Video & Transcript Research : 'Attorney General'
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OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
State Powers REVISED: Links added Feb 4th, 2026 at 09:00 am
State Powers
Keywords:
foreign ownership, land acquisition, military installation, critical infrastructure, affidavit requirements, state law, penalties, Attorney General, foreign ownership of land, foreign adversary, foreign government adversary, foreign government enterprise, foreign government entity, foreign terrorist organization, specially designated national, SDN, FTO, critical minerals, land ownership, real property
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- So really, what it does on lines 102 through 103, it states that the attorney general in...
- It stated that the attorney general, in the attorney general's opinion, had to inform the governor if
- So we took out that the attorney general was going to... ...that the attorney general was going to issue
- a press release and that the attorney general may inform the governor if, in the attorney general's
- Gener... See, this is why I can't have this.
Keywords:
hospital liens, medical billing, government healthcare, insurance claims, patient rights, controlled substances, unlawful distribution, marijuana, violent offense, sentencing guidelines, criminal justice, aggravated theft, employee benefits, retirement funds, criminal penalty, state law, overdose, failure to render aid, public health, Alabama Athletic Commission
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
01/27/2026 - House Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Transcript Highlights:
- So the issue at Lake Powell is you have power generation capabilities there.
- The bill outlines penalties for violation and gives the Arizona Attorney General authority to pursue
- And even then, the Attorney General may act, but not must.
- If the Attorney General does not act, nothing happens.
- If the Attorney General does not act, nothing happens. So right now, the definition is too narrow.
Keywords:
solar radiation management, environment, prohibition, Arizona Revised Statutes, public health, complaint process, Attorney General, groundwater management, water conservation, irrigation, water supply, brackish groundwater, water supply development, desalination, water infrastructure, financial assistance, environmental reviews, brackish water, groundwater, water resources
Summary:
The committee first received an update from Arizona Department of Water Resources Director Tom Buschatzky on Colorado River negotiations and post-2026 operating rules. He described the legal framework governing Arizona’s allocation, argued that Arizona and the lower basin have already made substantial conservation cuts, and said the upper basin is pressing positions Arizona views as inconsistent with prior Supreme Court rulings. He emphasized the need to move water from upstream reservoirs to Lake Mead, warned of continued shortage risk, and said the state is seeking an equitable deal through ongoing federal and interstate negotiations. Members asked about outside water use, tourism and recreation impacts, and tribal water rights, including the Navajo-Hopi-San Juan Southern Paiute settlement. Buschatzky said the state’s delegation and bipartisan support have been helpful and urged continued public and legislative backing.
The committee then heard House Bill 2758, which would expand McMullen Valley groundwater transportation authority and add related requirements and guardrails, including an amendment increasing the La Paz County transportation cap from 10% to 50% of the annual volume and adding conditions for sales or leases from historically irrigated acres. Supporters, including bill sponsor advocates, the Arizona Municipal Water Users Association, and the Home Builders Association, said the bill would create a lawful, regulated transfer option similar to the Harquahala model, support housing growth, and include oversight through hydrologic studies, pumping limits, and monthly reporting to ADWR. Opponents, including La Paz County Supervisor Holly Irwin’s statement, local residents, Sierra Club, and rural advocates, argued the bill would accelerate aquifer depletion, harm private wells and subsidence conditions, and benefit a New York hedge fund at the expense of rural communities. After debate, the committee adopted the Griffin amendment and then passed HB 2758 as amended on a 6-4 due-pass vote.
The committee next took up House Bill 2098, which would modify bonding authority and public hearing notice requirements for county water augmentation authorities and allow local repayment agreements with WIFA. Pinal County Supervisor Stephen Miller and other supporters said the bill would clean up statutory language so the Pinal County Water Augmentation Authority can finance future water augmentation and infrastructure projects, including potential Bartlett Dam-related work, and better prepare for future Colorado River uncertainty. The Home Builders Association also supported the bill, saying it included proportionality protections for private utility water charges. The bill was moved for a due-pass recommendation and the committee proceeded to a roll call vote, with the transcript ending before the final vote result was shown.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The Texas Attorney General launched lawsuits against the cities of Austin and San Marcos.
