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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 4/8/26

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session 3/16/26

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Cloud. In St. Paul alone, 2025 to 2026, it is still at 97.1% of rents collected on time.
  • <00:39:45.359> Cloud.<00:39:46.160> In<00:39:46.480> St.
  • Cloud. In St. Paul Rochester and St. Cloud. In St.
  • Cloud to Willmar, to all of those mains in greater Minnesota that I have visited as a little girl to
  • Cloud to Wilmer the main streets of St.
Keywords: 1183, house
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 2/26/26

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Cloud, Mankato, Moorhead, Bemidji, Marshall, and Winona, the presence of enforcement activities, even
  • Cloud, and it's in Duluth, and it's in Lewiston and Fairmont, it's everywhere.
  • Cloud to be brought to the Twin Cities to stay in a hotel room, a 17-year-old.
  • <01:32:10.200> Cloud student to be kidnapped from St.
  • Cloud student to be kidnapped from St.
Keywords: 1183, house
Summary: The committee adopted the minutes from its February 24, 2026 meeting after a motion by Vice Chair Coulter. The hearing then focused on the impact of federal immigration enforcement, referred to throughout as Operation Metro Surge, on Minnesota college campuses. The chair said the purpose was to document alleged abuses, campus fear, and racial discrimination, and to hear from testifiers about effects on students, faculty, and staff. Representative Novotny briefly objected to the framing, saying the committee should be finding facts rather than making a predetermined presentation, and the chair responded that members should remain respectful and that questions would be held until after all presenters testified. Augsburg University President Paul Pribbenow described what he called relentless and unprecedented disruption, including student stops and interrogations, family separations, and an ICE operation on campus in which armed masked agents allegedly detained a student without a warrant and pointed weapons at students and staff. He said the campus received bomb threats afterward, increased virtual learning options, and saw spikes in student support needs, housing assistance, and leaves of absence. Jenna Chernega of the Inter Faculty Organization said faculty across Minnesota State universities reported widespread student and colleague stress, increased workload, disappearing students, and a need for clearer sensitive-location protections and academic freedom guidance. Mark Grant of Minnesota State College Faculty said community conditions inevitably affect classrooms, that campuses have not yet had an ICE incident but are bracing for one, and that faculty want to support students and may need financial help if enrollment declines. Jennifer Irwin of AFSCME said fear from ICE activity extends beyond campus boundaries and is affecting attendance, work, and daily life for staff and students; she cited a member detained in St. Paul while trying to prove legal status. Student testifiers Brendan Frazier of Concordia University, St. Paul, Jonathan Fitzgerald of Minnesota State Mankato, Sudi Adow of Lead MN, and Will Luther of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities described panic, reduced attendance, food insecurity, disrupted classes, and fear of leaving home or commuting to campus. They urged stronger student privacy protections, support for international and immigrant students, emergency aid, and policies to keep campuses safe. No further committee action or votes were taken after the minutes approval.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Finance (04/15/2025)

