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FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-01-14 (4:00PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The report contains the names of 52 appointees who have been appointed by the Governor to various state
- President, I move the Senate accept the report in its entirety and confirm the appointments contained
- And on health care, this bill contains meaningful steps to expand access to rural communities, building
- This bill does contain provisions that would allow rural parts of the county, as the county works with
Summary:
The Senate convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several introductions, including recognition of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority’s Founders’ Day and a visiting debate student. The chamber then received and adopted, by a 39-0 vote, a committee report confirming 52 gubernatorial executive appointments to various state, regional, and local boards and commissions.
The first major bill was SB 250 on rural communities, described as a broad “Rural Renaissance” package. Sponsor Senator Simon outlined provisions creating an Office of Rural Prosperity, a Renaissance Grant Program for counties facing population loss, housing and transportation investments, additional funding for rural education, and rural health care support. Two amendments were adopted to remove overlapping grant language tied to new federal rural health funding and to update hospital funding estimates. Senators from both parties generally supported the bill, though some raised questions about eligibility for certain rural areas and how funds would be accessed. The bill passed 39-0.
The Senate then took up CS/SB 318 on educational scholarship programs. Senator Gates said the bill responds to Auditor General findings by separating scholarship funding from public school funding, requiring student identification and enrollment verification, reducing administrative fees for scholarship funding organizations, requiring annual audits, and directing the Department of Education to develop a competitive selection and performance-based business plan for those organizations. Three amendments were adopted, including changes to the stabilization fund and documentation requirements. Senators from both parties debated transparency, accountability, and implementation concerns, with some also urging future attention to declining-enrollment school districts and the quality of scholarship providers. The bill passed 38-0.
At the end of the session, the Senate waived rules to immediately certify SB 250 and CS/SB 318 to the House, welcomed Palm Beach County visitors in the gallery, and adjourned until the next scheduled meeting.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- sent it off to the University of Florida and had it tested, and there were human remains in the container
- It prohibits written descriptions of services from containing false or misleading information, and it
- As you can see from this slide, the current five-year adopted work program contains plans for a total
- The adopted work program contains plans for a total of over $1.12 billion in transportation improvements
Summary:
The Committee on Agriculture convened, took roll, and heard Senate Bill 58 by Senator Harrow, which would create regulation for companion animal cremation. Harrow described a case involving mishandled pet remains and said the bill would require written service descriptions, prohibit false or misleading statements, require certification with returned remains, authorize Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services rulemaking, and impose civil penalties for violations. With no questions or public opposition, the committee voted the bill favorably.
The committee then heard presentations on robotics in agriculture and aquaculture. Dr. Nathan Boyd of UF/IFAS discussed the rapid growth of agricultural robotics, including AI-driven weed detection, targeted spraying, autonomous tractors, and harvesting technology, emphasizing reduced pesticide use, lower input costs, and labor-saving automation. Dr. Nicole Kirchoff of Live Advantage Bait and Adrian Johnson of the Florida Shellfish Aquaculture Association highlighted aquaculture’s economic and environmental value, Florida’s strong position in the industry, and challenges including hurricane losses, lack of insurance, land-use instability, capital access, and water quality. They urged support for working waterfronts, risk mitigation, and policies to help the sector commercialize and expand.
