artificial intelligence in higher education. SCR 82 by Senator Niello would encourage the California higher education segments to convene a work group and share best practices on AI use, including how to address academic integrity and student use of AI in coursework. Supportive comments emphasized the need for intersegmental coordination and faculty/student engagement, while the Faculty Association for California Community Colleges raised concerns about preserving faculty purview, academic freedom, and governance differences at the community college level. The resolution was adopted and re-referred to the Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection on an 8-0 vote.
The committee also heard SB 928 by Senator Cervantes, which would establish guardrails for AI use at CSU by requiring that faculty employee positions be filled by humans who meet CSU minimum qualifications and that instructors of record be human faculty for credit and non-credit instruction. The author and supporters, including the California Faculty Association, Teamsters California, the California Federation of Labor Unions, and the State Building and Construction Trades Council, argued the bill is needed to prevent AI from replacing faculty and to preserve the human role in teaching and student support. Members asked for clarification that the bill would not apply to classified, administrative, or clerical employees, and the author’s office said the definition was intended to mirror CSU faculty classifications and bargaining language.
Both measures received unanimous support from the committee after discussion. SB 928 was passed to the Assembly Floor on a 10-0 vote, with several members requesting to be added as coauthors. The consent calendar, which included SB 308, SB 892, and SB 968, was also approved unanimously, and the committee adjourned after announcing its next hearing date.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Higher Education Committee Jun 9th, 2026
Higher Education
Transcript Highlights:
- We will not permit conduct that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of legislative
- we will not permit conduct that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of legislative
- So as I read the actual legislative text, 89500.3... 89500.3(a)(2).
- Thank you so much, Senator Cervantes, for authoring this legislation.
- Thank you so much, Senator Servantes, for authoring this legislation.
Committee:
House Higher Education
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Government Oversight Government Oversight will be meeting AFTER the Rules Committee Adjourns Apr 15th, 2026 at 11:00 am
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm concerned that this type of legislation sounds like something a nonprofit should be working on, and
- Members, we are legislators and we like to legislate.
- In that case, they asked the attorney general for an opinion rather than the attorney general legislating
- So can someone who works for Oklahoma but doesn't live here as a remote work be impacted by this legislation
- language that you've mostly been getting questioned on the definitive match in the context of this legislation
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm next on the agenda with this piece of legislation, so I'd ask my good co-chair to take over.
- And Representative Manwaring and I, of course, worked this last summer on the medical education legislation
- One of the things in this legislation we've done is take out the word reimbursement from this fund.
- It could potentially be used if this legislation were to pass and this became law, then we could use
- Ben Taves, Senator for Legislative District 4. Before you is House Bill 915.
Committee:
Senate Education
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee: ESSB 5998 Mar 11th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Transcript Highlights:
- In other legislation, so revenue-related legislation, I'd point out a couple bills: 2487, insurer taxes
- So that includes the additional prior period adjustments, the revenue legislation including 6346 in fiscal
- Starting with general government, judicial, and legislative agencies, you'll see a four-year net NGFO
- It includes some familiar items from past legislative budget proposals, including funding to implement
- paying for new administrative costs and red tape that have been foisted upon the state by federal legislation
Summary:
The conference committee on Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5998 received a detailed briefing from House and Senate budget coordinators on the operating budget conference report. They walked through comparison documents showing the Senate-passed budget, House-passed budget, and the conference proposal, including statewide totals, agency-level changes, revenue assumptions, transfers, and outlook impacts. The proposal uses the February 2026 ERFC forecast, includes an $880 million transfer from the Budget Stabilization Account to the general fund, and reflects various revenue-related bills and prior-period adjustment assumptions.
The coordinators highlighted major spending and policy changes across several areas, including Working Families Tax Credit expansion, local government fiscal health funding, child care attendance policy changes, behavioral health facility and staffing adjustments, long-term care support for certain non-citizens affected by federal changes, health care and public health responses to H.R. 1, K-12 changes such as free school meals contingent on legislation, Running Start and transportation depreciation adjustments, higher education administrative reductions, corrections staffing and bed changes, and natural resources funding including wildfire response and low-income energy assistance. They said the conference report results in $80.2 billion in near general fund spending for 2025-27, with projected ending fund balances of $231 million in 2025-27 and $563 million in 2027-29, though fiscal year 2028 shows a negative near general fund ending balance.
