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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/26

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • 21 times on budgets on behalf of public 21 times on budgets on behalf of public television.<00:21
  • television is a public treasure.
  • somebody asks for it, and it is public somebody asks for it, and it is public or<00:53:25.440>
  • And so, the state is being tricked into thinking that there is a public health and public safety problem
  • <00:58:54.200> health thinking that there is a public health thinking that there is a public
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Apr 2nd, 2025

Boards, Agencies and Commissions

Transcript Highlights:
  • We want to give proper time to the public.
  • This is the time for us to get input from the public. This is a public hearing. ...from the public.
  • public waterway.
  • public.
  • it is a public waterway, the public has a right to fish and recreate in it.
Bills: HB471, HB473
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources & Energy (7-2-26) - Reupload

Natural Resources & Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:34:37.399> Service some changes to the Public Service some changes to the Public Service
  • Um, we are Public Service Commission.
  • <00:39:42.880> Service familiar with how the Public Service familiar with how the Public Service
  • Department for Public Health. Department for Public Health.
  • Kentucky Department for Public Health Kentucky Department for Public Health into<01:12:54.520> a
Bills: SB8
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/16/2026 - House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Public testimony will be limited to one to two minutes, and members will have three minutes, if they
  • Commission from transporting Mexican gray wolf pups into state boundaries or from spending or using public
  • would prohibit the Arizona Game and Fish Commission from transporting Mexican gray wolf pups or using public
Bills: SB1075, SB1144, SB1280
Summary: The Committee on Land and Agriculture heard two bills, SB 1075 and SB 1280, with public testimony limited and several speakers appearing on each measure. SB 1075 would create a Foreign Entity Review Commission and prohibit the conveyance, sale, lease, or sublease of state land to hostile foreign entities without commission approval. Supporters said it was needed to protect land near critical infrastructure and military sites, while opponents argued it created unnecessary bureaucracy and duplicated existing safeguards. The committee voted 5-4 to give SB 1075 a due pass recommendation. The committee then took up SB 1280, which would bar the Arizona Game and Fish Commission from transporting Mexican gray wolf pups into the state or using public funds or resources for that purpose. Supporters said the bill would stop state involvement in importing wolves and argued the population had already reached sufficient numbers. Opponents, including representatives from Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon Chapter and Humane World for Animals, said the measure would undermine science-based recovery efforts, reduce genetic diversity, and harm a still-endangered species. Members debated the wolf population, recovery goals, and whether the bill would affect federal conservation efforts. After testimony and member discussion, the committee voted 4-3, with one absent, to give SB 1280 a due pass recommendation. The meeting then adjourned.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources, February 12, 2026

Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • There's opportunity for public input that way, I suppose.
  • There's opportunity for public input that way, I suppose.
  • <00:04:52.479> Um for public input that way I suppose.
  • Um for public input that way I suppose.
  • Chairman, I just think I'd make sure the public knows that public comment is not necessarily closed.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary Committee, February 12, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • view and have a public choice.
  • attempt to really get this into public attempt to really get this into public view<00:15:30.320>
  • Additional public testimony.
  • Any other public testimony?
  • Any other public testimony? I >> Thank you. Any other public testimony?
Bills: SF0045, SF0058, SF0067
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources, February 12, 2026

Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • We'll open this up to public testimony. We'll open this up to public testimony.
  • With that, we'll open it up to public testimony.
  • <00:27:16.880> What's public testimony and committee.
  • What's public testimony and committee.
  • :41.119> House<01:02:41.440> Bill Further public testimony on House Bill Further public
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on County & Regional Government Mar 24th, 2025

S/C on County & Regional Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Public testimony will be limited to three minutes per speaker.
  • We do water quality testing. We can't even get on it. It's 50 feet above Deadpool. Okay, all right.
  • This will also increase public trust in the healthcare system and ensure equitable security practices
  • board is able to revisit this cap based on their governing policies at any time. time in an open public
  • While you wait 72 hours to be able to post a public meeting to approve an expenditure, there are some
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Mar 3rd, 2025

