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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services 2ND REVISED Apr 8th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 3000 extends the sunset on the State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering to 2031.
  • So I'm just curious about the timeline of when the state will be receiving the funds and exactly how
  • you know setting up this revolving fund at the state health department is entrusted with distributing
  • I think it's going to be a huge thing for our state, especially for the rural part.
  • She's a pediatric nurse, and it's not good in the state of Oklahoma.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Public Safety Apr 7th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Public Safety

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  • From the state or is there any matching funds available or federal funds?
  • the state of Oklahoma.
  • So, when I was chief of United States probation, I needed to communicate with TPD.
  • This team travels throughout the state.
  • Of course, there is no cost to the state for this bill. But that asks for a do-pass.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, we're talking about bringing state.
  • </c> the state. the state. &gt;&gt; Thank<00:14:21.360><c> you</c><00:14:22.000><c> representative.
  • from somewhere else, from another state.
  • </c> This bill would not achieve its stated This bill would not achieve its stated ends,<00:19:57.600
  • We went back and looked at what some other states are doing.
Bills: HB179 , HB354 , SB57 , SB137 , HB431 , HB179 , HB354 , SB57 , SB137 , HB431
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Rules Feb 10th, 2026

Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, I will assure everyone that the bill clearly states that state parks, state forests, or other
  • And he tells us about other states?
  • We've talked about how great our state parks, our state forests, and our wildlife management areas are
  • As long as the military installation is located within the boundaries of this state, the United States
  • and state universities.
Bills: S0050 , S0054 , S0176 , S0178 , S0198 , S0290 , S0420 , S0502 , S0538 , S0706 , S0834 , S0936 , S0962 , S1004 , S1080 , S7022
Committee: Senate Rules
Summary: The Rules Committee heard and voted on a series of bills, beginning with SB 54 on toxicology screenings in autopsies of violent offenders, which requires medical examiners to screen for psychotropic and intoxicating substances, consult treating providers when possible, and report findings to state agencies; it passed favorably. The committee also approved SB 176 on public postsecondary campus safety policies, requiring colleges and universities to publish clearer reporting and response procedures for threats to students, faculty, and staff. Both bills were reported favorably without major opposition. The largest portion of the meeting was devoted to CS/CS/CS/SB 290, the Florida Farm Bill. The bill covers a wide range of agriculture-related issues, including fair association rules, preemption of local restrictions on gas- and diesel-powered farm equipment, surplus of certain state-owned lands for agricultural use, a food and animal veterinary loan repayment program, permanent Farmers Feeding Florida funding, forest service training expansion, signal-jamming device penalties, CDL English proficiency enforcement, no-solicitation protections, food safety inspector protections, biosolids regulation, and contractor payment enforcement. Members adopted several amendments, including changes to contractor payment language, expanded veterinary loan eligibility, citrus foundation consolidation, technical corrections, removal of outdated fair references, a nonprofit definition fix, and a late amendment deleting the bill’s disparagement clause after extensive testimony and debate about free speech and agricultural speech protections. A separate late amendment delayed biosolids compliance deadlines. The bill drew strong support from farmers, agritourism groups, food donation advocates, and some utility and wastewater interests, while conservation groups and biosolids operators raised concerns about land surplus provisions and biosolids restrictions. The committee ultimately reported the bill favorably as amended. The committee then approved SB 834 on nonprofit religious organizations, which repeals a restriction on health care sharing ministries partnering with licensed insurance agents, while an amendment added written disclaimer requirements; it passed favorably. SB 936 on temporary door locking devices also passed, directing the Building Commission to incorporate standards into the Florida Building Code. SB 50 on veterans’ courts was approved, allowing judges in all circuits to use veterans’ courts for cases involving service-related issues such as PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and substance abuse. Finally, SB 1004 on the sale of dogs and cats passed after amendments removed an appropriation and kept the bill’s disclosure, financing, and consumer protection provisions, and SB 178 on athletics in public K-12 schools passed with discussion about coaches providing basic support to student-athletes and possible parental-consent language. The committee also began hearing SB 198 on virtual currency kiosks, which would regulate crypto kiosks with registration, fraud warnings, transaction limits, receipts, and refund protections; an amendment to that bill was adopted, but the transcript cuts off before the final vote.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Revenue and Taxation REVISED Feb 9th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Revenue and Taxation