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • <01:38:57.199> We<01:38:57.440> currently cloud-based environment.
  • We currently cloud-based environment.
  • of life and so we will be moving<01:39:03.679> to<01:39:03.920> the<01:39:04.440> cloud
  • > So<01:39:05.679> the<01:39:05.920> cost<01:39:06.080> for moving to the cloud
  • So the cost for moving to the cloud.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Taxes Committee 2/20/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • Cloud, Fergus Falls? No, not Fergus Falls or Alexandria. It was in St.
  • Cloud, and we sat down and had lunch, and I sat by a gentleman that I found to be quite fascinating,
  • Cloud, Fergus Falls? No, not Fergus Falls or Alexandria. It was in St.
  • Cloud, Fergus Falls? No, not Fergus Falls or Alexandria. It was in St.
  • Cloud, Fergus Falls? No, not Fergus Falls or Alexandria. It was in St.
Keywords: 1183, house
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 1/21/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Cloud, were they, do you know if that organization was eligible for the scholarship monies? Mr.
  • Cloud, I believe, two or three, and of course we're dealing with, you know, what they had the last, uh
  • months with the fraud case in St Cloud months with the fraud case in St Cloud were<01:21:29.679>
  • <01:21:54.840> St was a I think was a two- sight in St was a I think was a two- sight in St Cloud
  • I believe two or three and of Cloud I believe two or three and of course<01:21:57.840> we're<
Keywords: 1183, house
Summary: The committee met for an introductory overview of its jurisdiction and budget, with the chair emphasizing the committee’s role over a large portfolio of children, youth, and family programs and the new Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF). House Research and House Fiscal staff explained their roles and described the 2023-24 reorganization that transferred many programs from DHS, DPS, MDH, and MDE to DCYF, along with a statute recodification and a crosswalk resource for members. Doug Berg then walked through the committee’s budget structure, explaining the difference between all-funds and general fund views, the major funding sources, and how forecasted programs and grant bases roll forward. He highlighted that the committee’s general fund base is a little over $2.1 billion for the biennium, with large federal components such as SNAP and TANF, and noted smaller accounts including child protection-related opioid funds and federal reimbursement offsets (FFP) for administrative costs. Members asked several questions about federal financial participation, TANF, and the effect of the repeal of the Diversionary Work Program (DWP). Staff explained that FFP generally applies to administrative costs for federally related programs and usually does not change much unless program activity changes, while TANF is a block grant that has been stable for years. On DWP, staff said the program was sunsetted effective March 1, 2026, and that the associated funding and administrative costs were being reworked rather than simply removed. A member also asked about federal funding fluctuations; staff said no changes were currently factored in, though SNAP or other federal policy changes could alter future numbers. Danielle Penelli then presented on economic assistance and employment supports transferred to DCYF, focusing first on MFIP, Minnesota’s state-supervised, county-administered welfare program jointly funded by state and federal dollars. She explained that MFIP provides cash and food assistance, employment and training services, and related supports, with a 60-month time limit and certain exemptions for illness, incapacity, or other barriers to employment. She also described the program’s income and asset standards, including a $10,000 asset limit with exclusions for homesteads and one vehicle per assistance unit member age 16 or older. Members asked clarifying questions about how the time limit applies and what assets count, and staff responded that the limit applies to the caregiver and does not restart with additional children. Penelli also introduced support services grants, which fund employment services for MFIP, DWP, and SNAP participants through workforce centers, counties, tribes, and community agencies, and help cover some county and tribal administrative costs. She began outlining nutrition programs under DCYF, including SNAP, the Minnesota Food Assistance Program, the Minnesota Food Shelf Program, the Emergency Food Assistance Program, and the American Indian Food Sovereignty Program. No formal votes or bill actions were taken during this meeting; it was primarily an informational staff briefing and question-and-answer session.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement - 04/14/26

Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Cloud Police Department.
  • Cloud area where I'm at. It is not provided by the St.
  • Cloud Fire Department or by Sartell or Waite Park or St. Cloud, and the list goes on and on.
  • Cloud or and the list goes on and or St.
  • departments<01:22:48.600> that Cloud, now you've got departments that Cloud, now you've got
Keywords: 918, senate, all
Summary: The Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement met on April 14, 2026, adopted the April 7 minutes, and then took up Senate File 4464, which the chair said would be laid over after hearing testimony. The bill would restore continued health insurance coverage for police officers and firefighters in the PERA Police and Fire Fund who suffer documented physical duty-related injuries, addressing the current 5-year cap and the loss of coverage at normal retirement eligibility. Senator Hal Hoffman and Senator Hoffman’s testimony emphasized that the bill is a narrow fix for injured public safety workers and not a broader restructuring of retirement benefits. Supporters, including Mike Ladue of Law Enforcement Labor Services, several injured officers, Sheriff Ryan Kruger, and Amber Waldner, described the personal and family impacts of severe line-of-duty injuries and argued that coverage should continue to age 65 so families are not left with uncertainty if injuries worsen or force medical retirement. They said the bill would honor the promise made to public safety workers and provide stability for long-term care needs. One witness, Officer Albert, said the 2025 changes significantly reduced the protection he believed he and his family would have if his injury forced retirement. Anne Finn of the League of Minnesota Cities opposed the bill as drafted, warning that restoring coverage to age 65 for all physical injuries would be fiscally unsustainable without additional state funding. She said the 2025 pension changes were part of a negotiated package, noted that duty disability retirements are common, and argued the employer cost could reach about $500,000 per employee and create significant property tax pressure, especially for smaller communities. She urged the committee to work on a broader solution and said revisiting only one part of the 2025 law would create imbalance.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House public safety panel hears HF435 - Pt. 1 2/25/25

