Transcript Highlights:

• It repeals Idaho Code 67-452.
• What it does is it changes the requirement for somebody who wants to buy a lifetime hunting or fishing
• Let's just get it done now.
• They actually have to activate it every single...
• Is it an Idaho 250 flag? It's a... is it an Idaho 250 flag? No, we'll see. It is. That's amazing.

Keywords: 989, all

Summary: The committee first considered Senate Bill 1396, a Code Cleanup measure repealing Idaho Code 67-452, which had authorized Idaho membership on the Pacific Fisheries Task Force. It was noted that Idaho has not participated since 2022. Senator Cook moved the bill be sent to the floor with a due pass recommendation, and the motion passed unanimously. The committee then heard House Bill 855 from Representative James Petsky, which would extend the residency requirement for purchasing a lifetime hunting or fishing license from six months to five years. Petsky said the change was intended to close a loophole he described as people moving to Idaho briefly to qualify for the license and then leaving. Idaho Fish and Game testified in support, saying the bill would reduce abuse of the program and better align with the state’s nonresident draw system. After questions about how residency is verified and whether the bill would affect current license holders, the committee voted to send HB 855 to the floor with a due pass recommendation. Next, the committee heard House Concurrent Resolution 34 from Senator Mark Harris, which reaffirms Idaho’s rights under the Bear River Compact and calls for studies, reporting, and planning related to water storage, recharge, and stream gauging in the Bear River Basin. Paul Arrington of the Idaho Water Users Association supported the resolution and said it would help identify ways to better manage and develop water supplies. The committee asked about costs, and Arrington said the resolution was focused on study and reporting rather than immediate project spending. The committee then moved HCR 34 to the floor with a due pass recommendation. The committee also approved the February 25 minutes and concluded with a recognition of page Antoine, who spoke about his future plans and was presented with a gift.

Transcript Highlights:

• OK, I realize it hasn't been your experience.
• It's pretty slick, wasn't it?
• Motion to amend it. No, not right now. Do it right before the next committee.
• We'll do it. We'll do it at oversight. Then, all right.
• This would raise it, increase it up to that amount up to $75,000. Any further questions?

Bills: SB2063, SB1877, SB1884, SB2174, SB1525, SB1771, SB1805, SB1916, SB1365, SB1810

Keywords: unclaimed property, abandoned property, state treasurer, unclaimed property fund, public website, claimant, hearing, administrative procedures act, sales tax exemption, income tax subtraction, youth entrepreneurs, teen business, minor-owned business, sole proprietorship, business license exemption, entrepreneurship, youth vendor, Oklahoma Tax Commission, Title 60, Title 68

Transcript Highlights:

• Paul moved his desk with it.
• It needs a slight change to keep pace with modern society.
• Why hasn't it come up in the past, or has it come up in the past and we haven't acted on it?
• I've got it written down. Yeah, we got it. Thank you so much. Any questions? No, thank you.
• It can be done, but it takes a little bit of time to do it.

Bills: H5314

Keywords: condominium conversion, co-owned property, tenants in common, two-unit building, duplex, partition action, Land Court, chapter 183A, chapter 241, master deed, shared ownership, housing, property law, real estate, easements, common areas, common expenses, condominium ownership, small multifamily housing, 1212

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• it in 2015.
• Paul at its best.
• Paul at its best.
• It goes a long way.
• the attention it deserves.

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• It is to come together. not to fragment. It is to come together.
• Fair View is a it on it with confidence.
• c><00:42:38.079><c> end</c> uh sat there and it was it was the end uh sat there and it was it was the
• ><00:43:05.280><c> was</c><00:43:05.359><c> a</c> three years ago it was it was it was a three years
• ago it was it was it was a pretty<00:43:05.680><c> doom</c><00:43:06.000><c> and</c><00:43:06.160><c>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And I think we're cleaning it up and closing down the old.
• It would be between the farmer and the worker.
• It happens very often. It just holds accountability dealing with notaries.
• And then, currently, it goes to the DAA for investigation.
• will it will put you to sleep.

Bills: SB504, SB844, SB1209, SB1266, SB1303, SB1448, SB1496, SB1595, SB1597, SB1655, SB1679, SB1621, SB1716, SB1769, SB1827, SB1876, SB1944, SB2072, SB2084, SB2104, SB2112, SB2170, SB2180, SB2182

Keywords: SB504, marriage, child marriage, minor marriage, age of consent, minimum marriage age, underage marriage, teen marriage, parental consent, judicial approval, marriage license, Oklahoma Title 43, family law, juvenile justice, Department of Human Services, DHS custody, incestuous marriage, pregnancy exception, paternity, seduction

Transcript Highlights:

• They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.
• Let's get through it. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
• I was letting it get quiet. Clerk will read.
• We passed this through the House last year; it made it all the way to the governor's desk, but he vetoed
• it.

