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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CAA Public Hearing - Wed Feb 4, 2026 @ 9:30 AM HST

Culture & Arts

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:31:45.200> So organizations statewide surveys. So organizations statewide surveys.
  • or a qualified organization.
  • or a qualified organization.
  • those same organizations. those same organizations.
  • <01:00:26.400> or away from any nonprofit organizations or away from any nonprofit organizations
Summary: The committee on Culture and the Arts heard several measures related to arts funding, administration, and access. Testimony was largely supportive across the agenda. For HB 2218 and HB 1815, the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts supported the bills, and members discussed transition timing and administrative support, including the need for an additional year in one measure and a temporary administrative position to help with the transfer. HB 1764, the music accessibility pilot program, drew broad support from the Retail Merchants of Hawaii, Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, Hawaii Public Library System, Hawaii Youth Symphony, and others, with testimony emphasizing library-based music programming, community access, and economic benefits. HB 2117, which would create an arts data mapping task force, also received extensive support, though witnesses suggested narrowing the initial scope, adding representatives from independent and charter schools and neighbor island arts programs, and ensuring adequate funding and a realistic timeline for the work. The committee also heard HB 2436 on arts integration in public schools, HB 2438 on the Hawaii Cultural Trust, and HB 2532 on the Hawaiian flag. HB 2436 and HB 2438 received support from SFCA, while the Cultural Trust bill prompted a lengthy explanation from the chair about how the proposed tax credit would work and amendments to clarify that donations to the trust and to qualifying cultural nonprofits must be made in tandem, with eligible organizations listed and updated annually by SFCA and OHA. HB 2532 drew testimony from Dr. Adam Jansen in support of protecting the Hawaiian flag as a historical and cultural symbol; he said the flag should continue to be used for solidarity, protest, inclusion, and identity. At the decision-making portion, the committee adopted the chair’s recommendations on the measures considered. HB 2118, HB 764, HB 1815, and HB 2117 were passed with amendments, including date deferrals and technical changes; HB 764 also had its appropriation blanked out. HB 2436 was passed with amendments, and HB 2438 was advanced with substantial clarifying amendments to the cultural trust structure. The chair indicated that HB 2117 would include an interim report due in 2027 focused on music and dance, with a final report due in 2029 on arts education more broadly.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select Aug 5th, 2025

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select

Transcript Highlights:
  • Of what it means to be a response organization versus a regulatory organization.
  • Organizations are not required to participate to continue their disaster relief work.
  • This ensures that our state aid is not mistakenly handed out to scam organizations or organizations of
  • Our faith-based organizations, our volunteer organizations active in disaster, and our organized volunteer
  • Back on the volunteer piece and trying to organize our volunteers.
Bills: HB2, HB1, HB18, HB19, HB20, HB1, HB 2, HB18, HB19, HB20
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Mar 11th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • educational assistance. educational assistance organization.
  • Organization, is that family enrolled? Uh, they are. Their application is pending.
  • And they apply to the education assistance organization, so the bill is silent on that.
  • Because as I read the bill, the way you and role is to apply to the Education Assistance Organization
  • Building up an organization that still exists today, supporting the concept of school choice.
Bills: HB3, HB3
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Mar 11th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • , the Milton Friedman organization we heard from earlier.
  • And recruited by advocates of these organizations that were really good schools to come in and make good
  • Adequate fair funding, school funding is yet another, that's the organization.
  • There's an agenda there, and so you're analyzing data for an organization... that is biased towards the
  • And the other thing I would say is, while yours The information from your organization shows much more
Bills: HB3, HB3
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Health Committee Meeting - 2025-04-07

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The intent is that we aren't saying—I'm not saying that organizations can't invest.
  • That's established in case law, and that's a generally accepted concept for care in organizations.
  • Beauty Well is the only community-based organization in Minnesota, and probably the nation, focused on
  • House File 3046 is about our communities and the organizations that we all know and want to support with
  • In a year instead of these multiple for the same organization, that would make a little bit of sense
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 4/7/25

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • And to be able to say, what is the reputation of the organization that owns and funds this?
  • across<00:13:34.160> the uh different organizations across the uh different organizations
  • You don't want to care in organizations.
  • organization that owns and funds this? organization that owns and funds this?
  • That would make a same organization.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/26

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • grantee organizations. grantee organizations.
  • <00:44:03.280> I four times more than organic foods.
  • I four times more than organic foods.
  • Gregory, we have Miss Jennifer Lon. will ensure that organizations like will ensure that organizations
  • Gregory, for sharing all the impacts that your organization has.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • That this organization is subject to the Open Records Act? Yes.
  • Why would we need to replicate it with another organization?
  • It's a framework for the management organization. Right.
  • It keeps the existing organization intact.
  • The bill aims to clarify the wording to preserve the property tax exemption for charitable organizations
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The North Texas Commission is a regional advocacy organization that represents both the private and public
  • We are the organization that put Proposition S on the November ballot that was passed and is now part
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 4/14/26

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • And he really encouraged that we use student-sponsored organizations like the College Democrats or the
  • And he really encouraged that we use student-sponsored organizations like the College Democrats or the
  • And he really encouraged that we use student-sponsored organizations like the College Democrats or the
  • And he really encouraged that we use student-sponsored organizations like the College Democrats or the
  • And he really encouraged that we use student-sponsored organizations like the College Democrats or the
Bills: HF4479, HF4368, HF4889
Summary: The committee approved the April 9 minutes and then took up House File 4479, which would require public postsecondary institutions to make space available for town halls and similar official events by elected officials, with limits intended to keep the events on the official side and not campaign-related. Representative Frederick said the bill is meant to prevent universities from creating barriers such as fees or parking charges and to ensure a neutral, accessible venue for community conversations. The bill was laid over for possible later action. The committee heard supportive testimony from Jim Dimmick of Minnesota State University, Mankato, who argued that town halls should be public, open, moderated, and dialogic rather than speeches, and said universities should be centers for public discourse. He also said charging fees can undermine neutrality and that using partisan student groups to sponsor events can create the appearance of bias. Minnesota State official Mr. Omen said campuses often host these events, fees are set locally to cover costs, and student government sponsorship can sometimes avoid charges; he also noted the fee at Mankato is discounted and depends on room size. Several members raised concerns about the bill. Representative Scott, Chair Robbins, Representative Schwarz, Representative Allen, and others argued that campuses should not be required by statute to give legislators special treatment, that fees and parking costs cover real expenses, and that universities should remain focused on education rather than political events. Questions also focused on who would decide what room size is reasonable, how disputes would be handled, and who would pay for security if protests or safety issues arose. Representative Frederick responded that room selection would be a good-faith partnership with the university, that the bill does not require a town hall or guarantee a specific room, and that security funding is not spelled out in the bill.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Economic Development and Tourism Committee Mar 4th, 2026

Economic Development and Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • conser consistent with workforce development divisions transfer and the way statewide strategy is now organized
  • consistent with workforce development division's transfer and the way statewide strategy is now organized
  • 11:19.519> now and the way statewide strategy is now and the way statewide strategy is now organized
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Bills: SB277, HB395, HB482, SB251, HB513
HI
Transcript Highlights:
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  • Uh, so at the Hawaii Worker Center, we organize the over 70% of workers in Hawaii that are not organized
  • Uh, so at the Hawaii Worker Center, we organize the over 70% of workers in Hawaii that are not organized
  • Hawaii Worker Center, we organize the over 70% of workers in Hawaii that are not organized.