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MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

MS House Floor - 13 January, 2026; 2:00 PM

Mississippi House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • In advance the usual motion, the gentleman calls the bill up, moves the rules be suspended.
  • So when they walk in the polls, year.
  • Rules will meet at 1:00 tomorrow in the rules room.
  • <00:27:33.200> Rules<00:27:33.600> will hearing at 10:30 in room 204.
  • Rules will hearing at 10:30 in room 204.
Summary: The House opened with a prayer by Reverend David McDow of Fondren Presbyterian Church, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Members then handled routine business, including confirming a quorum, dispensing with the reading of the journal and bill introductions, and recognizing pages and several visiting groups in the galleries, including Oktibbeha County Young Leaders, Special Olympics champions, the doctor of the day, and members of the Women’s League of Voters. There were also remarks honoring Delta Sigma Theta Sorority’s Founders Day and a response from a member of Omega Sapphire Fraternity. The main legislative item was House Bill 580, a technical correction to judicial district maps. The bill was explained as fixing precinct placement errors in the Fourth Circuit Court District and correcting precincts affected by the creation of the CCID in Hinds County’s Seventh Circuit Court District. Members asked about how many judges would be on the ballot, whether the CCID judge would exercise regular civil and criminal jurisdiction, and when the changes would take effect. The sponsor said the bill was intended to preserve existing district boundaries, avoid changing qualifying deadlines, and keep the CCID judge as a regular circuit judge for an eight-year term. The House passed the bill 112-0 and then granted immediate release. Toward the end of the meeting, members made several announcements about committee schedules and upcoming events, including budget hearings, Military Affairs, Universities and Colleges, Rules, State Affairs, and a legislative prayer breakfast and welcome reception. The House also took multiple adjournment-in-memory requests for deceased Mississippians, including Larry Bryant, Cynthia Patterson Bond, Linda Stranger, Mary Lou Thompson, and Viva Hughes Williams. The House then adjourned until 2:00 p.m. the next day.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Child Committee Meeting - 2026-03-24

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <01:13:37.440> Given eligibility rules fraud by design.
  • Given eligibility rules fraud by design.
  • We have polling that shows that 80% of voters agree.
  • We have polling that shows that 80% of voters agree.
  • a maintenance worker. He was very sweet. a maintenance worker. He was very sweet.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Opening Ceremonies of the 89th Legislature Jan 14th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The House will now consider a motion in writing to adopt last session's rules as temporary rules.
  • 16 as temporary rules.
  • as temporary rules.
  • As we did last session, we are excluding Rule 16, the pandemic rule, which was never activated during
  • The House rules menu.
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

MS Senate Floor - 5 March, 2026; 10:00 AM

Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • poll managers county. poll managers county.
  • having a hard time getting poll having a hard time getting poll managers.<01:48:44.080> Uh
  • This is only for to get poll watchers.
  • rule that you raised.
  • I call a Rules Committee meeting today, 5 minutes after recess. >> Rules Committee, 5 minutes after recess
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, opened with an invocation by Dr. Ryan Wade and the Pledge of Allegiance, and then handled routine business by dispensing with the reading of the journal and committee reports. Several guests were recognized, including Leadership Jackson County, Farm Bureau members, a doctor of the day, adult educators, and other visitors in the gallery. Senator Brumfield also announced support efforts for Senator Warren Barnett, asking members to contribute to him through Ms. Anita Jackson. The chamber then considered a series of House bills, most of them taken up with strike-all amendments and passed by use of the morning roll call. Measures included HB 1390 on personal services funding allocations, HB 1571 on ARPA funds and unexpended balances, HB 1655 on the State Aid Road Construction director’s personnel status, HB 1650 on dormant state accounts and pooled investments, HB 1651 on state agencies using other agencies’ facilities and charging 50% of fair market value, HB 1345 on administrative forfeiture of illegal cigarette and vaping products, HB 1386 on allowing sidewalks as an eligible use of municipal infrastructure funds, HB 671 on alcoholic beverage delivery responsibility ending when retailers transfer possession to delivery services, and HB 1385 on eliminating paper-original homestead exemption submissions. Members asked questions on several bills, especially about whether the fairgrounds language in HB 1651 would affect youth livestock shows and whether HB 1386 or other measures would change county revenue; sponsors generally said the bills were intended to address state-agency use, municipal reporting, or administrative efficiency rather than alter those programs. The Senate also advanced HB 898, creating a sales tax diversion study committee to review misallocated municipal sales tax revenues, assess impacts, examine technology and oversight, and recommend reforms by the 2027 session; Senator Hill questioned whether counties should be included, but the sponsor said that would be a separate policy decision. Later, the Senate reconsidered HB 1265, the Mississippi Debt Management Services Act extended repealer, adopted an amendment to remove the repealer instead of extending it, and then passed the bill. The body also took up SB 2632, the local governments disaster recovery emergency loan program, and voted not to concur and to invite conference. Finally, HB 1142 on bench warrant notices was called up; the sponsor explained a strike-all that would replace certified mail with personal service or electronic transmission and include a reverse repealer for further conference work.
VA

