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TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

State Affairs Aug 15th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Y'all ever heard of V-coding?
  • I know in the United States we have a separation of church and state, and many people disagree with how
  • Doctors are quietly fleeing the state.
  • We're trying to circumvent other states.
  • Rape is illegal in the state of Texas.
Bills: SB6, SB7, SB8, SB11, SB12, SB13, SB15, SB17
Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 8, the Texas Women's Privacy Act, and heard extensive public testimony both for and against the measure. Supporters, including representatives of Texas Values and Texas Values Action, argued the bill was needed to protect women’s privacy and safety in restrooms, locker rooms, showers, prisons, domestic violence shelters, and other government-controlled spaces, and said it would provide clear, sex-based rules. Opponents, including many transgender Texans, civil rights advocates, clergy, business and public safety voices, and others, argued the bill would invite harassment, gender policing, lawsuits, and invasive inspections, while harming trans, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people as well as cisgender women who do not fit stereotypes. Several witnesses said the bill would conflict with federal law or prison standards, worsen safety in shelters and prisons, and hurt Texas’s reputation and economy. The chair repeatedly noted the compressed special-session schedule and said flood relief remained the session’s top priority. Public testimony on SB 8 was eventually closed, and the bill was left pending. The committee then moved to Senate Bill 6, dealing with consumable hemp product restrictions. Testimony on SB 6 focused on whether the bill went too far in restricting hemp-derived THC products. Opponents argued hemp and THC have medical and economic value, that the bill would criminalize conduct and burden courts, and that regulation—not prohibition—was the better approach. Some witnesses supported tighter rules such as testing, child-resistant packaging, and limits on marketing to children, but still opposed the bill’s broad THC ban, higher fees, and age restrictions. Several speakers emphasized benefits for veterans, chronic pain patients, and small businesses, and warned that prohibition would push consumers toward the illicit market. The committee heard the testimony and then continued with additional witnesses, with no final vote or disposition reported in the excerpt.
TX
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  • The problem is that there's nothing in the code that allows for the enforcement of the code against a
  • State your name and who you represent. Thank you, Charles.
  • As you know, counties can only do what the state lets us do.
  • Gentlemen, Carl, state your name and who you represent.
  • Trevor, state your name and who you represent.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on County & Regional Government Apr 21st, 2025

S/C on County & Regional Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • But why not in-state?
  • State of Texas and Edmondson v. State of Texas.
  • County-owned or leased buildings are subject to local building codes but must also... ...undergo municipal
  • Counties are still required to follow all local building and fire codes while eliminating unnecessary
  • two is that they would still have to comply with all building codes and those types of things.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 04-07-2026 11:30am

