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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 03/09/26
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- The tools are used primarily in serious violent crimes.
- Offenders have used technology to their advantage.
- Offenders have used technology to their advantage.
- And what they because it was so violent.
- And then violent. They chose not to.
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Public Safety
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><01:10:51.120><c> Seems</c> burglary, or violent crimes. Seems burglary, or violent crimes.
- So um what this three, sexual offender.
- </c><01:13:28.960><c> crimes</c> actually violent crimes actually violent crimes >> would<01:13
- and violent offender and I do not want them in my housing units."
- </c> recovery provided they're not a violent recovery provided they're not a violent convicted convicted
Committee:
House Housing
Summary:
The Housing Committee opened with a public hearing on HB 196, which would repeal the Housing Champion program. Representative Matt Drew, the prime sponsor, argued the program is an unnecessary and poorly targeted subsidy, saying it rewards municipalities after projects are completed and may not be limited to new housing production. He questioned the transparency of the program, cited difficulty finding required annual reports, and noted a fiscal note suggesting the state could recover up to $3 million if obligations are terminated. Committee members and witnesses debated whether the program’s criteria amount to political favoritism or a standard grant process; supporters said the rubric is specific and that municipalities are evaluated against objective requirements. Representative Priest, Nick Taylor of Housing Action New Hampshire, and Karen Benfield of Stay Work Play New Hampshire all opposed repeal, saying the program encourages local zoning and regulatory changes, helps smaller communities participate, and supports housing supply and young people’s ability to stay in the state. The hearing on HB 196 was then closed.
The committee then opened a hearing on HB 1405, a bill establishing an affordable housing guarantee program within the Housing Finance Authority. Prime sponsor Representative Chris Muns said the bill would reduce lender risk by guaranteeing up to 80% of principal on qualifying loans for affordable housing, with a cap of $30 million per lender per year and $300 million outstanding at any time. He described the measure as a low-cost public-private partnership backed by the full faith and credit of the state, and said it was identical to a prior Senate bill that had received unanimous bipartisan committee support before dying later in the process. He framed the bill as one part of a broader housing package aimed at financing, infrastructure, workforce, zoning reform, and other housing-related issues.
No votes were taken during the portion of the meeting provided. The only formal actions were opening and closing the public hearing on HB 196 and opening the public hearing on HB 1405, with testimony continuing on HB 1405 at the end of the transcript.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - Part 2 - 03/13/26
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- , VSET means violent crime enforcement<00:47:35.920><c> teams.
- I think that's an important piece of addressing violent crime.
- So, piece of addressing violent crime.
- It recognizes that catching violent offenders is the key to disrupting a cycle of violence.
- </c> committee, uh in 2024, 47% of violent committee, uh in 2024, 47% of violent crimes<01:42:52.960>
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Public Safety
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-01-15 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- it true that allowing teenagers to buy firearms increases the risk of school shootings and other violent
- it true that allowing teenagers to buy firearms increases the risk of school shootings and other violent
- One of the things that I would definitely say is that when we think about age, voting is not violent.
- Data consistently shows that 18- to 20-year-olds have higher rates of violent crime and suicide compared
- I believe in lawful gun ownership, and I believe that responsible gun ownership has never offended anyone
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a quorum present, then adopted the special order report for the day. The chamber took up House Bill 167 on former phosphate mining lands. Sponsor Rep. McClure said the bill removes strict liability for previously mined phosphate lands if a Department of Health study is completed at the owner’s request and the former mining status is recorded publicly. Opponents, led by Rep. Cross and others, argued the bill relies too heavily on buyer-beware principles and does not adequately notify future buyers or renters. The bill passed 87-24 after debate.
Members then considered House Bill 145 on suits against the government. Rep. McFarland said it updates Florida’s sovereign immunity caps, raising them to $500,000 per person and $1 million per incident, with a later automatic increase, while preserving the liability shield and improving access to compensation for people harmed by government negligence. The bill also aligns the statute of limitations with private claims and allows entities to settle above the cap. After brief debate, the House passed the bill 104-7.
The House next debated CS/HB 289 on wrongful death for an unborn child, which would expand Florida’s Wrongful Death Act to allow claims involving unborn children and their parents. The bill prompted extensive questioning and debate about damages, definitions, medical care, surrogacy, and whether the measure could affect abortion access or expose doctors, friends, family members, and surrogates to lawsuits. Multiple amendments sought to carve out protections for mothers, health care providers, abortion care, perinatal professionals, surrogates, and victims of rape, incest, or human trafficking, but each was defeated. The final vote on the bill itself was 33-78, so the motion failed and the bill did not advance.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:48:36.480><c> act</c> If you didn't do a violent act If you didn't do a violent act associated
- It’s not about offender accountability. It’s about safety.
