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TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 2nd, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Tom, relating to the execution of a waiver of citation by digitized signature in a suit for the dissolution
  • HB5092 by Tepper, relating to the operation and dissolution of the Lubbock-Reese Redevelopment Authority
  • Insurance discrimination on the basis of an insured's marital status following the death of the insured's
Bills: HJR138, HB42, HB 104, HB 129, HB677, HB426, HB668, HB1699, HB2017, HB2128, HB2038, HB3783, HB3717, HB2316, HB3686, HB2563, HB3883, HB4021, HB2788, HB2663, HB3305, HB3173, HB3474, HB 1105, HB3531, HB3490, HB3597, HB 1295, HB3512, HB3010, HB3112, HB4215, HB3223, HB3464, HB3120, HB4214, HB4511, HB3704, HB4081, HB4783, HB4063, HB2783, HB4937, HB5085, HB2510, HB3426, HB4361, HB 1169, HB2516, HB2347, HB4034, HB4700, HB3560, HB5150, HB3860, HB3146, HB3924, HCR98, HCR92, HB1520, HB1545, HB5265, HB1887, HB1914, HB2402, HB2306, HB2350, HB3000, HB3237, HB3326, HB3211, HB 1056, HB2081, HB2187, HB3092, HB3308, HB3526, HB3750, HB4219, HB4230, HB4290, HB5238, HB4804, HB4749, HB245, HB1465, HB294, HB793, HB809, HB3928, HB334, HB2037, HB1973, HB285, HB4341, HB 1043, HB 1234, HB 1193, HB1729, HB2498, HB1314, HB1353, HB3960, HB3923, HB2221, HB2517, HB2518, HB2213, HB5092, HB3748, HB5246, HB4344, HB1482, HB4044, HB2702, HB4264, HB2807, HB2898, HB3181, HB3250, HB2091, HB2115, HB2542, HB2768, HB3349, HB4406, HB1593, HB1899, HB3133, HB3133, HB4960, HB3214, HB2145, HB 1201, HB5061, SB29, SB879, SB65, SB1745, SB412, SB412, SB1746, SB1238, SB1341, SB522, SB1532, SB1378, SB1062, SB2066, SB1963, SB2204, SB1366, SB2077, SB1967, SB1151, HB1618, HB2156, HB2615, HB2615, HB2349, HB1926, HB569, HB1762, HB38, HJR138, HB42, HB 104, HB 104, HB 129, HB677, HB426, HB668, HB1699, HB2017, HB2128, HB2038, HB3783, HB3717, HB2316, HB3686, HB2563, HB3883, HB4021, HB2788, HB2663, HB2663, HB3305, HB3173, HB3474, HB 1105, HB3531, HB3531, HB3490, HB3490, HB3597, HB 1295, HB3512, HB3010, HB3112, HB4215, HB3223, HB3223, HB3464, HB3120, HB4214, HB4511, HB3704, HB4081, HB4783, HB4063, HB2783, HB4937, HB5085, HB2510, HB3426, HB4361, HB 1169, HB2516, HB2347, HB4034, HB4700, HB3560, HB5150, HB3860, HB3146, HB3924, HCR98, HCR92
MO

Missouri 2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Administrative Rules Jun 12th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Joint Committee on Administrative Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • add through this amendment are licensed clinical social workers, licensed master's social workers, marital
  • LCPs, LMSWs, and licensed and provisionally licensed marital and family therapists all do this job of
  • In other words, maybe 40 years ago, we didn't have a marital or family therapist.
  • Now we have medical or family therapists or pediatric marital and family therapists.
  • So I'm kind of curious as if someone were to go to a counselor for marital issues, likely they might
Keywords: 959, house, all
MO

Missouri 2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Administrative Rules Jun 12th, 2026

