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NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Municipal and County Government (02/03/2026)
Municipal and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
- They are strong members of the community who work really, really hard for their communities, and I expect
- </c> those decisions help their communities those decisions help their communities achieve<02:20:23.359
- ,</c> SB2 towns or chartered communities, SB2 towns or chartered communities, which<02:50:23.840><c>
- community would uh uh vote to opt their community would uh uh vote to opt their some<03:57:23.600><c>
- . communities. communities.
Committee:
House Municipal and County Government
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 112 May 6th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> public safety and to the communities public safety and to the communities that<00:39:19.359><c>
- </c><00:45:32.160><c> members</c> alumni, faculty, and community members alumni, faculty, and community
- So, community um college systems.
- </c> there in the community. there in the community. Senator<02:33:12.479><c> Weissman.
- I am proud to see when community comes together that we can actually respond in kind.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - Part 2 - 03/21/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- the common interest the comm community the common interest community<00:29:45.760><c> umen</c><00:29
- /c> Community Association Institute calls Community Association Institute calls what<00:52:09.599><c>
- </c> Minnesota chapter of the Community Minnesota chapter of the Community Associations<00:52:59.920>
- </c> whether that is a state or community whether that is a state or community licenser<02:00:57.920>
- </c><03:41:39.120><c> services</c> expanded communication services expanded communication services um
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Public Safety
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- So we have of service to the community.
- Department of Housing and Community Department of Housing and Community Development.<00:09:07.280><c>
- </c> This bill really is about my community. This bill really is about my community.
- </c> community right now are immigrants. community right now are immigrants.
- for the community for people in<02:08:43.040><c> the</c><02:08:43.120><c> community</c><02:08:43.400
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division I (02/28/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:11:01.279><c> and</c> try to keep them in the community and try to keep them in the community
- </c> and then supervised out in the community and then supervised out in the community under<00:11:37.760
- Seventy-seven are supervising people in the community. Are supervising people in the community.
- -</c> too is um this division of community- too is um this division of community- based<02:07:27.119>
- Also, communications—that's more of a kind of goes in and goes out to our communication sites—but we
Summary:
The committee reviewed the Department of Corrections budget, with the chair initially noting that the overall numbers looked close to fiscal year 2024 spending, except for federal funds. Department officials explained that prior ARPA expenditures and delayed revenue recognition had distorted the comparison, and that the corrected general fund spend was about $169.7 million. Members then focused on whether the budget’s staffing assumptions were realistic, especially the shift from overtime to full-time lines and the use of vacant positions to offset overtime costs. The department said it is leaning on vacancy savings, but would return for additional appropriations if unforeseen staffing problems arise.
A major portion of the discussion centered on recruitment, retention, and staffing levels. Officials reported a 42% vacancy rate in enforcement ranks, down from 51% in January 2023, with 28 new officers headed to the next academy and 33 new hires already tracked. They said overtime is more expensive than regular staffing because of benefits and that it takes about 11 months for a new hire to break even. Members also asked about the split between incarcerated and supervised populations; the department said it oversees about 1,970 inmates in facilities and just over 4,000 people in the community, with 77 positions supervising the community population and the inmate population remaining the most expensive area.
The committee also discussed how sentencing and statutory changes affect incarceration levels, including misdemeanor/felony thresholds and theft thresholds, with the department agreeing that such changes can significantly affect prison and jail populations. Members asked about education and recidivism, and the department said base education is the most important foundation, followed by vocational training, while noting that many incarcerated men lack a high school diploma. The department also described a $1.3 million reduction in contracted forensic evaluation services, explaining that these evaluations are court-ordered competency assessments and are not statutorily required to be provided by DOC. Finally, members reviewed victim services funding and staffing, including VOCA-supported positions, and the department explained that a new victim witness specialist would help support survivors at parole hearings and safety planning.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> the Community of Minnesota Resorts. the Community of Minnesota Resorts.
- They come in the surrounding community.
- Community of Minnesota Resorts. I'm a Community of Minnesota Resorts.
- And um Senator Rest communities is huge.
- </c> to homestead it was it's this community to homestead it was it's this community this<01:10:51.040
Committee:
Senate Taxes
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 055 Mar 9th, 2026
Colorado House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> life, entire communities grow stronger. life, entire communities grow stronger.
- . communities. communities.
- . communities. communities.
- schools that are like the community centers in my rural communities?
- We're ignoring the business community at very best. We're ignoring the business community.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- That somebody is there in that community. That's what this is about, folks.