Bills: HB2979, HB3790, HB3142, HB3463, HB4143, HJR1086, SB392, HB3087, HB3037, HB3581, HB4058, HB2959, HB4227, HB2997, HB4125, HB1453, HB3521, HB3691, HB2015, HB2940, HB1016, HB3267, HB3695, HB3697, HB3045, HB3662, HB3453, HB3053, HB3301, HB3495, HB3584, HB3586, HB3587, HB3845, HB4198, HB4425, HB2970, HB3338, HB3443, HB3783, HB3800, HB3818, HB1242, HB1752, HB2961, HB2967, HB2973, HB2988, HB3031, HB3240, HB3047, HB3052, HB3066, HB3086, HB3175, HB3177, HB3178, HB3429, HB3548, HB3638, HB3404, HB3704, HB1590, HB3759, HB3831, HB3904, HB4092, HB1979, HB1983, HB1250, HB2952, HB3671, HB3920, HB4118, HB3944, HB3969, HB3973, HB3975, HB3976, HB3978, HB3983, HB3984, HB3942, HB4203, HB2588, HB3024, HB3383, HB3279, HB3919, HB3883, HB4193, HB3431, HB3435, HB4352, HB4484, HB1245, HB3172, HB3306, HB4294, HB3880, HB2929, HB3128, HB2956, HB3015, HB3114, HB3567, HB3749, HB4229, HB4237, HB4253, HJR1046, HJR1084, HB3411

Keywords: HB2979, Talyn Bain Act, school zone, school safety, speed limit, 45 mph, state highway, Department of Transportation, ODOT, flashing beacons, traffic enforcement, speeding violation, public school, private school, K-12, drop-off, pick-up, highway safety, municipal maintenance, county commissioners

Summary: The House convened, completed the roll call, heard an invocation from Chaplain Ronnie Wilson, and recited the Pledge of Allegiance led by Representative Alonzo Sandoval. The chamber also recognized the Doctor of the Day, Dr. Faulkner, and several guest groups in the galleries, including visitors from Ireland, ABATE, Darnaby Elementary student council members, and students from High Plains Technology. Members then considered several bills. HB 2979, directing the Department of Transportation to establish 45-mile-per-hour school zones on certain highways near schools, passed 85-0. HB 3790, a consumer protection measure allowing homeowners to cancel certain contracts within five business days, passed 82-0. HB 3142, an industry-request bill on liquefied petroleum gas that also drew questions about food truck permitting and inspection fees, passed 65-22. HB 3463, updating municipal audit procedures for small communities and codifying modern agreed-upon procedures, passed 89-0 and also received the required emergency vote. HB 4143, which raises the accident-reporting threshold from $300 to $3,000 before police involvement is required, passed by a large margin. The House also adopted a motion to suspend House Rule 4.4F to allow denim on the floor on specified dates in 2026, by a vote of 79-9. During announcements, members noted upcoming committee meetings, caucus events, and a devotional, and one member thanked colleagues for concern after a bus accident involving Elgin Public School students. The House then adjourned until Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at 1:30 p.m.

Transcript Highlights:

• It wasn't about the money. It was about the connection.
• It should be, it should be clear to understand its intentions.
• was, it did $10 million in sales over its first year.
• They would go grab it and just run out the door with it.
• It is past time for Texas to modernize alcohol regulations to adapt to new products available to consumers

Transcript Highlights:

• and I are going to approve to put it in the base so we can discuss it.
• and I are going to approve to put it in the base so we can discuss it.
• I don't have it with me today. Deputy Commissioner Keaton has it.
• or into it.
• This investment over the biennium will allow the Coordinating Board to continue its efforts to modernize

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• We funded the modernization of their IT system, some of the key applications and processes they need
• So we're grateful for the modernization in our IT area and hope to continue to drive that forward pretty
• Follow it? Yes.
• It happens in schools, it happens in our school, and we've addressed it.
• And it is.

