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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development May 14th, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 584 does apply prospectively, meaning it will govern only after the consumer report is furnished
  • The government has already kind of set up informed consent with regards to research, and then we also
  • you're going through this written informed consent and the whole process. process that the federal government
  • The association worked on this bill to clarify that a landlord can avoid liability by providing a functional
Bills: SB315 , SB584 , SB1228 , SB1484 , SB1860 , SB1802
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 4/8/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> that affects local units of government that affects local units of government who<00:02:12.160><
  • </c><00:26:42.159><c> affairs</c> work on policy and government affairs work on policy and government
  • Anything federal government-wise for cleanup? Mr. Duke. Yeah, Mr.
  • </c><00:35:16.560><c> Let's</c><00:35:16.880><c> invest</c> functionality that we need.
  • Let's invest functionality that we need.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Ways & Means Apr 7th, 2025

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Jordan got called to testify on Senator Zaffirini's bill. in the Senate Local Government.
  • incentivizes private investment in preventative, community-based family support services without expanding government
  • Our experiences show us that state governments and non-profit organizations can be powerful partners.
  • The federal government says, all right, if you donate to a nonprofit, you have a tax deduction on that
  • And that's kind of the point, is to make sure that we're not growing government programs and spending
Committee: House Ways & Means
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Taxes - 04/01/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator government for this to occur?
  • </c> government on how we would execute this. government on how we would execute this.
  • We become more and more dependent on government here, in this case, the federal government.
  • We become more and more dependent on government here, in this case, the federal government.
  • government financing of their um their government building.<01:19:08.640><c> So,</c><01:19:09.760><c
Committee: Senate Taxes
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 3/27/25