- Okay, I have Jennifer Battle, Vice President of Community Access.
- Physical therapists will communicate with me and say, "Hey, we're almost there.
- I have Karen Reeves testifying on behalf of Syntex Community.
- As a community member, I'm for this bill. As a physician, I'm for this bill.
Bills:
HB46 , HB35 , HB4490 , HB4454 , HB2188 , HB3078 , HB4743 , HB2556 , HB46 , HB5342 , HB4783 , HB3785 , HB5278 , HB1639 , HB2581 , HB4224 , HB4070 , HB4099 , HB4882 , HB3794
Committee:
House Public Health
Keywords:
local government spending cap, expenditure limit, political subdivision, property tax, ad valorem tax, budget cap, taxpayer protection, spending restraint, inflation adjustment, population growth, voter approval, supermajority vote, county budget, municipal budget, school district finance, junior college district, hospital district, special district, attorney general enforcement, local fiscal limits
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- That's why I did my service for the community, and I'm there for the community.
- It's for our community. And I've served in my community as much as I can.
- We got together and got people all over the different communities, having community meetings and so forth
- Ryan, thank you for continuing to give your time to the betterment of your community.
- Thank you very much for being in our community today. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Committee:
Senate Judiciary B
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Insurance Committee Apr 15th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- It's a constant pressure on homeowners, insurers, and our entire communities.
- So I would just encourage that that communication continues.
- Cal was still with the California Community Foundation in support. Thank you.
- Assemblymember, I don't think it's opposition to these communities.
- It's in these communities that Senator Zabur represents where I don't know.
Summary:
The committee heard a lengthy insurance-focused agenda, including special-order bills on wildfire mitigation, Fair Plan accountability, aerial imagery, genetic testing, and wildfire moratoriums. AB 1888 would require California Safe Homes Grant Program work to be performed by a skilled and trained workforce at prevailing wage; it drew support from the author, Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, and labor representatives, with no opposition heard. AB 1680, the “Make-It-Fair Act,” would impose accountability and consumer-protection reforms on the California FAIR Plan in response to Department of Insurance examination findings; it passed out on a do-pass motion to Appropriations, though the FAIR Plan Association remained opposed unless amended. AB 1559 would require notice and access rights when insurers use aerial images of homes and allow in-person inspection requests; it passed on a do-pass motion to Privacy and Consumer Protection, with broad support and one “concern” witness.
The committee also took up AB 1798, which would bar life and disability insurers from using non-diagnostic genetic information, including direct-to-consumer genetic testing, for underwriting below a $1.5 million coverage threshold. Supporters, including the author, the Insurance Commissioner, the ALS Association, and several consumer and biotech groups, argued the bill would reduce fear of genetic discrimination and encourage testing and research. Opponents from life insurance and financial advisor groups argued the bill could impair risk-based underwriting and raise premiums, especially in the middle market. After extensive back-and-forth on the distinction between predictive genetic data and doctor-assessed medical risk, the bill passed as amended to Privacy and Consumer Protection on a do-pass vote, with several members voting no.
AB 2038 would extend wildfire-related nonrenewal moratoriums from two to three years for total-loss homes and from one to two years for homes in and around fire zones. Supporters said the change better matches the real rebuilding timeline after major fires and protects displaced homeowners from losing coverage while rebuilding. Insurers and trade groups opposed the measure, warning that longer moratoriums could force carriers to reduce exposure elsewhere and worsen the broader availability crisis. The bill passed to Appropriations on a do-pass vote. The committee also approved AB 1800, which adds eyewear to portable electronics insurance coverage, and moved a consent calendar of additional bills, including AB 1554, AB 1683, AB 1781, and AB 2471. Later, AB 2198 was introduced to clarify title-rate filing responsibilities between title insurers and underwritten title companies and to require rate schedules to be posted publicly.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- So already there are boundaries to our communication.
- We've been involved in this state and this community for years.
- members, which would take away from my opportunity to help our community members.
- We've been in your community for 20 years, helping veterans, dependents...
- I see the chaplains are needed in our communities to help with provider shortages.
Committee:
Senate Commerce and Human Resources
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Medical Assistance provider enrollment processes 2/26/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Professionals, a nonprofit community Professionals, a nonprofit community mental<00:14:49.920><c> health
- </c> community-based mental health services. community-based mental health services.