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  • To jumpstart development and building across the state.
  • So I see properties like that all across the state.
  • So this credit is proven useful and closing the skills gap in the state by attracting out-of-state talent
  • After COVID, there are so many ways that you can live outside the state and work in the state effectively
  • We can't continue to lose companies to leave the state.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Feb 4th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Colorado is a seminal law in the United States as the manner of time, place, and restriction.
  • They were looking around for a state law so they could charge them, and they didn't have one, and so
  • I want to state just openly that I do not believe that the attack on the church in Saint Paul, Minnesota
  • , and there's various states that do have restrictions on what you can do at a funeral.
  • We need to work on our communities and ourselves to fix the problems in this great state.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Feb 2nd, 2026 at 12:00 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Pursuant to Article 5, Section 26 of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, the The Senate of the
  • I salute the flag of the State of Oklahoma.
  • She went to medical school at the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. OK.
  • In the great State of Oklahoma, Doctor Ang currently serves as Associate dean of the Oxley College of
  • me, so please welcome my family back to the State Senate.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/02/2026 - Senate Finance

Finance

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  • on the what I referred to as the above-the-line items, since that's what becomes the basis for our state
  • taxes. ...since that's what becomes the basis for our state taxes.
  • 108 was passed by voters in 1992 and requires legislative acts that provide for a net increase in state
  • And do you... ...of funds for how the state government funds all its operations.
  • We are winning at the State Board of Equalization, and then we're back there again the next year.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Environment, Energy & Technology Jan 30th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Environment, Energy & Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • As background, the Washington State Department of Agriculture, or WSDA, samples, tests, and enforces
  • generation of power in an internal combustion engine used for the propulsion of a motor vehicle on state
  • Our state urgently needs progress on reducing climate pollution from the built environment.
  • We need to build things in the state of Washington.
  • We need to build things in the state of Washington. This continues that effort.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Apr 30th, 2025