Joint Committee on Administrative Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • add through this amendment are licensed clinical social workers, licensed master's social workers, marital
  • In other words, maybe 40 years ago, we didn't have a marital or family therapist.
  • Now we have medical or family therapists, our pediatric, marital, and family therapists.
  • In other words, maybe 40 years ago, we didn't have a marital or family therapist.
  • Now we have medical or family therapists, our pediatric, marital, and family therapists.
Summary: The Joint Committee on Administrative Rules met to consider a Missouri Prescription Drug Monitoring Program rule proposal after the Department of Natural Resources withdrew its items. The hearing focused on 1 CSR 60-1.010, which would expand delegate-level PDMP access to additional licensed behavioral health professionals, including licensed clinical social workers, licensed master social workers, marital and family therapists, professional counselors, and psychologists, while also correcting prior rule language involving medical assistants and clinical nurse specialists. Testimony from the PDMP executive director and supporters from Compass Health and the Department of Mental Health argued the change would improve care coordination, medication reconciliation, and safety in multidisciplinary behavioral health settings, especially CCBHCs. They said access would remain limited to licensed professionals working under a prescriber/dispenser relationship, with individual logins and penalties for misuse. Opponents and some committee members raised concerns that the rule would expand access beyond the original statutory framework without legislative change, could be used beyond treatment purposes, and should instead be addressed through statute rather than rulemaking. After public testimony, the committee debated whether the proposal exceeded statutory authority and whether the expansion was too substantive for rulemaking alone. A motion was made to disapprove the rule on grounds including lack of statutory authority, conflict with state law, and arbitrariness. The motion passed by a roll call vote of 7-1, and the committee disapproved Rule 1 CSR 60-1.010 before adjourning.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPN-EIG, CPN DEFER, CPN DEFER Public Hearings 02-04-2026

Commerce and Consumer Protection

Summary: The committee first reconvened on SB 2471 and SB 2829, both relating to the powers of artificial persons. After discussion with the Attorney General’s office and a prior Q&A period, the chair said the committee would defer decision-making again, with the intent to return with amended versions of both bills that could gain support from the administration and its lawyers. The measures were deferred to Tuesday, February 10, 2026, in Conference Room 229 at 9:30 a.m. The committee then took up SB 2180, relating to deposits of public funds. Members noted late testimony from the prior day’s joint hearing with the Housing Committee and moved to pass the bill out with amendments, including a defective effective date. The motion carried unanimously among those voting: the chair, vice chair, Senator Lamosao, and Senator Awa voted aye; Senator McKelvey was excused. The measure was adopted. A joint hearing followed on SB 2033, relating to renewable energy and a streamlined grid-ready homes interconnection process. The PUC supported the bill’s intent but raised concerns about the time, resources, and stakeholder input needed to establish the proposed process, and asked for clarification of terms such as “grid-ready homes” and the role of HERA. Hawaiian Electric said it supported the intent but opposed the proposed process and HERA funding use. The Hawaii Solar Energy Association strongly supported the bill, arguing that faster interconnection is needed to meet rooftop solar goals and lower costs over time. Testimony totaled 27 in support, two in opposition, and four with comments. Members questioned costs, consumer protections, and whether the bill would burden low- and moderate-income households; the bill’s supporters said amendments could clarify the definition of grid-ready homes and add guardrails, while acknowledging that upfront costs and interconnection costs would still need to be addressed.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Children and Family Law (03/25/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • Masters and other family marital Masters and other family division<00:42:52.559> staff<00:42:
  • <00:42:56.800> Masters and marital Masters and marital Masters specifically<00:42:58.400><
  • <00:43:16.160> Master Division Justice or marital Master Division Justice or marital Master
  • <00:54:30.040> Masters necessary um and why marital Masters necessary um and why marital Masters
  • of the law um if you recall the marital of the law um if you recall the marital Master<01:07:47.960
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The subcommittee on the Children and Family Law Committee met organizationally to continue work on family court issues, building on a prior special committee’s report and taking a collaborative approach with the Judiciary. The chair said the group would focus on solutions rather than rehashing public complaints, and identified three main topics for early study: specialization and training of family court judges, the extent to which judges should be bound by the rules of evidence, and whether mediation in family cases should be mandatory or voluntary and what qualifications mediators should have. A fourth concern was also raised about overlap between superior court domestic violence cases and family court custody/support matters, and whether one judge should hear both. Members discussed whether to divide into smaller subcommittees, but the prevailing view was to work as a committee of the whole at first. Most members agreed that additional public testimony was unlikely to add much, though recent concerns could still be emailed to the committee. The committee then heard from Attorney Erin Krian, general counsel for the judicial branch, and Judge Michael Mace. Krian said the judicial branch could provide additional witnesses on mediation and judicial training, including Judge Kissinger, and noted the branch was preparing materials on how other states handle the issues. Mace described the history of the Family Division and said he had reviewed older reports going back to the 1990s. He also outlined current judicial branch efforts, including expanded shadowing for new judges, monthly family-law trainings, and a year-long focus on family law topics. He reported that court rules had been updated to clarify notice requirements for minor guardianship changes, and that the branch had received positive feedback on the family access motion, which provides a statutory timeline and listed remedies for parenting-time disputes. Members also discussed prior committee work on rules of evidence and family court procedures. One member recalled recommending quiet review of any judges who appeared to apply evidence rules inconsistently, and Krian said the administrative judge can review complaints even if they come from a single person. The committee also received a status update on prior initiatives, including a federal grant for guardian ad litem services for indigent litigants in four locations, testing of redesigned court forms, and continued training improvements. The chair scheduled the next subcommittee meeting for April 1 and the full Children and Family Law Committee for April 8, with further documents from committee research and NCSL to be circulated.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary (02/25/2026)