- This creates an uneven burden that will disproportionately affect precisely the community-based Minnesota
- </c><00:20:58.320><c> Minnesota</c> precisely the community-based Minnesota precisely the community-based
- <00:21:45.600><c> services</c><00:21:46.320><c> and</c><00:21:46.640><c> service</c> community-based
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee Feb 18th, 2026
Utilities and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- The impacts to wildlife, community, and tribal perspectives, and direct benefits to local communities
- Developers proactively working with communities, ensuring benefits flow directly to those local communities
- The impacts to wildlife, community, and tribal perspectives, and direct benefits to local communities
- Developers proactively working with communities, ensuring benefits flow directly to those local communities
- My thought would just be continued coordination and communication, and meeting timelines of communication
Committee:
House Utilities and Energy
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- the best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community
- ,</c> and try and heal, to watch a community, and try and heal, to watch a community, a<00:16:57.040>
- </c><00:39:51.359><c> a</c> big or small, to make our community a big or small, to make our community
- She had this way of communicating to people that she had every faith and confidence in you.
- :16.720><c> to</c><00:43:16.960><c> people</c><00:43:17.200><c> that</c> this way of communicating to
AR
Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session
INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE AND HOUSE Feb 13th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We all try to touch on fraud when we're talking out in our communities.
- And every time I speak with a community organization, no matter what I'm talking about, I take a few
- found that would be helpful to communicate to the public, specifically with social media.
- Thank you. community service on those 61 cases.
- And if you think about it, we're a community bank, but we do have shareholders.
Summary:
A joint House-Senate Insurance and Commerce meeting focused on the growing threat of financial fraud in Arkansas, with members hearing from bankers, regulators, law enforcement, AARP, and mortgage and insurance industry representatives. Witnesses described a wide range of scams, including spoofed bank calls and texts, fake websites and social media impersonation, romance and investment scams, business email compromise, gift card fraud, check fraud, wire fraud, reverse mortgage scams, and crypto kiosk schemes. Several speakers emphasized that fraud is increasingly organized, technology-driven, and amplified by artificial intelligence, and that seniors are disproportionately targeted and often suffer the largest losses.
Testimony highlighted both prevention and recovery efforts. Bankers said institutions spend heavily on training, customer education, and fraud detection, but often cannot stop losses once customers have been convinced to authorize transfers. The Attorney General’s office described its Consumer Protection Division, a new Financial Fraud Task Force, and examples of recovering funds quickly from crypto kiosk and wire fraud cases. The State Bank Department and Securities Department said Arkansas’s 2025 crypto ATM legislation and related education requirements have helped, and they urged continued public education. The Insurance Department reported major insurance-fraud trends, including fake insurance cards, forged policies, premium-finance schemes, and staged auto accidents, and said it prosecutes these cases aggressively.
Members asked about reporting scams, the security of tap payments, how fraud losses are tracked, the role of crypto kiosks, and whether Arkansas should pursue model legislation or stronger action against telecom and social media companies. Witnesses said tap payments are generally safer than chip or swipe, that crypto transfers are often unrecoverable, and that spoofed caller ID and impersonation ads remain major problems. Paul Benda of the American Bankers Association urged state and federal action against telecom and social media platforms and supported national scam legislation. No new bills were voted on at the meeting, but members approved the November 3, 2025 minutes and several witnesses offered to share model legislation, consumer education materials, and state-by-state fraud data with the committee.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Health & Long-Term Care Jan 22nd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Missed by their families, communities, and by health care providers.
- Communities of color are disproportionately impacted. Glee.
- Communities of color are disproportionately impacted. ...over the age of 65.
- My dad, Bill, was not only a farmer, but he was a community leader.
- Licensed health insurance producers know our customers and we know our communities.
Summary:
The committee first met in executive session and advanced Senate Bills 6102 and 6103 with due-pass recommendations to the Rules Committee, and referred Senate Bill 6194 to the Ways and Means Committee without recommendation. SB 6102 would align the Ambulance Transport Fund quality assurance fee with federal regulations, SB 6103 would make payments for rural emergency hospital services subject to appropriation, and SB 6194 would allow cost-based Medicaid payments for rural hospitals on federally recognized Indian reservations under specified conditions.