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • This could have been stopped if government just spoke to government, if we just share data and government
  • Well, in simpler terms, it's just bad government getting in the way of good government.
  • This could have been stopped if government just spoke to government, if we just share data and government
  • Well, in simpler terms, it's just bad government getting in the way of good government.
  • stopped if government just spoke to stopped if government just spoke to government.<00:50:46.800><c>
Bills: HF1027 , HF2226 , HF1916 , HF1915 , HF1567 , HF1986
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Capital Investment - 03/25/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><01:09:09.640><c> finance</c><01:09:10.640><c> as</c> over state government finance as over state
  • government finance as required<01:09:11.440><c> by</c> required by required by statute.<01:09:13.759
  • A key component of this project is the project labor agreement that will govern both the construction
  • ><c> both</c><01:43:49.520><c> the</c><01:43:49.760><c> construction</c><01:43:50.239><c> and</c> govern
  • both the construction and govern both the construction and long-term<01:43:51.040><c> maintenance</c
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Mar 18th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • harm to the child or any observable material impairment to the child. growth and development or functioning
  • HB 1151 ensures that only cases involving clear and substantial risk of harm warrant government intervention
  • Texas parents should never have to fight the government for their own children. right to raise their
  • out of these families lives and so they are there to oversee and make sure or that all of this is functioning
  • how it's supposed to function.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 12th, 2026 at 12:35 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • tradition of using public timberland to generate non-tax revenue for schools, for libraries, for local governments
  • Speaker, I'm going to reserve any remarks about the government of the United States other than to say
  • physically raise your hands so that it is visible to the Speaker, or you may use the raise-the-hand function
Summary: The House took up several bills on second and third reading, beginning with House Bill 2360 on expanding access to albuterol in public and private schools. A motion to recommit the bill to the House Health Care and Wellness Committee failed on a roll call vote, 38 yeas to 56 nays. Supporters said the bill would help school nurses respond to students in respiratory distress and reflected input from nurses, OSPI, and the Department of Health. Opponents raised concerns about training, drug interactions, follow-up care, costs to districts, and schools making medical decisions without a diagnosis. The bill then passed 60-34. House Bill 2467, clarifying measurement rules for fifth-wheel travel trailers, passed 94-0 after sponsors said it would help Washington dealers and consumers. House Bill 1983, relating to timberland tax treatment when land is sold to DNR, passed 68-26 amid debate over whether it would help forest management or make it easier for DNR to acquire timberland. House Bill 2531, updating ambulance transport fund quality assurance rules to align with federal regulations and preserve matching funds, passed unanimously 94-0. The House also passed Substitute House Bill 1390, which phases out the Community Protection Program for certain developmentally disabled individuals with high-risk histories and transfers participants to other waiver programs. Supporters said the program was overly restrictive, out of compliance with federal law, and had trapped people in long-term confinement-like conditions; opponents argued it would weaken public safety and move dangerous individuals into community settings without adequate safeguards. The bill passed 52-44. House Bill 2367, eliminating a preferential treatment related to the former TransAlta coal plant in Centralia, passed 63-33 after supporters framed it as closing the book on coal and opponents warned about energy reliability, jobs, and an emergency clause. Substitute House Bill 2133, making a property tax exemption for certain senior centers permanent, passed 96-0. Substitute House Bill 2355, establishing labor protections for domestic workers, passed 57-39 after supporters emphasized dignity and long-standing worker abuse concerns, while opponents cited fiscal impacts. The House then passed Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2534, with a technical amendment, to improve educational stability for children in military families; it passed 96-0. Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1974, creating a land banking framework to support affordable housing, passed 59-37 after an amendment reduced fiscal impact by striking some tax preference sections. House Bill 2223, allowing certain irrigation district board service by farmers with spouses employed by the district, passed 93-3. Substitute House Bill 2239, allowing family burial grounds on private property, passed 96-0 after supporters cited rural needs, cultural traditions, and personal family stories. The session also included a brief congratulatory recognition for Representative David Stuebe after his first bill passed the House.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 12th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill came to me when the colleges were taking a lot of funding hits last year as a way for government
  • It's a good government efficiency bill.
  • So this is just a good government efficiency bill to make that happen. I do want to clarify, Mr.
  • I'll not get into the puns about how this should be a core function of government.
  • It is essential that the work we do here focus on delivering for people, making government work better
Summary: The House convened with a quorum present, the Pledge of Allegiance and prayer were offered, and the chamber approved the previous day’s minutes. Members then caucused briefly before moving into second reading and third reading action on several bills, with the day also marking the start of the three-minute debate rule through House of Origin cutoff. The House passed House Bill 2338, which expands the low-income home weatherization program to support community-scale weatherization projects, especially for multifamily housing. It also passed House Bill 2353, raising the threshold for requiring predesign work on public projects from $10 million to $15 million, and Substitute House Bill 2363, a trailer bill allowing music therapy students to practice under supervision while exam scores are pending. Members described these as efficiency measures and consumer or workforce improvements. The chamber also approved Substitute House Bill 2525 to establish the Heritage Orchard Program and a registry at Washington State University to preserve rare and heritage apple varieties, with sponsors emphasizing the importance of Washington’s apple industry and agricultural history. Additional bills passed unanimously included Substitute House Bill 2420 on increasing small works roster thresholds, Substitute House Bill 2428 on preventing unintended lapses in life insurance by allowing third-party designees, House Bill 2604 allowing electronic signatures for transferring salvage vehicles to insurers, and Substitute House Bill 2107 making permanent a pilot requiring Labor and Industries to notify employers of identified job-site hazards within 10 days. Finally, the House adopted Amendment 1517 and passed Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2247, which updates veterinarian-client-patient relationship rules to allow telehealth between required physical visits and requires annual veterinarian oversight for certain animal production, commercial, and breeding operations. All of the listed bills received overwhelming support, with each final passage vote recorded at 94 yeas and 0 nays, except House Bill 2338, which passed 93-1.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 26th, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Program Council, student government advisor, and adjunct assistant professor, demonstrating his exceptional
  • The Louisiana Press Association, the Louisiana Police Jury Association, and other local governments have
  • It ensures local governments will not pay more than they are paying under the current structure.
  • It requires public school governing authorities, including charter schools, to share certain high school
  • It requires public school governing authorities, including charter schools, to share certain high school
Bills: SR146 , SCR12 , HB221 , HCR115 , HCR116 , HCR58 , HB1 , HB312 , HB313 , HB314 , HB383 , HB983 , HB1126 , HCR3 , HB2 , HB3 , SCR3 , SB56 , SCR9 , SCR58 , SB35 , SB65 , SB215 , SB246 , SB249 , SB269 , SB282 , SB296 , SB323 , SB363 , SB369 , SB474 , SB490 , SB492 , SB500 , SB514 , HCR27 , HCR28 , HCR66 , HCR67 , HCR72 , HCR5 , HCR32 , HCR49 , HCR50 , HCR53 , HCR60 , HCR62 , HCR64 , HCR68 , HCR78 , HCR81 , HCR86 , HCR97 , HCR102 , HCR31 , HCR47 , HB476 , HB481 , HB487 , HB492 , HB549 , HB579 , HB608 , HB621 , HB624 , HB626 , HB632 , HB637 , HB656 , HB722 , HB745 , HB804 , HB818 , HB821 , HB833 , HB864 , HB867 , HB874 , HB893 , HB909 , HB951 , HB968 , HB969 , HB978 , HB979 , HB988 , HB989 , HB1001 , HB1005 , HB1007 , HB1024 , HB1032 , HB1050 , HB1051 , HB1056 , HB1059 , HB1077 , HB1080 , HB1081 , HB1086 , HB1108 , HB1112 , HB1153 , HB1172 , HB1173 , HB1175 , HB1192 , HB1193 , HB1204 , HB1218 , HB1242 , HB1244 , HB1249 , HB1252 , HB1254 , HB42 , HB45 , HB71 , HB79 , HB158 , HB160 , HB169 , HB227 , HB251 , HB289 , HB330 , HB394 , HB410 , HB429 , HB769 , HB971 , HB1017 , HB1234 , HB1235 , HB9 , HB177 , HB181 , HB202 , HB223 , HB225 , HB387 , HB398 , HB457 , HB459 , HB540 , HB591 , HB616 , HB766 , HB775 , HB783 , HB895 , HB906 , HB950 , HB975 , HB1052 , HB1057 , HB1076 , HB1100 , HB1139 , HB1155 , HB1160 , HB1182 , HB1186 , HB1220 , HB1223 , HB1224 , HB1228 , HB1231 , HB1245 , HB1256 , HB17 , HB27 , HB36 , HB41 , HB47 , HB73 , HB126 , HB133 , HB140 , HB159 , HB166 , HB205 , HB211 , HB226 , HB259 , HB271 , HB308 , HB310 , HB324 , HB337 , HB351 , HB399 , HB403 , HB571 , HB712 , HB723 , HB726 , HB740 , HB750 , HB759 , HB812 , HB844 , HB966 , HB1006 , HB1009 , HB1018 , HB1036 , HB1038 , HB1107 , SB29 , SB42 , SB78 , SB208 , SB217 , SB274 , SB300 , SB341 , SB379 , SB382 , SB387 , SB401 , SB441 , SB449 , SB487 , HB74 , HB134 , HB258 , HB359 , HB468 , HB956 , HB1117 , SB43 , SB149
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 22nd, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Today, we read... ...to another function later on this evening.
  • House and government.
  • Representative Bacala moves to recommit to House and Government. Morning Hour 16. House bills.
  • Provides for governance, contracts, continuity, advisory council.
  • Really, the only thing that is left is business and government buildings.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 11th, 2026 at 06:30 pm

