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AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/26/2026 - Senate Military Affairs and Border Security

Military Affairs and Border Security

Bills: SB1055, SB1065
Summary: The Military Affairs and Border Security Committee heard two bills. SB 1055 would require state and local law enforcement to immediately notify ICE or CBP when a person unlawfully present in the U.S. is arrested for a state or local offense. Supporters said it simply clarifies and strengthens existing law and cooperation with federal authorities; opponents, including the ACLU of Arizona and several public commenters, argued it would intensify immigration enforcement, chill crime reporting, invite racial profiling, and conflict with existing SB 1070-related guidance and constitutional limits. The committee engaged in extended debate over whether the bill merely restated current law or would create new legal and practical burdens for police. After public testimony and member discussion, SB 1055 was passed on a 4-3 vote and received a do-pass recommendation. Members voting in favor said the bill was about enforcing the law and improving cooperation; members opposed said it was redundant and harmful to community trust and public safety. The committee then took up SB 1065, which appropriates $300,640,000 in FY 2027 for a Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Military Veterans Fund. The bill was presented as a way to provide non-drug treatment for veterans with PTSD and related conditions, with supporters describing potential benefits for mental health and recovery. Some members raised budget and implementation questions, including how veterans would be selected for treatment, but all members ultimately supported moving it forward. SB 1065 passed unanimously, 7-0, with several members noting support for veterans while reserving questions about the budget process or future floor consideration. The committee adjourned after passing both bills.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

State Affairs Aug 22nd, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Well, there's no criminal penalties.
  • Penalties and we're going to go by someone's opinion of how someone looks.
  • Carve out from the oversight and penalties which are imposed by this law regarding the core question
  • potentially for physicians who might engage in intellective abortion, civil penalties, and remember,
  • Georgia said that rapists don't deserve the death penalty. And in Kennedy v.
Bills: HB7, SB 8
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Financial Services Committee Apr 23rd, 2025

Financial Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, so the changes basically just really look at our penalty schedule, and we increase the data that
  • And if you don't, the records must be kept for 5 years, and then there are penalties that are increased
  • Any fines or penalties that have been collected are then put in the general fund.
  • makes them a class C felony for the first offense, class B felony for continued offenses, and a civil penalty
Bills: HB297, HB587
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Revenue Committee, February 25, 2026

Revenue

Transcript Highlights:
  • So those are substantially less penalties than what we see with the federal government prosecution of
  • What it does, it adds civil penalties into existing law.
  • We already have SAPA on the books with a criminal penalty provision.
  • Why would we need that additional penalty section just because the person formerly worked for the federal
  • Why would we need that additional penalty section just because the person formerly worked for the federal
Bills: HB0130, HB0147
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 5/5/25

Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • of money here and then you got a penalty of money here and then you got a penalty there<00:48:20.880
  • And quite frankly I mean if penalties.
  • little bit more about um the penalties little bit more about um the penalties and<01:24:56.080><
  • That's a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
  • maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
Bills: HF3043, HF2891
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • crimes committed against older adults and other vulnerable individuals through enhanced criminal penalties
  • . ...vulnerable individuals through enhanced criminal penalties.
  • to the Senate Committee on Finance, where the bill was further amended by applying the additional penalty
  • list of crimes against an older or vulnerable person that require the imposition of an additional penalty
  • By expanding this list and increasing penalties, I am hopeful that this would be enough of a deterrent
Bills: SB60, SB85, SB323
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee Feb 25th, 2026