Virginia 2026 Regular Session

March 11, 2026 - Regular Session

Virginia House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Motions under Rule 39, pursuant to the provisions of Rule 40, are now in order.
  • Speaker, I call the rules. Mr. Speaker, I call the rules in. Mr.
  • It relates to overtime for certain employees, domestic workers, and live-in domestic workers.
  • workers.
  • House Bill 27 relates to overtime for certain employees, domestic workers, and live-in domestic workers
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • We'll move to polling. We will now move to public comment.
  • Part of the back-end analysis will be ensuring that healthcare worker wages are not compromised.
  • Cost savings should not be achieved on the backs of workers.
  • there based on earnings of workers in Boston, Manhattan, and Chicago—very high-priced cities—because
  • Low-wage workers are still expected to contribute more of their wages to health care.
Keywords: 988, house, all
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Senate in Special Session C Feb 13th, 2025

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> RULES CHAIR PASSIDOMO, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED FOR RECOMMENDATION. >> I REVIEWED THE AMENDMENT CALLING
  • IT IS AGAIN, YOU DO NOT CHANGE THE RULES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME.
  • They need construction workers.
  • Committed to the grant and the rule of law. We have got to do that balancing act.
  • Before I recognize the Rules Chair for a motion, are there any announcements? Okay.
Bills: SJR2, SB4, SJR36, SJR2, SB4, SJR1, SJR5, SB9, SB40, SJR2, SB4, SR98, SJR40, SJR41, SJR42, SJR43, SJR44, SJR45, SJR46, SJR47, SCR13, SB6, SB13, SB21, SB826, SB827, SB828, SB829, SB830, SB831, SB832, SB833, SB834, SB835, SB836, SB837, SB838, SB839, SB840, SB841, SB842, SB843, SB844, SB845, SB846, SB847, SB848, SB849, SB850, SB851, SB853, SB854, SB855, SB856, SB857, SB858, SB859, SB860, SB861, SB862, SB863, SB864, SB865, SB866, SB867, SB868, SB869, SB870, SB871, SB872, SB873, SB874, SB875, SB876, SB877, SB878, SB879, SB880, SB881, SB882, SB883, SB884, SB885, SB886, SB887, SB888, SB889, SB890, SB891, SB892, SB893, SB894, SB895, SB896, SB897, SB898, SB899, SB900, SB901, SB902, SB903, SB904, SB905, SB906, SB907, SB908, SB909, SB910, SB911, SB912, SB913, SB914, SB915, SB916, SB917, SB918, SB919, SB920, SB921, SB922, SB923, SB924, SB925, SB926, SB927, SB928, SB929, SB930, SB931, SB932, SB933, SB934, SB935, SB936, SB937, SB938, SB939, SB940, SB941, SB942, SB943, SB944, SB945, SB946, SB947, SB948, SB949, SB950, SB951, SB952, SB953, SB954, SB955, SB956, SB957, SB958, SB959, SB960, SB961, SB962, SB963, SB964, SB965, SB966, SB967, SB968, SB969, SB970, SB971, SB972, SB973, SB974, SB975, SB976, SB977, SB978, SB979, SB980, SB981, SB982, SB983, SB984, SB985, SB986, SB987, SB988, SB989, SB990, SB991, SB992, SB993, SB994, SB995, SB996, SB997, SB998, SB999, SB1000, SJR40, SJR41, SJR42, SJR43, SJR44, SJR45, SJR46, SJR47, SCR13, SB6, SB13, SB21, SB826, SB827, SB828, SB829, SB830, SB831, SB832, SB833, SB834, SB835, SB836, SB837, SB838, SB839, SB840, SB841, SB842, SB843, SB844, SB845, SB846, SB847, SB848, SB849, SB850, SB851, SB853, SB854, SB855, SB856, SB857, SB858, SB859, SB860, SB861, SB862, SB863, SB864, SB865, SB866, SB867, SB868, SB869, SB870, SB871, SB872, SB873, SB874, SB875, SB876, SB877, SB878, SB879, SB880, SB881, SB882, SB883, SB884, SB885, SB886, SB887, SB888, SB889, SB890, SB891, SB892, SB893, SB894, SB895, SB896, SB897, SB898, SB899, SB900, SB901, SB902, SB903, SB904, SB905, SB906, SB907, SB908, SB909, SB910, SB911, SB912, SB913, SB914, SB915, SB916, SB917, SB918, SB919, SB920, SB921, SB922, SB923, SB924, SB925, SB926, SB927, SB928, SB929, SB930, SB931, SB932, SB933, SB934, SB935, SB936, SB937, SB938, SB939, SB940, SB941, SB942, SB943, SB944, SB945, SB946, SB947, SB948, SB949, SB950, SB951, SB952, SB953, SB954, SB955, SB956, SB957, SB958, SB959, SB960, SB961, SB962, SB963, SB964, SB965, SB966, SB967, SB968, SB969, SB970, SB971, SB972, SB973, SB974, SB975, SB976, SB977, SB978, SB979, SB980, SB981, SB982, SB983, SB984, SB985, SB986, SB987, SB988, SB989, SB990, SB991, SB992, SB993, SB994, SB995, SB996, SB997, SB998, SB999, SB1000
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Election Law (03/07/2025)

