Video & Transcript Research : 'state tax code'

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LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs May 6th, 2026

Commerce, Consumer Protection, and International Affairs

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  • I'm Brian Adams, the State Fire Marshal.
  • And I want you to know, it's a state agency.
  • tax dollars.
  • That includes reciprocity with other states.
  • Plumbing Board, Terry Smith with the State Plumbing Board, and Brad Hassart with the State Licensing
TX
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  • The state pays.
  • That was what we heard from districts across the state. There is a state version.
  • The state would only pay right now as things stand the state would only pay for the state created test
  • In State v.
  • It amends section 273.021 of the Election Code by replacing permissive language stating that the Attorney
Bills: HB8, HB12, SB 3, HJR1, SB 11, SB 16, SB 14
OK
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  • 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.
  • Yes, I did look at federal tax structures, but this bill is looking at the state Oklahoma tax commission
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Elections Apr 9th, 2025

Elections

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  • But they weren't against the code.
  • Is it the Secretary of State? Oh, it's the Secretary of State. Okay.
  • The election code states that a provision of this code may not be interpreted to prohibit or limit the
  • State.
  • The Secretary of State.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Administrative Rules May 4th, 2026

Administrative Rules

Summary: The committee considered three resolutions, all presented by Chairman Kendrick with full PCS substitutes. H.J.R. 1096 approved a medical marijuana rule that had originally been treated as a major rule but was later determined not to be one; members asked no questions and the resolution was adopted unanimously. H.J.R. 1099 was described as a direct result of H.B. 1576 from the prior session concerning Oklahoma Health Care Authority rules; it also drew no questions and passed unanimously. H.J.R. 1100 addressed a rule from the Oklahoma Management and Enterprise Services that was discovered late to be a major rule; after brief discussion and no substantive questions, it too passed unanimously. During the meeting, members voted on each resolution after motions for adoption and do pass. The recorded votes were unanimous in favor on all three measures, with no nay votes. After H.J.R. 1100 passed, Chairman Kendrick noted there would be one more committee meeting the next morning at 9 a.m. to address a late-arriving resolution, and he offered to discuss the late major-rule issue with Representative Chapman after adjournment.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Environmental Regulation May 1st, 2025

Environmental Regulation

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  • These facilities are not evenly distributed across the state.
  • No, and if it's manufactured out of state, that would create an issue.
  • issues. ...which we know most manufacturers are out of state, and tires are produced out of state.
  • I just think it helps better the rest of the state.
  • Texas is a proud business-friendly state.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part I) Jul 21st, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

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  • By the Governor of the State of Texas, to all whom these presents shall come.
  • I, Greg Abbott, Governor of the State of Texas, thank you.
  • authorized to impose property taxes.
  • and payment of tax dollars to associations that lobby the legislature.
  • The Secretary of State will take notice of this action and will notify.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part II) Jul 21st, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

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  • The writers of our state constitution definitely put in 10 years for our state lines, right?
  • the middle of the state are in the middle of the state. ...the majority of counties are still going
  • The United States Supreme Court...
  • It is a large population, larger than many other states.
  • Yes, they were about the possibility of different states doing redistricting, one of them being the state
TX
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  • who were on the scene that day and lived through the unfathomable experience, including my friend, State
  • , such as ALERT, which is a state program.
  • that the Attorney General shall represent the state in the prosecution of the offense.
  • Under the Family Code, when we prosecute juvenile offenses, to rehabilitate.
  • He spent the night in the hospital. ...the next two years at a state hospital in East Texas.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part II) May 7th, 2025

Health & Human Services

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  • If you would, state your name for the record.
  • The Family Code has 22 unique grounds under which the state may terminate parental rights involuntarily
  • A family code has 20. protecting families from needless destructions at the hands of the state.
  • Family Code has 22 unique grounds under which the state may terminate parental rights involuntarily.
  • In his State of the Judiciary address, Chief Justice Blacklock asked, why would the state terminate parental
Summary: The committee first reopened testimony on House Bill 2216, which would strengthen child welfare requirements by expanding “active efforts” to help families avoid removal and support reunification, while also raising standards related to removals and terminations. Supporters from child welfare and family defense groups said the bill would better protect families and align Texas more closely with ICWA-style principles, but several warned it would require significant new funding, staffing, and community services such as mental health care, housing, child care, and substance use treatment. The committee then left HB 2216 pending. The committee next heard Senate Bill 1782, aimed at boarding and group homes. Senator Miles said the bill closes enforcement gaps left by prior law by requiring retention of background-check records and creating misdemeanor penalties for failing to conduct or keep them, or for knowingly hiring people with serious convictions. Harris County sheriff’s investigators testified in support, describing illegal boarding homes, operators who evade permits and background checks, and exploitation of vulnerable residents; the bill was left pending. The committee also took up Senate Bill 481 on emergency preparedness for nursing facilities and assisted living facilities, adopted a new committee substitute that softened some requirements and removed the fiscal note, and left the bill pending. The committee then heard House Bill 388, which would require the Texas Department of Insurance to create a single standardized coordination-of-benefits form for dual health plans to reduce errors and surprise bills; it was left pending. Senate Bill 1590 would move paternity registry searches for adoptions to an electronic process with a 10-day target, and House Bill 2809 would track child suicide attempts in managing conservatorship and require related reporting and parental notice; both were left pending. The committee also heard Senate Bill 1887, which would prohibit administering mRNA-containing products for immunization for 10 years, with exceptions for cancer and genetic disorders. Supporters argued the bill was needed for safety, informed consent, and medical freedom, while opponents from the medical, research, and public health communities said mRNA vaccines are well-studied, save lives, and that the bill would harm access, research, and Texas’s biotech economy. The bill remained under discussion as testimony concluded.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part I) May 7th, 2025

