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OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Health Subcommittee Feb 9th, 2026 at 04:30 pm
A&B Health Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- It's a request bill from the Department of Mental Health.
- them to take the proceeds of certain real estate sales, put them into a real estate trust at the Department
Committee:
House A&B Health Subcommittee
Keywords:
dental insurance, claims, medical necessity, appeal procedures, dentist reimbursement, education, vision screening, binocular vision, kindergarten, elementary education, health, family caregiver, tax credit, activities of daily living, elderly care, Oklahoma tax law, HB3066, Health Care Workforce Training Commission, workforce recruitment, health care workforce
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Common Education REVISION 2: Link added - HB4359 Feb 4th, 2026 at 03:00 pm
Common Education
Committee:
House Common Education
Keywords:
statewide assessments, student testing, testing window, end-of-year testing, Oklahoma Academic Standards, Oklahoma School Testing Program, State Board of Education, grade 3-8, alternate assessment, students with disabilities, special education, cognitive disabilities, assessment calendar, school year calendar, education accountability, academic standards, math intervention, advanced mathematics, course placement, college and career readiness
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Feb 4th, 2026
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
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- So the the department of revenue wanted.
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Committee:
House Ways and Means Education
Keywords:
HB187, court fees, docket fee, sheriff's fund, sheriff's office, jail operations, law enforcement, county sheriff, court filing fees, Alabama Code 12-19-312, solicitor's fund, clerk's fund, forensic services trust fund, budget flexibility, public safety, municipal court, district court, circuit court, cosmetology, makeup application
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Community Safety Feb 2nd, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Community Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- Third, it requires the Department of Corrections, or DOC, to establish a two-year pilot program delivered
- Third, it requires the Department of Corrections, or DOC, to establish a two-year pilot program delivered
- the OII to be given access to certain reports and information in the custody of responding fire departments
- the OII to be given access to certain reports and information in the custody of responding fire departments
- And fourth, it creates a new exemption for the Of responding fire departments and ambulance services.
Committee:
House Community Safety
Keywords:
reentry, reentry readiness, recidivism, earned release time, good time credits, graduated reentry, community custody, partial confinement, home detention, work release, electronic monitoring, substance use disorder treatment, mental health treatment, corrections, Department of Corrections, DOC, prison reform, sentencing, release date recalculation, transition services
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Jan 20th, 2026
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
- It's in the Department of Revenue.
- It's in the Department of Revenue.
Committee:
House Ways and Means Education
Keywords:
inhalants, controlled substances, butyl nitrite, nitrous oxide, amyl nitrite, health, public safety, pregnancy, pregnant defendant, incarceration, jail intake, pregnancy test, bail, pre-incarceration probation, supervised probation, electronic monitoring, electronic supervision, perinatal care, prenatal care, maternal health
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Current law requires that the Department of Family evaluates several factors when considering foster
- understand that there needs to, well it's my understanding that when a child is placed with anyone, the department
- Erica Banuelos, Department of Family and Protective Services, neutral on the bill. Correct?
- SB 1681 would require local governments regulating boarding homes to report to HHSC their facility standards
Committee:
House Human Services
Keywords:
child welfare, foster care, Department of Family and Protective Services, DFPS, Family Code, conservatorship, placement selection, contract residential care, kinship care, relative placement, designated caregiver, best interest of the child, least restrictive setting, placement stability, child protective services, residential treatment, group home, family reunification, Texas foster system, residential care
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Texas voter rolls by authorizing the Secretary of State to receive driver's license data from the Department
- And so there's all this advertising and the government spends the money so that the people, the voters
- , and there are parts of other states where Libertarians are included in the primaries, and the government
- How does this bill align with Texas's values such as individual liberty, limited government, and economic
Committee:
House Elections
Keywords:
voting access, polling place, disability, caretaker provisions, ballot delivery, election code, HB 2253, Texas Election Code, bond election, bond issuance, local government, election cancellation, disaster declaration, natural disaster, emergency election, county election officer, polling place notice, open meeting, election workers, voter safety
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, this is the bill we heard previously relating to information on local regulations governing
- Section 64.009 of the Election Code governs curbside voting in accordance with the...