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It required the Alabama State Department to develop and publish a set of minimum standards that must
  • and publish a State Department develop and publish a set<00:04:34.000> of<00:04:34.160> minimum
  • standards<00:04:35.040> that<00:04:35.280> must<00:04:35.520> be set of minimum
  • standards that must be set of minimum standards that must be taught<00:04:35.919> in<00:04:36.160
Bills: HB329, SB5, HB329, SB5, HB43, HB75, HB396
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • The next thing on our agenda is a summary of staff report on the fire commission minimum training standards
  • Specifically, staff looked into the commission's minimum training standards, including how they're used
  • , commission's minimum training standards, including<00:01:51.200> how<00:01:51.360> they're
  • Seen here are Kentucky's current minimum training standards, also found on Table 3.1 in the report.
  • um is there any penalties for not um is there any penalties for not complying<00:32:21.039> with
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes from December 19 and June 12, then received a staff report on the Kentucky Fire Commission’s minimum training standards and administrative spending. Staff explained that the commission’s current minimum training hours are 115 for volunteer firefighters and 300 for paid firefighters, down from 150 and 400 before January 1, 2023, after the commission removed elective classes not directly tied to NFPA standards. The report found the commission’s certification testing aligns fully with NFPA standards, but recommended that the commission formally promulgate regulations establishing the reduced training hours. On finances, staff said the commission complied with the first statutory cap on administrative reimbursements to KCTCS, but could not verify compliance with a second, more specific cap because the finance system does not break out program-level costs and the statute is vague. Staff recommended the commission work with KCTCS to fix that issue and suggested the General Assembly may wish to clarify the statute. After questions about reimbursement levels and investment income, the committee voted to accept the report. The committee then heard an update on the Kentucky Child Fatality and Near Fatality External Review Panel. Staff reported that the panel has implemented two of three prior recommendations: it revised its agency notification letter to clearly state the 90-day response deadline and added response prompts and checkboxes to improve completeness. The third recommendation, to adopt formal written procedures, remains in progress; staff said the panel plans to develop those procedures alongside its new case management system. The panel is meeting its statutory membership and meeting requirements, but agency responses to its recommendations have been inconsistent: 48% were timely and appropriate in 2022, 36% in 2023, and 82% in 2024, though only three of nine timely 2024 responses were fully complete. Staff also described the new case management system project, funded with $200,000 in one-time money, and recommended the panel consult budget staff about use of those funds beyond fiscal year 2025. They reissued the recommendation that the panel develop written procedures for case review, findings, recommendations, and annual reports. Committee members raised concerns about the lack of penalties for noncompliance, the volume and length of panel meetings, and technology barriers to reviewing cases, and one member said the panel’s findings should inform future legislation.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/26/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • civil penalties in criminal restitution. civil penalties in criminal restitution.
  • And then it has enhanced penalties.
  • Subdivision three is a new penalty.
  • penalty is in there. penalty is in there. >> Vice<01:21:52.400> Chair.
  • <01:22:15.120> that penalties are, or are the penalties that penalties are, or are the penalties
Bills: HF3423, HF2354, HF3634
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Ethics and Campaign Finance Committee Feb 18th, 2026

Ethics and Campaign Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • It provides for enforcement by the Secretary of State, penalties of $10,000 to $200,000 for willful or
  • And I see you got a good penalty in there if they don't. >> Yeah. >> So that should help them to comply
  • And I see you got a good a good a good<00:08:13.360> uh<00:08:13.440> penalty<00:08:13.919
  • good uh penalty in there if they don't. good uh penalty in there if they don't. >> Yeah.
Bills: HB358, HB358
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal JusticeAudio only. May 25th, 2025

Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • and strengthen the Texas sex offender registration system by correcting the statute to enhance the penalties
  • addresses this issue by amending Chapter 62 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to increase the criminal penalty
  • registered by offenders are considered aggravating factors in the case consideration ensure stricter penalties
Bills: HB 2407, HB 3425
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Aug 22nd, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Enforcement and penalties, and we're going to go by someone's opinion of how someone looks?
  • This includes criminal penalties for physicians who might engage in an elective abortion and civil penalties
  • Penalties.
  • The US Supreme Court said that rapists don't deserve the death penalty.
  • And that's why I'm completely for the $100,000 penalty that we're talking about.
Bills: HB7, SB 8, HB7, SB 8
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • I correct this statute to enhance the penalties for certain individuals who repeatedly fail to comply
  • addresses this issue by amending Chapter 62 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to increase the criminal penalty
  • This consideration ensures stricter penalties for repeated offenders who demonstrate a pattern of non-compliance
Bills: HB2407, HB3425