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • I would note judicial referees and marital masters, though there are currently no marital masters.
  • I would note judicial referees and marital masters, though there are currently no marital masters.
  • I would note judicial referees and marital masters, though there are currently no marital masters.
  • I would note judicial referees and marital masters, though there are currently no marital masters.
  • masters there was at least have marital masters there was at least one<02:43:48.479> marital<
Keywords: 1189, house, all
FL

Florida 2026 4th Special Session

January 21, 2026 - 01:00 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • In addition members there is guidelines for dissolution as well and very excited to start talking about
  • Thank you, Rep Hunschofsky. >> The thought process was obviously too not make the dissolution process
  • And after that election is confirmed, that dissolution plan would have to be approved by a judge and
  • Y'all ask about given the common areas away in case of dissolution are getting what we do, the common
  • The dissolution trap for the more the dissolution process and section one of the bill as a road map for
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

Business and Financial Institutions - Room 216, 2 March, 2026; 4:30 PM

Business and Financial Institutions

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, last on our list is HB 1642, authorizing notice of dissolution of corporations and LLCs electronically
  • ><00:09:34.080> of uh author the authorized notice of uh author the authorized notice of dissolution
  • uh of corporations LLC's dissolution uh of corporations LLC's electronically.<00:09:39.279> Uh
  • the point of needing a dissolution the point of needing a dissolution notice.<00:10:30.880> This
  • , a certified mail seems um dissolution, a certified mail seems like<00:12:52.240> it<00:12:52.480
Summary: The committee took up several House bills related to fraud prevention and business filing procedures. On HB 1719, members discussed creating a study committee to examine prevention strategies for financial fraud and related scams, with the sponsor citing a sharp increase in securities division investigations and the need to coordinate among multiple state agencies. Questions focused on whether the study would include deed fraud and veterans’ fraud; the sponsor said the committee was initially aimed at securities fraud but could be expanded, and noted the Veterans Affairs director was included. An amendment adding the president of the Mississippi Bankers Association or designee was adopted, and the bill was given a do pass strike all recommendation. HB 1532 would allow the Secretary of State to remove fraudulent business filings and protect personal information used without consent. The sponsor explained that current law does not let the office remove a filing even when someone’s name, address, or phone number is used fraudulently, and said the bill would create a process to investigate complaints and take down fraudulent filings. Members clarified that the bill would not address scam solicitation letters sent to businesses, only fraudulent filings themselves. The committee then voted title sufficient, do pass. HB 1642 would move dissolution notices for corporations and LLCs to electronic notice. The sponsor said Mississippi already requires email addresses on filings and has been sending both email and mailed notices, but the bill would allow email-only notice and save about $65,000 in mailing costs while improving response rates. After concerns were raised about whether electronic notice alone was enough before a business is dissolved, the committee adopted a reverse repealer amendment to keep working on the issue, then reported the bill out with a title sufficient, do pass strike all recommendation and rose and reported.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions, May 22, 2026 - PM

Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:08:02.280> of administrative dissolutions of administrative dissolutions of fraudulent
  • 08:41.560> for Business entity forced dissolution for Business entity forced dissolution for fraud
  • Well, this is dissolution authority.
  • dissolution when we have a problem? dissolution when we have a problem?
  • dissolution, entity dissolution, and<00:46:37.480> bankruptcy.
Keywords: 916, all
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Retirement May 5th, 2026