- Services at both the non-profit and local government levels offer transportation to the polls for elderly
- It leaves local governments without a clear, effective option to respond when disaster strikes and changes
- The Texas Election Integrity Protection Act establishes a criminal offense for government officials who
Committee:
House Elections
Keywords:
voting access, polling place, disability, caretaker provisions, ballot delivery, election code, HB 2253, Texas Election Code, bond election, bond issuance, local government, election cancellation, disaster declaration, natural disaster, emergency election, county election officer, polling place notice, open meeting, election workers, voter safety
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Licensing & Administrative Procedures Apr 29th, 2025
Licensing & Administrative Procedures
Transcript Highlights:
- Thomas' bill that we previously voted out relating to combat. adding human trafficking by the Texas Department
- to the Licensing and regulation of massage therapy and other programs administered by the Texas Department
- 610メンバーズ Companion to the HB 589. voted out relating to combating human trafficking by the Texas Department
- benefit administration workers compensation and regulatory compliance under current law the tax department
- Department of License and Regulation.
Committee:
House Licensing & Administrative Procedures
Keywords:
elevator inspection, building safety, construction standards, health and safety code, regulatory requirements, SB 378, Texas Occupations Code, barbering, cosmetology, barber, cosmetologist, licensing, professional licensing, unauthorized practice, medical procedures, skin incision, dermis, injections, devices, consumer safety
TX
Bills:
HB1730 , HB1823 , HB2048 , HB2266 , HB2440 , HB3333 , HB4086 , HB4271 , HB4413 , HB4839 , HB4841 , HB5151
Committee:
House Environmental Regulation
Keywords:
PFAS, perfluoroalkyl substances, polyfluoroalkyl substances, forever chemicals, public health study, environmental regulation, drinking water, groundwater, surface water, food packaging, chemical exposure, firefighters, chemical manufacturing workers, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, TCEQ, Railroad Commission of Texas, Department of State Health Services, University of Houston, occupational exposure, contaminants
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The athletic departments are independent. They do not take taxpayer funds.
- The athletic departments are independent.
- Well, mostly these athletic departments are paid for through the football program.
- So, but under your bill a booster can give money to the athletic department.
- These are athletic departments. This is Texas. We believe in our student-athletes.
Keywords:
education funding, Texas State Technical College System, constitutional amendment, capital projects, workforce education, military education, early registration, ROTC, corps of cadets, higher education, military academy, student athletes, name image likeness, compensation, intercollegiate athletics, representation, tuition assistance, military, Texas State Guard, education
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Feb 19th, 2025
Finance and Taxation General Fund
Transcript Highlights:
- It does not grow the size of government.
- Okay, so the Department of Corrections...
- The Alabama Department of Workforce... IRAs.
- I think that's a laudable goal, which would still be an expansion of government.
- But, you know, again, I'm concerned about what we are doing as a government.
Committee:
Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund
Keywords:
State Auditor, property investigations, negligence, loss report, civil actions, Alabama Retirement Savings Program, state-facilitated retirement savings, auto-IRA, automatic enrollment, payroll deduction IRA, retirement savings access gap, private sector workers, small business retirement plan, portable retirement account, Roth IRA, traditional IRA, life-cycle fund, capital preservation fund, financial literacy, Department of Workforce
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Civil Judiciary REVISED: Links added Feb 5th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Civil Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- handed out a few minutes ago would allow the insurers to present evidence to the Oklahoma Insurance Department
- Hopefully, the processes are in place currently through the Oklahoma Insurance Department would handle
- You, Chairman, colleagues, 3037 simply adds a group of people to the definition of employee in a government
- language, which by the way is on page 10, if you're looking forward, it's for the purpose of the government
Bills:
HB3790 , HB2941 , HB2959 , HB3087 , HB3974 , HB3500 , HB3697 , HB3262 , HB3582 , HB4226 , HB3037 , HB4139 , HB4143 , HB4144 , HB2936 , HB3322 , HB4296 , HB3278 , HB4202 , HB4176 , HB3303 , HB3648 , HB4119
Committee:
House Civil Judiciary
Keywords:
home repairs, consumer protection, contracts, homeowner rights, rescission, fentanyl, overdose, first responders, drug reporting, immunity, controlled substances, penalties, school abuse reporting, child abuse, neglect, mandatory reporting, student safety, school employee misconduct, administrator reporting, superintendent
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- So if you would like to keep us in the department around for another few years, it's necessary statutory
- The construction of the home is regulated by HUD, by the federal government, obviously.
- However, the federal government continues not to really...
- The federal government sets a national standard, then our law will be null and void at that point.
- If the federal government were to come in and have a license...
Keywords:
public utility, common carrier, regulation, Public Service Commission, New Orleans, constitutional amendment, distributed energy, energy storage, electricity demand, virtual power plants, reliability, hurricane resilience, esthetics, cosmetology, hair services, beauty industry, Louisiana regulation, Louisiana Economic Development, sunset law, legislative authority
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- Right, you define government entity, but you also define business entity.
