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CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • We've estimated that 130 million pounds of electronic waste have been generated from expired software
  • Furthermore, large-scale deletion across distributed systems and backups is costly and operationally
  • But of the over 20,000, about 20,000, it turns out, were not human-generated.
  • They were generated by an AI system.
  • Many of us fear being overwhelmed by AI-generated content.
Summary: The committee began as a subcommittee due to the lack of a quorum and heard several privacy- and technology-related measures. The first item was H.R. 117, a resolution urging Congress to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The author and supporters argued the law is outdated and shields platforms from accountability for harms such as harassment, exploitation, scams, and other online abuse. Witnesses, including a survivor parent and a gender justice advocate, described harms to children, women, and LGBTQ people and urged a two-year sunset to force federal reform. Some members supported the resolution as a call for federal action, while one member said he could not support it because the resolution was too general and lacked specificity about the reforms being sought. No vote was taken because the committee lacked a quorum. The committee then heard SB 898, which would require manufacturers of connected consumer products to disclose how long they will support the software and to notify consumers when products approach end of life. The author said consumers deserve transparency about security updates and continued functionality, and supporters from Consumer Reports and PIRG emphasized cybersecurity risks, consumer confusion, and electronic waste from unsupported devices. Opponents, including business and industry groups, raised concerns about enforcement through the unfair competition law, notice burdens, labeling issues, and compliance challenges, especially for products with long support windows or third-party dependencies. One member expressed support, noting the cybersecurity risks of end-of-life devices, but again no vote was taken because there was no quorum. The committee also heard SB 435, which would narrow the CCPA definition of publicly available information to limit how businesses classify data as public. The author and supporters said the bill would close a loophole that allows data brokers and others to monetize personal information without meaningful consent and could help prevent surveillance and misuse of data, including by government agencies. Opponents argued the bill would upset the balance between privacy and the free flow of information, create compliance uncertainty, and retroactively reclassify information that businesses reasonably believed was public. Some members said they supported the goal of stronger privacy protections, while others said the bill was too broad. The committee again could not vote due to the lack of a quorum. Later, the committee heard SB 923, which would expand Californians’ right to delete personal information to cover data obtained from third parties and require online businesses to offer a web form or similar method for deletion requests. Supporters, including the California Privacy Protection Agency and consumer advocates, said the bill would make deletion rights meaningful and better address data broker practices. Opponents sought an opt-out-of-processing alternative and raised operational and legal concerns, but supporters said deletion is not the same as retention or processing limits. Members largely spoke in favor of the bill’s privacy goals, but no action was taken. The committee also heard SB 947, the “No Robo Bosses Act,” which would require human review for certain automated employment decisions and limit predictive analysis in workplace discipline and termination. Labor groups supported the bill as a safeguard against biased or erroneous AI-driven decisions, while business, public employer, and local government groups opposed it as overbroad and burdensome. Members voiced support for human oversight in employment decisions, but the item was not voted on because the committee still lacked a quorum. Finally, the committee began hearing SB 1114, the SOGI Data Privacy Act, which would restrict disclosure of sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersex data to federal agencies absent a court order or legal requirement; the author and witness framed it as a response to federal efforts to obtain sensitive LGBTQ-related data.
MO

Missouri 2026 Regular Session

Special Committee on Property Tax Reform Jan 13th, 2026 at 12:00 pm

Special Committee on Property Tax Reform

Transcript Highlights:
  • In the general surplus money, there's over five—there's right at $5 billion.
  • And so, you know, but since they generate, they are generated with the levies of 60 to 70, Are they generated
  • This is to generate some type of tax.
  • Well, I'm just in general. I would have them identify. Yeah.
  • Generally, I don't.
Keywords: 959, house, all
CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 098 Apr 21st, 2026

