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NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Part 2 Feb 12th, 2026 at 12:58 pm

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • There will be 75 projects, and I see no debate and a desire to close. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
  • That helps with, when builders are stacking their capital to then pencil out their projects.
  • I mean, I've seen how we do it in some of the communities I've helped with building projects.
  • Speaker and gentlemen, that this loan helps the builder to pencil out their project. And, Mr.
  • So I know of several projects just in my district alone here in Santa Fe.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 7th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Feb 24th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • certain municipalities to receive specific tax revenues derived from hotel and convention center projects
  • Senate Bill 1089 by Hughes relates to funding for certain commercial service airport projects tied to
  • Senate Bill 1095 by Blanco relates to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for certain capital projects
  • Senate Bill 1096 by Blanco relates to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for certain capital projects
  • Senate Bill 1122 by Schwertner relates to the exemption of cable projects from certain notice requirements
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection - 04/01/25

Commerce and Consumer Protection

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is getting around an existing law that would prevent this from being sold from Minnesota projects
  • siding um a pretty significant project siding um a pretty significant project that<00:59:13.839>
  • There wasn't that flexibility to either get that time to complete the project or to ensure that I still
  • We also have a reuse program, along with data wiping technology, that gives electronics another chance
  • We also have a reuse program, along with data wiping technology, that gives electronics another chance
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Election Laws Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on Election Laws

Transcript Highlights:
  • So no concrete plan at this time, but plenty of prior art to reuse and organizations to help out.
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on Election Laws held a public hearing focused primarily on ranked choice voting (RCV) legislation and several local home rule petitions, along with one petition to authorize remote participation in Concord town meetings. Chairs Keenan and Hunt outlined hearing procedures and noted the committee would hear both in-person and virtual testimony. The committee also took testimony on Concord’s request for remote participation in open and special town meetings, with supporters arguing it would make town meeting more accessible to residents with childcare, mobility, work, or disability barriers while preserving direct democracy. A large portion of the hearing centered on RCV local-option bills and municipal petitions from communities including Concord, East Hampton, Salem, Chelsea, Arlington, Revere, Amherst, and others. Supporters—among them local officials, legislators, election advocates, educators, veterans, and nonprofit leaders—said RCV would reduce vote-splitting, encourage more candidates, promote more positive campaigning, improve representation, and increase turnout. East Hampton officials described their existing use of RCV, saying it produced record turnout, was easy for voters to understand with education, and could be expanded to multi-winner races without major added cost. Concord and Amherst witnesses said their voters had already approved local steps toward RCV and urged the committee to let municipalities implement the system without further delay. Testimony in favor of the local-option RCV bill emphasized home rule and local control, with several witnesses arguing the state should not block communities that have already voted to adopt RCV. Speakers from MassVOTE, the AFT Massachusetts, Voter Choice Massachusetts, Progressive Massachusetts, the Boston Teachers Union, and Veterans for All Voters said the reform would strengthen democracy, broaden participation, and save money by avoiding low-turnout preliminary elections. Some witnesses also referenced examples from Cambridge, Maine, and Utah to argue that RCV is workable, nonpartisan, and familiar to voters. The hearing ended with no votes or final committee action taken in the transcript provided.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am

Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • allow us to remove the limit of five pieces of packaging per visit and allow more to be collected and reused
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy held its fourth hearing, with opening remarks from Senate Chair Adam Gómez and House Chair Dan Donahue emphasizing the committee’s broad agenda, including retail modernization, labor protections, advertising rules, sustainability, and financial resources. Testimony began with public health advocates supporting H.157/S.9 to ban cannabis billboard advertising, arguing that billboards normalize use for youth and are linked to cannabis-related harms such as psychosis, addiction, and cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. Witnesses cited research, family stories, and court decisions in Mississippi and Virginia upholding similar restrictions, while committee members questioned the scope of the state’s authority to regulate billboards on private property and the relevance of federal highway funding and federal cannabis law. The committee also heard testimony on H.175, a proposal to allow cannabis drive-through sales. A dispensary operator argued drive-throughs would improve access, especially for disabled customers and veterans, and said security and ID checks could be handled with cameras and staff screening. Committee members pressed him on how employees would assess impairment, whether drive-throughs could increase access for minors, and whether the industry should be treated like alcohol, with the witness responding that staff already refuse service to intoxicated customers and that education, not prohibition, is the better approach. Another bill, H.3982, would apply the bottle deposit law to carbonated hemp- or THC-infused beverages; the sponsor said the measure would standardize recycling requirements for products already sold in dispensaries and other markets, and members asked about container types and recycling compatibility. A major portion of the hearing focused on labor peace agreements, with UFCW representatives, cannabis workers, and Sen. Lydia Edwards supporting S.77/H.161. They said the bill would require cannabis businesses to remain neutral when workers seek to organize, arguing that unions improve safety, wages, benefits, and job stability in an industry they described as underregulated and prone to retaliation. Witnesses cited workplace hazards, wage theft, and the death of a worker at a Holyoke facility as examples of why stronger worker protections are needed. Committee members asked how the proposal differs from existing labor law, whether tying LPAs to licensing and renewal could create legal or administrative problems, and how other states handle similar requirements. No votes or final actions were taken during the hearing.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you go to the project for next year.
  • So, what you did K through2 projects.
  • project $350,000. project $350,000.
  • of the student botanical pilot project of the student botanical pilot project to<00:51:54.000>
  • It's now in Huntsville, project.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 2nd, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The young lady who helped me with this has a very fascinating project.
  • She's Done through 4H called the Pollinator Project.
  • We're just simply naming it after the young lady who worked on the project.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part I) May 5th, 2025

