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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Mar 6th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This extends that authority to expedite the removal of vehicles to streetcars as well, where they're
  • This extends that authority to expedite the removal of vehicles to streetcars as well, where they're
  • Provisor and others as deemed appropriate by the authority. Senator Rochelli.
  • future years, should the revenue that is currently coming in be disallowed, it's going to put future budgets
  • future years, should the revenue that is currently coming in be disallowed, it's going to put future budgets
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Mar 5th, 2026

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Summary: The Senate considered and passed several House bills. HB 2624, relating to consumer protections for unsolicited real estate transactions for public purposes, was amended with a striking amendment from the Business, Trade, and Economic Development Committee and then passed 30-18, with Senator Dozier voting no and saying the bill still needed work. HB 2104, which makes permanent aviation assurance funding for wildfire response by removing a sunset clause, passed 47-0 with two excused after Senator Short urged support based on its wildfire-fighting value. The Senate also adopted an amendment to Substitute HB 2334, which addresses cash transactions and rounding to eliminate the need for pennies, adding language that customers with exact change must be able to pay exact change. The bill passed 45-2, with Senator Frame describing it as permissive guidance for businesses and Senator Dozier supporting it humorously; Senator Gainer voted no. HB 2436, concerning requirements for oil tankers operating in restricted waters and clarifying tugboat horsepower standards to match current practice, passed 46-1 after support from Senator Lovelett and Senator King. Finally, Engrossed HB 2575, reducing certain reporting obligations under environmental or energy laws, passed 47-0 with two excused. Senator Schumaker said it would save administrative costs for the Department of Commerce and utilities and free up money for low-income energy assistance. The Senate then adjourned until the next day.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Mar 5th, 2026 at 01:45 pm

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And because of the budget we have, ...to handle these children.
  • But we're also giving some new authority, Mr.
  • budget on a policy that's coming forward.
  • And do you think the ranking budget writer can have those conversations with budget chairs who are busy
  • working on our budget right now, Mr.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Mar 5th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 2411, the Secretary will read: An act relating to modifying shared leave provisions to authorize
  • In its original form, this bill really did cause pause and concern as to the extension of the authority
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 4/14/26

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This Akem for being our chief author.
  • We didn't currently have that statutory authority and had done it as part of federal authority that we
  • </c> new authority potentially impact? Ms. new authority potentially impact? Ms.
  • and had done it as part of authority and had done it as part of federal<00:14:11.680><c> authority</
  • Authorizing power purchase agreements Authorizing power purchase agreements the<01:16:48.880><c> method
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education May 6th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • So your bill gives the authority to incur debt and levy taxes. It outlines that...
  • So your bill gives the authority to incur debt and levy taxes.
  • I believe it just says the local governing authority. Okay, the local, whatever that might be.
  • SB 304 authorized the Board of Regents to establish a list of eligible accreditors recognized by the
  • However, a charter can only come into place under an authorizer, and with some of the things in this
Bills: HR175 , HCR81 , SB105 , SB290 , SB304 , SB374 , SB522
Committee: House Education
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Retirement and Government Resources 2ND REVISED Apr 7th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Retirement and Government Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • Do you know what the budget impact's gonna be? I do not.
  • And this may be for the author, but do we know how many folks are going to fall into this category?
  • Thank you Mrr chairir House Bill3310 authorizes the director of OMEs to promulgate payment procedural
  • So, this is in no way directed at the author, but I just want to lodge my concerns.
  • What we're saying is that, as a state agency, even in times of budget crunches like we have now, why
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Ways & Means Jan 12th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • , transportation budget, or general fund budget, is really high already. ...capital budget, transportation
  • budget, or general fund budget is really high already.
  • , transportation budget, or general fund budget, is really high already. capital budget, transportation
  • budget, or general fund budget is really high already.
  • , not the entire budget.
Bills: SB6003
Committee: Senate Ways & Means
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Ways and Means Committee 4/7/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • And in an agency like ours budget.
  • </c> non-budget years for supplemental budget non-budget years for supplemental budget ask<00:10:14.800
  • </c> budget setting. Represent Eric. budget setting. Represent Eric.
  • </c> budget too and do some serious cutting. budget too and do some serious cutting.
  • </c> the bill author for bringing this up. the bill author for bringing this up.
Bills: HF3006 , HF2130 , HF1290
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • , the core budget of athletics.
  • Also, comments from the Department of Budget and Finance.
  • We have the Department of Budget and Finance in support.
  • :45:03.679><c> by</c> Section five authorizes enforcement by Section five authorizes enforcement by DLNR
  • </c> relating to the emergency and budget relating to the emergency and budget reserve<02:09:55.040><
Committee: House Finance
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 17th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We'd have to double our state budget to accomplish that.
  • The review recommended limiting authority to minor, self-limiting, clearly defined conditions.
  • Limiting authority to minor, self-limiting, clearly defined conditions.
  • I believe that transparency in budgeting is a great thing, and that's what this bill is about.
  • We also believe in transparency and budgeting and are encouraging a yes vote.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 16th, 2026 at 05:20 pm

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And I don't think that during this time when we are now in the second year of a record budget crisis,
  • difficult than last year because there is no such thing as low-hanging fruit when you're writing the budget
  • What this bill does is authorizes now security personnel to be able to conduct threat assessments on
  • What this bill does is authorizes now security personnel to be able to conduct threat assessments on
  • Somebody who was falsely convicted, wrongly convicted, and subsequent to that was held by federal authorities
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 16th, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • In the midst of our budget challenge, though, Mr.
  • over time, our state budgets have increased markedly, Mr.
  • We also had bipartisan budgets passed off this floor, Mr.
  • Budgets passed off this floor, Mr.
  • Who wrote those budgets?
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/3/26

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><01:21:31.120><c> to</c> on the amendment to allow the author to on the amendment to allow the author
  • </c> author would like the bill. Thank you. author would like the bill. Thank you.
  • </c> capacity following successive 10% budget capacity following successive 10% budget reductions<01:
  • We also worry central office budget.
  • </c><01:35:23.120><c> Um</c> budget. Um my sincere apologies. Um budget. Um my sincere apologies.
Bills: HF3676 , HF3683 , HF3395
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Feb 25th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • savings within the budget.
  • It has no effect on the budget.
  • It has no effect on the budget.
  • No surprise, I'm asking for a no on this budget. A budget has to get passed.
  • out of the budget.
Bills: HB2289