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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session 5/16/26 - Part 3
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- 2373, an act relating to labor and industry, exempting minor league baseball players from minimum wage
- every single year. 6 days worth of wages for every single one of their employees. technical and isn't
- </c> consumers for six days worth of wages consumers for six days worth of wages every<00:51:49.840><
- </c> every single year. 6 days worth of wages every single year. 6 days worth of wages for<00:51:52.560
- So now I have to go into, uh, having the minimum wage requirements for extra hours of the work week and
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Feb 12th, 2026 at 12:12 pm
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The wage rates in Albuquerque may be higher than they are in Cañada, New Mexico.
- That's what will set the wage and the scale and the ladder. So, Mr.
- President, if— That's what will set the wage and the scale and the ladder. So, Mr.
- So the government is dictating what the wage is based on the model, and if you don't follow that model
- But they would be required to meet the minimum of your wages.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/3/26
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- The first being the wage disclosure protection. three uh years. three uh years.
- </c><00:45:01.280><c> disclosure</c> The first being the wage disclosure protection.
- , compensated damages, and back wages, compensated damages, and liquidated<00:47:25.440><c> damages</
- ,</c><00:58:07.520><c> compensatory</c><00:58:08.079><c> damages,</c> 10 in back wages, compensatory
- damages, 10 in back wages, compensatory damages, and<00:58:08.640><c> liquidated</c><00:58:09.200><c>
Keywords:
unemployment insurance, judicial officials, paid leave, economic development, worker protections, workforce development, unemployment benefits, youth training, grants, job creation, grant funding, revolving loan, underserved communities, disadvantaged groups, electrical licensing, installation, Class A installer, regulations, labor and industry, 1183
Summary:
The committee first adopted the minutes from February 26 and then heard House File 2581, authored by Representative Frazier, which sought $1 million for Fortis Capital, a nonprofit economic development lender. Frazier and Fortis CEO Brian Smith described Fortis as a gap-financing lender that helps underserved entrepreneurs who cannot meet traditional bank underwriting standards. They said the organization has made 37 loans totaling more than $4 million since 2021, leveraged another $29.5 million, and created 314 jobs. Smith said Fortis typically charges around 6.5% interest, has had two defaults, and uses a revolving loan fund model that recycles repayments; members discussed how the proposal fits with other state economic development programs and whether Fortis should instead be part of a competitive grant process. The chair laid HF 2581 over for possible inclusion in a budget bill.
The committee then heard House File 3707, brought by Representative Berg, which would extend confidentiality protections to unemployment insurance and paid leave judges and related staff by adding them to the definition of judges for purposes of protecting personal information. Berg and testifiers from the Department of Economic Development and MAPE said the bill responds to harassment and safety concerns, including threats, doxxing, and an attack near an office, and is intended to protect people making sensitive determinations. MAPE supported the bill as an update to existing protections for similar workers.
Members raised concerns that the bill’s language was too broad, especially the reference to the paid leave division, and questioned whether it should cover only judges or also call-center and other staff. Department and committee members agreed the language likely needed narrowing and discussed possible amendments and whether to move the bill to Judiciary and then revisit it. No final vote was taken on HF 3707 during the discussion, and the bill remained under consideration for further language work.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/13/25 - Part 1
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- scenario playing out in the paid leave context, where the payroll tax rates are higher, the taxable wage
- ><c> taxable</c> payroll tax rates are higher the taxable payroll tax rates are higher the taxable wage
- <c> higher</c><00:08:10.560><c> benefit</c><00:08:10.919><c> payouts</c><00:08:11.280><c> will</c> wage
- to as wages do making less available to reward<00:29:38.320><c> the</c><00:29:38.399><c> employees</
- </c> women are con concentrated in low-wage women are con concentrated in low-wage occupations<01:26:
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 02/10/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- hire a couple of people to assist us in that work, and their main priorities are insurance fraud, wage
- </c><01:03:01.119><c> we</c> better pay without competitive wages we better pay without competitive wages
- Increased wages will help us to retain the most experienced and accomplished advocates.
