Video & Transcript Research : 'digital divide'

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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

ECD Public Hearing - Wed Mar 18, 2026 @ 8:30 AM HST

Economic Development & Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • The chair recommends to not put any digital signs on top of the stadium facing the freeway.
  • to The chair recommends to not<01:54:00.160> put<01:54:00.600> any<01:54:01.000> digital
  • signs on top of the not put any digital signs on top of the stadium<01:54:04.200> facing<01:54
  • sign does not not only just this digital sign does not not only just face<01:55:02.480> the<01
  • kiosks on street level not digital kiosks on street level not facing<01:55:16.680> the<01:55:
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several Senate bills, with most measures drawing broad support and a few generating significant opposition or policy questions. SB 2908 SD1 and SB 2671 SD1 were taken up first; both appeared to have majority support, with SB 2908 receiving seven in support, one in opposition, and one comment, and SB 2671 receiving five in support and two comments. SB 3085 SD2, related to film industry operations, drew 11 supporters and no opposition. Georgia Skinner explained that the bill would streamline the approval timeline for productions by reducing delays tied to Land Board review, and she said DLNR supported the effort. Committee members asked about the need for the change and the relationship between the film studio, DLNR, and the approval process. The committee then discussed SB 2907 SD1, which would create an Office of Marine Affairs. Testimony was largely supportive, including from DLNR, HTDC, the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity, ocean industry representatives, and others. The governor’s office supported the bill’s intent but objected to placing the office within the Office of the Governor, urging instead that it be housed at HTDC. HTDC said it was willing and excited to take on the work and described ongoing stakeholder engagement. Members asked about the rationale for the placement and the long-term structure of the office. SB 2353 SD2, concerning the Aloha Stadium district and billboard/naming-rights issues, drew strong opposition overall, with four in support, 23 in opposition, and one comment. Andrew Pereira of the Stadium Authority argued the measure could generate revenue to help maintain and operate the stadium and said the district would remain self-contained; he also emphasized that the development would respect the character of the area. The committee then heard SB 2074 SD1, which had five in support and 26 in opposition; only one support testimony from the Carpenters was heard before the discussion moved on. Finally, SB 2360 SD1, an enterprise zones measure, received 14 supportive testimonies and two comments. Testimony focused on updating the program for modern business models, especially e-commerce and direct-to-consumer sales, while committee members questioned whether the program overlaps with higher tax burdens and whether businesses receiving subsidies should be monitored for job retention after graduation from the program.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 9th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • create an internal OSBI division focused on cyber-enabled crime, financial fraud, identity theft and digital
  • This would acquire digital forensic technology, investigative tools, and what also most critically, provide
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, February 11, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The rule provides for H.R. 77 to be considered under a closed rule, one hour of debate equally divided
  • and controll by debate equally divided and controll by the<02:19:53.680> chair<02:19:53.920><
  • <02:20:43.000> and<02:20:43.240> controlled of debate equally divided and controlled
  • of debate equally divided and controlled by<02:20:43.960> the<02:20:44.120> chair<02:20
  • We had double-digit unemployment. We had a financial services sector rocked.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, July 22, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This place west of the Great Divide and east of the salt flats, north of the Grand Canyon and south of
  • This place west of the Great Divide and east of the salt flats, north of the Grand Canyon and south of
  • critical music and arts programs, integrate technology into the classroom so students can develop digital
  • 52:35.520> students<00:52:35.839> can<00:52:36.000> develop<00:52:36.400> digital
  • <00:52:36.880> literacy so students can develop digital literacy so students can develop digital
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Ways & Means Apr 21st, 2025

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • expected from 20 to 40... of 35% in our service area and in enrollment growth. expected of double-digit
  • Rates set decades ago when cash was in today's digital economy.
  • a simple update, allow businesses to withhold 2.5% of the sales tax collected on credit card and digital
  • It's allowing for a 2.5% reimbursement. reimbursement on cards and digital payments, allowing today's
  • And an extraordinary commitment to closing the digital divide.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/26

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • And when you actually divide 149 into 20113, it is like 7.05%.
  • And when<00:07:28.240> you<00:07:28.400> actually<00:07:28.639> divide<00:07:29.360
  • > 149<00:07:29.759> into<00:07:30.240> 20113, when you actually divide 149 into
  • 20113, when you actually divide 149 into 20113, it<00:07:31.759> is<00:07:32.000> like<
  • Um clearly there is no urban<01:53:49.040> rural<01:53:49.360> divide<01:53:49.760>
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 03/23/26