- I thought that was a government overreach.
- Bernard Parish government who was at his job every day dealing with the public.
- There was a time when government did not just look at vaccines...
- There was a time when government did not just look at vaccine cards.
Bills:
HB689 , HB742 , HB926 , HB946 , HB948 , HB1028 , HB1095 , HB1114 , HB1121 , HB1155 , HB1185 , HB1217 , HB1220 , HB1227 , HCR76
Committee:
House Health and Welfare
Keywords:
public assistance, child welfare, benefit adjustment, DCFS, LDH, fraud detection, household reporting, Medicaid, immunization, healthcare eligibility, Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program, health policy, vaccination requirements, vaccination status, vaccine mandate, medical freedom, medical autonomy, public buildings, public access, government services
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- What's your thought process of government just buying more property, mainly ranches in rural Oklahoma
- I think it'd be, you know, owning land is something that the landowner should have, not the government
- It is a modernization bill with outgrowing government.
- These are against taxes owed, not allocations by the government. So these are not taxes.
- So this is not actually an expenditure of government funds. Thank you.
Committee:
Senate Rules
Keywords:
emergency management, severe weather, youth camp, summer camp, overnight camp, day camp, outdoor education, adventure camp, wilderness program, campground safety, tornado preparedness, flooding, flash flood, high winds, hail, lightning, extreme heat, extreme cold, wildfire smoke, evacuation plan
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- Senate Bill 1296 comes from the Department of Environmental Quality.
- Is there anything in the bill that would preclude the federal government from issuing a cause of action
Committee:
House Energy
Keywords:
SB1191, Oklahoma Energy Initiative Act, Oklahoma Low Carbon Energy Initiative Board, low carbon energy, clean energy, energy policy, renewable energy, board repeal, statutory repeal, administrative board, energy committee, natural resources, Oklahoma statutes, 17 O.S. 802.3, oil and gas, surety bond, financial responsibility, environmental compliance, plugging wells, SB1613
AL
Transcript Highlights:
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- That law passed in insurance department.
- Uh but it's department birthday.
Committee:
House Insurance
Keywords:
police abuse registry, law enforcement registry, officer assault, assault on police, resisting arrest, battery on law enforcement, law enforcement injury fund, Back the Blue Act, Attorney General, clemency, pardon, commutation, rehabilitation costs, medical costs, public safety, criminal records, background checks, registry removal fee, privacy, due process
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism 2ND REVISED Feb 24th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism
Transcript Highlights:
- Senate Bill 1327 pertains to the Oklahoma tourism and recreation department.
- Members, this bill pertains to the Department of Corrections. 1372 creates a system that allows certain
- It requires the Oklahoma Department of Tourism at park offices and lodges, as well as when you reserve
- I believe the Department of Consumer Credit did say that should help cover further questions.
Bills:
SB1327 , SB1372 , SB1403 , SB1937 , SB277 , SB2131 , SB1749 , SB1348 , SB1469 , SB2018 , SB1931 , SB1530 , SB2155
Keywords:
tourism, recreation, economic development, Oklahoma Commission, executive director, probation, credits, educational advancement, Oklahoma Statutes, criminal justice reform, job incentives, tax rebates, Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program, employment growth, wage requirements, labor organization, incentives, employer practices, union neutrality, worker rights
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/18/2026 - House Transportation & Infrastructure
Transportation & Infrastructure
Transcript Highlights:
- So the State Department—the State Land Department—came before committee not too long ago with a... ..
- The council directed us, the department, to go after external funding.
- I’m here on behalf of the Arizona Department of Transportation.
- I oversee local and state government relations for the department.
- And so they would have negotiated with the federal government.
Bills:
HB2067 , HB2068 , HB2127 , HB2164 , HB2200 , HB2201 , HB2242 , HB2283 , HB2284 , HB2285 , HB2286 , HB2287 , HB2304 , HB2306 , HB2399 , HB2601 , HB2609 , HB2760 , HB2761 , HB2859 , HB2887 , HB2892 , HB2893 , HB2894 , HB2978 , HB4027 , HCM2012 , HCM2016
Committee:
House Transportation & Infrastructure
Keywords:
appropriation, transportation, infrastructure, Apache Junction, funding, Show Low, road extension, special license plates, nonprofits, charitable contributions, Reay Lane, Graham County, HB 2200, State Route 89, SR 89, Chino Valley, Arizona Department of Transportation, ADOT, road widening, highway expansion