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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

HWN-WLA, HWN DEFER Public Hearings 02-10-2026

Hawaiian Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, the state employee has a duty with the state. My fifth point.
  • Not that we want to not acknowledge and follow certain building codes and all of that.
  • Not that we want to not acknowledge and follow certain building codes and all of that.
  • Not that we want to not acknowledge and follow certain building codes and all of that.
  • Building permit requirements are different from HCDA. We don't regulate building permits.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several measures affecting Hawaiian affairs, historic preservation, water access, and land governance. SB 1406 would let the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands assume historic preservation review for projects on lands under its jurisdiction, except for properties listed or nominated for the state or national historic registers. DHHL supported the bill, while a descendant testifier strongly opposed it, arguing that burial and preservation review protects ancestors and should not be streamlined or reduced. No questions were raised and the bill was moved on after testimony. SB 521 would require DHHL to work with county water boards or water departments to provide potable and agricultural water on Hawaiian homelands, with agreements made public. DHHL said it already works with counties but objected to the bill’s mandatory language, saying it could undermine the department’s discretion and independence. A public testifier supported the measure, and committee discussion focused on how water requirements could affect subsistence lots and infrastructure decisions. The committee then took up SB 3247, which would create a Royal Mausoleum Commission within DLNR to oversee preservation, operations, and outreach at Mauna Ala. State Parks said it valued existing collaboration with the aliʻi trusts but wanted clarity on roles, coordination, and funding if a new commission is created. The Royal Order of Kamehameha strongly supported the bill as a culturally grounded way to protect the site, while several other testifiers opposed it, saying the real issue is the curator selection process and warning that a commission could add bureaucracy and delay. The committee also heard SB 1654, authorizing transfer of certain state lands to DHHL, and SB 112, which would add the DHHL chair or designee to the Hawaii Community Development Authority; the Attorney General and HCDA offered technical and policy comments, with HCDA opposing the board change and DHHL supporting participation to protect beneficiary interests. No votes or final actions were taken in the portion provided.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Mar 19th, 2025

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • You'll note there's a fiscal note in your packets that's positive for the state of Alabama.
  • We automatically, like other states, jumped in when they passed that law in 2022, the Federal Jobs Cut
  • Well, other states around us have said, "Well, let's get off of that and take it back to the way it was
  • And so businesses here in Alabama that do this, we're at risk of losing them to the states around us
  • experimental expenditures for Alabama tax purposes under chapter 16 and chapter 18 of title 40 of the Code
Bills: HB353, HB354, HB357, HB396, SB83
TX

Texas 89th Regular

FinanceAudio only. May 27th, 2025

Finance

Bills: HB1057
Summary: The Senate committee met, established a quorum, and took up House Bill 1057, sponsored in the Senate by Senator Adam Hinojosa. Hinojosa explained that the bill would expand the amount of prior industry experience that can count toward TRS and salary step credit for career and technology education teachers, increasing the cap from two years to five years. He said the change is intended to help recruit and fairly compensate skilled professionals such as electricians, nurses, welders, and programmers, and to address teacher shortages beginning in the 2025-2026 school year. No members asked questions, and no one signed up to testify. The committee then voted to report HB 1057 favorably to the full Senate. The motion passed unanimously, 13 ayes and 0 nays, and the chair announced the committee would stand recessed subject to call.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • And then the burden of proof for mental illness commitment in a state hospital is?
  • The bill provides a legislative council draft and gets it in legislative council numbers.
  • , Alaska was actually the very first state that says you own your DNA.
  • If you would, state your name, who you represent, and position on the bill.
  • The screenings are mandatory and the states presume parental consent.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Finance Committee 2/24/26

