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HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
CPN-PSM, CPN-EDT, CPN Public Hearing 02-05-2025
Commerce and Consumer Protection
Transcript Highlights:
- on a website that everyone has access to for any condominium registered with the state annual registration
Committee:
Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection
Summary:
The committee opened by outlining testimony procedures and then heard SB 376 on tax credits, which would create a home fire safety improvement tax credit. Testimony from the Tax Foundation of Hawaiʻi urged that the concept would be better handled as a subsidy program and raised drafting concerns about unclear definitions and eligibility. Later, the committees agreed to pass SB 376 with amendments, including making the credit nonrefundable, clarifying third-party certification, deleting recapture-related language, and making technical changes.
Members then heard SB 417, which would make unlicensed contractor work during or within five years after an emergency or disaster a class B felony. The Contractors License Board was listed for comments, and the Subcontractors Association supported the measure. The committees ultimately recommended passage with technical, non-substantive amendments and an adjusted effective date, and the measure was adopted.
A substantial portion of the meeting focused on SB 782, which would require free and accessible voice communication services for incarcerated people and prohibit state agencies from profiting from those services, while also directing the PUC to set standards and providing funding for the SAVIN victim notification program. Supporters, including the Public Defender, ACLU of Hawaiʻi, Worth Rises, and others, argued the bill would reduce costs for families, improve reentry, and align adult corrections with the juvenile system. Opponents, including the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Hawaiʻi Paroling Authority, and SAVIN-related witnesses, warned that changing the funding structure could weaken victim notification and safety services. The committees deferred SB 782.
The committee also heard SB 999 on fireworks, which would repeal permissible consumer fireworks uses, impose civil penalties and forfeiture remedies, and create a forfeiture special fund for safety education. The Department of Law Enforcement and Honolulu Police Department supported the bill, while fireworks industry representatives and others opposed it, arguing prohibition would be ineffective and urging stronger enforcement and education instead. The committees deferred SB 999 for further consideration, and SB 1136 on insurance was also deferred after insurers and the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs opposed it. In the later joint session with the Committee on Economic Development and Tourism, SB 744 on condominium loans was heard with support from the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority and banking groups, while one testifier raised concerns that the program could function like C-PACE financing and add risky debt to condominium associations; testimony and discussion continued on that measure.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Other taxes that are dedicated purposes are in the motor vehicle registration tax, which brings in about
Committee:
House Taxes
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session 5/12/26 - Part 3
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- does not engage in a reasonable entity does not engage in a reasonable accommodation<01:06:19.359><c
- This is in the public policy section and requires entities to engage in a conversation about reasonable
- This is in the public policy section and requires entities to engage in a conversation about reasonable
- This is in the public policy section and requires entities to engage in a conversation about reasonable
- They have all sorts of entities that are operating out of them.
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- and really get that with our in entity and really get that marketing<00:24:12.640><c> once</c><00:24
- </c><01:39:39.679><c> So</c> entities to to accomplish that goal.
- So entities to to accomplish that goal.
- So we have two two entities<02:12:11.599><c> that</c><02:12:11.920><c> establish</c><02:12:12.560><c>
- obviously</c><02:12:12.960><c> we</c> entities that establish obviously we entities that establish obviously
Committee:
Joint Appropriations
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Currently, any person or entity can propose to establish a new health care facility within 15 miles of
- /c><03:26:32.359><c> any</c><03:26:32.640><c> person</c><03:26:32.920><c> or</c><03:26:33.160><c> entity
- </c> currently already any person or entity currently already any person or entity can<03:26:34.120><
- that share their commission entities that share their commission consider<04:57:14.000><c> the</c><04
- It’s for carbon credits and carbon offsets. well out of state entity purchases in well out of state entity
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Select Federal Natural Resource Management Committee, May 15, 2026
Select Federal Natural Resource Management Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- than an outright sale, and the private entity would then pay the federal government 12 and 1/2% of the
- sale, and the private entity an outright sale, and the private entity would<01:08:35.200><c> then</c
- So many of them are, they have to be a government entity.