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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  • served lawsuits to prisoners at St Cloud served lawsuits to prisoners at St Cloud that<00:42:23.599
Keywords: 919, house, all
Summary: House File 435 was taken up with an author's amendment that added a definition of “female,” “woman,” and “girl” based on biological sex. The committee debated the amendment at length, with supporters saying it was needed for clarity and opponents arguing it was unscientific, dehumanizing, and imported from outside model legislation. The amendment was adopted, and the bill was laid over because no fiscal note had yet been received. As amended, HF 435 would require the commissioner of Corrections to house only biological females at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Shakopee and to transfer any nonbiological females out within seven days of enactment. Chair Franson described it as a common-sense women’s rights and human rights bill intended to protect incarcerated women. Alicia Beckman, a former Shakopee GED teacher, testified in support, saying the current policy had allowed biological males with violent histories into the facility and created fear, retraumatization, and safety concerns for staff and inmates. Several testifiers opposed the bill. Deva Guy, Lucy Ailia G., Reverend Dr. Justin Saia Tannis, and Jess Braverman argued that the bill would endanger transgender women, scapegoat a vulnerable minority, and conflict with research, the Prison Rape Elimination Act, and constitutional protections. They urged the committee to focus instead on broader prison conditions and safety issues. Committee members also questioned Department of Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell about the placement process; he explained that transgender placements are reviewed through a multi-step process involving behavioral health and medical staff, a gender identity committee, and final review by the deputy commissioner and commissioner. He said 49 people systemwide have identified as transgender. The discussion ended with the bill laid over and the chair noting that a constitutional challenge would likely follow if the bill became law.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (03/20/2026)

Criminal Justice and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, and I know that you're not going to deal with that at this point, but I want to just plant that seed
  • So, and I know that you're not going to deal with that at this point, but I want to just plant that seed
  • So, and I know that you're not going to deal with that at this point, but I want to just plant that seed
  • So, and I know that you're not going to deal with that at this point, but I want to just plant that seed
  • uh, and I know that you're not going to deal with that at this point, but I want to just plant that seed
Keywords: 1189, house, all
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/19/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • When I was purchasing the seeds, I was put on hold and said, I don't want to do this because there was
  • I can lock in my seeds and other inputs, plan my crop rotations, and otherwise maximize my production
  • 00:45:30.839> was<00:45:31.680> purchasing<00:45:32.280> the<00:45:32.440> seeds
  • <00:45:33.359> I um when I was purchasing the seeds I um when I was purchasing the seeds I
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Taxes Committee 3/6/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • You'll see lakeshore stabilization projects, cover crop seed mix expertise, working with livestock owners
  • You'll see lakeshore stabilization projects, cover crop seed mix expertise, working with livestock owners
  • You'll see lakeshore stabilization projects, cover crop seed mix expertise, working with livestock owners
  • You'll see lakeshore stabilization projects, cover crop seed mix expertise, working with livestock owners
  • You'll see lakeshore stabilization projects, cover crop seed mix expertise, working with livestock owners
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Session (03/13/2025)