Retirement

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're doing away with partial dissolution with municipal police.
  • We're keeping full dissolution in, but no penalties if you just can't get the numbers back.
  • That's what we're doing on the MEPERS side, on Firefighters' Retirement System, partial dissolution.
  • Again, it's just fighter's retirement system, partial dissolution.
  • Again, it's just a tweak on how they calculate the amount, the degree of partial dissolution, rather
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Children and Family Law (02/11/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • The presiding officer is often a marital master, now called a referee.
  • As mentioned, marital masters' orders are only recommendations to make them legal.
  • Court uh and it was defined that marital Court uh and it was defined that marital Masters<04:05:
  • I opened as a trial attorney in marital matters in the early '70s.
  • in the early 70s I served as a marital in the early 70s I served as a marital Master<05:04:38.480
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The House Children and Family Law Committee opened with a brief prayer for Representative Grossman’s son, Oscar, who was reported to be in critical condition after a traumatic fall. The committee then took up House Bill 430, which would reduce DHHS retention of unfounded abuse and neglect reports from 10 years to 3 years. Prime sponsor Chairman James Spain argued that 10 years is excessive and burdens families with a long-lasting stigma, while emphasizing that founded reports and reports with reasonable concern would still be retained indefinitely. Committee members questioned whether longer retention helps identify malicious reporting or patterns of abuse, and whether parents understand the distinction between unfounded and unfounded with reasonable concern. The Office of the Child Advocate and DCF opposed the bill. Child Advocate Cassandra Sanchez said historical reports are important for identifying patterns, reviewing critical incidents, and understanding family dynamics, and that screened-out and unfounded reports can be essential context when later reports arise. She also noted that the records are highly confidential and not publicly accessible. DCF General Counsel Susan Larabe added that the bill could create inconsistencies by retaining screened-out reports longer than unfounded reports, and explained that unfounded reports can be used in court and in administrative reviews when there are multiple prior reports. The committee discussed how other states handle retention, with testimony that some keep records indefinitely and others for long periods. The hearing on HB 430 concluded, and the chair said the bill would not be executed until early March, leaving time for amendments. The committee then opened House Bill 187, concerning restraining orders sought by a parent on behalf of a minor child. Prime sponsor Representative Mike Belcher said the bill is intended to correct a gap in the law so children can access the same restraining-order protections adults can, through a parent or guardian, and framed it as an equal-protection issue. Members questioned why the proposal was placed in the child abuse and neglect statute rather than the civil restraining-order statutes, and whether it should instead be handled as a broader civil-law fix. Alanda Peterson, who said she created Jade’s Law, testified that the original wording was meant to protect all children, not just those harmed by family members, and supported expanding the language. The hearing continued with additional discussion of the bill’s scope and purpose.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Retirement May 5th, 2026

