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CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session May 27th, 2025

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It is a year-long learning program designed to engage students and prepare them for professional roles
  • At a time when the federal government is dismantling environmental programs and defunding scientific
  • research, this bill ensures that California's cap-and-trade program continues to be informed by the best
  • crimes that involves the community colleges, the adult systems, the youth programs, all those things
  • And now we want to take that tool ...the goal of keeping people out of prison.
Summary: The Assembly met in session, established a quorum, and opened with a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. Members then moved through guest introductions, including students and fellows from California Lutheran University, UC Merced’s CAPE program, the Maddy Institute, and Madera High School’s Madtown Robotics Team 1323, which was recognized for multiple robotics world championships. The chamber also adopted an adjournment in memory and took up the daily file. Several bills and resolutions were considered and passed, including AB 1390 on school board compensation thresholds, AB 1338 on air district cost recovery for fence-line air monitoring, AB 648 on community college housing, AB 1207 on cap-and-trade price ceilings, ACR 66 recognizing Skin Cancer Awareness Month, AB 49 on keeping ICE out of public schools, AB 317 on a CEQA exemption for certain single-family homes, AB 527 on geothermal exploratory wells, AB 665 on the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation ombudsman report, AB 940 creating quantum innovation zones, AB 1021 on workforce housing for education agencies, AB 1112 on property tax apportionment in Rancho Mirage, AB 1318 on nonprofit eligibility for public funding, and AB 1470 on using student housing loan funds for affordable housing in downtowns and commercial districts. Most measures passed with broad support; AB 49 and AB 1318 were urgency bills and passed with the required higher vote threshold. The floor also adopted H.R. 40, declaring May 25 as Rosenda’s Day to honor a teen killed by a drunk driver, and H.R. 42, recognizing May as Behavioral Health Awareness Month. Both drew extensive personal testimony from members about mental health, suicide, substance use, and the need to reduce stigma and expand access to care. Additional health-related bills passed, including AB 408 creating a physician health and wellness program, AB 546 requiring coverage for HEPA purifiers for certain enrollees after wildfire disasters, AB 967 expediting licenses for out-of-state physicians, and AB 968 expanding pharmacist authority to provide non-hormonal contraception. The Assembly also debated AB 1056 on phasing out gill net fishing and AB 1376 on limiting juvenile probation terms, with supporters framing both as conservation or rehabilitation measures and opponents warning about economic harm or public safety concerns. Both bills ultimately passed. Throughout the session, members repeatedly emphasized public safety, education, housing, climate, health care access, and support for immigrant and youth communities, with recorded roll-call votes and voice votes taken on each measure.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

FL House Floor Session - 2026-03-06 (10:00AM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • training program that's actually leading to a job. ...a training program that's actually leading to
  • that you have told me, 'I went to the prison this weekend.
  • I went to the prison this week.'
  • that you have told me, 'I went to the prison this weekend.
  • I went to the prison this week.'
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, and recognized several introductions and memorials, including a resolution designating August 9, 2026, as Bob Graham Day and a moment of silence for firefighter Roger Timmy Miley. The chamber then moved through a long special-order calendar, with several bills substituted with House companions and adopted by voice vote or recorded vote. Early measures included a tax conformity bill tied to federal Internal Revenue Code changes, which passed 34-0, and a Medicaid/public assistance bill that drew extensive debate over work requirements, fraud reduction, behavioral health services, and SNAP/EBT reforms. Amendments offered by Senators Berman and Osgood to condition or soften the work and photo-ID provisions were rejected, and the underlying bill was placed on the third-reading calendar after lengthy questioning about implementation, exemptions, and eligibility effects. The Senate also passed bills on computer science education and AI instruction, a Parkinson’s disease registry public-records exemption and registry update, designation of the SS American Victory as Florida’s official state flagship, electronic payments for local governments, repeal of the legal-tender sunset for gold and silver, public-records protections for gold/silver custodians and stablecoin-related entities, a Florida stablecoin pilot program, and local government budget transparency/spending measures. Most of these measures were adopted after minor amendments or technical substitutions, with votes generally ranging from 31-3 to 34-0. The chamber also recognized the Florida Channel’s 30 years of legislative coverage. Later, the Senate approved a digital voyeurism bill expanding the reasonable-expectation-of-privacy definition to include private fenced yards, and an insurance customer representative licensing bill allowing high school students to complete insurance/personal finance coursework and later qualify for licensure. The final major item was a medical freedom bill that would expand parental vaccine information requirements, add a conscience-based exemption to immunization mandates, allow behind-the-counter ivermectin for adults, and repeal the sunset on the mRNA mandate prohibition; two amendments clarifying anti-kickback rules and requiring vaccine information to include risks, benefits, safety, and efficacy were adopted, while questions from Senators Smith and Massullo focused on public-health impacts and the content of the required materials. The transcript ends during discussion of that bill, with no final vote shown in the excerpt.
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

