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DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Committee Meeting Jun 23rd, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is the combining of an existing program and putting in place a permitting process.
  • It's all part of the EO Executive Order 18 process of streamlining permitting.
  • I represent Delaware Nature Society, very much part of the process with Senator Hansen developing this
  • She talked about how it's very much linked to the governor's process work to speed up permitting, and
  • this was part of a consensus process where everyone came together and worked together.
Bills: SB219, SB9
Summary: The House Appropriations Committee met to hear several bills, with members repeatedly reminded to focus on fiscal impacts rather than policy merits. The committee first considered SB 9 on freshwater wetlands, which would combine tidal and non-tidal wetlands programs into one permitting framework; supporters said the bill resulted from a two-year consensus process and that the governor’s office and DENREC would absorb a significant share of the cost. Public testimony was largely supportive, emphasizing flood control and ecosystem services, though one speaker opposed the spending. The committee voted to release SB 9. The committee then heard SB 278 on child care assistance, which would preauthorize summer camp for eligible school-age children and create a separate lower co-payment for half-day care. The sponsor and the YMCA of Delaware said the change would better align family co-pays with provider reimbursement and make before- and after-school care more affordable for working families. The committee also released SB 278, SB 168 on alcohol delivery for package stores, SB 120 on health insurance coverage for certain testing and treatment, and HB 4, a pilot program for artificial intelligence and extended reality in schools; HB 4 was described as having a near-$3 million fiscal note and a one-year implementation delay because it was not funded in the budget. Later, the committee approved SB 219, which gradually increases the military pension income tax exclusion from $12,500 to $25,000 over three years and includes related joint-filing and residency changes. Supporters argued it would help attract and retain military retirees and bring federal dollars into the state. The committee also released SB 1, a major primary care reform bill that would increase primary care spending and implement hospital payment reforms, with projected long-term savings to the state employee health plan, and SB 325, which expands background checks and wrap-back monitoring for fire service personnel and adds an investigator position for the Fire Prevention Commission. In each case, public commenters and committee members generally supported the bills, and all were released from committee by recorded vote.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Day 56 (3-31-26)

Kentucky Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • resolution confirming the appointment of Carrie Camille Capable to the Standards and Assessments Process
  • resolution confirming the appointment of Thomas James Radvonic Jr. to the Standards and Assessments Process
  • assessments process review committee. assessments process review committee.
  • to the standards and assessments process to the standards and assessments process review<00:08:40.479
  • and it will make authorization process and it will make it<04:05:28.960> easier<04:05:29.840>
Bills: HB567, HB776, HB2, HB568, HB619
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee Jan 21st, 2026

Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • The bill right now provides for reports as the process goes along. They want a little more detail.
  • The bill right now provides for reports as the process goes along. They want a little more detail.
  • The bill right now provides for reports as the process goes along. They want a little more detail.
Bills: HB59, SB15, SB96, SB104, SB137
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • It requires disclosure before processing a child's data.
  • , and the appeal process will just be the normal appeal process that we already use in the workers' comp
  • the appeal process. removal of the outdated MCO appeal process and the appeal process will just be the
  • This statutoryizes and standardizes that process.
  • And do we have a formalized process in which we do it?
Bills: AB52, AB76, AB163, AB388, AB483
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education Apr 3rd, 2025

S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Okay, so it would go through that whole process. Yes, sir.
  • More process and procedural questions about that? Okay.
  • And if you set up that collection process, are they required to provide the data?
  • The person who wrote it, Kenneth Stern, has described it as a process of hate crime analysis, not as
  • HB 824 adds focused instruction on local and civic processes to the Texas Education Code, Section 28.002
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Human Services Mar 11th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • That's a quick process. It usually only takes a matter of days.
  • , and that process is to be worked out through the rules setting process that the compact would go through
  • ICPC is clearly a broken process.
  • remains in place and we continue to use that process.
  • The term processed food is, um, it, it's not very widely, uh, defined.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Feb 24th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • So I'm still working through that process. both the policy logistics of how that would work, but also
  • , as well as a request that district attorneys would still be allowed to contest that expungement process
  • And so I am working with all of these entities as the bill moves through the process. And Mr.
  • And so, states are looking to standardize and make this a fairer process.
  • And that should be our goal in this process.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/14/2026 - Senate Judiciary and Elections