Health & Human Services

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  • It's a moral issue for sure, but it is a state economic issue first from a state budget perspective.
  • HB 913 is a bill pertaining to state hospitals. HB 913 is a bill pertaining to state hospitals.
  • This bill will add these hospitals to state code.
  • State Hospital and the Wichita Falls State Hospital.
  • The state of Texas.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services met with a quorum and took up several House and Senate bills, with public testimony limited to two minutes per witness. The committee first heard HB 2358, a cleanup bill requested by HHSC that would repeal outdated training and conference requirements for long-term care facility surveyors and certain providers; there were no witnesses, and the bill was left pending. The committee then heard HB 18, the rural hospital stabilization bill, which would create financial assessment tools, a rural hospital finance office at HHSC, an academy for rural hospital officers, multiple grant programs, enhanced Medicaid reimbursement tied to average cost, OB/GYN add-on payments, expanded pediatric telehealth connectivity, and a rural pediatric mental health program. Senator Perry and witnesses from TORCH, a rural hospital, AARP Texas, and ARCHI strongly supported the bill as a way to stabilize rural hospitals, improve OB access, and address workforce and financial pressures. Committee members discussed rural hospital closures, low-volume quality metrics, system affiliation, and the need for predictable monthly reimbursement; the bill was left pending after testimony and questions. The committee next heard HB 37, which would create a perinatal bereavement care initiative for families experiencing stillbirth, neonatal death, or intrauterine fetal demise, including counseling, staff training, and access to cooling devices, with possible grants and a recognition program for hospitals. Senator Huffman explained the bill, and several witnesses testified in support, sharing personal stories about infant loss and the importance of time with the baby, trained staff, and cuddle cots or similar devices. A neonatologist also supported the bill while suggesting clarification that hospitals should not be penalized if state funding is unavailable and recommending use of regional advisory councils to help implement training. Public testimony was then closed and the bill left pending. The committee also heard HB 879, which would create a streamlined licensing pathway for veterans with medical or nursing experience to practice in Texas, and HB 913, which would add new state hospitals to statute and split the North Texas State Hospital into two separate hospitals with their own superintendents; both bills had no opposition testimony and were left pending. Later, the committee heard SB 2744, a heart disease screening bill that would update the 2009 Texas Heart Attack Prevention Act to require insurance coverage for coronary CT angiography with plaque analysis, including soft plaque detection, as a preventive screening tool. The author and invited witnesses argued the technology is more effective than calcium scoring alone, can identify patients before symptoms appear, and could save lives at a cost comparable to or lower than colonoscopy. An insurance industry witness opposed the bill, arguing the technology has not been recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for universal screening and that the mandated coverage and payment level would raise costs; the bill was left pending after testimony. Finally, the committee heard HB 1151, a parental rights bill clarifying that refusing psychotropic medication or psychiatric treatment is not neglect unless the child is harmed. Supporters, including parent advocates and attorneys, said the bill would protect parents from CPS overreach and preserve medical decision-making authority, while one witness urged broader attention to physical causes of behavioral issues. Public testimony was closed and HB 1151 was left pending.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 26th, 2026 at 12:10 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

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  • We have 9 state credit unions in the state of Oklahoma.
  • Economic development incentive means any grant, loan, or tax credit provided by the state or local government
  • states.
  • So much so that their people have to leave the state in order just to retire because their property taxes
  • states.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 26th, 2026 at 08:30 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

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  • This is one of our most important assets as a state: our state parks.
  • I mean, that's they run hunting in the state.
  • Maybe the attorney general of the state of Oklahoma.
  • As we already stated, they do not pay out-of-county tax in the county, which costs the schools.
  • There are no state dollars attached. Oklahoma is one of 14 states selected for this Grant.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Committee, February 13, 2026

Appropriations

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  • currently exists in our state? currently exists in our state?
  • of law enforcement here in the state of law enforcement here in the state moving<00:35:58.960>
  • And I just brought state statute?
  • I'd be happy to answer any questions. state. It made a wife a widow, left a state.
  • He added that the west half of the state is looking much better than the eastern half of the state.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Appropriations Committee, February 13, 2026

Appropriations

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  • It does not stop Wyoming law state.
  • act for fear of violating state law. act for fear of violating state law.
  • <00:25:34.720> and It would negatively impact state and It would negatively impact state and
  • with both at the federal and the state with both at the federal and the state level.<00:40:24.240
  • by the general taxpayer on their property taxes or sales taxes or any of that sort of thing.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Apr 9th, 2025

Alabama House Floor Meeting

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  • We are in a state of confusion, really. We are distraught because we had no idea...
  • 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

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  • The bill also redirects $166 million in DOC stamp tax distributions from the State Transportation Trust
  • This bill provides permanent sales tax relief to every Florida citizen by lowering the state sales tax
  • Sales tax in Florida is something we are very reliant on, but it also makes a structure to other states
  • This cut in sales tax would Inadvertently benefit out-of-state visitors and tourists, snowbirds, we call
  • When you take a look at property taxes, nearly 30% are from addresses that are outside the state of Florida
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 9th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

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  • They want us to cut their taxes, but they understand they can't cut their taxes until we cut government
  • Angelo State University students.
  • State and county sources for certain state prosecutors. The chair recognizes Mr.
  • the state.
  • from having to spend property tax revenue on motor fuel taxes.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives May 6th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

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  • That's money for our state.
  • They're back-to-back state champs.
  • Also, they're the home to the All-State MVPs and multiple All-State honors.
  • culture and tradition, code of laws, to authorize a Ten Commandments monument on state capital grounds
  • culture, tradition, code of laws, to authorize 10 commandments, monument, state capital grounds, to
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