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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 10th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is a bill about protecting grieving families who have lost A bill about protecting grieving families
  • Important, though, that we protect these families.
  • This is a bill that's going to help make sure that we have to protect these grieving families, protecting
  • This is a bill that's going to help make sure that we have to protect these grieving families, protecting
  • by licensed contractors.
Summary: The House convened, established a quorum, recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and heard a prayer. Members approved the prior day’s minutes, referred introduction-sheet bills, and later took up several second- and third-reading bills. Early in the day, the chamber also announced that members could wear Seahawks apparel during floor action the next day. The House passed House Bill 1155, which bans non-compete agreements, after adopting amendments clarifying tribal worker relationships, replacing references to “customer” with “patient” in certain contexts, and requiring notice to current and some former employees that non-competes are void. An amendment to exempt senior executives earning over $350,000 was rejected. The bill passed 65-29. The House also passed House Bill 1002, allowing certain coroners and medical examiners to seek workers’ compensation for PTSD; an amendment to isolate costs to their own risk class was rejected, and the bill passed 70-24. House Bill 2264, clarifying unemployment insurance eligibility for workers who voluntarily participate in layoffs, passed unanimously 94-0. Later measures included House Bill 2110, allowing nurses to accompany inter-facility ambulance transports without also holding EMT licenses, which passed 94-0 after an amendment clarifying training; House Bill 2272, a technical update to ski equipment terminology, which passed 94-0; House Bill 2238, creating a statewide food security strategy, which passed 83-12 after a technical amendment narrowing agency scope; and House Bill 2445, aimed at preventing profiteering in probate estates, which passed 67-28 after a technical amendment. The House also passed House Bill 2109 on securing vehicle loads (95-0), House Bill 2492 requiring behavioral and mental health training for construction workers and apprentices (79-16), House Bill 2472 on licensed contractors for fire sprinkler work (92-3), House Bill 288 joining the dietician licensure compact (93-1), and House Bill 2229 updating the Professional Engineers Registration Act and requiring five years of Washington practice for board members after an amendment (68-26).
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/11/2026 - Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency

Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency

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  • application, or other non-cash payment from the rounding requirement.
  • Madam Chair, Senator Payne, I am not a licensed contractor.
  • Thank you, ...prospective residents are protected, much like the APS registry.
  • All right. protective services registry.
  • Thank you, prospective residents are protected much like the APS registry.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • I share their concern about protecting innovation, and I promise to continue working to address any concerns
  • I do think strong and effective patent protection incentivizes innovation and supercharges our place
  • This is a reasonable change to the bill that I think will only improve it and at the same time protect
  • and we will seek to accommodate them, but I must say that the basic provisions of this bill that protect
  • Now, what more do you need to encourage innovation in the United States than 12 years of patent protection
Bills: SB1040 , SB1041 , SB1095 , SB1096 , SB1097 , SB527
Summary: The meeting focused on addressing the high cost of prescription drugs and the abusive practices that contribute to elevated prices affecting American families. Several bills were presented, including proposals to end pay-for-delay deals and to enhance transparency in the operations of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). The discussion was notable for its emphasis on consumer protection and ensuring that cheaper generic drugs reach the market more effectively. Members expressed frustration over past attempts to pass similar legislation stalling in the Senate, leading to renewed efforts to push these bills forward.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Ways & Means May 5th, 2025

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm happy to be here laying out HB3830, relating to a franchise tax credit for certain watershed protection
  • are certainly pro-business in Waco, but we're also pro-water for our people and ensuring that we protect
  • We aim to continue to protect that as we have now for several decades, and I am here for any questions
  • Members, this bill respects local control, protects bondholders, and school finance.
  • We really want to protect that senior lifestyle, as well as the overall affordability, and really protect
Committee: House Ways & Means
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence May 21st, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • Day of A&I, it seems to be abused, and what we're trying to do is protect artists' integrity.
  • And it does, in the bill, have built-in First Amendment protections.
  • The legislation creates a very solid framework to protect the right.
  • It's our culture, and it needs to be protected.
  • It is certainly something that is needed to protect Texans further.
Bills: SB1960 , SB1730 , SB766 , SB2342 , SB2501 , SB2903
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 11th, 2026 at 03:55 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It also adds some protections for people who want to make sure that they are safe by being able to check
  • That individual, get them into treatment, and prosecute them, and protect the innocent people.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 11th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Consumer Protection Committee, I believe, is there to protect all consumers and support fairness
  • House Bill 2155 adds foundational protections to the nursing title that says nurses are a human being
  • We're trying to use tools to protect our personal data for all Washingtonians.
  • So privacy and security of sensitive and personal information must be protected.
  • This bill modernizes the Office of Privacy and Data Protection.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Ways & Means Mar 17th, 2025

Ways & Means

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  • Right now, the payment deadline can only be extended for weekends.
  • To come to our offices or get to a post office to put a payment in the mail for the three days leading
  • Their electronic payment vendor said we're shutting everything down until the county can resolve this
  • I urge this committee to reconsider this bill and protect the tools that have helped Texas build the
  • And they stopped making payments.
Committee: House Ways & Means
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/16/2026 - House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • authority will support vegetation management, defensible space, and retrofitting, reducing risk and protecting
  • authority will support vegetation management, defensible space, and retrofitting, reducing risk and protecting
  • by Representative Diaz makes several important changes, but the one I want to bring up is that it protects
  • distributions from the insurance premium taxes will need to make at least one floor amendment to protect
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Financial Services Committee Mar 10th, 2026