Election Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • believe house the current house rules believe house the current house rules govern<01:10:06.560>
  • Just a quick question: is the recent ruling on Bruan and its impact on administrative rules... is that
  • c> administrative impact on administrative impact on administrative rules rules rules um<01:20:11.800
  • getting it processed before the polls getting it processed before the polls close<02:03:56.760><
  • rules are the rules said was the Senate rules are the rules for<02:50:50.239> election<02:50:
Keywords: 1189, house, all
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

JDC Informational Briefing 09-18-2025

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • That gives life to the written rules.
  • democratic norms, the unwritten rules democratic norms, the unwritten rules that<00:13:56.560>
  • an atheist who would unleash mob rule. an atheist who would unleash mob rule.
  • Just the rules of the built.
  • >> if so in in you mentioned some polling >> if so in in you mentioned some polling
Keywords: 912, senate, all
Summary: The Judiciary Committee held an informational briefing with Professor Colin Moore on democratic norms and their erosion in the United States, with a focus on what that could mean for Hawaii. Chair Carl Rhodes introduced the topic and the professor, noting the briefing was livestreamed and could be rescheduled if technical problems arose. Moore defined democratic norms as unwritten guardrails that make written constitutional rules work in practice, emphasizing two core norms from political science: mutual toleration, meaning acceptance of political opponents as legitimate, and institutional forbearance, meaning restraint in using legal powers to the maximum for partisan gain. Moore used historical examples to show how norms develop and erode, including George Washington’s resignation, the Alien and Sedition Acts, the contested 1800 election, Franklin Roosevelt’s court-packing plan, and Watergate. He argued that democracies usually erode gradually rather than through sudden coups, often through leaders who reject opponents’ legitimacy, tolerate political violence, restrict civil liberties, or attack the press. He said the United States is vulnerable because of its strong presidency, an 18th-century constitutional design that did not anticipate modern political parties or a neutral civil service, and because polarization has encouraged “constitutional hardball” and retaliation. He cited comparative examples such as Hungary, Turkey, and other countries that slid toward authoritarianism over time, and said the U.S. has been rated a flawed democracy by outside indexes. Moore said the erosion predates Donald Trump, though he believes Trump has accelerated it, and pointed to recent actions and rhetoric as moving beyond ceremony into government practice. He also warned that Congress has not consistently checked executive power and that public willingness to excuse anti-democratic behavior from preferred candidates is troubling. The briefing ended with Moore turning to federalism and Hawaii, arguing that the state depends heavily on federal funding for health care, schools, housing, and infrastructure, and that delays or disruptions from an unstable federal government could create serious local harm even if no law is formally broken.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Again, remember that across many of the surveys we are seeing from our Texas teachers, safety polls as
  • parts of taking care of all the other people needed to run a school, such as bus drivers, cafeteria workers
  • Additionally, a recent poll found that 87% of Texas voters also want to see this type of compensation
  • school psychology, speech pathologists, dyslexia intervention specialists, behavior analysts, social workers
  • post-secondary attainment that's putting a strain on our workforce and leading Texas employers to hire skilled workers
Bills: SB26, SB 26
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Education Policy Committee 3/25/25