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chair opens public testimony for Senate Bill 790.
  • I am opening up public testimony on Senate Bill 971.
  • Public testimony is closed.
  • Hearing none, public testimony is now closed.
  • This time I'll put public testimony in Senate Bill 1066.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs met on Texas Water Day and limited public testimony to two minutes. The chair emphasized the need to move quickly because of scheduling conflicts with other committees and noted the importance of water policy and related stakeholders. The committee heard several bills focused on water administration, rural utilities, emergency response, and public works contracting. Senate Bill 790 by Senator Alvarado would let the Public Utility Commission create a simplified process for resolving tenant complaints over water or wastewater bill discrepancies; it was described as a way to avoid lengthy contested-case hearings for small disputes. Senate Bill 971 by Senator Sparks would clean up conflicting statutory definitions of “rural political subdivision” so Texas Water Development Board programs are applied consistently; Texas Rural Water Association testified in support. Senate Bill 767, also by Senator Sparks, would expand and improve a statewide database of fire-response equipment so departments, including volunteer and rural departments, can locate and share resources more effectively during emergencies; fire service witnesses supported the bill and suggested annual updates to keep the database current. Chair Perry laid out Senate Bill 480 to clarify that local governments and special districts may enter interlocal agreements for water-related planning and research, including aquifer management and flood/water planning. He also presented Senate Bill 1066, which raises payment and performance bond thresholds for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department public works contracts to $150,000, arguing the change would reflect inflation and help smaller vendors on lower-risk projects. Witnesses were heard on the bills, with no opposition recorded in the transcript. The committee voted out all five bills favorably. SB 1066, SB 480, SB 767, SB 790, and SB 971 each received unanimous committee approval and were recommended to the local and contested calendar, with SB 767 noted as amended by a suggested annual-update requirement for the equipment database.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/25

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • notice and public comment.
  • there's public notice there's opportunity<00:14:44.399> for<00:14:44.639> public<00:14
  • for public comment there's often<00:14:46.399> a<00:14:46.600> public<00:14:46.839>
  • You know, that's an entity that receives non-public pupil aid public dollars, so it puts it under the
  • /c><01:01:31.680> dollars non-public uh pupil Aid public dollars non-public uh pupil Aid public
Bills: HF1, HF2
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 29th, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This has been a testing and trying year.
  • They've served in public service. We see Scott here at the legislature lobbying us.
  • She concluded her distinguished public service career as General Counsel for the University of Louisiana
  • Therefore, be it resolved... ...public service career as General Counsel for the University of Louisiana
  • ...consultation with the Department of Transportation and Development to conduct a review of its public-private
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 29th, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This has been a testing and trying year.
  • They've served in public service. We see Scott here at the legislature lobbying us.
  • She concluded her distinguished public service career as General Counsel for the University of Louisiana
  • resolution to urge and request the Department of Transportation and Development to conduct a review of its public-private
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, received a prayer and pledge, adopted the journal, and heard messages from the House reporting final passage of several Senate bills and concurrence in SCR 86 and 87. The chamber also observed personal privileges honoring the lives of Edith K. Kirkpatrick and Susan Ann Traylor Bidick, with family members present and a moment of silence held for Bidick. The House later refused concurrence on Senate amendments to HB 42 and HB 159. The Senate then took up a series of resolutions, most of which were adopted without objection. These included studies on energy infrastructure and modernization (SR 174, amended to add an alternative energy industry representative and a consumer advocate), breast pump Medicaid reimbursement (SR 175), digital student IDs (SR 176), lethality assessment protocols in domestic violence cases (SR 177), problem gambling prevention (SR 178), community water system grading (SR 179), condolences for Sharon Courtney (SR 180), and expansion of the Louisiana Tumor Registry (SR 181). The chamber also adopted SCR 85 honoring the Sam Houston High School Broncos baseball team after a recorded vote of 36 yeas and 8 nays. On bills returned from the House, HB 1222 on grocery initiative grants failed on final passage by a vote of 18 yeas and 19 nays. SB 312 had House amendments rejected, SB 348 and SB 485 had House amendments concurred in, and SB 121 on congressional redistricting was the subject of extensive debate over racial gerrymandering, district configuration, and expected litigation before the Senate concurred in the House amendments by 28 yeas and 10 nays. The Senate also concurred in several House concurrent resolutions, including studies or reports on flooded corn and migratory waterfowl, deer hunting with dogs in Kisatchie National Forest, support for a Senator Kennedy letter to the Fish and Wildlife Service, boating safety reporting, and subsurface data review. Finally, HB 944 creating a Women’s Health Consortium within the Department of Health was amended to address funding concerns and convert it into a more task-force-like structure, then passed 37-0 with nine coauthors. The Senate then recessed until 1:30 p.m. to continue work, including conference committee reports.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Mar 10th, 2026