The committee also heard from dairy producers Kevin Lusher and Jacob Larson. Lusher described his family’s dairy and artisan cheese business, noting reliance on USDA grants, rising costs, labor shortages, and regulatory burdens, and asked for more grant support, marketing for Fresh From Florida products, and permanent funding for Farmers Feeding Florida. Larson discussed the broader dairy market, declining herd sizes due to efficiency gains, high production costs in Florida, and competition from out-of-state processing, suggesting incentives for local processing and supply management. Finally, FDOT Chief Planner Wayway Schen presented on arterial and local road funding programs, including ART, ARTW, SCOP, SCRAP, CIGP, and TRIP, and said rural road needs remain significant, with more than $16 billion in unfunded or partially funded project needs. The committee adjourned after brief discussion and thanks to the presenters.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Minnesota House OKs SF3, the omnibus environment and natural resources budget and policy bill 8/9/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill contains fee increases that could not be seen through any greater lens than directly harmful
- rural rural rural Minnesota.<00:16:46.079>
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- This bill contains fee increases<00:16:48.800>
that <00:16:49.199>could <00:16:49.440>
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee on SF3045 5/13/25
Transcript Highlights:
- On line four, the proposal is to adopt Senate Section 22, which allows electronic rosters to contain
- 22, which allows electronic<00:04:37.080>
rosters <00:04:38.080>to <00:04:38.320>contain - <00:04:39.280>
um <00:04:39.520>voters electronic rosters to contain um voters electronic - rosters to contain um voters for<00:04:40.479>
multiple <00:04:41.040>precincts <00:04:
Summary:
The State and Local Government and Elections Conference Committee met on May 13, 2025, to adopt agreed-upon provisions from the elections article. The chair noted they initially lacked a quorum on both sides, but later confirmed quorum was present. Members and staff walked through a grid of proposed sections, covering voter registration and student proof-of-residence rules, public voter information list deadlines, electronic rosters for combined polling places, absentee ballot procedures, candidate filing and ballot preparation notices, write-in candidate timelines, municipal boundary adjustments, emergency polling place signage, county election training, special election filing periods for legislative vacancies, school district election timing, voting system testing, town elections, hospital board elections, and repeal of the voting equipment grant account.
Several items were described as technical or clarifying changes, including wording fixes, consistency edits, and updated effective dates, with many provisions set to take effect January 1, 2026. One item, line 15, involving a cannabis-related provision, was set aside because an amendment had not been posted and printed in time; members agreed to take it up later. The committee also discussed a mix of House-only and Senate-only provisions, including third-party presidential electors, phonetic spelling on affidavits of candidacy, notification of ballot preparers when candidate names change, emergency polling place procedures, training requirements, and rules for temporary polling places on tribal land.
After the staff walkthrough and brief questions, Vice Chair Aldenorf moved to adopt the provisions in the document titled “Elections Provisions Proposed Sections for Adoptions, May 13, 2025,” excluding line 15, and include them in the conference committee report. The motion passed on a voice vote with no opposition recorded. The committee then adjourned, with members noting that work on remaining elections provisions could continue afterward.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Energy panel considers bill to appropriate funds to Minnesota Energy Alley program, HF1013 3/18/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- energy efficient even at ultra-low temperatures while avoiding the use of synthetic refrigerants that contain
- installed by this summer. the use of synthetic refrigerants that the use of synthetic refrigerants that contain
- <00:08:58.560>
forever <00:08:59.000>chemicals contain forever chemicals contain forever
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 03/04/25
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
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- <00:08:51.360>
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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 04/10/25
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
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that <00:16:14.519>contain - <00:16:15.519>
those products that contain those products that contain those batteries.<00 - along the North Shore and in the Duluth area about some of the paint materials that they use that contain
- cadmium um and so that's a contains cadmium um and so that's a concern.<01:29:07.199>
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budget, <01:54:32.400>uh contained in the governor's budget, uh contained
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (03/25/2026)
Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- amended the bill to essentially contain amended the bill to essentially contain a<04:09:40.640><
- full sharps container.
- full sharps container.
- backpacks fall, their sharps containers backpacks fall, their sharps containers are<05:15:34.080
- a full sharps container. a full sharps container.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Resources, Recreation and Development (01/14/2026)
Resources, Recreation and Development
Transcript Highlights:
- There were procedural changes on how we built the containment. Okay.
- in the containment and they wanted me to add that in.
- the containment. the containment.