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Midlothian City Council has passed a resolution in support of the project.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Local Government heard several bills, most of them left pending after brief public testimony. House Bill 331, by Rep. Patterson and sponsored by Sen. Hinojosa, would create a presumption that firefighters, police officers, and EMTs who suffer a heart attack or stroke within eight hours after a strenuous shift were injured in the line of duty for workers’ compensation purposes; testimony from a firefighters’ association supported the bill, and it was left pending. Senate Bill 2655, by Sen. Flores, would authorize Burnet County to establish a local provider participation fund to help support local hospital services; a hospital administrator testified in support, and the committee substitute was left pending. Senate Bill 1443, by Sen. Hughes, would extend the Northeast Healthcare Provider Participation District in three counties, and House Bill 3307, by Rep. Noble, would allow property tax arbitrators to complete required continuing education online; both were left pending without opposition. Senate Bill 3048, by Sen. Birdwell, would create the Bluebonnet Hills Municipal Management District in Midlothian and was also left pending. The committee then took up House Bill 9 and HJR 1, sponsored by Sen. Bettencourt, which would raise the business personal property tax exemption from $2,500 to $125,000 and place the constitutional amendment on the November 4, 2025 ballot. Business groups, realtors, and taxpayers’ advocates testified in strong support, saying the change would provide meaningful relief to small businesses and help balance earlier homeowner tax relief. The City of Fort Worth testified in opposition, warning of a revenue shift to homeowners and budget impacts, but the committee adopted the committee substitutes and reported both measures to the full Senate on 6-0 votes. The committee also heard House Bill 1399 and HJR 99, by Sen. Nichols, to exempt animal feed from property tax when it is already sales-tax exempt; no one testified against them, and both were left pending. Senate Bill 2553, by Sen. West, would let owners of historic archaeological sites protest land and structure appraisals separately, and it was left pending after supportive testimony. Senate Bill 2907 and SJR 78, also by Sen. West, would exempt certain perishable inventory, including food and some prescription drugs, from property tax if approved by voters; pharmacists, business groups, a researcher, and a coalition of retailers and food/medicine advocates supported the bill, and it was left pending. Finally, Senate Bill 1331, by Sen. Hancock and explained by Sen. Middleton, would lower the population threshold for certain municipal civil-service-related petition restrictions from 950,000 to 70,000; law enforcement representatives and a San Marcos police association supported it, and it was left pending. The committee then recessed until 15 to 30 minutes after adjournment.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part II) May 5th, 2025

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're the entity that's been formed to deliver the light rail project of Project Connect and oversee
  • all of the other projects as well included in that program of projects.
  • Connect project as a whole.
  • But this isn't about Project Connect.
  • Advanced Project Connect, a project that was approved by Texas voters and will be built by Texas workers
Summary: The Committee on Local Government heard a series of local bills and public testimony focused on hospital districts, municipal management districts, local provider participation funds, manufactured housing, transit financing, development moratoriums, and property tax procedures. Early items included House Bill 467, which would help dissolve the defunct Maybank Kemp Hospital District and establish an Andrew Gibbs Memorial Nursing Endowment, and Senate Bill 3063, creating the Bio Bell Municipal Management District in Liberty County; both drew no public opposition and were left pending subject to call. The committee also heard House Bill 1327, extending the Harris County local provider participation fund through 2027, and Senate Bill 1375, extending Collin County’s LPPF authority, both presented as mechanisms to draw federal Medicaid matching funds for hospitals. A major portion of the meeting centered on Senate Bill 2764, which would require earlier notice to buyers of manufactured homes about how to convert a home from personal property to real property. Senator Cook described the bill as a consumer-information measure tied to displacement concerns at a mobile home park in her district, and a resident testified in support, saying the notice would help families make informed decisions. The committee also discussed Senate Bill 2519, a bill by Senator Bettencourt aimed at preventing local governments from shifting maintenance-and-operations tax revenue into debt-like uses and from changing the purpose of tax rate elections after voters approve them. Supporters argued it would protect taxpayers and preserve the separation between M&O and debt service, while opponents tied the bill to Austin’s Project Connect transit financing and warned it would disrupt an approved project and invite litigation. The committee heard and left pending several other bills, including House Bill 1244 on agricultural land ownership changes without reapplying for an ag exemption, House Bill 2559 on development moratoriums, and Senate Bill 2063 on unequal appraisal protests. Testimony on House Bill 2559 came from developers and builders who said moratoriums in Conroe had delayed projects and harmed buyers, while supporters of the bill said it would impose clearer limits and notice requirements. On Senate Bill 2063, the sponsor explained a committee substitute narrowing how market value evidence may be used in unequal appraisal appeals. The committee also considered multiple local district bills, including new MUDs and management districts in Montgomery, Denton, Fannin, Travis, Hays, and Williamson counties. At the end of the meeting, the committee took up pending business and voted out several measures, including House Bill 1244, House Bill 2559, House Bill 467, House Bill 1327, House Bill 1399, House Bill 2723, House Bill 2730, House Bill 3307, House Joint Resolution 99, and multiple district bills such as Senate Bills 3037, 3043, 3047, 3048, 3050, 3052, 3053, 3056, 3057, 3063, and others. Most were reported favorably, often with committee substitutes, and many were recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. Several bills, including the transit-related SB 2519 and the manufactured housing bill SB 2764, remained pending subject to call after testimony closed.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