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Founded in 2001, the Native Hawaiian Council, Hawaiian Council today, was established with a clear and
  • The Hawaiian Council has helped empower individuals to build businesses, strengthen family stability
  • On behalf of the Hawaiʻi State Senate, I extend our sincere congratulations to the Hawaiian Council for
  • Durant has been licensed to practice law in the State of Hawaiʻi since 2004.
  • Mariano has been licensed to practice law in the State of Hawaiʻi since 2004.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 8th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It mainly would be the State Police. It mainly goes to the State Police.
  • Do you know how many states currently have this QR code that you're proposing with this legislation?”
  • Representative Bagley replied, “Well, I can tell you that the states that have the QR code, there are
  • , I think, five states that have a QR code already.”
  • And then my other question is, with the QR code, that's the one that the State Police can read instead
Summary: The House met with a quorum, opened with prayer and the pledge, and received several Senate messages and enrolled resolutions. The chamber also recognized visiting groups and guests, including a guest minister, the Joe Burrow Foundation, Youth Legislature participants, children’s advocacy center representatives, Alzheimer’s advocates, Delta Sigma Theta members, Kappa Alpha Psi members, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and City Year AmeriCorps. The House adopted a series of commemorative and awareness resolutions, including measures for Sanfilippo Syndrome Awareness Day, Alzheimer’s and Related Dementia Awareness Day, Knock Knock Children’s Museum Day, Big Brothers Big Sisters Day, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Day, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Day, My Sister’s Keeper Day, Youth Legislature recognition, and several commendations and condolences. It also concurred in SCR 25 and received Senate resolutions and bills, including measures on commercial driver’s licenses, Medicaid eligibility during redetermination, postsecondary support fund use, juvenile traffic violations, background checks, and explosives regulation. The House then considered and advanced a long list of bills, largely on criminal justice, education, public safety, transportation, and administrative procedure. Notable measures included bills on parole and probation alternatives, supervised release venue for sex-offender violations, jail-credit limits on consecutive sentences, medical parole notice, juvenile parole eligibility cleanup, teacher and school employee battery penalties, inmate workforce cleanup, re-entry programming for female parolees, extradition costs for probation/parole violators, and a bill allowing public postsecondary institutions to permit self-defense chemical sprays. Other bills addressed protected personal information for certain public officials, the M.J. Foster Promise Program eligibility age, scholarships for spouses of firefighters and police officers, compensation for parish board commissioners, paid family leave insurance as a voluntary private-market product, insurance referral practices, and vehicle inspection sticker requirements. Several bills were amended and passed, often with strong or unanimous support, while a few were recommitted or returned to the calendar. The House passed HB 504 on parole violations as alternatives to revocation by a vote of 88-0; HB 73 on electronic voting in public meetings by 88-0; HB 125 on supervised release venue by 91-0; HB 67 on protected information records by 98-1; HB 133 on assault and battery penalties for teachers by 96-0; HB 158 on probation technical violations by 92-3; HB 168 on a female parolee re-entry program by 95-0; HB 169 on extradition costs by 92-3; HB 191 on overlapping jail credit by 88-5; HB 195 on self-defense chemical sprays on campus by 93-0; HB 245 on medical parole notice by 95-0; HB 280 on juvenile parole eligibility cleanup by 93-0; HB 283 on sick leave and discipline rules for attacked school employees by 97-1; HB 296 repealing inactive inmate workforce provisions by 88-5; HB 319 on civic education commission quorum by 98-0; HB 339 on protected information for police officers and retired judges by 97-0; HB 407 on the M.J. Foster Promise Program age reset to 21 by 94-2; HB 448 on scholarships for spouses of firefighters and police officers by 95-0; HB 550 increasing parish board commissioner pay from $50 to $100 per day by 91-2; HB 591 creating a voluntary paid family leave insurance product by 95-0; and HB 826 modernizing insurance referral rules by 93-0. HB 1085, a major proposal to eliminate traditional vehicle inspection stickers and replace them with a new sticker/QR-code system tied to registration, drew extensive questioning about costs, enforcement, local parish programs, and where the fee revenue would go; the debate was ongoing in the portion provided.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 28th, 2025 at 08:04 am

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • Committee substitute is a Lynch Council draft.
  • The state didn't collect that data.
  • We have introduced peer support and peer organizations to the state. state in many different ways, and
  • State if you don't mind. Yes, sir.
  • If you build it, they will deliver them, which is a plan. If you build it, they will come.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/26

Housing Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This makes the state contribution.
  • The state housing what we know works.
  • ><00:09:59.200><c> muchneeded</c> private investment and builds muchneeded private investment and builds
  • </c><00:13:31.760><c> funded</c> long-term success of state funded long-term success of state funded
  • </c><00:32:24.559><c> and</c> college students across the state and college students across the state
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Agriculture and Wildlife Feb 9th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Agriculture and Wildlife

Transcript Highlights:
  • Because that's a problem that has it's for this state, but in multiple other states that we're finding
  • more hogs coming into the state across state lines and then live ones being transported to other areas
  • to go kill more bucks in the state.
  • We do have an Oklahoma Food Service Advisory Council for the state of Oklahoma, which is a 14-member
  • I have stated, probably since I've been in this building and a long time before that, that agriculture
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Agriculture and Wildlife Feb 9th, 2026