- I mean, I don't know how much timber they have, but it seems like they're the entity that's missing in
- Much timber they have, but it seems like they're the entity that's missing in all this.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
JHA Public Hearing - Wed Feb 5, 2025 @ 2:00 PM HST
Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- instead we ask the committee to consider having the legislature commission a report from a single entity
- instead we ask the committee to consider having the legislature commission a report from a single entity
- 51.520><c> an</c> legislature commission a report from an legislature commission a report from an entity
- <01:24:52.239><c> a</c><01:24:52.360><c> single</c><01:24:52.639><c> entity</c><01:24:53.600><c> that
- </c><01:24:53.719><c> has</c><01:24:53.880><c> the</c> entity a single entity that has the entity a single
Committee:
House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs
Summary:
The committee first considered House Bill 1324, which would require the Judiciary to contract for legal services for residential tenants in landlord-tenant disputes and allow attorneys, paralegals, and law students to provide those services, with an appropriation. The Department of the Attorney General recommended removing reference to Hawaii Public Housing Authority tenants because HPHA eviction proceedings are administrative and could conflict with the bill. Hawaii Appleseed and other testifiers strongly supported the measure, citing studies showing much higher tenant retention when counsel is available, and suggested adding notice of the right to counsel at key points such as rent increases, eviction notices, and lease signing. The committee adopted amendments, including the Attorney General’s suggested change and a technical amendment, and passed the bill out with a recommendation to move it forward; members voted aye, with one member voting with reservations and several excused.
The committee then heard House Bill 126 on property forfeiture, which would increase transparency and accountability in civil asset forfeiture by clarifying covered property, changing disposition rules, and removing language requiring liberal construction of the forfeiture act. The Attorney General said forfeiture remains an important law enforcement tool and that the bill would not impair its use. The Office of the Public Defender supported the measure but argued civil forfeiture is broadly problematic because many people cannot meaningfully challenge it and are not entitled to counsel. Honolulu Police Department opposed the bill, saying forfeiture is useful in fighting illegal activity and that added procedures would delay enforcement and reduce operational funding from forfeiture proceeds. Community Alliance on Prisons, the Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, and other supporters urged reform or abolition of civil forfeiture, citing transparency concerns and the risk of abuse. No vote on HB 126 was taken in the portion provided.
The final measure discussed was House Bill 166, which would require the state to defend professionally licensed or certified state employees in certain civil actions, allow employees to hire their own counsel at their own expense, and set a process for the Attorney General to transfer or withdraw representation if the state declines to defend. Testimony from the Hawaii Association for Justice and labor representatives was in strong support, describing the bill as a negotiated clarification that balances employee protections with accountability and noting it had passed previously but died in conference. The transcript cuts off before any committee action on HB 166.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 107 May 1st, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- here, but folks want to change the system and make it more mandatory, make it easier for the union entities
- 07.440><c> organize,</c><01:59:08.560><c> and</c><01:59:08.880><c> I</c><01:59:08.960><c> can</c> entities
- to organize, and I can entities to organize, and I can understand<01:59:09.760><c> politically</c><01
- ><02:08:39.800><c> they</c><02:08:39.960><c> may</c><02:08:40.120><c> no</c> representation by an entity
- they may no representation by an entity they may no longer<02:08:40.840><c> support</c><02:08:41.840
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- And the reason that we did that is that we had heard from um entities that often uh schools that have
- And the reason that we did that is that we had heard from um entities that often uh schools that have
- And the reason that we did that is that we had heard from um entities that often uh schools that have
- And the reason that we did that is that we had heard from um entities that often uh schools that have
- And the reason that we did that is that we had heard from um entities that often uh schools that have
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 02/25/26
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- We worked really closely with organizations that represent the types of entities that CMS described as
- ><c> that</c><00:57:27.599><c> CMS</c><00:57:28.720><c> described</c><00:57:29.200><c> as</c> of entities
- that CMS described as of entities that CMS described as eligible<00:57:29.920><c> to</c><00:57:30.240
- and we'll be providing entities and we'll be providing information<01:04:41.440><c> to</c><01:04:41.680
- I mean, that's a huge number for that particular entity, and it's a huge impact to our community.
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And again, I think that is conditional on the entity that's doing the transport because, like I said,
- The corporate entities around the business see people as customers.
- Hospitals are also some of the most heavily regulated entities in America.
- It specifies that one entity becoming an affiliate of another or the entity comes under control, so it
- They basically need to go through the governing body of the entity to get that information.