Retirement

Transcript Highlights:
  • smaller municipalities in particular, but also large ones, including Orleans, New Orleans, was dissolution
  • We're doing away with partial dissolution with municipal police.
  • We're keeping full dissolution in, but no penalties if you just can't get the numbers back.
  • That's what we're doing on the MEPERS side, on Firefighters' Retirement System partial dissolution.
  • Again, it's just... ...a tweak on how they calculate the amount, the degree of partial dissolution, rather
Summary: The Senate Committee on Retirement met on May 5 with four members present. HB 41 was deferred until the following week, and the committee approved the April 20, 2026 minutes. The committee then took up several retirement-system bills, many of them negotiated measures involving municipal police, firefighters, teachers, district attorneys, and judges. HB 45, by Rep. Bacallat, was amended and reported favorably. It makes changes to the Municipal Police Employees Retirement System, including retention bonuses, recognition of out-of-state police service, benefits for three officers killed in the line of duty before full enrollment, a DROP fix, and more competitive accrual rates. Testimony from the Louisiana Municipal Association, MEPERS, police representatives, and Mayor Helena Marino was strongly supportive, emphasizing that the bill resolves longstanding disputes and litigation. HB 1237, also by Rep. Bacallat, was reported favorably after testimony that it eliminates partial dissolution penalties for municipal police and adjusts related firefighter provisions; witnesses said it was a negotiated fix supported by municipal and fire stakeholders. HB 42, concerning phased retirement in the Teacher Retirement System, was reported favorably as a permissive framework allowing universities to offer phased retirement options. HB 17, by the District Attorneys’ Retirement System director, was reported favorably to add the Louisiana District Attorneys Association to the definition of employer and require annual reporting on the rehire statute. HB 21, a cleanup bill for the Municipal Employees Retirement System, was also reported favorably. HB 1134, creating a backdrop retirement option for certain judges whose positions are abolished, was amended and reported favorably after LASERS raised questions about early retirement eligibility and the need to bar future judicial candidacy. HB 24, by Rep. Owen, drew the most discussion. It would allow retired or certified teachers to return to work through contracts with school systems, with a three-year sunset. The sponsor argued it would help keep qualified teachers in classrooms and avoid midyear departures, while TRSL, the Louisiana School Board Association, and committee members raised concerns about fiscal impact, contractor status, workers’ compensation, leave rules, and overlap with a separate bill being worked on by the chairman. After an amendment clarifying the independent-contractor definition was adopted, the committee chose to hold the bill in committee for further work rather than advance it immediately. The meeting ended with a motion to adjourn.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Children and Family Law (05/13/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • Domestic violence issues heard by the same judge as marital issues a good idea.
  • judge<00:45:18.400> as issues heard by the same judge as issues heard by the same judge as marital
  • <00:45:20.800> What<00:45:21.040> do marital issues a good idea.
  • What do marital issues a good idea. What do other<00:45:21.520> states do?
  • During the trial, the intersection between domestic violence and the marital issues, which is often two
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The Family Court Subcommittee of the Children and Family Law Committee convened under Chairman Mark Pearson to continue work begun by the prior special committee on the family division of circuit court. Pearson emphasized a collaborative, consensus-based approach with the judiciary and said the subcommittee would build on earlier “low-hanging fruit” reforms while tracking how prior changes are actually working. He also explained that the subcommittee would likely form smaller working groups, with informal meetings allowed so long as they stayed within open-meeting limits. The main policy focus was House Bill 652, which was retained by the committee, along with broader questions about what additional changes family court should make. Members divided the work into two broad areas: pre-trial and trial issues. Pre-trial topics included alternative dispute resolution, mediation training and supervision, counseling/therapy for litigants with issues such as PTSD, and improving materials for pro se litigants, including New Hampshire Bar forms and instructions. The committee also discussed whether to use input from prior testimony, former litigants, other states, and legislative researchers, and whether some of the work should be assigned to two-person subgroups to allow flexible research and outreach. For trial-related issues, members identified additional training for family court judges, whether judges should be dedicated solely to family court, and how to handle the overlap between civil and criminal matters, especially domestic violence and divorce cases. Representative Raymond raised concerns about courtroom recordings and whether judges’ behavior and record preservation were adequate; Aaron Kan of the court system responded that circuit court recording practices and staffing had not changed, that circuit court lacks the court monitors used in superior court, and that resource limits prevent similar staffing. Raymond also raised the cost of obtaining trial transcripts for pro se litigants; Kan explained that transcripts are produced by private vendors because the court system no longer employs court reporters, and that the fees reflect that outsourced service rather than a court-imposed markup. No votes were taken, and the meeting ended with plans to continue gathering information and assigning subtopics for further study.
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 04-23-2025 11:30am

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • the year from 2026 to 2027 in which the task force is to report its findings and their date of dissolution
  • the year from 2026 to 2027 in which the task force is to report its findings and their date of dissolution
  • the year from 2026 to 2027 in which the task force is to report its findings and their date of dissolution
  • the year from 2026 to 2027 in which the task force is to report its findings and their date of dissolution
  • The Senate also agrees to dissolution.
Keywords: 912, senate, all
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 224 Conference PM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • of the organization if they dissolution of the organization if they choose<00:06:10.280> to<00
  • We do have some concerns with the amendments that you've proposed about kind of a corporate dissolution
  • We do have some concerns with the amendments that you've proposed about kind of a corporate dissolution
  • We do have some concerns with the amendments that you've proposed about kind of a corporate dissolution
  • About kind of a corporate dissolution, but taking away the powers and putting it back.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Executive Departments and Administration (03/04/2026)

Executive Departments and Administration

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um I don't know if I would you know it in our charter if there's a dissolution those assets go back to
  • the the there is a certain in the law there's language about how if there's dissolution any assets that
  • c><00:07:28.080> a in our in our charter if there's a in our in our charter if there's a dissolution
  • those assets go back to the dissolution those assets go back to the the<00:07:31.280> there<00
  • any assets that we own and dissolution any assets that we own and how<00:07:36.400> we<00:07:
Keywords: 1189, house, all