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • having as many uh, locations and polling having as many uh, locations and polling locations<00:02
  • While all are rules and regulations.
  • polling polling locations.<00:15:48.000> And<00:15:48.320> so<00:15:49.279> this
  • But it really is getting at the 15-day drop rule. That's a fiscal rule.
  • 15-day drop rule. That's a fiscal rule. 15-day drop rule. That's a fiscal rule.
Keywords: 1183, house
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • They may want directions to the nearest poll.
  • They may want directions to the nearest poll.
  • Is that an internal rule? Is that the criminal code? Is that a federal rule? What is it?
  • We're still under the current rules of engagement.
  • I mean, 'rules of engagement' has a different meaning to me.
Summary: The Senate Finance Committee heard the Legislative Budget Board’s overview of the Texas Department of Public Safety’s 2026-27 budget, followed by extensive testimony from DPS leadership. The LBB presentation covered funding and staffing changes across driver license services, facilities, troopers and recruit schools, crime labs, vehicle and aircraft operations, and border security. The recommendations included added support for customer service staffing and trooper hiring, but did not include several DPS exceptional items such as major driver license staffing and technology requests, new regional headquarters in El Paso and San Antonio, and other capital projects. Members also discussed proposed rider changes, including a new rider to lapse unused trooper funding and require reporting after recruit schools. Much of the committee’s questioning focused on driver license operations, where senators criticized long call wait times, low call-answer rates, appointment delays, and what they viewed as an overreliance on adding staff rather than improving processes. DPS and LBB witnesses said the agency is pursuing some technology upgrades, including automation, online pre-population of applications, and appointment-system improvements, but acknowledged that the driver license division remains a major problem area. Senators also raised concerns about whether the 2019 efficiency study led to meaningful changes and whether the agency should consider broader process redesign or even a different administrative structure. Colonel Freeman and other DPS officials then defended the agency’s broader law enforcement and border-security work, emphasizing the need for the Williamson County training academy, the 500 additional troopers funded in prior sessions, and continued support for Operation Lone Star. They described DPS’s role in border interdiction, threat-to-life investigations, oilfield theft cases, Capitol and Alamo security, and highway safety, and said the agency is stretched thin by deployments and overtime. Members asked about border reimbursement possibilities, regional staffing differences, pursuit safety, fleet and aircraft replacement needs, and the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame museum. No votes or formal actions were taken in the portion provided.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
  • But bill and by suspending the rules.
  • And so, uh, for us, there wasn't a lot of gain in suspending the rules or in not suspending the rules
  • And so, uh, for us, there wasn't a lot of gain in suspending the rules or in not suspending the rules
  • And so, uh, for us, there wasn't a lot of gain in suspending the rules or in not suspending the rules
  • And so, uh, for us, there wasn't a lot of gain in suspending the rules or in not suspending the rules
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
MA
Transcript Highlights:
  • And so if you look at, you know, what are entry-level workers at day habilitation programs, so day programs
  • And so, you know, I think all of our direct care workers and, you know, all of our providers that hire
  • direct care workers are struggling with workforce.
  • And so what this kind of data poll is that's on the screen now is the group considered, if you cap everybody
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The subcommittee met with MassHealth LTSS Chief Leslie Darcy to review the Personal Care Attendant (PCA) program and the legislative work group focused on its long-term sustainability and cost containment. Darcy and Charlie described the work group’s five meetings and three consensus recommendations: enforce the 66-hour overtime cap, address fraudulent activity in the PCA program, and eliminate MassHealth handling of PCA paperwork/administrative work for members without a live-in exemption because those members are subject to EVV. They explained EVV as an electronic visit verification system replacing paper timesheets, and noted the rollout is expected to be completed this fall. The group estimated about $7 million in savings from the consensus recommendations and agreed to continue meeting through June to consider additional ideas. Darcy presented data showing the PCA program served about 56,000 members in state fiscal year 2024 and has grown from $1.2 billion in FY20 to $1.6 billion in FY24, with projections near $2 billion by 2027. She said much of the growth is driven by wage increases and older adults using more services, and compared PCA costs with other LTSS programs. The discussion also covered overtime spending, the role of federal financial participation, and how Massachusetts’ PCA program differs from other states because it has no hard caps on hours or activities. Several members emphasized the program’s value for independent living and community participation, while also acknowledging the need to control growth without undermining services. Members asked about undocumented immigrants and MassHealth funding, and Darcy explained that some eligibility categories are state-funded only and do not receive federal matching funds. Another member asked about workforce recruitment and wage pressures; Darcy said recent collective bargaining agreements raised PCA wages, with some workers eventually reaching $25 per hour and the entry wage reaching $20. The group also discussed whether IADL hours are disproportionately high compared with ADL needs, and reviewed data suggesting potential savings if IADL hours were limited relative to ADL hours, though no consensus recommendation was made on that point. The meeting ended with approval of the prior minutes by roll call vote, an update that the next health equity informational hearing is scheduled for May 19, and a motion to adjourn carried unanimously.
VT

Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Session - 2026-05-22 - 3:45PM

Vermont House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Can you please offer us a motion to suspend rules to take up Senate Bill 190 off the notice calendar
  • And you have suspended rules to take it.
  • reference-based pricing rule reference-based pricing rule establishing<00:14:40.000> methodology
  • That is a long, well-established process in rule. I thank you, member.
  • And you have suspended rules to take up House Bill 660 for immediate consideration.
Keywords: 926, house, all
Summary: The House took up S. 190, a health care cost-containment bill relating to the Green Mountain Care Board, reference-based pricing, and a study of a public employee health benefit authority. The House first suspended rules to take the bill from the notice calendar, then heard committee reports from Health Care, Ways and Means, and Appropriations. The Health Care committee chair described the bill as a strike-all amendment intended to carry out Act 68’s hospital reference-based pricing timeline, saying it would let the Green Mountain Care Board begin implementation for fiscal year 2027, expand reference-based pricing to qualified health plans and the Vermont Education Health Insurance program, and address hospital pricing transparency, outsourcing, and critical access hospital Medicare outpatient cost-sharing issues. Supporters argued the bill would lower insurance costs, help reduce property taxes, and improve hospital sustainability by reducing the need for hospitals to limit access as they approach revenue caps. The Ways and Means committee said the bill could reduce education spending by lowering health care costs for school employees and reported the bill favorably on a 7-4 vote. The Appropriations committee said it reviewed the bill and an amendment, and noted that much of the detailed language would be changed by the appropriations amendment; it also discussed a possible state innovation waiver under the Affordable Care Act. The Health Care committee reported its strike-all amendment favorably on a 10-0 vote. The bill’s provisions were described in detail, including requiring hospitals and insurers to express rates as a percentage of Medicare, setting a path toward national median hospital prices by 2030, limiting certain reimbursements for QHP and VHI plans, requiring a report on hospital outsourcing and provider tax impacts, and creating a public health system performance tool if funding is available. The speaker also noted that the bill would not affect critical access hospitals or Vermont’s Medicare-dependent hospital in the reimbursement cap provisions, and that critical access hospitals were already working with the Green Mountain Care Board on solutions to Medicare outpatient cost-sharing concerns.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

05/04/2026 - Senate Floor Session

Arizona Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Committee on Rules recommends the following bills are proper for consideration.
  • The Committee on Rules recommends the following bill. I is here to have it.
  • Those were workers that were going to Intel. Those were workers that were going to the chip plant.
  • The Committee on Rules recommends the following bills for consideration as SB 1846. David C.
  • We're having an effective cut on our state workers through increased health insurance costs.
Keywords: 1182, all
NJ

