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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 7th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • 289 miles from the Texas state line near Davidson, Oklahoma, to the Arkansas state line near Broken
  • textbook in The state of Oklahoma.
  • What our priorities are for our state.
  • Now, if you look at any state in the United States, healthcare is a big part of their budget because
  • Now, if you look at any state in the United States, healthcare is a big part of their budget because
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Mar 18th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • As we are joined by firefighters from across the state who are here representing the Texas State.
  • We have the power of the state, the resources of the state trying to.
  • Currently nine states, including Texas, do not have a state income tax.
  • of the state.
  • Well, not only for my constituents, but for the entire state, what we're... Our state.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Which might explain the verbiage of Psalm 23 that I read on Oklahoma State Day.
  • And this is the second state championship for the girls basketball team in Canute.
  • The first time I met them, I had no clue about anything in the state legislature. anything in the state
  • The situation in the state of Oklahoma is better, that's about the best I could say.
  • They are the Class C football runners-up and the academic state champions!
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • what is unseen. and by faith see clearly what lasts forever, and through each member, bless the great state
  • community, their endeavor to lean in and serve their community, and become the next leaders of the state
  • give direction to a private entity that this body 12 years ago allowed to go from being a part of our state
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/11/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • a compact with neighboring states to say, do we have some kind of services in neighboring states that
  • For the state.
  • This is a state responsibility.
  • The state hospital is not equipped... The state hospital is not equipped. Thank you.
  • I'm here testifying in support of HB 2584 on behalf of State Armor, an organization that works with states
Summary: The committee approved the minutes and then heard House Bill 2050, which updates Department of Health Services rules for radiologic technologists and radiologic assistants. The bill changes school accreditation and training requirements, reduces clinical hours, revises supervision and scope-of-practice rules, adjusts fees, and removes radiologic technologists from the telehealth health care provider definition. Testimony from a radiologic technologist supported the bill as an update to outdated standards and a response to workforce shortages, while a nurse practitioner supported the section allowing NPs to use diagnostic x-ray machines under nursing board standards. HB 2050 passed 7-0 with a do-pass recommendation. The committee then considered House Bill 2082, which creates a Childhood Cancer and Rare Childhood Disease Research Commission and expands the research fund to include appropriations, gifts, donations, and federal grants. An amendment shifted grant-awarding authority to the DHS director, required the commission to set criteria and review applications, and added public meeting requirements; it also tied funding to at least $5 million in available resources and removed the return-on-investment reporting requirement. Supporters said the bill would strengthen pediatric cancer research and leverage an underused funding source, though members raised concerns about oversight. The bill was amended and then passed 7-0. House Bill 2176 and House Bill 2195 both dealt with DHS licensing and complaint-investigation procedures for health care institutions and nursing care institutions. HB 2176 allows DHS to deny licenses or ownership changes based on serious prior licensing problems or safety risks, and it sets notice, investigation, and deficiency-statement rules; speakers from public health and hospital groups supported it as improving transparency and preventing bad actors from cycling through ownership. HB 2195 limits DHS access to certain personnel records, requires deficiency statements within 10 business days, and bars investigations of incidents older than 12 months; an amendment delayed implementation to July 1, 2027 and added corrective-plan and off-site review provisions. Both bills passed 7-0 as amended. The committee also approved House Bill 2202, which appropriates $300,000 annually for a dementia care tele-mentoring program to train providers statewide, especially in rural and underserved areas. The Alzheimer’s Association and a patient with younger-onset Alzheimer’s testified that the program would improve early diagnosis and care, though one senator opposed state funding on the view that medical schools should teach the material. HB 2202 passed 6-1. Finally, House Bill 2307, addressing placement for dangerous, incompetent, non-restorable defendants when secure state hospital beds are unavailable, drew the most debate. An amendment replaced out-of-state placement with a temporary, limited-use solution involving up to three beds at the Arizona State Hospital forensic campus, created a study committee, and shifted some non-psychiatric costs to counties; counties and hospital stakeholders opposed the county-cost language, while sponsors and DHS said the measure was an emergency stopgap. The amended bill passed 4-3. The committee then passed House Bill 2584 4-3, which prohibits public funds from being used for genetic sequencing equipment from foreign adversary countries or entities; supporters framed it as a national security measure, and opponents voted no. The committee then adjourned.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 2/26/26