Summary: The committee met to hear an overview of the Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice budget area and then received performance-measure presentations from the Department of Corrections, the Commission on Offender Review, and the Department of Juvenile Justice. Staff reviewed the roughly $7.4 billion criminal justice and judiciary budget, noting major funding areas such as corrections, law enforcement, victim services, courts, and due process, along with recent investments in prison health care, security equipment, fentanyl enforcement, court staffing, and juvenile justice salaries and education programs. Secretary Dixon of the Department of Corrections described staffing and population pressures, including growth in inmate population, overtime-driven deficits, and the opening of additional housing units. He emphasized the department’s use of performance measures and highlighted reforms such as incentivized prisons, administrative management units, reentry planning, faith-based programs, and expanded education and vocational training. Members asked about teacher hiring, public defender pay parity, fentanyl funding, staffing capacity, and the role of the National Guard; Dixon said teacher vacancies had improved, public defenders had received comparable pay increases, fentanyl funding would be addressed further by FDLE, and the Guard had helped stabilize staffing. The Commission on Offender Review reported on parole, conditional release, addiction recovery supervision, and revocations, saying its recidivism/success rates had improved over a three-year measurement period. Senator Rouson pressed the commission on clemency and pardons, saying that work was omitted from the presentation and asking for backlog and case data; the commission said it did not have those figures on hand and would follow up. The committee also discussed a conditional medical release pilot study, and members questioned the report’s conclusion that no suitable elderly inmate population could be identified, asking what criteria were used and whether stakeholders were consulted. Secretary Hall of the Department of Juvenile Justice outlined the agency’s prevention-to-residential continuum and its emphasis on education, data-driven decision-making, and evidence-based programming. He said salary increases had reduced vacancies, juvenile arrests and residential commitments had fallen sharply over time, and tools such as civil citations, risk assessments, and quality-improvement reviews were being used to guide placements and services. Hall also described the department’s use of dashboards, monthly data check-ins, and the dispositional matrix to improve outcomes and reduce recidivism.

Transcript Highlights:

• I think it is looking at it.
• So it is imperative that when the state endeavors to reform the system, it takes both actions: that it
• And it was also, again, it was based on the scope.
• at it.
• And, you know, whether you own it and you have to fix it on your own or you're going to lease it, and

Summary: The Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 5 held an informational hearing on the Governor’s May Revision proposals for labor, public safety/judiciary, and transportation, and no votes were taken. In Part A on labor, the Employment Development Department described funding for EDD Next document management work, updated UI loan interest costs, disability insurance and paid family leave benefit increases, WIOA adjustments, UI and school employee benefit changes, an EMT training reappropriation, and a technical correction tied to an EDD Next reversion. PERB discussed reduced funding requests for AB 288 due to litigation and a proposal to implement AB 1 covering legislative employees. DIR presented proposals for legal unit reclassifications, two major IT modernization projects, a new Cal/OSHA emerging technologies unit, a COIA reappropriation, and trailer bill language requiring electronic payment of employer assessments and removing a salary cap for the DWC administrative director. CalHR proposed consolidating employee assistance services into a statewide contract with enhanced support for first responders, and CalPERS and CalSTRS presented budget adjustments tied to investment costs, state contributions, and benefit overpayments. Members focused heavily on the unemployment insurance debt and interest payments, asking why the administration had no concrete plan to pay down principal. Finance and LAO explained that the state’s UI tax structure has long been insufficient and that any long-term solution would need to address both the outstanding federal loan and the structural imbalance in employer taxes. Questions also centered on EDD Next costs and timelines, with the chair asking for clearer long-term project cost estimates and Finance noting that future maintenance and operations costs will continue after implementation. On DIR’s emerging technologies unit, members asked whether it would address AI-driven workplace harms; DIR said the unit would focus on physical workplace safety issues involving AI, robotics, autonomous equipment, and related guardrails, while LAO noted broader labor-practice questions would likely fall outside Cal/OSHA’s scope. In the CalPERS discussion, members raised concerns about transparency in private equity and external management fees, while CalPERS said higher fees reflect a strategy of greater private-market and active-management exposure and are offset by higher net returns. Members urged more information on specific investments and future reporting. For CalSTRS, Finance presented routine contribution and overpayment adjustments, but members also raised broader transparency concerns that CalSTRS staff said they would follow up on separately. Public comment in Part A was dominated by strong support for an immigrant worker emergency relief fund, along with support for apprenticeship and workforce proposals and PERB staffing. The chair and members said they would follow up on where the immigrant relief proposal should be considered, noting it may belong in another policy area. The hearing then moved into Part B with an overview of Judicial Branch-related May Revision items, including court interpreter funding, appellate court security, workload cap changes, lactation room implementation delays, and a reduction to the state court facility construction backfill.

Transcript Highlights:

• it refinances or pays down the outstanding federal loan, and it also fixes its own tax system at the
• Okay, I see it.
• at it.
• And, you know, whether you own it and you have to fix it on your own or you're going to lease it, and
• Would it be possible to email it to your staff?