New Jersey 2026-2027 Regular Session

Assembly Session Jun 11th, 2026

New Jersey House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Resolved that pursuant to Rule 15, ...
  • workers' wages from affecting unemployment compensation.
  • The amendments have been distributed in accordance with the rules.
  • The amendments have been distributed in accordance with the rules.
  • The amendments have been distributed in accordance with the rules.
Keywords: 1146, all
AR

Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session

REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE May 4th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • That's relief for your teachers, nurses, truck drivers, factory workers, small business owners, police
  • , truck drivers, factory workers, small business owners, police, and families just trying to keep up
  • We just completed a statewide scientific poll of registered Arkansas voters in partnership with Change
Summary: The committee heard House Bill 1001, sponsored by Representative Les Eaves, which would lower Arkansas’s personal income tax rate to 3.7% retroactive to the current year and reduce the corporate income tax rate to 4.1% beginning in 2027. Eaves argued the bill continued a decade-long strategy of broad-based tax relief, would help working families, and would keep Arkansas competitive with other states. He said the measure would reduce future surpluses rather than cut current services, and noted the average taxpayer could see roughly $800 to $1,000 in annual savings from recent tax changes. Several witnesses testified against the bill. Arkansas Appleseed’s Anna Morchetti, Missy Wyatt Joyce, Pastor Preston Clegg, Michelle Pedro of the Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese, and Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families’ Pete Guest all argued the state should prioritize funding for public schools, health care, supported living services, food assistance, rural hospitals, and early childhood education instead of further tax cuts. They said Arkansas faces significant unmet needs, including underfunded schools, food insecurity, and shortages in disability and community-based services, and warned the tax cut would mainly benefit higher earners while reducing resources for essential programs. After testimony, the committee limited debate time for witnesses to five minutes. Representative Eaves closed by saying the state had been responsible in prior tax cuts and that the bill would return money to taxpayers without reducing services. Representative Bray also spoke in support, saying the legislature has continued to fund major priorities while still providing tax relief to working families. The committee then voted to pass the bill, and HB 1001 was approved.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Natural Resources Committee Jun 22nd, 2026

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • workers We are here representing over 2.3 million union workers in the state, including thousands of
  • skilled workers who build, maintain, operate, and labor in manufacturing facilities in California.
  • What impact you have on workers? What impact you have on water quality?
  • What impact you have on impact you have on workers? What impact you have on water quality?
  • I think a whole set of rules I don't know. Are there other committees still on by now?
Keywords: 988, house, all
VT

Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Session - 2026-01-13 - 10:00AM

Vermont House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • With that, member from Pney, can you please offer us a motion to suspend our rules to introduce bills
  • Madam Speaker, I make a motion to suspend rules in order to introduce bills by number only.
  • The member from Pney moves that we suspend rules to introduce bills by number only.
  • You have suspended the rules to introduce bills by number only.
  • in your, uh, committee took a straw poll in your, uh, committee on<00:11:00.160> judiciary,<00
Keywords: 926, house, all
Summary: The House opened with a moment of silence, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the introduction of 23 House bills by number only after suspending the rules. Members then made several announcements, including birthday recognition for a member from Derby, a farm-to-school and universal school meals observance highlighting local agriculture, school nutrition, and five years of universal school meals, and welcomes for guests including the Garvey family, who were connected to legislation that became H.613. Additional announcements noted upcoming caucus meetings for Working Vermonters, Vermont’s economy, the rural caucus, and House Progressives, along with a reminder that a House photo and workplace training would follow adjournment. On the action calendar, the House took up H.28, relating to adding an affirmation option to oath requirements in titles 1 through 10 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated. The bill was read a third time and passed on voice vote. The chamber then considered H.409, relating to procedures for bail revocation. Representative Goodnau of Brattleboro offered an amendment, which was adopted on voice vote, and the amended bill was then read a third time and passed on voice vote. The discussion on H.409 referenced a Judiciary Committee straw poll and described the amendment as making the bill a more accurate reflection of its purpose. After completing the day’s orders, members made final caucus and scheduling announcements. The House Democrats and House Republicans said they would not caucus that day, while House Progressives announced a noon meeting in Room 44. The House then voted to adjourn until Wednesday, January 14, 2026 at 3:00 p.m., with the motion approved by voice vote.