Judiciary and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • Then people are—it goes through a process. And so...
  • Arizona should only have to pay a minimal processing fee.
  • They should pay what it costs to actually process the fees.
  • Sorry, so there is a whole process... Excuse me.
  • But it's administrative action, and after that process of certification, there is another process where
Summary: The Judiciary and Elections Committee opened with roll call, member introductions, and a lengthy agenda item on alleged anomalies involving the State Bar of Arizona. The committee heard live testimony from a former attorney who described his disciplinary experience as retaliatory and unfair, and staff read excerpts from affidavits criticizing bar discipline procedures, notice, and due process. Members debated the State Bar’s authority, attorney discipline rules, and whether attorneys can practice while under investigation, with some arguing the bar is unaccountable and others emphasizing the Supreme Court’s oversight and existing disciplinary procedures. The committee then considered several election-related bills. SB 1037, requiring stricter security measures for vote-recording and tabulating equipment, passed 4-2-1 after members debated claims of election-system vulnerabilities and the cost of added safeguards. SB 1038, which would make cast vote records publicly available quickly after polls close, was amended to require transmission to the Secretary of State within 48 hours after canvass and then passed 4-2-1. SB 1040, expanding public online access to voter registration rolls in read-only form, also passed 4-2-1 after privacy concerns were raised and the sponsor argued for transparency. The committee next approved SB 1039, allowing attorneys who prevail in discipline matters to seek damages for reputational harm and lost earnings, despite objections that it raised separation-of-powers concerns and testimony about bar discipline procedures. SB 1053, capping Arizona resident concealed-carry permit fees at 10% of the nonresident fee, passed 4-2-1 after supporters framed it as a constitutional-rights and affordability measure and opponents raised public-safety and revenue concerns. SB 1057, requiring ballot paper fraud-countermeasure features, passed 4-2-1 after debate over cost and vendor capability. SB 1060, removing a voting exemption for U.S. citizens who have never resided in the United States, passed 3-2-2 amid concerns about unintended effects on military families. Finally, SB 1061, lowering the fentanyl threshold for enhanced sentencing from 200 grams to 9 grams, drew strong opposition from defense and civil-liberties witnesses who warned it would sweep in users and prescribed medications; the transcript ends during that testimony, before a final action is shown.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Insurance May 13th, 2026

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • PBMs can see the cost to the state of their own bids, but they can also see their competitors' bids.
  • those used to convert the PBM's very complex bids into projections of what those bids will actually
  • PBMs can see the cost to the state of their own bids, but they can also see their competitors' bids.
  • in order to secure reverse auction under multiple rounds. bid their competitors' bids in order to secure
  • reverse auction under multiple rounds of bidding.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • She's gonna spot bids. So, Brandon, if you want to come up here behind the microphone, Mr.
  • Now, want to bid? Want to buy 100, 25, 2, 550. Et two down. Et 25, 15. Not gonna bit 2, 15.
  • How am I gonna be fine a bid to buy now? Be gonna be thrown down 5, 25 and. Now 25.
  • These seniors are here with us today to learn more about the legislative process.
Bills: HR1052, SB2184, SB171
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Finance and Taxation Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • You know, y'all allow me to be on this process for all these years, so I mean I know we can do it.
  • As far as, you know, why do we bid it out? Yes, they bid it out every three years, I think. Yep.
  • <00:34:25.359> out we bid it out?
  • Yes, they bid it out we bid it out?
  • <00:34:54.320> it the big insurance companies and bid it the big insurance companies and bid
Bills: SB344, SB344
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • or disqualification and gives the presiding circuit judge more oversight by looping them into the process
  • c><01:00:04.000> the oversight by looping them into the oversight by looping them into the process
  • . process. process.
  • Is the judge just a functionary in the process, or does a judge have discretion based on the facts presented
  • It's just making sure they get noticed and are looped into the process of what's going on in the clerk's