Colorado House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • electric generating units in the state. electric generating units in the state.
  • resources generating energy. resources generating energy.
  • thunderstorm hail that they generate. thunderstorm hail that they generate.
  • a coal plant that generate electricity. a coal plant that generate electricity.
  • generation facilities. generation facilities.
Keywords: 981, all
Summary: The House convened, established a quorum, and approved the journal from April 20, 2026. Members then made announcements about committee schedules, open enrollment, and the Bolder Boulder event, and welcomed guests from the Leadership Program of the Rockies. The House also adopted Senate Joint Resolution 20, recognizing April 9, 2026 as Home Education Day in Colorado, on a 60-2 vote with three excused. Supporters described home education as a longstanding family choice and emphasized parental rights and educational flexibility. The chamber then received committee reports, including an Appropriations Committee report advancing House Bills 1052, 1132, 1143, 1226, 1343, and 1344 to the Committee of the Whole. The Majority Leader moved several bills to special orders for April 21, 2026 at 9:20 a.m., and the motion was adopted without objection. The Committee of the Whole took up House Bill 1028, concerning second language diploma endorsements for graduating high school students. After adopting the appropriations report, the House passed the bill. Supporters said it would recognize bilingualism and Colorado’s diversity. The committee then considered House Bill 1143, concerning background checks for non-employment-based educational opportunities. The bill sponsor said it would allow qualified people without Social Security numbers to participate in internships, clinical placements, and volunteer opportunities by using alternative identification. Several members opposed the bill and supported amendments, arguing for employer or institutional choice, narrower definitions, and concerns about constitutional rights, tax compliance, and the breadth of the bill. Amendment L6 failed, and the transcript ends amid extended discussion of Amendment L7 regarding enforcement against public entities, with no final action on the bill shown in the excerpt.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Mar 24th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 2142 by Perry relates to the creation of the Consumable Willing Products Account in the General
  • of accrued interest on dedicated revenue, and the exemption of unappropriated money from use for general
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Child Custody Review Task Force Apr 13th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Child Custody Review Task Force

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so I do think we... ...as well as what's been happening in Bismarck in general.
  • They're very, very busy generally with things that are outside of just a family court situation.
  • The intent was to keep it a little bit more general, to provide the judges a little bit of flexibility
  • McLean, would there be any objection to me just referencing the section generally?
  • I'll refer to the section generally.
Keywords: 908, all
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/24/2026 - House Commerce

Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am an eighth generation, at least. I'm not signed up, but I can sign a paper if you need me to.
  • The strike language to SB 1290 is like Representative Carter's bills generally are: constituent-driven
  • Chairman, I have a question, or maybe just a general comment.
  • There are hundreds of other examples, policy statements…” “Policy statements, rules, being generated,
  • And at least in my understanding of this example, I’m going to use it as a generic example.
Summary: The Commerce Committee heard and acted on a long series of bills, with several strike-everything amendments. SB 1421, dealing with restrictions on financial institutions, check cashers, and remittances involving undocumented immigrants, drew strong opposition on constitutional and economic grounds and support from the sponsor as a sovereignty measure; the committee rejected a Villegas affordable-housing striker and gave the bill a due pass recommendation. SB 1254, a continuation/cleanup bill for the Industrial Commission of Arizona and its divisions, was explained as mostly renaming and administrative changes and passed unanimously after adopting the chairman’s striker. SB 1515 created a Public Safety Parity Fund for DPS and corrections retention bonuses funded by investment earnings from the Budget Stabilization Fund; law enforcement witnesses supported it as a needed retention tool, while some members objected to using rainy-day fund interest, and it passed on a split vote. SB 1206 updated homeowner protection rules for adjusters and contractors after disasters, limiting certain conduct during loss events and emergency responses, and passed unanimously after amendment. The committee also approved SB 1563, which continues the Barbering and Cosmetology Board and lowers some fee caps, after testimony that the board protects public health and sanitation. SB 1649 established a Digital Assets Strategic Reserve Fund; a Ripple Labs witness discussed self-custody options for unclaimed crypto, while an Aguilar striker would have required reporting on employers whose workers receive public assistance, but that amendment failed and the underlying bill passed. SB 1290, originally about HOA closed meetings, became a major debate over transparency versus privacy; opponents warned the Carter striker would force disclosure of sensitive member and employee matters, supporters argued HOAs should not take secret action, and the committee adopted both the Aguilar consumer-protection striker and the Carter HOA transparency striker before passing the bill. SB 1670, preempting local contractor licensing and allowing certain journeyman licenses, was amended with a Villegas striker aimed at landlord algorithmic pricing and passed unanimously. The committee continued the Arizona Department of Gaming, Racing, and Boxing/MMA commissions in SB 1671, with the chairman’s amendment narrowing reporting requirements and adding aggregate complaint reporting; the department said it had worked with auditors and supported the bill, which passed. The meeting then moved into SB 1747, beginning discussion of social media application requirements for developers and covered companies, including age verification and parental consent, but the transcript cuts off before further testimony or action on that bill.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Finance Division II (03/10/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • So we've got, under General Funds, you've got General Funds state aid.
  • <00:06:51.120> funds General funds you've got General funds General funds you've got General
  • I'm generally funded, and my office is generally funded most days, not every day. Huh.
  • funded and my office is generally funded and my office is generally generally generally funded<00:49
  • It's out of the general fund.
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The Finance Division II committee heard a Department of Education budget presentation from Commissioner Frank Edelblut and CFO Tammy Valen-cour. The department outlined its organizational structure and emphasized that it functions largely as a flow-through agency for school funding. The commissioner reviewed general fund and Education Trust Fund items, including state aid, dropout prevention, special education, building aid, lease aid, charter schools, Education Freedom Accounts, and the district adequacy calculation. He also highlighted the public school infrastructure fund, saying the state has invested well over $50 million in school safety since 2018 for measures such as access controls, locks, and window film, and argued that safety spending should be ongoing rather than reactive. Members asked about the variability in the school infrastructure line, special education aid, and the Discovery Education learning platform. Edelblut explained that some safety funding had come from one-time surplus appropriations rather than the agency line, and said special education aid was underappropriated because districts submitted more invoices than expected; he said the governor added $16 million to address the shortfall. He also described CTE renovation funding, noting four projects were initially proposed but only Jaffrey and Milford were still moving forward, with local votes required and the state covering 75% of costs. He said Milford’s project was omitted from the governor’s budget by oversight. The department also reviewed enrollment trends, noting public school enrollment has fallen from about 230,000 students in 2002 to about 185,000 today. Edelblut clarified that charter students are not eligible for Education Freedom Accounts, while EFA students attending non-public schools are counted as EFA students. He described several one-time surplus-funded initiatives, including Student Clearinghouse, MTSSB work, civics curriculum development, computer science education, and adult education. He also discussed a $4 million CTE tuition and transportation grant, saying it was kept as a competitive grant rather than a formula grant to avoid creating an ongoing maintenance-of-effort commitment that could jeopardize federal Perkins funding. In the final portion, Edelblut identified prioritized needs in the department’s budget, especially funding for a state administrator for assessment to support the legislatively required civics assessment, and additional support for the Discovery Education platform. He said every school in the state is using the platform and cited more than 1.5 million educator engagements, while a member raised concerns about mixed reviews and uneven district awareness of the program. No votes or formal actions were taken during the presentation and question period.
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

House Chamber - Tue Mar 4, 2025, 9:00 AM HST - Day 25

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • <01:54:20.119> that tangle in pipes causing backups that tangle in pipes causing backups that
  • <02:44:48.120> commented and also the Attorney General commented and also the Attorney General
  • <02:51:46.760> Revenue blank appropriation of General Revenue blank appropriation of General
  • <03:00:46.439> fund charged goes into the state general fund charged goes into the state general
  • County of Honolulu and the general County of Honolulu and the general contractors's<06:03:09.638
Keywords: 910, house, all
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • This is a really significant burden to the general fund: $1.5 million and five FTEs is higher than I've
  • c><00:07:51.280> the a really significant burden to the a really significant burden to the general
  • fund. $ 1.5 million and five general fund. $ 1.5 million and five FTEEs<00:07:54.240> is<00:07
  • backup.
  • backup.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on SB 2047, relating to pharmacy benefit managers. The Insurance Division said the bill would require new enforcement resources and estimated an appropriation of about $1.5 million and five positions. Kaiser Permanente asked for an amendment to exclude HMOs from the definition of third-party PBMs, saying the bill should not interfere with integrated care models. PCMA and the Hawaii Pharmacist Association supported narrowing amendments, with pharmacists objecting to section 3 and warning the bill as amended could create major operational burdens and a significant general fund cost. No vote was taken in the portion provided, and the chair moved on to the next measure after questions. The committee then took up SB 2080, which would allow Hawaii to join the psychology interjurisdictional compact. Supporters, including DCR, the Hawaii Association of Health Plans, the Hawaii State Association of Counties, the Grassroot Institute, and others, said the compact would expand access to psychology services, especially for people in rural areas or those needing continuity of care while traveling. Opponents, including the Board of Psychology and a Shamanad University psychology professor, raised concerns about client safety, crisis-response procedures, enforcement costs, FBI background checks, and possible loss of state control over training and specialization standards. The board said Hawaii’s current 1,900-hour internship/postdoc requirement is higher than the compact’s standard and that the state is still implementing a separate provisional licensing law that may address some access issues. The discussion focused on whether the compact would meaningfully reduce shortages and whether Hawaii should instead pursue changes within its existing licensing system. Finally, the committee heard SB 2277 on hospital price transparency. The Office of Consumer Protection initially noted the bill could require significant staffing, but later testimony from SHIP suggested the measure could be handled more simply by working with the Healthcare Association of Hawaii and publicly posting violations. The Healthcare Association of Hawaii opposed the bill, arguing hospitals already must comply with federal CMS transparency rules and that adding state requirements would increase costs and legal exposure, especially if violations were treated as unfair or deceptive trade practices. Steve Fenberg testified in support, saying the bill would simply codify existing federal requirements in state law and that he was open to amendments removing state enforcement and the unfair trade practice language. No final action was taken in the excerpt provided.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee Jun 29th, 2026