New Hampshire House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Ought to Pass 764 FN, an act prohibiting the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud
  • sad emissions, and finally, if I know it's contrails, not chemtrails, and its geoengineering is not cloud
  • seeding, and this bill that seeks to prevent man-made weather changes is unnecessary, as I have been
  • 40.600> this<06:59:40.798> bill<06:59:41.160> that<06:59:41.280> seeks cloud
  • seesing and this bill that seeks cloud seesing and this bill that seeks to<06:59:41.718> prevent<
Keywords: 1189, house, all
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Jun 1st, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • SCR 70 by Senator Cloud to memorialize Congress and the administration of the United States and President
  • Members, on behalf of Senator Cloud, y'all remember for years we tried to get WEP-GPO undone because
  • So on behalf of Senator Cloud, I ask for your favorable adoption of the resolution.
  • SCR 75 by Senator Cloud directs the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in consultation with
  • Members, on behalf of Senator Cloud, the bill does just what it says.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
  • made in factories in this new economy, these resources, which profits are made, are done out in the cloud
  • made in factories in this new economy, these resources, which profits are made, are done out in the cloud
  • made in factories in this new economy, these resources, which profits are made, are done out in the cloud
  • which profits are made are done out in which profits are made are done out in the<00:21:03.400> cloud
  • <00:21:05.240> They're the cloud. They're intangibles. They're the cloud.
Keywords: 919, house, all
Summary: The committee heard testimony on House File 5055, the governor’s supplemental tax budget. Commissioner of Revenue Paul Marquart outlined the proposal as a balanced budget package that would leave a positive bottom line in the current biennium and beyond. He emphasized family-focused tax relief, especially a new refundable young child credit for children ages 0 to 4, which would provide up to $3,000 for one child or $6,000 for two or more, benefit about 104,000 families, and phase out at higher incomes. He also described federal conformity changes, including updates to business interest deductions, dependent care credits, and Section 179 expensing, along with omitted federal items such as research expensing and opportunity zones due to cost and policy concerns. Marquart also defended broader tax modernization proposals, including expanding the sales tax to selected consumer services such as accounting, banking, brokerage, and legal services while lowering the statewide sales tax rate, and creating a social media tax on consumer data collection that would fund an AI readiness special revenue fund rather than the general fund. He said these changes would make the sales tax less regressive and better aligned with the modern economy. Additional provisions mentioned included a gun-related gross receipts tax on firearms and ammunition, cannabis tax technical changes, historic structure rehabilitation conformity, and added auditors for tax compliance. Testimony from outside groups was mixed. Nan Madden of the Minnesota Budget Project supported the governor’s approach as a response to federal tax and spending changes, praised the decision not to conform to opportunity zones or federal no-tax-on-tips/overtime provisions, and urged even stronger revenue measures. Brian Lake of the Minnesota State Bar Association strongly opposed the proposed sales tax on consumer legal services, arguing it would burden low- and middle-income people in sensitive cases and create unfairness when individuals litigate against the state. Tanner Fritsinger of the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees supported the sales tax base expansion and the social media tax as ways to broaden revenue without raising the base rate. The committee chair thanked the commissioner and then began hearing public testimony, with additional testifiers queued up.
MA
Transcript Highlights:
  • I think that would play into a word cloud, both of those pretty... ...to kind of keep it simple.
  • I think that would play into a word cloud, both of those pretty well.
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The meeting began with a presentation from Run the Gamut, a new two-year transition program for young adults with autism ages 18 to 24. Staff described the program’s focus on person-centered planning, independent living skills, social connection, and experiential learning, including a teaching kitchen, laundry room, community-based instruction, and job shadowing. They said the program is intended to complement existing Massachusetts services and partnerships rather than duplicate them, and that it is inspired by the founders’ experience helping their daughter transition to adulthood and employment. Committee members asked about employment outcomes, employer readiness, funding, eligibility, and whether students with intellectual disabilities could participate. Run the Gamut said the program is currently private-pay tuition-based, but a grant is covering tuition for the first cohort while they explore additional funding sources, including possible school-district or insurance pathways. They said students with intellectual disabilities would not be automatically excluded if they meet admissions criteria. Staff also emphasized building employer relationships in advance, using job shadowing and industry partnerships to improve hiring practices and create real opportunities for students. They noted partnerships with programs such as PYD, JBS, Aspire, and Boston University, and said the program is opening soon with about eight students enrolled and an open house planned for September 18. After the presentation, the committee shifted to planning its proposed workshop for the Massachusetts APSE conference, “Employment Matters,” themed “Partners in Progress.” Members discussed submitting the application by the August 31 deadline, selecting a second presenter, and shaping interactive questions for attendees using a live polling tool. Suggested audience questions focused on the benefits of hiring people with disabilities and the barriers or challenges employers and employment advocates face, with an emphasis on connecting responses back to commission resources and partnerships. The committee also approved the minutes from the prior meeting unanimously and ended with a discussion of future fiscal year goals, including interest in a possible veterans-and-disability-focused event or resource effort.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary May 20th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • once something Children, you know, God forbid, it would leak out because once something is in the cloud
  • , it's in the cloud.
Bills: HR245, SCR30, SCR40, SB259
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/04/2026 - Senate Education