Bills:
HB3772 , HB1656 , HB4504 , HB1896 , HB4420 , HB4421 , HB4076 , HB3708 , HB2806 , HB3540 , HB1586 , HB5459 , HB4553 , HB4535 , HB3811 , HB3749 , HB4255 , HB4051 , HB5098 , HB3554 , HB4539 , HB5274
Committee:
House Public Health
Keywords:
e-cigarettes, health and safety, regulations, directory, penalties, regulation, certification, compliance, manufacturers, FDA, nicotine, mental health, emergency detention, paramedic authority, mental illness, healthcare facility, public health, covenants not to compete, health care practitioners, physicians
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 4/7/25
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- health care systems, because it's in these relationships among the different owned and contracted entities
- Article 2 ensures that when entities invest in health care practices, they don't control or interfere
- </c> different owned and contracted entities different owned and contracted entities that<00:04:16.720
- </c> Article 2 ensures that when entities Article 2 ensures that when entities invest<00:04:27.759><c
- So, if an entity has—I'm sorry, not $10,000, $10 million. Okay, I'll get it right. $10 million.
Committee:
House Health Finance and Policy
Keywords:
health care transparency, ownership disclosure, control reporting, health care consolidation, private equity, management services organization, MSO, provider organization, health insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, hospital system, affiliate reporting, financial disclosure, public reporting, market concentration, horizontal consolidation, vertical consolidation, health care ownership, corporate practice, health care regulation
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 2/10/25
Agriculture Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Shared success in achieving this is going to produce a lot of good things for a lot of different entities
- He said farm families are not corporate entities, unlike what you see in large operations out west, and
- </c> families are not corporate entities families are not corporate entities they're<01:33:24.679><c>
- or other entities for capital spending. um um those<01:35:25.040><c> of</c><01:35:25.159><c> you</c>
- <01:37:03.400><c> or</c><01:37:03.639><c> other</c><01:37:03.920><c> entities</c><01:37:04.520><c> for
Committee:
House Agriculture Finance and Policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 01/22/25
Jobs and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- One of the entities under research computing is the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, and we're actually
- address at a level that we're comfortable with, not just as a state but also as a university or as an entity
- </c> also as a university or as an entity also as a university or as an entity responsible<01:16:10.400
- c><01:16:18.480><c> where</c><01:16:18.639><c> we</c><01:16:18.840><c> have</c><01:16:19.600><c> entities
- </c> regional basis where we have entities regional basis where we have entities like<01:16:20.719><c
Committee:
Senate Jobs and Economic Development
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
EEP/AEN Joint Info Briefing - Tue Jan 7, 2025 @ 9:00 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- So basically, a landfill cannot be within a half mile of those entities.
- c> of</c><00:09:02.680><c> those</c> a half mile of those of those a half mile of those of those entities
- 05.320><c> said</c><00:09:05.560><c> that</c><00:09:05.680><c> a</c><00:09:05.800><c> landfill</c> entities
- um it also said that a landfill entities um it also said that a landfill can't<00:09:06.360><c> be</
- a private entity to come in and entity a private entity to come in and um<01:41:18.760><c> uh</c><01
Summary:
The informational briefing focused on the City and County of Honolulu’s effort to site a replacement landfill for Oahu before the Waimanalo Gulch landfill closes in 2028. Chair Nicole Lowen and other legislators opened the meeting by framing the issue as important statewide and encouraging recycling, composting, and proper use of the curbside bins. The city’s Department of Environmental Services, led by Director Roger Babcock and Deputy Director Mike O’Keefe, then presented the background and siting process.
ENV explained the legal and technical constraints that shaped the search, including the 2019 Land Use Commission decision requiring closure of Waimanalo Gulch by March 2, 2028, and the 2020 Act 73 restrictions on landfill siting near residences, schools, hospitals, conservation districts, airports, and tsunami inundation areas. They said a landfill advisory committee reviewed six candidate sites in 2021-2022 and rejected them because they fell within the Board of Water Supply’s no-pass zone. After further evaluation and an extension of the naming deadline, the city selected a site in central Oahu near Wahiawa, on agricultural land currently used as a Dole pineapple field.
City officials said the selected site was chosen as the best of the evaluated options and, in their view, could be permitted under state and federal law. They described planned environmental protections, including a modern sanitary landfill design with double liners, leachate collection systems, monitoring wells, and post-closure monitoring, and said the existing Waimanalo Gulch landfill has operated for 35 years without leachate leaks. They also emphasized that the site would still require a special use permit, Department of Health approvals, an environmental impact statement, and other public permitting processes, and that public engagement would continue over the next several years.