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 11th, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • better help immigrant communities across our state by ensuring that they have access to crucial government
  • Immigrant communities are not a direct act by the federal government. Thank you.
  • Substitute Senate Bill 6019, the Secretary will read: An act relating to improving the functioning of
  • Being as they are sovereign nations, have their own government, would we have included a member of the
  • I just question the authority of including those in our governance system and the impact that it will
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 11th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Active in Burien city government commissions and advisory commissions, and also volunteered with the
  • Active in Burien city government commissions and advisory commissions, and also volunteered with the
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 11th, 2026

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • He was active in Burien city government commissions and advisory commissions and also volunteered with
Summary: The Senate convened with roll call, the colors presented by the Sons of the American Revolution Color Guard, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a prayer by Pastor Jesse Bradley. The journal was approved, and the chamber received House messages announcing passage of several bills, including House Bill 1687, Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1960, House Bill 102, and Substitute House Bill 1. The Senate then adopted Senate Resolution 8684, which honored Washingtonians with ties to Team USA at the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Milano-Cortina. Senator Riccelli spoke in support, praising the athletes’ determination and Washington connections. The resolution passed by voice vote. The Senate next considered gubernatorial appointments. Brian C. Bennett was confirmed 49-0 as Director of the Washington State Lottery, with Senator Lovick speaking in support and highlighting Bennett’s public service and transition-team work. Angela Ramirez was then confirmed 49-0 as Secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services, with Senators Claire Wilson and Christian praising her experience, commitment, and attention to human services issues. After the confirmations, the Senate stood at ease for caucuses.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • And the federal government says we'll go to 80%.
  • Would you agree that I think the reference is the federal government, but the federal government doesn't
  • The last time I checked, government is supposed to protect. Government is supposed to help.
  • I heard it said that government should be here to protect.
  • So I think the citizens of Oklahoma want smaller government.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • There is a board in this, and the board's only function is very limited.
  • It is to help write the rules that will govern the the standards.
  • Is adding a level of government oversight with any corresponding government investment in addressing
  • So, are we just growing government here? Thank you for the question.
  • This one is just a governing body.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 13th, 2026 at 11:03 am

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Having the LGA Local Governments Act certification under Title 26, I believe, Mr.
  • But our local governments and even our executives' governments serving the state of New Mexico have a
  • It delivers in the complexity of modern governance.
  • So all it's asking is that they don't get, government.
  • So the local government still has to issue the permit. Mr.
Bills: HB145 , HB164 , HJR6 , HR1 , HB20 , HB65 , HB66 , HB80 , HB166 , HB295 , HB306 , SB29 , SB37 , HB99 , HB206 , HB213 , HB270 , HJR5 , SB104 , SB193 , HJM2 , HJM3 , HJM1 , HM7 , HM17 , HM4 , HM22 , HM23 , HM24 , HM26 , HM2 , HM16 , HM32 , HM13 , HM47 , HM20 , HM51 , HM1 , HM31 , HM35 , HM36 , HM46 , HM53 , HM54 , HM39 , HM11 , HM14 , HM21 , HM34 , HM50