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • So state law but the safer path.
  • <00:42:24.960> We're largest district in the state. We're largest district in the state.
  • First, state control without state accountability.
  • impact to our state budget.
  • <01:30:14.400> Chapter service from state service. Chapter service from state service.
Bills: HF3422, HF3461, HF2904
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Veterans and Military Affairs Division 2/25/26

Veterans and Military Affairs Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • He added that they are state forces serving the state, and that the state should be taking care of them
  • He emphasized that National Guard members are state forces serving the state, and that the state should
  • <00:10:19.440> active cover us when we're doing state active cover us when we're doing state
  • By aligning state 38 chapter 61.
  • offset, but I don't see the state. offset, but I don't see the state.
Bills: HF3540, HF3522, HF3544
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Agriculture and Wildlife Feb 23rd, 2026 at 10:00 am

Agriculture and Wildlife

Transcript Highlights:
  • in the state of Oklahoma?
  • So even in a state-inspected facility, let's say if they were to ship across state lines, they have to
  • Triannual State evaluation from FDA.
  • our Grade A status as a state.
  • of the state?
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government Feb 18th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • So this is a major issue the state has to address.
  • Senator Harrell: The state would, thank you.
  • The bill further provides that a local government is ineligible for state additional state funds if the
  • From a comparison standpoint, tourism, our state spending, excuse me, in state spending by our state,
  • But the out-of-state stakeholders are extremely important.
Summary: The committee heard and advanced several bills related to engineering regulation, cybersecurity, financial services, and state administration. CS/SB 800 would increase penalties for repeated unlicensed engineering practice and create an engineering student loan assistance program funded by licensure fees and fines; it was reported favorably after questions about whether it would reimburse victims of unlicensed practitioners, with the sponsor noting it would not and that affected individuals would need to pursue complaints and private legal action. CS/SB 576 created a local government cybersecurity protection program administered by Florida Digital Service, with state purchasing of cybersecurity services and priority for fiscally constrained counties; it received support from local government and industry groups and was reported favorably. CS/SB 1078 set transition requirements for gubernatorial administrations, including liaisons, briefing books, office space, IT access, and controlled access to agency records under a memorandum of understanding, and it also passed favorably. The committee also approved CS/SB 314, which creates a regulatory framework for payment stablecoin issuers in Florida, and CS/SB 530, which updates lottery operations, security, retailer rules, and bonding requirements. CS/SB 1614, after adoption of a technical substitute amendment, would limit local governments’ eligibility for certain state funding if they have excess funds, have recently been audited by the legislative audit committee, or fail to affirm expenditure of prior funds; the sponsor said it would give the Joint Legislative Auditing Committee more enforcement leverage, and the bill was reported favorably. CS/SB 990 authorizes protective cell captive insurance companies to expand insurance market capacity and potentially lower premiums, while CS/SB 1588 is a step toward implementing last session’s gold and silver legal tender law; both were reported favorably. Additional bills passed included CS/SB 1440, which adds cybersecurity-related exemptions and reporting provisions for financial institutions, loan originators, and money service businesses, and CS/SB 1568, which creates a Florida Stable Coin Pilot Program allowing DFS fees to be paid with approved stablecoins. The stablecoin bill was amended to add guardrails, including fee limits, website notice requirements, and restrictions if no approved issuers are available. The committee also received a brief budget overview highlighting major funding items such as Florida Forever, Everglades restoration, water quality, Farmers Feeding Florida, citrus recovery, school lunches, state parks, and law enforcement and staffing items, and members later recorded additional votes before the committee adjourned.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Insurance Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
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AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Safety Committee Apr 3rd, 2025

Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • Because there's no state law, that's what this bill aims to address. Motion, Senator...
  • There are many things that we can do together to improve the lives of the veterans in our state, and
  • It is really important for us to look at good programs in our state that we could then... programs in
  • our state that we could then replicate statewide for veterans.
  • April Turner, who is the state head injury coordinator for the Department of Rehabilitation Services,
Bills: SB241, HB304, HB295, HB361
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Agriculture & Livestock Mar 18th, 2025

Agriculture & Livestock

Transcript Highlights:
  • In Texas, we rank sixth in honey production in the United States.
  • Bees are having a lot of trouble this year in the United States.
  • ARS is working on this right now, along with we have AgriLife and TAIS here in the state.
  • And, you know, State of Texas does a great job. with bees and habitat.
  • So are there any state programs that are? helping with the beekeeping industry? know of.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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Bills: HF1, HF1384
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Feb 12th, 2025