After the briefing, Senator Robinson moved to adopt the conference report and pass the bill, and the motion was seconded. Supporters said the budget reflected a compromise between House and Senate proposals and protected core services, while opponents criticized it as overly reliant on optimistic revenue assumptions, the rainy day fund transfer, and reductions in K-12 and other areas. The committee then voted 4-2 to recommend the conference report to the legislature, with Representatives Gregerson and Ormsby and Senators Robinson and Stanford in support, and Representative Couture and Senator Gildon opposed.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Finance Feb 20th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Legislation that establishes or expands a tax preference must include a tax preference performance statement
- I think we should judiciously use them to make sure that they achieve a specific legislative intent that
- The Department of Revenue notes it cannot disclose the impacts of legislation affecting fewer than three
- For the record, my name is Sharon Tomiko Santos, representing the 37th Legislative District, the center
- , I would argue, of the greatest legislative district diversity in our state, in our broadness.
Summary:
The House Finance Committee held public hearings on two bills. HB 2730 would clarify how JLARC evaluates the effectiveness of existing aerospace tax preferences by requiring a rolling five-year comparison of Washington aerospace employment with other states and asking JLARC to consider broader aerospace-sector changes and economic conditions. The prime sponsor and labor testifiers said the bill would add needed clarity and accountability for major tax investments supporting aerospace jobs. A committee question raised whether JLARC would be directed to make recommendations for improving the incentive, and staff and the sponsor said the bill does not specifically require that.
HB 2713 would impose a 1% B&O tax surcharge, beginning July 1, 2026, on operators of private detention facilities with more than $1 million in annual Washington gross receipts. The sponsor said the bill is intended to respond to harms associated with private detention and to help fund services and legal support for affected families and communities. A remote testifier urged a much higher surtax on GEO Group, which operates the Northwest Detention Center, while county representatives testified that the bill as written could unintentionally apply to Martin Hall, a juvenile facility in Spokane County that is publicly governed and operated day-to-day by a nonprofit contractor. They asked for an exemption for Martin Hall, and the sponsor said that inclusion of nonprofits was not intended and that she would work with them on amendments.
No votes were taken on either bill. The committee closed testimony on HB 2730 and HB 2713 and then adjourned.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans Feb 18th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- This critical legislation modernizes Washington State Code to reflect the evolving needs of our military
- We would be happy to consider additional amendments to this legislation as appropriate.
- Thank you for your time and consideration of this vital legislation. I stand for your questions.
- We would be happy to consider additional amendments to this legislation as appropriate.
- Thank you for your time and consideration of this vital legislation. I stand for your questions.
Summary:
The committee held public hearings on two bills. Senate Bill 5420 would expand access to state benefits and preferences for veterans, uniformed service members, and military spouses by adding the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and NOAA Corps to various eligibility provisions, extending some employment preferences to military spouses, and updating related protections. Staff and the prime sponsor, Sen. John Lovick, described it as a long-worked-on measure that passed the Senate overwhelmingly. Tammy Pro of the Department of War supported the bill, saying it modernizes state law and better recognizes service members and military families.
The committee also heard Engrossed Senate Bill 5649, which would create a Washington State supply chain competitiveness infrastructure program to provide grants and loans for public and tribal port projects tied to freight mobility and supply chain performance. Sen. Marko Liias and port representatives testified in support, saying ports are critical to Washington’s trade-driven economy and that the bill would help fund needed infrastructure, including rail and terminal improvements, especially for smaller and rural ports. Testifiers said the program would fill a gap because ports lack a dedicated state grant program and could help leverage federal funding.
An amendment to SB 5649 was explained as limiting eligible projects to those not already eligible for funding from the Freight Mobility Strategic Investment Board, to avoid duplication. The committee paused and later closed the hearing on SB 5649, then returned to SB 5420 to hear additional testimony. No votes were taken, and the meeting ended after the public hearings were closed.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Consumer Protection & Business Feb 10th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Consumer Protection & Business
Transcript Highlights:
- But does the underlying legislation contemplate litigation against multiple retailers?
- Now, this legislation is not about servers who willfully over-serve.
- So that's why I brought this legislation.
- My question for you is, under the underlying legislation, can you explain under what scenario you would
- Does the underlying legislation require a police case number relative to the indemnification?
Bills:
HB1977
Committee:
House Consumer Protection & Business
Keywords:
indemnification, liquor, commercial servers, liquor liability, business protection, 904, all
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Governmental Oversight and Accountability Dec 2nd, 2025
Governmental Oversight and Accountability
Transcript Highlights:
- During the 2025 legislative session, the department requested and received $804,000 in recurring funding
- accurate, consistent data on vehicle usage across the department to support budgeting, planning, and legislative
- Is there a duplication that you guys are having to do, sending information to DMS based on the legislation
- DMS based on the legislation that we pass? Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate that.