Agriculture and Wildlife

Transcript Highlights:
  • , but in multiple other states, that we're finding more hogs, other states that we're finding more hogs
  • coming into the state across state lines, and then live ones being transported to other areas.
  • to go kill 100 more bucks in the state, I think that's good for our state and more power to those people
  • We do have an Oklahoma Food Service Advisory Council for the state of Oklahoma, which is a 14-member
  • I have stated probably since I've been in this building and a long time before that is agriculture needs
Summary: The committee laid over several bills at the start of the meeting, including SB 1550, SB 2173, and SB 2114, and announced a new rule prohibiting video recording on phones in the committee room. The committee then took up a series of agriculture-related measures, with most of the discussion focused on feral hog control, lab-grown meat, hunting regulations, local food policy, open-range cleanup, and prescribed burn liability coverage. SB 2108, as amended, was presented as a feral swine control bill. Supporters said it would reduce property damage, disease spread, and regulatory barriers for landowners and hunters, while opponents raised concerns about people who capture hogs for food and the impact on self-provisioning. The committee adopted the amendment and passed the bill 10-2. SB 2121, which would ban the sale of cell-cultured, lab-grown meat, drew debate over free-market choice versus protecting Oklahoma agriculture and food safety; it passed 9-3. SB 2171, which would extend the residency requirement for a lifetime fishing license from six months to one year and create a velvet buck season under controlled hunts, passed 12-1 after debate about trophy hunting, commercialization, and deer management. SB 2061 would create an Oklahoma Food Policy Council within the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry to coordinate local food networks and producer-to-consumer access. Testimony from the agency said some related work is already being done through its Market Development Division, but the council would formalize broader representation; the bill passed 12-1. SB 2112, as amended, cleaned up prior open-range language to include leased land and passed unanimously. SB 2138 would establish a prescribed burn indemnity fund to help cover damages from escaped prescribed burns; members discussed coverage levels, funding, and whether it primarily protects the burner or neighboring landowners. It also passed unanimously. The meeting ended with an announcement about a Marshallese group performing in the rotunda and then adjournment.
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary Committee Meeting Jun 24th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • The bill also prevents government entities from obtaining information indirectly by asking another state
  • immigration purposes beyond the point at which that person would have otherwise been released from state
  • We have already passed laws in Delaware that indicate our belief that local and state law enforcement
  • I respectfully urge you to vote favorably for this bill and allow Delaware to become the fifth state
  • I respectfully urge you to vote favorably for this bill and allow Delaware to become the fifth state
Summary: The Senate Judiciary Committee met and heard presentations on several bills. House Amendment 1 to Senate Substitute 1 for House Bill 145 would restrict government use of reverse keyword searches, generally prohibiting reverse keyword court orders and voluntary requests, with a narrow exception for Class A violent felony investigations and rules on notice, deletion, and inadmissibility of unlawfully obtained evidence. House Substitute 1 for House Bill 368, with House Amendment 1, would limit Delaware law enforcement and the Department of Correction’s participation in federal civil immigration enforcement, especially regarding civil immigration warrants and detainers, while preserving exceptions for serious offenses and valid judicial processes; the Department of Correction said it had no operational or fiscal impact and supported the exclusions, and an ACLU-affiliated witness testified in support. House Substitute 1 for House Bill 427 would allow certain 16- and 17-year-olds to participate in hunting and target practice without direct adult supervision if they have parental permission, hunter education, and a valid Delaware hunting license. House Bill 355, the “Speak Your Truth Act,” would expand anti-SLAPP-style protections for survivors of sexual assault, discrimination, and harassment by raising the burden in defamation suits and allowing attorney’s fees and damages; advocates from the National Women’s Defense League and the Speak Your Truth movement supported it. House Bill 134 would increase penalties for repeat animal cruelty offenders and lengthen animal ownership bans. The committee also heard House Bill 133, as amended, which would create a hardship waiver process allowing courts to waive fines and fees for defendants who cannot afford them, while preserving restitution and exempting certain traffic-related penalties and victim compensation assessments. The administration said the bill is intended to address uncollectable debt and noted millions in outstanding fines and fees, while local government and police representatives raised concerns about lost revenue, administrative burden, and consistency; the Fines and Fees Justice Center supported the measure. Committee members asked about how the waiver funding would affect local governments, volunteer fire companies, and related fees, and the administration said the $5 million budgeted this year would cover the waiver costs and be treated as an annual expense going forward. No committee votes were taken during the excerpted discussion, but the chair indicated that bills ready for action would be circulated for signature or moved to the floor.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Justice May 13th, 2025