Finance and Taxation General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • , and also the oversight to potentially borrow an additional $500 million.
  • That would raise the total amount of potential borrowing power to $785 million.
  • One of the controversies is that maybe we're borrowing too much. All right.
  • We have capacity on the borrowing we do. Is Kirk here? Kirk, do you have any comments along that?
  • The bill does not require that it be borrowed, nor does it give you a time frame.
Bills: SB60, SB103, SB60, SB103
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education May 7th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • One specifically stated... ...there were two gentlemen on the committee.
  • state funding would lose funding for noncompliance.
  • We've got health care deserts all over the state with no workers available.
  • So we have a lot of great work happening across the state to solve just that issue.
  • And the truth of the matter is I can point to other states and say 15 to 1, 20 to 1.
Summary: The committee met with a large docket and adopted the April 29 minutes. Several bills were heard and advanced, mostly on education, workforce, literacy, early childhood, charter schools, and student mental health. Testimony was generally supportive, with many witnesses waiving in favor; a few bills drew questions about implementation, student awareness, and whether proposals were sufficiently broad or specific. House Bill 406, requiring the Department of Education to study the direction and regulation of interscholastic high school athletics and report back by March 1, 2027, was reported favorably after testimony from a retired principal who urged an open-minded study and discussion from the bill author about compliance and the bill’s purpose. House Bill 380, creating a pilot program between community and technical colleges and local school systems to expand awareness of CDL, entry-level driver training, and related programs, was also reported favorably. House Bill 807, creating a workforce and structure capacity investment program and fund to help industry partner with colleges to train instructors, was reported favorably after support from higher education and industry witnesses; senators raised interest in adding a stronger health care component and in reaching students earlier, but the author said he would work on amendments. The committee also advanced House Bill 316 on adolescent literacy and high-dose tutoring, with amendments clarifying teacher training timing, existing statutory bans on outdated literacy practices, and charter school participation; House Bill 1146, consolidating early childhood governance into a commission; House Bill 28, creating an appeal path for denied teacher certification applicants through BESE; and House Bill 992, assigning early childhood education identification numbers to support data collection on outcomes. House Concurrent Resolution 26, urging BESE to add the science of human growth and development to science and health standards and provide approved instructional resources, was amended and reported favorably. House Bill 386, allowing local districts to let locally authorized charter schools operate as their own LEA under district rules, was amended and reported favorably. House Bill 392, expanding suicide prevention information requirements on school websites, ID cards, handbooks, and signage, was reported favorably as well.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

GVO DEFER, AEN-GVO Public Hearings 02-12-2026

Government Operations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, first up we have is Senate Bill 2064, relating to the Office of the State Architect.
  • <00:02:27.280> and<00:02:27.520> that to be formed within the state and that to be
  • While we definitely state funded travel.
  • Well capitalized operations to receive preferential access to state lands as a form of subsidy.
  • Monica, State Administrator, State Procurement Office.
Summary: The committee met on February 12, 2026, to take decision-making on measures previously heard earlier in the month. Several bills were deferred indefinitely or set for later discussion, including SB 2064 on the Office of the State Architect, SB 3068 on procurement, and SB 3216 after its contents were moved into another measure. SB 2862 on gubernatorial appointments, SB 2781, and SB 315 were all deferred to Tuesday, February 17 at 3 p.m. in Room 225 for further work. The committee also noted that if technical problems interrupted the meeting, it would reconvene later for outstanding decision-making. The committee passed SB 2343 on the Legislature with amendments incorporating language from SB 3216, technical changes, and a defective date of 2525. SB 2075 was advanced as a Senate draft 1 after amendments responding to constitutional concerns raised by the attorney general and SPO. SB 2927 on procurement was also passed with amendments clarifying debriefing requirements and adding technical changes, and SB 2938 on search and rescue was amended to place the position in Hima rather than the Governor’s office before being adopted. SB 3249 on procurement protests was amended to remove the term "frivolous," reduce the forfeiture to half the bond amount, and note unresolved issues, then adopted. The committee also took up SB 3332 on state-funded travel, amending it to remove certain lines, report travel by position number to protect confidentiality, remove subsection G, and add a defective date of 2525; it was adopted. SB 2929 on public notice was amended into a pilot project for counties with populations between 100,000 and 175,000, with a year-end report to the Legislature, and was adopted. Later, the committee returned to SB 2094 on environmental action levels, heard testimony from the Department of Health in support of its current scientific process and from an environmental caucus witness in strong support of the bill’s transparency and petition provisions, and then deferred decision-making to February 17 at 3 p.m. in Room 225. In the joint hearing portion, SB 3233 on agricultural workforce housing drew generally supportive testimony from ADC, the Farm Bureau, the Chamber of Commerce, the Hawaii Farmers Union, and the State Procurement Office, with concerns focused on clarity, flexibility for smaller farms, and avoiding concentration of benefits in one large operation. The committee ultimately recommended passing SB 3233 with the State Procurement Office’s clarifying amendments and the Hawaii Farmers Union’s amendment to ensure workforce housing incentives benefit multiple farmers, and the measure was adopted.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Special Committee on COVID-19 April 13, 2020