- The bill authorizes the Office of the Attorney General to seek a $25,000 civil penalty for the first
- When the legality of local marijuana ordinances was challenged, the Attorney General took those cases
- If the Attorney General in the future thinks that a city has violated state law, the Attorney General
- The Attorney General cannot sue a pregnant woman who has an abortion. Yes, sue a woman? Okay.
Keywords:
biological sex, government information, definitions, sex-based distinctions, public health, flags, display, state law, municipalities, government buildings, drug enforcement, local control, home rule, municipal charter, county policy, ordinance preemption, state preemption, attorney general enforcement, civil penalties, mandamus
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It was also illegal before people of my generation saw the benefit.
- Firstly, this bill would allow the Attorney General to bring civil actions on behalf of unborn children
- General.
- My name is Jonathan Saenz, Attorney-in-President for Texas Values.
- I have been an attorney for over 20 years in the state of Texas.
Keywords:
HB 229, Texas, political subdivision, local government, county dues, county association, state association of counties, lobbying, lobbyist, public funds, taxpayer lawsuit, injunctive relief, attorney's fees, Government Code Chapter 556, Local Government Code Section 89.002, legislative advocacy, municipal government, county government, city government, special district
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Children benefit tremendously from the interpersonal and literary community generated by these events
- I had a discussion with an attorney recently earlier today.
- Attorney General Merrick Garland.
- The time and hours I generally exhaust driving halfway across the state registering for comments waiting
- In 2020, 95% of Republican voters backed a ban on this. practice and last year 67% of general election
Keywords:
Texas Water Code, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, water permit, water appropriation, dam permit exemption, reservoir, flood control, floodwater control, erosion control, sediment control, watershed protection, flood prevention, Natural Resources Conservation Service, NRCS, USDA, local sponsor, district, authority, water infrastructure
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And And Attorney General Paxman has filed over 100 lawsuits challenging this federal overreach.
- This bill makes it clear that the Attorney General has the authority to defend a district or county attorney
- General to defend a district attorney but does not give explicit authority to defend a district attorney
- In addition the current law I'll be silent on the ability of the Attorney General to defend a county
- Obviously, Senator Cole, of course, worked with the Office of Attorney General on this.
Keywords:
municipal libraries, state funding, gender identity, public events, children's literature, SB 19, Texas, political subdivision, local government, county, city, municipality, taxpayer-funded lobbying, lobbying ban, public funds, registered lobbyist, Chapter 305, Government Code, Local Government Code, county association dues
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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by district the increment is generated by district the increment is generated - underutilized um low Revenue generating underutilized um low Revenue generating buildings<01:04:
- <01:14:48.920>
and and no increment has been generated and and no increment has been generated - so this bill would allow General so this bill would allow General Redevelopment<01:17:11.560>
Keywords:
Oakdale, tax increment financing, local government, funding, urban development, tax increment, St. Paul, redevelopment, housing authority, housing trust fund, low-income housing, property taxation, Minnesota statutes, vacant property, housing, commercial to residential conversion, Minneapolis, urban redevelopment, public parks, tax capacity
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Capital Planning Advisory Board (8-13-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- Will Schroeder, senior counsel for Attorney General Russell Coleman.
- House Bill 352 allocated $2 million to the Office of the Attorney General for a number of technology
- The project leadership was made up of two members of the Office of the Attorney General who were agency
- agency the attorney general who were agency the attorney general who were agency project<00:33:59.600
- general as well as Office of attorney general as well as Office of Administrative<00:35:08.400>
Hearings
Keywords:
Meeting Start 00:00:00
Attendance Roll Call 00:00:11
Approval of Minutes 00:02:00
Information Items 00:02:25
CPE Special Report 00:03:26
Review of Executive Branch Agency Plans 00:31:48
A. Attorney General 00:32:10
B. Court of Justice 00:36:41
C. Cabinet for Economic Development 00:50:44
D. Kentucky Public Pensions Authority 00:56:06
E. Board Discussion of Planning Issues 01:05:12, 958, all
Summary:
The Capital Planning Advisory Board opened its fourth meeting, confirmed a quorum, approved the prior meeting’s minutes by unanimous voice vote, and then heard information items and agency presentations. The main substantive presentation came from the Council on Postsecondary Education, which outlined its capital planning recommendations for the 2026–28 biennium. CPE staff described the role of Kentucky’s research and education network (Kron), including connectivity to cloud services, Internet2, identity services, and new local AI/inferencing capacity, and argued that the network is now essential to higher education, health care, and extension services. They said the network’s recent upgrades were driven by privacy, security, redundancy, and the need to support modern research and AI workloads at lower cost than commercial providers.
