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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 229 Conference PM - 05-01-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Now convening a conference committee for higher education. Today is Friday, May 1st, 2026.
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  • So all Hawaii's College of Education.
  • Now convening the Conference Committee for Higher Education. Today is Friday, May 1st, 2026.
  • </c> Now convening conference committee on higher education. It is Friday, May 1st, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 016 Conference PM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 224 Conference AM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 229 Conference AM - 05-01-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 229 Conference AM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 04-30-2026 12:00pm

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Her commitment to the community extends across education, mentorship, and public service.
  • the community community<00:03:18.960><c> extends</c><00:03:19.520><c> across</c><00:03:20.000><c> education
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  • Mandated funding of Hawaiian homelands and required Hawaiian language education, and made Hawaiian an
  • </c> and required Hawaiian language education and required Hawaiian language education and<00:30:03.440
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 016 Conference AM - 05-01-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • bill, this requires the maximum contribution and carryover amounts for a public service flexible spending
  • bill, this requires the maximum contribution and carryover amounts for a public service flexible spending
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 229 Conference PM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Reconvening your joint committees on education.
  • This is regarding educational workers.
  • education bills.
  • I'm calling to order a conference committee for higher education.
  • </c><00:35:36.720><c> pathway</c> making informed educational pathway making informed educational pathway
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 224 Conference PM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Where instead of restricting the ability for a corporation or corporate entity to spend, which could
  • , but still allow mainland corporations to spend here.
  • , but still allow mainland corporations to spend here.
  • , but still allow mainland corporations to spend here.
  • , but still allow mainland corporations to spend here.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 016 Conference AM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations May 26th, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • legislature moves through this process, I think as the legislature moves through this process, we spend
  • I think it's another thing that we need to do for our educators.
  • So I think for those men educators, this would be extremely helpful.
  • So I think for those men educators, this would be extremely helpful.
  • Not that we don’t need to spend. That’s not what I’m saying.
Bills: SB25 , SB132 , SB155 , SB157 , SB202 , SB237 , SB250 , SB433
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Mar 3rd, 2026

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • states and this is a great opportunity for us to encourage economic development without having to spend
  • 09:21.040><c> to</c> economic development without having to economic development without having to spend
  • </c><00:09:24.160><c> I</c><00:09:24.320><c> have</c><00:09:24.399><c> a</c> spend any public dollars
  • I have a spend any public dollars.
Bills: HB2 , HB163 , SB326 , HB17 , HB363 , HB2 , HB163 , SB326 , HB17 , HB363 , SB333
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Fiscal Policy Mar 2nd, 2026