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Keywords: HI Senate YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKnr5jEGCc, 2026-07-02T01:22:43+00:00, 2.2.24, Data collected via generic collector engine, Meeting of the Special Committee Senate State of Hawaii COVID-19 Monday, April 13, 2020 You can view department plans, documents, committee reports, meeting agendas, links, resources, and agendas here at https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/specialcommittee.aspx?comm=scovid&year=2020 Agenda The special committee will convene to assess and advise the Senate regarding the State of Hawaii's COVID-19 plans and procedures to include, but not limited to: 1) Confirm the development of the state departmental plans and procedures; 2) Review and assess current state departmental plans and procedures; 3) Review and assess whether state departmental plans and procedures are properly and timely implemented to safeguard public health and safety; and 4) To communicate and disseminate information obtained therefrom. The special committee will be meeting with the following: 11:30 a.m. Office of the Governor Ms. Linda Chu Takayama, Chief of Staff 12:00 p.m. Office of Enterprise Technology Mr. Douglas Murdock, Chief Information Officer 12:45 p.m. Department of Taxation Ms. Rona Suzuki, Director 1:30 p.m. Department of Human Resources Development Mr. Ryker Wada, Director Please note that there may be committee members or invited speakers participating remotely via video or teleconference. The meeting will be available for live viewing on Olelo Channel 53 on Oahu and will go out live for pick up by neighbor island public access channels. No public testimony will be accepted. Meeting of the Special Committee Senate State of Hawaii COVID-19 Monday, April 13, 2020 If you require special assistance, please call 586-6800 or email your request to waysandmeans@capitol.hawaii.gov. -End of Agenda-, 912, senate, all, 2.2.42, 2.1.47
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Special Committee on COVID-19 - March 27, 2020

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Keywords: HI Senate YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aYEehoj9WA, 2026-07-02T01:22:43+00:00, 2.2.24, Data collected via generic collector engine, Today's meeting is also being broadcast with closed captioning on ‘Olelo Community Media's channel 55 and on the online stream: http://olelo.granicus.com/player/event/5588?view_id=13 Just press the CC button when you hover your mouse over the video screen. Meeting of the Special Committee Senate State of Hawaii COVID-19 Friday, March 27, 2020 Agenda The special committee will convene to assess and advise the Senate regarding the State of Hawaii's COVID-19 plans and procedures to include, but not limited to: 1) Confirm the development of the state departmental plans and procedures; 2) Review and assess current state departmental plans and procedures; 3) Review and assess whether state departmental plans and procedures are properly and timely implemented to safeguard public health and safety; and 4) To communicate and disseminate information obtained therefrom. The special committee will be meeting with the following: 11:00 a.m. Federal Stimulus Package Senator Brian Schatz, U.S. Senate 11:30 a.m. Office of the Governor Ms. Linda C. Takayama, Chief of Staff 12:00 p.m. Department of Transportation Deputy Director Derek Chow, Harbors Division Deputy Director Ross Higashi, Airports Division 12:45 p.m. Department of the Attorney General Attorney General Clare E. Connors Department of Public Safety Director Nolan Espinda 2:00 p.m. Healthcare Industry Dr. Jim Ireland, Medical Director for Department of Transportation Dr. Elizabeth E. Char, Medical Physician 2:30 p.m. Department of Health Dr. Bruce Anderson, Director Dr. Sarah Park Dr. Edward Desmond, State Laboratories Division Administrator 4:00 p.m. Hawaii Emergency Management Agency Adjutant General Kenneth Hara, Incident Commander, 912, senate, all, 2.2.42, 2.1.47