PSM Public Hearing 01-27-2025

Public Safety and Military Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Each year, more than 600,000 people are released from state and federal prisons, and many times these
  • Each year, more than 600,000 people are released from state and federal prisons, and many times these
  • For example, many people in jails and prisons in the United States have mental health issues that are
  • For example, many people in jails and prisons in the United States have mental health issues that are
  • the the atmosphere and jail or prison the the atmosphere and the<00:12:48.120> physical<00:12
Keywords: 912, senate, all
Summary: The Senate Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs heard several bills on January 27, 2025. SB 24, relating to identification, would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to help inmates obtain civil ID cards and other vital documents for reentry. Testimony was overwhelmingly in support from DCR, the Hawaiʻi Correctional System Oversight Commission, DHS, the Hawaiʻi Disability Rights Center, health and youth advocates, and others, with comments emphasizing that reentry should begin on day one and that lack of identification is a major barrier to housing and employment. A senator asked about the low number of IDs issued in 2022 and DCR said it already has a satellite ID card machine at Hālawa and plans to procure more for other facilities. The committee recommended passage of SB 24 as is. SB 474, relating to psychologists, would require DCR clinical psychologists to obtain licensure within 10 years of employment and would sunset in 2035. DCR strongly supported the bill, citing a severe staffing shortage, low exam passage rates, and many vacant positions, while the Hawaiʻi Psychological Association expressed concerns and one testifier argued psychologists serving incarcerated people should be licensed before employment. Committee members questioned whether the 10-year period was too long and discussed alternative solutions such as pay incentives and shortage differentials. The committee ultimately recommended passage with amendments, shortening the licensure period to 5 years, moving the sunset to July 1, 2030, and making other technical changes. SB 353, relating to emergency management, would clarify emergency authority, bar suspension of public records or vital statistics requests during emergencies, define “severe warning,” and allow the legislature or city councils to terminate a state of emergency. DHS and HMA opposed the bill, arguing it could limit executive flexibility and cut off access to the major disaster fund, while supporters included public-interest and good-government groups. The committee discussed whether legislative termination authority could interfere with ongoing emergency response and recovery, with the bill’s sponsor explaining it was aimed more at situations where emergency conditions have ended, such as prolonged COVID-era proclamations. The committee recommended passage with amendments, including a delayed effective date and committee report notes referencing DHS request data and HMA’s opposition. The committee also heard SB 259, relating to recordkeeping for secondhand dealers and pawn brokers, and SB 37, relating to recordings of law enforcement activities. SB 259 was set for amendment and deferred decision-making to January 29, 2025, so the committee could seek input from HPD. SB 37 drew support from the Legal Clinic and other advocates, with a clarifying question about civil enforcement actions, and the committee recommended passage with amendments and a delayed effective date. The meeting concluded with the committee adopting its recommendations and adjourning.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session Mar 20th, 2025

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • He served in the capital office as part of the UC Sacramento program.
  • This bill ignores the fundamental purpose of inmate labor programs.
  • In prison, they go home on the weekends often and during the week they work outside of the prison, almost
  • Who have chosen to participate in the Advanced Via Individual Determination or AVID program.
  • the program.
Keywords: 988, house, all
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Courts, Corrections and Justice Sep 22nd, 2025

Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • So as we toward your program and your dietary program and all those sorts of things, with the education
  • program, Or how are you working with our public school system and maybe other types of programs that
  • For educational programs.
  • Our young people who are made eligible through the courts program and are released onto the program are
  • accepted and released onto the program.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 11th, 2026 at 11:17 am

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • overwhelmed UNM Valencia Next Steps Adult Education Program.
  • This bill does not require a specific program, curriculum, specific training.
  • several programs and interventions, but this bill does not require a specific program, specific training
  • , it could cause and trigger programming issues as well, Mr.
  • If a student has an individual education program team, I...
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs May 13th, 2026

Commerce, Consumer Protection, and International Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • a broadband expansion project moves forward through our Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program
  • , which a lot of us know is the B program.
  • “This bill does not affect contractors again that are not working under the BEAD funding programs.
  • number four clarifies that the board is responsible for determining approval of canine training programs
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Finance May 5th, 2026

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senators and guests, we have with us today a junior senator program participant.
  • But we have got to increase the number of educated, trained, committed workers in all programs with reasonable
  • significant reductions in disability across all program types.
  • would on page 1, line 10, after the date, insert: “to provide for the implementation of the actual program
  • like to proceed, or at least have some ability if appropriations become available, to be in this program
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Apr 27th, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Texas lottery has contributed more than $296.3 million to veterans programs.
  • We provide services to seniors. leadership programs for teens.
  • But something needs to be done, and a buyout is the simplest program.
  • It provides relative to the creation of a trauma-informed training program.
  • LDH offers the program currently, and they work in conjunction with...”
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 24th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • So I'm curious if you've ever thought of putting this program on the 'Be a Neighbor' program and allowing
  • , and they don't even have to do this program.
  • you're removed from the program.
  • Loss of eligibility for the program shall be cause for removal of the inmate from the program.
  • We continue to, you know, with legislative programs that we run, we amend those programs As required
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 24th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Oklahoma, you're supporting something that isn't just a sports team or a University with a sports program
  • However, other states have implemented such programs and have done so quite successfully.
  • They didn't measure access to career tech programming, which is incredibly important to this body.
  • In fact, we actually tried to run some bills that would actually collect information on what programs
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/24/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • And this is a proven program.
  • So, the underlying bill had a grant program, and we thought it was important to keep the grant program
  • or within within the program to be within the program or within the program to be operational what what
  • funding to continue their program.
  • I have a DC cost of the old program, the program that we fixed in 2016-17, of 4.6%. 6% high-priority
Summary: The committee first considered Senate Bill 1630, which would direct AHCCCS to seek federal approval for a home- and community-based services program for adults determined to be seriously mentally ill, with quarterly implementation updates, stakeholder input, and a cap on enrollment. The sponsor and advocates from Arizona Mad Moms argued the bill would create an assisted-living-style Medicaid option for the most disabled SMI individuals, improve continuity of care, and reduce state general fund costs by shifting some expenses to federal Medicaid funding. Access testified neutral, estimating a total fiscal impact of $27.7 million, including $5.83 million general fund, and explained the need for CMS approval. The committee adopted an amendment reducing the initial cap to 250 members, changing reporting frequency, and adjusting eligibility and expansion conditions, then passed SB 1630 as amended on a 10-0 vote. The committee next heard Senate Bill 1131, which originally required school districts and charter schools to adopt cardiac emergency response plans and appropriated $1 million for implementation. An amendment replaced the mandate with a reporting requirement on AED counts, CPR/AED-trained staff, and whether schools have a plan, while keeping a grant component for AEDs and prioritizing rural schools. The American Heart Association supported the amended approach as a way to gather baseline data and target resources, and members discussed AED training, school preparedness, and whether the funding should favor rural or high-population schools. The committee adopted the amendment and passed SB 1131 as amended on a 9-1 vote, with Senator Kuby voting no and several members explaining concerns about funding and priorities. The committee then took up Senate Bill 1582, which concerned the school safety interoperability fund. An amendment shifted the appropriation from the Department of Education to the Department of Administration and allocated funds to specific county sheriff offices for continuing operation and maintenance of existing interoperability systems, while narrowing the program to public safety agencies and school districts and requiring twice-yearly testing. Sheriffs, a county school superintendent, and the Arizona Sheriffs Association described the systems as useful for drills and real emergencies, improving communication between schools and first responders; one speaker noted the program had been used in drills and at least one live deployment. Some members questioned the audit findings, the focus on rural counties, and whether the program was a good use of funds, while supporters emphasized its value for school safety. The committee adopted the amendment and passed SB 1582 as amended on a 6-4 vote. Finally, the committee began hearing Senate Bill 1504, which would change retirement rules for Tier 2 and Tier 3 public safety personnel by allowing earlier normal retirement and shortening the COLA waiting period, with an amendment exempting the changes from the statutory pre-funding requirement. Supporters from firefighter and police groups said the bill would improve recruitment and retention and let employees receive earned benefits sooner, while city, county, and taxpayer representatives warned it would add substantial unfunded liabilities and undermine the 2016 pension reforms. Actuarial testimony estimated significant costs, including tens of millions in annual or upfront impacts depending on how the change is funded, and members debated whether the amendment would shift costs onto future taxpayers or simply spread them over time. The transcript ends during continued testimony and discussion on SB 1504, before a final vote is reached.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • It also clarifies a program promoting disease prevention, wellness, and health.
  • But if they work the program, they actually see their premiums go down.
  • I had a couple sign up for this program. One did the program, one didn't do the program.
  • because there are other parts of the same program.
  • Programs and enhances grid safety.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz delivers State of the State address 4/28/26