- </c><01:10:13.280><c> will</c> current salaries increased wages will current salaries increased wages
- </c> advocacy does not excuse the low wages advocacy does not excuse the low wages and<01:14:51.120><
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Public Safety
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget General Government Subcommittee 2nd Revision - HB3307 - Steagall - added Feb 16th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- So, no, we're not looking to pay them that, but we want it to be a working wage, and we'll have to adjust
- That's a working wage.
- No, we're not looking to pay them that, but we want it to be a working wage, and we'll have to adjust
Summary:
The committee heard and advanced a series of bills, mostly on a due-pass basis. Representative Grego’s bill to keep a prescribed-burn indemnity fund framework alive, with no state cost and hopes of private or insurance funding, passed 6-0 after discussion about wildfire risk and encouraging safer burns. Representative West’s HB 2962, removing time limits and refund caps for certain tax overpayment claims and extending refund rights for tribal members and former wards, also passed 6-0, with the sponsor saying it would apply retroactively.
Representative Archer’s HB 3175, as a committee substitute, would begin creating a state nuclear regulatory framework in anticipation of future federal court changes; it passed 4-3. Representative May’s HB 3336 to remove the salary cap on the OMES CIO failed 2-5 and remained in Appropriations and Budget, while his HB 3831 to create a revolving fund for Oklahoma Task Force One equipment upgrades passed 6-1. Representative Wolfley’s HB 3566 raising tag agent title-transfer fees from $2.25 to $3.75 passed 6-1, and Representative Lawson’s HB 3621 to recreate a state data center for census preparation and LUCA support passed 6-1 after he agreed to amend it to be subject to available funds.
Other measures advanced included HB 2958, a 9% pay raise for state employees, which passed unanimously 8-0; HB 3047, making LOFT the clearinghouse for statutorily required agency reports, which passed 6-1; HB 4301, strengthening the VA escape clause by requiring earnest-money refunds when a VA-financed home does not appraise, which passed 7-0; and HB 1979, creating a two-year task force to consolidate early childhood programs across agencies, which passed 4-2. The committee also heard a bill allowing the Attorney General’s Office and District Attorneys Council to buy vehicles without going through OMES, and it passed 6-2. After finishing the agenda, the committee announced a short recess before reopening for an Emergency Management budget hearing.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- HB 2849, minimum wage. HB 2854, oversight. HB 2851, extension traumatic services.
- HCR 24, minimum wage exception. The clerk is instructed to record the action of the House.
- HCR 24, minimum wage exception. The clerk is instructed to record the action of the House.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, April 23, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- What are the two things that raise wages? Inflation.
- What are the two things that raise wages? Inflation.
- What are the two things that raise wages? Inflation.
- So, we got a cap not of wage growth.
- Remember the whole wage thing? Wages go up by productivity. We need them.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection - 02/13/25
Commerce and Consumer Protection
Transcript Highlights:
- The next proposal is the Earned Wage Services Act.
- Yeah, Chair Seeberger and Senator Rasmusson, so I'll start with earned wage service act.
- </c><00:35:26.599><c> uh</c><00:35:26.920><c> wage</c> two uh another one in the wage uh wage two uh
- another one in the wage uh wage services<00:35:27.960><c> and</c><00:35:28.119><c> then</c><00:35:28.560
- While existing outdated Minnesota tip laws further create the lopsided wage gap.
Committee:
Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on State and Local Government - Part 2 - 03/27/26
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> it's just about a promotion or a wage it's just about a promotion or a wage increase,<02:32:00.320
- And they're just We're talking wage.
- They would simply not get a wage increase. They wouldn't get a wage decrease.
- They just wouldn't get a wage increase, and that's what this does.
- They would simply not get a wage increase. They wouldn't get a wage decrease.
Committee:
Senate State and Local Government
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- to list a fixed wage.
- For example, at a fast food place, wage.