Keywords: 987, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• But it happens. Sure. It happens.
• I get it.
• If we're so worried about it, it seems that it is working. Okay.
• I appreciate it. it. it.
• c> that</c><00:49:01.520><c> I</c> talking it it raised a point that I talking it it raised a point that

Keywords: House streaming session for Thursday, February 19, 2026, 957, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• c> it says state government has to build it it says state government has to build it just<00:37:02.400
• ><c> it</c><00:38:04.000><c> came</c> committee I believe it was that it came committee I believe it
• /c> It may be true that it could do all It may be true that it could do all kinds<00:46:27.200><c> of
• </c> it and operate it right out of the OCA. it and operate it right out of the OCA.
• it.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• It's about time we brought it into the modern economy, and HB 672 will enable just that.
• It's about time we brought it into the modern economy, and HB 672 will enable just that.
• It's about time we brought it into the modern economy, and HB 672 will enable just that.
• It's about time we brought it into the modern economy, and HB 672 will enable just that.
• It's about time we brought it into the modern economy, and HB 672 will enable just that.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Uh, next up on the agenda is House File 3117. well if it makes it through conference well if it makes
• It risks sweeping in local broadcasters who are simply using modern tools to deliver free essential information
• It was Mr. Chair. particular testifier? It was Mr. Chair.
• It had a couple of pigs on the internet. It was on the internet.
• Um but it is it has also tax provisions.

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• It says it needs to be at 160 degrees. Um, but that's really it.
• </c><01:11:54.080><c> It</c> doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
• </c> I saw it and it was pretty phenomenal. I saw it and it was pretty phenomenal.
• </c> about it. about it.
• Like it really like it it Google that.

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• It would be a separate facility, but it houses both.
• of it.
• It may be here and I've overlooked it.
• Appreciate it. And, Secretary Johnson. Appreciate it.
• Uh I would prefer it good way to do it.

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Attendance Roll Call 00:00:05 Approval of Minutes 00:01:48 Welcome New Members 00:02:03 Information Items 00:02:35 Review of Executive Branch Agency Plans 00:03:33 A. Cabinet for Health and Family Services 00:04:00 B. Kentucky Department of Education 00:17:03 C. Education and Labor Cabinet 00:29:33 D. Energy and Environment Cabinet 00:42:38 E. Finance and Administration Cabinet 0:53:30 F. Justice and Public Safety Cabinet 01:13:28 G. Personnel Cabinet 01:31:04 H. School Facilities Construction Commission 01:41:39, 958, all

Summary: The meeting was the first of the year for the Capital Planning Advisory Board. Members were called, a quorum was confirmed, new co-chairs and members were welcomed, and the board approved the prior year’s meeting minutes. The chair also reviewed the capital planning timeline, packet organization, and the list of agencies that submitted plans but would not testify. The Cabinet for Health and Family Services presented first, outlining priorities centered on public safety, protecting existing infrastructure, preventive maintenance, and improving service delivery. Its major requests included a $21 million maintenance pool for 14 campuses and 175 buildings, phase 2 construction funding for a new public health laboratory, an 18-bed psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents with severe mental health needs, and several projects at Western State Hospital, Western State Nursing Facility, Hazlewood, and Oakwood. Members asked about the youth facility’s relationship to a separate DJJ project, vacant buildings, the high per-bed cost of the children’s hospital, and how the cabinet determined the need for the youth facility. CHFS said the youth project would be a separate facility serving high-acuity youth, the cost reflected the specialized nature of the unit and an 18-bed cap, and the broader youth plan also includes prevention, in-home services, and coordination across agencies. The Kentucky Department of Education then described projects for its three state-operated facilities: the Kentucky School for the Deaf, the Kentucky School for the Blind, and the FFA leadership training center. It requested additional funding for the FFA classroom and activity building after bids came in higher than expected, plus funding for a new education finance application system to support SEEK budgeting. Other priorities included a maintenance pool, FFA pool renovation, electrical upgrades, campus education enhancements, lighting improvements, safety and security work, door and window replacements, and HVAC maintenance. Members asked about student outcomes, the size of the FFA pool, and construction cost assumptions; the department said it tracks students through the schools and short-course programs, the pool size figure may have been a typo, and current construction estimates are being adjusted upward because of inflation and supply-chain pressures. The Education and Labor Cabinet began its presentation with 12 priority projects, including a state labor exchange system to connect job seekers and employers, renovation of the McDow Vocational Rehabilitation Center, and a new adult education and family literacy management information system. The cabinet said the labor exchange would help match workers with employers at no cost, while the McDow renovation was needed because the 30-year-old facility has safety and code concerns. The adult education system was described as outdated and lacking adequate case-management and tracking capabilities.

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• It would be the first of its kind in the world.
• It is so important.
• </c><00:53:03.480><c> I</c><00:53:03.559><c> know</c> bonding cycle it it it seems like I know bonding
• cycle it it it seems like I know there's<00:53:03.839><c> a</c><00:53:04.079><c> cost</c><00:53:04.599
• We can't see it yet, but we all have it in front of us, so maybe staff can work to get it plugged in.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• </c> Proposal relating to child welfare IT modernization.
• it, it does require uh order to receive it, it does require uh changes<00:20:23.720><c> to</c><00:20
• modernization. for the child welfare IT modernization.
• </c> so that it is not as effective as it so that it is not as effective as it could<01:28:15.920><c>
• It will and it will transform lives.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all