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We can get people assistance programs.
  • And, of course, we established the nation's leading paid family leave program.
  • We've increased funding for victims of crime, and we've transformed the prison system.
  • Look. prison systems and consolidated around prison systems and consolidated around the<00:30:03.320>
  • I want us to move programs for decades.
Keywords: 919, house, all
Summary: This was Governor Tim Walz’s final State of the State address to the Minnesota Legislature. He opened by recognizing legislative leaders, constitutional officers, tribal leaders, the judiciary, and members of his administration, then asked for a moment of silence for the Hortman family and spoke at length about recent tragedies, including the Annunciation Church shooting, political violence, the COVID-19 pandemic, and what he described as the impacts of federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota. He framed the address around resilience, unity, and the state’s response to grief and disruption. Walz reviewed major accomplishments from his time in office, emphasizing investments in education, child care, free school meals, housing, infrastructure, climate initiatives, paid family leave, voting access, and worker protections. He also highlighted tax cuts, rebate checks, Social Security tax relief, medical debt protections, and efforts to lower costs for families. Looking ahead, he proposed expanding the dependent care tax credit, cutting the statewide sales tax for the first time, adding housing and first-time homebuyer support, and providing aid to businesses and households affected by Operation Metro Surge. A major portion of the speech focused on public safety and fraud prevention. Walz said he wanted lawmakers to reestablish the binary trigger ban, pass additional gun violence measures including bans on weapons of war and high-capacity magazines, and strengthen safe storage and insurance requirements for firearms. He also urged passage of his anti-fraud package, which would increase penalties, create a centralized fraud prevention office, and restructure human services administration to improve oversight and program integrity. He closed by urging lawmakers to act on these proposals during his remaining months in office and said the next governor would inherit a fiscally strong state.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 03/26/25

Judiciary and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • loads or cut essential programming loads or cut essential programming undermining<00:04:56.639><
  • Since we have launched the Hope program, 282 people have completed our entire life skills program.
  • our entire life skills program completed our entire life skills program and<01:27:07.280> that
  • things of that nature since the program things of that nature since the program has<01:27:17.560
  • This program has to be a licensed teacher to teach these programs, so that is the bulk of the cost.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Aug 19th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And the federal budget has cut many of these programs.
  • , homelessness programs, the kind of things that we in this chamber expect them to do and the kind of
  • Senate Bill 182 would have expanded the program for accessibility for female inmates by redirecting TDCJ
  • to ensure a wide variety of programming available to female inmates.
  • Times more likely to face sexual assault and harassment in a jail or prison.
AR