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
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Transcript Highlights:
  • They get to visit different districts in the state, they get to come to the state capitol, to go to the
  • This is food truck fire code.
  • A lot of those authorities are then passed down to the states, and this is how the state of Oklahoma
  • That relies on us as the state.
  • And I think this is a good opportunity that states, energy-producing states have taken over the last
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Summary: The transcript captures the opening of a House session. After several brief expressions of thanks and acknowledgments, the presiding officer announces that the House is now in session. The only formal action noted is that the House will stand at recess to call the chair. No bills, committee matters, testimony, debate, or votes are mentioned in the excerpt.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • They get to visit different districts in the state.
  • This bill has to do with the fire code relative to food trucks.
  • Constitution, a lot of those authorities then are passed down to the states, and this is how the state
  • That relies on us as the state. Recognize for a follow-up.
  • Yes, this is no state impact. It is purely at the county level.
Summary: The House convened with prayer, the pledge, and several recognitions, including Veteran of the Week Major General (ret.) Tony L. Wright, Doctor of the Day Dr. Jeanette Kelly, Capitol Day students, Girl Scouts, and family members of legislators. Members also adopted House Resolution 1038 honoring the Oklahoma Youth Expo and its agricultural education and scholarship impact, including recognition of top ag mechanics exhibitors. The chamber then considered and passed several bills, including HB 3263 designating the morel mushroom as the state mushroom; HB 315 setting qualifications and a term limit for the Department of Corrections director; HB 2123 revising authorization for an Arkansas River bridge project near Bigsby; HB 3587 allowing court-ordered outpatient mental health treatment; HB 3028 allowing career techs in public schools to pass along credit card surcharges; HB 2035 clarifying transportation protection agreements related to funeral services; HB 3369 allowing food trucks to use two fire extinguishers and training in lieu of an automatic suppression system; and a series of census-related bills creating a census count committee, reestablishing a state data center function, and updating Commerce technology for census address work. The House also passed HB 3624 to standardize county boundary mapping, HB 3175 creating an Oklahoma Advanced Nuclear Energy Office, HB 3173 allowing repurposing of orphaned and abandoned wells for geothermal or energy storage uses, and HB 4476 creating a revolving-fund rebate program to help smaller communities compete for music events and tourism. Two measures failed on final passage: HB 3178, which would have created a standard depreciation table for county assessors to value farm equipment, and HB 1979, which would have created an Early Childhood Task Force. In both cases, members later served notice of intent to reconsider the failed votes. The House also reconsidered and passed previously failed motions on HB 3127 and HB 2997. Most bills that reached final passage were approved by recorded vote, with HB 3178 failing 43-45 and HB 1979 failing 46-43. The House adjourned until the next scheduled meeting.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Just before session, I was on a professional trip out of state to recruit other state ministers. for
  • whenever a charter school builds a.
  • Building. And so, I appreciate your question.
  • They're having to use that to pay the financing costs on buildings that they are currently building.
  • So, the money flowing from the state aid.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Just before session, I was on a professional trip out of state to recruit other state ministers for various
  • whenever a charter school builds a building.
  • have owned the building before.
  • They're having to use that to pay the financing costs on buildings that they are currently building.
  • The state of Oklahoma...
Summary: The House convened, completed the roll call, heard an invocation, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several introductions and recognitions, including guests in the galleries and a special recognition of a doctor of the day and a state volleyball championship team. The chamber then took up a series of bills, with most receiving brief explanations and little or no debate. House Bill 2997, dealing with used-car bait-and-switch enforcement and higher fines, failed on final passage 47-39, and notice was given of a possible motion to reconsider. House Bill 2021, creating a DHS grant program for out-of-school programming through larger community-based organizations, passed 51-29 after questions about eligibility and partnerships. House Bill 3041, adjusting the cap on credit-card surcharges so retailers can recover actual processing costs up to 2%, passed 86-1 and its emergency was adopted. The House also passed House Bill 1823 on Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency compliance with federal HOME grant guidelines, 83-5, with the emergency adopted. House Bill 3372, creating lower-cost financing tools for high-performing charter schools, drew extensive questioning about taxpayer funding, ownership, default risk, and comparisons to public-school bonds, but ultimately passed 53-36. House Bill 1427, as amended by the Senate, was adopted and passed 57-20, codifying current clean-burning vehicle tax-credit practices tied to the bank privilege tax. House Bill 3127, which would have broadened employer drug-testing and zero-tolerance authority beyond current safety-sensitive positions for medical marijuana users, drew the most extended debate over worker protections, constitutionality, and testing standards, but failed narrowly 47-46; notice of reconsideration was given. Later measures passed with broad support, including House Bill 3128 creating a task force to identify workplace barriers and recommend administrative or legislative fixes, 73-21; House Bill 4198 allowing employers to seek protective orders against former employees who pose an imminent threat, 88-12; and a series of sunset-extension bills for professional and advisory boards. Those included House Bills 3000 through 3007, covering the cosmetology board, child death review board, county personnel training commission, chiropractic examiners, optometry board, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Oklahoma Advisory Council on Indian Education, and DEQ natural resource advisory councils, with most also receiving emergency clauses. House Concurrent Resolution 1020, commending Team USA Olympic hockey teams for gold medals, was adopted by unanimous consent.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • And one of those times where our students Leave the state but then come back.