- <03:21:48.640>
that asbestous containing material. that asbestous containing material. that - Because the PACM rule, presumed asbestos-containing material, is more strict.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Formal House Session 94 Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- finds itself in, thanks to the actions of the shutdown occurring in Washington, this legislation contains
- The majority of the items contained here are deficiencies that we need to pay or reauthorize past appropriations
- Also contained in this legislation are some outside sections, many of which are technical in nature,
Summary:
The House took up several routine and ceremonial matters first, including a resolution honoring the Solomon Northup Committee and commemorating the arrival of the Solomon Northup sculpture in Boston, which was adopted. Members also adopted an order extending the Revenue Committee’s reporting deadline on House No. 4606, concurred in a Senate sick leave bank petition for Jeffrey Yatson, and suspended Joint Rule 12 for a similar sick leave bank petition for Jean McCarran. The House then advanced House No. 4413, a bill on the terms of certain Commonwealth bonds, to third reading and later passed it to be engrossed.
The main floor debate centered on House No. 4601, the fiscal year 2025 supplemental appropriations bill. The bill was described as a $2.25 billion supplemental budget with a net Commonwealth cost of about $750 million, covering MassHealth, snow and ice deficiencies, Home Base, universal school meals, reproductive health care supports, a sports and entertainment fund, and other items. The bill also included outside sections on public health and finance, and it ratified seven collective bargaining agreements. The House adopted Amendment 70, which added Health Safety Net funding measures, including higher hospital assessments and a $50 million transfer from the Commonwealth Care Trust Fund, after supporters said it would help avert a projected shortfall and generate federal Medicaid revenue. A separate amendment on Home Base eligibility was rejected.
The House also adopted a consolidated amendment that included provisions affecting western and central Massachusetts municipal health insurance costs and changes to violent injury benefit language for first responders, including clarifying the definition of a weapon and tightening the standard for covered injuries. Another consolidated amendment was adopted by roll call, and the bill itself was then passed to be engrossed by a recorded vote. The session ended with an order to meet the next day at 11 a.m. and a motion to adjourn in memory of former House members Thomas and George, which was agreed to before adjournment.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Public Safety Committee Meeting - 2025-04-08
Public Safety Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- And finally, in Article 2 on page 28, Section 19, is Chair Nabotny's House File 962, which contains an
- It contains provisions that the committee saw as part of the amendment to House File 2432 in the Governor's
- It was also contained in House File 2633.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (01/27/2026)
Energy and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- type that can ship on the in a container type that can ship on the in a container on<01:02:39.440
- Conversely, some types of alternative regulation can encourage utilities to contain costs and prioritize
- Conversely, some types of alternative regulation can encourage utilities to contain costs and prioritize
- Conversely, some types of alternative regulation can encourage utilities to contain costs and prioritize
- utilities to contain costs and prioritize<02:23:40.479>
affordability.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
FL House Floor Session - 2025-04-30 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- years, five months, and 29 days, America and her allies in South Vietnam and elsewhere fought to contain
- The Senate bill never contained that provision.
- This bill contains the IOTA provision that a lot of us have So, Mr.
- to be voting against the bill because it does contain that provision.
- This deals with auxiliary containers.
Summary:
The Florida Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including interns, Denim Day awareness for sexual assault survivors, a resolution honoring Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange, and a memorial proclamation for former Senator Karen Johnson Gendron. The chamber then moved to special-order bills, with senators also briefly discussing the session’s pace and thanking staff and colleagues for their work.
The first major bill, on driving and boating offenses, was amended and passed 37-0. As amended, it increases penalties for repeat DUI/BUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide/vessel homicide offenses, and adds notice requirements and misdemeanor penalties for refusing lawful breath or urine tests. Senators also passed SB 306 on Medicaid providers 37-0, requiring Medicaid managed care plans to offer more after-hours and holiday access and ensuring more primary care appointment availability outside regular business hours.