Fiscal Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill hurts educators like me.
  • I am part of the education system, and I'm also a parent in our county.
  • I am a native Floridian and also a third-generation educator.
  • I’m a product of public education and have several kids in public schools.
  • I want to spend the extra time.
Bills: S0042 , S0688 , S0762 , S1168 , S1296 , S1298 , S1300 , S1318 , S1332 , S1376 , S1548 , S1570 , S1574 , S1632 , S1634 , S1750
Summary: The committee first took up CS for SB 42 on specific medical diagnosis and child protective investigations. A late-file strike-all amendment was adopted that made only stylistic changes to align with the House version. Supporters said the bill would help DCF and child protective teams better identify rare medical conditions and give parents a chance to defend against mistaken abuse findings. The bill was then reported favorably. The committee also approved SB 1570, which restores a prior program to help locate missing persons with special needs through voluntary tracking devices and coordination with sheriff’s offices and CARD centers, with nonrecurring funding included. Members then advanced several education, disability, and public services measures. CS for CSSB 182 created a teacher training and mentoring program for high-performing current and retired teachers to mentor teachers in D- and F-rated schools, and CS for CSSB 794 required background screening for employees in residential and day training programs for people with developmental disabilities while directing APD to study support coordination quality, workforce issues, and service gaps. Testimony on SB 794 strongly supported better training, lower caseloads, and more consistent support coordination. The committee also favorably reported CS for CS SB 1168 on background screenings, CS for CS SB 214 to allow rural special districts to pay verified invoices directly, CS for SB 1376 to create grants for genetic counseling education, and SB 1574 (Maddie’s Law) to add newborn screening for biliary atresia; the latter drew emotional support and testimony that early screening could save lives and reduce transplant costs. The committee heard and passed a number of other policy bills, including CS for CS for SB 1510, the DEP agency package, after environmental groups warned that one provision could delay basin management protections and allow more septic systems in impaired watersheds; the bill still passed favorably. Members also approved CS for CS for SB 598 on funeral and cemetery regulation, SB 688 to license naturopathic doctors, SB 1318 on scholarship account reversion rules, CS for CS for SB 682 on domestic violence injunctions and penalties, SB 130 on workforce training for current and former inmates, and SB 1548, the latest Live Local affordable housing update. Several bills were briefly postponed or taken up later in the meeting. In the latter portion of the meeting, the committee approved CS for C.S. for SB 536 on criminal gang membership criteria, CS for C.S. SB 762 on assigning conflict capital cases across regional counsel offices, SB 1332 on career offender registration requirements, CS for CS for SB 1742 creating a new offense for indecent exposure of sexual organs to a child, and CS for SB 1750 increasing penalties for serious sex offenses and child sexual abuse material crimes. The committee also debated CS for SB 1226 on Public Employee Relations Commission procedures and union certification rules, including a late-file amendment setting a 60% threshold and 25% quorum for recertification; the discussion focused heavily on constitutional concerns, union rights, and differences between first responders and other public employees. The transcript ends while that bill’s debate is still underway, with the committee having already taken numerous favorable votes throughout the meeting.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • being improved, and we are going to have to make adjustments since we've had this discussion back in education
  • The legislature has updated the special education assessment language to provide alternative assistance
  • And we've covered the military readiness in the first special session. and education in here.
  • If I could just take 30 seconds to thank the Chairman of Education, Brandon Creighton, and also Vice
  • Mack and the other members of the Education Committee for all the years of work on the prior versions
Bills: HB8 , HB26 , HB192
Committee: Senate Finance
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Licensing & Administrative Procedures Apr 8th, 2025

Licensing & Administrative Procedures

Transcript Highlights:
  • The chair lays out a spending business HB 2827. Members, this is Vice-Chair Pahls.
  • The chair lays out a spending business HB 3214.
  • More construction zones are being set up across the state, creating a higher risk for accidents.
  • This highlights the urgent need for better driver education about dangerous work. work zones.
  • That is why proper training and education for elevator personnel is so critical.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Jan 29th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • pre-K promise account can be used to support any children who are enrolled in the early childhood education
  • In the early childhood education and assistance program, otherwise known as ECEAP, in terms of fiscal
  • So in current law and in the bill there is a report that Ecology does on CCA spending, and so in current
  • I mean, this committee's purpose is to enforce transparency and predictability in state spending.
  • I mean, this committee's purpose is to enforce transparency and predictability in state spending.
Bills: HB2159 , HB2251 , HB2521
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans Jan 20th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans

Transcript Highlights:
  • And in PTA... ...we're about education and the whole child.
  • Education, cadet program, and other support.
  • Two is aerospace education. And three is the cadet programs.
  • So in that time, what we do is we run marketing and education primarily.
  • What we do is we run marketing and education primarily.
Bills: HB2357 , HB2365 , HB2446
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • For families and educators.
  • and higher and higher.
  • Just educate me a little bit on this.
  • I noticed that as well, as a former educator myself.
  • regarding special education campuses, and it is a directive to the Commissioner. of Education.
Bills: SB8 , SB 8
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Education Policy Committee Feb 12th, 2025

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Welcome to education policy. It's good to have all of you here today.
  • Thank Mark Dixon and A+ for presenting and trying to catch up education policy to the Education Ways
  • Representative Hy, welcome to education policy. Thank you. I appreciate that, Chairman Collins.
  • They'll prepare and distribute to local education agencies guidelines for the implementation.
  • two levels of higher education to ... ...the two levels of higher education to collaborate and come up
Bills: HB9 , HB102 , HB9