- It's not about offender<03:08:32.479><c> accountability.
- </c><03:08:33.439><c> It's</c><03:08:33.600><c> about</c> offender accountability.
- It's about offender accountability. It's about safety.
Committee:
Senate Judiciary
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota House passes bill to expand recognition, benefits for veterans of 'Secret War' 5/4/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I am a combat veteran myself who's fought overseas for this country, and I'm not offended by this bill
- While House File 3919 is not a violent trade-off, the bill here today is a carefully negotiated trade-off
- While House File 3919 is not a violent<00:34:17.040><c> trade-off,</c><00:34:17.520><c> the</c><00:34
- :17.679><c> bill</c><00:34:17.919><c> here</c><00:34:18.079><c> today</c> violent trade-off, the bill
- here today violent trade-off, the bill here today is<00:34:18.639><c> a</c><00:34:18.879><c> carefully
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Nov 18th, 2025
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- And Melissa Buheda, Director of Missing Persons and Offender Enforcement, Department of Law Enforcement
- Melissa Buheda, Director of Missing Persons and Offender Enforcement, Department of Law Enforcement.
- Last, we'll hear from Melissa Bujeda, Director of Missing Persons and Offender Enforcement, Department
- Melissa Bujeda, and I'm with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement over Missing Persons and Offender
- They're more vulnerable at that time, and the abuser becomes more violent because it's power and control
Committee:
Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
Summary:
The committee held a panel discussion on Florida’s domestic violence system, focusing on how state and federally funded services are coordinated, the role of the Florida Partnership to End Domestic Violence (FPEDV), the Florida Domestic Violence Collaborative, DCF, and certified domestic violence centers. Members reviewed the post-2020 restructuring after the dissolution of FCADV, the current hotline, legal services, training, and technical assistance contracts, and the Legislature’s recent work on lethality assessments under SB 1224. Panelists also described prevention, shelter, counseling, child advocacy, and legal support services, along with the statewide network of 41 certified centers serving all 67 counties.
Testimony highlighted both collaboration and tension. FPEDV and Women in Distress described overlapping training and technical assistance roles, but FPEDV said its relationship with DCF has been difficult and at times obstructive, while DCF said communication and coordination are ongoing. Women in Distress and other providers emphasized the importance of direct services, the statewide hotline, injunction assistance, child welfare co-located advocates, and prevention programs. Several members asked about funding flows, certification, and whether the current structure is sufficient for rural counties; witnesses said federal FVPSA funds are formula-based, DCF contracts directly with centers, and rural programs face staffing and fundraising challenges that limit beds and services.
A major portion of the discussion centered on the lethality assessment work group and implementation of the new statewide tool. FDLE explained that the work group concluded the Maryland model was copyrighted and costly to replicate exactly, so Florida adopted a statutory assessment that is not evidence-based in the same way, with training available online and 46 of about 400 law enforcement agencies having completed it so far. Senators raised concerns about multiple assessments, redacted police reports, and whether the tool will be useful without better coordination and data collection. Witnesses also discussed rising domestic violence, teen dating violence, and strangulation cases, with providers reporting increased demand, full shelters, and greater use of hotels and mobile crisis responses. No formal votes or actions were taken.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- SB 1319, central reductions to offenders under 21.
- SB 1323, peace officers, peace officer violent victims' rights.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- of a school district of a student who engages in a course of conduct that demonstrates habitually violent
- Relating to prohibiting a registered sex offender from residing within a certain distance of a public
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/03/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology
Appropriations, Transportation and Technology
Transcript Highlights:
- it's my understanding that this is a risk management decision by the state of Arizona: that the most violent
- offenders, because they have the highest risk, have to be supervised by state employees.
- would be that way, because the vast majority of prisoners that are in prison are not the high-level violent
- offenders, which have to have more supervision, have to have more security, so I think we have to recognize
Bills:
SB1001 , SB1035 , SB1056 , SB1065 , SB1138 , SB1161 , SB1204 , SB1207 , SB1248 , SB1274 , SB1284 , SCM1002 , SCM1006 , SCR1020
Keywords:
appropriation, economic security, blind individuals, older adults, state funding, Arizona Department of Corrections, ADC, corrections, prison, jail, correctional officers, prison guards, staffing, retention, salary increase, pay raise, wage increase, general fund, state budget, private prisons
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- offenders, trafficking, organized crime, and cross-jurisdiction investigations, the kind of cases where
- For example, if I go back to sex cases because I spent many years in the sex offender division.