- The legislative budget request will automate major operational tasks such as The legislative budget request
Summary:
The Committee on Government Oversight and Accountability met with a quorum and heard several presentations on state fleet management. The Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services described its new fleet tracking rollout using AT&T/GeoTab devices, funded with $804,000, to monitor vehicle location, fuel use, idle time, driver behavior, and maintenance needs in real time. Members asked about whether the system was unique to FDACS and whether it duplicated reporting to the Department of Management Services; the agency said it was still implementing the system and would follow up on those questions.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission presented on its large and diverse fleet, including more than 4,000 assets, and explained that it uses both the statewide FleetWave system and the Samsara telematics platform. FWC said FleetWave is used for monthly reporting and replacement tracking, while Samsara provides real-time location and diagnostics, reducing administrative burden and improving accountability. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and Florida Highway Patrol then outlined their fleet operations, emphasizing that most assets support law enforcement, that multiple manual systems create data inaccuracies, and that they are seeking a $750,000 increase to modernize fleet management with telematics, automated receipt processing, and a centralized database to improve safety and efficiency.
The committee also considered SPB 7010, which would authorize the Department of Financial Services and local governmental entities to allow post-tax Roth contributions in deferred compensation plans, in addition to existing pre-tax contributions. After a brief explanation, there was no debate or public testimony, and the committee voted to submit the bill as a committee bill. The roll call showed the measure was favorably reported, and the meeting then adjourned.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
Senate - Health and Public Affairs Oct 1st, 2025
Senate Health & Public Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- and fiscally responsive approaches that we can take as elected officials and as members of this legislative
- Chairman, Chair, Senator: when this bill was being drafted, did Legislative Council tell any or talk
- Chairman, Madam Chair, and Senator, right before session, we had a discussion with Legislative Counsel
- So how are we ensuring through this legislation that I didn't see anything with specificity to children
- Through this new legislation, we do.
Committee:
Senate Senate Health & Public Affairs
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- I don't think this ought to be a legislative issue. I don't think we ought to...
- And I don't think that ought to be a legislative issue.
- Anyway, so I'm opposed to legislating what is just good quality...
- Legislating what is just good quality healthcare.
- I'm for screening them, but I'm not for mandating it legislatively, is what I'm telling you.
Bills:
SB191 , HB84 , HB79 , SB132 , HB108 , HB109 , HB110 , HB114 , HB118 , HB120 , HB122 , HB124 , HB126 , HB128 , HB129 , HB131
Committee:
Senate Healthcare
Keywords:
postpartum depression, mental health, Medicaid, screening, education, maternal health, Chiropractic, Board of Chiropractic Examiners, license renewal, continuing education, election procedures, off-label, pharmacists, medical treatment, state board of pharmacy, employment protection, SB132, Alabama, controlled substances, Schedule I
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Chamber Meeting Jan 22nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Happy Day 2, Legislative Day negative 7.
- For the new members, you'll find out real quick what Legislative Day is.
- I move we go to the next order of business: introduction of legislation.
- A memorial requesting the Legislative Education Study Committee to assemble an Education Data Governance
- Legislative Education Study Committee to assemble an Education Data Governance and Artificial Intelligence
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, January 14, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Judiciary (03/12/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
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Summary:
The House Judiciary Committee opened a hearing on HB 584, which would bar New Hampshire and its political subdivisions from enforcing mandates, orders, or similar directives from the World Health Organization, United Nations, or World Economic Forum. Prime sponsor Representative Green described the bill as a sovereignty measure and offered an amendment to clarify language, including replacing a reference to entities that “create and enforce policies” with language covering enforcement of policies, mandates, orders, requirements, edicts, or directives. Supporters argued the bill was a preemptive safeguard against outside influence and cited concerns about pandemic-era public health measures and international organizations. Opponents, including the American Heart Association, warned it could chill local policymaking and limit the ability of communities to use outside research or guidance. The chair closed the hearing on HB 584 after testimony concluded.
The committee then moved to HB 580-FN, relative to retaliatory defamation in domestic violence and sexual violence cases. Representative Anita Burroughs, the prime sponsor, said the bill is intended to protect people who report sexual assault, sexual harassment, abuse, or domestic violence from retaliatory defamation suits, so long as statements are made in good faith and without malice. She also said the bill preserves the ability of accused persons to defend their names. Burroughs explained that the proposal was prompted by a survivor’s experience and was meant to address the chilling effect of expensive litigation on reporting misconduct.
Testimony on HB 580 was generally supportive. Witnesses said the bill would help survivors speak out without fear of meritless lawsuits and described retaliatory defamation as a tool used to silence or intimidate accusers. Burroughs noted the bill was informed by anti-SLAPP principles and referenced high-profile defamation cases as examples of the cost and pressure of litigation. No vote was taken in the portion of the transcript provided; the hearing on HB 580 was opened and testimony began.