The Senate then passed a major condominium and cooperative associations bill, also 37-0, after extensive debate and multiple amendments. The measure extends deadlines for structural integrity reserve studies, adds flexibility for reserve funding and budgeting, tightens rules for managers and inspectors, limits certain requirements to buildings of three or more habitable stories, and extends the rescission period for condo purchases. Senators from both parties praised the bill’s sponsors for years of work responding to post-Surfside safety and affordability concerns.
The longest and most contentious item was SB 7016/HB 1205 on constitutional amendment petition procedures. Sponsors said the bill responds to fraud and abuse in the citizen initiative process by tightening circulator rules, requiring faster submission of signed petitions, adding voter notification, increasing penalties, and shifting costs to sponsors. Opponents argued it would burden volunteers and make it harder for citizens to qualify initiatives. The chamber adopted a series of amendments, including changes to the petition-circulator threshold, volunteer protections, submission timing, invalid-signature investigation thresholds, and notice/cure provisions, while debate continued over whether the overall package would protect election integrity or suppress citizen-led amendments.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- The Senate bill never contained that provision.
- The amendment also contains HB 1119 or SB 1602 by Senator Harrell.
- This bill contains the IOTA provision that a lot of us have... So, Mr.
- to be voting against the bill because it does contain that provision.
- This deals with auxiliary containers.
Summary:
The Senate began with opening prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including interns, Denim Day awareness, and a resolution honoring Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. The chamber also observed a moment of silence for former Senator Karen Johnson Gendron. After routine business, the Senate took up several special-order bills.
The first major bill, transportation offenses involving death, increased penalties for repeat DUI/BUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide offenses. An amendment added penalties for refusal to submit to breath or urine testing and required law enforcement to notify suspects of those penalties. The bill passed 37-0. The Senate then passed SB 306 on Medicaid providers, requiring broader after-hours and holiday access to care and setting network standards for Medicaid managed care plans, also by a 37-0 vote.
The chamber next considered a major condominium and cooperative associations bill responding to post-Surfside safety and financial concerns. Senators described the measure as balancing building safety with financial relief, extending reserve-study deadlines, allowing temporary reserve relief after inspections, tightening oversight of managers and inspectors, and adjusting voting, resale, and reserve rules. After extensive debate and praise from members for the bill’s sponsors and staff, the bill passed 37-0.
The longest discussion centered on a constitutional amendments/petition process bill aimed at curbing fraud in citizen initiative petitions. Sponsors argued that the 2024 petition process was plagued by fraud and identity theft and proposed tighter rules for circulators, faster submission deadlines, voter notification, penalties, and limits on petition handling. Senators offered and adopted multiple amendments, including changes to petition-circulator definitions, invalid-signature thresholds, and voter notification procedures. After a substitute amendment was withdrawn, the Senate continued debating the underlying amended bill, with members split between concerns about election integrity and worries that the bill would burden volunteers and make it harder for citizen initiatives to qualify.
VT
Transcript Highlights:
- To refresh your memory, reference-based pricing is a health cost containment model that sets a fixed
- pricing is a health cost containment pricing is a health cost containment model<00:03:41.200>
- This bill accelerates cost containment work, but specifically for qualified health benefit plans and
- This bill accelerates cost containment work, but specifically for qualified health benefit plans and
- c> but<00:25:51.679>
specifically cost containment work, but specifically cost containment
Summary:
The House took up S. 190, a health care cost-containment bill relating to the Green Mountain Care Board, reference-based pricing, and a study of a public employee health benefit authority. The House first suspended rules to take the bill from the notice calendar, then heard committee reports from Health Care, Ways and Means, and Appropriations. The Health Care committee chair described the bill as a strike-all amendment intended to carry out Act 68’s hospital reference-based pricing timeline, saying it would let the Green Mountain Care Board begin implementation for fiscal year 2027, expand reference-based pricing to qualified health plans and the Vermont Education Health Insurance program, and address hospital pricing transparency, outsourcing, and critical access hospital Medicare outpatient cost-sharing issues.