The committee then held public hearings on several bills. SB 6183 would require health plans, beginning in 2027, to cover FDA-approved HIV antiviral drugs without prior authorization, step therapy, or other utilization management, with one therapeutic-equivalent exception for prevention drugs. The prime sponsor and one testifier supported the bill as a way to reduce barriers to timely HIV treatment and prevention; sign-in testimony showed 53 pro, 58 con, and one other. SB 5985 would create an online endometriosis resource center, require Department of Health training modules, and direct OSPI to include menstrual health and endometriosis awareness in school standards. The sponsor and multiple patients and clinicians testified in support, emphasizing long diagnostic delays and the need for earlier education; sign-in testimony showed 36 pro, 56 con, and 92 not testifying.
SB 6019 would revise home care rate statutes to clarify how Medicaid home care agency rates are set, cap administrative portions at 20%, and require verification that funds are spent as required. The sponsor, labor, and provider representatives supported it as a technical fix to preserve pay parity, while sign-in testimony showed 46 pro and 57 con. SB 6161 would direct the Department of Health to include dementia risk-reduction information in public and provider materials when appropriate and to consult experts; supporters said it could help reduce cognitive decline and align with the state Alzheimer’s plan, while sign-in testimony showed 61 pro and 62 con.
Finally, SB 6210 would authorize the Health Benefit Exchange to add a new certification criterion for marketplace plans to address affordability and access, including possible requirements tied to county availability, plan differentiation, and metal-level offerings. The prime sponsor, the Exchange, AARP, and patient advocates supported it as a response to rising premiums and limited choices, especially in rural or single-carrier counties; insurers, brokers, and some carriers opposed it, warning it could reduce competition, create uncertainty, and raise costs. The Office of the Insurance Commissioner supported the bill with a requested amendment to avoid premature disclosure of proposed rates.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Civil Rights & Judiciary Jan 21st, 2026 at 08:00 am
Civil Rights & Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- And as I continue to speak with community members, many of them being young leaders in our communities
- community loved him back.
- When a visionary like Elijah is killed, it is a personal and community loss.
- Today, the community needs your support. MLK Healing Garden.
- Today, the community needs your support.
Committee:
House Civil Rights & Judiciary
Keywords:
litigation finance, legal funding, lawsuit, financial services, access to justice, firearm regulation, manufacturing, safety standards, background checks, license requirements, health care market standards, hospital consolidation, merger review, health care transaction notice, attorney general review, antitrust, provider organizations, hospital systems, contracting affiliation, material change
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Labor & Workplace Standards Jan 21st, 2026 at 08:00 am
Labor & Workplace Standards
Transcript Highlights:
- We regularly highlight these materials in trainings and through safety communications with our members
- The law, as is, lets workers decide what communication works best for them.
- The law, as is, lets workers decide what communication works best for them.
- She urged the committee to consider vulnerable communities, including the elderly, disabled, unhoused
- It believes this gives it options to communicate more robustly with workers.
Committee:
House Labor & Workplace Standards
Keywords:
mental health, PTSD, treatment program, research, pilot program, veteran support, trauma, healthcare funding, labor, communication, Department of Labor and Industries, workplace standards, modernization, collective bargaining, labor relations, employee rights, union representation, non-covered employees, wage enforcement, labor standards
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Local Government Jan 19th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- So we would urge you to not only preserve, but to expand, this reasonable tool communities can use to
- The community may oppose it now, but repealing the law slams the door shut.
- So again, that communication part is something that we do want to work with the county on.
- And if House Bill 6064 passes, that communication will continue.
- I'll actually go even further: it means we'll communicate more because we'll have to, just like we do
Committee:
Senate Local Government
Keywords:
freight rail, rail corridor, short-line railroad, rail-dependent uses, industrial land use, growth management act, GMA, comprehensive plan, transportation element, land use planning, local government, county planning, city planning, critical areas, agricultural lands, forest lands, mineral resource lands, urban growth area, development regulations, notice on permits
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Environment, Energy & Technology Jan 14th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Environment, Energy & Technology
Transcript Highlights:
- Our members are on the ground in their communities every single day interacting with customers.
- My name is Mike Wenrick, testifying for PCC Community Markets.
- And again, if a small community like ours can do it, anyone can. We deal with anyone.
- So we want to make sure that we really communicate that to all of the members.
- We have over 2 million community members around the world, including thousands in Washington State.
Committee:
Senate Environment, Energy & Technology
Keywords:
environment, retail bags, sustainability, pollution, customer impact, plastic bags, retail, waste reduction, cookware safety, lead regulation, consumer protection, interstate trade, health standards, SB 5941, Washington State Energy Code, State Building Code Council, renewable energy, solar panels, school district exemption, public school construction