- For example, if I go back to sex cases because I spent many years in the sex offender division.
- Let's just say a sex offender defendant.
- Let's just say a sex offender defendant.
Bills:
SB1046 , SB1317 , SB1376 , SB1416 , SB1448 , SB1471 , SB1493 , SB1498 , SB1502 , SB1504 , SB1538 , SB1544 , SB1550 , SB1579 , SB1581 , SB1584 , SB1624 , SB1673
Keywords:
telecommunications, broadband, internet infrastructure, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, national security, foreign adversary, China, Chinese equipment, supply chain security, network equipment, microchips, Arizona Corporation Commission, telecommunications provider, communications infrastructure, Huawei, ZTE, state-owned enterprise, sanctions, infrastructure security
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-02-17 (1:00PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- They have a young adult offender program, but not a juvenile program.
- Bill 397, a bill to be entitled an act relating to violations of pre-trial release conditions for violent
- Daley, is it an affirmative defense under this bill if an alleged victim invites the offender to the
- Bill 397, a bill to be entitled an act relating to violations of pre-trial release conditions for violent
- Bill 397, a bill to be entitled in act relating to violations of pre-trial release conditions for violent
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
01/14/2026 - Senate Judiciary and Elections
Transcript Highlights:
- from the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies in 2019 found that concealed weapon carrying leads to violent
- They’re not going to get it in prison because most of that is violent criminals, where these are not.
- If that offender has a firearm on them, it makes it a lot easier to commit that rape.
- There’s no evidence that suppressors increase violent crime.
- Sacred cows roam these corridors that none of us will dare disparage for fear of offending our base.
Summary:
The committee began with lengthy testimony and affidavits criticizing the Arizona State Bar, with speakers alleging selective discipline, due process problems, and retaliation against attorneys who take controversial cases. Committee members questioned the witnesses and discussed whether the bar and court system properly oversee attorney discipline, but no action was taken on that testimony.
The committee then considered several election-related bills. SB 1037 would impose stricter security requirements on voting and tabulating equipment, including no internet access, tamper-proof seals, chain-of-custody documentation, nonstop video at accounting centers, and criminal penalties for violations; it passed 4-2 with one not voting. SB 1038 would require rapid public release of cast vote records, but an amendment changed the timing and transmission process; the amended bill passed 4-2 with one not voting. SB 1040 would expand public access to voter registration rolls through an internet portal and a read-only format; it also passed 4-2 with one not voting.
The committee next approved SB 1039, which would allow attorneys who prevail in bar discipline matters to seek damages for reputational harm and lost earnings; it passed 4-2 with one not voting after extensive discussion about bar procedures, interim suspension, and whether attorneys can practice while under investigation. SB 1053, reducing concealed carry permit fees for Arizona residents, passed 4-2 with one not voting. SB 1057, requiring ballot paper fraud-countermeasure features, also passed 4-2 with one not voting. SB 1060, removing a voting exemption for U.S. citizens who have never resided in the United States, passed 3-2 with two not voting. The committee then heard SB 1061, which would lower the fentanyl threshold for enhanced sentencing from 200 grams to 9 grams; testimony focused on whether the bill would sweep in users as well as dealers, but the transcript ends before a vote is taken.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Senate in Special Session B Jan 28th, 2025
Florida Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- you can bring up in the regular session if you want to offer, you know, some type of nonviolent offender
- And if this bill is about making sure that we're cracking down on violent criminals who are making our
- On my sheet of paper here, I circled violent criminals because that was the intent of this bill.
- Violent criminals who entered the country illegally should be deported. We all agree.
- And it's not from deportation because they were violent criminals.
Summary:
The Senate opened with a prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the reading of an amended joint proclamation expanding the Legislature’s immigration agenda. The proclamation added items calling for financial penalties for government officials, enhanced criminal penalties for offenses committed by illegal aliens, and programs and appropriations to support law enforcement in enforcing federal immigration law. The chamber then took up the special order calendar, beginning with Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 2B, the immigration bill.