VT
Transcript Highlights:
- apply for tier 1B, uh, showing that they have the necessary zoning or subdivision bylaws, but no entity
- </c><01:11:28.320><c> is</c> Subdivision bylaws, but no entity is predetermining Tier 1B eligible areas
- Uh, the three entities involved, corrections, ADS, and BGS, will report monthly to the joint legislative
- Uh the three entities improve things.
- Uh the three entities involved,<01:46:53.920><c> corrections,</c><01:46:54.480><c> ADS</c><01:46:54.960
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Joint Appropriations Jan 21st, 2026 at 12:30 pm
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- It may require a reprioritization of dollars from other state entities or other state programs.
- Really, the crux of the settlement agreement is that any entity, any political entity, has a responsibility
- There are other entities that are impacted by this ruling, so we're mindful of that.
- But I just want everybody to know that there are other entities in state government that have already
- So if an entity has to spend, let's say, an MRI machine, very expensive, this would provide them the
Bills:
HB1623
Committee:
Joint Appropriations
Keywords:
HB 1623, North Dakota, rural health, rural health transformation program, medical facility infrastructure loan fund, medical facility infrastructure loan program, rural health loan program, Bank of North Dakota, Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, federal grant, health care infrastructure, rural hospitals, critical access hospitals, nonprofit health care providers, gap financing, loan fund, public health funding, healthcare financing, Medicaid
Summary:
The committee first heard House Bill 1624, the “Universal Lunch Bill,” from Rep. Mike Nathie. He argued the proposal should be placed in Century Code rather than the Constitution so future legislatures can adjust it if state finances tighten, and said the bill would start the program a year earlier with a $65 million appropriation for one school year. DPI testified that the estimate did not include nonpublic schools that do not participate, and members questioned the impact on Title I, free-and-reduced applications, private-school accountability, breakfast mandates for schools that do not currently serve breakfast, and whether the funding could come from the DPI budget or other sources. Supporters, including North Dakota United, the North Dakota Catholic Conference, a pediatrician, and the American Heart Association, said universal meals improve student health and learning, reduce family costs, and are better handled in statute than by constitutional amendment. No opposition testimony was offered, and the chair closed the hearing for later work-session action.
The committee then took up House Bill 1627, introduced by Rep. Tye Dressler, which would raise the income threshold for the state-funded school lunch program from 225% to 300% of poverty, with an estimated cost of about $7 million for 2026-27. Dressler said the bill is intended as a targeted, budget-friendly alternative to the ballot measure and emphasized that the state should maximize federal meal dollars while improving participation in the current program. Members questioned whether raising the threshold would actually increase utilization, whether a dollar amount would be clearer than a percentage, and how the change would affect federal reimbursements and application rates. DPI said it could quickly calculate additional percentage levels, and the chair closed the hearing, directing DPI to prepare more numbers for the work session.
Finally, the committee opened Senate Bill 2403, presented by Sen. Schiable, to create a short-term bridge-loan program for financially distressed hospitals, centered on Jacobson Memorial Hospital in Elgin. The bill would authorize up to $5 million per loan, with a $10 million appropriation available on a first-come, first-served basis, and would run only through June 30, 2027. Schiable said the hospital’s debt and operating problems threaten local health care, ambulance service, and the community’s economy, and that the proposal was designed narrowly with Bank of North Dakota review to avoid creating a broad precedent. Committee members asked whether the appropriation could be reduced and whether the bank would still apply commercial feasibility and repayment standards; Schiable said yes, the bank would still evaluate the loan and could reject it if it was not sound.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Ways and Means (10/06/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- You were going to have no knowledge of the owners of more than 10% of the entity. >> No. No.
- who settle illegal immigrants as for-profit entities.
- I'd like to point out that we're talking about taxing nonprofit entities, which is an IRS issue.
- talking about taxing we're talking about taxing on<01:27:39.360><c> nonprofit</c><01:27:40.320><c> entities
- ,</c> on nonprofit entities, on nonprofit entities, which<01:27:43.920><c> is</c><01:27:44.159><c> an
Summary:
The committee first took up HB 155, which drew a lengthy debate over an amendment to delay implementation until tax year 2027. Supporters said the delay would give lawmakers time to see whether projected revenues materialize and to reconsider the policy if needed; opponents argued it would reduce money available to services and local governments at a time of tightening revenues. Members also discussed broader revenue trends, including tobacco, rooms-and-meals, real estate transfer, and lottery revenues, and disagreed over whether tax cuts tend to increase revenue. The committee adopted amendment 2025-2983H on an 11-9 vote, then voted 11-9 to report HB 155 ought to pass as amended. The bill was sent to the consent calendar, with a majority and minority report to be filed.