Business, Professions and Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • The software tether can enable features that can be positive for consumers, like cloud backups, but it
  • You and I probably come from the same generation. I think our gray hairs are telling us that.
  • So we had that enjoyment in the period... ...the same generation, I think our gray hairs are telling
  • ...happening in the first place, which costs the state of California a lot of money to resolve, generally
  • I'm Gary Cooper, representing the California Academy of General Dentistry, in support.
Keywords: 987, senate, all
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 22nd, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, I want to apologize to this body and to our Attorney General for statements that I made and
  • I have the greatest respect for our Attorney General, and I have reached out to her personally to apologize
  • I ask sincerely for this body's forgiveness, and I do apologize to both you and our Attorney General.
  • Correll's leadership, the LSUA Generals have enjoyed unprecedented athletic success, grown to include
  • So in order to ensure and create and generate a little more So, in order to ensure and create and generate
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Administrative Rules Jan 21st, 2026 at 12:00 pm

Administrative Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, you are a backup system essentially on the alert process. OK. Do you have a question?
  • Other, we generally see...
  • We'll look at generally between 40 and 45% of those deaths.
  • Deaths: there are between 5 and 600 generally in a given year.
  • I'm asking kind of out of ignorance, but to me, that would sound like a sort of a generic answer.
Keywords: 914, all
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Finance Jul 22nd, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • UNM generates an estimated $5.2 billion in economic output each year, supports more than 47,000 jobs,
  • In terms of our... nursing workforce, we generally have about a 95% retention rate for almost all of
  • But the issue with all of this is that, in general, it is all Voluntary, right?
  • Who do stay in those communities to be able to have the kind of backup and connection to a deeper set
  • It just like we're trying to do for regular general fund spending increases for new programs.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions, May 21, 2026 - AM

Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions

Transcript Highlights:
  • Generally, not not afford the software. Generally, not not many<00:47:48.160> though.
  • <01:10:18.000> or that matter to the attorney general or that matter to the attorney general
  • different than the attorney general different than the attorney general representation<01:16:15.920
  • <03:43:36.479> audit statutoily required, just general audit statutoily required, just general
  • it and it'll generate it and it'll generate lots<03:58:38.720> of<03:58:38.880> activity
Keywords: 916, all
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session May 5th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am looking forward to not having the general population worry about things getting pushed through at
  • Members, House Bill 3498 updates Oklahoma's general corporation Act and its limited liability company
  • Based on my general understanding of population across the state, I think this will only exclude what
  • Like, we're not duplicating or undermining general reporting obligations of educators, right?
  • I agree with the fact that those needed to be moved out of committee to general order.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session - part 2 May 5th, 2025

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • But we generally know how to do it.
  • We had a $10 million general fund cut target, which we met, setting total spending from the general fund
  • We owe it to our children, our grandchildren, and all future generations to leave a legacy that we can
  • It's important to have the backup to show what is happening in society.
  • Communities and generations to come. So I'm grateful for the work that we did.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Health and Human Services Jan 30th, 2026 at 08:34 am

House Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • for they gave up their meeting for this morning so that we could use this room because our other backup
  • They vary, and what I did was generally look at Colorado as a model.
  • What I did was generally look at Colorado as a model for how punitive damages are awarded and addressed
  • a person who was born and raised here in the state of New Mexico, this family has been here for generations
Keywords: 996, all
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session May 31st, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It cleans up the patchwork of general education requirements across post-secondary institutions. and
  • enhances higher education through the creation of a statewide higher education ombudsman's office. for general
  • There is the ability to oversee it by the Comptroller and enforcement action by the Attorney General.
  • It elevates the legislation from a general concept to a very detailed and enforceable policy framework
  • Basically, it requires systems to prepare for power outages, including backups.
Bills: SB27, SB1494, SB2121, SB2373, SB2431, SB1, SB8, SB12, SB13, SB15, SB30, SB37, SB260, SB268, SB331, SB379, SB441, SB447, SB457, SB568, SB650, SB763, SB1405, SB1506, SB1540, SB1566, SB1610, SB1637, SB1660, SB2018, SB2024, SB2217, SB2308, SB2337, SB2601, SB2753, SB2878, SB2900, SB2972, SB3059, HB4, HB40, HB46, HB119, HB145, HB300, HB493, HB705, HB1545, HB2011, HB2017, HB2067, HB2516, HB2885, HB2963, HB2974, HB3071, HB3372, HB3556, HB3595, HB3642, HB3909, HB5138, HB5246, SJR36, SJR50, SJR63, SCR12, SCR39, SB2023, SB62, SB666, SB847, SB284, SB854, SB810, SB1505, SB583, SB507, SB1434, SB1772, SB2016, SB1122, SB731, SB397, SB508, SB1436, SB287, SB1882, SB393, SB1791, SB209, SB2429, SB1085, SB1975, SB2717, SB1262, SB636, SB2056, SB884, SB1200, SB1845, SB2458, SB801, SB3014, SB3013, SB758, SB2797, SB2076, SB2876, SB1640, SB1449, SB1181, SB1234, SB2926, SB2841, SB1528, SB1854, SB317, SB1250, SB2082, SB1237, SB2819, SB629, SB2608, SB1602, SB2009, SB867, SB640, SB1698, SB2680, SB913, SB1071, SB1086, SB1087, SB1483, SB1444, SB1553, SB1556, SB1703, SB2133, SB2297, SB2298, SB2622, SB2955, SB2334, SB1367, SB2044, SB2363, SB2565, SB1888, SB3036, SB3057, SB3043, SB3063, SB3035, SB203, SB2688, SB2522, SB2459, SB2655, SB2251, SB1884, SB2928, SB2566, SB2549, SB2553, SB2919, SB1944, SB1232, SB1798, SB2603, SB2607, SB2683, SB1319, SB3045, SB3071, HB796, HB1523, HB5294, HB748, HB3395, HB180, HB3171, HB146, HB5596, HB5694, HB1135, HB3225, HB186, HB1449, HB3793, HB112, HB104, HB3336, HB3520, HB3320, HB5663, HB2399, HB111, HB3483, HB4580, HB3748, HB632, HB4730, HB5690, HB5689, HB3385, HB4359, HB5381, HB123, HB5606, HB1057, HB3664, HCR141, HCR40, HCR59, SR634, SR687, SR703, SR709, SR715, SB1494, SB2121, SB2373, SB2431, HB46, SB1, SB8, SB12, SB13, SB15, SB37, SB260, SB331, SB379, SB441, SB447, SB457, SB568, SB763, SB1405, SB1540, SB1566, SB2018, SB2308, SB2337, SB2878, SB3059, HB705, HB2017, HB2067, HB3071, HB3372, HB3556, HB3595, HB3909, HB5246
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Health and Human Services - Part 2 - 03/24/26

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • that are assessed against a generator that are assessed against a generator for<01:46:10.280>
  • One is directly from the generator.
  • general, we're able to track them down. general, we're able to track them down.
  • <02:07:09.560> with able to help provide generators with able to help provide generators with
  • But, it will I will say the generator.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Committee, May 4, 2026 - AM

Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • General Contractors of Wyoming. General Contractors of Wyoming.
  • And they are generally investments. And they are generally lower<01:41:49.080> yield.
  • Follow up. generally we don't have any generally we don't have any unexpended<01:49:05.120> SIPA
  • general fund.
  • guaranteed to the general fund. guaranteed to the general fund.
Keywords: 916, all