CPE also presented its broader higher-education capital request: $700 million for asset preservation and $1.73 billion for new construction, for a total recommendation of about $2.4 billion. Staff said they do not plan to recommend IT projects or equipment in this cycle, despite reviewing 48 IT submissions totaling nearly $1.4 billion and equipment requests totaling $322.6 million. For asset preservation, they said the recommended allocation method would remain based on each institution’s share of Category 1 and 2 square footage, and they noted that the state’s prior facility assessment is now 12 years old, with deferred maintenance still estimated in the $7–9 billion range. For new construction, they said the requests are heavily focused on STEM and health-related facilities that are difficult to retrofit into older buildings.
Board members asked about how asset-preservation amounts were determined, including why Northern Kentucky University’s request was much larger than its prior allocation. CPE staff responded that campus size, building age, and institutional prioritization affect the requests, and that schools are asked to submit more projects than are likely to be funded. The board then moved on to an Attorney General capital plan overview, where senior counsel Will Schroeder began describing the office’s technology needs and the office’s prior reliance on a 2020 appropriation to replace legacy systems and improve security.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I dare say it's more for their own personal benefit, you know, and, uh, and generally the actors are
- Uh, uh, if I recall off the top of my head, and I could be completely wrong, it's, it's generally in
- some merit to it to add in there things with firearms and as you all know, the committee knows the generally
- Something that provides a general public to the service, uh, a general, general service to the public
- Yes ma'am, uh, which is generally geared towards, I think, uh, uh, uh, 3 or more parties involved, uh
Bills:
HB 214
Keywords:
Texas Women's Privacy Act, HB 214, sex-segregated facilities, bathroom bill, restroom access, locker room, changing room, shower room, single-sex spaces, gender identity, transgender, biological sex, women's privacy, public facilities, state agency, political subdivision, correctional facility, prison housing, jail housing, family violence shelter
TX
Keywords:
grand jury, jury qualifications, jury wheel, small counties, Texas legislation, age verification, obscene devices, online sales, juvenile protection, penalties, antitrust, attorney general, Texas Free Enterprise, business regulations, legal confidentiality, personal identifying information, data brokers, judicial safety, civil rights, data privacy
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Press Conference: Senator Nathan Johnson Jul 30th, 2025
Texas Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Excise taxes generally decrease in value over time as the consumer price index goes up.
- To avoid the erosion in the capital generated from the enormous sale of hemp-derived THC products in
- We also want more funding for testing so that the revenue generated through the sales of legal hemp-derived
Keywords:
hemp regulation, consumable products, cannabinoids, occupational licenses, criminal offenses, SB 11, Texas attorney general, election crimes, election law enforcement, criminal prosecution, Election Code, Government Code Chapter 402, local prosecutors, county attorney, district attorney, grand jury, probable cause reports, state election offenses, voter fraud, election integrity
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Who prosecutes the Attorney General?
- and those individuals work for the Attorney General, how could they prosecute the Attorney General?
- general prosecution authority if there's a if there's an accusation that attorney general or someone
- The statute before us, if it passes, the Attorney General...
- Which is unusual for an attorney general and is correct?
Keywords:
hemp regulation, consumable products, cannabinoids, occupational licenses, criminal offenses, SB 11, Texas attorney general, election crimes, election law enforcement, criminal prosecution, Election Code, Government Code Chapter 402, local prosecutors, county attorney, district attorney, grand jury, probable cause reports, state election offenses, voter fraud, election integrity
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Additionally, three products generally recognized as safe, referred to as GRAS, G-R-A-S.
- So in general, there's a philosophy out there, health oriented. or what these kids are not doing bad
- things as often as my generation was as a percentage.
- So generally speaking in supply and demand, when you have a small supply and a large demand, the cost
- So I agree with you on that. and generally speaking a DWI or driving under the influence when somebody
Keywords:
hemp regulation, consumable products, cannabinoids, occupational licenses, criminal offenses, SB 11, Texas attorney general, election crimes, election law enforcement, criminal prosecution, Election Code, Government Code Chapter 402, local prosecutors, county attorney, district attorney, grand jury, probable cause reports, state election offenses, voter fraud, election integrity
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor May 31st, 2025 at 11:30 pm
Commerce and Labor
Transcript Highlights:
- In the United States, nine out of 10 prescriptions filled are for generic drugs.