The committee then considered HB 224, with members expressing concern that the bill would redirect money collected for one purpose to another and should receive more study. A motion for interim study was made and seconded, and the committee approved interim study unanimously, 20-0, sending HB 224 to the consent calendar.
Next, the committee took up SB 83, which the Lottery described as a vehicle for technical corrections to gaming law. The Lottery requested changes to remove a bond cap, reconcile inconsistent free-play/promotional-play language, redirect problem-gambling funds to the Commission on Addiction Treatment and Prevention, and revise background-check language after the FBI declined to conduct checks under the existing wording. The committee adopted amendment 2025-2984 unanimously, 20-0, then voted 20-0 to report SB 83 ought to pass as amended and placed it on the consent calendar.
Finally, the committee began work on HB 524, a bill to repeal the New Hampshire Vaccine Association. Representative Yuli said members had received many emails and calls both supporting and opposing the program and that he had questions about transparency and the dollars involved. The transcript cuts off before any vote or further action on HB 524.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture Aug 4th, 2026
Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture
Transcript Highlights:
- the states of Oregon and California, as well as the Klamath River Renewal Corporation, which was an entity
- Many entities don't want to see the destruction documented, but in terms of holding people accountable
- Many entities don't want to see the destruction documented, but in terms of holding people accountable
- FERC is a hard-to-see-through entity, so I don't really know how they operate or when we're ever going
- FERC is a hard-to-see-through entity, so I don't really know how they operate or when we're ever going
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tribal and State Relations Committee Jul 22nd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And we had districts, our subpolitical entities of the tribe, passing, banning fireworks because of this
- The tribe and its sub-political entities tried to address the issue this year.
- There is no entity. There is no office that deals with some of these issues.
- little over 800 housing authority units that we have within our tribal department designated housing entity
- little over 800 housing authority units that we have within our tribal department designated housing entity
Summary:
The Tribal and State Relations Committee met at Standing Rock with tribal council members, state legislators, and agency representatives to discuss state-tribal coordination and local priorities. Early discussion focused on process concerns, including the short agenda time and the need for better communication, more advance notice, and more relevant state department staff at future meetings. Tribal leaders asked for lists of state tribal liaisons and bills affecting tribes, and state members said they would follow up, share grant and deadline information, and plan another meeting in Bismarck with program experts and agency staff.
A major portion of the meeting centered on health, child welfare, law enforcement, housing, infrastructure, and sovereignty issues. Tribal speakers said rural health transformation funding and other state programs often do not fit direct-service tribes or IHS-funded systems, and they raised concerns about Medicaid, ICWA, foster care delays, human service zones, housing shortages, and the placement of Native children off-reservation. They also discussed missing and murdered Indigenous people, search-and-rescue cooperation, cross-deputization, extradition and banishment ordinances, and the need for stronger law enforcement partnerships that respect tribal sovereignty. Other concerns included poor roads, water and sewer needs in Sioux County communities, census accuracy, and the impact of data centers and other development on water and health.
Economic development and regulatory issues were also discussed. Standing Rock representatives raised concerns about charitable gaming and e-pull tabs, saying the machines function like Class III gaming and have harmed tribal revenue while spreading into local businesses. They also described problems with county-issued fireworks permits and state/county liquor licensing rules that they said undermine tribal authority within reservation boundaries. In response, legislators said the committee would continue to look at these issues, and one member suggested possible legislation such as limiting e-tabs near tribal lands. The committee also heard from Joseph McNeil of Sage Development Authority about a 235-megawatt wind project on tribal, allotted, and fee land; he said federal permitting delays have stalled the project and asked for state support to help move it forward.
The meeting concluded with a presentation from Dave Archambo of Wojou, a nonprofit focused on land regeneration, buffalo, food sovereignty, cultural programming, and youth wellness. He described the organization’s work on buffalo processing, gardening, fishing, hunting, language, and arts programs, and framed it as a response to historical trauma and community healing. The committee then broke for lunch and planned to resume with the Wojou presentation after the recess.