FIN Info Briefing - Fri Jan 16, 2026 @ 9:00 AM HST

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • There is one leak project.
  • So now the projects that were projects.
  • It's a two-year project.
  • It's a two-year one-year project.
  • They worked on projects.
Keywords: 910, house, all
CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 108 May 1st, 2026

Colorado Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • second, which is why the conversation about if we don't get them sold, we're short based on this projection
  • meaningful step toward building a truly circular economy where valuable materials are recovered, reused
  • important that their batteries are handled properly and considered for second-life applications like reuse
  • He added that second-life applications like reuse or repurposing maximize the economic and environmental
Keywords: 981, all
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:39:47.480> Vision Partnerships with part uh project Vision Partnerships with part uh project
  • I oppose the $20 million for this project.
  • There's a conflict of interest with this project.
  • Instead of using the credit, because it is their own project or government projects funded with a bond
  • <04:22:49.439> or credit because it's our own project or credit because it's our own project
Keywords: 910, house, all
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, March 4, 2026)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • , along with those dedicated individuals who have worked tirelessly to bring this project to fruition
  • <00:20:44.240> to tirelessly to bring this project to tirelessly to bring this project to
  • The museum's construction came about through the restoration and reuse of the historic Carnegie Free
  • The museum's construction came about through the restoration and reuse of the historic Carnegie Free
  • Mayor Yadiro Yadira Ramos project.
VT

Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Session - 2026-05-07 - 11:00AM

Vermont Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am reusing some of yesterday's script that we didn't get through. >> Senator from Bennington. >> Mr
  • So that was one quarter of the funding and is building the project.
  • Addison will likely be able to install their project for $250,000, which is great because they'll have
  • So that was one quarter of the funding and is building the project.
  • about projects, it is available<01:45:23.280> and<01:45:23.520> we're<01:45:23.760>
Keywords: 927, senate, all
NH
Transcript Highlights:
  • ><01:00:15.480> in<01:00:15.640> state<01:00:15.839> and adverse effects on o reuse
  • in state and adverse effects on o reuse in state and town<01:00:16.160> roads<01:00:16.599>
  • And if this was a DOT project, um, I would be bounced to very specific gravels and compaction levels
  • And if this was a DOT project, um, I would be bounced to very specific gravels and compaction levels
  • um I would if this was a do uh project um I would be<03:44:40.960> I<03:44:41.040> would
Keywords: 1189, house, all
Summary: The meeting was an orientation for the Resources, Recreation and Development Committee, led by Chair Bob Harb. He reviewed committee procedures, including pink cards for witnesses, blue sheets for counts, use of drawers in the committee room, scheduling practices, and how bills would be posted and distributed. Members briefly introduced themselves and explained why they wanted to serve on the committee, with several citing interests in conservation, water quality, outdoor recreation, land use, and related local issues. The committee then opened a hearing on HB 1113, relative to OHRV operation on certain highways within the town of Windsor. Representative Ré Colcombe, the sponsor, explained that the bill would allow local OHV/UTV access across a short section of state road in Windsor so residents on divided portions of town could travel legally between areas. He said the town selectmen were already allowing OHRV use on town roads, the route was paved, traffic impacts were expected to be minimal, and local police had no objections. He also said the town would hold public hearings and notify abutters as required, and that if the select board ultimately opposed the proposal he would recommend killing the bill. Members asked about the legal authority for the change, speed limits, traffic volume, winter maintenance, and whether the Department of Transportation or select board had to approve the route. Colcombe said the town must hold a public hearing and that the change would need to be incorporated into RSA 258:10, section 4. He said the road is maintained by the town in winter and by the state in summer. An opponent, Anne Davis, testified that she opposed the bill, saying ATV use should be treated as a tool for forest management rather than recreation, that law enforcement capacity in Windsor was a concern, and that she believed affected residents should be fully notified before any approval. No vote or final action was taken in the portion provided.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

Senate Education Finance (04/01/2026)

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • They have to project and bail me out.
  • <00:10:42.320> That's<00:10:42.560> a consolidation projects.
  • That's a consolidation projects.
  • And was there any long-range projecting? What were our goals?
  • Are we projecting where were our goals.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all