Supporters argued the bill would lower insurance costs, help reduce property taxes, and improve hospital sustainability by reducing the need for hospitals to limit access as they approach revenue caps. The Ways and Means committee said the bill could reduce education spending by lowering health care costs for school employees and reported the bill favorably on a 7-4 vote. The Appropriations committee said it reviewed the bill and an amendment, and noted that much of the detailed language would be changed by the appropriations amendment; it also discussed a possible state innovation waiver under the Affordable Care Act. The Health Care committee reported its strike-all amendment favorably on a 10-0 vote.
The bill’s provisions were described in detail, including requiring hospitals and insurers to express rates as a percentage of Medicare, setting a path toward national median hospital prices by 2030, limiting certain reimbursements for QHP and VHI plans, requiring a report on hospital outsourcing and provider tax impacts, and creating a public health system performance tool if funding is available. The speaker also noted that the bill would not affect critical access hospitals or Vermont’s Medicare-dependent hospital in the reimbursement cap provisions, and that critical access hospitals were already working with the Green Mountain Care Board on solutions to Medicare outpatient cost-sharing concerns.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- was quite an interesting contained was quite an interesting night.<00:07:35.840>
Uh <00:07:36.160 - And the district is all contained within Reading.
- It's pretty tight at that to keep the costs contained.
- <00:34:50.240>
pretty this point it's it's contained pretty this point it's it's contained - And uh the report that was provided<01:29:33.520>
contains provided contains provided contains
Keywords:
Duluth, Lake Superior Zoo, capital improvements, funding, bonds, appropriations, capital investment, port development, grant caps, state assistance, navigation facilities, Dakota County, state bonds, park improvements, infrastructure, transportation, safety, congestion, water infrastructure, bond issuance
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Environment Committee Meeting - 2026-03-26
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Most of these devices obviously contain embedded batteries, but we're not here to talk about e-waste,
- Uh, most of these devices obviously<01:03:11.000>
contain <01:03:11.440>embedded <01:03: - 11.840>
batteries, obviously contain embedded batteries, obviously contain embedded batteries, - <01:14:08.880>
critical <01:14:09.280>materials batteries contain critical materials - batteries contain critical materials like<01:14:10.080>
lithium, <01:14:10.520>cobalt,
Keywords:
natural resources, environment, sustainability, conservation, outdoor recreation, wild rice, watercraft regulation, environmental protection, aquatic ecosystems, HF1426, product stewardship, extended producer responsibility, EPR, electronics recycling, e-waste, battery recycling, circuit boards, printed circuit boards, electrical products, covered products
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- This already contains a defective date, so we'll just be moving forward as is with that, again note in
- This already contains a defective date, so we'll just be moving forward as is with that, again note in
- a defective date so already contains a defective date so we'll<01:33:14.159>
just <01:33:14.320 - We also note that this measure already contains a defective date, so we'll just be passing this out with
- We also note that this measure already contains a defective date, so we'll just be passing this out with
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
07/08/2026 - Legislative Council
Transcript Highlights:
- It may contain background information; it doesn't have to, and it may contain the effect of the measure
- not deal with all public spaces, but it deals with any bathrooms or shower rooms, etc., that are contained
- So for any of those facilities that provide an athletic program, then all of the facilities contained
- ,” but in the seventh one, it is “grant a school district employee,” and then it goes on to have contained
- and earlier this session to move the other proposition or the other referral to the ballot that contains
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Advanced Nuclear Energy Committee Mar 24th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Advanced Nuclear Energy Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- And if anyone is interested in understanding what is contained in that, there is a QR code that you can
- That's why I said readily containable, not easily containable, because that would be giving my member
- You analyze to prove that the rock will contain the radiation until it's not radioactive anymore.
- Analyzed to prove that the rock will contain the radiation until it's not radioactive anymore.
- Nuclear waste is compact, controlled, and contained.