Finance and Taxation Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • elderly veterans in the state veterans homes.
  • Uh, typically the veterans in the state homes are in their 70s, 80s, and a state homes are in their 70s
  • veterans homes. and put it into state veterans homes.
  • I'm sick of these states doing this in this state. The heck with these states!
  • Um, our state is one of six states that actually charge sales tax on...
Bills: HB86 , HB273 , HB379 , HB386 , HB387 , HB388 , HB389 , HB487 , HB600 , SB120 , HB176
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Mar 11th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • And one child in state custody is equivalent to 24 children. outside of state custody.
  • That is another state.
  • from the state, as well as those additional funds, or do the funds from the state end, or?
  • By a state, no state being allowed to adopt any laws. Thank you, members.
  • There's 35 states.
Bills: HB26 , HB140 , HB141 , HB142 , HB215 , HB26 , HB140 , HB141 , HB142 , HB215
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 19th, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • They have a great love for our state as well.
  • And the state of Louisiana with excellence and class.
  • It authorizes state agencies to procure technology systems and services from other states when using
  • This is a state entity.
  • It's a state agency. It's subject to audit.
Bills: SR126 , SR129 , SCR71 , SCR72 , SCR73 , SCR12 , HB221 , HCR54 , HCR79 , HCR87 , HCR94 , HCR95 , HCR97 , HCR102 , HCR104 , HCR58 , SB480 , SB514 , HB12 , HB66 , HB145 , HB167 , HB175 , HB196 , HB213 , HB218 , HB222 , HB256 , HB291 , HB325 , HB326 , HB352 , HB401 , HB430 , HB433 , HB434 , HB448 , HB456 , HB476 , HB481 , HB487 , HB492 , HB549 , HB579 , HB608 , HB621 , HB624 , HB626 , HB632 , HB637 , HB656 , HB722 , HB745 , HB749 , HB804 , HB818 , HB821 , HB833 , HB864 , HB867 , HB874 , HB893 , HB909 , HB951 , HB968 , HB969 , HB978 , HB979 , HB985 , HB988 , HB989 , HB1001 , HB1005 , HB1007 , HB1024 , HB1032 , HB1038 , HB1050 , HB1051 , HB1056 , HB1059 , HB1077 , HB1080 , HB1081 , HB1086 , HB1108 , HB1112 , HB1153 , HB1172 , HB1173 , HB1175 , HB1192 , HB1193 , HB1204 , HB1218 , HB1242 , HB1244 , HB1249 , HB1252 , HB1254 , HB538 , SCR3 , SCR23 , SCR38 , SCR24 , SB102 , SB133 , SB151 , SB165 , SB169 , SB170 , SB200 , SB217 , SB280 , SB291 , SB300 , SB303 , SB330 , SB449 , SB489 , SB521 , SB45 , SB156 , SB181 , SB203 , SB274 , SB304 , SB379 , SB396 , SB410 , SB425 , SB427 , SB436 , SB54 , SB72 , SB129 , SB164 , SB232 , SB287 , SB322 , SB374 , SB375 , SB386 , SB409 , SB447 , SB458 , SB222 , SB399 , SR119 , SCR58 , SCR65 , SCR9 , SB35 , SB65 , SB215 , SB246 , SB249 , SB269 , SB282 , SB296 , SB323 , SB363 , SB369 , SB474 , SB490 , SB492 , SB500 , HCR41 , HCR47 , HCR63 , HCR69 , HCR31 , HB87 , HB115 , HB162 , HB195 , HB214 , HB217 , HB233 , HB283 , HB290 , HB319 , HB324 , HB345 , HB362 , HB363 , HB368 , HB377 , HB380 , HB382 , HB386 , HB392 , HB406 , HB431 , HB441 , HB466 , HB503 , HB533 , HB559 , HB575 , HB590 , HB593 , HB618 , HB655 , HB664 , HB685 , HB692 , HB707 , HB715 , HB732 , HB738 , HB741 , HB748 , HB776 , HB807 , HB822 , HB856 , HB860 , HB868 , HB887 , HB888 , HB905 , HB908 , HB961 , HB980 , HB990 , HB992 , HB999 , HB1000 , HB1010 , HB1146 , HB1157 , HB1233 , HB1236 , HB1243 , HB54 , HB137 , HB180 , HB192 , HB310 , HB321 , HB396 , HB512 , HB552 , HB578 , HB638 , HB663 , HB708 , HB717 , HB718 , HB1009 , HB1082 , HB1104 , HB1107 , HB1198 , HB1246 , HB27 , HB143 , HB205 , HB259 , HB267 , HB288 , HB308 , HB403 , HB405 , HB414 , HB417 , HB478 , HB546 , HB548 , HB555 , HB557 , HB609 , HB670 , HB672 , HB740 , HB779 , HB786 , HB796 , HB812 , HB848 , HB915 , HB917 , HB921 , HB930 , HB933 , HB1095 , HB1096 , HB1103 , HB1129 , HB1154 , HB1166 , HB1187 , HB1195 , HB1230 , HB17 , HB36 , HB41 , HB47 , HB73 , HB119 , HB126 , HB129 , HB133 , HB140 , HB159 , HB166 , HB211 , HB226 , HB245 , HB271 , HB280 , HB337 , HB351 , HB354 , HB399 , HB571 , HB677 , HB712 , HB723 , HB726 , HB728 , HB750 , HB759 , HB789 , HB844 , HB850 , HB870 , HB966 , HB1006 , HB1018 , HB1036 , HB1241 , SB29 , SB42 , SB43 , SB382 , SB441 , HB134 , HB258 , HB359 , HB782
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary (01/23/2025)