- nor those patients who take brand-name drugs without therapeutic competition, because rebates are generally
- Alexis Moderex with the Nevada Chapter Associated General Contractors.
Keywords:
public employees, police officers, benefits, appropriation, law enforcement, medical debt, collection agency, healthcare, consumer protection, financial assistance, occupational safety, air quality, greenhouse gases, employee monitoring, safety program, hemp, hemp products, cannabidiol, CBD, cannabis
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- I do want to do a special recognition to District Attorney Mike Seus. I appreciate you coming here.
- He's the district attorney in Chambers and Randolph counties. Um, there are two bills.
- Thank you, uh, Mr. ...Thank you, Noah Barnes, General Counsel.
- Um, I've got several general questions, and these are just things that I've noticed.
- So... ...the District Attorneys.
Keywords:
habitual felony offender, resentencing, Alabama Department of Corrections, victim notification, criminal justice reform, life sentences, parole eligibility, pardon, parole, law enforcement, GPS monitoring, data sharing, mail theft, stolen mail, criminal penalties, personally identifying information, felony, misdemeanor, expungement, criminal records
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Delivery of Government Efficiency Mar 12th, 2025
Delivery of Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- Your organization has drawn the ire of... of the governor, lieutenant governor, the attorney general,
- I guess generally, yeah, I guess generally how much of our stuff is leased versus owned, and does it
- generally make more sense in the long term to own?
- So this is just how we generate ideas. rules.
- great process where our attorney in the Office of General Counsel will reach out to each of our divisions
Keywords:
regulatory reform, government efficiency, administrative law, rulemaking, agency deference, judicial review, de novo review, Texas Government Code, Administrative Procedure Act, state agencies, plain language, regulatory burden, regulatory reduction, cost-benefit analysis, fiscal note, public benefits and costs, contested case, rule challenge, Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office, advisory panel
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Privacy in sex-segregated spaces, legislation proposing a constitutional amendment allowing the Attorney
- General to prosecute state election crimes, and legislation that provides a review of the Congressional
Bills:
SR5, SB5, SB11, SB12, SB25, SB26, SB28, SB35, SB5, SB11, SB12, SB25, SB26, SB28, SB35, SB5, SB11, SB12, SB25, SB26, SB28, SB35, SR5
Keywords:
redistricting, Senate procedures, public input, Texas Legislature, amendments, Texas Senate, congressional districts, legislative procedures, legislative transparency, Senate rules, public hearings, committee procedures, hemp regulation, consumable products, cannabinoids, occupational licenses, criminal offenses, SB 11, Texas attorney general, election crimes
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The Attorney General, correct?
- Yes, I believe the Attorney General was the lead defense team in that lawsuit.
- Who is the Attorney General? The current Attorney General is Ken Paxton.
- Are you aware that that is what the Attorney General said?
- It was filed by the Office of the Attorney General.
Bills:
SR5, SB5, SB11, SB12, SB25, SB26, SB28, SB35, SB5, SB11, SB12, SB25, SB26, SB28, SB35, SB5, SB11, SB12, SB25, SB26, SB28, SB35, SR5
Keywords:
redistricting, Senate procedures, public input, Texas Legislature, amendments, Texas Senate, congressional districts, legislative procedures, legislative transparency, Senate rules, public hearings, committee procedures, hemp regulation, consumable products, cannabinoids, occupational licenses, criminal offenses, SB 11, Texas attorney general, election crimes
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- Jenny Nakamoto, Deputy Attorney General. We did submit comments.
- we have an Horuchi, Deputy Attorney we have an Horuchi, Deputy Attorney General<00:33:14.720>
- First to testify, we have Diana Sumana, Deputy Attorney General, AG's office, with comments.
- Diana Sum Sumana uh Deputy Attorney Diana Sum Sumana uh Deputy Attorney General<01:02:04.319>
- Deputy Attorney General Diana Somana.
Keywords:
military families, family leave, qualifying military exigency, Hawaii Revised Statutes, financial support, Hawaii National Guard, civil-military program, education, collective bargaining, exemption, SB3251, Hawaii public safety, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Border Patrol, law enforcement hiring, state employment ban, police powers, Department of Law Enforcement, DLNR