Financial Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • One is to provide a clear, uniform standard for rounding cash transactions to protect consumers and protect
  • The rounding adjustment again does not affect the tax calculation, and any electronic payment from credit
  • affect the tax calculation and any affect the tax calculation and any electronic<00:07:50.000><c> payment
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  • transaction where payment is made to<00:08:46.800><c> a</c><00:08:46.959><c> governmental</c><00:08:
Bills: HB545 , HB545
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Transportation, Highways and Public Works May 14th, 2026

Transportation, Highways & Public Works

Transcript Highlights:
  • Actually, so under this, when you miss a payment, it just tacks on to the end of my payment plan.
  • After 9/11, he was so moved to serve and protect his country that he decided to enlist in the Marine
  • This is about the license plate suspension payments. I want to put that into the record. All right.
  • This is about the license plate suspension payments. I want to put that into the record. All right.
  • Who deserves to be seen, protected, and treated with dignity.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Apr 14th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • That if there's an assault and battery, they're protected under that.
  • So Senate Bill 504, it protects children while strengthening the institution of marriage.
  • Senate Bill 1448 clarifies the actions and transactions that are exempt under the Consumer Protection
  • Senate Bill 1980 is a gift card protection bill. You know for question, move for passage.
  • Senate Bill 1980 is a gift card protection bill. You know for question, move for passage.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 13th, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • of your hard work and all the effort that you're putting in to be able to pass laws, to be able to protect
  • of your hard work and all the effort that you're putting in to be able to pass laws, to be able to protect
  • When it comes to protecting our state, help us to be wise; help us to trust you; help us to find peace
  • contractors and subcontractors.
  • contractors and subcontractors.
Bills: SR116 , SR117 , SR118 , SR119 , SCR68 , SCR69 , SCR12 , HB682 , HB766 , HB769 , HB775 , HB783 , HB824 , HB926 , HB1186 , HB1201 , HB1223 , HB1245 , HB1247 , HB1253 , HB1258 , HB221 , HCR53 , HCR62 , HCR72 , HCR58 , HB54 , HB137 , HB180 , HB192 , HB310 , HB321 , HB396 , HB512 , HB552 , HB578 , HB638 , HB663 , HB708 , HB717 , HB718 , HB1009 , HB1082 , HB1104 , HB1107 , HB1194 , HB1198 , HB1246 , HB1250 , SB29 , SB30 , SB32 , SB41 , SB42 , SB43 , SB47 , SB84 , SB93 , SB113 , SB192 , SB199 , SB219 , SB220 , SB221 , SB222 , SB241 , SB253 , SB255 , SB289 , SB292 , SB306 , SB314 , SB351 , SB399 , SB404 , SB14 , SB102 , SB133 , SB151 , SB165 , SB169 , SB170 , SB200 , SB217 , SB280 , SB291 , SB300 , SB303 , SB330 , SB449 , SB489 , SB521 , SB424 , SCR9 , SB25 , SB250 , SB348 , SB405 , SB444 , SB485 , SB35 , SB65 , SB132 , SB215 , SB246 , SB249 , SB269 , SB282 , SB296 , SB323 , SB363 , SB369 , SB474 , SB490 , SB492 , SB500 , HCR26 , HCR45 , HCR61 , HCR77 , HCR31 , HB649 , HB665 , HB681 , HB721 , HB746 , HB757 , HB781 , HB835 , HB844 , HB857 , HB872 , HB886 , HB889 , HB892 , HB982 , HB987 , HB1037 , HB1068 , HB1072 , HB1078 , HB1085 , HB1132 , HB1137 , HB1167 , HB1174 , HB1232 , HB1238 , HB23 , HB136 , HB17 , HB21 , HB51 , HB55 , HB74 , HB106 , HB108 , HB133 , HB140 , HB159 , HB168 , HB215 , HB226 , HB263 , HB296 , HB299 , HB322 , HB364 , HB519 , HB535 , HB538 , HB568 , HB571 , HB622 , HB635 , HB676 , HB772 , HB784 , HB1006 , HB1018 , HB1043 , HB1070 , HB1134 , HB1239 , HB62 , HB193 , HB203 , HB210 , HB220 , HB228 , HB246 , HB420 , HB475 , HB486 , HB574 , HB584 , HB750 , HB813 , HB815 , HB826 , HB870 , HB949 , HB953 , HB1045 , HB1092 , HB1151 , HB1162 , HB1176 , HB1177 , HB1196 , HB1214 , HB1241 , HB36 , HB73 , HB119 , HB126 , HB129 , HB166 , HB211 , HB245 , HB271 , HB280 , HB337 , HB351 , HB354 , HB399 , HB677 , HB712 , HB723 , HB726 , HB728 , HB759 , HB789 , HB850 , HB956 , HB966 , HB1036 , SB149 , SB382 , SB441 , HB258 , HB842
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Transportation and Energy Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Transportation and Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • protections uh and reclamation so that protections uh and reclamation so that if<00:19:35.600><c> if<
  • We have uh uh protecting that.
  • make sure that those protections are in place.
  • make sure that those protections are in place. >> Okay, sir.
  • that those protections are in place. place. place.
Bills: SB341 , SB340 , SB341 , SB354 , SB340