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • believe there will be, and which all of the experts agreed on, is there any silver lining to this cloud
  • One idea is that people will... ...to this cloud? What will people do?
Summary: The committee took up several education bills. HB 2395 would create a voluntary Arizona School Fitness Program in ADE to recognize schools that participate in nationally recognized fitness testing or events and allow the designation on school report cards. Supporters, including the sponsor and outside witnesses, argued it would encourage student activity and support the whole child; the bill passed with a 6-0 do pass recommendation. HB 2409, the Getting Arizona Ready for AI Act, would create a voluntary summer AI course program through ADE with curriculum on digital hygiene, civic integrity, and AI for small business/entrepreneurship, with optional facility use and academic credit. The sponsor said it was meant to prepare students for AI-driven job disruption without requiring new appropriations; it passed 4-2. HB 2203 would direct ADE to review public school and agency reporting requirements for duplicative, expired, or obsolete reports and recommend consolidation or repeal, and an amendment making a technical correction was adopted before the bill passed 6-0. HB 2008 would bar school libraries from using public money to pay dues to certain professional library associations; opponents from Secular AZ and the ACLU argued it was viewpoint discrimination and a threat to professional association rights, but the bill still received a do pass recommendation on a 6-0 vote, with one member explaining a no vote because the problem did not exist. The committee also heard HB 2075, which would require school districts to submit superintendent and CFO employment contracts to ADE, post them online, keep them available for five years after termination, and create a searchable database with compensation details. The Goldwater Institute supported the bill, citing difficulty obtaining contracts through public records requests and examples of very high superintendent compensation and opaque contract terms; the Arizona School Administrators opposed the bill as singling out districts while not applying to charters or other public-dollar schools, though they said they could support it if expanded to all schools receiving public funds. Members debated whether charters are political subdivisions and whether the bill should extend to charters and ESAs, and some discussion also focused on transparency and public records access. The bill ultimately received a 4-2 do pass recommendation.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Finance (05/21/2025)

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
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  • c><00:41:00.000> small<00:41:00.240> amount<00:41:00.400> of<00:41:00.560> seed
  • 00:41:00.880> money<00:41:01.119> to<00:41:01.359> try just a small amount of seed
  • money to try just a small amount of seed money to try um<00:41:02.240> to<00:41:02.720> work
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • We're extremely fortunate to receive essential seed funding from Volkswagen AG, so we're working hard
  • we're extremely fortunate to receive we're extremely fortunate to receive essential<00:51:53.319> seed
  • ><00:51:53.680> funding<00:51:54.040> from<00:51:54.240> Volkswagen essential seed
  • funding from Volkswagen essential seed funding from Volkswagen AG<00:51:56.000> so<00:51:56.160
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The joint hearing covered HB 1484 on transit-oriented development and HB 157 on transportation. For HB 1484, testimony included a request from the Hoi Community Development Authority to be removed from the measure while offering to assist if the transit-oriented development law is implemented, along with testimony in opposition and support from several individuals. The committees later recommended HB 1484 be passed with amendments, including an HD1, a defective date, deletion of a reference to section 225 on page 11, adoption of H-CDA’s proposed amendment, and related committee report changes. The vote was adopted in both committees, with Representatives Cochran and Lee excused and Representative Mora voting with reservations. HB 157 concerned the transfer and acceptance of roads in the Villages of Kapolei. HHFDC supported the bill’s intent and explained that the roads were originally self-permitted, the city had not accepted dedication, and HHFDC has been maintaining and upgrading the roads under an MOA that requires improvements to city standards before transfer. Testimony from the Villages of Kapolei Association and others described ongoing problems with non-emergency police services, illegal parking, abandoned vehicles, and the need for city enforcement on roads that are open to the public. Committee members asked about the current holdup, the possibility of transferring roads in segments, and whether a cash settlement could resolve the issue; HHFDC said it was working in segments and that the city had mentioned a $60 million figure. The committees then recommended HB 157 pass with amendments, noting they were awaiting an Attorney General opinion on authority to compel the transfer and that the matter would continue to the Committee on Water and Land. The Transportation Committee also heard several additional bills. HB 1083, concerning vessels in state commercial harbors, drew support from the Department of Transportation and some industry groups and opposition from charter operators; HB 1159, which would require compliance with harbor master evacuation orders and increase penalties, drew DOT support and opposition from multiple vessel operators, who argued the bill was too broad and should define emergencies more clearly and use tiered penalties. HB 58, limiting civil liability for firefighting at commercial harbors, received DOT and Maritime Group support. HB 1165, on county disposal of ocean-bordering property and state highway acquisition, received DOT support. HB 938, a broad motor vehicle franchise and EV-related bill, drew support from the Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association and the Motor Vehicle Industry Licensing Board, but strong opposition from the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, Tesla, Rivian, Scout Motors, and others; opponents argued it would restrict direct-to-consumer EV sales and innovation, while dealers said the bill was too broad and needed further stakeholder work. No final votes were taken on the Transportation Committee’s remaining measures in the portion provided, and the joint hearing was adjourned after decision-making on HB 1484 and HB 157.
FL

Florida 2026 4th Special Session

February 18, 2026 - 10:30 AM

Transcript Highlights:
  • They are trying to get seed out before rain in the forecast.