- </c> address a problem uh that in the uh wage address a problem uh that in the uh wage claims<05:05:31.360
- </c> if you had a constituent who had a wage if you had a constituent who had a wage claim,<05:05:59.040
- Yet, three years to file a wage claim.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services (01/28/2025)
Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:16:03.759><c> reduced</c> share this leads to lower wages reduced share this leads to lower wages
- Higher earners have a higher average weekly wage; lower earners have a lower one.
- </c><01:12:40.239><c> was</c> because his average weekly wage was because his average weekly wage was
- That's essentially the monetary weekly payment for lost wages.
- </c> for lost wages for lost wages um<01:28:56.360><c> I'm</c><01:28:56.560><c> happy</c><01:28:56.760
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 3/24/25
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- new section is focusing on insurance new section is focusing on insurance fraud,<00:09:17.600><c> wage
- theft, uh fraud and state fraud, wage theft, uh fraud and state government<00:09:20.080><c> programs
- insurance fraud, wage theft, financial crimes,<00:19:07.280><c> and</c><00:19:07.520><c> then</c><00
- I think under this new wage theft.
- Please state your name for the record and begin your testimony. team as to when a wage theft team as
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 02/26/25
Jobs and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> flexible schedules competitive wages flexible schedules competitive wages wages<01:09:16.239><c>
- and benefits and has a supportive wages and benefits and has a supportive workplace<01:09:18.839><c>
- Within our system, the average wage is just over $21 an hour.
- Is the $21 the starting wage, and is there a cap at $24?
- That is the average wage of all of our CNAs, but yes, they go up rather quickly.
Committee:
Senate Jobs and Economic Development
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 2/13/25
Higher Education Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- They said one of their dreams is to implement a wage scale for employees.
- that you're trying to invest the wages that you're trying to invest in<01:05:52.400><c> your</c><01:
- So one of the things that you know, the first thing that I did before we move forward with wage scale
- They said one of the first things they did before moving forward with wage scale implementation was to
- Montgomery said they have a way to stop the wage scale or make sure they are meeting students’ needs
Committee:
House Higher Education Finance and Policy
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Judiciary Committee Apr 7th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- pay equity reporting laws to ensure that the Civil Rights Department, CRD, can effectively combat wage
- pay equity reporting laws to ensure that the Civil Rights Department, CRD, can effectively combat wage
- Wage disparities persist.
- It's a critical step toward ending persistent wage disparities and delivering real pay equity for women
- And when employees don't report, the state really can identify where those wage disparities lie.
Summary:
The committee first took up SB 934 by Senator Wiener, which would extend the time for survivors of conversion therapy to bring malpractice claims and clarify how expert testimony and scientific evidence may be used in those cases. Senator Wiener and supporters, including a survivor and a licensed therapist, described conversion therapy as harmful and argued that survivors often cannot come forward within current limitation periods. Opponents, including attorneys and advocacy groups, argued the bill was an unconstitutional workaround to California’s existing ban and could chill legitimate therapy or expand liability. Committee members pressed both sides on the bill’s scope, with the author emphasizing it does not bar exploratory therapy or medical treatment, only attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill was moved on a 7-2-1 vote to the Senate Appropriations Committee, with the item placed on call; the consent calendar was also adopted 6-0 and placed on call.
The committee then heard SB 1092 by Senator Allen, as amended, concerning manufactured home parks. The bill would require park owners who intend to sell to give residents or their designated representatives notice and an opportunity to submit a competitive bid, with timelines intended to allow residents to organize financing and complete due diligence. Supporters said the measure would help preserve naturally occurring affordable housing and give residents a fair chance to buy the land under their homes, especially after fire-related losses and increasing investor ownership of parks. Opponents from park-owner and realtor groups argued the bill would burden private property rights, devalue parks, and create an unconstitutional taking by imposing long timelines and restrictions that could deter buyers. Several senators questioned the 240-day process and whether the bill should include clearer good-faith or reciprocity provisions; the author said he was open to further adjustments. The transcript ends during committee discussion of SB 1092, with no final vote shown.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House passes jobs, labor and economic development finance bill, SF17 6/9/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It's all those low-wage workers and all those workers in our society who say, "Look, if I have a baby
- <00:37:33.599><c> you</c><00:37:33.760><c> can</c><00:37:33.839><c> have</c> think it's the lowest wage
- you can have think it's the lowest wage you can have with<00:37:34.079><c> a</c><00:37:34.240><c> high
- 00:37:56.720><c> It's</c><00:37:56.960><c> all</c><00:37:57.200><c> those</c><00:37:57.440><c> low-wage
- It's all those low-wage not just them.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- So first, to answer your question, there is still the possibility for garnishment of wages.