  • He is a track academic state champion.
  • She is the state vice president of [organization].
  • Sophie is a senior from Sayre, a state champion for choir solo, and wants to attend Northeast State University
  • These are four seniors from the state championship team.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 8th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Do you know how many states currently will be, currently have this QR code that you're proposing with
  • Well, I can tell you that the states that have the QR code, there are, I think, five states that have
  • a QR code already.
  • There are, I think, five states that have a QR code already, and they don't use it exactly like we do
  • And then my other question is with the QR code, that's the one that the state police can read instead
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 9th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Are you aware that if the state believes that this judge is unfair to the state, the state can file a
  • If the state gets to pick the judge, basically the state is picking a judge.
  • the Constitution of the state of Louisiana and the laws and Constitution of the United States?
  • All licensing is going to be handled by the State Board of Contractors, like everybody else in the state
  • The question is, should a state entity be combined under another state entity?
Summary: The House convened with a quorum, opened with prayer by guest minister Reginald Tate, and adopted the journal and several leave requests. The chamber received Senate messages, including concurrence in HCR 44 and Senate adoption of SCRs 19 and 26, and referred a number of Senate resolutions and bills to committee. It also reported and adopted several House resolutions honoring individuals, schools, and organizations, including H.R. 112, 113, 114, and 52, and referred HCR 51 to Appropriations for a study of assessor and clerk compensation. The House then processed many bills on second and third reading, with numerous measures reported favorably or amended and advanced without objection. Topics included criminal justice and public safety (including hit-and-run as a crime of violence, video voyeurism, intentional exposure to HIV, bail conditions for human trafficking defendants, and post-conviction custody rules), health and insurance matters (AI disclosure in health care, hearing aid coverage, anti-cancer medication parity, pharmacy benefit managers, Medicaid/SNAP integrity, and rare cancer treatments), education and governance (special education due process, school funding, campaign finance, public records, and legislative website transparency), and natural resources and transportation items. Several bills were substituted or renumbered, and many were engrossed and passed to third reading. Two floor debates drew extended discussion. HCR 15, urging Congress to pass the SAVE Act and require voter identification in federal elections, passed 65-32 after questions about voter roll purges and documentation requirements. HCR 14, supporting federal efforts to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education, prompted extensive debate over federal education funding, Title I, special education, student loans, land-grant institutions, desegregation oversight, and whether federal functions could be shifted to other agencies; it was adopted 59-28 with 23 coauthors. Later, HB 108, barring persons convicted of violent crimes or sex offenses from jury service, passed 68-32 after debate over jury pool size, second chances, and whether the bill would apply to civil and criminal trials. The House also passed HB 98 on penalties for unlawful release of victim information, HB 131 on custody pending appeal, HB 161 on bail conditions for human trafficking defendants, and HB 288 requiring “miscarriage” to appear alongside “spontaneous abortion” in medical records and billing.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 9th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Are you aware that if the state believes that this judge is unfair to the state, the state can file a
  • If the state gets to pick the judge, basically the state is picking a judge.
  • The state is controlling the selection.” “The state does not have control over the selection.
  • the constitution of the state of Louisiana and the laws and constitution of the United States?”
  • The question is: should a state entity be combined under another state entity?
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Apr 9th, 2025

Alabama House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • As the psalmist wrote, "Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it."
  • And with that, I that throughout the state. And with that, I ask for the bill.
  • the state of Alabama is going to be what?
  • Is this a crime in other states? Yeah, 16 other states have done this similar thing.
  • The bill, though, does state it would be just the top administrator.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

House in Session Apr 9th, 2025

Florida House Floor Meeting

TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 9th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The liquidity of ignorance by stating it is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men
  • I'm proud to welcome you to your state capitol.
  • Angelo State University students.
  • State and county sources for certain state prosecutors. The chair recognizes Mr.
  • Department of the State in the United States section of the International Boundary and Water Commission
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Housing Jan 14th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Housing

Transcript Highlights:
  • A density bonus is a zoning tool that permits developers to build more housing units or taller buildings
  • We'll begin with remote testimony from Council Member Michael Liloquist, Council Member Kitty Klitsky
  • efforts to build the housing our state deeply needs.
  • We're not just building spaces.
  • SB 5938 builds on that success.