Judiciary

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  • the states.
  • states.
  • another state doesn't want to recognize what that state has done, then that state can pass a law to
  • Vice Chair, um, Senator Gannon, it's already a violation of both state and federal law to interfere with
  • and federal law violation of both state and federal law to<02:19:57.680><c> interfere</c><02:19:58.200
Committee: Senate Judiciary
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • And so our state dollars were paying salaries that would not get repatriated back into our state, and
  • I know some states require that you be licensed in that state to see patients, and some states say if
  • sure that other options for PBMs are available in this state for businesses and for the state to do
  • The state doesn't pay too much. The state hires the PBM to tell them how much to pay.
  • A lot of other states have done it.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Jan 28th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • at fault from winning or prevailing in a civil case because we are the only contributory negligent state
  • </c><00:09:19.279><c> in</c><00:09:19.519><c> the</c> contributor negligent state in the contributor
  • negligent state in the nation,<00:09:20.080><c> I</c><00:09:20.320><c> believe.
  • and not just in this unique in the state and not just in this unique situation situation situation &
  • This bill is going to affect everybody in this state, all five million of us.
Bills: SB169 , SB180 , SB203 , SB87 , SB195 , SB192 , SB169 , SB180 , SB203 , SB87 , SB195 , SB192 , HB132 , HB37 , HB13 , HB54 , HB126 , HB7 , SB30 , HB188 , HB189 , HB26 , HB264 , HB288 , HB248 , HB249 , HB227 , HB228 , HB132 , HB37 , HB13 , HB54 , HB126 , HB7 , SB30 , HB188 , HB189 , HB26 , HB264 , HB288 , HB248 , HB249 , HB227 , HB228
Committee: Senate Judiciary
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Feb 18th, 2025

Boards, Agencies and Commissions

Transcript Highlights:
  • Additionally, one academic pharmacist will be appointed by the lieutenant governor from the two state
  • The two state schools of Pharmacy will each have a representative, and one at-large pharmacist will be
Bills: HB123
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Law & Justice Feb 24th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • First, it would allow senators and representatives to request the Secretary of State and the chief clerk
  • Amendment Hotel, offered by Senator Dhingra, would exempt state-owned or state-operated entities and
  • The next bill is Substitute House Bill 2203, creating the offense of reckless interference with emergency
  • It requires the offense to be for the reckless interference with active emergency operations, and it
  • It requires the offense to be for the reckless interference with active emergency operations, and it
Summary: The committee took executive action on a series of bills, beginning with Engrossed House Bill 2445 on heir finder services and probate. Members adopted Striking Amendment Alpha, which added definitions and guardrails for heir finder agreements, including written filing and court oversight requirements, and then advanced the bill as amended to the Rules Committee. A second proposed striker, Bravo, was rendered out of order after Alpha was adopted. On Engrossed House Bill 1574 concerning access to life-saving care and substance use services, the committee considered several competing amendments. Amendment Charlie was rejected, while Amendment Delta was adopted to narrow protections and add public health and syringe service program provisions. Amendment Echo, which would have limited distribution of drug testing equipment to health care facilities and excluded syringe and smoking equipment, was rejected. Amendment Foxtrot, dealing with fentanyl endangerment and parenting sentencing alternatives, was withdrawn after discussion and then incorporated into a new striking amendment; the bill as amended was sent to the Rules Committee. The committee also adopted a striking amendment on Second Substitute House Bill 2333, expanding protections for elected officials and prosecutors, including security provisions, address confidentiality, residential address redaction, and limited criminal history information sharing, and sent it to Ways and Means. The committee next acted on Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2548 on health care market standards, adopting Amendment Hotel to exempt state-owned or state-operated entities and public hospital districts from filing fees, rejecting Amendment India on fee calculations and refunds, and then sending the bill as amended to Ways and Means. On Engrossed House Bill 2156 regarding Attorney General investigators, the committee rejected several amendments that would have limited criminal investigations, required additional certification, redirected recovered funds, or narrowed the definition of economic and financial crimes, then advanced the bill as amended to the Rules Committee. It also adopted striking amendments on Second Substitute House Bill 1909 creating a court unification task force and Substitute House Bill 2203 creating reckless interference with emergency operations, sending both bills onward. Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2508 on the Office of Independent Investigations and Substitute House Bill 2248 on corporate filings were advanced without amendments, and the committee removed Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2095 on vulnerable users of public ways from the day’s exec list. The meeting ended with final votes, committee recommendations, and adjournment, marking the last Law and Justice Committee meeting of the 2026 session.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • , academic state champions, and I have an individual state champion, Lily Thomas.
  • Lily Thomas won the individual state championship.
  • And this is a very real fear of our residents here in the state of Oklahoma.
  • This is not making us a better state. This is not increasing access to healthcare.
  • Speaker, because, you know, unfortunately, we have finite resources as a state government.