Finance and Taxation General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • That's been a matter of public record. Does anyone have any questions? Yeah, where's the issue?
  • And in fact, I have had an informal request for a public hearing.
  • I don't think we have time for a public hearing on this matter today.
  • I'd like to do, with the agreement of this body, is carry this over until our next meeting, have a public
  • get them in and review them and get my own questions answered, I'll have those ready to go at the public
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Mar 11th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • UT School of Public Health, where he also earned a Master of Public Health degree.
  • Substitute Senate Bill 262. to practice public accountancy. The secretary will read the amendment.
  • Eligibility requirements to practice public accountancy. Senator Perry you recognize for a motion.
  • Currently this protection only extends to federal and public defenders.
  • And so subsection B of SCR 34 has the test and it's the same test. that every state action which burdened
Bills: SJR36, SJR34, SJR18, SCR9, SB616, SB565, SB384, SB140, SB262, SB370, SB372, SB495, SB627, SB764, SB842, SB971, SB767, SB480, SB1066, SB929, SB765, SB523, SB62, SB19, SB18, SB666, SB688, SB707, SB888, SB687, SB706, SB847, SB869, SB890, SB992, SB1145, SB494, SB290, SB766, SB11, SB10, SB13, SB263, SB412, SB20, SB441, SB442, SB1621, SCR13, SB569, SB314, SB25, SB293, SB914, SB260, SB1248, SB740, SB14, SJR34, SCR9, SB10, SB11, SB19, SB20, SB25, SB62, SB140, SB260, SB262, SB290, SB293, SB314, SB370, SB384, SB412, SB441, SB442, SB480, SB494, SB495, SB616, SB627, SB706, SB707, SB764, SB767, SB869, SB890, SB929, SB992, SB1145, SB1621, SJR34, SB140, SB262, SB370, SB480, SB627, SB764, SB767, SR224, SB1626, SB1627, SB1628, SB1629, SB1630, SB1631, SB1632, SB1633, SB1634, SB1635, SB1636, SB1637, SB1638, SB1639, SB1640, SB1641, SB1642, SB1643, SB1644, SB1645, SB1646, SB1647, SB1648, SB1649, SB1650, SB1651, SB1652, SB1653, SB1654, SB1656, SB1657, SB1658, SB1659, SB1660, SB1661, SB1662, SB1663, SB1664, SB1665, SB1666, SB1667, SB1668, SB1669, SB1670, SB1671, SB1672, SB1673, SB1674, SB1675, SB1676, SB1677, SB1678, SB1679, SB1680, SB1681, SB1682, SB1683, SB1684, SB1685, SB1686, SB1687, SB1688, SB1689, SB1690, SB1691, SB1692, SB1693, SB1694, SB1695, SB1696, SB1697, SB1698, SB1699, SB1700, SB1626, SB1627, SB1628, SB1629, SB1630, SB1631, SB1632, SB1633, SB1634, SB1635, SB1636, SB1637, SB1638, SB1639, SB1640, SB1641, SB1642, SB1643, SB1644, SB1645, SB1646, SB1647, SB1648, SB1649, SB1650, SB1651, SB1652, SB1653, SB1654, SB1656, SB1657, SB1658, SB1659, SB1660, SB1661, SB1662, SB1663, SB1664, SB1665, SB1666, SB1667, SB1668, SB1669, SB1670, SB1671, SB1672, SB1673, SB1674, SB1675, SB1676, SB1677, SB1678, SB1679, SB1680, SB1681, SB1682, SB1683, SB1684, SB1685, SB1686, SB1687, SB1688, SB1689, SB1690, SB1691, SB1692, SB1693, SB1694, SB1695, SB1696, SB1697, SB1698, SB1699, SB1700
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Mar 24th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • She's a friend of Travis County who has served on the County Medical Society's Public Health Committee
  • Senate Bill 2103 by Zaffirini relates to boil water notices issued by public drinking water.
  • Senate Bill 2113 by Hughes relates to a special right of access under the public information law.
  • Senate Bill 2124 by Zaffirini relates to the publication.
  • Senate Bill 2166 by Parker relates to the testing of voting tabulation equipment to State Affairs.