Jobs and Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • This appropriation invests in that workforce pipeline, supporting job training, employment services, digital
  • <00:04:51.840> skills,<00:04:52.240> and employment services, digital skills, and employment
  • services, digital skills, and critical<00:04:52.960> supports<00:04:53.680> that<00:04
  • > up<01:10:05.520> by<01:10:05.679> congressional<01:10:06.239> district divide
  • it up by congressional district divide it up by congressional district equally<01:10:07.679> spread
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 086 Part 1fix Apr 10th, 2026

Colorado House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • dollars and divide that spread. dollars and divide that spread. >> Great.
  • divide. So I urge a yes vote. divide. So I urge a yes vote.
  • This is about digital trunk radio system support, and it is strictly a transfer within the Department
  • This is about digital trunk radio over?
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Keywords: 981, all
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Public Safety Committee Apr 29th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • that loitering with intent is vague in a way, and we have seen historically there’s not this neat divide
  • ... loitering with intent is vague in a way, and we have seen historically, there's not this neat divide
  • Orange County Press Club, Pacific Media Workers Guild, the NewsGuild-CWA Local 39521, Radio Television Digital
  • Radio Television Digital News Association, CCNMA, Latino Journalists of California, Asian American Journalists
Summary: The committee heard several public safety measures, beginning with housekeeping items and the adoption of a four-bill consent calendar. Bills on the consent calendar included AB 476 on metal theft, AB 619 on California Conservation Corps training for formerly incarcerated people, AB 1192 on child abuse or neglect reporting, and AB 1239 on human trafficking data. Several bills were pulled by the authors before hearing, and the committee also announced that AB 379 would be heard with a file notice waiver and AB 63 would be for testimony only. The most extensive discussion was on AB 366, which would require ignition interlock devices for anyone convicted of DUI. The author, Senator Archuleta, and a MADD representative gave emotional testimony about family members killed by drunk drivers and argued the bill would save lives. Support came from law enforcement, fire, medical, auto club, and safety groups. Opposition from public defenders and criminal justice advocates focused on loss of judicial discretion, costs for low-income drivers, and concerns about vendor oversight and effectiveness. The committee voted to pass AB 366 as amended to Appropriations. The committee also heard AB 1380, which would create a permanent pathway into firefighting careers for formerly incarcerated people who served on Cal Fire hand crews. The author and supporters said the bill would recognize service, improve reentry, and reduce recidivism; a fire labor group withdrew its opposition after amendments were discussed. The measure passed to Appropriations, though it remained on call pending one additional vote. AB 461, which would remove criminal penalties for parents of truant K-8 students and replace them with supportive responses, drew broad support from education and justice advocates but no opposition testimony; it was also passed to Appropriations and left on call pending one more vote. ACR 60, recognizing the Downey Police Department’s special-needs communication program for interactions with people with disabilities or sensory challenges, was adopted unanimously. The committee then heard AB 746 on creating an inmate cooperative program and a green reentry reserve for incarcerated workers. Supporters said it would build job skills, dignity, and reentry success; there was no opposition testimony. The bill passed to Appropriations and was left on call pending votes. Finally, AB 379 on human trafficking drew strong support from survivor advocates, law enforcement, and local officials for creating a survivor services fund and targeting buyers, but also strong opposition from survivors and civil liberties groups who warned it would criminalize vulnerable people and revive harmful loitering enforcement. The committee discussion continued with members weighing survivor support, public safety tools, and concerns about the bill’s amendments and scope.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • What we have done is strategically divided this project into two phases.
  • Graduates from Ready for Life gain critical digital literacy skills, mental health support, job training
Keywords: 987, senate, all
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/09/2026 - Senate Finance

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Postal Service postmark or the date of a digital transmission sent via email or fax.
  • tax system is already rigged in favor of the rich, and this bill would only worsen that economic divide
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • We take the 50 million, divide the 50 million by how many schools there are, and the equal amount is
  • Digital cameras today have multiple streams coming off of them.
Summary: The meeting focused on school safety funding and security practices in Oklahoma schools, especially how districts have used school resource officer (SRO) allocation money and related security grants. Kevin Rey of the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s Office of School Safety and Security explained that the program, created under HB 2903, allows districts to use funds for SROs and physical security improvements such as cameras, access control, fencing, window film, bollards, metal detectors, and vape detectors. He said more than 170 districts used the money to hire SROs in 2024-25, and that the 2024 change allowing retired officers and armed security guards to qualify was a major help. Members questioned whether the money should also support prevention and mental health services, and Rey said the current program is mainly for security hardware and related measures. Mark Stout, chief of police for Putnam City Schools, described the district’s layered security approach, including weapon detection at middle and high schools and the ZeroEyes AI camera system, which monitors existing cameras for visible guns and sends alerts to trained monitoring staff and then to district police. He said the system is used as one layer among others, alongside officers, weapon detection, and school procedures, and noted the district is expanding coverage at athletic facilities. He also explained that the system is more economical than full weapon-detection setups, with annual costs based on the number of cameras. Tecumseh Superintendent Kinsey, Chief Kennedy, and Pottawatomie County law enforcement described the October threat investigation involving a student who posted a photo with a handgun and knife and discussed violence online. They said the FBI tip, rapid coordination among agencies, and an SRO already embedded in the district helped lead to a search warrant and arrest within hours, preventing a possible attack. Kinsey also described the district’s safety measures, including secure entrances, cameras, ALICE training, crisis communication planning, mental health support, clear backpacks, and a new staff alert system. He said community feedback after the incident favored more law enforcement partnership, limited entry points, handheld metal detectors, more SROs, stronger training, and more mental health support. Matt Riggs, former superintendent of McComb, said smaller districts face different security challenges because of limited local law enforcement and long response times. He explained that McComb used its funding for facility upgrades rather than hiring a full-time SRO because the district wanted improvements that would last beyond the three-year funding window. Throughout the discussion, several members emphasized the tension between visible security measures and prevention, with repeated calls for more counselors, mental health supports, and threat-assessment efforts alongside hardening measures. No formal votes or actions were taken in the transcript.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Jun 27th, 2025