Criminal Justice

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  • And which is a state program.
  • They went to other buildings and evacuated kids. And Mr.
  • portable buildings to hold this unclaimed or seized property.
  • So of course, like I stated before, it's more cost effective.
  • The AG's representation of the state in the case.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Energy Resources Mar 24th, 2025

Energy Resources

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  • state in the United States.
  • To the fire from a year ago to the state?
  • If the state wishes to address...
  • It's just based off the definition that's currently in the code and has been in the code since 2013.
  • that was mentioned earlier, because to build up to that scale where we are building... ...large centralized
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Mar 26th, 2025

Insurance

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  • somewhere else, and they said that's against state law. I said, "Well, that's a stupid state law."
  • The pool also meets the state standards of financial occurrence liability. as stipulated in our state
  • you then apply to the state and the state pays your loss.
  • Another one, are there any other states that you're aware of that have done a risk pool where the state
  • And we've always been a state that's been very much on the forefront relative to other states, and that's
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Mar 26th, 2025

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm a State Farm guy and I'm talking to State Farm.
  • States by zip code across the country. It's based on a report by the Federal Insurance Office.
  • code?
  • This is an issue in our state.
  • States all across the nation.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Local Government Feb 3rd, 2026 at 10:30 am

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • The State Building Code Council is responsible for the adoption of the State Building Code.
  • The council also adopts the state energy code.
  • Code Council to energy codes, as well as codes to build.
  • that is currently occurring at the State Building Code Council.
  • that is currently undergoing at the State Building Code Council.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Labor & Workplace Standards Jan 30th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Labor & Workplace Standards

Transcript Highlights:
  • requirement for the model disclosure statement developed by L&I to include a notice of federal and state
  • amendment removes a reference to residential sprinkler fitting as a type of work for which a fire code
  • This is the bill that requires state registered apprenticeship programs in the building and construction
  • And we're going to be voting yes on this end for all the reasons just stated by the good lady.
  • I actually want to thank the Building Trades Council for bringing this forward.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 4/29/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • ><c> and</c><00:18:05.520><c> state</c><00:18:05.760><c> buildings</c><00:18:06.080><c> that</c> state
  • assets and state buildings that state assets and state buildings that were<00:18:06.799><c> built</c
  • Reduced state investment, rising inflation, and tougher codes hamper our ability to keep up with deferred
  • Other examples are the state has a reporting system that we're right now building for PAS and products
  • the physical infrastructure and provide options for what the state can do with the buildings and the
Bills: HF3220
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Apr 16th, 2025

Finance and Taxation General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • the law to kind of codify that to give people regulatory confidence and get people outside of our states
  • interested in Alabama and seeing it as a crypto-friendly state.
  • It also stated that the tobacco industry has designed, engineered, and marketed menthol cigarettes and
  • In our annual state of tobacco control report, Alabama received an FS. control report, Alabama received
  • In 2021, when we put this in place, we were going to build both these prisons for 785 million.