Arkansas 2026 Regular Session

JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE Mar 4th, 2026

JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE

Transcript Highlights:
  • , a competitive football program, and competitive programs in all of our sports.
  • So there is no prison funding.
  • The programming aspect, we have a director of programming now that kind of oversees the programming for
  • The programming aspect, we have a director of programming now that kind of oversees the programming for
  • You mentioned here over 500 inmates program.
Summary: The committee first adopted revised JBC rules, which staff said were updated to reflect legislation passed in the 2025 session. It then heard a presentation from DFA Secretary Jim Hudson on the governor’s proposed balanced budget for FY27, with no action taken. Hudson said the budget reflects three priorities: limiting state-government growth, continuing investments in education, and advancing income-tax cuts. He highlighted increases for education funding through EFAs, pay-plan costs for Corrections, DPS, and the Attorney General, higher education productivity funding, drug task forces, a Corrections medical contract, the governor’s 1033 initiative, SNAP error-rate reduction efforts, and an additional $100 million set aside for Medicaid sustainability. Committee members questioned the size of the tax cuts, the balance requirement, public education funding, Medicaid trust-fund levels, EFA funding, and the expected impact of new SNAP cost-sharing rules. The Division of Higher Education then presented its productivity-based funding recommendations. Officials said institutions were 2.61% more productive overall, with funding changes driven by a statutory formula that rewards degree production, underserved populations, and high-demand fields. Members asked about declines at UA Little Rock, the formula’s multipliers, the role of the Arkansas Access Act and a new return-on-investment metric, and how two-year colleges are adjusted for size. The committee also reviewed special items and approved two letters: one authorizing 17 net personnel changes across nine institutions, and another adding special language for North Arkansas College’s entry into the University of Arkansas system. The committee then adopted the Higher Education Coordinating Board’s recommendations for all institutions. A lengthy portion of the meeting focused on the University of Arkansas system, especially Fayetteville’s athletics funding and the broader impact of the House/NIL settlement. Chancellor Charles Robinson and system officials explained that the board had waived a longstanding campus transfer and directed the university to provide an additional $6 million to athletics, with some costs likely to be passed through to students but partially offset by existing budget growth. Members debated whether the university should prioritize academics or athletics, how the transfer originated, and whether the athletic changes would affect affordability. The committee also discussed the 1890 extension program at UAPB and the Division of Agriculture’s land-grant funding. UAPB officials said the state match is intended to be one-to-one, that the current recommendation aligns appropriation with actual spending, and that a $2 million set-aside remains available if needed. The Division of Agriculture later clarified that its Smith-Lever extension and Hatch research funds are part of the UA system’s separate budget and that the state matched about $6.2 million in federal extension funding last year. The committee then moved to the Department of Corrections. It approved G1, transferring 51 positions to the secretary’s office to activate a recidivism program, with an estimated cost of about $4 million. Staff then began walking through the department’s FY27 budget, noting an increase of about $8 million for administration and shared services, including a $170,000 sex-offender assessment appropriation moved under Act 723 of 2025 and roughly $6 million more for medical contracts. Questions on the Corrections budget had just begun when the transcript ended.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (01/23/2025)

Criminal Justice and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • <01:12:30.719> or if that person's under the program or if that person's under the program
  • I worked with syringe programs for a I worked with syringe programs for a long<01:50:31.520> time<
  • and Learn program.
  • We see these programs as then just being embedded in already existing programs.
  • We see these programs as then just being embedded in already existing programs.
Keywords: 1189, house, all
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, May 5, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Vigilant Hose Company's live-in program Vigilant Hose Company's live-in program that<00:07:52.960
  • Blood draws, organ... prisoners are not. Blood draws, organ prisoners are not.
  • funds through the federal programs. funds through the federal programs.
  • programs.
  • programs cannot be understated. programs cannot be understated.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Gov. Tim Walz delivers his State of the State address before Minnesota Legislature 4/23/25

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • that funding by enhancing<00:10:28.079> our<00:10:28.399> literacy<00:10:28.880> programs
  • In just a few years, the biggest of these human services programs will eat up one in every eight dollars
  • We've sent a lot of crooks to prison. But we can do more.
  • We've sent a lot of<00:21:41.440> crooks<00:21:41.840> to<00:21:42.000> prison.
  • of crooks to prison. But we can do more. of crooks to prison. But we can do more.
Keywords: 1183, house