Legislative Health & Human Services Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, Madam Chair, uh, Nick, when it comes to dividing the money between the states and the counties.
  • We're going to keep shooting for single digits. Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to say.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives May 31st, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

PBS Info Briefing - Wed Mar 4, 2026 @ 10:00 AM HST

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We divided the community in certain sectors and allocated to certain sectors the people that came to
  • We divided the community in certain sectors and allocated to certain sectors the people that came to
  • We divided the community in certain sectors and allocated to certain sectors the people that came to
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Finance Division I (02/26/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • um working to bring those digitized um working to bring those digitized records<04:41:17.920>
  • We have created a state-of-the-art digitization center up there, and so we're doing a lot more with digital
  • Wow." with with digital records uh helping with with digital records uh helping smaller<04:43:47.160>
  • > smaller agencies digitize their records smaller agencies digitize their records as<04:43:49.920>
  • We have created a state-of-the-art digitization center up there, and so we're doing a lot more with digital
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The meeting began with testimony from Charlotte Harding of the Conservation Land Stewardship Program, who explained that the office protects the state’s interests in conservation lands by monitoring conservation easements and related stewardship obligations. She described the program’s funding sources: a land conservation endowment held at the State Treasury and administered by the Council on Resources and Development, plus transfers from Fish and Game for easements not covered by the endowment. Members discussed how the endowment is funded when new easements are created, the program’s staffing, the loss of a state vehicle, and the need to increase in-state travel so staff can use personal vehicles for field monitoring. Harding said the office has two full-time positions and a seasonal employee, that the work is mostly monitoring rather than hands-on land management, and that enforcement issues are referred to the grantee agencies or, if needed, to the Council on Resources and Development. She also noted that the office works directly with landowners to resolve smaller issues and that stewardship has become a greater focus in the conservation community because ongoing oversight requires funding. Members asked about examples of properties under the program, including LCIP lands such as Musquash Headwaters, Hidden Valley Boy Scout Camp, and Nash Stream, and the committee did not take a motion before moving on. The committee then heard from Paul Breen and Susie Anzelone of the Pease Development Authority regarding the Division of Ports and Harbors operating budget. They explained that the authority provides finance, legal, environmental, and engineering support to the division, which operates New Hampshire’s only deep-water berth at Market Street, as well as facilities in Hampton, Rye, the Portsmouth Fish Pier, and navigational waters in the Piscataqua and Great Bay. They described the authority’s history after the closure of Pease Air Force Base, the transfer of roughly 2,400 acres, and the creation of a self-sustaining enterprise fund tied to airport and port operations. They emphasized that the division does not draw on the general fund because revenues from wharfage, dockage, parking, registration, and mooring fees cover operating costs, with any surplus retained for capital improvements and replacement. Members questioned several budget lines, including a sharp increase in overtime and workers’ compensation. Breen said overtime is driven largely by security needs at the deep-water port and fluctuates with vessel traffic, such as salt shipments, while workers’ comp is a DAS-set cost and not something the division controls. He said the budget is conservative and that if revenues fall short, capital projects would be the first items scaled back. The discussion also covered fee-setting, with Breen saying rates are reviewed against the local market and infrastructure constraints, and that some smaller facility fees had recently been increased after being stagnant for years.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, March 18, 2026)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • <02:14:23.840> AI an increasingly digital world. AI an increasingly digital world.
  • The bill as amended shall be debatable for one hour, equally divided and controlled by the chair and
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  • The divide in America today is normal versus crazy. This is just normal common-sense stuff.
  • The bill as amended shall be debatable for one hour, equally divided and controlled by the chair and