Most of the meeting was devoted to debate and questions on the strike-all amendment to SB 2B. Sponsor Senator Gruters described the bill as a broad immigration enforcement package aligned with President Trump’s agenda. He said it would require greater cooperation with federal immigration authorities, strengthen participation in the 287(g) program, create a chief immigration officer and council, authorize financial penalties for noncompliance, provide bonuses for officers assisting ICE, and direct information-sharing with federal agencies. He also said the bill would bar DHSMV from issuing licenses or ID cards to unauthorized aliens and would end in-state tuition waivers for undocumented students. Senators Polsky, Pizzo, Smith, Jones, Berman, Osgood, and others questioned the scope of the bill, whether it would affect schools, churches, cities, nonprofits, and green-card holders, and how the 287(g) provisions would work in practice. Gruters repeatedly said the operational focus was on jails and detention facilities, not street-level enforcement.
A major point of controversy was the bill’s proposed mandatory death penalty for unauthorized aliens convicted of certain capital offenses. Senator Fine said the covered crimes were the most serious capital felonies, including murder, child sexual battery, destructive-device offenses causing death, and certain trafficking offenses, and argued the provision was intended to withstand constitutional challenge. Senator Pizzo raised Eighth Amendment concerns and questioned whether the bill could mandate death sentences. The tuition waiver provisions also drew extended debate: Fine said the state would save about $41 million by ending discounted tuition for undocumented students, while Democrats argued the savings would not return to general revenue and that the policy would harm students who are already enrolled. Fine and Gruters said green-card holders would not be affected and that the bill targeted only students in the country illegally.
The discussion also covered appropriations and implementation. Senator Smith asked about the bill’s large funding levels, and Fine broke down the spending as including $375 million for the chief immigration officer, $100 million in grants to local law enforcement, $29 million for the new Office of State Immigration Enforcement, and $10 million for an unauthorized-alien transport program. Gruters said the funds would reimburse local governments and help address staffing shortages, while critics questioned the lack of benchmarks and the fiscal impact. No final vote or disposition on the bill appears in the transcript excerpt.
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Administration of Criminal Justice Apr 8th, 2026
Administration of Criminal Justice
Transcript Highlights:
- It provides that for a first offense, the offender shall be imprisoned for not less than one year, no
- When I was six years old in Liberia, I watched my dad violently beat my mom.
- It removes provisions of present law and proposed law relevant to sex offender registration, so Title
Committee:
House Administration of Criminal Justice
Keywords:
juvenile justice, electronic monitoring, annual report, supervision outcomes, data transparency, inmate release, notification, law enforcement, victims, public safety, hit-and-run, crime of violence, felony, sentencing, battery, sound, intentional harm, physical pain, hearing impairment, video voyeurism
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Sale and possession of ghost guns prohibited 3/24/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- offenders and trigger pullers, the traffickers that armed them, and the gun stores that supplied them
- and viable investigative leads for local, state, and federal law enforcement as they investigate violent
- I'd like to encourage the committee to avoid obscuring the fact that violent criminals are far more likely
- Minnesota already has extensive criminal laws addressing violent offenses, illegal firearm possession
- </c><00:19:29.280><c> offenses,</c> laws addressing violent offenses, laws addressing violent offenses
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - Part 1 - 03/13/26
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- Expanding the accessibility of personal data does not deter violent crime and does nothing to address
- Public safety is best served by focusing enforcement resources on violent offenders, not expanding government
- </c> enforcement resources on violent enforcement resources on violent offenders,<01:23:32.560><c> not
- Instead of focusing on violent offenders, repeat criminals, and prosecution failures, Senate File 513
- information on violent crime and firearm<03:51:09.680><c> related</c><03:51:10.080><c> incidents.
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Public Safety
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Courts, Corrections and Justice May 27th, 2025
Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- their techniques so we can identify more current and old and older cases that have unidentified offenders
- contributor to a, to a specific, um. sample of DNA that that has very small amounts of a potential offender
- But also comparing it to the potential known offender to see if there is a, see if there is a match.
- I don't think people also realize they do the offender kits.
- So hats off to those folks who do those violent crimes and deal with.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Courts, Corrections and Justice Nov 7th, 2025
Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- we can do as a legislative body is intended to protect the community and enact a list of the most violent
- to the New Mexico voters, who I know from what I've heard really want to change when it comes to violent
- and repeat offenders in the community.
- And so it's not for everybody; it's just those lists of the most violent crimes. So think.
- So really, it's just making certain that defendants who have committed those most violent crimes provide
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- As a survivor of sex abuse myself, and I also spoke to hundreds of convicted sex offenders within the
- And I am offended that it is expected of me to affirm a male as female and participate in the sexual
- And I am offended that it is expected of me to affirm a male as female and participate in the sexual
- And what I read are threats of violent personal response based on imagined threat.
- </c> And what I read are threats of violent And what I read are threats of violent personal<02:52:47.120
Committee:
Senate Judiciary