- Again, as I mentioned, wage garnishments would be a purpose.
- But the courts have the power to garnish wages.
- But the courts have the power to garnish wages.
- But the courts have the power to garnish wages.
Committee:
House Ways and Means
Summary:
The committee first heard Senate Bill 994, which would extend taxpayer protection from penalties and interest when a taxpayer claims a tax credit that has reached its cap and then receives a Department of Revenue notice for underpayment. Senator Henderson said the bill mirrors existing language for the Champion for Children tax credit, would require payment within 60 days to avoid penalties and interest, and includes technical fixes for the beginning farmer tax credit and school-district reporting. The bill drew support from Missouri Soybean, Feeding Missouri, Missouri Farm Bureau, and Missouri Corn Growers, while the State Public Advocate initially objected to tax credits generally but said he would support the bill once he understood it did not create a new credit. No vote was taken.
The committee then heard House Bill 1743, which would bar courts from depriving individuals of property for failure to pay property taxes, with the sponsor arguing that tax sales disproportionately harm low-income and elderly homeowners. Members raised concerns about weakening tax collection and the impact on local taxing districts, while the sponsor said liens and wage garnishment would still be available and that the bill was aimed at protecting homeownership. The Missouri County Collector’s Association opposed the bill, saying tax sales are rare, payment plans are common, and redemption periods already provide protection. The bill was left at hearing with no action.
House Bill 2461, presented with nearly identical companion language from another member, would extend and expand Missouri’s donated food tax credit through 2032, raise the cap for food pantries, soup kitchens, and homeless shelters, and create a separate bucket for food banks. Sponsors and Feeding Missouri said the credit is expiring, demand for food assistance is high, and food banks need access to the program to leverage corporate donations; they also discussed a possible amendment to preserve eligibility if the individual income tax is eliminated. The State Public Advocate opposed the bill as another tax credit cost, but the Department of Revenue said the bill would streamline administration and had no fiscal impact. The committee also heard House Bill 3405, which would reclassify the SALT parity pass-through entity provision as a deduction rather than a tax credit for reporting purposes; the sponsor and Department of Revenue said this would improve clarity and reduce administrative burden without changing revenue, and business groups supported it. No votes were taken on any of the bills.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- So, first, to answer your question, there is still the possibility for garnishment of wages.
- Again, as I mentioned, wage garnishments would be a purpose.
- But the courts have the power to garnish wages. You know, that's not what this is here for.
- But the courts have the power to garnish wages.
- But the courts have the power to garnish wages.
Committee:
House Ways and Means
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Environment, Energy & Technology Feb 20th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Environment, Energy & Technology
Transcript Highlights:
- already successfully hosting a number of data centers in this state, reaping the benefits of family-wage
- this issue, which is permeating the... data centers in this state, reaping the benefits of family wage
- those benefits that we are seeing in communities that are currently hosting them, the good family-wage
- in Spokane County, priming county and state citizens' billions in revenue, all for just 32 family-wage
- It puts prevailing wage and apprenticeship utilization requirements into private sector projects, which
Committee:
Senate Environment, Energy & Technology
Keywords:
weatherization, energy efficiency, community projects, sustainability, environment, coal-fired plant, preferential treatment, energy policy, electric generation, regulatory reform, pollution control, efficiency, appeals process, environmental regulation, hearing board, data protection, privacy, performance measures, reporting requirements, office of privacy